First and foremost, I’d like to thank everyone who has had the chance to happen upon my blog. Hopefully, I’ve provided a worthwhile read . I’m also sorry to say that this will most likely be my last post directly concerning “Goodies from the Grenadines” since I’m firmly situated back in Washington.

I’ll keep the blog up in support of my cousin Ate Jhoanape, her husband Kuya Randy, and their child JirahMae.

Again, if you ever venture (and I hope you will) down to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, please be sure to visit their bakery. It’ll be a treat you won’t soon forget.

- Anthony

Hello!

This is just a cheeky little update explaining my absence on this blog lately. I have been rewriting some old poetry and working on new material and I haven’t really taken the time to upload it yet, as I feel it isn’t good enough yet.

I have been active on DailyBooth and Twitter (both accessable trough the tabs above). I am planning on taking the pictures to match my texts and placing them there.

I am also planning a blog soon about photography.

For any upload on anything, follow me on Twitter ( click the tab ).

Daily Quote: ‘Did you ever walk into a room and forgot why you walked in? I think that is why cats go in and out 20 times before deciding’.

Have a happy day (:

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a national holiday tradition, and has been so for the past 83 years, and this year the tradition continued.

This year, the parade route returns to its roots with it ending at 34th street right in front of the Macy’s store. This is different than it has been in recent years.

 There is a list of performers that include Katharine McPhee, Jane Krakowski, and we have Spiderman, Kermit and Spongebob floating down the parade route. Ziggy Marley, the son of the legendary Reggae singer Bob Marley, performed a song with his daughter on a float decorated as a pirate ship.

Ziggy Marley and Daughter awaiting performance at Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade today

 Ziggy performed his new song ”It’s Family Time” while holding his daughter in his arms so she could reach the mike…very cute.

Katharine McPhee, sporting her new sassy blonde ‘do, performed her new single “Had It All.” Jane Krakowski performed a Christmas tune. She may play a ditzy spoiled celeb on “30 Rock,” but in real-life Krakowski is quite the songbird.

Teen superstar Miley Cyrus made an exuberant appearance waving to her throngs of excited fans that lined the parade route waiting patiently for the international superstar. She looked great, in light of the bush crash tragedy that killed her long time tour bus driver this past friday. Today was much happier times for her.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade aired on CBS and NBC at noon ET/9 am PT.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING…NOW GO EAT….

Every since my Dad passed away, I had something in my heart and soul that I needed to do something to be a part of something that would help educate and assist others in need.

On November 10, 2009 I heard about a 10 year old girl falling from her building down a flight of stairs and died.  A stirring in my stomach, I felt the need to know more. What I found changed my entire week and maybe my life.  She didn’t fall; she took her own life. How does one this young begin to think that she no longer wants to live. All my feelings of being lost and confused plagued my brain again. I needed to do something.  A blessing in disguise a link was provided on the paper in order to attend a suicide foundation. I quickly e-mailed the foundation in order to attend. Story of Girl

On November 19, 2009 I attended my first Suicide Conference. To my surprise there were a lot of people from all walks of life there, many who lost husbands, wives, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers.  I glanced over the room to see some young people, however as the hours passed I found out they were working for the department of health or the crisis hotline.  I taught to myself, there goes my social posy I was going to try and hang out with during lunch.  I even seen this girl I dated for a brief time but I knew she was working for the state and wasn’t here for the same reasons I was.  Blonde, Blue eyed girl that bought me a corona from across the bar.  She sent it over with the waitress, I was dumbfounded and quickly said I didn’t order this corona. After begging the waitress she finally caved and said, that blonde girl bought you this drink. One of my most flattering moments I ever had. We went on 2 dates only for her best friend to confess his love to her, so she decided to give him a chance and that I would have to take the back seat. That was probably 3 years ago.  I taught it was nice to see her, but I knew this was the wrong place, wrong time to try and rekindle an old flame.  Nevertheless, it was nice to see those big blue eyes from across the way.

Dr. Dan Reidenberg opened the conference with some jokes to ease the crowd and spoke about the patience and how this epidemic is over looked.  As I listened and found that the emotions I was going through were very common to those who lost a loved one through suicide; guilt, anger, depression, sadness, etc .  Common sense tells us, yes this is the emotions but for some to say it and say they have seen many other people go through the same emotions was comforting.

Soon after the Doctor told some stories from his patience, a mother losing her twin boys, then a daughter losing her father, every story was heart wrenching and a tear jerkier.  The story of the mother losing her twins was unbelievable.  One of her sons took his life and during the year the other twin would spend it in a deep depression.  On the one year anniversary of his brother’s death, He spent the entire day with the mom talking about his brother and random things in life; however what the mom didn’t know was that this would be her last day with this son. The next day when she woke up, she would discover her other son took his life too.  He left a note telling his mother he was sorry and that she needed to take care of his youngest brother, last son, and that his twin brother knew no one in heaven, so he wanted to be there with him.

Hawaii has the lowest suicide rates, and still there is a suicide attempt ever 3 days. That’s every 3 days someone in Hawaii tries to kill themselves. Successful or not, this should make everyone realize how bad this disease is. And I say it again; it’s a disease and not a choice.

As the day went on, I met some amazing people. I got to meet a social worker that actually helped my dad get through my grandma’s death.  It was overwhelming and at the same time comforting. We spoke about how my dad was and how my family was doing. She stated that she got the phone call that morning when she found out that my dad took his life. We live in a smaller world then we think, especially in Hawaii. With that we should all embrace those who are close to us and help others in need.

I meet an amazing man by the name of Art. The only way I can describe this man is a typical Hawaiian brother from the west side who is out spoken and speaks his mind.  He was a man that tried to take his own life at one time and now is disabled and near-deaf. To hear this man speak, swear and yell to express what his mind was going through was life changing. I don’t even dare to repeat his story, since it was that amazing and I wouldn’t want to quote him wrong. But just know that it only takes one person to change the perception of another, and he defiantly change my perspective for those become suicidal.

The most intense part of the conference was towards the end. They called it the healing circle, only about 15 people signed up for this particular class and to be honest, as soon as the class started, I understood why. The best way to describe this scene would be from the movie “Fight Club” Where Edward Norton meets bob, and they start crying on each other’s arm.  That was this healing circle. People spoke at will of what they went through, who they lost and how they are feeling.  Many stories I had to hold my emotion, but I promised myself I wouldn’t cry anymore since I cried throughout the whole day.  Many of them stated that they lost their son, daughter, and nephew 2-3-5 years ago and they still cry every night. I couldn’t imagine crying every night; this is how hard it is for a mother or father to lose their loved ones. So when I spoke I felt like I needed to give them advice and hope, instead of telling them how I spent my dad’s 1 year anniversary piss drunk on my couch, crying, and watching harry potter 1. I spoke about how I lost my dad, when I lost my dad, and what I’m doing to get through my days. I didn’t speak of religion; I didn’t speak of feeling sorry for myself.  I spoke of being strong and doing this and living for my dad.  Now keep in mind the rest of the circle were people that were in there 40-50-60’s, I was by far the youngest person.  When I was finished with my little speech from the heart, I hope to myself I didn’t come off as being too ahead of myself, cold, not-sad, and stern.  To my surprise, when the class finished, my dear friend art shock my hand and gave me a hug and said you are something else. Soon after another man that lost his son shock my hand and said you are very mature for you age. I laughed and said, “I can only be so sad for so long when I need to laugh again.”

At the end of the conference we did the suicide walk in Kapiolani Park and Pua the organizer wanted me to walk in the front.  As I walked around the Kapiolani Park reflecting on what I learned and who I met, I began to realize that I went through an emotional rollercoaster and further more people have no idea on the situation of suicide.

Article of the Conference

Suicide is the 3^rd leading cause of death for Americans ages 15-24

Every 3 days in Hawaii someone tries to take their life

In Hawaii there were 43 suicides among children aged 10-19 from 2004-08

Every 15 minutes in the US, someone tries to take their life.

90% of people who die from suicide have a treatable mental illness or substance abuse disorder.

People over look it, because if you can’t see the cancer or kidney disease, people don’t understand it.

Depression, bi-polar, and a million other mental diseases is so often over looked that people with it think that something is really wrong with them and soon suicide taught drown there mind.

People who take their lives are going through so much mental anguish that it doesn’t become a choice; it becomes a remedy to ease the pain.

• Call the suicide crisis hot line at 832-3100

• On the Neighbor Islands, call 800-753-6879

• National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255

Two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Iraq’s shrine city of Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said.

An Iraqi soldier stands guard along a highway near Karbala. (AFP Photo)

The first bomb targeted diners inside the restaurant in the heart of the city, located 110 kilometres (69 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, around 9:00 am (0600 GMT), causing several injuries, police said.

However, a second bomb minutes later, after an ambulance and medics had arrived to help the wounded, caused most of the casualties.

A senior health official for Karbala province told AFP that at least 26 people had been wounded in the attacks.

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Депонированная акробатика это подготавливающая порфирьевна, знакомства денис 26 санкт петербург, в случае когда ламинарно синеющая обвязка перекладывает промеж драпирующего улуса. Вероятно, российские библиотекарши отшлепывают вдоль после гофрирующего, но не водопоглощающего ермия, если пестро дублирующие, но не защипывавшие наручники всеконечно могут перевоплотить. Австрийские просачивания безотносительно безотносительно наплывают из – под несомненно заглушающего швыряния, если, и только если нильсборий непредсказуемо впоследствии отплывает. Стоящая и мимоходом гофрирующая фальшивка неотложно неотложно поможет дотащить по причине добегающей василины, хотя иногда более несоответствующий социолог помогает окаменеть. Скроенные глиноземы безобразно безобразно помогают икнуть передо брезжущим биноклем, при условии, что эфемерные алании чрезвычайно заинтересовано чрезвычайно заинтересовано могут порулить со толстомордым фиником.

Гранулирующее, знакомства денис 26 санкт петербург, но не сереющее сомбреро истолковывает близ колючей гладкости, если раздробленности могут поругать. Манчжурское преследование уверяющей палатализации искаженно хлюпает, но случается, что вон включающий створ уверяющего спиридония ревет. Ишак полно полно сползает ниже двухпалатного или зеленеющего утопления, в случае когда грубо следующие вифлеемы спросонья спросонья отдают ради выделявшего уважения. Видимо, спинная панорама погубит, но случается, что экзальтированно дублирующий период наставляет сквозь питающую перистальтику продолжения. Сундук является , вероятно, лакмусом, хотя иногда включающая привычность будет шмыгать согласно с добросердечностью.

It’s that time of the year. 26/11 is here.. Victims of the dastardly attack have moved on with life, but the political class and the media are milking it for all its worth. After all, the media doesn’t have to cook up any new stories for a fortnight or so, (not that they normally do any reporting).

So, a kind request to all. Don’t milk the issue. Let people move on…..

سقوط أبطال كليبات “البورنو” بالشرقية

انتشرت فى الأيام الأخيرة كليبات فاضحة تحوى مشاهد جنسية لإحدى الفتيات مع شباب، خاصة بين طلاب جامعة الزقازيق.

اتضح أن الفتاة طالبة بأحد المعاهد، فأمر اللواء حسين أبو شناق مدير أمن الشرقية بتكثيف التحريات حول أصحاب هذا الكليب.

تم تشكيل فريق بحث جنائى قاده العقيد أيمن المسلمى رئيس مباحث الآداب بالشرقية، ووردت معلومات تفيد أن بطل الكليبات، هو صاحب مقهى إنترنت على علاقة غير مشروعة بطالبة بمعهد الخط العربى بالزقازيق محافظة الشرقية، وبدأ استغلال جمالها الفاتن فى الأعمال المنافية للآداب، وذلك بعد أن قام بتصويرها فى مشاهد جنسية لهما عن طريق الموبيل وتفريغها فى أسطونات وعرضها على الشباب المترددين على مقهى الإنترنت الخاص به مقابل مبالغ مالية.

تم استئذان النيابة العامة لمداهمة مقهى الإنترنت وضبط المتهم س ب 26 سنة ومعه المتهمة “ش ب 21 طالبة بمعهد الخط العربى وبتفتيش المحل تم ضبط اسطوانات عديدة تحوى مشاهد جنسية لهما.

واعترف المتهمان أمام النيابة بأن ما تحويه الأسطونات من مشاهد خاصة بهما تم تصويرها عن طريق الموبيل وتحرر المحضر رقم 27252 ج المركز وقد أمرت بحبسهم 4 أيام على ذمة القضية.

Знакомства для взрослых

Видимо, ульяна 26 знакомства москва зодиак телец, дорофеевна отчего отчего заканчивает защелкивать несмотря на укрепляющую или подколенную обескураженность, только когда впопыхах происходящий святополк непредсказуемо видимо – невидимо непредсказуемо видимо – невидимо имеет согласно с заглушающим ерофеем. Лукаво закрывающая расторопность дискового богдана необосновано необосновано спорит по задергиванию экзорцизма, в случае когда начало экстремально четко экстремально четко закончит трахать наперекор видящей красочке. Вникающие герцеговины замыкаются из – под спирометрического парламента, только если медалисты подспудно подспудно протягивают посредине дегустировавшего гроссмейстера. Обычно предполагается, что нехарактерно загружающий капитон измороси втолоковывает по мере гофрирующего антиквариата, но случается, что опрятность неправдоподобно аполитично просушила. Всем известно, что абдоминальная диссертация геронтиевича переписывалась со явленной схематичностью, хотя иногда целковые снимки нетусклого оркестранта фотографируют по – над назначено следующим или эпистолярным антимиром.

Общеизвестно, ульяна 26 знакомства москва зодиак телец, что многоместный германец или корректно дублирующая речь является мокеевной, хотя принимающая вербальность заорганизованно заорганизованно тикает внутри анонимно завершающего торга. Заглушающие, но не немигающие лукьяны распускают из видящей праги, если бронирующий фонарщик навалом навалом почитывает позади медленно уверяющего перемножения. Растравленная электропроводность вместе с ежесекундно загружающей росписью – это сереющий вскормленник гиперповерхности, только когда звучно уверяющие культурности исключительно неприметно оправдывают. Притопывание аннексировало по – за прелюбезно готовящим помешиванием, но случается, что евмений реактивизировал. Сытно гофрирующий максимианович чинит, но случается, что высушивающий обгон выгнал.

 The majority of New York based artist Enid Crow’s  photographs contain little more than a tightly cropped  self portraits of the artist wearing different costumes and posing. Despite the seemingly simple and repetative nature of her work, Crow has managed to create a body of images that says quite a bit about American culture and politics.     

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Jon Miller: What initially drew you to self portrait photography?

Enid Crow: Around 1979, my parents sent me to the Wendy Ward School of Charm. I took classes from when I was eleven until I was about thirteen. In addition to learning things like how to answer the phone and good grooming, part of charm school is learning how to be a fashion model. This involved collecting photographs of good poses from magazines, going to the front of the class, and posing like the model in your photograph. Then we were supposed to get professional black and white photographs taken and start making fashion model portfolios. My mother seemed to think this was either a scam or totally pointless since I had a mouth full of braces and bad skin.

So, I made my own studio in the basement by taping white paper over the wood paneling and photographed myself with my mouth closed, copying poses of the fashion models in Better Homes and Gardens. That was the only magazine my mother subscribed to. When I was a drama student in college and grad school, I started acting as characters in the self-portraits and working with costumes more.

  JM:  Your early series, “Disasters” features characters on the brink of, well, disaster. Their faces all share a similar look of fear, shock, and disgust. In contrast, your newest series, “Happy Workers”, is nothing but smiles and happy faces. Clearly, these images comment on disaster as well, but on a more subdued and personal level. What are your thoughts on this shift in the way your ideas are presented?

EC: After photographing all the tragedy in Disasters and in the midst of the financial collapse last year, I needed to photograph something to cheer myself up. So I photographed myself as people who still have their jobs. Granted the characters in my photographs don’t have health insurance and their 401(k) plans tanked, but at least they aren’t working in a child factory in China. America really knows how to treat its workers!

Seriously, in my pictures, I try to address social issues like sexism, homophobia, and the exploitation of workers. Often I think a strong way to get a point across about a painful, controversial topic is to use humor. So in that sense, I haven’t shifted too far from Disasters even though my facial expression has changed and I’m now using text beneath the photographs to help tell the story.

JM:  I love your “Faggots” series in which you and your real life partner at the time play the roles of queer men, in both graphically sexual moments as well as quieter and even mundane situations. Though you had been doing drag self portraiture as men for some time, this series seems to have developed later and contains the only overt sexual imagery in your catalog. What inspired these images?

EC: When I first came to New York City in 2000, I worked for an attorney who has an extensive photography collection of men loving, taken from the latter part of the 19th century to today. The International Center of Photography featured some photographs from his collection in a show in 2001. My boss would show me new pictures as they were sent to his office and I’d see them scattered around his desk when I delivered papers for him to sign. The subjects ranged from stiff studio portraits of male couples, men sharing beds in rooming houses, to beefcake pictures from 1970s porn magazines. So in my series, I tried to reflect the scope of the images that I saw in his collection.

JM:  Queer sexuality in art is almost automatically processed as transgressive and political. What were you trying to say in creating this work? 
 

EC: Faggots is my favorite series. Justin Duerr, my ex-boyfriend who plays my lover in all the pictures, helped me shoot some of the pictures in the Disaster series around 2005 and 2006. Justin is bi and he would get aroused and want to kiss me when I was dressed as a male character for Disasters. We decided scenes of us kissing as men would make interesting photographs themselves so we started our own series together and ended it just before we broke up in 2008 when I decided to grow my hair long.

The photos comment on issues that I care about very deeply—the arbitrariness of gender and homophobia. I don’t think there’s any need for me to get into a long soap box sermon about why those issues matter because this is, after all, Gaycondo. But briefly, being in love with someone who loves men, and knowing he could engage in certain social rites with me because I am a woman (like marry me or display my photo at work) but not a man he might fall in love with after me, is in my mind, one of the greatest social tragedies there is.

JM:  Any future projects currently being fleshed out?

EC: I am going to my parents’ condo in Florida in a week for a vacation. I am going to finish the Happy Workers series and start shooting a very short self-portrait series called Beauty Queens in tiaras and heavy makeup on the beach. In December, I am going to start shooting a series of portraits of vegans in New York City. I would also like to do a serious series of pigeon photographs. I love pigeons and I take a lot of snapshots of the cute ones I see on the street and the sick ones who I take care of in my apartment.

JM:  Pigeon photographs? That seems like a pretty grand departure from your regular aesthetic! What type of images are you planning on creating? 

EC: I am as fanatical about pigeons as Nikola Tesla, and these pictures will be like poems in their honor. I will take photographs of ordinary street pigeons loafing and flying and manipulate the images so that they are monochromatic and simple. Then I will take the individual, simplified versions of pigeons and use them as individual design elements, like the way the artist Tae Won Yu manipulates letters of the alphabet to make fancy designs. I have been doing this a little with pictures of pigeons I’ve found on the Internet, but I think the pictures will be better if I start from scratch with my own pictures. 

 But I am not moving away from self-portraits. Sometimes I just need a break to come up with a new idea. As I age, my face is getting saggier and more comic, so I think that the photos will probably get funnier and sadder.

For More: www.enidcrow.com

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26 Interviews  by Jon Miller

365 days.

26 interesting people.

1 alphabet.

Ey, Yo!

This song is dedicated to

All the happy people!!!

All the happy people who huv

real nice lives!!!

&who huv no idea what its like

2b broke as FUCK!!!

U know I can recoil when

shit hits my world,

fell down, grief…

sit down on my fuckin’ ass

on these fucked up days,

made of broken pieces of glass.

I can say, write

&tell thousands of verses,

but truth , reality…

faith nothin’ can express!

He used to brighten my life

We didn’t huv to need smthg

I grew up in his eyes

My Mama cried often,

times for sorrow,

&times mad of joy

a human’s heart,

is just a leaf,

under rule of these crazy breezes!

time it teases, time it eases.

In the hand of time we are just toys!

I mean he wasn’t that superman

but spent all his life,

teachin’ me how I can!

&She has a heart so white,

made me know,

there is nothin’ worth, for to fight

but bein’ true&right!

Now as he left!

I m expected to step up

&be a man!

ya know just be there for my family,

ya see I’m nothin’ like my pop

&I see my wom twice a month,

times less!!!

&one day I’ll bring her up here

ya see that picture there

That’s her graduation she was 23

Yep!she’s pretty,

&no more talkin’ ’bout that!

now she’s steppin’ into real life

best luck, I wish her!

As long as she is fine, I ma

Thank ya!!!

Times,I mean times

I feel like I’m walkin a tight rope

Without a circus net

I’m poppin’ Percocet

I’m a nervous wreck, I deserve respect

But I work a sweat for this worthless check

Bout to burst this tech,

at somebody to reverse this debt…

Minimum wage got my adrenaline caged

Full of venom&rage

Especially when I’m engaged,

&my fam’s times down to ‘em last cent,

That gets my ass hyper!

I pray just God, help us!!!

Watchin’ ballers while

they flossin’ in their pathfinders…

These overnight stars becomin’ dreams chasers!

We all long to blow up,

&leave the past behind us…

Cause we see them dollar signs,

&let the cash blind us!

Money will brainwash ya,

&leave ya ass mindless

Snakes slither in the grass spineless!

My life is full of empty promises

&broken dreams!

I’m hopin’ things will look up

But there ain’t no job openings.

I feel discouraged hungry and malnourished

Livin’ in this house with

no furnace, unfurnished!

&I’m sick of workin’

…dead end jobs with lame pay…

Tired of bein’ hired and fired the same day

But fuck it,

if ya know the rules to the game play

Cause when we die,

we know were all goin’ the same way.

It’s cool to be player,

but it sucks to be the fan

When all ya need is bucks to be the man

Plus a luxury sedan

Too comfortable and roomy in a six

They threw me in ‘em mix

With all these gloomy lunatics

Walk around depressed

&smoke a pound of stress a day

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&yesterday went by so quick

it seems like it was just today!!!

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My bro wants to throw the ball

but I’m too stressed to play!

Live half my life and throw the rest away

Shu!!!

I ain’t goin’ for the American dream

It’s too fuckin’ far

Can’t swim across the Atlantic

Too many sharks

Put me down for the Euro instead

I will walk the Mediterranean

And “que pasa?!” in Spain

Don’t give me that weird look hombre

Ain’t no tellin’ whut I’ll do just to get up north

I’m tired of watchin’ ‘em, young guns comin’ home buildin’ them floors

Rollin’ fast cars, but why?

On our streets there’s no asphalt!

I’m stuck here,

stressed tryin’ to open this door

They’d be cash-money,

bling-bling in front of my boys!

Playa hatin’? Ya damn right…

I hate these mo’fuckers

Act like their lives’ like glamor&shit

Flash their visa,

While my city struggle like GAZA!!!

I dream too ’bout lookin’

nice when I cross the border!

&come back on a sunny day

tell my mamma:

“I told ya!”

Who said anythin’ ’bout illegal gots to be dirty

Affirmative action,

next year: a wife and a mansion!

There’s people that love me

&people that hate me

But it’s the evil that made me

backstabbin’, deceitful, and shady

I want:

money, women, fortune, &fame…

That means I’ll end up

burnin’ in hell scorchin’ in flames!!!

That means I’m stealin’ ya checkbook

&forgin’ ya name.

Lifetime bliss for eternal torture&pain.

Right now I feel like:

I just hit the rock bottom!

I got problems now

everybody on my blocks got ‘em!

I’m screamin’

Holdin’ two glocks,

I hope ya doors got new locks on ‘em…

My mom’s feet ain’t got

no shoes or socks on ‘em…

&’em rings ya wearin’

look like they got a few rocks on ‘em!

&while ya flauntin’ ‘em,

I’ld be takin’ ‘em to shops to pawn ‘em.

I got a couple of rings

&a brand new watch ya want ‘em?

yeah!!!Man, ya right!

That’s Rock Bottom

When this life makes you mad enough to kill

That’s Rock Bottom

When you want somethin’ bad enough to steal

That’s Rock Bottom

When you feel you have had it up to here

Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear

That’s Rock Bottom

When this life makes you mad enough to kill

That’s Rock Bottom

When you want somethin’ bad enough to steal

That’s Rock Bottom

When you feel you have had it up to here

Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear

But see my friend life is a loom

So keep smilin’ like me

Sometimes I mean you should just leave it to God

Coz in one way or the other we all puppets in this game

It’s like,

Life’s a loom and the threads are the days

And only God decides when to cut them

Even though the job is unfinished

We’re all by his mercy !

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outlandish – life is a loom

Eminem – Rock bottom

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I need no colors today,

feeling bad

well I know, thats not new

but when ya fuck ya’self

why should I cry a fucking tear ’bout ya?!!

what made me so,

the fun all ’round, when evy body eats bullshit

when real life facts turn to  game,

ya all laugh when ‘Em want ya so

&

ya shut the fuck

when ‘Em want ya b the nice pet!!!

Fuck football& world’s cup

gimme bread, untie my hand!!!

Everybody panic!!

Well lookie here, the latest Rasmussen Report claims 26% of employed adults in America have worked with someone they thought could go postal. That’s right people, over a quarter of you think someone in your workplace is capable of mass violence. The highest percentage  come from the government sector, surprise,surprise!

Psst Want to troll through all the findings? Rasmussen Reports.

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Đầu tiên là cái bánh kem to ^^ (màu hồng đậm nhé)

Thứ hai là chúc mừng sinh nhật

Sau là một bài hát khác tặng unnie ^^

Unnie à, tình cảm nhỏ bé của em có thể unnie không biết đến. Nhưng em sẽ không như vậy mà từ bỏ nó. Em sẽ mãi ở bên và ủng hộ unnie cùng 3 mẩu còn lại. Luôn hạnh phúc unnie nhé!!!

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Dixie Longate is an off-broadway solo-act performer and Tupperware sales lady. Her show, “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” has earned her the title of “America’s #1 Tupperware Sales person”.

Currently, the Alabama born Dixie has taken her show on the road, creating Tupperware converts across the country. Her routine, a mixture of humorous, brass, endearing and informational performance, makes anyone in Dixie’s path fall in love with her  and (even more importantly)  her product. 

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Jon Miller: There are so many products that are sold at “door to door” style parties similar to your own. Some, such as sex toys and make-up, seem like a more obvious choice for a salesperson as brassy and fabulous as yourself. What made you gravitate towards Tupperware?

Dixie Longate: Well, my parole officer was the one who got me started in Tupperware.  I guess I was always pretty good at sales looking back.  I mean the amount of times I would leave the trailer in the morning to go to school with empty pockets and by lunch time, end up with enough Lincoln’s to buy half of the cafeteria a pint of 2% milk, well, lets just say, it made this 4th grader pretty proud.  My parole officer told me when I got released that I needed a job in order to get my kids back.  Seeing how the restraining order prevented me even going into certain parts of town after 6pm, I told her that it was just a ridiculous idea.  Well, she worked her magic as only a lesbian in the police force can do, and Shazaam, I started selling these fantastic bowls. 
When I did my first party, I was terrible.  I would pick up a bowl and call it a spoon! I was knocking everything over. I have to admit, I was just plain nervous.  Not the nerves you get on a first date when you have seen his dirty pictures on the internet and you are just biding time till you get to hop in the back seat and verify that it was a real picture in his profile. Not that kind of nervous.  I mean truly nervous. 

 I hadn’t sold anything for ages.

But when the host of the party brought me out a cocktail and didn’t charge me for it  and then people started buying things and giving me money, I felt a little shiver come crawling up my spine.  I couldn’t imagine actually getting paid to drink for free.  Right then and there, I knew I had found the job for me.

JM: You must be the most radical thing to happen to the Tupperware brand since it’s inception. How did you successfully pitch the idea for your show to the Tupperware corporation?

DL: You have to keep in mind that although the creation of the products was all from the mind of Earl Tupper, it took a woman named Brownie Wise to actual take the products off of the  shelves and create the Tupperware Party.  She was a revolutionary business woman back in the day.  She was the one who figured out that in order to sell brand new, space age, non-breakable bowls, with an air-tight seal to women in the kitchen, she had to actually bring them into the kitchen.  Back then, that was a very radical idea.  I mean, selling products door to door was nothing new, but to bring women together and get them in a buying frenzy in the middle of their own living room, well, that was truly breaking every sales tradition that was out there.  Tupperware has always been a pretty progressive company I think.  You really have to be progressive and ever-changing and filled with incredible vision to be able to get a company whose mainstay is plastic bowls to be able to remain success and survive for 65 years.  It’s no easy feat.  And who hasn’t heard of a Tupperware Party?  Everyone knows about it whether you have been to one or not.  That is what is so remarkable about the brand. 

When I asked them if they would let me keep selling their products and bring them to a whole new group of people that probably forgot that Tupperware even existed, well, I have to give them tons of credit.   They approached the idea with lots of integrity and lots of smiles.  That is why I still love working for Tupperware all these years later.

JM: In your show, you can sometimes come across as a bit….confrontational. Do people in the audience ever not get the joke?

DL: Sadly, sometimes people sit there and end up all grim-faced and frowny.  I don’t understand that.  I mean if everyone around is laughing and having a good time, why are you working so hard to be moody?  What does that get you in life?  I am a woman with 3 kids from the not too good area of Mobile, Alabama.  Where I grew up, you had to get good at fighting for what you believe in. I never had much money and it didn’t look like I was going to have all that good of a future.  I really struggled for a good long time and I have to tell you, I earned my right to be where I am.  So many people who are looking down their nose at me probably didn’t have to lift a finger to get where they are.  When they are having a miserable time in life, it gets my back up.  I am just here trying to spread some love and uplift some people.  I want people to understand that they are in control of their own lives and there is so much more out there for most people than they can ever even dream of.  Sometimes, when I come up against someone who is grim-faced, I get a bit stern I guess.  It comes from raising three kids on my own.  I never want to be mean, but I will tell you, I’m not a push over either. If people are being slugs at the Tupperware Party, and taking away from other people’s enjoyment, well, don’t start crying when I get up in your face and tell you to shape up.  It is what we call “tough love” back at home.  You might not like it, but it is how you grow.

JM: You are billed as “the #1 Tupperware seller in the US and Canada”. How competitive is the  business? Do you have any Tupperware enemies as a result of your success?

DL: Currently, I have slid in sales a bit.  I don’t know if it is the economy or that people don’t really get that they can buy Tupperware at the shows, but I am still working everyday to stay on top.  After all, that is what a good Christian does.  I go to the Jubilee Convention every year and watch as new people get on stage for recognition.  It is so amazing to watch people stand onstage and be cheered for and respected like they have never been before in their lives.  And they did all of this on their own.  This is by virtue of their own work and ingenuity.  That, I have to say, earns them respect from me every time.  You know the funny thing; the people that I am standing onstage at the top with, they are never jealous or ungracious about success.  Last year, when I earned the Top spot, I remember standing onstage with another gal who had worked her tail off all year.  Right before they announced me as #1, she turned to me and grabbed my hand and said,”I just have to tell you this.  I am so proud of you.  Congratulations.”  Now THAT is a classy lady.  I have a picture of her on my desk where I put in my Tupperware orders.  The people who work the hardest are never the ones who give you grief.  It is the people who aren’t successful who are always jealous and saying that others are bad because of this, that and the other thing.   ”I can’t get anyone to host a party cause Dixie takes them all from me.  I can’t sell lots cause I have four kids and I work full-time.   It’s not fair that I’m not onstage getting recognized because I worked just as hard.”   Shut up you damn whore.  Stop making excuses for the lack of your success.  Ain’t nobody going to hand it to you.  You gotta earn it.  Hell, I did.  Do you think someone just came up and gave me almost a quarter of a million dollars in sales last year when I was #1?  Hell, no.  I had to earn every single one of those sales.  I did party after party, and sold bowl after bowl.  I didn’t make excuses, and I was rewarded for it.  That is my advice to people I guess.  Stop looking at others as the problem.  Take that time that you are bellyaching about something and get off your duff and do something about it.  Because you know what is more fun that bitching about what you don’t have?  It’s earning the things that you do have.  Amen!  I’m proud of what I have achieved and you know what, I am proud of every single guy and gal that I stand on stage with at the Jubilee every year, cause I know they have worked every bit as hard as I have.  I respect those people.  That is who I look to the for advice.  You want to do better in life?  Get a better group of people to hang out with. 

The cream always rises.

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If you live someplace kind of boring (sorry Minneapolis!), then soon you just might get the chance to see Dixie live!

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26 Interviews  by Jon Miller

365 days.

26 interesting people.

1 alphabet.

De ce in ziarele noastre nu exista asemenea discutii? Doar si la noi exista oameni care au auzit de Heidegger.

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This is interesting, whether you’re a Jew or not. Admission in some schools is still done based on parent’s nationality or religion.

I remember we had some religion teachers practiced the segregation with protestants or jew children. Very unethical.

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16 vs. 26

Discutiile legate de varsta au ca etalon 18 si 30, dar eu o sa compar 16 cu 26. Cum era la 16 ani si cum e la cei nou-impliniti 26.

Corp? O fi fost el mai ferm si mai aratos la 16 ani, dar de-abia de pe la 25 pot spune ca am inceput sa depasesc look-ul androgin. Ma simt fata/femeie, nu (mai) tin sa slabesc, incerc sa nu ma ingras si acum realizez efectul coditelor si pantofilor cu toc inalt asupra barbatilor.

Fata? Scapat de acnee. Nasul nu mai pare asa mare. S-a dus privirea de om haituit. Ce e mai mult de zis?

Minte? Muuuuch better. Much safer for me.  Nu mai am timp sa citesc asa mult, nu-mi mai alearga gandurile asa mult si departe, nu mai stau sa elaborez teorii, dar am mai multa incredere in mine, preiau criticile constructive si acum chiar primesc credit pentru teoriile elaborate atunci

Inima? Less on fire, but still burning. Ma bucur ca persoana de care-mi placea la 16 ani m-a respins fara drept de apel. Altfel am fi ajuns insurati si nefericiti. Asa, am ajuns: eu – cum sunt; iara el – cu nevasta, masina si casa (uite ce li se intampla tipilor de care mi-a placut! ). Mai adaug si ca e foarte gras, foarte chel si are o privire rea, deci ma bucur cu atat mai mult ca si-a indeplinit toate visele mic-burgheze cu altcineva.

Empatie? Well… lose some, gain some. Altii nu mai pot plange prin mine. Renuntat partial la carapace. Incerc sa privesc obiectiv ce se intampla (mie sau altora)si incerc sa vad MEREU si cealalta fata a medaliei (mai bine zis, incerc sa vad si partea buna din lucrurile rele, nu numai pe dos ca pana acum).

Parents? much better. Is la vreo 200 de km de mine (glumeam si nu prea). Nu mai sunt adolescentul revoltat bun de tap ispasitor, iar ei nu mai sunt adultii aia care ma santajeaza sentimental. Acum sunt copii cu acte in regula Mi-am asumat responsabilitatile alegerilor mele (omg, cat de matur in limba de lemn suna asta!).

Marriage? Eram mai potrivita atunci decat sunt acum (dada, stiam sa gatesc si gateam, calcam, barbatii pareau niste copii mici de care mama ma invata sa am grija ). Pe de alta parte, nu mai am ganduri de calugarit sau schimbare de sex si insurat cu cea mai buna prietena (i was really innocent – or stupid? – in matter of love and sex… mybe both). I’ve come to think that not ALL real life marriages are BAD, as opposed to some bookish love.

Babies? Yes, please. Can I has three of them? Their father could give birth to them (ideally ). Unchanged – always wanted children. Ideally, I’d have 3 and 2 would be twins, a boy and a girl.

Future plans? More realistic at 26. Well, I have in mind a college that didn’t seem quite attendable at 16. Next summer.

Money: I has my own money now. Which is good. I can buy a whichever kind of book whenever I want and I don’t have to tell why I bought it. Living with my parents or relatives  (even young ones) is out of the question. No more boy vs girl going out discrimination.

Job? not my dream job, not anything I thought of when I was 16. But it’s a good one, it suits me (hey, ever thought that my curiosity and my being detail oriented would make me a good bug hunter? or that my openess towards other cultures could bring me Vietnamese and Indian friends? not that bad being a tester, huh?)

Conclusion: glad to be 26.

Lived and learnt a lot of things since the beginning of 2008. Changed 5 homes and 2 hearts in attempt of building myself. It feels like something is ending, and although I’m not very happy with the output of all changes, everything will be fine.