Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monster Roundup
kids, welcome to the Monster roundup. In this Column we will try to bring you the weekly monster happenings going on around the web.
Around the web.
Gabe has a fan page started by DS3M, I swear there was a link to an appearance of him and Gabe Liedman on VH1, but I guess I must have dreamt it. In other Gabe news, Babble, an online magazine for parents picked up on Gabe's GOOP editorials.
If you live in NY, you might want to head over to Brooklyn and check out these honorary monsters every Wednesday. If you live in the San Francisco area , Joe Mande is bringing his-self over to a town near you, This time he's bringing Joe DeRosa with him.
For those monsters who miss Lindsay be sure to check out her Tumblr, she will also be writing a new column soon. We'll keep you updated.
For those monsters who miss Lindsay be sure to check out her Tumblr, she will also be writing a new column soon. We'll keep you updated.
Steve Winwood is the foremost art critic that I know, check out his writings on The Sunbreak.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Pinkgum Meetup
Ladies of Pinkgum: I am hoping to buy plane tickets soon so that they will be as cheap as possible, so anyone who can confirm, please let me know. I think it looks like June 25-28 (Sat-Tues) will be the best. The more the merrier! I will also reserve hotel rooms, so let me know also which of those days you will need accommodations. News about t-shirts forthcoming!
Now THAT is funny. Girl-Crushing on Dorothy Parker Edition.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A melody of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania
-Excerpt from Not So Deep as a Well by Dorothy Parker
Jessica Alba is pretty and will love me forever,
PSYCHE! Hahaha. You fell for that? Moron.
-Excerpt from RACISM IS EVIL by Steve Winwood
Now, I will leave the poem parsing to Teacherman who is much more well equipped for such things than I, but I like to imagine that Dorothy Parker's PSYCHE in this poem is focused on its "love can never go wrong" line rather than the two "glorious cycle of song" lines above. No blindoptimismo. Ok, maybe I'm being a tad blindly optimistic. As an aficionado of whimsy and music lover I think that calling life "a melody extemporanea" is just the most perfect thing.
Monster Fit Club: Week Four
This week I lost 1 lb. (7.5 lbs total). I am now 12.5 lbs. away from my goal of 20lb. total weight loss.
I have noticed that my jeans are fitting better and that I am getting stronger. I am able to keep up better with my P90X abs DVD and I running 2 1/2 miles now.
Thanks for all the suggestions on TV viewing last week. I have discovered that I can watch Netflix streaming on my iPhone from the treadmill. Only problem is when I watched Friday Night Lights that I started crying while I was running! Needless to say, my crying made it difficult to run. That was not a good look, you guys!
I came across an article on Self.com about snacking alternatives. Instead of bowl of ice cream or a bag a chips, try some of these. Also, here are a few of the foods I like to snack on (not counting fruits and veggies):
Fage Non-fat Plain Greek Yogurt (90 Calories, 15 g protein)
Quaker Fiber & Omega-3 Dark Chocolate Chunk Granola Bar (120 Calories, 9 g Fiber, 2 g Protein) Dove Dark Chocolate Promises, 2 pcs. (115 Calories)
Edy's Frozen Lime Bars (80 Calories)
So how did you do this week?! Put your progress and suggestions in the comments and let's discuss!
DISCLAIMER: As always, please consult with a doctor before starting any diet or weight loss program. MOBFD is not responsible for you having a heart attack or anything. DEAL WITH IT!
Tales From the Chat: Grey Uncomfortable Situations
Unfortunately I can't chat as much as I once did, so I decided to post this question here:
What are some "grey" uncomfortable situations you have found yourself in?
As creatures of choice we either do wrong or we do right. We find ourselves trying to limit our failures or duplicate our successes. Looking back at our actions we are either proud of something or we are ashamed of it. Sometimes however, we navigate a gray area. And most of the times, this grey area is a lot harder to manage because we travel paths that are foreign to us. We must not only decide what to do; we must also decide if what we are doing is right or wrong.
Here are some of mine:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Poem of the Week: The Rhodora
The poem this week comes via babyfriday who introduced it to me. I had taught Emerson for years but, somehow, was not familiar with this, perhaps his most famous, poem. Despite being oft-quoted, reading Emerson can be a fairly intense, sometimes off-putting experience. He is very overt in his transcendentalism, particularly in his approach to self-reliance and living in the present. His thoughts on the beauty and power of nature however, are difficult for me personally not to find toothsome. Like his acolyte Thoreau, Emerson saw as an imperative the communion of the individual with nature. Even more than the Romantics, Transcendentalists believed in the supernatural strength that one could gain through his/her (re)connection with nature. Should one be so fortunate to divorce him or herself from society to retreat into nature, s/he could encounter beauty of the kind one only dreamed in the newly-established industrial cities. This beauty, however, was not for man's consumption alone. This natural beauty, unlike the beauty humanity tried to create, was never spectacle, but self-sufficient and self-sufficing. As Emerson wrote n "Self Reliance," "These roses below my window make no reference to former roses or better ones." In so existing, without concern for validation from an external consciousness, Emerson et al celebrated the Transcendental beauty of the natural world. Such seems to be driving idea behind the poem's most famous lines, 11-12.
It is also worth noting that the rhodora, like its cousin the rhododendron (and unlike the subject of so many poems, roses) grow largely in the wild and are rarely cultivated in private gardens. Enjoy the poem:
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