Apr 2, 2010

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ISAIAH 52: 2-10, 53: 1-12

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

For thus saith the LORD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? They that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually everyday is blasphemed.

Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God...

...Who hath believed our report? and to who is the arm of the LORD revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

"You Will Never Win Against Us."



"Aaron [Carter] took Maile to the movie Alice in Wonderland, which she has been dying to see. She didn't get to see the end of the movie though because Aaron got down on a knee and proposed with a beautiful pear shaped diamond ring! Maile was completely overjoyed and said yes immediately! Aaron and Maile have only been dating for a short period of time but they are both extremely happy. This is the happiest I have ever seen Maile."

Apr 1, 2010

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Fast food restaurant chains in the United States

**Hamburger**
A&W · Arctic Circle · Back Yard Burgers · Big Boy · Burger King · Burgerville · Carl's Jr. · Checkers/Rally's · Cook Out · Culver's · Fatburger · Five Guys · Fuddruckers · Hardee's · In-N-Out Burger · Jack in the Box · Johnny Rockets · Krystal · Maid-Rite · McDonald's · Nation's Giant Hamburgers · Roy Rogers · Sonic Drive-In · Steak n Shake · Tommy's · Wendy's · Whataburger · White Castle · Winstead's · Zippy's
**Pizza**
Boston Pizza · CiCi's Pizza · Domino's · Donatos Pizza · Hungry Howie's Pizza · Little Caesars · Mazzio's · Papa Gino's · Papa John's · Peter Piper Pizza · Pizza Hut · Pizzeria Regina · Rocky Rococo · Round Table Pizza · Sal's Pizza · Sbarro · Shakey's Pizza
**Chicken**
Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits · Boston Market · Brown's · Chick-fil-A · Chicken Express · Church's Chicken · El Pollo Loco · Kentucky Fried Chicken · Max's of Manila · Pollo Tropical · Popeyes · Raising Cane's · Zaxby's
**Asian-Pacific foods**
Jollibee (Filipino) · L&L Hawaiian Barbecue · Lee's Sandwiches (Vietnamese) · Manchu Wok (Chinese) · Panda Express (Chinese) · Pick Up Stix (Chinese) · Sarku Japan (Japanese) · Yoshinoya (Japanese)
**Ice cream**
Baskin-Robbins · Ben & Jerry's · Braum's · Brigham's Ice Cream · Bruster's · Carvel · Cold Stone Creamery · Culver's · Dairy Queen · Dippin' Dots · Friendly's · Fosters Freeze · Häagen-Dazs · Maggie Moo's · Marble Slab Creamery · Newport Creamery · Tastee-Freez
**Frozen yogurt**
Pinkberry · Red Mango · TCBY · Yogen Früz
**Sandwich**
Arby's · Blimpie · Così · Cousins Subs · D'Angelo Sandwich Shops · Firehouse Subs · Hogi Yogi · Jason's Deli · Jersey Mike's Subs · Jimmy John's · Kelly's Roast Beef · Milio's Sandwiches · Panera Bread · Potbelly Sandwich Works · Quiznos · Rax Roast Beef · Schlotzsky's · Subway · Tropical Smoothie Cafe · Tubby's · Which Wich?
**Seafood**
Arthur Treacher's · Captain D's · Ivar's · Long John Silver's
**Hot dog**
James Coney Island · Hot Dog on a Stick · Nathan's Famous · Portillo's · Wienerschnitzel · Ted's Hot Dogs
**Mexican-style food**
Baja Fresh · Boloco · Cafe Rio · California Tortilla · Chipotle Mexican Grill · Del Taco · Freebirds World Burrito · Mighty Taco · Moe's Southwest Grill · Qdoba Mexican Grill · Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill · Taco Bell · Taco Bueno · Taco Cabana · Taco Del Mar · Taco John's · Taco Mayo · Taco Tico · Taco Time
**Baked goods**
Au Bon Pain · Auntie Anne's · Bruegger's · Cinnabon · Dunkin' Donuts · Einstein Bros. Bagels · Krispy Kreme · Mrs. Field's Cookies · Pretzel Time · Shipley Do-Nuts · T.J. Cinnamons · Tim Hortons · Winchell's Donuts
**Beverages**
Biggby Coffee · Caribou Coffee · The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf · Coffee Beanery · Dunn Bros · Jamba Juice · Orange Julius · Peet's Coffee & Tea · Planet Smoothie · Seattle's Best Coffee · Smoothie King · Starbucks · Tully's Coffee
**Defunct**
Burger Chef · Carrols · Druther's · Gino's Hamburgers · Naugles · Pioneer Chicken · Red Barn · Sandy's

Mar 31, 2010

bedizen \bih-DY-zuhn\, transitive verb:

To dress or adorn in gaudy manner.

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At 18, he attended a party "frizzled, powdered and curled, in radiant pink satin, with waistcoat bedizened with gems of pink paste and a mosaic of colored foils and a hat blazing with 5,000 metallic beads," according to Michael Battersberry in "Fashion, The Mirror of History."
-- Donna Larcen, "Details Details: Everything Old Is New Again", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 19, 1994

. . .Ford's 2001-model F-150 SuperCrew "Harley-Davidson" model. This special edition pickup truck is bedizened with enough chrome, leather, and H-D logos to bring a RUBbie (Rich Urban Biker) weeping to his knees.
-- "Summer Autos 2001", Newsday, May 19, 2001

Bedizen is the prefix be-, "completely; thoroughly; excessively" + dizen, an archaic word meaning "to deck out in fine clothes and ornaments," from Middle Dutch disen, "to dress (a distaff) with flax ready for spinning," from Middle Low German dise, "the bunch of flax placed on a distaff."

Mar 30, 2010

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Verses

THE COMPLAINTS OF KHAKHEPERRE-SONB
British Museum 5645, a Writing Board

(Middle of the Eighth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom—)
(first three stanzas)

Had I unknown phrases,
Sayings that are strange,
Novel, untried words,
Free of repitition;
Not transmitted phrases,
Spoken by the ancestors!
I wring out my body of what it holds,
In releasing all my words;
For what was said is repetition,
When what was said is said.
Ancestor's words are nothing to boast of,
They are found by those who come after.

Not speaks one who spoke,
There speaks one who will speak,
May another find what he will speak!
Not a teller of tales after they happen,
This has been done before;
Nor a teller of what might be said,
This is vain endeavor, it is lies,
And none will recall his name to others.
I say this in accord with what I have seen:
From the first generation to those who come after,
They imitate that which is past.

Would that I knew what others ignore,
Such as has not been repeated,
To say it and have my heart answer me,
To inform it of my distress,
Shift to it the load on my back,
The matters that afflict me,
Relate to it of what I suffer
And sigh "Ah" with relief!...

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Mar 29, 2010

Verses

If someone asked me today, "Ricky, what are you afraid of?" I would answer "the blood that runs through the streets of countries at war...child slavery, terrorism...the cynicism of some people in positions of power, the misinterpretation of faith." But fear of my truth? Not at all! On the contrary, It fills me with strength and courage.
----Ricky Martin, @ rickymartin.com, hoy
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Verses

"There's a Small Hotel"
Lorenz Hart
1940

There's a small hotel
With a wishing well
I wish that we were there together
There's a bridal suite
One room bright and neat
Complete for us to share together

Looking through the window
You can see that distant steeple
Not a sign of people -- who wants people?
When the steeple bell says,
"Good night, sleep well,"
We'll thank the small hotel together

And when the steeple bell says,
"Good night, sleep well,"
We'll thank the small hotel together

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Remember that you were strangers* in Egypt.

*slaves
Last week (even though Alexa Chung was on the cover and it cost $10.oo), I bought a British Vogue at Port Authority.
In high school, Brit Vogue was my favorite Vogue, because I didn't read French and because Diana Vreeland's autobiography and a lot of other books and a night at Aspinall's and a lunch at Fortnum & Mason of shepherd's pie and banana milkshake and a Grazia magazine and a tallboy of cider had convinced me that I was destined for London, for the Courtauld and a bespoked, coldfish husband or something. I've changed my mind. London is grey and far and trashy without the BIG and convenience store of home (what I mean is: trashy but not as good at being trashy as here and also without nice malls and Walmarts and a million other things like deserts and baseball [not cricket]). And fashion magazines will never thrill me and inform me, as they did when I felt like a nervous and hopeful pre-debutante of the World; I can no longer see "blue skies ahead" in an accessories feature.
But Brit Vogue's still charming and dippy with like five Kate Moss covers per annum and a lot of fine little things you can buy at Liberty and reporting on new Airbus airplanes.
There was no interview with Alexa Chung, just four pictures of her in denim alongside an article about denim and romance of/with/in America. There was a whole lot about loving America in general, which is like 'sure YESS!' and very sweet.
A funny feature called, "Going Out vs. Staying In" imaged and styled two groups of female friends: a set of wealthy daughters-of-soandso, one of whom runs a public relations firm another who owns a new, swank nightclurrrb (our age! what?) in black leather, the other crowd, a bit younger, piling into a house in the far suburbs Upriver, models and musicians in vintage babydoll dresses and socks. The thing didn't stink of class-problems; mostly 'cause the "posh" girls were sort of Sex and the City and naff, yawn, nightclurrrb? And the girls in this Victorian house out-of-town were adorable and hip and inhabiting authentically beautiful space, principal among them a brunette called Marina who lists her influences: "Britney Spears, gymnasts, cheerleaders, anything American!" The article said her band was called Marina and the Diamonds. I looked her up on the Youtube and found:


The first is on-concept (right?) but pretty awful. The second is a big mezcla of stuff that's already happened and happened (and recently). But it's good. I like her vocal, and the EP is called American Jewels, and I guess I'm flattered. I'll pass out the next time I hear a Euro talking about American politics, but please do go on and on about our GLAMOUR (it's major.....like, TRACE CYRUS, featured below [who obv recycles a lot of British ideas but ones that kind of started as American ideas anyway and in Franklin, Tennessee and Hollywood, Orlando, and Twitter...]).