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Monday, December 22, 2014

OUR HAPPY MOMENTS, IN 15 PHOTOS! (turning 27, a Christmas celebration and more!)

My family and I had a Christmas gathering at our place yesterday and it was baby Nathan's first Christmas celebration with our relatives! Thankfully, everything went well- the buffet dinner came in time, it didn't rain (phew!) and no one got lost while making their way to our place. :D

One of my sister's friend even decided to stay-over for the night and Shayne was soooo excited. He kept talking to her and even made himself comfortable on my sister's bed while chatting with the both of them. It was as if he was part of the stay-over too, haha. As for Baby Nathan, he was so exhausted from his first Christmas gathering that he slept for 5 hours before waking up to nurse! ;) I asked Shayne if he enjoyed himself before he fell asleep last night and he said "Yes, it was a great day today." :)

A BIG thank you to my aunts, uncles and cousins who made the trip to come down to our place. My family and I greatly appreciate it, and we'll see you soon!!

Baby Santa/Nathan and I!
My younger sister and I
My sister was the one who said that we should take a selfie with our mouths open, as if we're excited to eat the food. HAHAHA

 Baby Santa with his gold chains, yo.

Flapping his chubby arms wildly! Baby Santa wants to flyyyy :D
Shayne, the soldier!
 Kisses for my cousins! (They were the ones who told Shayne to pose this way.. haha)

Surprise bouquet of beautiful roses from my man for my 27th birthday! <3 The roses have since blossomed and they are so much bigger now.
My first 27 years old selfie, anddd that's the end of this post! My family and I really enjoyed ourselves yesterday, and we can't wait for Christmas eve and Christmas. Here's wishing you and your family happy holidays! :)

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Lessons Learned From Stalking BlogHer

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You may have noticed that there is a li'l shindig going on for women bloggers this weekend in Chicago.

I would like to state for the record that while I am sitting here at home in a stained tee shirt, I am in no way jealous even though those bloggers are getting all manner of free loot in the way of tote bags, cameras, camcorders, printers, laptops, washers, dryers, and more.

Have I mentioned that my camera has a very strong will? And sometimes gives me lip? And that right now it is non-functioning?

Anyway, I have been following the Twitter Stream of the blogging conference and thought I'd share some third hand information I have gleaned.

  • "Fragrance free" is a term loved by the "green" bloggers, but it is unregulated by the Federal Trade Commision. Therefore, my oilcloth aprons will henceforth be known as "fragrance free".
  • "Green" bloggers are a little uppity about their loot and don't seem to like free Bounce scented dryer sheets. Don't be gettin' all up in my grill, green bloggers. You know it's true.
  • Some lady bloggers don't act like ladies and use Very Bad Language. This is supposed to make a writer's stories funnier. I can't say that I agree.
  • Bloggers should never mention in real time when they will be out of town. Stalkers can be dangerous, you know. Say the bloggers who are all in a Sheraton in Downtown Chicago. Away from their homes for the weekend. In real time.
  • Companies will pay for bloggers' travel expenses to a big city if the bloggers will mention the company 247 times in a single weekend.
  • I could totally be bought off by one of those companies.

So, there you have it. Everything from BlogHer in summary form, and you didn't even have to leave home. And get free stuff. And eat out at fancy restaurants. Or get to meet Pioneer Woman. Or Paula Deen.

You're welcome.

TammyIsBlessed said...

That was too funny!

I found your site through Raising Olives. I am hosting a blog carnival titled "Encouraging your Children's Relationship with Jesus" and I would be honoured if you would consider participating. All participants who blog and link back to the carnival before Monday are eligible for a giveaway. If you can't post by then, I would still love to hear your thoughts and ideas about this topic! Thanks.

Christi said...

Hmm, I was always taught that only . . . intellectually limited people used curse words because an intelligent person could find a way to express themself without resorting to cursing. Honestly I can't think of a single joke that is improved by using curse words.

I also have no interest in reading curse words so I don't. If any of the bloggers I follow come back from blogher thinking they need to swear, I won't keep following them.

Oh and I have a just curious question about your aprons (ok maybe a couple). Are they real oil cloth (like the historically used oil cloth) or are they plastic-y covered fabric? And if they are the real oil cloth, are you making it yourself or are you buying it already made. I have read directions on making an oil cloth table cloth (using any fabric and coating with . . . I forgot what) and it is on my list of things to do for when I am completely caught up and bored (Hahahaaha! like that will ever happen!)

Smockity Frocks said...

Thank you, Tammy. I'll check that out.

I buy the oilcloth and make the aprons. Here is a quote about the fabric from my supplier, "The oilcloth of yesteryear was resin-coated vinyl and the finish sometimes cracked or flaked. The new version is made of hi-tech plastic (PVC with poly/cotton backing) that won't crack but has the same colorful shine."

Thanks for your interest.

Weird Unsocialized Mom said...

LOL I am so already daydreaming of going to BlogHer next year. I'm looking for one of those companies that I can mention 257 times in a weekend. ;-)

Kimberly @ RaisingOlives said...

I'm totally not jealous. Either.

Where do you find companies who are willing to pay expenses if you mention them 247 times in a weekend? Not that I'm interested in having an all expense paid blogging trip or a free washing machine.

Smockity Frocks said...

I know Uprinting sponsored at least one blogger. For more insider tips, you would have to ask someone in The Know. Which I am not.

Lora Lynn @ Vitafamiliae said...

Okay, I hear you mocking the "greenies" and their disdain of Bounce, but seriously, for people with nasal sensitivities? That stuff will send us through the ROOF. I hate it, but I can barely go to church without having a rhino-breakdown because someone who used fabric softener walks by. Makes my nose itch like CRAZY! And if I got something like that in a swag bag? And it tainted the rest of my swag? Yea, I'd be hatin' on it, too.

but that is because I'm high maintenance.

Kimberly @ RaisingOlives said...

I appreciate UPrinting, but they haven't even bought advertising on my site, I'm not thinking that they love me enough to send me on a posh trip.

However, I seem to recall some space on Smockity devoted to printing needs, so I vote Smockity for next year in NYC. Go Smockity!

Joelle said...

LOL! I don't blog regularly enough to go to BlogHer, but I was thinking it would be kinda cool to get to meet all these bloggy people one of these days. Except I haven't been terribly impressed by the reports that have come back from BlogHer this year.
I totally hate it when people start using bad words in their tweets or their blog post. I come pretty close to dropping them. Or I don't subscribe at all to them in the first place. Way to lose me!
Oh, and hi. I think this is the first time I stopped by your blog. Nice to meet you. :D

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Tuesday, 01 August 2017 20:32

Finding a balance: Tipping Point Brewing closes, new location set for Brevard

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It’s 12:15 p.m. Sunday.

On a normal weekend, Tipping Point Brewing in downtown Waynesville would have been open for 45 minutes, its craft beer being poured to numerous local residents and summer tourists. But, this past Sunday, the front doors were locked, with owner/brewmaster Jon Bowman sitting inside. He watched as, one-by-one, confused people try to open the door, looking at their watches, looking around for an answer — one that Bowman holds.

“I never thought I’d be in this position,” he said candidly. “But, I am, and now I understand why this happens.”

What happened the previous night was a bombshell in the Haywood County culinary scene, and also the greater Western North Carolina craft beer industry. Late Saturday afternoon, just as downtown eased into another relaxing summer evening, Bowman turned off the “Open” sign in the front window and gathered his entire staff. He stood before them and gave the news he’d been keeping to himself for the better part of a year.

“I said, ‘I know some of you haven’t known me that long, you may like or dislike me, but you might hate me in a few minutes,’” Bowman recalled. “About a year ago, I bought my partners out, and I immediately started looking for brewery spaces [in] Asheville, Brevard, Pisgah Forest.”

On the exact six-and-a-half-year anniversary of the Tipping Point opening, Bowman pulled the plug on the beloved brewery, a mainstay in Waynesville for social interaction and innovative craft beer. Bowman noted that plans are already in the works to open another, similar brewery just over the ridge and just down U.S. 276 in Brevard.

“I will say, it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Hands down,” Bowman said. “And everyone took it way better than I thought. I told all of [my employees] I will help do everything I can to get them jobs somewhere else.”

The news has created a ripple effect throughout the community and Haywood County, with as many questions being raised as answers being given by Bowman.

“I’m an avid [mountain biker] who doesn’t get to cycle,” Bowman said. “I’m making a lifestyle change, and getting out of the restaurant business. [My] passion is the beer. About three months ago, we found a spot I could not turn down [and] I signed the lease two months ago.”

Located in the Lumberyard Arts District of Brevard, within riding distance of DuPont State Forest (the city and forest both mountain biking meccas), the new (yet unnamed) brewery is expected to open in early October. There will be no food component, just a brewery with a large outdoor space. And Bowman is straightforward and blunt with his reasoning in shutting down the Tipping Point. He simply wants out, of the food business, and also his current state of mind in Waynesville.

“Cycling — that’s my thing. Two to three times a week someone comes in here and says, ‘You been riding?’ And I say, ‘No, I just spent 12 hours in the kitchen, too tired to ride.’ I’m about to turn to 57, am [I] ever going to ride my bike again?” Bowman said. “I’m more excited about getting more into the beer than I am in missing this place. I’m more excited about the future than in retrospect. We don’t have the space to expand our brewery, I want to have a bigger brewery. And I want to get out of having a kitchen. It’s a no-brainer.”

But, what remains is an empty space — physically and emotionally — at one end of the thriving downtown that is Waynesville. Though other spots of libation and social gatherings have popped up in recent years, the Tipping Point was, for many years, the first place where you went if you just moved to town and didn’t know a single soul, where you went on a first date, where you went to celebrate or to get over your sorrows, where you saw up-and-coming musical acts (like 2014 IBMA “Entertainer of the Year” Balsam Range), where you laughed, maybe cried, maybe (finally) won a Wednesday trivia competition, or maybe stopped by for a drink when you came back through town after moving away.

And, regardless of distance, you kept coming back, through the same doors, sitting with those same faces, beverages hoisted high and in celebration of another great time with friends, family, and strangers soon to become fast friends. Though many in the community don’t expect the space to be empty long, the initial and ever-present memories of 6.5 years of the Tipping Point at the heart of downtown Waynesville are permanently soaked into the building’s walls and floors, like spilled beer into the unnoticed cracks of time.

“I’d like to thank all of our loyal customers for their support over the years,” Bowman said. “Thank you, [but] it’s time for me to move on.”

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Design Dollies

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Today another double challenge, but this time a double challenge on the same blog!  Design Dollies provides three different challenges each week ---  a color challenge, a sketch challenge and an element challenge.  You can participate in any of them, two or all three of them.  I tried out the sketch and color challenges this week.  I loved the colors and I thought the sketch was really interesting.

Stamps:  Letter B.
Paper:  aqua, lime and white and DP from stash.
Ink:  Lime, aqua and jet black.
Extras:  Sizzix circle die cut; Nestabilities frame die; sponge(for applying ink to background paper for tie dye effect); white rick rack ribbon, green brad.

Sweet Dreams Everyone!
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Irish Love

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Two Cards for 2S4Y #44.

Well, I think I got in just under the wire.  One of these days I will get things done earlier.  However, I am early for the Color Throwdown challenge.  I'm not completely satisfied with the Irish card.  Now that I look at it I did forget one element for the sketch on the bottom.  I was going for something a little quick and started out by making the colors of the Irish flag. I also wanted to use the shamrock stamp alongside my sentiment, but it was too large and since I was running out of time, I chose shamrock gems instead.  Still, it was a fun card to make.

Stamps:  Shamrock stamp and sentiment.
Paper:  green, orange and white cardstock.
Ink:  Pine.
Extras:  Nestability die, green brads, shamrock gems, green and orange ribbon.

The Love card I like a litlte better.  It is for the bonus challenge.  Although now you cannot see the image on the patterned paper as well, the heart columns I made with a heart punch and gell pen mirror the image of the pink hearts hanging off of green vines.  The color scheme is from Color Throwdown 76.  Again, I had to improvise a little on the colors and get them as close as I could.

Stamps:  NONE!
Paper:  Patterned paper, olive, pale yellow and raspberry cardstock.
Ink:  NONE!
Extras:  heart punch, olive gel pen; Sizzis skittle dee doo alpha die, rapsberry patterned ribbon.

Well, it's late and I'm up as usual, but not for much longer.

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

CPS 150

Color Q #16

A card for two challenges, CPS and Color Q Challenge 16.  A little challenging to combine all those colors in such a tiny card, but I did it.  I tried to find paper as close to the colors as possible.

Stamps:  Cherish.
Paper:  Pumpkin, burgundy, raspberry, light pink and white cardstock.  DP - DCWV border strip.
Ink:  Versamark and burgundy emboss powder.
Extras:  buttons, brads, fabric flowers, clear gem, raspberry ribbon.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Celebrating You

Well, it is really, really, REALLY late!  The boys wanted to stay up late to celebrate the end of the semester and so I decided to see how far I'd get too.  Interestingly enough, I'm the last to crash!  Never would have thought it, I outlasted my teenage sons at something!  Somewhere there is an award for such a thing and if there is not, there should be.  Perhaps it could prove an interesting addition to the 'Survivor' series....mothers outwitting and outlasting their teens!  hahaha  I digress.

Getting to the task at hand now.  This digital stamp at M&M Designz just cracked me up and I had to get it for this very special birthday card.  If you haven't visited that site, you should.  Judy, the designer, creates adorable digital stamps.  I knew when I started this card that it was going to have to contain lots of froo-froo and so the lace circle was used. And, I don't think it was any accident that I stumbled upon the sketch at Delightful Sketches, which turned out to be perfect for this project.

Stamps:  All Dressed Up digital stamp (M&M Designz).  Birthday Wishes, Inkadinkadoo, I believe.
Paper:  Red, purple and white cardstock.  Lavender DP.
Ink:  Digital stamp colored using Gimp on the computer. Staz On Jet Black for 'Birthday Wishes'.
Extras:  Cuttlebug emboss folder; Sizzix hat die; purple and white ribbons; red and purple gems; red feather.

Going to catch some shut eye now.

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Obviously I did not get my creative day on Wednesday.  It fell apart pretty quickly.  And, Thursday was just as busy.  So, now that finals are over and there is a 4-day weekend, rainy and soggy as it may become, my creative flow can now commence!  You will have to excuse my lack of eloquence in my titles tonight.  It has been a very long and dreary day.  So I put a little sunshine in it myself in creating this card.

Object of Inspiration

Hopefully I got this under the deadline for Gets Sketchy #21 challenge.  I got the inspiration from a pre-Valentine trinket my hubby gave me last week, a simple vase of small roses, as seen in 'object of inspiration'.   I even used the ceramic heart vase as the template for the vase in my card.  I folded the paper and drew it along the crease and cut a small arc to slip the flowers inside.

Stamps:  'Love' sentiment from Disney Princess stamps.
Paper:  DP:  Paper Pizzaz; red, light pink and green cardstock.
Ink: Versamark and silver emboss powder
Extras:  Heart decorative corner punch, EK Success; flower dies, Sizzix; flower emboss die,QuickKutz; Heart gems.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Chocolate Flopsey

365 Days - Day 325, Imagine This

Crafty Creations #50

'Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!"

Yet, I could get used to having those kinds of 'truffles'!  It was a very nice three day weekend here and I'm a little foggy about the days.  The boys are in finals, or at least one of them.  Patrick being a senior and no absences was exempt and has a ten day vacation.  It's just a 3-day school week for the other with a four-day weekend coming up before the new semester.  And we've had five days in the 60s!  So, I've been enjoying the sunshine.  But, as all good things must come to an end, rain is coming so I can get back to creating.

I remember making valentines as a little girl and doilies were always a staple.  They are hard to come  at least here in NC.  I had to go to three craft stores before I found some and even then there were just a few in the cake decorating section.  The one I used here was an old one I had in my supplies.  The red fabric is a swatch I found at a craft store.  I'm not much of a sewer, seeing as how it has taken me four years to make curtains for my bedroom and they are only half sewn.  Yet, there are some really pretty fabric swatches for just a dollar or two that work well for patterned paper.

I originally started making this card for the PPA #25 challenge, but couldn't steal myself away from the nice weather long enough to make the deadline.  So, I finished it for the 365 Cards Day 325 'Imgaine This' challenge theme  of chocolate and the Crafty Creations challenge, texture, in which you had to use at least three different textures.  I hope my doily, cotton fabric, velvet ribbon and slightly textured candy cardstock dies count for all the textures.

I fell in love with Flopsey the bunny when I won a challenge over at CPS a couple months ago and won a gift certificate to My Favorite Things.  So, I  have cupcake Flopsey and now Truffle Flopsey for Valentine's Day.  I just looove those ears!

Stamps:  Sentiment and 'Flopsey' bunny from My Favorite Things stamps.
Paper:  Brown and white cardstock; red patterned fabric; white heart doilie.
Ink:  Blazing Red.
Extras:  Red velvet ribbon. Tag, circle, swirl dies. Heart template. White heart brad.

Tomorrow is a day full of creating!  I NEVER get a midweek day for that so I'm soaking it up, especially since the rain is coming too, speaking of soaking.

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

I got my  mojo on today for Mojo Monday #121 and even added some Color Throwdown to it for their challenge #75.  And it just may take me til deadline to get it posted since the Golden Globes are on.  I tried my best to get as close to the color combo as possible but am afraid the 'garden green' gave me some struggle.

Stamps:  Chamomile - My Favorite Things Stamps.  ornamental stamp- Hampton Art.
Paper:   Bazzill Basics
 Ink:  Versamark Dazzle, emboss powder.
Extras:  Rope border punch;  Sizzix circle die; Sizzix Skittle Dee Doo Alpha; Cuddlebug Vintage Dies; large brad, Making Memories.

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Snowboardin' Celebration

Happy Saturday!  Wow, it's been a whole week since I posted anything and that long since I did any crafting.  The new year is proving to be a tad bit too busy!  Anyway, I am late posting this for the CPS challenge tonight, but I am submitting it anyway.  Took me a bit to get my bearings after a week away from the crafting table.  And, when I finished with this card, I realized I used the same colors as the last card I posted!  Oh well, everything just fell into place tonight so that's OK.

Again, I needed a masculine card.  I am beginning to think there are too many men in my family!  hahaha  I AM joking!  The snowboard digital stamp was great and I kept thinking of what else to do for a male teen birthday card and I was looking at birthday stamps and BAM!  Icing is like why not have the snowboarder 'snowboard' over the frosting of a cupcake.  So, I printed the cupcake on four different colors of cardstock, then pieced it all together and coordinated them with some of the paper strips behind the images.

Stamps:  Happy Birthday, Inkadinkadoo; Snowboarder digital stamp from Bird's Cards; cupcake digital stamp, Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.
Paper:  DP, Making Memories 'Just Chillin'; orange textured cardstock, Bazzill; chocolate, light blue and white cardstock.
Ink:  Staz On Timber Brown
Extras:  Number punches; turquoise star brads; orange brads; oval metal frame.

I have LOADS of cards to do in the next few days as I did not get my Christmas cards finished and so they are becoming New Year's/Winter Blessings/Valentine cards.  There is always a way to improvise.

More to come...

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Nifty Fifty Birthday

CPS 148

I've been MIA from the blogging world most of this first week of the new year.  Getting back to reality always takes a push after the holidays.  It was a nice surprise to find my profile featured on 2Sketches4You this week too!  So a shout out to Laura and Kazan over there, thank you so much!  Hopefully if I had any new visitors on their behalf that they found me up and running after making some changes here for the new year.

I did find some time to get at least one card done this week.  My brother turned 50 this week and so I challenged myself again in making another masculine card.  Why are masculine cards so challenging?  Maybe because there is a limited amount of card making supplies out there to cater to the adult male gender?  Guess I will have to surf the net in my free time (that will be in 2020!) to find more masculine supplies before I need them again.

Yet, I digress a bit.  I made this card also for the CPS 148 challenge this week.  I love their simple designs that then you can embellish as little or as much as you want. Since I'm on a crafting budget and I blew that for supplies for Christmas cards and I'm number punch challenged, I used my computer to make the number fifty and cut it out.

Stamps:  None!
Paper:  DP from DCWV.  Baby blue, cocoa brown and paprika cardstock.
Ink:  Timber Brown from StazOn for distressed, antique look around paper edges.
Extras:  Decorative ribbon; Photo rounder punch; Birthday embossing folder from Cuddlebug; Sizzlet gift die cut; Sizzlet Happy Birthday die cut; numbers printed off computer and cut out.

Now I'm off to finish some new year cards and thank you cards and peruse the world of card challenges!

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Saturday, January 2, 2010

New Year Rockin Stars - 2S4Y Challenge

Another challenge for the new year for 2Sketches4You.  I made these as New Year's giftcard holder cards for my sons.  I left the middle of the center border as a pocket for the gift cards (see third picture).

Stamps:  Your Rock and Guitar from Recollections, I believe.
Paper:  DP is DCWV, The Rockstar Stack.  Black and powder blue cardstock from stash.
Ink: Versamark with black fine emboss powder.
Extras:  Black ribbon; Star die cut. Scallop border punch.

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Happy New Year!

I think I have finally knocked out some kinks in my blog facelift and can now post my first entry for my first challenge for 2010!  I still have some things to add back and have a list of things I want to add on to the blog, but that will wait until another day.

Gift Card Holders/Cards

As I was thinking about how to make a card/giftcard holder together, I was perusing through CPS' past sketches and found #84 and it was perfect for what I wanted to do.  I needed two masculine cards for giftcards and so this is what evolved.  It took me a bit to decide how to close the flap, button with ribbon and in the end I decided on velcro.  I had the iron on kind and it worked out better than I first thought.  It did take some time and care so that I didn't burn the paper even with covering the card with a pillow case before applying the iron heat.

Stamps:  Penguin - Inkadinkadoo; Reindeer face- Recollections; Sentiments-Recollections.

Paper:  Cardstock from stash; DP for penguin:  Meadow Grass Strip by Max's Backyard;  Reindeer - snow DP from basicgrey.

Ink:  Versamark dazzle in champagne; green, black, gold tinsel, and burgundy emboss powder.

Extras:  Ribbons:  red velvet (penguin card); green plaid and red plaid (reindeer card);  green tinsel ribbon for giftcard holders inside flap; green button (penguin), candy cane accent (reindeer); oval scallop border die cut; square punch; velcro.

For the ornament card holders I used the Sizzix ornament die and coordinated paper.  On the ornament, I cut two dies per holder, one in solid cardstock, the other in dp paper to match the card.  Then, I cut the DP ornament on top to make the pocket for the gift card and glued it onto the solid ornament, leaving a pocket in the middle.  Then, I added holly dies as a front border, made the ornament top in the same dp paper and added the green tinsel ribbon.

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Friday, January 1, 2010

Well, I have finally gotten most of my blog up and running.  Still some things to add and others to tweak but I didn't want to start off the new year completely under construction!  The end of year bulk posting will now be a New Year extravaganza mostly of leftover Christmas cards I didn't get posted earlier.

One resolution I've made already is to start NOW on next year's Christmas cards so they will all be done before Christmas!  What a concept for me!  LOL  Hopefully, a resolution that I can keep, along with several others, but those will be left for discussion elsewhere.......possibly in another new blog.

So anyway, I hope my makeover here is not a disappointment.  Sorry it took so long, yet sometimes, creativity cannot be rushed.  The biggest change is going from 2-columns to 3-columns and I like it much better.  More things will be added in the very near future, but for now, this is the new look of Snap, Scrap, and Dazzle.  One might ask, where do the cats fit in?  Well, the cat on the header is just one in my collection that sits in my kitchen.  The cat thing started when my husband gave me a kitten as a college graduation gift.  She was with us for 17 years and grew into a dear friend.  Then, there was the cat cookie jar, a wedding gift that set off the kitchen decor.  And, if that isn't bad enough, thanks to my kids, I believe I own just about every Beanie cat made.  So I decided to add my now slight obsession with all things cats, to the blog as a way to make it unique and my very own.  So I hope you enjoy the new look.

Of course, I didn't want to debut it without a card posting, so here is one:

Blue Joy

Happy New Year!

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

thanks to everyone for their wishes! :)
love everyone! :)

21. my mummy says it's a milestone in my life
somehow it doesn't feel any different la...
just that well, i'll be able to er, vote?! and play stocks?!
well, that's about it
not as if i never watch r21 film before...haha!

every year i use to count how many birthday wishes i get
i know, it's damn childish and lame
but it's nice to be remembered and pple should know that i like birthday wishes better than presents even

but of course, this year, being MATURE, i shall not do such childish things already

(gh don't believe me, he belives i'm secretly counting)

anyway, at 12 midnight (singapore time) last night,
gh wished me happy birthday! :) he even use internet clock to check
cos he say maybe his watch not accurate
hahaha! it was quite funny, cos i was cooking dinner
then i saw him bouncing out, want to wish me already
but then he hurry up bounce back and see whether he count down the 3, 2, 1 correctly

and i got a surprise opening the letterbox yesterday! :)

guy send one leh ;)
SWAK with many hearts in the front too ;)

hahaha, birthday greetings from swineflu-tokyo!!
and ur presence is everywhere la, on msn/blog/fb! :)

i received my card from my mum some time back
1 week ago i think
think she send very early so that it'll definitely get to me in time!

the words are very gan dong, and she says it's what she really wants to tell me
haha, she made me read it out for my daddy to hear somemore during webcam session
i kinda almost choked on the words actually, but of course, i maintained my composure

thanks to my relatives who wished me too, e-cards and offline msgs
usually they will sms me, but u know, i'm not sms-contactable now

oh, and a special mention to someone who surprised me with a bdae greeting too
i really appreciate it :)
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

[CP + mushroom pot]

this semester, i'm doing a cp project together with gh and 3 other girls
it is to help improve on the NUS arts festival, by acting as a consulting group for them

this is realy my BEST GROUP ever!
despite the heavy workload of having to finish the cp in 1 sem,
but having a very hardworking group HELPS ALOT!
*many many hearts* to my CP group!

since we are doing a project for the Centre For the Arts, of course we ended up in UCC a few times for meetings

this is going to be my kodak spot when i graduate
and probably the kodak spot of every other nus graduate too :s

ucc, comfortable and quiet
just that it is not linked to the school
should it rain, u'll no doubt get wet!

we are also going to embark on our focus group discussion soon!
and nus biz has really cool facilities!
like the behavioural labs which has a 1 way mirror, damn cool!

see this reflective mirror?

the clients can sit in the observation lab to view the whole process!
and there's also recording facilities and a tv so that the clients can see clearer!
wow, i was very amazed

it seems like police interrogation though :P
like what i see in movies!
but of course, with a much more pleasant atmosphere!

after a very long day in school today (from 9am to 6pm - cos of meeting)
and waiting super long for the bus,
i finally met my mum at og orchard point cos she wanted to buy shoes and to renew her og membership card
there were like many many aunties there getting their membership card!
just spend $75 in one receipt to get a og membership card for 1 year!
i bet tml, og will be swarmed by millions of aunties!

then we went to eat at Mushroom Pot for the first time
it is located on the 4th floor of OG orchard point
we basically ate there because:

1) my mum wanted to try it out
2) there was 1-for-1 set meal

the set menu! if it was not 1-for-1, i'd definitely not eat!
it is SO EXPENSIVE! and so many limitations!
like one house specialty for 2 people, etc.

then i saw that there is high tea buffet, not v expensive right...

but when i checked out the buffet menu, it limits you to the number of dishes u can order for the starters and chef recommendation section!

like ugh, do they get what is BUFFET?!
means FREE FLOW okay!
no limitations here and there!!

waiting for the food to be served
oh, we have to pay for that tissue too -___-"

it is basically steamboat style

i ordered seafood set while my mum ordered combi set
i think the food is PATHETICALLY LITTLE!

our starter: mushroom salad
it was... TINY! and cold :s but okay, pretty appetizing

in the end, my fave dish at Mushroom Pot was the braised TOFU!
i think i'm a very TOFU person, i just love TOFU! :P

my dinner for the night
actually the mushroom soup base for the steamboat tasted really nice
but it was too salty! so i couldn't drink much of it too

final cost: $17 nett per person

conclusion: i'll never go back again unless they have 1-for-2 special
buy 1 get 2 free, hahaha!
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Nuffnang Movie Contest: Pirates of the Carribean - On Stranger Tides

We first knew about Pirates of the Carribean in The Curse of the Dead Pearl (2003). After a three year drought, Dead Man's Chest (2006) dawned upon us. We didn't have long to wait after that, where At World's End debut on May 2007, yet again, another box office hit.

And after a four year period,

the fourth film of the series is finally here - Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides

Finally, we get to see Captain Jack Sparrow in action today! Somehow, I feel like Johnny Depp has totally morphed into Captain Jack Sparrow, especially in Alice in the Wonderland. I felt like he was totally Captain Jack Sparrow with a Mad Hatter face!

This time, he meets Angelica (played by Penelope Cruz), a woman from his past. Both are in search of the Fountain of Youth in this adventure. This time, aside from possessed zombies, he has to overcome mermaids too, in order to reach this Fountain.

To stand a chance to win tickets to the gala premiere, head over to and complete the "All Abord" contest on Quee Anne's Revenge! There are also games on the Fb page, such as Pirate Yourself, Battle Galleons or Skull Creator.

I played the Pirate Yourself game, and here's how I look!

Okay, from this app, I can tell that moustaches are really a no-no for me (._. haha). You get to choose hats, facial hairs, jewellery, makeup, and accessories when you Pirate Yourself. Go check it out!

I can't wait to watch Pirates of the Carribean!! :)

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Feds' figures understate unemployment
Lost in the statistics

by SHARON SMITH | July 20, 2001 | Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT is back in the headlines, with the June jobless rate edging up to 4.5 percent and the Bush administration predicting it will top 5 percent by summer's end.

Economists are quick to point out that even this jobless rate, while growing, is low by historical standards. But the 4.5 percent statistic masks the actual scale of the problem.

It's widely acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of disheartened workers have given up on finding a job and aren't counted in official statistics. And the number of workers who have taken part-time jobs because no full-time work is available rose to 3.6 million last month.

Moreover, the methods used to gather the Labor Department's payroll statistics are highly suspect. The Labor Department reported that payroll employment fell by 114,000 jobs in June.

But a July 10 Wall Street Journal editorial, titled "Labor Statistics are Lying," argues that the June total is actually a loss of 269,000 jobs.

Lincoln Anderson, the chief investment officer at LPL Financial Services, says that the Labor Department automatically adds 160,000 jobs a month to its totals, in boom or slump, to account for the hires of newly started firms--what it calls the "bias factor." "This bias factor is basically picked out of thin air," Anderson writes.

He argues that the Labor Department's household survey of unemployment, which shows a drop in employment of roughly 1 million over the last five months, is closer to the mark. "[I]t's clear that we have experienced a bigger drop in employment than occurred in the first five months of the 1990 recession," he concludes. But the news media has largely ignored the harsh reality facing workers who are losing their jobs.

Far fewer workers are eligible for unemployment benefits when they lose their jobs today than in past recessions. Fewer than one in three unemployed workers receives unemployment benefits today, compared to more than 40 percent during the 1970s and more than 50 percent in the 1950s.

And most workers have little to fall back on if they lose their jobs.

Between 1983 and 1995, the average net worth of households in the bottom 40 percent of the population declined by 80 percent–from $4,400 to $900–while the net worth of the middle fifth of the population declined by 11 percent. Recent surveys show that 60 percent of workers say that if they get laid off, their savings would last a few months or less. And 27 percent say they don't earn enough to have any savings at all.

The 1990s saw a massive growth of part-time, temporary and contract employees in the labor force. Today, they number more than 34 million workers, representing nearly a third of the workforce.

Many of these workers are part of the battalion of low-wage workers who got jobs in the fast-growing service sector during the 1990s. These are the workers who will be the least likely to qualify for unemployment benefits if they lose their jobs.

Only 18 percent of low-wage workers and 12 percent of part-time workers who are unemployed currently receive benefits. Many workers are automatically excluded because they must have been continuously employed for a minimum period of time, often a year, to qualify.

And employers have a stake in contesting unemployment claims, because their tax rates increase with the number of employees collecting unemployment benefits.

Most states require that in order to qualify for unemployment benefits, even a worker who has been laid off from a part-time job must be available for full-time work--an impossibility for many working mothers. One in five workers today holds a part-time job, and 70 percent of them are women.

Former welfare recipients are especially hard hit when they become unemployed. The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies reported a 36 percent increase in emergency food assistance between January 1998 and January 1999 in New York–which it attributed to the gutting of welfare.

Most former welfare recipients have already faced unemployment. One study of former recipients in several cities found that their average pay is just $7 an hour, and their jobs typically last only seven months. But they aren't eligible to return to welfare because of state and federal time limits on welfare benefits passed under Bill Clinton.

Three decades of attacks on workers' rights, which culminated in Clinton's slashing of the social safety net, caused the gap between rich and poor to grow to obscene levels during the 1990s economic boom.

In a recession, this will bring widespread human disaster--unless workers fight back.

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Cuts and more cuts

By Pham Binh and Lee Wengraf | December 13, 2002 | Page 2

REPUBLICAN MAYOR Mike Bloomberg's budget plan for New York City could be summed up in just a few words: Cuts, cuts and more cuts. The billionaire mayor's plan, which was approved by New York's majority Democrat city council earlier this month, adds up to $780 million in cuts to city services.

Bloomberg's budget ax is poised to hit needed city services. Bobbie Sackman of the Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City described to the City Council the toll these cuts will take on NYC's poor and elderly: "This will wipe out about 75 percent of the funding won over the last four years. [Take someone like] Mrs. M., an 86-year-old widowed woman who lives alone. She is frail and in need of assistance with meal preparation due to blood cancer. Mrs. M. has been on a waiting list for home-delivered meals since November 2001."

Bloomberg's budget would shutter 11 senior centers that the elderly rely upon for meals and basic services. "The budget is more than numbers--it's human beings," Sackman said.

New York City workers will also pay the price with their jobs. Hundreds of layoffs have already taken place in departments such as Sanitation and the Board of Education. In addition to cuts in service, the mayor is seeking at least $500 million in union concessions.

And more budget misery is yet to come, as Republican Gov. George Pataki gets ready to unveil his state budget cuts in January. Pataki has promised massive cutbacks to the City University of New York system.

These cuts come as social services are already stretched to the breaking point. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 300,000 more New Yorkers were in poverty than were a decade earlier. The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that among major metropolitan areas, New York had the second highest unemployment rate. According to the Center on Budget Policy Priorities, over the last 20 years, the poorest 20 percent lost 5.9 percent in average income, while the richest 20 percent gained a staggering 54 percent.

Bloomberg claims he needs to make more cuts to close $5 billion "budget shortfall." Yet Bloomberg--a billionaire CEO--refuses to raise taxes for the rich or wealthy corporations.

Bloomberg is following the lead of the bosses' best friend, George W. Bush--who after the Republican victories in the mid-term elections, announced plans for another tax break for the rich. At the same time, he's planning a war on Iraq, the cost of which--in lives and social spending--will be forced on the backs of workers.

Workers shouldn't be forced to pay for the bosses' wars or their budget crisis.

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On the picket line

September 29, 2006 | Page 15

Chicago hotel workers
By Carole Ramsden

CHICAGO--Members of the union representing the city's 7,000 unionized hotel workers have voted to approve a new three-year contract.

In a September 23 press release, Henry Tamarin, president of UNITE-HERE Local 1, said, "With the conclusion of bargaining, nearly 7,000 Chicago hotel workers will see major progress in wages, benefits and working conditions."

Negotiations targeted three separate bargaining groups, with the Hilton's 2,300 workers setting the standard, followed by the Hyatt's 1,900 workers and 2,700 at the Sheraton and Starwood Hotels. Eleven other hotels are following "me-too" agreements. There was no word on the remaining four hotels, and the Congress Hotel has been on strike since June 2003.

The contracts increase wages for room attendants by $1.10 an hour the first year, raising current wages to $13.20 an hour, plus 70 cents for each of the next two years. Also won was the reduction of daily room quotas for cleaning on heavy checkout days, and improvements in pensions and benefits. The hotels also agreed to card-check neutrality on new organizing drives for hotels the unionized ones may purchase or manage.

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Another case of police murder in New Orleans

Daniel Werst reports on organizing efforts to win justice for Eric Harris, a Black man murdered by New Orleans police in February.

Standing up in New Orleans to demand justice for Eric Harris (Daniel Werst | SW)Standing up in New Orleans to demand justice for Eric Harris (Daniel Werst | SW)

SOME 50 people marched through downtown New Orleans on March 29 to demand justice for Eric Harris, a Black man murdered by police on February 8, the day before Mardi Gras.

This was the latest in a series of protests about this killing led by a committee of activists involved in Take 'Em Down NOLA, the campaign to force the removal of Confederate statues in the city, especially members of the Black Youth Project organization, together with Harris' family members.

Harris' relatives have bluntly demanded that the two cops who shot and killed Eric be arrested and charged with murder, and this was the loud demand of everyone marching on March 29.

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ERIC HARRIS was 22 years old when he was killed, and the father of a young child with his partner Tyshara Blouin. On February 8, he was accused of threatening his ex-girlfriend at Oakwood Mall in Jefferson Parish, across the river from New Orleans.

When he was approached by an officer from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (JPSO), Harris and Blouin drove away, starting a car chase into central New Orleans. The chase ended when Harris crashed the car and came to a halt.

After the collision, two Jefferson Parish cops, Kenneth Bonura and Henry DeJean, opened fire into the driver's side of the car. Both Blouin and a witness in the area who heard the shooting estimated that the police fired approximately 20 shots. Four of those bullets and two more bullet fragments hit Harris, killing him.

Since the shooting, the cops have claimed that they shot and killed Harris because he reversed his car toward them, threatening their lives. However, video footage from a nearby building shows that the vehicle reversed about two feet, immediately stopped and then moved back where it had been.

Following the shooting, JPSO head Newell Normand told the media that the two deputies started firing upon seeing the car's reverse lights come on. By Normand's own account, the car was 60 feet from the officers. The car was damaged from the crash and flanked by police with drawn guns. The JPSO reported finding a handgun in Harris' car, but admit that it was never pointed at police.

Tyshara Blouin has said from the beginning that her partner never reversed the car. Blouin, the only non-police witness directly at the scene, said that Harris didn't touch the gearshift, that he was stunned from the crash, and that he barely had time to ask if she was hurt before he was killed.

The sheriff's deputies cannot seriously claim that they were in danger. These two officers murdered Eric Harris. Only racism and a system of impunity could shield cops who fired 20 bullets for the "crime" of being in a vehicle that rolled two feet after crashing.

Since the killing, JPSO has entirely supported Bonura and DeJean. A spokesman for the department crowed to local reporters that neither officer would even be put on desk duty because the department did not suspect them of doing anything wrong.

This attitude is unsurprising. The department does not use any cameras, either body-mounted or in its cars, to record officers' actions. Last year, the city of New Orleans forced its cops to wear body cameras. In response, Sheriff Normand said that he didn't want cameras because they would lead to "Monday morning quarterbacking."

One week after Harris was killed, amid media coverage and protests, JPSO arrested Tyshara Blouin, and charged her with being an accessory to Harris' actions and with drug possession. She was the key witness to the fatal shooting and had publicly accused the deputies of lying about killing her partner in self-defense. Many believe that her arrest was intended to intimidate--or, failing that, smear her.

New Orleans police are under federal monitoring through a so-called consent decree that created new rules for use of force after a long history of police shootings of unarmed people. The rules mandate that NOPD cannot fire at a person simply to stop a moving car. This essentially stops police from claiming that they fired because a car was being used as a weapon. A number of cases in which police have shot drivers on this pretext show that the claim is so difficult to substantiate that it can be used as a convenient excuse.

Because Jefferson Parish has more permissive rules than NOPD, and because its force is widely seen as particularly abusive, protesters are questioning why the sheriff's deputies were able to operate freely inside New Orleans.

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IN THE latest demonstration against this police murder, protesters gathered at the huge downtown column, capped with a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The city's anti-racist movement has been applying pressure to get all of these monuments to white supremacy and slavery removed. Last December, the City Council voted 6-1 to remove four of the most prominent, but due to a string of lawsuits, threats to companies that might remove the statues, and inaction by the city, they are still in place.

The Lee statue has been a rallying point for several demonstrations since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. At the start of this protest, organizers tied up banners against racism and police violence all around the base of the column.

Several of these banners were created by a group of female prison inmates who were taking part in a celebration of Black History Month. This celebration was encouraged by the prison administration--until these women painted banners focusing on police violence against Black people, including one about Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old killed last year by a Chicago cop.

The main speaker at the start of the march was from the Black Youth Project, who commented that the New Orleans action was part of the same struggle as in Chicago against prosecutor Anita Alvarez and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The speaker also gave an update on the long series of hearings and bureaucratic decisions about whether the city would remove the Confederate statues, and stated that we shouldn't be surprised when elites defend racist symbols and obstruct popular demands.

From the Lee statue, the demonstration set off toward the downtown federal building. The chants were simple: "What do we want? Justice! Justice for who? Eric Harris! When do we want it? Now!"

Almost immediately, the marchers passed through the filming location of the TV show NCIS. As the march went through, it shut down activity on the set. The protest then stopped at a park where there is another racist statue honoring John McDonogh, the slave owner who donated funds to create a municipal school system shortly before the Civil War--intended, of course, for white children only.

Finally, the demonstration arrived at the federal building and rallied briefly outside. Organizers spoke, demanding that the federal prosecutor in New Orleans intervene to bring charges against the two cops who killed Harris. Organizers have also questioned NOPD officials at hearings on the shooting. It is clear that the so-called investigation of the killing by NOPD and federal officials cannot be expected to focus on the facts.

This march brought people together who see this killing as one more brutal event in a system that constantly targets Black people. It connected the fight against monuments symbolizing slavery to the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement.

The movement needs to focus on reaching out to the many New Orleanians who agree with our demands and can be drawn into action. Only a much larger force of people refusing to accept police violence can achieve justice for Eric Harris.


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Welly good idea - phone & mp3 charging for Glastonbury

The nearest I've got to seeing a live band is watching Abba The Movie so although I'm not an expert on music festivals like Glastonbury (nasty muddy places), I can appreciate the technological endeavours and creative minds that come up with eco-friendly ways to charge mobile phones and mp3 players etc when there's not a wall socket in the nearest bush.

Like the Orange Power Wellies - wellington boots (the optimal foot wear for any serious festival goer apparently) which generate and store power from a thermoelectric power generating sole.

All you have to do is walk around, dance etc and the heat generated by your feet is converted into energy. At the end of the day, you simply plug in your device to the power outlet at the top of the boot to recharge it.

The wellies have been developed by GotWind, working with Orange for the fourth year on their special Glastonbury eco-projects which in previous years have seen a kinetic device which generated energy from dancing and a special foot pump which could generate electricity.

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Day 1 of Federal Government Shutdown 2013 has passed, and, so far, the local impact appears minimal.

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A phone call to the Massachusetts Social Security office yielded a notably altered recorded greeting before the automated directory kicked in: “During the government shutdown, local Social Security offices, except card centers, are open for a limited number of services. You can access our services online.”

A sign inside the Fall River Social Security office on North Main Street confirmed that the shutdown had indeed begun. It read, “Things we cannot do today: Issue new, or replacement Social Security cards. Replace your Medicare card. Issue a proof of income.”

Another posted sign concluded, “We regret any inconvenience. We assure that despite reduced funding from Congress we will continue to work hard to serve this community.”

Social Security payments will still continue as scheduled, and offices will still be open for other services — benefits applications, changing addresses or direct deposit information, reporting deaths, replacing lost or missing payments or issuing critical payments.

Foot traffic to the office Tuesday afternoon appeared relatively minimal. The folks who visited didn’t appear bothered by the shutdown, so long as they received their checks, which, so far, they had.

Employees of local Social Security offices would not comment on media inquiries regarding the shutdown.

When asked, Social Security assistant district manager Mayda Hammond simply said, “I cannot answer those questions for you,” and instead gave out a phone number and a website:

Elsewhere, Mayor William Flanagan said the city’s federally funded programs are so far continuing, at least in the short term.

“At the local level, everything appears to be running as normal,” Flanagan said. “But the losers, if this shutdown goes on, will not be the government or the city, but the people who are assisted by federal programs... It’s very disappointing.”

Flanagan noted that Federal SAFER Grant funds, which partially fund firefighters’ salaries, had already been allocated. Federal education funds for programs like HeadStart and federal transportation funds had also been dispersed. The community development agency is also “still up and running,” Flanagan said.

“At this time, the money has been allocated. But that money might possibly be in jeopardy,” Flanagan said. “Future funding is obviously an issue moving forward.”

A sustained shutdown could jeopardize funding for local Women Infants and Children (WIC) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits programs, explained Mark Sullivan, executive director of Citizens for Citizens, which provides a number of federally funded social service programs in Taunton and Fall River.

“It’s probably going to affect first and foremost our WIC program,” Sullivan said.

“There won’t be any staff to do the food stamps program,” Sullivan said. “That may be a few weeks away.” With winter just two months away, Citizens for Citizens is also out of money for its fuel assistance program.

Fall River’s veteran services have continued uninterrupted, according to Veterans Services Director Raymond Hague.

Hague said he had received inquiries about whether veterans services would be cut. So far, the federally run Veterans Affairs hospitals in Providence and Brockton are still open, with assurances from the VA that they will remain so. “And our rides are continuing,” Hague said.

At the National Weather Service’s Taunton office, essential personnel remained at work Tuesday, continuing to monitor the weather and provide forecasts.

“We are essential to protect life and property, so we continue on,” meteorologist Bill Simpson said.

While the Taunton forecast center’s website remains in operation, and many of its associated websites are not available during the shutdown. The office posted a message on Twitter earlier in the day that staff will be onsite to provide forecasts and critical weather support, but would be unable to respond to non-critical questions.

It is business as usual at post offices during the shutdown, including those located inside federal buildings.

“As a self-funded independent agency of the Executive Branch of the federal government, the U.S. Postal Service will not shut down,” U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Christine Dugas said in an email. “Normal operations and normal business hours will continue.”

With reports from Gerry Tuoti, assistant city editor of the Taunton Daily Gazette.

Email Michael Gagne at


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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Another little charm I stumbled across a few mornings ago:

A birthday celebration for Buddy & Monk (probably the two most beloved of our stuffed animal collection).  Everyone got a party hat and the kids and I baked a treat that afternoon.

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  1. This is so adorable. I can't wait to start our own little family and have special memories like this :)


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Time Machine

A friend of mine sent this video over a bit ago and it fit nicely with a post I was going to write and film about working on your time, something that most musicians work on or certainly should work on in my experience.

Good timing.

Fixing any problems you have, whether it be sloppiness, bad feel, not being able to swing well, funk well, rock well or whatever well always comes back to your perception of and playing of time. If you don't perceive and feel exactly where the beat is, you're not going to be able to place your notes in the right space. And even more, you're not going to be able backphrase or play on top of the beat either -- at least not as a conscious choice. You'll end up dragging or rushing, which is not the same thing as consciously backphrasing or pushing in order to create tension.

When I was in college, the idea of playing with a metronome to many people seemed like the most school thing you could do-- that's not music, that's academic. It's what classical musicians do, not rock players or jazz players or whatever. In one of the first ensemble classes I had at Berklee, the teacher berated us, rightly, for our crappy time and told us we needed to practice with a metronome.

I remember thinking that was lame because first; I already had good time (right), and second I wanted to learn about more interesting things like hybrids and exotic scales. What I didn't realize was that no one would want to play with me if I couldn't play those hybrids with good feel.

So, for everyone who thinks that playing with a metronome is square, I'll let Metallica make my argument for me.

Check out James Hetfield's monstrous right hand technique in this video, especially when he's in the control room starting at about 0:16 through 1:15. What's that you hear in the background that he's playing with?

A metronome.

Don't take my word for it, Hetfield gives you permission to work on your time.


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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Sonic Overload 5/16/11

 Are you ready for Judgment Day? Ready for The Rapture? According to some people, this weekend is the time, May 21, 2011. The righteous will be “saved,” the rest of us are fucked. Or something like that. Perhaps this really is the last Sonic Overload. I’ve tried to put together something memorable and selected some special songs for the occasion. See you next week—I hope!

Sonic Overload 5/16/11

WARZONE-Judgement Day (Fist)

DOUBLE NEGATIVE-Face Jam (from upcoming 7”)
LEATHER-Relapse (Jade Tree)
CRIME WAVE-Get With The Sickness (Agro-Wax)
KNIFE THE SYMPHONY-Squatting Warrior (Phratry)

SHIRKS-Cry Cry Cry (Grave Mistake)
BURNING SENSATION-I Feel Disgust (Vertex)
GUNNAR HANSEN-Phil’s Song (Schizophrenic)
DEAN DIRG-Cause I Can (Hardware)
OMEGAS-Sex Hero (Parts Unknown)
DEAD VIRGINS-Rape Capitol Hill (from “Something In The Water,” Under The Volcano)

ROACH MOTEL-I Hate The Sunshine State (Destroy)
ADRENALIN OD-Clean and Jerk (Chunksaah)
MEDIA DISEASE-Religion (from “Mixed Nuts Don’t Crack,” Outside)
GANG GREEN-Kill A Commie (Taang)
GOVERNMENT ISSUE-Sheer Terror (Dischord)
PRETTY THINGS-Judgement Day (Fontana)

MUTOID MEN-Ly Canthrope (Rumbletowne)
DIPERS-Bed Bugs Are Back (demo)
DAVILA 666-Ratata (In The Red)
TYVEK-Summer Things (Siltbreeze)
MANSON YOUTH-Let’s Call it A Day (Dr. Strange)
BLIGHT-Prophet of Doom (Touch & Go)

LIEUTENANT-Put A Cork In It (Peterwalkee)
JANITOR-Suffocation By Filth (Agro-Wax)
POINTBLANK-The Hunter, Part 1 (demo)
JUDAS FACTOR-The Last Days Of The Titanic (from “Mindset Overhaul,” Wreck-Age)
VIOLENT NUNS-The CIA Is After Me (from “Bands That Don’t Give A Shit About Being God,” Social Napalm)
DEATH OR GLORY-Your Choice (Crucial Response)
HERATYS-Ostovoimaa (Not Enough)

PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES-Banned From The Pubs (Dr. Strange)
DOW JONES & THE INDUSTRIALS-Ladies With Appliances (from “Red Snerts,” Gulcher)
LOU MIAMI & THE KOZMETIX-Fascist Lover (Final Vinyl)

SCABBURGER-no title (from “Speed Trials: Worst Bands Of West Michigan,” Punks Before Profits)
STOCKPILE-Erosion (from upcoming 7”)
BOMBS AWAY-Waiting For History To Change (self-released)
DISASTER STRIKES-Sick To Death (Overdose On Records)
CONFINES-Downward Harmonization (Labor Of Love/Side Two)
PORTRAIT OF POVERTY-Anxiety Attack (Sudden Death)

NERORGASMO-Io Sono La Tua Fine (El Paso Occupato)
BOTTLES & SKULLS-Party Crasher (Sickroom)
BAR FEEDERS-Toolshed (Fast Music)
CRIMINALS-Parlez-Vous Fuk You? (Lookout)
ONE TON SHOTGUN-Don’t Mess With The Amish (Atomic Action)
ROMULANS-Judgment Day (from “We Got Power: Party Or Go Home,” Mystic)

NAZTI SKINZ-Race War (Youth Attack)
DETOX-Child For One (Flipside)
DI-Living In The USA (Reject)
NIGHT BIRDS-Killer Waves (Grave Mistake)

TUFF DARTS-(Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste (Sire)
DAMNED-Problem Child (MCA)
DEMOB-No Room For You (Grand Theft Audio)
VICE SQUAD-Stand Strong Stand Proud (Captain Oi)
THE BLOOD-Stark Raving Normal (from “Oi! Greatest Hits Volume One,” Dojo)

BODYSNATCHERS-Frantic (from “Bloodstains Across Australia”)
WASPS-Teenage Treats (Cherry Red)
UNWANTED-Withdrawal (Raw)
DVA DAMAS-Man Skin Pants (Psychic Handshake)

CLASSIC RUINS-1 + 1 > 2 (Ace Of Hearts) in memory of Kevin Glasheen

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Sonic Overload 5/9/11

It’s a big sports night as I post this (Celtics playoffs, Red Sox) so forgive the brevity of my words this week. I didn’t talk all that much on the show either, except to discuss the inspiration for playing  the Lärm song and you’ll have to listen to find out. That’s what you were going to do anyway, right?

Sonic Overload 5/9/11

LAST RIGHTS-Chunks (Taang)

LE FACE-Nothing Cult (Psychic Handshake)
OUTDOORSMEN-Stink Up The Bathroom (Psychic Handshake)
GONE BAD-Dirtbag (self-released)
FOLDED SHIRT-Smell You Later (Fashionable Idiots)

HERDS-Bay City (Residue)
ASSFORT-Intelligence (Vinyl Japan)
UX VILEHEADS-No Salvation (Sorry State)
BROWN SUGAR-King’a The Road (Feral Kid)
JESUS H. BOMBS-Sharp Lips (Bookoven/Tibs Ribs)
SEX/VID-Trainwreck (Kill Test)

CRASS-Where Next Columbus? (Crass)
LIBERTY-As Fools Rush In (Mortarhate)
YOUNG WASTENERS-We Got Ways (Kick ‘n’ Punch)
ANGST-Die Fighting (Bemisbrain)

VILE GASH-Everyone’s The Enemy (Youth Attack)
POISON PLANET-Mind Racing (from “Punx Don’t Drink,” ThirdXParty)
BOILING OVER-Trash City (Lifeline)
SORRY EXCUSE-Mute (Lifeline)
H100’S-Dismantle (Non-Commerical)
NIGHT PROWLER-Crime Wave (demo)

SHADOW OF FEAR-Now’s The Time (St. Valentine)
CLOAK/DAGGER-Dead Town Beat (Jade Tree)
PUPPY MILL-Suffocation (demo)
NOTHING BUT ENEMIES-Diarrhea Of The Human Race (Welfare)

LÄRM-Crucify The Pope (Coalition)
CHAOS UK-Four Minute Warning (Dead Ringer)
COURT MARTIAL-Young Offender (Riot City)
LAW & ORDER-Power (Fetal)
FLIPPER-The Game’s Got A Price (Infinite Zero)
ANGRY SAMOANS-Steak Knife (from Take-It Magazine flexi)

GUZZARD-Supersonic Enemy Of Evil (Amphetamine Reptile)
GIRLS AGAINST BOYS-Matching Wits With Flaming Frank (Adult Swim)
BATTLESHIP-San Francisco’s Alright If You Like Metronomes (On/On Switch)
CLIKITAT IKATOWI-Librarian (from “Jabberjaw: Pure Sweet Hell,” Mammoth)
DEEP SLEEP-Slow Down (Grave Mistake)

GAUNT-Rich Kid (Thrill Jockey)
SCRAMS-Chimp Necropsy (self-released)
NEW BOMB TURKS-American Soul Spiders (Engine)
HIVES-Outsmarted (Gearhead)

ACCUSED-Buried Alive (Subcore)
DR.KNOW-God Told Me To (Ghetto-Way)
KVORTINGEN-Fettet Haravgatt, Vargen Ar Los (Havoc)
DESTINO FINAL-Volver a Empezar (La Vida Es Un Mus)

SUNSHINE SS-Teen Choices (from upcoming 7”)
DEGENERICS-What’ll You Do? (Soulrebel)
OPPOSITION-Pre-Packaged (Figure Four)
ALONE IN A CROWD-Is Anybody There? (Flux)
CHAIN OF STRENGTH-Just How Much? (Revelation)
KRAUT-Doomed Youth (New Red Archives)

ATTAK-Today’s Generation (No Future)
TOXIC REASONS-Mercenary (Beer City)
UXA-UXA (from “Tooth & Nail,” Upsetter)
SLADE-Cum On Feel the Noize (Polydor)

IGNITION-Anger Means (Southern)

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Sonic Overload 5/2/11

I recorded this show the day after US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, after nearly ten years on the run and eight years to the day after George W. Bush said “Mission Accomplished!” It’s a mix of emotions—I’m not sad about the death of Osama (and I’m not going to get involved with conspiracy theories and the like) but I’m not looking forward to the inevitable outpouring of rah-rah jingoism that has already begun. The show begins with a nearly-surreal bit of audio from Geraldo Rivera on Fox “News.” It’s not very long but I felt as though I might need to clean the screen off after hearing his ejaculatory euphoria (there’s a pretentious turn of the phrase, eh?) As I’ve written in this space and others on countless occasions, Ellen and I lost someone who we considered part of our family, our dear friend Jane, who perished on one of the planes. I feel the same way about any sort of extreme nationalism now as I did then.

This week’s show is dedicated to the memory of Poly Styrene, vocalist for X-Ray Spex, who passed away last week after a battle with breast cancer. Poly, whose real name was Marianne
Elliott-Said, was only 53. This show also goes out in memory of my high school classmate Mike “Lavies” Lavoie, who also succumbed to cancer last week at the age of 51.

On a more upbeat note, I hope everyone had a wonderful May Day this past weekend.  And I also mentioned that I’d appeared on my friend Jack Phoenix’s web show Ritual Noise. He’s on Monday and Wednesday nights from 9 PM to midnight eastern

Sonic Overload 5/2/11

SCURVY DOGS-Kiss My Talibuns (Rodent Popsicle)

DOVE-Ambivalence (from “Bouncing Babies,” Fountain Of Youth)
CONDEMNED 2 DEATH-Media Control (Grand Theft Audio)
RETCHING RED-Bullshit Repellent (self-released)
GIVE UP-Nothing Path (Peterwalkee)
STREET LEGAL-Knocked Off My Feet Again (Shut Up)
NO VALUE-Punk Show (from “Tomorrow Will Be Worse, Vol. 4,” Sound Pollution)

WARDS-Over My Dead Body (self-released)
THE CLAP-VD’s No Laughing Matter (Dionysus)
CATBURGLARS-I Hate My Friends (Cowabunga)
NO TALK-A Houston Punk Is A Dead Punk (Psychowolf)
INSERVIBLES-Una Vez Mas (Shogun)
DEATH TRAP-No Majority (Feral Kid/Warm Bath)

POLLUTION-Black Commune (Desensitized)
DUSTHEADS-The Bends (Don Giovanni)
CRESS-TV Screen (Tribal War)
RUDIMENTARY PENI-Farce (Corpus Christi)

X-RAY SPEX set, in memory of Poly Styrene (all selections on EMI or Sanctuary)
Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
Let’s Submerge
I Am A Poseur
I Live Off You
I Am A Cliche

WOMEN-We Don’t Talk (FDS)
HEAT TAPE-Spend It (Red Scare)
THE PANIK-Modern Problems (from “It Won’t Sell,” Rainy City)
BEASTIE BOYS-Lee Majors Come Again (Capitol)
SWELL MAPS-Black Velvet (Alive)
KIDS-No Monarchy (Philips)

MAYDAY-Shark Sandwich (Feral Kid)
GONE BAD-Midnight Love (self-released)
JESUS H. BOMBS-Food Stuffs (Bookoven)
RENEGADES OF PUNK-Difference (Thrashbastard)
HUMAN MESS-No One Will Find Out (No Way)
OMEGAS-Modern Glory (Parts Unknown)

ANTISEEN-Queen City Stomp (TKO)
HELLMOUTH-Exodus (Paper and Plastic)
PARASYTIC-Traitor (Vex)
MEANWHILE-They Remain Dead (Feral Ward)

REAL KIDS-She’s Alright (Red Star)
RUNAWAYS-School Days (Mercury)
SENSELESS THINGS-Legal Lies (from “Underground Rockers Volume 2,” Link)

Monday, May 9, 2011

Sonic Overload 4/25/11

Ah, wedding bells are ringing for Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton. I don’t get Americans’ fascination with the royal family. What did our ancestors fight the Revoultionary War for, for chrissakes. Remember that? I did my Patriots Day show last week, after all. But everyone loves celebrity of all different types and I imagine Kate and William fit the bill. So I honor the upcoming nuptials in typically classy Sonic Overload style, wrapping things up with the ultimate royal tribute by the Sex Pistols. They meant it, man! And so do I...

Sonic Overload 4/25/11

UNNATURAL AXE-They Saved Hitler’s Brain (Lawless)

SUNSHINE SS-Banned From The Record Store (from upcoming 7”)
BROKEN PRAYER-I Smile For A Living (demo)
PLATES-Marching (Feral Kid)
MADBOX-One For The Pile (Super 8)

DEATH TRAP-No Hicks (Feral Kid/Warm Bath)
DETENTION-Dead Rock ‘n’ Rollers (Grand Theft Audio)
MACHINES-True Life (from “Killed By Death #2”)
MENTALLY ILL-All Mixed Up (Alternative Tentacles)
SAVAGE BELIEFS-Big Big Sky (Wasteland)
STRIKE UNDER-Context (Wax Trax)

HOLY SHIT!-Put A Band-Aid On It (Criminal IQ)
BROWN SUGAR-Cocksmoker (Feral Kid)
NARCS-Terrorfist (Reel Time)
TH’ DOWNER BOYS-Non-Conformist Rantings To The Existing Society (Eye 95)
EMPTY VESSEL-Poison (Blind Spot)

RESTARTS-Parasite Monarchy (Plastic Bomb)
FATAL RAGE-Die Princess Di (Mutha)
CHRONICS-Test Tube Baby (Nuclear)
DEREK LYN PLASTIC-Invisible Skin (self-released)

HELLMOUTH-Desperate & Violent (Paper and Plastick)
HONG KONG BLONDE-Johnny (demo)
DROPDEAD-A Disease Called Man (Prank)
TOXIC NARCOTIC-People Suck (Rodent Popsicle)
HOLIER THAN THOU-Nation Of Liars (Six Weeks)

PHOBIA-Pretend You’re Not Crazy (from “The Boston Bootleg,” Varulven)
SCARS-Horrorshow (Fast)
CURE-It’s Not You (Fiction)

B-MOVIE RATS-What I Need (Dead Beat)
LOS HUEVOS-Too Many People (Moo-La-La)
JABBERS-Groovy Motherfucker (from “Return To The Scene Of Crime,” Good Cop/Bad Cop)
LIVERBALL-Liar (Get Hip)
LOUDMOUTHS-Basket Case (Punch)
HELLACOPTERS-Tilt City (Get Hip)

SHATTERED BADGE-???? (from “Speed Trials: Worst Bands Of West Michigan,” Punks Before Profits)
GET RAD-Be The Wave (Halo of Flies)
SHARDS-They Want It, They Get It (Sorry State)
VACANT CHURCHES-Wake Up The Dead (Vinehell)
UNIFORM CHOICE-Screaming For Change (Wishingwell)
MAD PARADE-Real Horror Show (Dr. Strange)

DEATH OF SAMANTHA-Coca-Cola and Licorice (Homestead)
DRY CREEPER-Nervous Energy (Tic-Tac-Totally)
TALL PAUL-Breathe Underwater (demo)
ATV-Life (Cherry Red)

OMEGAS-Kill For Control (Parts Unknown)
COLA FREAKS-Hva Du Pa? (Hjernespind)
FINAL SOLUTIONS-Rubber Stamp Twist (Goner)
MURDER CITY DEVILS-Flashbulb (Die Young Stay Pretty)
SHANG-A-LANG-A Couple More Drinks (Facepalm)
GIRLS AT DAWN-WCK (Tic-Tac-Totally)

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES-Love In A Void (Polydor)
BAGS-Bag Bondage (Artifix)
MAPS-My Eyes Are Burning (self-released)
WIPERS-Can This Be (Zeno)

SEX PISTOLS-God Save The Queen (Virgin)


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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

:) how are you today? I am fine and dandy :) heehee. was such a RELIEVER day. I had the two finals for my online classes (ironically, I got the same exact grades in both classes!) which my lovely sister dropped me off @ in between college. :) they weren't really hard...especially since we got to use our online resources. :p yay. Then...I just hung out. :) I read from the book for my language assigment. There were four books to choose from, and I chose The Glass Castle . I bought it on my iPod (IBooks) and that kinda motivates me to read it. :D at least it's an interesting story. When school starts we'll be given project over the book (report or easy probably). :) I much prefer that over answering "How villainy the villain was" as my friend did. :p Can you believe it? She actually showed me proof that her assigment page said "villainy"! Hehe...and talking about my friend, she also has to do an essay on how Thomas Jefferson and some other founding father dude (I forget his name :p) were hypocrites and how it ruined their accomplishments. Hehe. Wouldn't it be fun if Pakistani kids were given essays like that to write about their present government? :p heehee
Did you know that my iPod recognizes heehee and heeheehee as a word? At least it doesn't autocorrect it anymore. One time I was telling my friend that I liked this Rahat Fateh Ali Khan song and my iPod insisted on changing it to Rabat Faith!!! :D
Hmm...what else? My furry pillows are so furry. Isn't that surpassing? (that wasn't completely random since I'm sitting on my bed)
My sis the lovely has also started a blog. It's called Qeemay Kay Somosay but I won't tell you the blog URL until she gets a couple more posts written. :) she plans on writing a "Chronicles of My Sister" because she thinks that I have no common sense and she finds it soo funny. :/ hmph. Heehee

Okey dokey الله hafiz! :)

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  1. Reading back through this I see my iPod autocorrected several things. (easy-> essay and surpassing-> surprising) :) sadly I can't go back and edit on the app so we'll just live with the mistakes :)


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Saturday, 9 August 2014

I have a confession to make.
I hate August here with a vengeance. Probably I am spoilt, living in such a picturesque and generally fairly tranquil place for the majority of the year.
My dislike probably goes back to the years when I was running the local tobacconist's down at Marina del Cantone. Forget about days off, forget about evenings off, forget about a 40 hour week.. And to hear super-bronzed females, freshly showered and perfumed, ask why you were already closing 16 hours into the day at nigh on midnight, was enough to tip you over the edge.
But that is history.
Now it is the noise, the chaos, the queues to get in and out of Sorrento, the crowds going at snail's pace down the alleyways, suddenly stopping and risking a people's pile up. It is the mopeds weaving in and out of the traffic, to your right, to your left, and if they could go right over your car, they would. It is the crazy parking at the supermarket, outside the Fiorentino Bar in Sant'Agata, the cars driving up from the beach as I am driving home, their drivers sun-burnt and sun-blinded, but still not slowing down when the road narrows and two cars just won't fit. It is the beach, transformed into a mass of sweating humanity, lying elbow to elbow, thigh to thigh, on  interminable rows of sunbeds, placed so close together that you can barely get past them to reach the sea. It is the posh yachts out in the bay making you wonder how come some people have so much, and others so little.
Never mind, we are nearly there. 6 days to Ferragosto, the 15th August and the apex of the Italian summer. And after that, just 2 weeks til September and a return to peace.
Oh, and by the way, this photo was taken in June, and even that small space is now full of sunbeds!


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It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like

It's the first time I woke up cold in a long time! And while I am also engrossed in the future trends of Fashion Week, I have mainly been focused on the now. As in FW08. Alexander Wang is my main inspiration while I shop for warmth lately.

1. Marc by Marc Jacobs
2. Forever 21
3. Silence + Noise
4. Kain
5. Forever 21
6. Marc by Marc Jacobs
7. Forever 21
8. Steve Madden
9-11. Top Shop

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bear said...

im totally inspire by him too. i love both of those topshop boots!


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pineapple healing properties

The results of a medical case showed that pineapple extract is five times more efficient in reducing the mucus compared to the syrups sold in pharmacies, and patients recover almost five times faster.

Another case showed that pineapple juice, honey, chili pepper and salt combination stimulate the elimination of the mucus from the lungs in patients diagnosed with tuberculosis. It is proven that pineapple relieves every type of cough, especially dry cough.

Pineapple contains two powerful substances which give its efficiency. It contains bromelain, an enzyme that fights inflammations and helps in the food digestion.

Pineapple contains large amounts of manganese which participates in the formation of connective tissue and improves the nerve function. The combination of these two factors relieves the cough and eliminates the mucus from the lungs.

In addition to this, pineapple is an excellent source of vitamin C, and this vitamin has multiple effect: strengthens the immune system and destroys free radicals, which provides better function of the airways.

Scientists confirmed that pineapple not only relieves cough, but also relieves the symptoms of arthritis, regulate the blood pressure and has certain anti-cancer properties.

Pineapple Cough Recipe:

  • 1 cup of fresh pineapple juice
  • 1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice
  • 1 piece of ginger (about 3 inches)
  • 1 Tbsp raw honey
  • 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

Preparation and how to use:
Combine all ingredients and take 1/4 cup, 2-3 x/day and repeat recipe daily.


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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Argentina's Bi-Bicentennial

Argentina may be unique among the world’s nations in celebrating two independence days. The first is 25 de Mayo (May 25th), which coincides with the 1810 Revolution that declared the Spanish viceroy in Buenos Aires illegitimate (because the government that appointed him no longer existed), and marked a starting point for the South American wars of independence. The second is 9 de Julio (July 9th), which corresponds to the date at which the United Provinces of the River Plate (forerunner of contemporary Argentina) declared formal independence at the city of San Miguel de Tucumán in 1816.

Argentina has chosen to celebrate the former date, barely a month away, for its bicentennial. To that end, it’s undertaken an ambitious program of modernization and upgrades for many of the country’s top cultural attractions: the Teatro Colón (pictured here, before the scaffolding went up) and San Telmo’s Museo de Arte Moderno, among others, and privately run institutions such as Palermo’s Museo Evita. It’s also meant, at the same time, that these sights have been either closed or open only by limited access for much of the last year (or, in the case of the Colón, for several years). Surrounded by scaffolding, they’re barely visible, though the Colón, at least, has a temporary Centro Vivencial (visitor center) to suggest what the rejuvenated opera house will be like when it reopens.

That grand reopening is due take place May 25th, with the traditional presidential command performance with, presumably, the popular guided tours due to resume shortly thereafter. The Museo de Arte Moderno, though, is well behind schedule and will not reopen until late this year, probably for the start of the spring tourist season in October or so. Despite the scaffolding, the Museo Evita remains open, along with its highly regarded restaurant.

For those of you who can’t visit Argentina this year, Argentina may be coming to you - at least to those of you who live in or around Washington D.C. In honor of the bicentennial, the Smithsonian Institution is hosting a series entitled “Argentina at the Smithsonian 2010,” with a diversity of events that will include tango (both live and on film), popular music, lectures on topics such as wine and the military dictatorship of 1976-83, and poetry. Art events will include a meet-the-artist interview with Guillermo Kuitca and a “Contemporary Argentine Masterworks” exhibition that will include figures such as León Ferrari. Whether the masterworks will include the controversial Ferrari’s “Christian and Western Civilization” (pictured here), a protest against the bombing of Vietnam in the 1960s, is uncertain (I have visited Ferrari in his Buenos Aires apartment, and it’s hard to reconcile this soft-spoken 90-year-old man with such outspoken protest).

For those unable to visit either Argentina or the Smithsonian in 2010, meanwhile, there’s an alternative: there are six more years to plan for the country’s second bicentennial on July 9, 2016. By then, perhaps, all the renovations will be complete.

Susan said...

I'm going to Argentina in a month for the first time. Thanks for the post - good info here!

Senad R said...

Argentina is great country!

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