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New band members have serious musical pedigrees | Kildare Nationalist
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New band members have serious musical pedigrees
THEY'RE Kilcullen's newest established band, but the members of Barley and the Grape Rag have some serious previous musical pedigrees, influenced by Flock of Budgies and Fenton Blue — both which were strong bands in Kilcullen from 2010 onwards.
The guys are Aido Karrell on lead guitar, Lee Murphy with acoustic guitar, Stephen Clare on drums and Jim Kelly on bass guitar. All take their turns at the microphone.
It's a sign of how fast they're growing that they'll be releasing their debut single in O'Connell's on Saturday next, 15 June. Can't Wait Till June will be followed by a three-song EP and later a seven-song CD.
Barley and the Grape Rag was formed in 2017. Jim Kelly, whose background was in managing music gigs locally, found himself joining in the songs with Aido and Lee when they were meeting up to play, with a couple of others. He began playing bass, and at a certain stage they decided they had a new band.
"Jim put a date in the diary to do a gig," says Lee. "And that's how it started." That first gig was in O'Connell's Bar. Where they have been playing regularly ever since, and are very thankful to the pub's Alan O'Connell for the support.
Aido, Jim, Stephen and Lee.
Photo: Gonz Houlihan Photography
Their mix of music is a reflection of the 23-42 age range between them. It brings generational differences. "Some of the artists we play, I'd never have listened to before," says Aido, while Jim says the age divergence adds to the breadth of their repertoire. "We had a 70s vibe when we started, then Stephen came in with a more modern drumming style."
Jackson Browne's mid-70s highlights and the work of John Martin from Swedish House Mafia underpin the music of the band, alongside the more contemporary offerings. From the beginning they wanted to give something different than most of the bands out there. They wanted to be unexpected.
Jim Kelly admits not being sure about the early proposed set lists. "I understood the music that was already in the pubs, and when the boys started picking some of these older songs, I said 'I don't know, lads' …"
But it's working. Friends around town who would be 'solid rock and rollers' are now starting to talk about what they're doing. "Amos Lee has a song 'Lover', which we began to cover," Jim says. "I had never heard of it before, but now the the audience are shouting for it, and singing it back to us."
The recipe for making a gig work isn't always easy to find, but Barley and the Grape Rag seem to have sorted it. "If the audience are not enjoying themselves, we just play to each other and have a bit of craic," says Jim Kelly, "Before you know it you'll find them coming along."
Drummer Stephen Clare, previously of Fenton Blue, and the third percussionist they've had since starting, agrees. "If someone is just standing at a bar and see a band that's bored, then they'll be bored too. But if they see a band having fun, then they're going to get sucked in to that."
Becoming more than just background in a crowded bar takes work, and not just by turning up the volume. "We spend a lot of time on the set list," says Aido. "But when we know that people are starting to listen, we tend to abandon it. It's a sense. You can feel it. We can have a rocking song that gets them going, and then drop off to something really mellow. You can feel the whole pub settle down."
Since last September the band has been introducing their own songs into the playlists, and the debut single is one of those. We'll be hearing more.
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Barcelona president echoes Arsenal chief's thoughts on joining Super League
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It seems Arsenal have found an ally in their assessment that joining the European Super League was an opportunity they simply could not afford to miss out on.
The Gunners' owner Josh Kroenke and chief executive Vinai Venkatesham held a fans' forum on Thursday to explain their decision to agree to the breakaway league.
During the heated meeting the pair insisted Arsenal were not one of the original founders behind the proposal, but rather felt compelled to follow the big boys for fear of missing out.
In a frankly weak admission, Venkatesham said: "On this project, the train was leaving the station and we made the decision to join", while Kroenke added: "We asked ourselves, what is worse: European Super League, or European Super League without Arsenal?"
Josh Kroenke says the Super League was an opportunity Arsenal had to get on board with
(Image: Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Kroenke then gave a nod to the ESL's aims of attracting and retaining a newer and wider audience, admitting: "We also asked ourselves what do the fans want? The global fan wants Arsenal vs Barcelona as often as possible. English fans want to see more big matches, but you still want your cold nights in Stoke."
As things panned out, Arsenal – along with the five other Premier League clubs – quickly withdrew from the competition, with both execs painfully conceding amid a grovelling apology that they had got this one "wrong" by making a "terrible decision".
However, over at the Nou Camp, Barcelona president Joan Laporta was not quite so remorseful, instead backing up the claims of Arsenal's chiefs that the Super League really wasn't an offer to be sniffed at.
Barca remain one of just four clubs still effectively 'in' the Super League group, even though the competition will not be going ahead as planned.
Joan Laporta feels a Super League is a "necessity"
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European Super League announcement fallout
And Laporta seems keen on reviving the proposals in the future, adamant that its inauguration would only have been of benefit to the game.
In an official statement on the Barcelona website, Laporta stressed Barcelona accepted their invitation as "a matter of urgency" to join "a competition designed to improve the quality and attractiveness of the product offered to the football fans".
In addition, he wrote: "The decision was made in the conviction that it would have been a historical error to turn down the opportunity to be part of this project as one of its founding members."
While few would argue with Barcelona's standing as one of the game's biggest clubs, Arsenal were practically mocked over their inclusion, given their lowly domestic position and failure to qualify for the Champions League since 2017.
It's perhaps more understandable that a club like Arsenal felt under pressure to follow suit, while Barcelona would have been in a strong position to oppose such plans, though Laporta insists the formation of a Super League is "a necessity".
And the comments of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez suggests this is not a scheme which will be quietly filed away never to rear its ugly head again.
"If anyone thinks the Super League is dead, are they wrong? Absolutely," Perez told Spanish radio show El Larguero. " We're going to keep working and what everyone thinks is for the best will emerge.
"The project is on standby. The Super League still exists."
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Among their extensive line-up of upgrade sets designed for Revell's 1:32 P-51D, CMK have released a pair of resin drop tanks.
They differ in several ways from the original plastic tanks, primarily on account of the sway braces, plus (as their name suggests) much more prominent filler caps which are supplied as separate parts.
The new tanks arrive in a clear plastic blister pack, which is pretty robust. I did notice though that one of the tanks had taken a knock in transit and the prominent lateral seam will need repairing at the tail end.
Other than that, the casting is excellent, with the tanks attached to casting blocks in two places at the front, with just a wafer of flash linking them. This means that the seam at the nose will be easy to keep neat, but you will need to work very carefully cutting and cleaning up the pour stubs themselves. To be fair, I can't see how else CMK could have done things, but the pouring points are in the most visible area of the tanks where any scars or sanding marks will be easy to spot, particularly with a metallic finish.
A simple sheet of instructions comes with the set, but experienced modellers will hardly need them, because construction is pretty self explanatory.
CMK's drop tanks are very nice and an interesting variation on the kit versions. With just four parts, they may look as though they'd be ideal for newcomers to working with resin, but I'll add the caveat that preparation will require more care than you might expect.
Highs: Well detailed and cleanly cast.
Lows: The seam at the tail of each tank is easy to damage in transit.
Verdict: CMK's tanks look deceptively simple to use, but the prominently placed attachments to the casting block will take real care to clean up invisibly.


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import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
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import com.bumptech.glide.Glide;

import butterknife.BindView;
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Production Number E1420
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    ... 1 more Exception running application AppL

}ERROR-ENDING
I've tried to add: (I also added the PATH_TO_FX Path-variable)
--module-path ${PATH_TO_FX} --add-modules javafx.controls,javafx.fxml
to the run configurations VM-options but it only changed the error I had before this error. I tried to do this on Windows AND on Linux, neither works.
Intellj shows me that every thing works, but it doesn't.
I wanted to use netbeans or eclipse but I don't know how to add libraries to them.
That would helb me to.
Example code:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class AppL extends Application {
    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        WebView v = new WebView();
        stage.show();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

Thanks to anyone who wants to help me, and who doesn't lauph on my english-scills

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$113m New Bedford, Mass. marine terminal sits largely idle
August 30, 2015 — The new waterfront terminal in New Bedford was supposed to be teeming with activity by now, a staging ground for a massive wind farm in Nantucket Sound.
But with a cancellation of a lease by Cape Wind, the 28-acre site has instead remained largely idle this summer. Efforts by the quasi-public Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to hire a company to position the property for cargo shipping are also taking longer than anticipated.
The $113 million terminal was built primarily with state bond money under Deval Patrick's administration as a staging ground to ship and repair heavy offshore wind turbines. The idea, in part, was to enable New Bedford's struggling economy to capitalize on an emerging industry by creating more clean energy jobs. But without Cape Wind as an anchor, there is no offshore wind work in sight.
To supporters, the terminal is still viewed as a potentially viable, vibrant piece of the city's waterfront. To critics, the terminal is seen as an unnecessary expense of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds.
For Matthew Beaton, Charlie Baker's energy and environmental affairs secretary, the real question is how the state can recoup its hefty investment in a mostly dormant terminal.
Read the full story from The Boston Globe


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One Group Urging "Go Green" When It's Time to Vote
Concerned about the environment? Along with hybrid cars and solar powered homes, an education advocacy group says you can also "go green" when you cast your ballot.
By Jenny O'Mara
Call it a "green twist' on the "get out the vote effort"… The group "EdVoice" is launching a campaign called "Carbon Free Voting 2008". Spokesman Roger Salazar says the goal is to encourage people to vote by mail instead of driving to the polls.
"You know there are some states that have gone like Oregon that have gone to vote by mail systems, so we think voting by mail is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to vote."
Salazar says the campaign will also purchase some "carbon offsets" to balance the pollution created by producing the mailers.
But some have raised questions about the mailer. It features former Assemblywoman and current state Senate candidate, Democrat Fran Pavley. It will be sent out in Southern California, including the district she's running in. Salazar says the effort has nothing to do with her campaign. He notes it's targeting the February presidential primary.


Senate President Steve Sweeney is 100 percent correct about New Jersey's minimum wage. Right now, it's at $8.44 an hour, which means people who make minimum wage live on about $17,500 a year – and that's if they never get sick, have an emergency or take a day off. That's just ridiculous, because there's no way to practically make it on that amount of money. There's no way to make sure that you never miss a single hour of work during the course of the year. That alone should be reason enough to raise the minimum wage.
Does the business community have concerns? Sure they do, and Sweeney has done a good job of listening to them and working with them on this issue. But at the end of the day, this isn't a matter of profits or income or stock options or salaries or any of what they're worried about. It's about people who work hard, who sweat for eight hours a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year – and they deserve to be fairly compensated with a livable wage. People who follow the rules and work hard should be able to put food on the dinner table when they get home from work, sleep in a warm bed, and gas up the car so they can do it all again the next day. Steve Sweeney is taking the lead to make sure that happens.


A staple of the Omani dessert table, Omani halwa is especially popular during Ramadan. "Omani halwa is a symbol of Omani culture and heritage and has been extremely taken good care to preserve it.
Housing more than 300 animals, birds and reptiles, Al Numan Park is one of the few options for of the local and resident families that longed for a pastime during holidays. Numan Park is also offering a perfect leisure avenue for the whole family and a spot for buying traditional artifacts of the country. This first zoo in Oman has, among others, rare species of animals and birds which are specially flown in from across the continents, kids' park and private suites with swimming pools rented on hourly basis plus party halls and restaurant. And it has all the possibilities of being a key tourist attraction spot.
Sandy spit of land and some islands scattered of the shore make Sawadi a popular day trip. At low tide you can walk to the watchtower on one of the islands. Abundance of shells and a variety of watersports, snorkeling and diving are on offer, including boat trips to the nearby Dimanayat islands. Enjoy the new Aqua Fun Park at the resort.
The fort, also called Husn Al Heem, lies 120 kilometers from the capital Muscat and is located at the entrance of Wilayt Nakhal in Wadi Ar Raqeem. This fort's architecture does not follow a particular pattern, as it was designed around an irregularly shaped rock. You'll find that some rock parts become part of the building. This can be observed in some towers, particularly on the fort's western side. The construction of the castle dates back to the pre-Islamic era.
Reach the foothills of the mountains and you see the warm sulfuric waterfalls gushing out of the rocks into a pool where one can dip. The water itself is so medicated that the spring cures all your bone related problems, another fascinating thing as you dip your feet into the water.... there are these tiny fishes.... known as Dr. Fish....they come in schools to bite away all your dead skin around your feet, the feeling is ticklish but worth a try.


Does anyone have a .30, 1-10, 30"+ Heavy Varmint barrel or barrels they would like to sell?
I've got a 31" Krieger, but it's 1.25" straight. Is that too heavy for you?
This could be a little complicated but I have a Bartlein heavy that I'd swap for the Krieger.
Is there a weight limit on the barrel BAT? The Bart I have might be a profile up from a heavy palmer. I also have a Maddco #7 which is definately heavier that a HP. Straight taper from 1.25 to 0.9 I think.
How long are those barrels?
I'd be interested in a swap, depending on length. The only reason I'm not using the Krieger I have is it's weight.
I'll measure to be sure (not home till Sunday) but the Barts should be 31" and the Maddcos 32"
I'll measure and weigh and post back on Monday.
Edited due to brain fart.
The Barts are blanks. The Maddcos are unused and chambered 308 with an FTR reamer, threaded for a Barnard P just over 30" but I'll confirm the actual length.
The Jr is sorted with a tube so whatever works for you gents!


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«Церковь Христа» («Ученики Христа»); также сокращённо просто «Ученики Христа» или «Церковь Христа») — часть движения Восстановления в Америке, ставившего перед собой задачу объединения христиан в одной Церкви на основе принципов первоначального христианства, не разделённого доктринальными перегородками. Основатели движения — , 1763—1854) и его сын Александр Кэмпбелл, 1788—1866) достаточно быстро приобрели последователей.

«Где Писание говорит, говорим и мы, где Писание молчит, молчим и мы», — эти слова были сказаны Томасом Кэмпбеллом в начале XIX века. Стараясь отойти от традиций и формализма в американских церквях, он изменил порядок богослужения в своей церкви, перешёл от кальвинизма к арминианству в вопросах понимания спасения и убеждал пасторов переосмыслить всё: от ящиков для сбора пожертвований до требований к помещению для богослужений. В попытке вернуться к церкви I века Кэмпбелл написал трактат «Реставрация древнего порядка вещей».

По итогам религиозной переписи в США 1906 года они были признаны отдельной конфессией. Сейчас в Северной Америке насчитывается, по данным самих «Учеников Христа»,  членов в составе 3754 общин.

В результате многократных разделений сегодня в США и за рубежом существуют различные организации и группы, считающие себя последователями Томаса и Александра Кэмпбеллов и известные как «Ученики Христа», , «Христианские церкви», , ,  и т. п.

Членом церкви был и известный ясновидец Эдгар Кейси.

В России параллельно существуют три ветви Церкви Христа:
 «традиционные» церкви, не имеющие централизованных руководящих органов;
 условно-централизованная «Международная церковь Христа» (возникла на базе Бостонской церкви Христа в США в 1979, с 1991 — в СССР (РСФСР));
 централизованная «Международная христианская церковь» (основана Кипом Маккином, как результат его несогласия с реформами старейшин «МЦХ» в США в 2005, с 2008 — в России).

Объединённая церковь Христа () организационно не связана с «Церквями Христа».

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Информационный ресурс церквей Христа бывшего СССР («традиционных»)
 Новостной ресурс церквей Христа на русском языке (международных)

Протестантизм в США
Реставрационизм

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Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune (2022) | Transcript
Fortune reflects on her own good fortune, including some big life events she's experienced the last couple years like falling in love with her wife and the extravagant proposal she planned that didn't go as expected, and much more.
[upbeat music plays]
[audience cheering]
[announcer] Please welcome Fortune Feimster!
♪ I'm a powerful woman ♪
♪ Always get what I want ♪
♪ So don't you get in my way now That's not what I want ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a powerful woman ♪
♪ Always get what I ♪
♪ Powerful woman, oh, yeah ♪
Oh man! Stop!
[cheering continues]
Stop! Chicago, what's going on?
Oh man! Thank you for being here at the beautiful Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
A lot has transpired in the last couple of years, right? The world has dealt with some crazy stuff. It felt like the end of times, and I thought lesbians would be built for that, you know?
[laughter]
Put us in a bunker with some canned hams, we're good.
But things went south, and I learned a lot about myself. I found out I have zero survival skills. None. All I had to do was stay home. I got nothing accomplished. No sourdough was started in my house. I didn't learn how to make cold brew. Nothing. It was my partner, Jax, who surprised me. She was the one outside painting our fence, rewired our electricity, fixed our plumbing. I was the one on the couch every night, just watching documentaries about old people in love.
Just crying in my Ugg boots.
I found out, y'all. I'm not butch.
[cheering and applause]
I am not butch, which is shocking, I know, 'cause I have these broad shoulders and my favorite color is plaid.
But this is a preview to a whole different movie than what you think you're about to watch. As they say, the carpet does not match the drapes. Two things that I do not know how to install.
I look very handy, though. I do. I look handy. If you saw me and your car was broken down, you might assume I could fix your car. I got that look about me, 'cause that is what a butch lady can do. She can literally put your car on her back…
…and walk it to a service station.
She can actually just spit in your gas tank… [imitates spitting] …and your car will start.
[sighs] Magical. But that is not me. And men are the most mystified by this information. They come up to me constantly at, like, a Home Depot because they assume I work there.
They're like, "Uh, what's up, dude? Um…"
"Where are the nails?"
I'm like, "Ooh, I'm here for a potted plant."
"I do know they sell M&M's at the checkout."
[laughter and applause]
We got bored at one point, and we drove out to the desert in California, out to Joshua Tree, and I noticed up ahead on the freeway, there was this car broken down, and this guy whose car it was, he was really tall. He was ripped, shirtless, he had a man bun. Straight ladies, are we still into man buns?
[woman] No!
Oh, hard no right there. Wow. This guy had on black-and-white striped pants. Looked like a gorgeous prisoner that had escaped. Now his car is broken down on the side of the road. I'm driving past him, I look over my shoulder, I realize it's Jason Momoa. Yeah. Oh, you like man buns now, don't you? Yeah. That's what I thought.
It was Aquaman, miles from the ocean, just stranded in the desert without his superpowers. Beautiful, shirtless. I kept driving.
We've been over this. I can't fix his car. I can't give him a BJ while he waits for somebody else to fix his car. I got nothing for this man.
I did the next best thing. When I had to get gas, I went to his Instagram page. "Let me just double-check to see if it was him." To me, all dudes look alike.
Went on his page, he had posted a picture of him in the black-and-white striped pants, side of the road. I went, "Oh my God, that was Jason Momoa." And I gave his picture a like.
I did my part. But I'm a lot different than what meets the eye. I am a dainty lady. I am a delicate flower. I like a massage every now and then. This girl likes to be pampered, y'all. I got a butt massage for the first time recently. Have y'all had one of those? Oh man! I'm not talking about an elbow to the glute. I'm talking full-on butt, booty massage. I mean, I was at this very respectable spa, on my stomach, and this guy just started going in on my ass.
Making noises too.
[exhaling loudly]
I went… [gasps]
I clutched my invisible pearls.
I had never been touched by a man like this before.
He just kept digging into my butt, and he unlocked some sort of treasure.
I had never felt anything that good before. I went home that night light as a feather. A whole new woman. I cooked a three-course meal. I don't even know how to cook.
I called a few days later. I had to book another appointment. This guy was booked solid for a month. I was like, "Oh, this is, like, his thing. He's the butt massage guy, and everybody knows about it." So I finally got back in there a month later, same thing. Went in on my ass.
[exhales loudly]
This time for, like, 30 minutes. He spent more time on my butt than I have ever spent taking care of my face.
He wouldn't touch anything else. Like, my feet, "Ugh, gross! Ugh." Just all butt. Went home. Called a couple of days later to make another appointment.
He had gotten fired.
Yeah, somebody ruined it for all of us. Freaking butt narc.
[groans] Turns out he unlocked too many treasures.
But the one person I did not want to find out that I'm not as tough as I appear is my partner, Jax. I did not want her to know this information, because before me, she dated nothing but butch women, and I'm talking butch. I'm talking cops, truckers, and bouncers. Oh my!
Butch. I'm a whole different vibe. I'm like, "Who wants a hug?" Like, so different. But we were going to this fancy Hollywood event, and I was trying to play the part, so I had on my Men's Wearhouse suit.
Jax had on her dress and heels, and we got a phone call from the alarm company. They said our home alarm was going off, and did we want them to send security out to check? I said, "Absolutely." We turn back around. We get home, and nobody's there yet. Jax shifts. She goes, "Well, we got to go in and assess the situation." I'm like, "No, we don't."
She said, "Well, my ex, Darlene, who was a cop, said that home alarms are the lowest of the priority." I was like, "Wait." "I thought that ex's name was Pam." She's like, "There is a Darlene and a Pam. Maybe you're thinking about Sheila." I'm like, "How many cops?"
[groans] She dated, like, the whole lady force of Chicago.
She said, "You're really not gonna go inside and check the house?" I said, "No!" So she grabbed the high heel off of her foot like this and held it up like a weapon, and she charged in there with one shoe off.
Just going room to room, like she was gonna Jimmy Choo someone's face if they jumped out. I stayed in the doorway 'cause I had on flats.
I'm like, "How am I gonna protect myself? I don't have a kitten heel on, nothing."
I heard a noise at one point, so I held the key fob up higher.
I was like, "I will press this button, I swear to God. It says 'Panic, ' and I'm panicked."
The alarm company called, they said it was a false alarm. A battery had died in one of the sensors. They said, "We are so sorry. We hope we did not cause you any inconvenience." I said, "My partner now knows I am useless. This is very inconvenient."
Jax came hobbling out. She said, "You could have at least gone in there with me." I was like, "Oh my God, that did not even occur to me."
So I am not the protector of my family. And I know why Jax is so strong. I do. She is a kindergarten teacher, and they are tough. They have to be.
Yeah. That's a hard job.
But I think about when I was in kindergarten in the '80s, and, oh boy, they just let you do whatever. I have a picture of me at five years old in kindergarten class, and I am holding a hammer…
…and nails. I mean, first off, somebody should have taught me how to use 'em.
But I'm like, "Why am I holding a hammer and nails?" Were we practicing hammering? Was the teacher like, "All right, class, we're gonna build shelves for the classroom, and then afterwards, maybe a nice bench for my garage"? That's bonkers. Imagine your five-year-old right now. They cannot color inside of a giant circle, but you're gonna hand them a large, heavy hammer and hope that they can hit this itty-bitty, tiny nail. No! But that's the kind of stuff that they would do in the '80s. I mean, recess alone was like, "Godspeed." You were on your own. I mean, think about it. Our favorite game, dodgeball. You were taking a large, heavy ball and you were pummeling each other in the face as hard as you can. That's where we had to learn to Matrix.
To keep from getting our teeth knocked in. That game did come in handy for me a little bit later on in high school. I dodged a couple of balls. Not many. Um…
Never caught one. It was actually Red Rover that would get the most intense. You guys remember Red Rover?
You get in a line with your friends and you lock arms. Your other friends would get in a line across from you and they'd lock arms. And then you yell, "Hold the line! Hold the line!" Like we're Braveheart.
You're staring your friends down from across the field. Your only objective is to run as hard as you can right towards that line, and they just wanna break your arm.
Then all you wanna do is when they're running towards you, you wanna grab your neighbor's arm, you wanna pull your arms up, and then you just wanna crush their clavicle.
And then you start taunting each other. You go, "Red Rover, Red Rover, you send that little bitch Timmy…"
"…right on over."
Timmy gets that look in his eye. He starts running as hard as he can. We're like, "Hold the line!" Here he comes. We grab each other's arm. We pull our line up. Now Timmy's crashed through our line. Now our arm's dangling from the socket.
We're like, "Did we win? Did we hold the line?" Your teacher's not doing anything. She's over there on the blacktop, just smoking a Virginia Slim.
Having some sort of midlife crisis.
She's like, "They don't pay me enough to care about that."
The PE equipment was insane. We had merry-go-rounds. They're metal death traps. They were only fun if you would spin 'em 60 miles an hour, and then we would try to run and jump on 'em while they're moving.
It's like trying to jump on the hood of a moving vehicle. But there was nowhere to land. There was already 20 friends in a nook just going around.
Couldn't touch anything 'cause it's 135 degrees in the sun. Inevitably one friend would fall off and get trapped. "Agh!" Bleeding from the kneecap now, we're trying to get our teacher's attention. She's like, "20 more minutes!"
"This is me time."
And because I'm from North Carolina, we used to play with tires. Yeah, I'm talking about tires that fell off of a Mack truck, rolled into the elementary school parking lot. Our administrators are like, "Well, we don't got much of a budget, so we'll figure out something to do with these old things." These were large tires. You stand them up, they're this tall, like 75 pounds, hollow in the middle. We had a hill in the back of our elementary school, so it was our teachers who had to push these tires up that hill, [grunts] Just so angry, just pushing them up there. They're like, "I have a master's in education."
We ran up there, we took our little five-year-old bodies, and we would… We got into the middle of these tires. Our friend would take their five-year-old body, get in the other one. Then it was our teachers who would get behind each tire, and get momentum.
"All right, you little fuckers."
"Get ready for the ride of your life." And then they pushed us down a hill. We got speeds of, like, 20 miles an hour, 40 miles an hour, 60 miles an hour. There's no handle. You're just like… [yells] We crashed into a brick wall, flew out of the tire, vomited.
Your teacher came down the hill, put her cigarette out on your forehead. She'd be like, "Recess is dismissed. In fact, school's dismissed. I got to go meet my man friend who I connected with via the newspaper."
And that was recess in the '80s.
It was a different time, y'all. It was when you could take a large calculator and write the word "boobs." Ah. My favorite number, 80085.
[Fortune chuckles] I mean, yeah, kids can get their phone out right now and see as many boobs as they want, but who got to write it out in numbers? We did.
Good times, y'all. But I'm glad to be in a relationship. I like it. It suits me. Dating is hard. It's really hard. I don't know. You got to go on apps and swipe and do the things. Like, if I were single, my favorite dating app would be Grubhub.
For sure. I think swingers have it figured out. I do. It had to be tough for them dating in the pandemic, uh, but they have ways to let each other know that they are swingers. Did you guys know this? I'm gonna teach you. All right. I found out that if you want to let people know that you are a swinger, you can put flamingos in your front yard. Yeah. It gets very confusing in Florida and at my mom's house.
Maybe that's why she's been busy on the weekends. I don't know.
I don't quite understand it. Do people just drive around the neighborhoods looking for a flock of flamingos? They see it, they ring your doorbell and tell you they're down to clown. I don't know. But I like it.
There's also, uh, an upside-down pineapple. You can put an upside-down pineapple on your front porch. Don't put it right side up. That is just a pineapple.
I always assumed that an upside-down pineapple was letting people know that you like cake.
I would stop and ring a stranger's doorbell for cake.
But I actually got approached by a swinger couple after a show. Uh, they came up to me. Yeah, it was very exciting. And I am not an ageist, I am just telling you a fact. This is just a fact of the story. They both had canes.
So this was not their first rodeo.
And the wife informed me that her husband really enjoyed the show, which I very much appreciated, and she said that he had told her by the end of the show that she was allowed to get with me.
[snickers]
Sexually? I don't know.
I didn't know what to say. So I curtsied.
Which is not a no.
But it is polite.
But you got to put yourself out there, date different people. I went out with different people. I went out with a nurse at one point. And God bless nurses. They have gotten us through this crazy time.
Yeah. I thought it would be different. I thought she'd come home in a sexy nurse outfit and be like, "Who's got an owie?" And I'd be like, "Me."
But it didn't work like that. She'd come home in her dirty-ass scrubs. She brought her work home with her. She was always following me around with a clipboard, asking me about my bowel movements. She thought I should lose weight, which, touché.
I'm just saying it wasn't fun to eat nachos with her, 'cause she'd look at me and then look at the nachos and be like, "Okay."
"All right. Well, someone made a choice."
"Mm-hm."
"Three kinds of cheeses, sour cream, and liquid cheese?"
I'm like, "It's called queso."
"And it's Spanish for heart disease."
"And it's delicious."
I knew it wasn't gonna work out right then and there. I was trying to find, like, a legitimate excuse to break things off. She's doing the Lord's work, and I didn't wanna just be like, "Hey, you bum me out when I eat nachos."
Then I eventually met Jax right here in Chicago.
At Gay Pride. Yeah.
There's hope. We met in a parking lot. [chuckles] We met in a parking lot. That's how few lesbian bars are left in the United States. The lesbians are just relegated to a parking lot where you can either party or valet cars. It's up to you.
But we dated for a bit, but I knew pretty early on that, uh, Jax was the one. And it got to the point where I knew it was time to propose, and I'm not known for romance, so I called my friend. I said, "Where should I propose to Jax?" And she said, "Oh, you got to go to Big Sur." And no, that was not my nickname in high school.
It's a town in California out by the coast, really beautiful bridges and cliffs. She said, "There's this hotel, very romantic, call there."
I called the hotel, and whoever was on the phone was upselling everything. I just wanted a standard cabin. She goes, "Whoa! You're gonna propose? Don't you be cheap, okay? Don't be cheap. You better upgrade to that ocean view, I'm telling you. It's worth it. It's gonna knock her tits off."
I don't know if she actually said that, but that was the energy she was bringing to the conversation. I'm like, "Fine." I paid a bunch of extra money, got this ocean view that's supposed to be great, and off we went. We get up there to this cabin, I walk in. A very old cabin, very expensive cabin. I said, "But wait till you see this view." And I'm about to open that back door, and I say to her, "Hold on to your titties."
And I open that back door, we walk outside, and it is just fog, fog, fog. Just a hateful fog. I'm like, "What is this? An 1800s lesbian period piece? Why is there so much fog? Is Kate Winslet down there searching for fossils?"
[groans] Not how I wanted things to start, but I was like, "It's fine."
My plan was I was gonna take her to their fancy restaurant for dinner, and then I would go back to the room, and that is where I would propose. So I, uh… I called ahead to the hotel and I say, "Can you guys help me make our room look like it does in The Bachelor?" I don't know, ladies seem to like that. "Can we get some candles and rose petals, uh, how about some champagne? How about some strawberries? But let's dip them in chocolate. Otherwise it's fruit."
They said absolutely, charged me a bunch of money. Happy to pay, happy to have the help. So off we went. We go to dinner. I go find the waiter 'cause I need his help. I tell him what's going on. So I walk up to him and I see that his name is Craig. And Craig is very dramatic. I think that he does local theater up there.
So I walk up to him. I go, "Hi, Craig," and he goes, "Hi."
I said, "Craig, I am going to be proposing to my girlfriend tonight," and he goes, "Oh… my… God!"
He reminded me of the candlestick in Beauty and the Beast. Just a lot of, like, "You will propose, and the curse will be broken!"
I was like, "Thank you. I'm very excited, but I'm nervous. I don't want dinner to drag on. This ring is burning a hole in my pocket. So they're doing stuff to our room. Do you mind near the end of dinner, calling the front desk, finding out if our room is ready, then giving me some sort of signal, and that's when I'll know to wrap it up?" He goes, "Absolutely. You got it."
I said, "You don't need to offer dessert, I'm taking care of that in the room." He goes, "Okay." And then he turns around like this…
…and leaves.
I'm like, "I like Craig."
So we start eating this meal, and every course that comes out just ends up being weirder than the next. It's too fancy for us. It's too fancy. It's a lot of foams and tentacles and shells. A lot of stuff from that "ocean" I keep hearing about.
So everything is just a hair off, but we finally finish dinner, and, uh, I'm ready to get the night going, and Craig goes, "Hi, ladies. Who wants dessert?" I'm like, "Not us, Craig." He goes, "Oops!"
I was like, "Craig! You had two jobs, bud."
How could someone be so excited and incompetent all in one body?
So now Jax is very confused, 'cause she's never not seen me order dessert.
And I'm staring at her and I don't know what to say. I'm thinking about getting this right, I want it to be perfect. It's the one story that everybody asks you about. They want every detail. And Craig's not coming, he's not coming. It is the least romantic dinner of our life. And then finally, after what felt like a lifetime, Craig sneaks up behind Jax.
And he's now hovering over her shoulder. She has no idea that he is behind her, and he is just staring at me so… intensely.
I have been with Jax for seven years. We have never looked at each other in the eye for as long as Craig is staring at me. [exhales] Then finally, he goes… "Mm!"
So proud of himself. Turns around. Into the fog, never to be seen of again.
We're heading to the room. I'm trying to think of all the things I want to say to Jax. I just want it to be perfect, I want it to be romantic. We're getting up to the door, I'm starting to sweat. I'm getting nervous, and when I get nervous, I start doing finger guns.
So I look at Jax and start going…
And then I am ready to open that door to romance. We walk in there, and it just looks like a crime scene.
Our eyes are adjusting 'cause it's weirdly lit. You know what a room looks like when just the bathroom light's been left on? I'm looking around, there's, like, 50 tea light candles, but they're all battery-operated. And half of them are just dead. They're just dead. Ten are flickering, like, "We're trying!"
My OCD brain is like, "Who made this call?" But I can't even focus on it because I'm standing on a mound of something. There are rose petals everywhere. Everywhere! Not in any way that makes sense. There's no heart shape or initials. It's just chaos. It looks like someone opened that back door, a bunch of shit flew in the room, then they grabbed a leaf blower… [imitates leaf blower buzzing] …and called it a night. I'm like, "Did I order the 'It'll Do' package?"
"What is this?" And when you guys think of roses and romance, what color do you think of?
[audience] Red!
Red? Interesting.
Well, these were white rose petals, half-dead. I googled later, "What do white roses stand for?" It's chastity. Yeah. This is, in fact, an 1800s lesbian period piece.
So even though they did not apparently allow real candles in this cabin, they did light a roaring fireplace, and that was exactly where they decided to place the chocolate-covered strawberries and the bucket of ice with champagne. Both are just profusely dripping onto the floor. Nothing about this scenario makes Jax think that she is about to get proposed to.
I have a split second to decide which direction I am going with this night. Do I call the front desk and be like, "Somebody broke into our room and destroyed it"?
Or do I lean into this and pretend that every single thing that is happening in that room is exactly how I planned it? So now I'm staring at Jax like a deer in headlights. I can't think of any of the romantic things I was gonna say to her. I'm sweating again. I'm getting nervous. Oh man, here come the finger guns.
I forget to get on my knee. I can't think of anything. I'm panicked, so I just go…
And I yelled, "You wanna?"
Jax curtsied.
And then, thank goodness, she said yes.
Phew. So, um… So now that we were engaged, we had to start planning our wedding. And we were engaged for a while, 'cause truth be told, Jax and I are not big planners. And then my mom, Ginger, started offering up her wedding planning services. And I was like, "Oh boy." Because my mom got remarried later on in life, and I was at that wedding, and, um, my mom had a circus theme.
Yeah. She was marrying this old-school Southern guy who sounded like Foghorn Leghorn.
He was not part of the planning. Uh, I don't know if my mom thought she was planning a 12-year-old's birthday party or her wedding, but that's what happened. It was a circus theme. She invited 300 people. That's right, 300 people. To come to the Methodist church for this big party. And she rented a red-and-white striped circus tent and had them put it inside the fellowship hall. Not outside where tents go. Inside.
She rented a cotton candy maker. She said," I'm gonna serve nachos with 'jalapee-nos, '" as she called them. There was a juggler. I guess I was the clown.
She had just 12 gallons of ice cream. The main entrée was a hot dog cart. She just found some guy on the side of the road the week before, and was like, "What are you doing on Saturday?" And this guy got there. I don't think he'd sold more than 20 hot dogs in a day. And now he has 300 starving people wrapped around the church, just desperate for one of his wieners.
He was just like, "Agh!" Panic. In the middle of this party, there were two round, plastic baby pools. I was like, "Are we bobbing for apples now?" No. My mom had put ice in both of these plastic baby pools and then put canned soft drinks in both of these pools and announced to the party that these were our coolers.
I walked in there and I saw two plastic baby pools being used as coolers, and I thought, "Here I am working so hard in Los Angeles, trying to make a name for myself, and we are trash."
"We are trash."
My mom's man friend walked in there in his penny loafers, not knowing what was going on. He about fainted. Like, "I do declare!"
But the best part was the entertainment. They had a woman from the church choir singing, and this was her big solo moment, and she took center stage so confidently, and she started singing.
♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪
♪ Over the hill and everywhere ♪
♪ That Ginger ♪
♪ Got married ♪
Oh, there was more. She started singing…
♪ Oh when the saints go marching in ♪
♪ How I want to be in that number ♪
♪ When the saints go marching ♪
♪ In ♪
[Fortune laughs]
That marriage lasted three months.
That circus tent was up longer than my mom's marriage lasted. So… [laughs] We started planning our wedding and, uh, did not involve my mom. The pandemic hit, and we thought, "Well, I guess we're not gonna be able to get married." Uh, but then the fall came, it was October, and we're like, "Actually, this is the perfect time to get married. We can do it how we want and we don't have to worry about anybody else."
So yeah, it was great.
We planned it in two weeks, rented an Airbnb out by the ocean, had a stranger in a mask be our officiant. We Zoomed our families. I think my mom is still on that Zoom call.
And it's not how either of us ever thought that we would get married, but it ended up being perfect 'cause it was just about us and just about our day, and, uh, we even got baptized that day. Not on purpose.
But… But we were taking these, uh, these photographs, and we saw the sun was setting, and there was these stairs down to the ocean. We were like, "Oh my gosh, we got to get a picture here." So we stand over there, and our amazing photographer got a series of pictures. And in our first picture, we look beautiful. We look like, uh, two lesbians at prom together.
Gorgeous picture. Our second picture, we're kind of doing this 'cause something is looming over us. Like the principal who's angry that two lesbians went to prom together.
Then in the third picture, we're doing this because the ocean is now crashing into our earholes. Fourth picture, we're completely covered by water. Fifth picture, the ocean's been sucked back out to sea, and we're dripping wet like…
"So glad we decided to take this picture in the sunset."
We have all these pictures, and I think it means it's good luck. That's what I've been told. It's good luck. We're gonna go with that. But, uh, a few days after we got married, they announced online that we had gotten married, and we got a lot of love and a lot of support, which I really appreciate.
I try to put out positivity, so when it comes back to me, it means so much. I try not to focus on negative stuff. I try to surround myself, uh, with positive things. I try not to read negative comments, but in a job like mine, you do hear from a lot of people. And I don't see everything, but occasionally a turd will get through.
And I happened to see this message on that day that was sent to me directly. And, uh, I wanted to read that message to you guys, if that's okay.
[woman] Yes!
Yes! All right. It's from a guy named Gary, and, uh, I will preface it with you are not going to like this message, but we are going to unpack it together.
So here's what Gary wrote to me on the day it was announced that I got married. He said, "How long have you and your wife been mentally ill, taco-licking lesbians who should be put in Alcatraz?"
I was like, "Wow, that is very specific."
There was no grammar in that message, by the way. He was like, "Mentally ill taco licking…"
I'm like, "I think he means 'mentally ill, ' comma, 'taco, ' hyphen…" You guys get it. Already I'm doing him favors.
And I guess I was bored on this particular day, because I was like, "I just got to see what this person looks like. Who sends a message like this to a complete stranger?"
So I went on his page, and he did not have a picture of himself. It was a picture of an American flag, and written across of it, it said, "We need God in America again."
That is what Gary leads with on Instagram, and then that was the message that he sent me. I was like, "I don't know that God would be into the phrase 'taco-licking.'"
Call me crazy, which he did…
…but that did not sound very Christ-like to me.
By the way, there is nowhere in the Bible where it says what you can or cannot do with your Mexican food. Just so you know.
That is up to you, my friends. So then Gary said that we should be put in Alcatraz. Now, I don't know if he doesn't have Google…
…but Alcatraz has not been a prison for a while. If that's what he intended, it's not a prison. It's actually a museum, and it's a museum in San Francisco, which is one of the gayest cities in the whole world.
I'm like, "Is Gary telling me I should be in a gay museum?"
"Gary, stop. Am I a trailblazer? Stop, Gary."
At the top of the message, it said that he and I did not follow each other, which was not a surprise. But it did say that we followed one person in common. I'm like, "Who in the world could Gary and I possibly agree on? We seem like very different people." And it said, "You both follow Oprah."
What? I have to say, I did not take Gary as an Oprah kind of guy. But that is how famous Oprah is. She builds bridges.
So I read the message again. "How long have you and your wife been mentally ill, taco-licking lesbians who should be put in Alcatraz?"
And I was like, "Why have I not moved on from this message?"
And I'm looking at it. "What is it?" Then it hit me. I was like, "Oh my God. Gary just recognized my marriage." He said, "Your wife," and that is called progress.
Granted, he spelled "wife" with a Y, but I know what he meant.
And listen, there are a lot of people who fought many, many years for someone like me to be able to say "wife." Gary said it in 2.2 seconds without even thinking. His head would explode if he knew how progressive that message was. So that is, in fact, progress, my friends.
So we got married, we stayed at home for the next year like everybody else. I couldn't go on the road and do my job, which was really weird. And now that I'm back on the road, I do not take it for granted anymore. It is such a beautiful thing to come out and make people laugh, and to add some sort of levity to the world. I love Chicago, I love coming here. It's one of my favorite cities.
There was only one city on this tour I was nervous to go back to, and that was Des Moines.
Last time I was there, it was in the middle of winter, and I forgot that in the Midwest, when it is wintertime, and people are freezing, they get hammered. Hammered. It is too cold to go outside, there is nothing else to do.
So I get to the venue, and girls are coming out of the bathroom like this. There is toilet paper on the bottom of their shoes. It is 7 p.m. That is where we are starting this night. So I get out on stage, and they are just wanting to party. They're sending shot after shot, and I like drinks, but my vice is milkshakes, so I'm good. And they keep wanting me to drink Fireball Whisky. They love Fireball Whisky. I think it tastes like a bottle of gasoline with a stick of Big Red chewing gum plopped in the middle.
[pretends to retch]
I'm like, "I'm good." They're like, "What?"
"She doesn't like Fireball!"
"She doesn't like Fireball. Shit!"
They cannot fathom this information. So now as an audience, they only care about trying to figure out what drink to send me next.
"All right, okay, she doesn't like Fireball."
"All right. Oh, vodka!"
"Yeah, send it, send it!"
All these vodka and cranberries start coming to the stage.
"I'm not really a vodka person."
They're like, "What?!"
"Uh, she doesn't like vodka. Shit, she doesn't like vodka."
"All right. Oh, beer! Yeah, send it."
All these beers start coming to the stage.
I'm like, "I never acquired a taste for it."
They're like, "Well, that's surprising."
I know I look like somebody that would pound a beer, take the can and crush it on my forehead, and still recycle.
I'm now taking these drinks they've passed up. I'm passing it back out to them. I am only making them drunker.
They go, "Please, for the love of God, tell us what you drink. You cannot leave Iowa without having a drink with us."
I'm like, "That's a weird rule, but all right."
I'm trying to think of a drink that's gonna take a while to make 'cause then I can do my job, tell some jokes. I go, "A sangria."
I forgot where I was.
I was like, "All right, an old-fashioned." I assume they got to find a mixologist with a little mustache. He's gotta freeze a large ice cube, bitters, slice an orange… It'll take a while. Two minutes later, these gorgeous old-fashioneds show up.
"All right, fine. Is this gonna make you happy?"
I grab this drink that's meant to be sipped, and I just… Down the gullet. [sighs] They are so pumped. You would think I had just competed in a decathlon.
So they're having a good time. We get back into the show, we're laughing, the show's great. Later, they start getting restless again. I'm like, "What now?" I look back, and there's this older woman trying to make her way through the crowd. She's got short, spiky, gray hair, she's got this worn face like she has seen some shit.
She's got a leather vest on. I assume she's got a dreamcatcher in her car.
She's walking very confidently towards the stage, and she lands right there at the end of the stage, and I look and I see that she is holding a Smirnoff Ice.
[audience member] Oh!
And she looks at me and she goes, "Hey. My name's Linda…"
"…and you are about to get iced."
I grabbed the Smirnoff Ice and I said, "What time capsule did you dig this out of?"
Thinking the whole crowd would agree. They start chanting, "Iced, iced, iced, iced, iced!" They are relentless. I'm like, "What is iced?" I have no idea what they are talking about. This very sweet Midwestern woman stands up. She goes, "Getting iced is when you get down on your knees, you take that bottle of Smirnoff Ice, you drink that whole bottle all in one gulp, and that is getting iced."
I'm not getting on my knees and drinking a Smirnoff Ice. The whole room yells, "Those are the rules!"
I'm like, "I am a grown woman, professional comedian."
Linda yells, "Get on your knees!"
"You are getting iced!"
[laughter continues]
So I got on my knee. This would have come in handy during my proposal.
And I start chugging this God-awful Smirnoff Ice. Like… [groans] This malt liquor bullshit's falling down my face. It's all sticky and gross, it's ruining my perfectly good cardigan. They're just going nuts. The audience is going nuts. I'm like… [groans] I finally finish this drink. Mm. [exhales] And I stand up. And something about that old-fashioned…
…and that Smirnoff Ice… and that low gravity…
…did not mix. I am immediately seeing double. I don't finish my set. I don't say goodnight. I just look at the crowd and I said, "You did this."
And I left.
Passed out backstage. I come to, like, two hours later in the promoter's car. I'm waking up, I'm like, "How did I get here?" She said, "Well, three very large security guards had to carry you outside."
I'm like, "I did not ask that."
"And it could have been done with two."
I said, "No, what happened?"
She said, "Well, you got iced. I don't know if it was that, if it was the mix of the two alcohols."
I said, "Get me out of Des Moines!"
She goes to start the car, and it will not start. I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I am not getting stuck in Des Moines!" It's freezing cold, it's late at night, there's no Ubers, my plane's leaving soon, people are icing me.
I'm just ready to leave, and I hear the doors burst open to the club. I look over. Here comes Linda.
She saddles up to the car. "What's up, ladies?"
I'm like, "Hey, Linda."
I'm trying not to make eye contact with her, 'cause I don't know what kind of powers that dreamcatcher has.
I said, "Hey, Linda, uh, our car won't start, but we're good. We got it. Thank you for coming. Good night."
She took a look at me, she goes… [clicks tongue] Gives me a wink. Walks to the back of the car, opens up that gas tank. [pretends to spit] Spit in the gas tank, and I got the heck out of Des Moines.
Oh, Linda.
[Fortune chuckles]
So I have now been married for two years.
And it's great. I love it. And, uh, we get that next question that you always get when you're newly married. Everybody wants to know if we're having kids. And I'll tell you parents, you are not making it look fun.
You guys all have a glaze in your eyes. So we're dog moms right now. That's what we're doing. And, uh, we'll see what happens. But we have this little Pomeranian named Biggie.
So cute. He's a little guy, eight pounds, and a very happy, healthy guy, but he came down with something called HGE. Now it's this thing that dogs can get where they go from being totally healthy and fine to being super, super sick, and it can be deadly. It comes on fast, like 48 hours, and vets don't know how dogs get this. They say it could be from something they ate, it could be from stress. I was like, "The Humane Society found Biggie eating out of a dumpster, and now he is walking around Beverly Hills in my wife's Gucci purse."
"He ain't got no stress."
His food is more expensive than mine. He ain't got no stress. So we have no idea where this came from or how he got it, but the signs of it start to show up at the beginning of our flight from LA to New York City, five and a half hours, and every hour, he got significantly worse. We couldn't do anything. We landed, it took us an hour to drive into New York City. We went straight to an animal hospital. Jax took him in the examination room, and I was filling out tons of paperwork. It's so different than when I grew up with pets. I mean, back in the day, your dog slept inside, outside, your neighbor's house. It'd roll up after two days, you'd be like, "Sparky, where've you been?"
Your dog ate whatever leftovers your grandma threw over the fence from the Sizzler. And if suddenly your dog required a large medical procedure, your parents were straight up just like, "It's been fun, Sparky."
And that was it. But now I am the adult. I have to be the one that makes these decisions. So I filled out everything, and I hadn't seen Biggie in 45 minutes, so I don't know how he's doing at this point, but I do know this. It is time for me to step it up and be that protector of my family. It is time for me to be butch.
I have my Rocky moment, I'm, like, hitting myself in the face. I would do a push-up, but I can't.
I'm all bowed up, ready to walk in that room, all tough. I walk in that door, and Biggie's laid on the floor. There's blood everywhere, he is way worse, and I lose it. I just start going…
[screams]
And Jax goes, "Get out of here! You're bumming us out."
I got kicked out of the room!
I was forced to stand behind the glass door.
I'm just staring at my family. And I'd finally calmed down 'cause the nurse gave me a lollipop.
And I was so frustrated, I was so disappointed in myself that I couldn't just pull it together for three freaking minutes, but it's not who I am. I'm a Cancer, I'm sensitive, and I cannot change that about myself. So I go wait in the lobby till four in the morning. Jax joins me, they go take Biggie back and hook him up to all these machines. Finally, the vet comes out and he talks to us.
He says, "Listen, it is bad. He is at, like, 5%. And we will do whatever we can to try and save him, but for us to do that, he will have to be here for three to four days, round-the-clock care. He's gonna have to have transfusions, plasma. We can't even guarantee that it will work. But for us to try, it is going to cost a minimum of $10,000. What do you two want to do?"
Jax is like, "$10,000? I'm a teacher. That's like a whole year's salary."
I'm like, "$10,000? He's eight pounds. How much plasma could he possibly need? He can't just share a crate with a squirrel?"
The vet's like, "I need an answer."
I'm like… [groans] Jax isn't saying anything, so it's clear I've got to make this decision. I'm like… [groans] I'm like, "What would my parents do? No, no, don't think that."
Jax is starting to get more upset. I'm like… [groans]
[sighs] So I pulled out my man wallet…
…and I grabbed my credit card and slammed it on the table. I said, "Charge it." And then I looked Jax dead in the eye, and I said, "You think Darlene could have done that?"
"Pam is broke. Sheila has shitty-ass credit."
Who's butch? I'm butch!
And the best part is, you guys, they did, in fact, save Biggie's life.
Who's that?
[loud cheering]
This is Biggie, everybody!
Worth every single penny right here, you guys.
And give it up, everybody, for my wife, Jax!
That's it from me, everybody. Thank you so much.
Aw, thank you, guys. Thank you, Chicago!
Look at that. Goodnight, you guys. Thank you.
[upbeat music continues]
♪ You know we like to keep it lowkey ♪
♪ Windows down, feel the breeze ♪
♪ No cares, no worries ♪
♪ Just you and me ♪
♪ You and I, we don't have to try ♪
♪ We just work, can't deny ♪
♪ I know you'll stay by my side Ride or die ♪
♪ It's feeling good ♪
♪ it's feeling good, good, good ♪
♪ Good, good, good, good ♪
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To emerge victorious against Galbatorix, Eragon and Saphira need to learn their true names in the ancient language, the meaning of which describes their true nature, including both their strengths and their weaknesses. This true name is the password required to enter the Vault of Souls where they find the eldunari or "heart of hearts" of many of the slain dragons. It is the knowledge and the power of these eldunari that provide Eragon with the keys to victory. This quest for self-knowledge is the essential challenge for Eragon in Inheritance and, in learning about himself, he discovers what he needs to defeat Galbatorix.
Catch-22 is a novel that I remember a number of classmates reading, back in high school in the 1970s. I did not read it at the time and did not watch the movie version either. This summer, I saw it in a book store and decided that it was a novel that I should read.
The expression catch-22 entered the English language through this novel. I have always paraphrased the expression as "a situation where one is damned if one acts and damned if one does not", but I was interested to finally discover the origins of the expression.
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Campers who return to Nominingue every year are impressed by the exploits of the counsellors who carry such canoes over long portages. As they become bigger and stronger, campers will often ask to portage a canoe or will test themselves to see if they are able to carry a canoe. Should they be allowed to even try? Is the culture of the camp teaching them to push themselves beyond their limits?
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Don't worry Renée, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never." (p.325) The conclusion of the novel is surprising and bitter-sweet, but in the end appropriate.


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K.T. Oslin, country singer of '80's Ladies,' dies at 78
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FILE – K.T. Oslin appears at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 1989. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit "80′s Ladies" and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit "80′s Ladies" and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78.
Oslin's friend Robert K. Oermann said he learned of her death on Monday morning from her aunt. The cause of death has not been released.
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Oermann said Oslin had been suffering from Parkinson's disease and lived in an assisted-living facility since 2016. She had triple bypass surgery in 1995. He said Oslin tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
Oslin became one of Nashville's most intriguing personalities, launching a country music career in her mid-40s and writing songs from a strong woman's perspective.
Her albums "80′s Ladies" and "This Woman" both sold more than 1 million copies.
"K.T. Oslin had one of the most soulful voices in Country Music and was a strong influence for women with her hit '80's Ladies,'" said Sarah Trahern, CEO of the Country Music Association. "I was fortunate to work with K.T. on a number of television shows in the late 90s. She was always gracious to the crews and up-and-coming talent performing alongside her. She truly had one of the best voices in the history of our format. Our thoughts go out to her loved ones at this difficult time."
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In 1988, Oslin unseated Reba McEntire as the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year. McEntire had won it four straight times.
Her hit singles included "I'll Always Come Back," "Hold Me," "Do Ya," "Two Hearts," "Hey Bobby," "Didn't Expect It to Go Down This Way" and "This Woman." She also wrote many of her songs and played keyboard on several of them.
In her memorable music video for her 1990 No. 1 hit "Come Next Monday," Oslin portrayed the bride of Frankenstein.
Always outspoken, she said in a 1990 Associated Press interview that country music was not necessarily her favorite genre.
"Some of it I like today, some of it I don't," she said. "I don't like the real twangy, hard core, straight ahead old style country music. I like some of it, but on a steady diet, no."
The singer won two Grammy Awards in 1988 for her song "Hold Me." In the previous year, she took home a Grammy for her song "80's Ladies."
Kay Toinette Oslin was born in Crossett, Arkansas, but spent most of her childhood in Mobile, Alabama. As a teenager, she settled in Houston.
Ending up in New York City, she was a chorus girl in theatrical productions and then worked as a studio backup vocalist and ad jingle singer.
Her aunt loaned her $7,000 to finance a Nashville showcase performance, which caught the attention of RCA Records. She signed an RCA recording contract in 1986 at a time when most record companies were looking for singers almost half her age.
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Home \ Courts & Crime \ Court returns lodge to its rightful owners
Court returns lodge to its rightful owners
Roland Routh Courts & Crime Khomas
2018-08-09 10:08:08 11 months ago
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek High Court returned the occupancy rights of the Purros Community Campsite and Bush Lodge to the Purros Conservancy Committee after the latter successfully lodged an urgent application to restore their undisturbed and peaceful possession of the premises situated at Purros village.
Purros village is located in the Kunene Region. The committee lodged the application after the former manager of business, Peter Uaraavi and his sons, Unaro, Kaunda and Katutjiua took possession of the business on June 9, claiming it as his own. The committee asked the High Court to order the Uaraavi clan to restore the undisturbed possession and occupation of the lodge area to the committee and to interdict and restrain them from unlawfully interfere with the committee's possession and occupation of the lodge area. They also asked for a cost order against the Uaraavis.
Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula granted the orders prayed for on July 19 and delivered his reasons late last week.
According to the judge, it is the applicant's (committee) case that it has been in lawful and undisturbed possession of the campsite and lodge since 2003, although they initially only operated a campsite until 2008 when they commenced to operate a lodge business, consisting of seven rooms when the business was renamed the Purros Community Campsite and Bush Lodge.
Peter was employed as manager for the business at a community meeting in August 1994, but was dismissed by the community in 2001 and was evicted through a court order at the end of 2002.
He was however re-employed by the community during 2016, but was again dismissed in February 2018. He suddenly returned on June 19 and unlawfully occupied the lodge together with his sons and ran the business as his business. According to an affidavit lodged by Katondoihe Tjivinda, purported to be the Vice-chairperson of the committee, Peter claimed that the area where the lodge is situated is property and he will continue to occupy the lodge and run it as his private business.
The committee disputed the claim and pointed out that they applied to the Minister of Lands for the grant of a Permission to Occupy right (PTO) covering 12 hectares including the areas where the campsite and lodge is located. Peter was indicated on the certificate as 'manager' when the PTO was granted to the community.
The affidavit by Tjivinda also stated about 30 guests have been booked into the lodge since June 17 and the income generated from these bookings were unlawfully appropriated by Peter which puts the operating assets of the lodge at risk.
"In addition, there was also the risk to the reputation of the business, caused by the unlawful occupation of the lodge by Peter as the guests would be confused about the sudden change in management," the affidavit further stated.
They also stated they were not served with a court order in favour of the Uaraavi's against the community evicting them from the lodge and that the Uaraavi's simply took the law into their own hands and unlawfully despoiled them of their peaceful and lawful possession of the lodge.
The Uaraavis on the other hand denied that the lodge forms part of the conservancy and that the lodge is not in the conservancy area. They further argued the committee was not in factual or legal occupation at the time they took occupation of the lodge.
They said the lodge has been a subject of dispute for many years and that after protracted negotiations over the years, he was invited by the committee to return and manage the lodge after the committee realised the lodge was developed and built by Peter more than two decades ago.
He further stated the campsite and lodge are located on separate pieces of land demarcated by separate PTO's, as well as that he applied for a PTO for the lodge which is pending.
Judge Angula said the only issue to determine in the case is whether the committee was in the lawful possession of the lodge and that the Uaraavi's unlawfully despoiled them of such possession and he found as such.
The Uaraavi's were represented by Sisa Namandje and the committee by Norman Tjombe.
Roland Routh
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