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Pretty. Stupid.
Danny McCarthy
Danny McCarthy is a journalist focused on the intersection of pop culture and politics. His work has appeared in Westchester Magazine, Mediaplanet, The Odyssey Online and The BU Buzz. He is passionate about queer issues, personal essays and Ina Garten. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Journalism from the University of Southern California.
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Love & Romance, Rambles
ROM-COMS HAVE SUNK THEIR GILA MONSTER FANGS INTO MY HEART
April 29, 2016 Danny McCarthygila monster, love, mindy kaling, nora ephron, rom, rom com, romance Leave a comment
(written after eating Panda Express and talking about RuPaul's Drag Race with Thea, a tru g0ddess)
Mindy Kaling once said that she classifies rom-coms in the genre of science fiction, and I agree. The premises are so thin, the coincidences are so transparent, and the characters are…Matthew McConaughey.
But there's something about the rom-com that appeals to me, and since its Gila monster fangs into my heart. Rom-coms shape, for better or for worse, how we interpret romance. We think it should be hard, with twists and turns, and at the end, we believe that everything will work out in the end. And that's not bad, and I don't want to stop believing that. Because the alternative to the rom-com world—likely Nihilism—sucks ass.
Rom-coms allow us to take the shitty and spin them into gold. The boy that didn't call back, who was kind of a douche—instead of taking them as them, you take them as the steady montage of Boys That Weren't, before the Boy That Was. Unconventional romances take the tune of a No Strings Attached.
Side bar: remember when everyone was very into the "friends with benefits" movement? That's very much the grandfather, or slutty uncle, to our "hookup culture."
And the boy that drags our hearts through the mud like a kite—made on last week's episode of The Amazing Race—becomes not just another guy, but the One. We make all these excuses and parse all these moments for hidden meanings; we peel apart words like artichokes, searching layers for the core.
Sometimes things aren't artichokes. Sometimes they are, but sometimes they aren't. and that really sucks. But I don't know if I can shift my frame of mind to believe that. For better or worse, I'm a sucker for a Mindy Kaling, Nora Ephron moment, a swell of non-diegetic music when their name pops up on your screen. There's something painfully beautiful when fantasies crumble, a la Her, but life is hard enough. I have depression and anxiety—I feel like I've filled my cup full of all that kind of hardship. I'll keep believing in rom-coms and even when the poison incapacitates me, I'll welcome that fat, slobby Gila monster into my bed.
Because why not? It's better than nihilism; it's better than cynicism. The world is built for cynics, and who wants to follow that crowd? I might be dumb and hopeful and completely wrong, but all that buildup before the fall is excruciately beautiful and inspirational and worth it. I don't mind falling and breaking and sad. I can deal with that. I've been dealing with that. But to put up with the inevitable fall for the taste of rushing wind and the excitement before the strike of teeth and flash of pain…that seems like a good trade for the flush of excitement when he likes your Instagram, or when she looks your way. In a sickening way, it's all worth it. Even when it's not.
Give me a Troop Beverly Hills over a Ten. Give me Guardians of the Galaxy. Give me improbable love that I can ingest and carry with me even when I'm feeling like smacking books out of people's hands. Give me unlikely, unrealistic, sci-fi-worthy romance that's so saccharine it's painful. I'll deal. I'll take it all. I don't have a sweet tooth, but I can handle it.
Inspirational, Life, Rambles
BAD DIVING BOARD METAPHOR
April 28, 2016 Danny McCarthyadult, college, life after college, postgrad, twenty, twentysomething 2 Comments
(Written in front of Tatte Bakery while shivering violently and pretending that I'm not)
Today in the last British Literature class I'll ever (hopefully) take, my professor asked us if we write in journals. He did, and he said how fun it was to look back on journals from years ago and read what he thought. I had to bite my tongue to avoid plugging my blog (because not even I'm that obnoxious to do a shameless plug in British Literature)—
I should point out, legally, that I have actually put my Twitter/Instagram handle on the blackboard in this class; but that's less of a shameless plug and more of a public service to my classmates. @dnnymccrthy on Instagram and Twitter.
—and thought back on when I had my old, horrific teenage blog—The Amazing Unicorn Files—where literally all I did was talk about boys I had a crush on, Honey Boo Boo (she was big in 2012), and vaguely offensive satiric "articles." I have since shoved a stake into that blog's heart and started this wonderful old broad. And this Elaine Stritch of a blog—shocking, funny, elderly—has morphed to be greater than TAUF. I get to write about politics and pop culture and what's happening in my world.
But when I look back on this blog in a week, or a month, or a decade, I don't think I'll care about Donald Trump—unless he's Il Duce Trump by then—or Lemonade or what queen went home on that week's RuPaul's Drag Race. I'll still care about the Kardashians obviously, but that's because I'll be curious to see how Kris Jenner manages to outlive everyone else in her family.
I'll care about what I felt, and what was happening in my life. What boys I liked, and what friends I had made, and how good I looked that day. I plan on getting extensive plastic surgery when I turn 40, so it'll be nice to be able to look back on that youthful boy that I'm desperately trying to recreate.
So I just finished the last day of classes in my junior year. I still have finals and papers to write and loose ends to tie up, but that's next week and an eternity away. Right now I'm sitting in front of a very chic café, watching cars go alongside my table and shivering from what I'll say is the cold but might just be the coffee that I'm sucking down but don't want to acknowledge because coffee shouldn't make me spasm like a dying fish.
I've just finished my junior year of college and the long slab of summer lies ahead of me, but it's weird, right? It's odd. Suddenly, I'm about to reach this huge milestone—21, senior year of college, the world beyond—and it feels like it's all happening too soon. I'm a kid. I don't know how to get a job. I just figured out how people get cake pops to stick together. I can't provide for myself. I can barely provide a hilarious one-liner response to cute cashiers.
Source: offcolortv.com
I have friends who are graduating in a few days. I have friends who are engaged, or are in relationships that could blossom into long-term situations. I can see people going into jobs that lead to careers that lead to the rest of their lives. I can see it all, and it's making me want to break a table. Because my life is one big sexy, messy black hole.
I feel like I'm always referencing my Brit Lit class, but bear with me. we read Gerard Manly Hopkins this week, and his poetry stuck in my brain like a half-remembered song. He writes like I write, adjectival and messy and complicated and complex. It's a structure compounded words and thoughts, weaving together to create a parts-of-the-whole thing. And that made me flutter. Because here was someone who did what I want to do. Who was a writer and successful (I mean, he died at 45 of typhoid or something, and all of his poems were published posthumously, so I don't want to do exactly what he did, also he was a priest which is so not my MO, but still) and loved what he did.
I can't see my future and I can't see what the next step should be, but I know what I want my narrative to be. I want to be able to get a job where I can be weird and funny and write in my voice. I want a cool life. I want to not find love right away and be able to have one of those twenties where I can have a shit ton of content off being a twentysomething. I want to live somewhere warm. I want to laugh until I cry, and choke on food and cackle-scream. I cackle-scream now, but I want to keep cackle-screaming.
(I had to move inside because I was cold and can't pull off that "artist suffering for their work" mentality.)
I want all of these things and it's weird that they're beginning to be possible. That in a year, maybe less, I'll have to start making big-boy-out-of-Pampers decisions. What a horrific image. Maybe I can pull a Lisa Rinna and make my money off adult diapers. That must be my rock bottom, but no one says you can't make bank on the bottom (insert filthy joke here).
Source: riffsy.com
I don't want this to turn into one of those fucking annoying feel-good posts, or one of those "Don't make me adult" travesties. I want to adult. But it feels a little like being a kid at my grandma's pool club. There was this huge dive—literally massive when you're six—and one day, I decided to conquer it. Obviously this is a metaphor—pay attention.
I was—am—a total chickenshit, so I don't know what made me think I could confidently pull this off, but maybe even then, I was trying to self-destruct. I climb up, and I'm eager. I want to be at the top; I want to make the jump. And suddenly, I'm at the top, and the breeze is stronger up here than it was on the ground, and everyone looks tiny, and that water looks like it's going to hurt an awful lot from this high up. And so I'm torn, because I want to jump, but suddenly I'm thinking about the very concrete logistics. What will I look like as I fall? Should I tuck my arms in? Fling them out? How deep into the water will I go? Should I scream?
Then the lifeguard and my sister hovering on the top of the ladder are letting me know that I'm holding up everyone and I have to jump. I have to disregard all the questions and queries and potential situations. And so I curl my toes over the edge as the diving board wobbles underneath my weight. And almost before my brain can become okay with it, my feet make my decision for me and step off the edge.
The way down is as ungraceful as I feared, and the primitive instinct within me is making me flap my wings but if I'm a bird, I'm Big Bird, and I'm plummeting to the earth with the help of vengeful gravity. And I hit the water like a cannon, and shoot deep into the depths. My palms sear from the impact, but I float upwards without thinking and start swimming.
I'm hoping that life after college will start like that. That my body will move ahead of my over-agonizing mind and my palms will sear from the pain but that I can rely on muscle memory and start swimming towards something, anything.
I just had a really good conversation with a friend—let's call her Libby—and she basically said that after college you just look at what the next best decision is, and you take it like that. Step. Step. Step. Evaluate. Step. Step. And if that's not exactly what you meant, Libby, frankly take that up with my lawyers. Creative license. I'll have my day in court.
I'm on that diving board and the wind is picking up. It's fucking terrifying, but I've seen all my friends jump, so I have to assume that there's something spectacular in the deep end. At the very least, there's got to be something spectacular in the fall. And maybe that's all that we can be promised at this point as soon-to-be functioning people. The fall is fun and shit-scary and your palms with sear with the impact but you'll start swimming.
That seems like enough metaphors for today. This was fun. This was right.
pop culture, Rambles, Things I Like
APPARENTLY I'M A HUGE BEYONCÉ FAN, AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
April 27, 2016 Danny McCarthyBey, Bey Hive, Beyonce, Lemonade, music, pop culture, Queen Bey, Tidal Leave a comment
(Written in a campus Starbucks because my lifeline has been voodoo-linked to my Gold Card status)
I've been starting every conversation I've had this week with, "Have you listened to Lemonade?" It's a good ice-breaker, and allows me to know who I should shun and who I shouldn't (shundn't?). I'm a pop culture whore/anthropologist, so it's important to me thtat I surround myself with like-minded people. Or rich people. Or people who can explain how planes get off the ground. I get the whole "in flight" thing, but how do they get there?
Anyway, anyway. When a major cultural moment occurs—Adele's 25, Britney shaving her head, Justin Bieber's nudism—we as a people need to acknowledge it. I was simply doing my part. I found out about the album dropping almost accidentally on Sunday night (pure luck) and have been listening to it pretty much this entire week (I mean, it's Wednesday, but nothing sells a story like hyperbole).
My favorites are "Pray You Catch Me," "Hold Up," "Daddy Lessons," "Freedom," and "Don't Hurt Yourself." I'm not mentioning "Formation" because that's obvious. Anyway. I've been thinking about it, and I have poor impulse control, so since I've been thinking it, I've been bringing it up in conversation. Sue me.
Side bar: I'm pretty sure Beyoncé was wearing Yeezy Season Threezy in her visual album. I think the song was "Don't Hurt Yourself." It was definitely when she was screaming that she would "bounce to the next dick."
I have an in-depth discussion of the visual album with my coworkers. I insist that my classmate finds some way to access Tidal purely so she can listen to the album and we can talk about it. Normal, sane things.
I'm at a meeting for the magazine I work for—City Editor—and I was casually bringing up Lemonade because, remember, culture. Then someone at the table remarked, "Wow, you really like Beyoncé."
"No I don't!" I objected. Which is technically true. I like Beyoncé, but do I love Beyoncé? Well…yes. But am I obsessed with her? Am I a diehard fan? Of course not. I appreciate her as a vehicle for discussion, and for what she represents. And also for how sick her vocals are and how bomb her nails are. Seriously, did you see how good her nails were when she was in that bathtub singing…"Pray You Catch Me(?)"?
And then someone pointed out that my sweatshirt, which has a picture of the painting Madame X (one of my all-time favorites), had Beyoncé lyrics over it: "I walk like this cause I can back it up," from "Ego." And that my phone's background was just an endless repetition of the lemon and bee emojis. And that I had brought up Lemonade at least sixteen times within a half hour meeting. And suddenly…my world spun.
Source: Danny McCarthy via his phone "Voldemort"
Was I a huge Beyoncé fan? How could I have missed it?
My whole image of myself shattered. I had always thought that I never stanned for anybody, that as a journalist I kept a healthy distance from my pop queens. Sure, I track RuPaul's Drag Race tags on Tumblr, and my phone backgrounds include a regular rotation of gag-worthy pop culture icons.
But apparently, this entire time, I was harboring a secret love for Beyoncé. My journalistic ethics have been biased this entire time (beyased—omg, I can't be stopped. I'm addicted). Since I'm now a huge fan, I need to change a few things in my life. Firstly, I'll get a social media face-lift: everything that can be Beyoncé will be Beyoncé. No more funny Real Housewives testimonials. No more picture of drag queens caught at unflattering angles. No. I will be committed, and I will not waver.
One thing I'm still wondering—am I still allowed to make fun of Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams? I feel like that's a definite gray area for us Beyoncé fans.
In other news, I started the week by dry-heaving halfway through my workout. I had just finished doing squats and lunges, and had stopped to talk to my friend Thea. We're having a conversation about a class that I'm in now that she took last semester. In the middle of discussing the video project, I stop talking and inform that I need to excuse myself because I'm pretty sure "I'm going to vomit."
I did that fast diarrhea walk to the bathroom—you guys know the one—and promptly started gagging as soon as I was in the bathroom. I didn't end up throwing up—frankly, a letdown—but after I was sure that my bile would not make an appearance, I shakily rose from my Hidden Tiger Crouching Dragon position, washed my hands, and walked back over to Thea to finish our conversation. I'm nothing if not a professional. I decided to cut that workout short and go home.
That's been my week so far—Beyoncé and dry-heaving. Not that different from my usual. Except maybe a little more Beyoncé. I feel like I've fulfilled my dry-heaving quota for the month. That feels good to get that off my chest. I almost named this post: "DRY-HEAVING TO BEYONCÉ," but that's a little niched. Trying to broaden my audience.
Also I realize in my fervent attempt to convince everyone that I'm not a Beyoncé fan, I've written a 1000-word article entirely about Beyoncé. The irony is not lost on me. But I am lost. Can I borrow your cell phone to call my mom?
Review, television
REVIEW—RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE: DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVERGIRL
April 26, 2016 Danny McCarthyBob the Drag Queen, Chi Chi DeVayne, Derrick Barry, drag, drag queen, drag race, gay, Kim Chi, Logo, Naomi Smalls, rpdr8, RuPaul, Rupaul's Drag Race, television Leave a comment
(recapped while listening to Beyoncé's Lemonade)
This has been, hands-down, my favorite episode so far of this season. The drama was high, the outfits were incredible, and the emotion was intoxicating.
The episode starts with the final five walking in after the elimination of Thorgy Thor. I'll admit, I was upset that Thorgy was eliminated. I felt that she was never given a fair shot, at least against Bob, but after watching her get a little salty, I was kind of…not glad, but not as sad, I suppose. So we have the final five: Naomi Shambles, Big Ole Bottom, Cheech N. Chong, Devil Barry, and Kimmy Chi.
The main challenge this week is the annual ball, giving us Literary Couture in the form of Baby Drag, That's My Mama, and Autobiographical Eleganza Extravaganza. But first, the queens read each other 2 filth with puppets. I'll be honest, I was a little surprised that they did so well. Last week's smear campaign left a lot to be desired, but the queens really dug into each other.
Source: LogoTV
Bob had Kim, Kim had Chi Chi, Chi Chi had Bob, and Naomi and Derrick had each other. Naomi and Derrick really ripped into each other, and it was less of a read and more of a long overdue kill session. Chi Chi was the winner, and she honestly deserved it. After the puppet session, tacking on two months to my therapy, I realized what's struck me about this season. The queens feel a lot closer than previous seasons, where there were some serious divides (Bitter Ole Lady Brigade vs. Beauty Kweens; or Jinkx Monsoon vs. Roxxy, Alaska and Detox). But that made the reading feel a lot more intimate and personal, like sisters fighting.
After the puppets, Naomi and Derrick tear into each other some more, without the comforting—albeit frail—barrier of a cardboard puppet theater between them. Naomi is frustrated because Derrick literally can't understand what the judges are saying to her in critiques. Naomi is saying, "Dude it's very simple—do drag."
What struck me like a fat lightning bolt during this tiff was that Derrick doesn't actually do drag. She's a female impersonator, which is a subtle—but important—distinction. Derrick has never learned to carve her face, or be anyone except Britney. In a lot of important ways, she has never undergone the strenuous task of doing drag. And that's what's been missing for her—and what clicked for me. The reason she's struggling in a drag competition is because she's not a drag queen.
RuPaul slinks around the WERK room while the queens are working, trying to get everyone to join in on some sort of mass sadness circle jerk. "What are your problems with your mother?" she asks each queen, salivating when the queens drop their sob stories. Talking to any queer person about their mother is a great way to juice up television, so I can only imagine that RuPaul was so excited for today's filming that she didn't sleep a wink the night before.
Side bar: I imagine that RuPaul sleeps in one of those elevated hospital beds, in full drag.
Just as she's leaving, RuPaul informs the queens that in addition to their three looks, they're going to do a Jerri Blank-inspired dance from Strangers with Candy, as Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris are the judges.
The queens literally drop dead from exhaustion, and the rest of the hour-and-a-half long episode is just black screen.
Just kidding! Chi Chi leads the choreography, but tbh I'm gonna skip this part because it's boring and all you really need to know is that they wore essentially Party City mouthpieces for teeth and Derrick made me very uncomfortable. Also does Chi Chi look like a Muppet? Lmk.
Runway Lewks:
Kim Chi: Kim won the challenge with her continuous "blossoming plant" storyline, incorporating a truly beautiful, no other words, Mama Drag look, inspired by her mother. Her emotion entranced David Sedaris and won her a rightful victory. Kim Chi excels at design challenges, and her Autobiographical Eleganza look was floaty and springy and haute couture, and made entirely out of paper. Kim was the only queen to entirely incorporate a cohesive storyline into her outfits, much like Roxxy Andrews and her Sugar Ball outfits.
Naomi Smalls: I think what I like most about Naomi is that she incorporates her drag persona into every outfit she does. You can always tell it's her. Her baby drag look was a little disappointing—haute couture diaper, making Lisa Rinna and her Depends adult diaper fortune ejaculate into flames—and a little derivative, her Mama look was entrancing and very Little Hunty on the Prairie. And finally her Eleganza was sickening, a ballerina-meets-Inkheart fantasy. I figured she would do more of a traditional tutu—to show off her legs—but her carefully constructed black-and-white dress, complete with platinum hair, excellent eyes and a bold red lip were better than I could've imagined. Love her.
Bob the Drag Queen: I was honestly disappointed with Bob tonight. Thank god, because her winning was getting exhausting. Her baby drag was very Flintstones meets Real Housewives of New Jersey. Her mama look was sweet, and cemented that she is the drag Viola Davis, if she ever wants to join Derrick in the ranks of female impersonation. Her eleganza was a flop, as she completely didn't even include paper and stuck with cardboard.
Derrick Barry: I'm gonna start with the positive; I'm glad that Derrick tries hard, and that she's willing to try new things. That being said, her looks sucked. Her baby drag was Ariel from The Little Mermaid, her mama look made me have to think about her parents having sex, and her ELEGANZA WAS A FUCKING CORSET LIKE ALWAYS. But yes, Derrick, congratulations on blocking out your eyebrows and painting on two caterpillar dicks.
Chi Chi DeVayne: Tbh, Chi Chi was a little bit cheated out of a win this week. Her looks were fully realized and absolutely beautiful. She's absolutely the best dark horse in the race, and I'm not even mad. I used to hate her, but over the last few episodes, I've warmed to her. Even though she sent home Thorgy, her emotive and evocative lip sync last week cemented her place in the top four. Her mama drag was beautiful and she actually looks just like her mom. And her eleganza was a frosty, Swan Princess confection of paper. She also had the best accessories hands down. Loved it, Cheech.
Bob and Derrick are in the bottom two, and Bob—obviously—wins. But for a minute, I was afraid—RuPaul has so blatantly kept Derrick in the competition for no reason that I worried that maybe she would keep it going. But Derrick leaves, and dammit, the emotion he showed in this episode made me not hate him.
Overall, this episode was sick. The storylines made a nice circle, and the girls all like each other, and almost—ahem, Derrick—everyone's outfits were some of the best Drag Race has ever seen. We need more unconventional material challenges. They made the best runways. Also I'm in love with our final four!
Stray Observations:
KIM CHI IS A G0DDESS.
I think Naomi Smalls in drag is turning me straight. I'm in love with her.
Seriously, does Chi Chi look like a Muppet?
Bai Derrick!!
Life, Rambles
MEMORY CANNIBAL, also known as THE TONYA HARDING STORY
April 19, 2016 Danny McCarthyblog, blogger, cannibal, comedy, Ina Garten, memory, tonya harding, writer, writing Leave a comment
As a writer, you're constantly handling the balance of how much of your personal life to divulge to your audience. As a comedy person, you're constantly balancing how much of the painful details to twist into a funny anecdote. So when you're a comedy writer, you're basically playing the game of "Which horrific moment of my life can be a funny essay without me completely selling my soul to the Devil, Faustus-style?"
Source: thatslutinthearmchair.tumblr.com via Giphy. Caveat: I've been watching a lot of Happy Endings recently and all of the gifs will come from there. You're welcome.
I'm not a comedy writer, or a comedy person, or a writer. I'm not even legally a human. But as a professional Ina Garten drag impersonator and someone who operates a blog, I find that more and more, I'm running into that issue. When nothing was happening in my personal life, it was easy to write about it. But as I grow and evolve, and the issues in my life grow and evolve, I am beginning to notice a line in the sand that is harder and harder to cross.
And it's only until things actually started happening in my life that I realized that the "life" that I was writing about was literally nothing. But now my life is actually starting to roll, and not just in the same sense as the Gloucester Cheese Roll Competition. Because that's funny.
Source: hellyeahhappyendings.tumblr.com via BuzzFeed
There is an intense impulse to publish for writers. My journalism professor talks about that impulse all the time, or at least I'm assuming he does, because I spend most of my time in that class reading RuPaul's Drag Race recaps. But when something happens to me, like that time I fell down the stairs or the time I sat on a plate of quesadillas or any time I make a fool of myself in front of a boy, my first instinct is to share it, Tweet it, or blog it. And that instinct is more than just the desire to share something that happens. It's the desire to take back control of the situation.
Blogging incapsulates your life, packaging it into palatable, hilarious little morsels. The tale of me getting hurt by the first boy I cared about becomes a funny essay. A bad date becomes fodder for griping. The various aches and pains of existing as a real-life scarecrow—my brand—translates into rubbery antics. Writing takes the sting out of embarrassment and hurt and pain, and turns it into comedy. And on one hand, it's extremely cathartic. It provides me the distance to process and dissect something, to take myself out of the equation.
Source: jparx.tumblr.com via Giphy
Recently things have been happening to me. Some are amazing. Some are terrible. And my first instinct has always been to blog about them. But for the wrong reasons. I want to take myself out of these moments, but I'm also afraid to. I'm afraid to talk about the crazy, shitty things that are monumental in my life because then I relinquish control of them. They cease being intimate to me. They become content, public domain. They are no longer mine. And that's been hard to come to terms with. That some things could easily be sting-less and funny and palatable, but that would mean losing my place in them. It would be accepting them as past and renaming them as something meant to be consumed.
My wanting to blog them is my wanting to stop them from hurting. Things have been rough lately, and that kneejerk reaction to make the bad thing stop is very much in play. But sometimes things have to hurt. I can't—I shouldn't—blog my way out of this. I'm trying not to make it into a joke or a punchline or a laugh. I'm trying to give it gravity. It's really fucking hard, and lousy and frustrating. Because my instinct, as a writer and a former dork and a wannabe cool kid, is to cannibalize, produce and de-sting all the awkard's and ew's and damn's of my life.
Source: Tumblr via BuzzFeed
I'm a memory cannibal, and that's not always a bad thing. A lot of amazing things come out of shitty situations, but I'm in this weird position of realizing that if I mean to take this writing thing seriously, there are lines in the sand that I have to respect. One of my favorite writers, Ryan O'Connell, wrote about the same kind of experience. And as he got older, he realized that he couldn't just write about every drug trip, bad sexual experience, and "Ouch-funny" moment that happened. That knowing the difference is the divide between "writing" and "being a writer."
So in true self-absorbed writer fashion, I'm writing about writing about something. Maybe one day in the future, when I have enough money to hire a defense lawyer, I'll tell some of the stories that I'm keeping in the vault. They'll be good then, and I'll have distance. And in my tell-all book, Telling It All—The Tonya Harding Story (Just Kidding, It's Me, Danny), I'll reference this blog post, and people will go to their antique Macs and pull up the article while sitting in their hover-houses with their pleasure-robots (I hope).
Source: weheartit.com
Humor, Life, Rambles
I'M CHRYSALIS-ING
April 17, 2016 Danny McCarthya bug's life, acne, beauty, before and after, butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis, makeover, me, razor burn, shaving, the princess diaries, titus andromedon Leave a comment
Do you ever do that thing where you let yourself get as unkempt and scraggly as possible, and then when you finally take care of yourself, you get to treat yourself to a The Princess Diaries movie montage makeup transformation? That's what I'm doing now.
Source: hercampus.com. A) How weird is this gif? B) I am more befores and none of the after.
I haven't shaved since last Wednesday (it's Sunday). Normally I shave every other day, but I've been putting it off because I want to Princess Diaries myself. Also, apparently, despite shaving for five (nearly six) years, I still have no f*cking clue what I'm doing because I'm constantly dealing with razor burn. And lately it's been particularly bad, so maybe I'm shaving even more wrong?
In addition, I've been having a Prison Break-out of acne and I have not been feeling cute.
Side bar: I just Googled Prison Break and saw that Wentworth Miller was in it, and I always, for some reason, thought that he was in that other prison show, Oz, which I always thought was ironic because he's gay. And Oz…Never mind, I might've just hate-crimed myself.
Side bar side bar: Once my mom and I were talking about Wentworth Miller—I'm not sure why/how—and she was all like, "Oh he's so handsome," and I told her he was gay, and she just sighed, like she hadn't been married to my dad for almost thirty years. Also, it was one of the first moments where we actually talked about the gay thing, without skirting around it.
Side bar side bar side bar: Now my parents are convinced I have gaydar. They think that David Muir from ABC is gay and that he's dating Gio Benitez because someone told my dad and my dad told my mom and then my mom asked me for confirmation. Apparently Gio Benitez just got married to his boyfriend, so I texted my mother to let her know and all she responded with was, "I think he was too young for David Muir," as if we know anything.
Source: Danny McCarthy
Side bar side bar side bar fun fact: Gio Benitez and his boyfriend (husband, whatever) met via Instagram, which is the gayest/most millennial thing ever, and this was reported in The New York Times.
Side bar conclusion: I think David Muir is hot.
However, I recently got in a fresh batch of acne medication—you know, sometimes I think my life is boring, and then I write blog posts where I say things like "my mom asked me if David Muir is gay" and "fresh batch of medication" and I know that actually my life is the most interesting ever—and I've been giving my skin a break from constant chafing…from shaving, not something weird.
In nature (I almost put that in quotes, like it was contested), the caterpillar goes through the strenuous process of becoming a butterfly by wrapping itself in a cocoon of silk. That cocoon is called the chrysalis, and that's what I feel like. I feel like I've wrapped myself in a cocoon of reddish stubble and acne cream, and I'm patiently baking—I'm mixing metaphors, but who cares—and soon—probably tomorrow—I'll shave and slap on a fresh coat of aftershave and I'll emerge from my chrysalis as a sexy, sexy butterfly.
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Or I'll turn out like Heimlich the butterfly from A Bug's Life and emerge from my chrysalis just as fat and busted as before, but with a pair of ineffectual wings.
Side bar: I chose to call it "chrysalis-ing" as opposed to "caterpillar-ing" or "cocoon-ing" because "chrysalis" is a prettier word.
I was so worried this would be a sparse blog—the subject matter can only go so far—but I should've known that my rampant tangents would fill space. My inability to really focus on anything truly serves me well when I'm writing a blog, but shoots me in the kneecaps when I'm trying to write a paper. Technically, you could consider this entire blog post a rampant tangent from the paper that I should be writing. But where is the fun is writing without an impending deadline and a cartload of stress?
Side bar: Do you think anyone in this library suspects that I've written an entire blog post about chrysalis-ing, or that I've made two Twitter polls in the last two minutes?
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REVIEW—RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE: WIZARD of YES GAWD
April 12, 2016 Danny McCarthyBob the Drag Queen, Chi Chi DeVayne, Derrick Barry, drag queen, gay, Kim Chi, Little Women of Los Angeles, Naomi Smalls, pop culture, Robbie Turner, rpdr8, Rupaul's Drag Race, Thorgy Thor, Wizard of Oz Leave a comment
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There are certain moments in television history that completely alter the axis of the narrative. At the end of season one of Game of Thrones, Ned Stark—the main character, the moral compass of the show—was beheaded, leaving everyone, both in the audience and on the screen, to rape, pillage, and burn across Westeros and Essos for five seasons. A third of the way through Psycho, the main character Marion Crane was stabbed fatally in the shower by "Mrs. Bates," leaving in the swirling of her pupil two more hours of me wondering that if me thinking serial killer Norman Bates is hot is weird.
And last night on RuPaul's Drag Race, we received a similarly jolting shift in both the narrative and the proverbial fabric of the universe.
My queen, my g0ddess, the light and sharp wit of Season 8 was abruptly and rudely eliminated from the competition that was hers to…well, not win but maybe do a respectable fifth place, a la Katya. Robbie Turner, the ripest peach in Seattle, has been eliminated. RIP.
After Acid Betty's elimination, which was the equivalent to a shoulder shrug and a faint "Thin the herd" mentality, the queens discussed themselves. Naomi thinks she should wear a turtleneck—I agree. Robbie's voice has miraculously returned. Thorgy's "Madonna" reminds me of someone but I can't think of who. Also Thorgy's eye-roll to Bob winning the challenge is the single most "Woody Allen Jewish New Yorker" response ever and I live.
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Bob is literally screaming about how she's won two challenges. "Has anyone ever won three, before??" she SCREAMS. Yes, Bobby. Violet Chacki and Ginger Minj from the season right before yours. But I can't stay mad at Bob because it's like being mad at an adorable, fat child genius. They're smarter than you'll ever be, but they can't pronounce their "s's". Robbie makes a vague threat comparing Bob to Jenga—ready to topple—which only proves that the queen that makes a prophetic comment is destined to be the one to go home.
Side note: You could build a HOUSE in the space between Robbie's shady reads.
The mini-challenge is READING, with special guest RPDR EW Recapper Marc Snetiker—who can get it. The queens are…funny…but other than Bob—whose "Flipper" read has me giggling—I wasn't particularly blown away. I actually liked Season 7's a little more, because you could feel the venom because some of those bitches hated each other. Everyone's too nice on this season. Bob wins the mini-challenge. Big surprise.
The Maxi Challenge is to create haute couture outfits inspired by characters from The Wizard of Oz for them and their Little Women of Los Angeles partners. When you type it out, it sounds like a fever-dream.
The little women pick their drag queen partners. Some of the women seem like they know who their queen is, others—Tonya—have that "Middle Schooler Trying To Remember The State Capitals When Put On The Spot" moment.
WERK ROOM OBSERVATIONS:
Naomi and Jasmine are both hair stylists—and they're both flawless as hell.
Naomi is a bargain bitch: "I could look at fashion magazines from the time Barnes & Noble opens to the time Barnes & Noble closes."
It's interesting to see people who are also accustomed to reality television on RPDR. Aka the drAMA between Terra and Elena.
Bob is wearing leather overalls and I can't even wear regular overalls without looking like a sausage in a denim condom.
"They always give you mustard and honey," Elena on MasterChef, but I think it can apply to my general life.
I like Tonya.
Is Ru done with those Pharrell hats? Can I uncross my fingers?
I'm interested to see how the queens make over women. Have they done women before? That's what she said. But no, seriously.
It's smart that Derrick Barry (a professional Britney Spears impersonator) is paired with Terra (a mini-Britney Spears impersonator) because it's not like the judges have been asking for versatility. He's getting really good at singing that one-note.
KIM CHI TALKING ABOUT INTERPRETATIVE DANCE IS ME WHENEVER I HAVE TO TALK IN CLASS ON MATERIAL I'VE NEVER READ.
Somehow Bob was so focused on remaking his outfit and making his partner over that he DOESN'T START ON HIS MAKEUP UNTIL 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE RUNWAY.
Finally it's time for the runway. Firstly Marc Jacobs is very hot in a "Ken doll in the microwave" kind of way, and I don't even mean that as a read. Todrick Hall is possibly the only person who can wear a "Transformers Robots In Diguise" meets "St. Patrick's Day" outfit and have it come off as Wizard of Oz realness.
Do you think Derrick realizes that she can't come for Bob when she looks like "Young Judi Dench in a Swimsuit"??
Chi Chi and Ti Ti DeVayne as Dorothy—It's not bad but it's not great.
Bob the Drag Queen and Rob the Faux Queen as Glinda the Good Witch—10 points for the name, but -12 points for the fact that your partner looks great and you just have gray SPF on your cheeks and one of Robbie's thirsty wigs.
Naomi Smalls and Jazzy Jems as the Scarecrow—THIS IS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. Haute couture, whimsy, fashion, amazing.
Derrick Barry and Terra Barry the Tin Man—NOT EVEN THE '80s HAD SUCH BAD SHOULDER PADS.
Robbie Turner and Hedda Turner as the Cowardly Lion—Ouch. That's less "purr"-fect and more "purr"m gone wrong.
Thorgy Thor and Thorgeous as the Citizen of Oz—psychedelic, green, glitter. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Kim Chi and Miso Chi as the Wicked Witch—"Isabella Blow going to a funeral realness" is so indicative of Kim Chi's actual, real fashion knowledge, and I loved it.
Interpretive dances were weird. Let's not.
Michelle to Chi Chi: "Do you not contour breasts?"
Me as RuPaul: "You were not breast in show."
Critique of Derrick—the first time when an accidental Britney reference was good.
Critique of Robbie—tru about the hairline.
Naomi wins because—obviously. She really took last week's critique well, and that's the mark of someone who has the potential to win the entire competition.
Derrick and Robbie are in the bottom two. Robbie took off her wig because WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT. WHEN HAS A QUEEN EVER TAKEN OFF HER WIG IN A LIP-SYNC AND RUPAUL BE LIKE "Lovely buzzcut. Shantay you stay." Derrick did well in the lip sync, but I think even the producers are like, "Should we get her off the premises?" and RuPaul's like "Eh, it's not worth it. She'll get it eventually."
We love you, Robbie. You were Robbed(ie).
Ru interrupting Michelle is the gif that I need always.
NEVER COMPARE CHI CHI TO BENDELADREME. One is hot glued and one is hot DAMN QUEEN.
Someone on Tumblr said that this season is 75 percent personality and 25 percent fashion, as compared to the reverse in Season 7. And it's true. Give me more glamour. I should be gagging at the runway.
We see that "Nebraska" promo moment, Derrick, and we're purposefully ignoring it.
Robbie seems like one of the only queens that Ru was genuinely upset to eliminate. I love it.
I LOVE YOU ROBBIE.


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How Each Zodiac Sign Shows Love and Affection To Their Partner
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Zodiac Signs N Secrets
How each zodiac sign shows love and affection to their partner can vary, especially when they are in a meaningful relationship. When the zodiac signs are in a meaningful relationship, the world around them changes. They will behave differently with the love of their life than they have ever behaved before with anyone; it's like the whole dynamic changes.
Once they give you their heart and open themselves up to you, they will do everything in their power to make you the happiest person on the face of this earth. Even though every zodiac sign has its own unique way to show love, they never fail to make their partners feel extremely special.
How Each Zodiac Sign Shows Love & Affection
1. Aries (March 21 – April 19)
How zodiac signs show love
Aries is usually the first one to take the initiative to approach someone they think they like. Aries are some of the best romancers but they have to be interested in you first to have any kind of desire to impress you.
Aries are also extremely adventurous since their passion is to travel all over the place. If you have the same yearning to see new places and meet new people, then you will know when an Aries has become completely enamored with you.
Once you're together officially, expect them to always be surprising you with new activities or places for the both of you to go experience.
Related: Aries Personality: 15 Things You Need To Know About The Ram Sign
2. Taurus (April 20 – May 21)
How do zodiac signs show love
Being in a meaningful relationship with the Taurus zodiac is like having a personal emotional as well as a physical bodyguard. They will do everything in their power to make sure that you have everything that you need to be happy.
However, a Taurus can prove to be very stubborn or difficult at times, so it is important that you are able to have a lot of patience with them when trying to confront them on things that made you upset or disappointed.
They are easily wounded by the criticism of their loved ones, so be strong with your communication early on in the relationship as to avoid making them feel like they are doing everything wrong.
Related: 10 Secrets About Taurus You Probably Know Nothing About
3. Gemini (May 22 – June 21)
Zodiac signs show love
Gemini does not settle down with just anybody, if they chose you then there is a very good reason as to why they chose you over everyone else. They are extremely witty and will keep you laughing with satisfaction for the majority of your relationship with them.
In order to keep your relationship with them alive, it's best to try to think of things that would give the Gemini stimulation or excitement. A Gemini's mind doesn't change but too much of it can make them feel overwhelmed.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of The Misunderstood Gemini
4. Cancer (June 22 – July 22)
How zodiac signs show affection
Cancers are usually pretty easy to please overall since they are very sensitive toward the things you say and do for them.
If you find yourself in a relationship with a Cancer, then you probably already know how much love they have to give just within the first couple of weeks of being with them.
However, it is important that you do not take advantage of them for their overkill with love because they will leave you in a heartbeat the minute they realize that you are only with them for something other than themselves. Expect a very emotional relationship with Cancer because they are more than ready to devote themselves to you and their relationship together.
Related: 12 Personality Traits Of Cancer, The Cardinal Water Sign
5. Leo (July 23 – Aug 22)
Zodiac signs showing love
Leo's are usually the dominant force in a relationship, they really do not like to be with other alpha-like personalities simply because they need to be king of the jungle.
However, if you ever find yourself romantically involved with a Leo, you'd see that their fiery, adventurous, and bold personality taking you places that you thought you'd never see before.
They are also extremely generous towards their loved ones, showering them with all of their love and joy.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Leo, The Untamed Fire Sign
6. Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22)
Zodiac signs show attraction
Virgo's have to feel like they are needed in a relationship in order for them to feel happy in a relationship. If they feel as if you have no use for them or that they are just there to look pretty and smile, it can make a Virgo go insane almost instantly.
This is why they like to take their time getting to know someone they might be interested in. Virgo has to be absolutely sure about themselves before entering into any kind of relationship with a person.
Once they do, they will go to great lengths to problem-solve any kind of issue that happens along the way, they will never give up when it comes to the person they love.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Virgo, The Mercurial Earth Sign
7. Libra (Sep 23 – Oct 22)
How zodiac signs love
Libra's are always in a constant search for the perfect person. Libra's are known for their long periods of time where they do not rely on anyone else but themselves in order for them to feel happy.
So once you are able to finally get a Libra to commit to one person, they make sure that both of you are in complete sync with one another.
The zodiac sign of Libra when in a meaningful relationship, will also go to great lengths to satisfy their partner to make sure that their relationship is still very much alive as well as never being too boring for either of you. You'll be dazzled by how amazing dating a Libra actually can be.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Libra, The Idealistic Air Sign
8. Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 22)
How each zodiac sign shows love
Scorpios are known for their undying passion for the person they love most. Their fire is contagious and spreads to their partner almost instantaneously.
You probably won't find anyone else who is as intimate as a Scorpio is, however, it depends on the right person for them to feel that way in the first place. They don't just settle for any kind of easy lay, they absolutely mean it when they find someone who is capable of handling them in more than just one way.
However, take your time when falling in love with a Scorpio because they will stick with you even if there isn't any more fire between you.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Scorpio, The Ambitious Water Sign
9. Sagittarius (Nov 23 – Dec 21)
When being romantically involved with a Sagittarius, you best expect to not stay in the same spots for too long, because they like to go all over the place.
They are one of the most open-minded individuals that you could ever meet especially when it comes to relationships. You should never really expect them to settle for just one thing because they are constantly in need of changes.
Which, more often than not, means that you might find yourself in an open relationship with them simply because they hate the feeling of being tied down. Their spirit must be free just as their love is.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Sagittarius, The Fiery Archer Sign
10. Capricorn (Dec 22 – Jan 20)
When it comes to being in love with a Capricorn, you best expect them to take things very slowly. They will not rush for anyone or anything when it comes to the way they feel about someone specific.
Capricorns are also people who prefer to show you how they feel through actions. So, if you're wondering why they hardly have anything to say, it's because they would rather show you than tell you. It means something more to a Capricorn when you are able to show the person you love what you're made of and what they do to you because of how amazing you are.
The times that you do actually get them to speak, it's best to consider what they say to be very meaningful.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Capricorn, The Disciplined Soul
11. Aquarius (Jan 21 – Feb 18)
Aquarius are people of depth, sustenance, and anything that revolves around high intelligence. They really hate small talk because there really isn't anything that has meaning behind it or it doesn't interest them in the slightest.
Most of all, they want someone who makes them want to know more, people who have an allure of mystery about them, someone who will keep them guessing at every turn. Of course, Aquarius need honesty in a relationship so it's important that you are able to communicate with them as well as letting them express themselves.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Aquarius, The Progressive Air Sign
12. Pisces (Feb 19 – March 20)
Pisces are some of the most romantic individuals that you could ever possibly meet. They have a knack for being intimate with the people they care for most and especially toward the person they love.
Generous beyond belief, with hearts of gold, and being very in-depth with their emotions, dating a Pisces can prove to be one of the best relationships that you could be in.
When Pisces falls in love with someone, they fall hard and would do anything to make sure that their partner is of the utmost happiest in their life with them.
Related: 10 Personality Traits Of Pisces, The Gentle Water Sign
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On Saturday 20th July 2013 Oxford University Cross Country Club helped host this high profile athletics meeting at Oxford University Sport's Iffley Road track, which culminated in not one, but two, sub-4 minute miles being ran!
The British Milers' Club (BMC) Nike Grand Prix attracted athletes from as far afield as Australia, Canada, Kenya and the Caribbean though perhaps the biggest name in attendance was Britain's very own Nicola Sanders, a former world silver medallist over 400m.
The meeting saw a variety of distances from 600m to 5000m contested, and the centrepiece was the elite mile races.
The stadium fell silent as the highly anticipated men's elite mile got underway. The athletes did the first two laps on target in two minutes exactly, but a sub-four clocking was by no means certain when the field slowed and got to the three lap point at 3:01. Richard Peters then pulled out all the stops and ran a blistering last lap to win in 3:58.70, half a second faster than Sir Roger Bannister's record-breaking run 59 years ago. He was pushed all the way by Jonny Mellor, who ran 3:58.76. Third placed Steve Mitchell was agonisingly close to four minutes in 4:00.49. Peters' run was the fastest at Iffley Road in nine years, and it was only the second time in history that two athletes have broken four minutes at Iffley in the same race.
The women's mile race was won by Blackburn's Alison Leonard in 4:42.39, with cross country international Stevie Stockton close behind in 4:43.59. Leonard's Birmingham university team-mate Sarah McDonald took third place. All the elite women ran under 5 minutes, a mark that not a single woman had achieved at the time of Bannister's run in 1954.
A pair of invitational mile races for some of the UK's most talented under-17 athletes, named after famous British coaches Peter Coe and Frank Horwill, was won by George Elliott of Chelmsford and Sophie Tooley of West Suffolk respectively. Sophie's performance was particularly remarkable considering that she is still an under-15 athlete competing with girls two years older.
Other noteworthy performances included 50-year-old Belgrave Harrier Mike Trees setting a new British Record as he destroyed Guy Bracken's M50 best of 4:37 with a 4:32.05 performance. Surrey schoolboy Tom Holden ran 4:15.79 to break his county's under-17 mile record, which had stood for 49 years and 314 days, and Keith Gerrard bettered the Isle of Mann mile record by two seconds, running 4:08.23.
Lee Riley, an ex-marine and one time holder of every world record from 400m to the marathon for running whilst carrying a 40lb backpack, was a frustrating half a second shy of his own world record of 5:17.7.
A series of open mile races were held beforehand and proved popular with local athletes and Oxfordshire school competitors.
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The women's 800m A race was a high-class affair. Brit Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, who took bronze at last week's UK Championships in Birmingham, again finished third, this time behind Canada's Diane Cummins (2:03.6) and American Chanelle Price. 400m star Nicola Sanders struggled over the longer distance of two laps and finished eighth in 2:05.8, still a credible performance for a one-lap specialist.
The longer distances saw local interests aroused as Oxford man Steven Naylor took on former university student Dave Bruce. The men battled hard in heat that, whilst beneficial for shorter races, can prove strength-sapping over a 12.5 lap race. Naylor came out top in the Oxford battle, finishing ninth to Bruce's 12th in a race won by Kent's Nicholas Torry in a personal best time of 14:18.38.
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The meeting is only in its third year, but with its ever-increasing popularity the organisers plan to make it into annual fixture.


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Transit Matters in Election 2019: Federal Party Platforms
Madelin.BurtDAgnillo on Friday, October 11 2019 - 9:34am
As the Canadian Federal Election looms, voters are juggling their list of personal priorities and weighing party platforms to decide how to vote. In a recent poll from Abacus Data, Canadians rated public transit as one of the least important issues for them in the upcoming election, with only 6% of respondents stating that public transit it important.
However, public transit and personal mobility have a significant impact on the top three issues that Canadians valued the most, including the cost of living, health care, and climate change (Transport Futures). Public transit is inextricably linked to the affordability of communities and wellbeing of residents. It is a powerful tool to be used in the fight against climate change by dramatically reducing the green house gas emission of the transportation sector.
While most Canadians are not thinking about public transit when they are marking their ballots on election day, ATU Canada is closely monitoring the commitments to public transit offered by each Federal Party. Here are some of the top commitments by each major Federal Party on public transit as outlined in their official party platforms and as reported by national media.
See our comments on the Federal Transportation Debate hosted by Transport Futures
New Democratic Party: Changing How We Get Around
Modernize and expand public transit in communities across Canada and ensure that federal transit funding flows with an emphasis on low-carbon transit projects (NDP)
Create a permanent, direct, allocation-based funding mechanism to modernize and expand public transit in communities across Canada (NDP)
Provide low-cost financing to local governments in support of the electrification of transit and other municipal fleets by 2030 (NDP)
Work with provinces and municipalities toward "fare-free transit" and re-establish rural bus routes formerly covered by Greyhound and expand bus service in rural regions (Vancouver Sun)
Liberals: Public Transit
Make permanent the federal commitment to fund public transit, and put in an additional $3 billion a year in stable funding on top of gas tax transfers
Require that new federal investments in public transit are used to support zero-emission buses and rail starting in 2023
Support the transition to zero-emission fleets for school and transit buses, and encourage businesses to convert their fleets by 2040 (Vancouver Sun)
Conservatives: Green Public Transit Tax Credit
Reintroduce a 15-per-cent tax credit for public transit that would apply at tax time to any transit pass allowing for unlimited travel within Canada on local buses, streetcars, subways, commuter trains, and ferries, as well as electronic fare cards when used for an extended period. (CityTV Promises Tracker)
Scrap the $35-billion Canada Infrastructure Bank, which funds transit infrastructure projects, but will not renege on federal funds already committed to transit projects (CBC)
Greens: Transportation
Rebrand the Gas Tax Fund as the Municipal Fund and ensure a doubling of current funding for transit and other urban infrastructure (CityTV Promises Tracker)
Develop a national transportation strategy with the goal of reaching zero-carbon public transportation — rail, light rail and electric buses — across Canada by 2040, and revamp the Canada Infrastructure Bank (Vancouver Sun)
Overall, the NDP, Liberal, Conservative, and Green parties all mention commitments to public transit funding and infrastructure projects in their platforms, although some platform promises are more robust than others. The People's Party of Canada does not have a transit platform.
If public transit, or any of the issues that intersect with public transit, matter to you, voting in the upcoming Federal Election is essential. Vote!
TTCRiders' Election Platform breakdown is available here: https://www.ttcriders.ca/transitelectionguide/
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Join us on October 13, 2018 for the newly expanded 6th Annual CRAFT: Beer, Spirits & Food Festival at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Quench your thirst with a variety of beer, spirits, cider and mead brought to you from craft beverage makers across the region, all while you enjoy festival food vendors and artisans.
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Miss Mend (also known as The Adventures of the Three Reporters) is a 1926 Soviet spy film, originally realised in three parts, directed by and starring Boris Barnet and Fyodor Otsep. It is loosely based on the books by Marietta Shaginyan. The story follows the adventures of three reporters who try to stop a biological attack on the USSR by powerful Western businessmen.

The surviving print is just over four hours long. The film was restored by David Shepard, and released on DVD in December 2009 by Flicker Alley.

Plot

Vivian Mend (Natalya Gland), an American pro-labor activist, works as a typist for the powerful Stern family. She has three admirers: Hopkins (Igor Ilyinsky), a clerk who also works for the Sterns; Barnet (played by professional boxer turned actor Boris Barnet, who also co-directed the film), a journalist; and Fogel (Vladimir Fogel), a newspaper photographer.

They discover a plot by a band of capitalists led by the wicked Chiche (Sergei Komarov). He has organized the assassination of Mend's employer, an American millionaire named Gordon Stern, accusing the Bolsheviks of his murder in order to attack the USSR with poison gas hidden in radio equipment. Without hesitation, the quartet hop on a boat to Leningrad in hopes of stopping the nefarious scheme.

Under a falsified will, Stern's property is inherited by his maleficent second wife Elizabeth, bypassing Stern's son Arthur. She deposits a large sum of money into the bank-account of an anti-Bolshevik organization led by Chiche known as "The Organization". Arthur, accepting as truth the reputed involvement of the Communists in the death of his father, supports the financing of terrorist acts in Russia, planned by Chiche.

Formally testament reversal may be appealed. He has an illegitimate child - John, the son of the sister Viviane, whose existence is to know Arthur. Child kidnapped people Chiche, but forced to release at the request of Arthur for help that asked Vivian, taking his technique Johnson, whose name he called when meeting.

The Russian engineer Berg rides. Friends become aware of plans Čiče eliminate it and send it on a trip made up as Arthur Berg, replacing engineer their luggage boxes with lethal vial.

Vivienne came for John to the police station, but the boy died, biting the poisoned apple, which gave him with them before releasing the villain Chiche. The children's jacket pocket police found a business card Reversal Arthur and Vivien is convinced that he is guilty of the death of his brother.

Chiche and Arthur sat on the boat going to Leningrad. On the eve of the arrival in the port of destination they kill Berg and, following a predetermined plan, in its place appears disguised Storn. On the trail of criminals are Vivienne friends, but in Leningrad they neutralize Chiche and forward them to a rented house on the outskirts of the city.

Vivienne continues to take over the machinery of Arthur Johnson and unwittingly disclose his participation in the capture of maniacal madman. Barnet learns Arthur Johnson in Reversal, and Vivienne can only regret admitted missteps.

Vogel manages to inform about the action of police officers. Arthur learns from her stepmother about the role played in his father's death Chiche, and commits suicide. After shooting and breakneck chase and killed the leader of the bandits, trying to escape through the mine existing elevator.

Cast

 Natalia Glan - Vivian Mend, secretary
 Boris Barnet - Barnet Champion, tabloid-press reporter
 Vladimir Fogel - Vogel, press-photographer
 Igor Ilyinsky - Tom Hopkins, clerk
 Ivan Koval-Samborski - Arthur Stern
 Sergey Komarov -Chiche
 Peter Repnin - bandit
  - Elizabeth Stern
 Vladimir Ural - policeman
 Dmitri Kapka - passenger
 Mikhail Zharov -
 Michael Rosen Sanin -
 Tatiana Mukhina - homeless Kolka
 Anel Sudakevich - stenographer
 Irina Volodko -
 P. Poltoratsky -
 S. Goetz - John, Vivian's nephew

References

External links

 Dave Kehr (11 December 2009) "DVDS: All-American Soviet Heroine", The New York Times
 "Miss Mend (1926) A Silent Film Review" (3 February 2013) Movies Silently

1926 films
Soviet black-and-white films
1920s spy films
1920s science fiction films
Soviet silent feature films
Soviet science fiction films
Films directed by Boris Barnet
Films directed by Fedor Ozep
Films set in the United States
Soviet spy films
Soviet crime films
Films about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era
Films about chemical war and weapons
Films set in Saint Petersburg
Silent war films
Silent science fiction films

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Employees are increasingly checking into work while on vacation but is the move a savvy stress-buster or a bad idea?
Employees who are supposed to be enjoying well-deserved time off are actually checking into the office at an alarming rate, according to one recent study.
Released earlier this year, the Accountemps survey found that 42 per cent of men and 30 per cent of women check in with their office while on vacation – when it comes to CEOs, the numbers increase to 43 per cent overall.
Vancouver-based Weisbeck works with leaders around the world to help calculate the impact of workations on a company's bottom line – he says employers need to take a stronger stance in ensuring the employees take their vacation days seriously.
Connecting while on vacation clearly has its problems but even worse is when employees are reluctant to take any holiday at all. Aside from impact on motivation and morale, Weisbeck warned of an often-overlooked financial burden.
The financial risk rises if employees are given the opportunity to accumulate their time off.
"You're supposed to pay people out based on their current compensation," says Weisbeck. "People who have been accruing it over the years, their current compensation might be quite a bit higher than their old compensation so you're actually going to be paying more for that vacation time.


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12:05 AM - Walter Smittle, Director of Jackson County Emergency Services, has said the pilot of an airplane that has crashed in Jackson County was pronounced dead at the scene.
The single engine plane crashed about 10 p.m. north of Ravenswood off Rt. 68.
Officials are indicating the pilot became incapacitated in his flight from Nebraska to Indiana, apparently traveling east to West Virginia.
Smittle says he and officials had concerns regarding a parachute device on the plane that deploys during an emergency because it uses explosives when activated.
A 200 yard perimeter has been set up around the plane.
Apparently no homes are in the immediate area of the crash scene.


DETROIT, (August 12, 2015) – This morning, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) launched the nation's only on-demand classical performance archive to some 5,000 inaugural members. Through Replay, music fans can stream full-length classical works on-demand in HD. Boasting more than 100 works originally performed on the orchestra's Live From Orchestra Hall webcast series, the archive will be refreshed with new content each week during the classical season. Users simply log on to dso.org/replay to explore the new online environment.
The DSO is the first American orchestra to make its performance archive available on-demand. Prior to today, past Live From Orchestra Hall footage was only available through special encore broadcasts on dso.org/live or through YouTube clips.
Dso.org/replay is online and fully functional as of this morning with a two minute preview available to all visitors. An inaugural class of some 5,000 annual fund supporters are immediately eligible to use the new service to its full extent, and all patrons who join the annual fund with a gift of $50 or more will receive full access. Viewers can browse content by composer, date, or through a rotating series of curated playlists such as "Virtuoso Violin," "Living Composers," "Made in America," and many more.
Works currently available for streaming cover virtually every era of the classical genre, including classics by Beethoven and Mozart, 20th century masterpieces and a sampling by living composers. Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, John Corigliano's "Red Violin" Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique," Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade are just a few.
Streaming is made possible through hosting services provided by Brightcove. This leading online video platform offers CD-quality audio and video in 1080p HD resolution.
In fall 2014 the DSO expanded their live broadcast mission to include education. Live From Orchestra Hall: Classroom Edition reached more than 100,000 students in classrooms nationwide with just two broadcasts this season. Both editions of Live From Orchestra Hall will recommence this fall. Schedules are available at dso.org/live and dso.org/classroom.
Live From Orchestra Hall is presented in partnership with Detroit Public Television, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Motor Company Fund. Live broadcasts are brought to you from the Alfred R. Glancy III Control Room within the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center.
Hailed by The New York Times as "cutting edge," the internationally acclaimed Detroit Symphony Orchestra is known for trailblazing performances, visionary maestros, collaborations with the world's foremost musical artists, and an ardent commitment to Detroit. As a community-supported orchestra, generous giving by individuals and institutions at all levels drives the continued success and growth of the institution. Esteemed conductor Leonard Slatkin, called "America's Music Director" by the Los Angeles Times, became the DSO's 12th Music Director, endowed by the Kresge Foundation, in 2008. Acclaimed conductor, arranger, and trumpeter Jeff Tyzik serves as Principal Pops Conductor while celebrated trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard holds the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair. With growing attendance and unwavering philanthropic support from the Detroit community, the DSO's performance schedule includes Classical, Pops, Jazz, Young People's, and Neighborhood concerts, and collaborations with chart-topping musicians from Smokey Robinson to Kid Rock. A commitment to broadcast innovation began in 1922 when the DSO became the first orchestra in the world to present a radio broadcast and continues today with the free Live from Orchestra Hall webcast series, which now reaches tens of thousands of children with the new Classroom Edition expansion. Making its home at historic Orchestra Hall within the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, one of America's most acoustically perfect concert halls, the DSO actively pursues a mission to embrace and inspire individuals, families, and communities through unsurpassed musical experiences. For more information visit the newly updated dso.org or download the free DSO to Go mobile app.


1. Craigslist Let's start with the obvious: Craigslist. When it comes to finding a roommate, the world's largest online classified section is hard to beat. The important thing when using Craigslist to find a roommate is to do your due diligence.
2. Padmapper With its free, map-based interface, PadMapper makes it easy to find apartments in a particular neighborhood or even on a particular block. If you already have an apartment or house and are looking for a roommate to fill one of your rooms, download the free Padmapper app for Android or iOS and select the "Post" tab to create a listing.
3. Roomie Match For a curated roommate-finding experience, roomiematch.com may be a good choice. The website has actual human beings go through every listing to get rid of scams, bots and other unwanted spam.
4. Roommates.com Like RoomieMatch, roommates.com allows you to create a profile for free, but to read messages from other users you need to pay for a full account. The pricing for roommates.com works a little differently. You can buy a three-day trial for $5.99, a 30-day account for $19.99 or a 60-day account for $29.99.
5. Roomi With the slogan "Room right, live right," Roomi takes helping you find a roommate seriously. The site screens all listings and users before they go live, ensuring that you won't fall victim to a scam. Its airy aesthetic and easy-to-navigate website is a millennial's dream. It's free to create an account, post a listing, search the site and message users. Users have the option to pay a one-time fee to boost their listing to the top of local search results. The paid option starts at $2.99 for three days at the top of search and caps at $9.99 for 10 days at the top of search.
6. Roomster Could you easily spend hours scrolling mindlessly through Instagram or Facebook? Then Roomster may just be the perfect roommate finder for you. The site lets users link to their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles, making it easier than ever to stalk, or rather research, your potential roomies. It's free to create an account and post a listing with photos (and also to receive messages from paid subscribers) but you need to upgrade to a paid account to connect to social media sites and use the onsite mailbox. A three-day trial is $5.95.
7. Facebook Speaking of Facebook, if you don't mind making your roommate search public, it may be worthwhile to post a note letting your friends know you are searching for a roommate. If you are moving to a new city and know a few people there, tag them in the post. There are also lots of Facebook Group sites in El Dorado County where people post rentals.
If you're a first-time renter, you may be unpleasantly surprised by all the costs you need to pay upfront. Many landlords ask for the first and last month's rent, as well as a security deposit (often the equivalent of one month's rent). You may even be expected to cough up the cash for a credit check. It's important that you ask a lot of questions of what's expected of you and get the cost details in writing so you have a paper trail of everything you've paid. And of course you'll need to budget carefully for all of these costs so you're not caught off-guard. Log on to www.creditkarma.com as another alternative.
If you have no credit history, you may find it hard to get approved for a rental. Don't panic if this is the position you're in, there are ways to work around it. You can consider asking your parents or another family member to sign onto the apartment as a guarantor or co-signer. The goal here is to find someone with a steady source of income and excellent credit who's willing to put their hard-earned financial cred on the line for you. If you have a skinny credit file and you're ready to start building credit, consider a secured credit card. Secured credit cards are excellent tools for building credit.
Keep in mind that opening a secured credit card will require a deposit on the part of the user. That deposit will act as the credit limit. So if you deposit $400, that'll be the limit you can spend on your secured card. However, you won't be stuck with a small limit forever. Once you've built some credit and have a robust score, you can switch to an unsecured card with a higher limit.
If you're an experienced renter, you may still think it's OK to forgo renter's insurance. This may not be the wisest idea. Your landlord's insurance covers the building itself, meaning in the event of a fire or a flood in which your personal property gets destroyed, you're out of luck. Unless you have renter's insurance. Renter's insurance can protect you in the event of a natural disaster or burglary. The right policy can also be very affordable so don't skip it for the sake of cutting costs!


College Park's Sandra Cannady (14) protects the ball from the attempted steal by Oak Ridge North's Chelsea Cogborn (33) during the second half of their game at Oak Ridge North High School Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in Oak Ridge North, TX.
OAK RIDGE NORTH — College Park and Oak Ridge have become accustomed to close battles lately.
The rivals split two meetings last season, decided by a combined seven points.
Friday night marked the first of two District 15-6A meetings in 2018-19, and College Park topped host Oak Ridge 66-63 behind Sandra Cannady's 37-point, 15-rebound performance.
The senior shot 18-of-21 from the free-throw line on the night.
The game was tied at 49 after three quarters. The visitors used an 8-0 run to build a lead in the fourth quarter and, despite a later surge from the hosts, were able to close out the game.
Behind Cannady, College Park (13-4, 3-2) jumped out to a lead and held it until late in the opening quarter.
Oak Ridge (10-8, 2-2) took its first lead at 12-11 on an offensive rebound and put back from Alecia Whyte. In the final 90 seconds of the first quarter, 3-pointers from Devan Caldwell and Nikki Petrakovitz pushed the Lady War Eagle lead to 18-11.
Whyte led the Lady War Eagles with 16 points, while Caldwell was close behind with 13.
The Oak Ridge lead grew to 10 points early in the second quarter, but it didn't hold. Midway through the quarter, a 3-pointer from Cannady - who scored her team's first 11 points and had 20 in the first half - cut the Oak Ridge lead to 26-22.
At the line, where Cannady was 11-of-13 in the first half, the College Park senior tied the game at 26 with 2:47 to play in the first half.
With 40 seconds to play in the half, a 3-pointer from Jennifer Filemyr gave the Lady Cavs a 33-28 advantage. A free throw from Caldwell cut the Oak Ridge deficit to four points at the break.
Oak Ridge began the second half on a 6-0 run to take the lead back.
The lead was traded back and forth a few times before the third quarter ended tied at 49.
College Park used an 8-0 run in the fourth quarter to pull ahead to a 63-54 lead with 1:36 to play. Twice in the fourth quarter, Cannady and Buckmon put points on the board with give-and-go plays.
Oak Ridge cut the deficit late with a pair of 3-pointers from Alyssa Gonzales. The first, with 37 seconds to play, got the hosts within six points. The second, which came with less than five seconds to play, cut it to a one-score game. College Park was able to inbound the ball and run out the rest of the time.
Oak Ridge is at Klein Oak on Monday. College Park has its bye on Monday before hosting Klein Oak on Thursday.
The Lady War Eagles and Lady Cavs meet again at College Park on Jan. 22.


The meadow of Camping Camaleon is one of the key places of Los Caños where you can have a drink after dinner while listening to good music.
But if you want to get closer to the beach, besides the bars there is Jaima Meccarola, a classic of Los Caños, the perfect place for watching the sunset with a mojito or trying the cocktails at night. Good music and amazing views.
In the same street, you will find other facilities with a good atmosphere. We suggest that you take a walk to La Pequeña Lulú to enjoy its terrace. Also, on the road to the Lighthouse, you will find among others Las Dunas bar, a classic in Los Caños, which is also open in winter. And in the lane of Mangueta, there is a restaurant that has been around forever: Saboy.


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Privacy advocates are standing up to oppose a bill before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee that would grant more powers to corporations for sharing customer data among themselves and, if the bill survives the committee process whole, the government.
Not only is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) a potential legal tool for companies and law enforcement agencies to pass citizens' private information back and forth; it's also a piece of legislation the Intelligence Committee doesn't want to discuss in front of the public as it considers additions.
According to a report at The Hill, the committee is closing the doors on media and the general public when it begins marking up the bill next week, and it won't allow the proceedings to be streamed on the Internet.
A committee spokesperson deflected criticism, saying the move will expedite the process, that there's a lot of confidential information that could get out and that the committee did the same thing last year anyway, in similar discussions.
But critics say these are exactly the kind of talks that should be open to the public, because they involve lawmakers trading thoughts over how to craft a bill that one opponent describes as a "backdoor wiretap" on warrantless private data searches.
More than 40 organizations implored the Intelligence Committee to hold open-door talks when CISPA comes up next week, publicizing a letter sent out to committee members Wednesday. The letter asserted that the public "has a right to know how Congress is conducting the people's business, particularly when such important wide-ranging policies are at stake":
All Congressional committee hearings and votes should be conducted in accordance with our country's highest principles of transparency and openness and made accessible to the public…The general rule should be open government.
As you know, it is the practice of most other committees not only to open their markups, but also to webcast them and share the text of the legislation in advance of voting. Closure of the entire markup is unwarranted.
Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), Intelligence Committee chairman, is sponsoring the bill. A copy of the draft — minus, of course, any amendments to come out of the closed-door revisions next week — can be found here.
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Hyundai's Ioniq 5 wins Japan's import car of the year
By Byun Hye-jin
Published : Dec 9, 2022 - 17:13 Updated : Dec 9, 2022 - 17:13
Comedian duo Hiroaki and Ken Yahagi (left), Managing Director Shigeaki Kato at Hyundai Mobility Japan, Takao Urabe, design team leader at Hyundai Mobility Japan R&D Center, and Ken Sato, senior product specialist at Hyundai Mobility Japan, pose for a picture at the Japan Car of the Year Award in Yokohama Landmark Tower in Japan on Thursday. (Japan Car of the Year Executive Committee)
Hyundai Motor Group's Ioniq 5 electric vehicle has won the title of the best import car of the year in Japan, the automaker said Friday.
It is the first time the South Korean automaker has made it onto the award-winning list of the Japan Car of the Year Award.
Hyundai's Ioniq 5 outranked BMW's iX, Land Rover's Range Rover, Renault's Arkana and other distinguished car models.
The award's executive committee said Ioniq 5 was well-received for its innovative design, long driving distance on one charge, sporty driving performance and convenience and safety features.
Members of the judging committee also said the car makes it an enjoyable experience for drivers when they change the regenerative braking mode by using the paddle shift on the car's steering wheel, it added. Regenerative braking works like an energy recovery system that charges the EV battery in the process of slowing down the vehicle.
Released in 2021 in South Korea, Ioniq 5 is the carmaker's first EV that is based on its Electric Global Modular Platform. Adopting a futuristic design and eco-friendly materials, it offers dynamic features to boost the driving experience.
The car model won the World Car of the Year in the 2022 World Car Awards in April. It was also named SUV of the Year -- the first time for an EV -- in an award held by MotorTrend, a US-based automobile magazine, in October.
Aiming at expanding to the Japanese market, Hyundai Motor Group will sell the Ioniq 5 and Nexo online starting from May. In July, it agreed to provide 50 Ioniq cars to Japan's MK Taxi.
Starting from 1980, the Japan Car of the Year is an annual awards event that selects the top 10 cars among the new launches. It then names the best car in six categories including car of the year, import car of the year, and car design of the year.
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New flights from Scottsbluff to Denver will start Jan. 30
United Airlines will begin offering flights from Scottsbluff to Denver on Jan. 30, and local officials are looking forward to the return of regular flights.Western Nebraska Regional Airport Manager Darwin Skelton says he expects fewer problems with the new flights from United and SkyWest Airlines. The airline that served Scottsbluff previously, PenAir, had to cancel many flights because of a shortage of pilots and planes. Skelton says United has hundreds of planes and pilots based in the region, so he doesn't expect the airline to have the same problems PenAir did. Starting this weekend, customers should be able to begin booking the new flights out of Scottsbluff on United's website.
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. —
United Airlines will begin offering flights from Scottsbluff to Denver on Jan. 30, and local officials are looking forward to the return of regular flights.
Western Nebraska Regional Airport Manager Darwin Skelton says he expects fewer problems with the new flights from United and SkyWest Airlines.
The airline that served Scottsbluff previously, PenAir, had to cancel many flights because of a shortage of pilots and planes.
Skelton says United has hundreds of planes and pilots based in the region, so he doesn't expect the airline to have the same problems PenAir did.
Starting this weekend, customers should be able to begin booking the new flights out of Scottsbluff on United's website.