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American Idol -- Vanilla Flavor
A temporary thing. I'll check those out when I get my new laptop--hopefully to be chosen and purchased and on the way in the mail by tomorrow night. Am looking at Lenovo and HP, but open to any recommends ;)— January 18, 2010 11:09 p.m.
Elf Story
So now I am a bit confused: Francisco's "MAP" program is connected somehow to Noel's project with student interns forming grant teams? What projects do you and the students look to try to underwrite, Noel? Re: Francisco's comment: I have taught university more recently, as a part of my own grad studies and outside of my program as well, but did a lot of mentoring of high school students while in college myself, and tutored writing projects all the way through college, at City and UCSD.— January 18, 2010 11:06 p.m.
Sorry, Citizen Journalist
...and what am I saying!? Someone to review books. Books of all kinds--not just this "What are you reading?" crap, along with the occasional "What are you writing?" Local writers should definitely be favored, but someone who reads voraciously, and likes to talk about it. Hmmm, we don't know anyone like this, do we...;)— January 18, 2010 10:22 p.m.
Sorry, Citizen Journalist
Point taken about getting news from the wrong sources. I do not consider the Reader to be my major or national news source by any means. I'll twist your analogy only slightly, Pete, and say that the Reader is like a compilation of those neighborhood papers with a few larger features. We can't expect it to fulfill the entire diet, and what it does best is report on very localized news. Stringers are great for local news so I think they are unfairly criticized for the most part, but aside from micro-local news, they shouldn't do much else unless they are doing it in neighborhood blogs. This is where I understand what CityBeat folk are saying about some of the features--I agree that music and film are much better left to the pros--some of the man-on-the-street takes on music, those "As I Here It" or "Everyone's a Critic" are the worst I've ever read. For food, there is a wonderful blogger called Mango who deserves to be hired for those little restaurant snapshot reviews, but I wouldn't want him/her to replace Naomi, whose writing is a pleasure to read, aside from what there is to learn from her advanced palate. I do NOT want to read random bloggers about film, either, as they tend to concentrate on the superficialities of storylines and plot developments, rather than the complex polylogue of parts to whole that knowledge of theory opens film up to reveal. So let's not replace Duncan--or Jayallen and the other music critics, for that matter--with 'stringers,' right? CityBeat has got better writers on clubs and events, I think. The Reader doesn't have anyone to write about events in general, sort of what Brizz's "TGIF" column would seem to be, just at a glance...and there is Jerry Schad for outdoor stuff... I'd say we could add an alcohol critic--someone who tastes wine, but also beer and spirits. We could also use better arts and events reporting in general, since we've gotten rid of the guy who wrote on museums and art? That's unfortunate--he was good. Yeah, someone who does alcohol reviews. ;)— January 18, 2010 10:21 p.m.
Sorry, Citizen Journalist
Why does the Reader have such a bad rep, though? I always thought it was rather benign, but it seems that CityBeat folk get down on it for a variety of reasons, none of which have yet been explained to me. I personally appreciate the stringers, and read many of them, esp. those treating Baja stories, which are hard to come by here. There are dedicated folk actually translating stories from major Mexican news sources, and posting them here for us. It's just that one has to take them with a larger grain of salt than usual (esp. the Baja stories, as refried has demonstrated time and again), though good judgement should be applied with any news source...— January 18, 2010 6:51 p.m.
American Idol -- Vanilla Flavor
I don't watch it, but tend to get pop references. I know there is a guy whose pants fell down during an audition, right?— January 18, 2010 6:45 p.m.
American Idol -- Vanilla Flavor
re: #28 and 29: I am on a loaner laptop with no speakers (I know, you've heard that one before!) while I choose a new one, so can't follow up on the Fallon yet--will favorite those for next week. ;)— January 18, 2010 5:31 p.m.
American Idol -- Vanilla Flavor
re: #18: When you pull threads, it is like a part of this "world" dies. Why do you do it? It makes me not want to bother with a conversation if it is just going to disappear the next day--now I don't even know where I'm at. What convos was I going to follow up on, and they will be done? Signed, Disgruntled Commenter PS: re: 19: I love Velvet Goldmine the film, Todd Haynes. One of his tightest! Agree that Lambert really pulls on the glam sensibility--fun stuff. I'd make a deeper comment, but I'm afraid--it might disappear!!!!!!— January 18, 2010 12:48 p.m.
We were all going to...DIE!!!
Wow! I'm impressed enough for all the sleeping bloggers! Ok, so trading sugar for alcohol is usually my first move, too. (It's 'easier' for me right now because they both make me sick, but still, I can advise) After you lay off the sugar for a few days it gets out of your system, which then stops craving it. If you don't already know it, the Atkins stuff AG mentioned works on that principle, too. You become as apathetic about food and booze as some people are about work and thinking. So then you take your frustrations out by starting to run around the block a few times. Then you push yourself, through some mental tricks, into going a few more times around the block. Etc. Before we know it, Pete is jogging by our windows in those blue and gold tighties of recent fame. ;)— January 18, 2010 2:33 a.m.
Sorry, Citizen Journalist
I think that might be covered by a synonym: "keyboard crackhead" ;)— January 18, 2010 2:25 a.m.