Aug
16
2009

Come Join Us For The Tasty Tweets

flyer-10001 A Benefit Bake Sale!!

Price: Admission is free, but bring your wallet and generosity.
Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Bella Boutique
2601 Spenard Road
Anchorage, AK 99503

On June 1, 2009 a fire in a neighbor’s house spread and completely destroyed “The Pink House” and all of its contents. All family members made it out safely, but all their possessions were lost. Insurance will help, but it has not been cut-and-dry for restoring and replacing the 100 year old Juneau landmark and the family’s belongings.

This bake sale will be a great opportunity to gain some friends, some sweets and help a good cause. Proceeds to benefit the Stanley family rebuild their lives and their home. While it was the Anchorage Area Twitter community that sparked this, by no means do you need to be a Twitter user to participate.

Also if you aren’t able to attend the August 29 bake sale, you can still contribute by visiting http://www.basinroad.com and clicking the donate button or dropping donations by Alaska USA and making a donation to the “Pink House Donation Fund”.

Special thanks to @Valette and @yishrocks for getting the ball rolling on this opportunity to serve; and big thanks to Bella Boutique for hosting.

If you are interested in submitting/donating baked goods to the cause, shoot an email to bakesale for any guidance and details.

A generous offer has been made to match any cash raised on-site between 1pm and 2:30pm dollar for dollar up to $1000…so come early come often.

Also feel free to invite others and pass this event along to any Anchorage area friends.

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Written by Karl in: Announcements,Everything Else,Food |
Nov
21
2008

It’s Jazz Week In Washington D.C.

At least for me as luck would have it. Normally I don’t stay in downtown Washington D.C. I’m usually setup in Arlington, as it’s closer to our offices in Virginia.

So thanks to one of the people here, I was shown the Jazz district and I all I can say is WOO HOO!

I’ll start with the first (and so far my favorite) place, the Bohemian Cavern: http://www.bohemiancaverns.com/. The Cavern is a great place. Great food, ambiance, music and history.  Just a great Jazz club.

The other place I went to was the Blues Alley: http://www.bluesalley.com/. Blues Alley is also a great club in it’s own right. It was an older club, but a good club nonetheless.

As I continue to travel to D.C. I am becoming more familiar with the city, I am learning that’s it’s a great place for Jazz (amongst it’s other great sights).

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Written by Karl in: Food,Travel |
Apr
03
2005

Is the Burger King creeping you out too?

Does anybody else besides myself find the new Burger King commercial to be one of the creepiest homoerotic ad campaigns ever undertaken?

Let’s look at the first commercial:

When the guy wakes up, he is shocked and horrified to find the King sitting in his bed (do notice that the King is under the covers, not on top). They lock gazes for a moment, then, as if breaking out of a romantic reverie, the Burger King turns away from the guy to retrieve the breakfast sandwich. He holds up one finger, as if to say, “hold on, don’t move, I have this thing I want to show you.” What
‘thing’ might that be, hmmmm?

The sandwich is presented with all the flair of a Price Is Right model showing off the next item up for bids. Look at the pretty sandwich! The aforementioned “meat & cheese” line is delivered like this: “egg and meat and cheese … and meat and cheese!” Two meats, but only one egg — clearly an endorsement of the male (meat) over the female (egg). And, with the second “meat” added after an emphatic pause, the homoerotic subtext is further reinforced.

Finally, at the end of the spot, the guy and the King are laughing, sharing some secret in-joke that, like an old couple in a long-term relationship, needs no verbalization. Then, the King puts his hand on the guy’s knee. The guy, still laughing, puts his hand on the King’s hand. The King immediately pulls his hand away, the guy stops laughing, and the whole situation becomes an awkward homoerotic near-miss.

Then there’s the next commercial…Darius Rucker (lead singer for Hootie & the
Blowfish) stars as a black cowboy in clearly a ‘tutti-frutti’ rhinestone cowboy suit with a long shot of two more black cowboys fixated on enjoying their meat sandwiches. Sure, you can say there were Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders in the commercial, but they didn’t get as much air time as the men nor were they the emphasis (even with Brook Burke saying “come and get it!”).

The latest commercial, for the omelet sandwich, shows the Burger King doing a peeping tom in a guy’s home (his wife/girlfriend walks by oblivious to this fact) so you again have the King handing the guy a sandwich…And who the
HELL takes a sandwich from a guy staring at them through the bedroom window I might add?!?!?!?

And while this guy has his sandwich and stares back at the King, we now see birds flock to
the King in some odd ‘divinity’ scene.

Sorry, but I see an add campaign with clear pro-male/anti-female characteristics
(these latest commercial reminds me of surreal MTV video’s)…more of the new
Gay Agenda hard at work.
(more…)

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