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November 10th, 2009
01:47 am newsfromme_com [Link]	You Were Warned! http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_11_09.html#018028 We told you last Wednesday that four-day passes for next year's Comic-Con International would soon be gone. They're gone. (Leave a comment)
November 9th, 2009
05:11 pm arcitaka [Link]	The Unwalled City November 8, 9 and 10 of 1989 were a few days of an emotional roller coaster ride for me. It all started on the 8th, with the death of Grandma Edith, my paternal grandmother. This being the first time I had lost a close family member, it hit me pretty hard. The next day was different. I don't remember exactly where I was or what I was doing when I got the news, but I got the news nonetheless. East Germany was lifting travel restrictions for its citizens. In minutes, Berliners from east and west headed for the checkpoints and the Ku'Damm, and the border guards could not keep the East Berliners out. A mass of people flooded into the West, literally into the waiting arms of the West Berliners. Pandemonium ensued (but the good kind of pandemonium). We did not go out on the night of the 9th, as we were still in mourning for grandma. My dad left for her funeral on the 10th. That night, my mom decided to take me and my siblings Kurt and Carolyn out. We left our house in southern Zehlendorf and took the S-Bahn through Steglitz up to the city center. The train was packed, standing room only. We stayed on for the segment of the S-Bahn that went through the east, as it passed through the eerie abandoned Potsdamer Platz station. We got off in the West, and I'm not sure how which direction we walked, but we ended up just outside the Brandenburg Gate. The festive atmosphere from the night before had died down. Now there were guards lining the top of the wall, and news vans from networks all over the world parked everywhere. Mom wanted us to see this to show how important an event this was not just to Germany, but to the entire world. After that, we had to walk through Tiergarten to find a train station, which we eventually did. Mom was a bit worried about walking all the way through Tiergarten, but I wasn't particularly worried - I was having fun! We eventually caught the U-Bahn, I'm not sure which station it was, but I want to say it was Gleisdreick. After a few transfers, we found ourselves home. We didn't go to the Ku'Damm, probably because Mom didn't want to take three kids to a crowded shopping district. A few days later, we found ourselves with hammers and chisels at the Steinstucken exclave of Berlin, chipping away at the wall and bringing home as many pieces as we could. We still have a box of pieces of the wall in our garage at home. They were three incredible days. While I don't exactly remember the details of what happened (I was nine, give me a break!), I don't forget how it felt. I look forward to writing about the twentieth anniversary of reunification day next year! (Leave a comment)
07:03 pm binaryathena [Link]	13:22 Listening to Swings Shubert Alley by Mel Torme tinyurl.com/yje9ohk #rhapsody #musicmonday # 14:10 My blood numbers are all normal, even triglycerides, except for anemia . And that uncontrolled hypertension thing # 14:14 Yummy roasted chicken tostados from the original Barnaby's is my new fave. # 14:21 twitpic.com/owvau - roasted chicken tostadas # 15:46 Listening to Young Man Blues: Live In Glasgow Part 1 by Bert Jansch tinyurl.com/ykqk4dx #rhapsody #musicmonday # 18:57 Bugcatch is stopping by the Hillcroft Droubi's for whole wheat pita, tabouli, baba ganoush, & hummus. Tabouli is green from parlsey & mint! # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Leave a comment)
05:31 pm hp_eating_our_w [Link]	Know Your Roast http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/roast_bean_profiling_coffee.php A very common question asked in cafes around Houston is, "What is your dark roast?" We think people are trying to ask, "What coffee has the biggest, most pronounced flavor today?" But there'... (Leave a comment)
11:40 pm doc_blog [Link]	The Carter Official Trailer - The ‘Don’t Look Back of Rap’? http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/index.php/2009/11/09/the-carter-official-trailer-the-dont-look-back-of-rap/ I’m wondering how it is that I completely missed The Carter last year at Sundance? Not just the fact that I didn’t see it, but I hadn’t even heard of it until now. Either way, the official trailer has hit the net and I must say it looks pretty great. I know very little about Lil’ Wayne outside of a few songs and the fact that he can sort of play guitar, so it was definitely a pleasant surprise to see that he is famous for mixing cough syrup and alcohol! What a great combination of flavour profiles. From what I’ve read, the film was met with some resistance from Lil’ Wayne after its Sundance premiere. Those issues have apparently been resolved (did Lil’ Wayne have director’s cut?) but director Adam Bhala Lough still seems to have captured a bit of a train wreck in his film. Having said that, I’m not one to immediately jump to conclusions of sensationalism or exploitation. Based off of this trailer — and whatever the blurbs throughout it are worth — there seems to be some potential here beyond the crazy stuff. I’m on board! The Carter is ‘about to drop’ on DVD November 17th, so head on over to their official website and go ahead and pre-order it. (Leave a comment)
05:00 pm hp_eating_our_w [Link]	Bivalve Throwdown: Oysters With a Side of Intrigue at Stella Sola http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/oyster_competition_bivalve_thr.php In the heat of battle last night, the oysters -- and the chefs -- kept their cool. The fourth such event organized by Jenny Wang and the Houston Chowhounds, the Bivalve Throwdown at ... (Leave a comment)
05:10 pm houpr_hairballs [Link]	Los Angeles Times Takes On Toyota's Acceleration Problems http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/11/la_times_prius_lawsuits.php The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy story this weekend about unintended acceleration in Toyotas, something the Houston Press and Hair Balls have written about from time to time, start... (Leave a comment)
05:14 pm redneckgaijin [Link]	If this defense succeeds, it ought to be open season on REDACTED. ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
02:34 pm moltz [Link]	NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home \| Wired Science \|... http://johnmoltz.com/post/238457974 NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home \| Wired Science \| Wired.com Cutest spacepod ever. (Leave a comment)
02:25 pm moltz [Link]	"As is occasionally pointed out when journalists and news business people complain that Google is... http://johnmoltz.com/post/238450023 “As is occasionally pointed out when journalists and news business people complain that Google is stealing their content, if they don’t want Google to index their pages they can simply… tell Google not to index their pages by inserting a bit of code into them. What they really want Google to do is pay them for the privilege of making money from a derivative of their product, the way book reviewers always pay novelists, for example.” - Eschaton (Leave a comment)
10:18 pm newsfromme_com [Link]	Cartoons! Live! http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_11_09.html#018027 Have you been listening to Cartoon Carnival? My pal Joe Bevilacqua ("Joe Bev" for short) hosts his little audio extravaganza each week on Shokus Internet Radio. You can scurry over to that site, find out when it's on and listen to the world's first radio program all about animation — with rare cartoon-releated records, interviews with V.I.P.s in the field, etc. And if you're in the Los Angeles/Glendale area, you can be part of the studio audience for a broadcast! A week from today — Monday evening, November 16, Joe is recording an episode with some very special guests and one or two not-so-special ones. They include animation voice actors June Foray and Gregg Berger, Bill Marx (son of Harpo), the great comedy writer Bob Mills, animation writer-historian Earl Kress...and me. It all starts at 7 PM out at the Glendale Library Auditorium and while you're there, you'll have the chance to purchase (and have autographed) books by several of those folks. Check out this page for more details. (Leave a comment)
03:45 pm hp_eating_our_w [Link]	Chocolate Festival of Texas Adventures, Continued http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/chocolate_festival_butters_bro.php Another great find at the Chocolate Festival of Texas was Mary Louise Butter's chocolate brownies. Butter's Brownies are available in 16 variations, with flavorings ranging from rose water t... (Leave a comment)
02:49 pm hp_eating_our_w [Link]	99 Ranch Market Grand Opening http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/99_ranch_market.php 69¢ Gulf oysters and lobsters for under $9 a pound are among the grand-opening specials worth checking out at 99 Ranch Market, the new supermarket at I-10 and Blalock where the big Fiesta us... (Leave a comment)
02:05 pm hp_eating_our_w [Link]	Top 5 Hot Sauces That Will Make You Cry Like A Baby http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/top_5_hot_sauces.php Watery eyes, runny nose, burning throat. No, it's not allergy season. It's the delicious pain of hot sauce. Here is our list of top 5 fiery sauces that will make you cry like a baby. 1. ... (Leave a comment)
12:57 pm hp_eating_our_w [Link]	Taco Truck Gourmet: Arcelia Taco Bus http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/arcelia_taco_bus.php The barbacoa taco from the Arcelia taco bus is truly amazing. It consists of two lightly fried tortillas and lots of barbacoa meat, plus soft-cooked onions, salsa and a lime wedge. The barba... (Leave a comment)
11:41 am hp_eating_our_w [Link]	Chocolate Festival of Texas http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2009/11/chocolate_festival_of_texas.php This Saturday at the Chocolate Festival of Texas, Eating Our Words set out to see just how much chocolate and wine $25 will buy you at a Sheraton near IAH. The answer is about five half-gla... (Leave a comment)
01:08 pm adfreak [Link]	Droid phone will enthrall and/or enslave you http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Adfreak/~3/4nXHen8NbsA/droid-phone-will-enthrall-andor-enslave-you.html Mix the totalitarian subjugation of 1984 with the sinister cybernetic intelligence of 2001, and you get mcgarrybowen's launch spot (posted below) for Verizon's much-ballyhooed Droid phone. (I swear that's HAL 9000's all-seeing red eye about 22 seconds in.) It picks up the dark and industrial vibe from the tail end of the otherwise goofy and lighthearted teaser spot, which got lots of attention, particularly from Apple fans. The new spot stars intimidating robots who crush rocks and punch holes to assert their metallic superiority. And unless I've missed the point (unlikely, as I never have on AdFreak before, at least not that I'd admit), humans will do these droids' bidding once Earth is enslaved, toiling in factories and slugging it out in bloody boxing matches for their overlords' amusement. This isn't a smartphone, the ad warns, it's a robotphone. You don't talk to the boss on a Droid, the phone is your boss. Droid doesn't relay orders, it gives them. On the plus side, Justin Long will be among the first to go in the man-vs.-machine struggle. John Hodgman, a robot passing as flesh and blood, will probably get to run Cleveland. —Posted by David Gianatasio Previously on AdFreak: Apple fan strikes back at Verizon Droid spot Creators of anti-Droid ad unmasked (sort of) (Leave a comment)
04:02 pm houpr_hairballs [Link]	36 Years Later, Another Victim Of The Candy Man Will Be Buried http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/11/corll_victim_dna_buried.php Just a couple of weeks ago we went on a Houston 101 nostalgia trip about Houston's most notorious mass murderer, Dean Corll.Today in our e-mail-box comes word that one of Corll's victims ... (Leave a comment)
04:10 pm starcat_jewel [Link]	is twelve Hosing all the ACF mud off rubber floor mats, sticker rack bases, shoes, and other sodden items could be tedious work. However, reframing it as "getting to play in the yard with the hose and get my clothes wet" makes it much more fun! The bathroom is festooned with drying T-shirts and tote-bags. The first load of table covers is out of the dryer, and the next load is in it. Sorting thru the jewelry stuff will happen later -- I've got a lot of rain-splattered display equipment that may or may not be salvageable. Side note: my new teal leggings from Decent Exposures (1) are more turquoise than teal, and (2) fit more like workout pants than leggings; I think I should have ordered a size smaller. They're comfortable enough, but definitely around-the-house-only items. This entry was originally posted at http://stardreamer.dreamwidth.org/554687.html. I prefer that you comment here if you read it here. Current Mood: okay Tags: clothes, slice of life (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
05:35 pm amazonmp3deals [Link]	amazonmp3: See a list of 100 oustanding '09 albums you might have missed here http://bit.ly/25bGmK F http://twitter.com/amazonmp3/statuses/5564013479 amazonmp3: See a list of 100 oustanding '09 albums you might have missed here http://bit.ly/25bGmK Find links to sample selected songs on the left. (Leave a comment)
05:33 pm amazonmp3deals [Link]	amazonmp3: 11/9 Daily Deal: Erin McKeown's Hundreds of Lions, an outstanding '09 album you might hav http://twitter.com/amazonmp3/statuses/5563964435 amazonmp3: 11/9 Daily Deal: Erin McKeown's Hundreds of Lions, an outstanding '09 album you might have missed. $1.99 today: http://bit.ly/1p7eID (Leave a comment)
03:06 pm houpr_hairballs [Link]	Houston's Administaff Accused Of Some Pretty Wild Anti-Semitism http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/11/lawsuit_administaff_sued_anti-.php The allegations are so outrageous and outlandish that they almost sound like a fraternity prank, or something a cruel older brother might do to their little brother. Except that they are ... (Leave a comment)
12:44 pm arcitaka [Link]	Divided Berlin Sometime in 1989, my parents started talking about a potential move. I don't know when the discussion started, but they eventually told the children that we might be moving back to Germany. We had already lived in Germany for five years - while I was born in Kansas, we moved to Germany shortly afterward and I spent my earliest years there. I was happy with our home in Washington, but being a military family I wasn't too surprised about having to move. I knew we were going to Berlin, and I started to learn a few things about the city. Its role in World War II, the blockade, the Cold War, and of course, the wall. When we arrived in Berlin sometime in July, we went to see the wall in the American sector, near an apartment complex in Duppel where many Americans lived. The western side of the wall was covered in graffiti - some of it simple vandalism, some of it art - and there was a wooden observation tower for us to scale and look over to the eastern portion of the wall. The image of looking over the wall was unforgettable even to my nine-year-old mind. The death strip was a stark, lonely strip of land, littered with tank barriers, ditches, and cordoned off by multiple fences, most of which had barbed wire over the top. On the other side of the wall, you could just see the small town of Kleinmachnow. There was a single guard tower in the middle of the death strip, and we could see two guards keeping watch. I waved at them, and one of the guards waved back. In the first few months of living in Berlin, the realities of the divided city hit me. We went to Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, and saw some of the memorials set up for those who died trying to escape into West Berlin. I saw the monument to the Berlin Airlift at Tempelhof Airport (and later, saw its corresponding monument in Frankfurt). And of course, we walked along the wall at Potsdamer Platz. I was perhaps too young to truly understand all the context of the Cold War, and why the wall was there. But I was old enough to realize what an injustice it was, and what it stood for. I figured it would remain standing for the three years we were planning on living in Berlin, and that it would stay up for most of my life. Twenty years ago today, that all changed. (Leave a comment)
07:33 pm kjennings_blog [Link]	Homo-nyms http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=1429 Wow, what a finale for Mad Men last night. A lot of the happenings in a limp-seeming season turned out not to be water-treading after all, but paid off neatly. It looks like the show might have sloughed off some dead wood, supporting cast-wise, to make room for ace new additions like Jared Harris, the weirdest-looking man in show business. I was walking down the street in Portland, Oregon last week, when he heard the girl walking in front of me describe something to her friend as “homogeneous.” She pronounced it “huh-MAH-juh-nuss,” like “homogenized.” I used to pronounce “homogeneous” this way as well, and was shocked when I first learning the correct way to say it–on an eighth-grade vocabulary quiz, I think. I think this is probably a common misconception, since we grow up with “homogenized” milk long before we ever hear of “homogeneous” substances or groups in a chemistry or sociology class. I wonder if part of the problem with “homogeneous” is that, correctly pronounced, it sounds like “homo genius”–Tchaikovsky, maybe? Or Alan Turing? Here’s my question about the future: will a more gay-friendly (or at least gay-casual) American culture make English-speakers less subconsciously squeamish about the right way to say things like “homogeneous”? I have a dream that one day schoolchildren will once again be able to talk about fossils from Homo erectus without even a giggle. (Leave a comment)
11:45 am moltz [Link]	"Snyderman: A white man deciding a woman’s (deep breath)… deciding a woman’s..." http://johnmoltz.com/post/238320021 “Snyderman: A white man deciding a woman’s (deep breath)… deciding a woman’s responsibility in her own procreation. I mean I … I find it infuriating. I really think it doesn’t matter what side of the abortion issue you’re on, the fact that they are making health care harder and harder for women to navigate the system. I think it’s outrageous. Just outrageous.” - Dr. Nancy Snyderman quoted on Hullabaloo on the Stupak Amendment. (Leave a comment)

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