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why groups aren't a mystery
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
the Heather Gold Show @SXSW Get Excited and Make Things : 3/13 3:30-5
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 Come to the Heather Gold Show @SXSW. This is my 10th show at SXSWi, with the theme this year of Get Excited & Make Things. Guests include Gina Trapani Jeremy Keith, Robin Sloan (snarkmarket.com) comic and filmmaker Negin Farsad (nerdcore rising) and you. We'll be at a swank lounge-y place with tasty drinks called Malverde thanks to our space sponsors: Squarespace.
Easy calendaring and RSVP here. Now. What are you waiting for?
Laugh of the day: "I can practically smell Venice from here."
Thursday, March 4th, 2010http://www.youtube.com/user/AuntBarbara#p/a/u/0/wnAxu8zwXZo
Aunt Barbara, America's top Tupperware salesperson.
I'm in love and determined to find here here on Long Island. Best Paul Lynde laugh since, well, Paul Lynde.
(HT @murrayhill)
The family of now
Friday, February 26th, 2010
16 months. That's the answer.
Rodin and Madame X
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
What should I ask Mitt Romney who's trying to butch it up
Sunday, February 21st, 2010He's coming to my block. If I can get to tape some stuff, what ould youblike me to ask?
The closest I got to the Olympics
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
As a kid, one of my biggest dreams was to play in the Olympics.
My sport became an Olympic one a little bit late for me and my college program was weak enough that I was in no shape to even think about making the first Canadian team which happened a little after my graduation. Besides this circumstance, I probably didn't have the talent to make it, or the focus. I did a lot of things in those days and to play at that level you have to pretty much do nothing else. One of my teammates, Maria Dennis was the last one cut for the first US Women's team. Maria was and is an amazing amazing hockey player and I was really happy to see her acknowledged as such at a recent rededication of the rink I played in at Yale.
I did play against some people who did play in the Olympics. The photo above is a college game in which I'm getting around Sandra Whyte who played on the US Gold Medal Olympic team in 1988.
To say my hockey team was not treated well in college would be an understatement. We had to threaten a title IX suit the year after a graduated to make sure the program stayed. The coach of the men's team at the time, Tim Taylor once said "no daughter of mine's going to play ice hockey."
Well many many things have changed. And it was a true thrill for me to see Hayley Wickenheiser chosen to read the athlete's oath at Vancouver Games. She is recognized in Canada for the brilliant athlete she is (I did once get to play roller hockey against her. On the ice I'm not sure I'd be able to have kept up at all).
And now I see people tweeting about women's hockey just like it's a regular sport along with the rest of them. Nothing is more exciting that looking at the Olympics website and seeing the phrase Men's Hockey.
Someday I hope I'll get to see the Gold Medal game in person.
I peed in a small container this morning…
Saturday, February 20th, 2010My post is up here on @3six5, a fun group project that tells 365 stories for a year from 365 points of view curated by @Len Kendall and @DanielHonigman.
Actor with Downs burns Palin. NYTimes successfully edits out joke.
Friday, February 19th, 2010"My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes."
-Andrea Fay Friedman, the actor who played the character with Downs in recent Family Guy episode responds to Palin criticism. You can read most of the interview here
While they edited out the "show" part, the Times certainly did "tell." Friedman:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.” In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
Makes me wonder what other great bits they've edited out. Would love to read a Remainder Blog with them.
