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"content": "\u003cp>There are certain things in life you can’t control: growing old, embarrassing yourself at holiday parties, kissing all the wrong people, ordering three éclairs at Tartine and pretending that two are for friends, and karaoke. Sure, you might not have any musical ability or rhythm or a thirst for the spotlight, but your time on the karaoke stage will come. One of your friends will get engaged and want to have a last boozy hurrah singing Journey songs en masse. Same goes for birthday parties, bat mitzvah after parties, and those work outings meant for getting to “really know each other.” Point is, unless you want to be a terrible friend or lose your job, there will come a time when you will have to listen to friends butcher songs for a few hours so you might as well be ready for this inevitability. Luckily for you, I’m here to give you a few pointers so you won’t embarrass yourself too much and maybe come out of this not only unscathed but with a winning musical number under your belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>10 COMMANDMENTS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128695 alignleft\" alt=\"commandments\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments-400x551.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1. THOU SHALL NOT ABSTAIN\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your friend is marrying some dude and invites you to karaoke in order to celebrate a lifetime of spooning and arguing over what kind of take-out to order, you kind of have to go. Yes, even if the guy she’s marrying is the worst. You might think that showing up is all that is required of you. WRONG. Absolutely no one likes the person who shows up and then says something meek like “Oh, I can’t go up there. I can’t sing! But I’ll watch you guys!” Sure, no one will point a gun to your head and force you to sing a Natalie Imbruglia song, but they will make a little mental note about you and file it away in the deepest most immutable part of memory. That note says “So and so is a no-fun bore. No wonder he/she doesn’t have a boyfriend/girlfriend.” You don’t want to be that person, do you? So down your favorite mixed drink and do a vocal exercise in the bathroom if you must ’cause you are going up there one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/ASUB-Q60S0I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>2. THOU SHALL NOT DRINK TOO MUCH\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did say have a drink, but don’t over do it. This will lead to your downfall and your dignity will be a more distant memory than that friend you had in preschool who moved away. Getting wasted will impair your judgment (you’ll end up picking a song you have no business singing) and, although you will think your voice sounds like honey or Whitney Houston pre-crack/Bobby Brown, your vocal ability will be a mess. So take it easy. This is not freshman year of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128696 alignleft\" alt=\"judge-judy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy.jpeg\" width=\"349\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy.jpeg 349w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>3. THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE, LEST YE BE JUDGED\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of the karaoke experience is waiting for your turn. For impatient people like me, this can be an ordeal, especially if you have to sit through messy performances from people who haven’t followed Commandment #2. But I warn you not to roll your eyes or make snide comments or talk loudly over their numbers. These people are your future audience and you need to be in their good graces for when it’s your turn. So pay it forward: smile, applaud, woot and holler cause karma takes names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128697 alignleft\" alt=\"6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>4. THOU SHALL NOT SING WHITNEY OR MARIAH OR ADELE\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know you want to. I do too! But you shouldn’t, unless you’re opera trained or something. Take it from someone who learned this lesson the hard way. I had one Fernet too many (I’m not perfect!) and I decided it would be a hoot to sing Mariah’s “Fantasy.” Face flushed and a sloppy grin on my face, I leapt on stage and heard those opening chords and instantly knew I had made a big mistake. I looked at the crowd and actually said “Oh. No.” That was a hard 4 minutes for everyone involved and we all learned a valuable lesson so that you wouldn’t have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128698 alignleft\" alt=\"schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up[1]\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1.jpg 358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>5. THOU SHALL NEVER GIVE UP\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you have an experience like the one described above, you are not allowed to give up. No one likes a quitter. Don’t be a baby. Face the music. The best strategy to take the focus off your terrible rendition is the art of distraction. Make a joke out of it. Dan ce. Offer the mic to someone standing close to the stage for a line or two. And if it really comes to it, enlist a friend or two to help out. It’s part of the friend code, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128699 alignleft\" alt=\"3581i7\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7.jpg 310w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>6. THOU SHALL CHANNEL REAL LIFE EMOTION (TO A POINT)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotion from real life events is the fuel to the flame of your karaoke superstardom. So pin your former emo angst onto that song you used to sing in your teenage bedroom. But make sure you don’t overdo it and burn the house down. Another anecdote from my personal saga: Bottomless mimosas and a bad breakup led me to the karaoke stage. In the beginning, things went well. I sang Alanis Morissette’s classic ode to all the wronged lovers out there, “You Oughtta Know.” But things took a turn for the real soon enough and I ended up \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg7gg9VWmG1qf7r5lo1_500.gif\">crying Laura Dern style\u003c/a> by the side of the stage. That kind of sobbing is reserved for private late night showings of \u003ci>Bambi\u003c/i>/\u003ci>Beaches\u003c/i>/\u003ci>Blue Valentine\u003c/i>/\u003ci>Brokeback Mountain\u003c/i>/etc. So take inventory of your flood gates before unleashing a tsunami of feelings onto a bunch of strangers. The last thing the world needs is you singing that depressing Sarah McLachlan song from the adopt-this-one-eyed-dog commercial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128700 alignleft\" alt=\"6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi.png\" width=\"443\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi.png 443w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-400x401.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-298x300.png 298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>7. THOU SHALL DO YOUR HOMEWORK\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little homework goes a long way. Before you hit the karaoke bar, think about the songs you love most and know best. Then ask yourself if this song is in your range. You don’t want to be a baritone singing No Doubt’s “Just A Girl” (not that I would know from experience or anything). Another thing to consider is song length. Pick something around 3 minutes. Even the best of songs start to mold after that. Also beware of instrumental breaks! A friend of mine recently sang a sultry Marilyn Monroe number which had her \u003ca href=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/246/369/92a.gif\">awkwardly sway\u003c/a> for 2 whole minutes mid song. So be prepared! If it’s good enough for the Boy Scouts, it’s good enough for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/39837623_ringo_scream.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128701 alignleft\" alt=\"_39837623_ringo_scream\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/39837623_ringo_scream.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>8. THOU SHALL PICK CROWD PLEASERS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re not a good singer, the best thing you can do is pick a crowd pleaser, a song that is so ingrained in our culture and so beloved that everyone will sing along loudly, muffling your inability to hit certain notes. You will be adored! It’ll be like Beatlemania all over again! Maybe you’ll even get a little taste of what it felt like for Michael Jackson to step out onto a hotel balcony (minus the surgical mask and dangling baby).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/z3BibCPvOqw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>9. THOU SHALL NOT PARTAKE IN AN OBNOXIOUS GROUP NUMBER\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paper cuts. Paris Hilton’s baby voice. People who don’t cover their mouths when they cough. You know what else is super annoying? When a group of people decide to sing (scream) a song like Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You Been Gone” or the Spice Girls’ “Say You’ll Be There.” This is not cute or pleasing to anyone so think of the greater good and just say no. Ditch the obnoxious back-up singers and go it alone like my hero/favorite 7-year-old ever above. We could all learn a thing or two from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128702 alignleft\" alt=\"kar\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/kar-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>10. THOU SHALL TALK TO STRANGERS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forget what your mother said about talking to strangers. They’re awesome. I recently approached some girl who had sung a Taylor Swift song the week before for advice on whether I should tackle a T. Swift song of my own. Turns out she had already requested that very song. Fast forward twenty minutes and there we were, two people who barely knew each other’s names, linking harmonies in a duet to remember (see evidence above). So go on and talk to that rando. It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got all that? Now go forth and belt it out! And above all, have fun with it! That’s kind of the point.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are certain things in life you can’t control: growing old, embarrassing yourself at holiday parties, kissing all the wrong people, ordering three éclairs at Tartine and pretending that two are for friends, and karaoke. Sure, you might not have any musical ability or rhythm or a thirst for the spotlight, but your time on the karaoke stage will come. One of your friends will get engaged and want to have a last boozy hurrah singing Journey songs en masse. Same goes for birthday parties, bat mitzvah after parties, and those work outings meant for getting to “really know each other.” Point is, unless you want to be a terrible friend or lose your job, there will come a time when you will have to listen to friends butcher songs for a few hours so you might as well be ready for this inevitability. Luckily for you, I’m here to give you a few pointers so you won’t embarrass yourself too much and maybe come out of this not only unscathed but with a winning musical number under your belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>10 COMMANDMENTS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128695 alignleft\" alt=\"commandments\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments-400x551.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/commandments-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1. THOU SHALL NOT ABSTAIN\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your friend is marrying some dude and invites you to karaoke in order to celebrate a lifetime of spooning and arguing over what kind of take-out to order, you kind of have to go. Yes, even if the guy she’s marrying is the worst. You might think that showing up is all that is required of you. WRONG. Absolutely no one likes the person who shows up and then says something meek like “Oh, I can’t go up there. I can’t sing! But I’ll watch you guys!” Sure, no one will point a gun to your head and force you to sing a Natalie Imbruglia song, but they will make a little mental note about you and file it away in the deepest most immutable part of memory. That note says “So and so is a no-fun bore. No wonder he/she doesn’t have a boyfriend/girlfriend.” You don’t want to be that person, do you? So down your favorite mixed drink and do a vocal exercise in the bathroom if you must ’cause you are going up there one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ASUB-Q60S0I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ASUB-Q60S0I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>2. THOU SHALL NOT DRINK TOO MUCH\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did say have a drink, but don’t over do it. This will lead to your downfall and your dignity will be a more distant memory than that friend you had in preschool who moved away. Getting wasted will impair your judgment (you’ll end up picking a song you have no business singing) and, although you will think your voice sounds like honey or Whitney Houston pre-crack/Bobby Brown, your vocal ability will be a mess. So take it easy. This is not freshman year of college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128696 alignleft\" alt=\"judge-judy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy.jpeg\" width=\"349\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy.jpeg 349w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/judge-judy-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>3. THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE, LEST YE BE JUDGED\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of the karaoke experience is waiting for your turn. For impatient people like me, this can be an ordeal, especially if you have to sit through messy performances from people who haven’t followed Commandment #2. But I warn you not to roll your eyes or make snide comments or talk loudly over their numbers. These people are your future audience and you need to be in their good graces for when it’s your turn. So pay it forward: smile, applaud, woot and holler cause karma takes names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128697 alignleft\" alt=\"6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a00d83451b8c369e20168e7368ad6970c-800wi-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>4. THOU SHALL NOT SING WHITNEY OR MARIAH OR ADELE\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know you want to. I do too! But you shouldn’t, unless you’re opera trained or something. Take it from someone who learned this lesson the hard way. I had one Fernet too many (I’m not perfect!) and I decided it would be a hoot to sing Mariah’s “Fantasy.” Face flushed and a sloppy grin on my face, I leapt on stage and heard those opening chords and instantly knew I had made a big mistake. I looked at the crowd and actually said “Oh. No.” That was a hard 4 minutes for everyone involved and we all learned a valuable lesson so that you wouldn’t have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128698 alignleft\" alt=\"schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up[1]\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1.jpg 358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/schulz-charles-peanuts-never-ever-ever-give-up1-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>5. THOU SHALL NEVER GIVE UP\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you have an experience like the one described above, you are not allowed to give up. No one likes a quitter. Don’t be a baby. Face the music. The best strategy to take the focus off your terrible rendition is the art of distraction. Make a joke out of it. Dan ce. Offer the mic to someone standing close to the stage for a line or two. And if it really comes to it, enlist a friend or two to help out. It’s part of the friend code, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128699 alignleft\" alt=\"3581i7\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7.jpg 310w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/3581i7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>6. THOU SHALL CHANNEL REAL LIFE EMOTION (TO A POINT)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotion from real life events is the fuel to the flame of your karaoke superstardom. So pin your former emo angst onto that song you used to sing in your teenage bedroom. But make sure you don’t overdo it and burn the house down. Another anecdote from my personal saga: Bottomless mimosas and a bad breakup led me to the karaoke stage. In the beginning, things went well. I sang Alanis Morissette’s classic ode to all the wronged lovers out there, “You Oughtta Know.” But things took a turn for the real soon enough and I ended up \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg7gg9VWmG1qf7r5lo1_500.gif\">crying Laura Dern style\u003c/a> by the side of the stage. That kind of sobbing is reserved for private late night showings of \u003ci>Bambi\u003c/i>/\u003ci>Beaches\u003c/i>/\u003ci>Blue Valentine\u003c/i>/\u003ci>Brokeback Mountain\u003c/i>/etc. So take inventory of your flood gates before unleashing a tsunami of feelings onto a bunch of strangers. The last thing the world needs is you singing that depressing Sarah McLachlan song from the adopt-this-one-eyed-dog commercial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128700 alignleft\" alt=\"6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi.png\" width=\"443\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi.png 443w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-400x401.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-298x300.png 298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/6a0147e137f31a970b015432ce09a1970c-800wi-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>7. THOU SHALL DO YOUR HOMEWORK\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little homework goes a long way. Before you hit the karaoke bar, think about the songs you love most and know best. Then ask yourself if this song is in your range. You don’t want to be a baritone singing No Doubt’s “Just A Girl” (not that I would know from experience or anything). Another thing to consider is song length. Pick something around 3 minutes. Even the best of songs start to mold after that. Also beware of instrumental breaks! A friend of mine recently sang a sultry Marilyn Monroe number which had her \u003ca href=\"http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/246/369/92a.gif\">awkwardly sway\u003c/a> for 2 whole minutes mid song. So be prepared! If it’s good enough for the Boy Scouts, it’s good enough for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/39837623_ringo_scream.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128701 alignleft\" alt=\"_39837623_ringo_scream\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/04/39837623_ringo_scream.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>8. THOU SHALL PICK CROWD PLEASERS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re not a good singer, the best thing you can do is pick a crowd pleaser, a song that is so ingrained in our culture and so beloved that everyone will sing along loudly, muffling your inability to hit certain notes. You will be adored! It’ll be like Beatlemania all over again! Maybe you’ll even get a little taste of what it felt like for Michael Jackson to step out onto a hotel balcony (minus the surgical mask and dangling baby).\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/z3BibCPvOqw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/z3BibCPvOqw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>9. THOU SHALL NOT PARTAKE IN AN OBNOXIOUS GROUP NUMBER\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paper cuts. Paris Hilton’s baby voice. People who don’t cover their mouths when they cough. You know what else is super annoying? When a group of people decide to sing (scream) a song like Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You Been Gone” or the Spice Girls’ “Say You’ll Be There.” This is not cute or pleasing to anyone so think of the greater good and just say no. Ditch the obnoxious back-up singers and go it alone like my hero/favorite 7-year-old ever above. 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Never stop saying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.net/2012/03/29/ygritte.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>2. The pluckiest housemaid from \u003ci>Downton Abbey\u003c/i> appears this season as a SPEARWIFE!\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main disappointments of season two of \u003ci>Downton Abbey\u003c/i> was the complete lack of Gwen (played by Rose Leslie), the downstairs redhead with grand secretarial ambitions. 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And he’s probably a better dad too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.net/2012/03/29/aryastark.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>4. Honest, healthy portrayal of children\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, I was a kid, so I can say this with absolute authority: kids are basically exactly the same as adults except that they are shorter, have less experience with things and basically no rights. Kids live in the exact same world we do, and see the exact same stuff, except for maybe in the movie theater when they are segregated into the PG world. But the truth is, a lot of stuff happens to them. 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"content": "\u003cp>Get out your cocktail shakers. Mad Men is back. Yep, \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/topic/mad_men/\">after a year and a half hiatus\u003c/a>, the folks at AMC have blessed us with news out of Sterling Cooper Draper and Pryce starting this Sunday. It’s OK if you’ve forgotten about Mad Men. A lot has happened in seventeen months, namely, other period dramas (read: \u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/about/index.html\">Boardwalk Empire\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/\">Downton Abbey\u003c/a>) have entered the limelight — and your Netflix queue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mad Men was the first series to bring us that irresistible mix of nostalgia, drama, shock and sex. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Get out your cocktail shakers. Mad Men is back. Yep, \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/topic/mad_men/\">after a year and a half hiatus\u003c/a>, the folks at AMC have blessed us with news out of Sterling Cooper Draper and Pryce starting this Sunday. It’s OK if you’ve forgotten about Mad Men. A lot has happened in seventeen months, namely, other period dramas (read: \u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/about/index.html\">Boardwalk Empire\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/\">Downton Abbey\u003c/a>) have entered the limelight — and your Netflix queue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mad Men was the first series to bring us that irresistible mix of nostalgia, drama, shock and sex. Yes, AMC has made us wait a long time, but the first four seasons of Don, Peggy and crew were so so \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/20/DDRV1NJMVG.DTL\">utterly watchable and occasionally brilliant\u003c/a>, the network deserves our forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help bridge the unavoidable memory gap the wait has caused, here’s a refresher course on where the show left off with all the major characters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.net/2012/03/21/madmen.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>The team at Sterling Cooper Draper and Pryce is back for another season after a long hiatus. Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Don Draper:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we last saw Don, he had shocked everyone by proposing to his secretary, Megan, after she helped watch his kids on a trip to Disneyland. This rash decision capped off a tough year for Don in which the biggest blow was losing his good — and arguably only — friend Anna to cancer. The year also included lots of poor relationship decisions: he \u003ca href=\"http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/mad-men-talked-about-scene-dons-secretary-does-him-a-favor\">slept with one secretary\u003c/a> then pretended like it never happened, and he started a relationship with another coworker, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men/cast/faye-miller\">Dr. Faye Miller\u003c/a>, to whom he had disclosed his past, only to end it by telling her about the engagement to Megan. That poor judgment was coupled with even poorer choices in business when he let his principles get in the way of helping the still-fledgling Sterling Copper Draper and Pryce. Needless to say, this behavior was all combined with a lot of drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two redeeming acts of the season for Don were ponying up Peter Campbell’s partner fee of $50,000 and taking out a full-page ad in the New York Times explaining why he “quit big tobacco” when in actually it was Lucky Strike who quit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a sample of the hot-mess Don’s life was for most of Season Four: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here, Don gets his Jerry McGuire on, telling big tobacco to take their accounts and shove ’em:\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Quintessential quote: “I would have my secretary do it, but she’s dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning questions: Does he really love Megan? Will he actually marry her? Will he put his life back together or simply accelerate the downward spiral? Can he leverage his anti-tobacco rant into new business for the agency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peggy Olson:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.net/2012/03/21/peggy.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>Peggy Olson continues to prove her mettle despite the boys’ club that is Sterling Cooper Draper and Pryce. Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season Four was all about growth for Peggy. She was able to stretch her business legs in the new agency, taking on more of a leadership role in creative and even pulling in a big account, Topaz Pantyhose, which likely saved the agency. But part of the reason Peggy is so compelling is that we see her struggle outside of the office too: she doesn’t quite fit in with other women, especially those in her family, and many men are intimidated by her drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Season Four, Peggy got introduced to a new group of liberal friends, including Abe Drexler, who appreciates her intelligence and quirkiness, even if he’s full of disdain for Madison Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a moment of rare (and delicious) camaraderie between Peggy and Joan dishing about Don’s engagement and their plight for recognition at work:\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>And here’s a scene that captures Peggy’s frustration with Don that is sure to be be quoted by bosses for decades to come:\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Quintessential quote: “A pretty face comes along and everything goes out the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning questions: Will Peggy ever get her due? How will she react to seeing Pete Campbell being a Dad to his daughter? What if Don makes Megan a copywriter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Joan Harris:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if having her not-quite-a-surgeon husband Gene volunteer for Vietnam isn’t enough, Joanie’s world really turns upside down when she becomes pregnant with Roger Sterling’s baby. She also received a promotion at work, at least in title — to Director of Agency Operations — a nod to how much the agency increasingly relies on her. But really, what good is a title when you’ve got a bun in the oven and the baker’s not the father?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Sterling (and maybe the emotions of a mugging) finally broke down Joan’s resistance:\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Quintessential quote: “All you’ve done is prove to them that I’m a meaningless secretary and you’re another humorless bitch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning questions: How will she manage to maintain the unconvincing charade that she’s pregnant with Gene’s baby? How will Roger react when he tells her she’s keeping the baby? How will the boys handle their office sex-pot becoming a mom? How fabulous will her maternity wardrobe be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Campbell:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.net/2012/03/21/peter.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>Pete and Trudy Campbell welcomed a baby girl in the final episode of Season Four. Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Campbell has become harder to hate with each season. The boy who seemed to have a silver spoon in his mouth for the first couple of seasons worked hard for his money in Season Four, smoothing over clients that Don pissed off, playing his father-in-law for the Vicks account, and, sadly, attending meetings while his wife was in labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also developed a new loyalty throughout Season Four, covering for Don when his manufactured past wouldn’t pass the muster of a government background check. Pete also refused an offer of full partnership from a competing agency amid pressure from his father-in-law. The relationship between Pete and Don became even more complex when Don anted up $50,000 for Campbell, unasked.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Quintessential quote: “I can use my expense account if I say they’re hookers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning questions: How will fatherhood change him? Can Pete’s family life survive Stanley Cooper Draper and Pryce? Will he ever make full partner? 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"content": "\u003cp>I started watching \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> a million years ago in \u003ci> Bachelor\u003c/i>-time, but only like 2 years ago in real time (Jake Pavelka’s season, Season 14, in January 2010). I don’t know what started it. Probably peer pressure. My friend Marisa had started a few seasons earlier, when someone she knew from high school was a contestant, and it sort of spiraled out of control from there. It used to be just a social thing but now I watch every week, mostly on my computer since I am too busy to meet up with my \u003ci>Bachelor\u003c/i> watching friends. Marisa lives in New York now and so we email each other our commentary, looping in our other friends, Kevin and Amick, who sometimes let me come over to their house and watch the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not proud of how deeply I’ve gotten involved with the contrived set-ups and death defying “dates” that these highly manicured “Account Managers” and “Sales Reps” share in front of the cameras. But there is just something about watching people who seem suspiciously like robots try to “find love” for the “right reasons” in a leased mansion in LA, in helicopters and on exotic islands. Every season is the most dramatic, and of course “the most controversial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s always been easy to forget the show is “reality” because it barely is. The men and women fall so easily into characters, whether through editing or their own obsessive watching of previous seasons. There is the sweet one and the evil one and the ridiculous one. And they are all suffering from either amnesia or magical thinking because the romantic success rate of this show is barely 5%. (Even though I just made that statistic up, I stand by it since I doubt anyone related to the show knows how to do anything other than magical math.) Only about 3 of the couples created in 16 seasons of \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> and 5 seasons of \u003ci>The Bachelorette\u003c/i> are still together and yet one of the most repeated phrases you hear from contestants, besides, “I didn’t come here to make friends,” is “I believe in this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/thebachelor1.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\n\u003cp>Get ready for the process!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Cut to the beginning of January. I had learned to live with my addiction. My dad, who compares watching \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> to doing heroin, seemed to have toned down his rhetoric. And then the current season of \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i>, Season 16, started, starring a local, Ben Flajnik, who is ostensibly from Sonoma but \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/ben-flajnik-the-bachelor-san-francisco_n_1261375.html\">actually lives here in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Ben started his reality career on the last season of \u003ci>The Bachelorette\u003c/i>, where he proposed to a girl named Ashley on some island (because the boys always have to propose to the girls, even when the girl is doing the choosing, which adds an extra splash of patriarchy and cruelty to the show). “All of America” (another oft-repeated, totally false phrase) watched as he was rejected by the tiny blond, hoping he would not quit while the quitting was good and would instead go on to be The Bachelor. On that season, Ben seemed like the most normal of all the dudes to ever be on one of these shows. He had a sort of weird haircut; he didn’t look like he worked out 4 hours a day. He seemed like a guy I would hang out with. When I found out that a friend of mine from Sonoma actually knew him from childhood, he became even more normal. If he was her boy next door, he could be mine too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why I decided it was time to stop riding \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> dragon. I knew it would go badly, because it always does. The entire premise of the show — that after a few weeks of jumping out of helicopters and getting personal concerts from third rate bands while in full make-up you will find true love — is completely ludicrous. To see someone I had developed even the slightest bit of empathy for go through “the process,” FOR A SECOND TIME, was just too much. And so I stayed away. For 2 whole episodes. And then they showed up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WEnrC7XTDs8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, so I know they didn’t just “show up.” They were here long ago, on some magical sunny day, pimping cars and snow skiing down a street. But a guy I know was in a background shot, doing the only thing a reasonable San Franciscan would be doing in this situation which is: drinking beer on the roof and watching the mayhem. So using that as an excuse to watch, I back-slid and was snagged in, once again, this time by the “reality” mixing with actual reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was so much worse than I expected it to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, I compared Ben to the boys I actually know in real life. He is exactly my age, and I don’t know if you know any 29-year-old, upper-middle-class, straight, left-leaning-men with shaggy hair, but here’s a little glimpse behind the curtain: the majority are not interested in getting married. They are however, NO MATTER HOW NICE THEY ARE, \u003ca href=\"http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/44059/the-bachelor-tape-study-how-courtney-the-model-engineered-the-ultimate-practice-wedding\">interested in sleeping with a model\u003c/a>. Though I am no model, I have never been mortally offended by this reality. Most boys I know don’t actually get the chance to make this happen, or, once they do, they realize it’s pretty similar to sleeping with a non-model. But this desire creates a problem for the show, whose main message is very conservative: men and women belong in life-long monogamous relationships with each other, these relationships must be chaste enough to be cemented in front of a chaperone, and anything other than that constitutes failure. And it also creates a problem for me, because apparently, after season upon season of watching, I have bought into this subliminal message. By the time the girls and Ben left the tropics, I hated him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I was not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some excerpts from emails between Marisa, Amick and me:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Me:\u003c/b> Subject: I am beginning to despise Ben\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body: That is all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amick:\u003c/b> Beginning?! I’m telling you, he’s the new Jake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisa:\u003c/b> He is the worst. Worst Bachelor yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a list of the things that Ben did that made us feel this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) He “broke-up” with Kaci B., a delightful airhead from somewhere South, after meeting her conservative parents and realizing he really didn’t want to date someone he couldn’t sleep with before marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) He continued to be enamored with the “mean” model, mainly because she took her clothes off and went skinny dipping with him in Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, none of us are conservative Christians and some of us are even living in sin ourselves. We generally say that above all we value honesty, which is basically what Ben was acting out when he let the girl who he did want to sleep with but didn’t want to marry to do it, go. Also, we aren’t girls who would generally turn our noses up at skinny dipping with anyone in Puerto Rico, let alone with a reasonably attractive dude. So what has happened to us?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, it is time to face up to some nasty truths about this show that I have thought for so long was just a harmless fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Chris Harrison, the host, is a vampire. He never ages and he has no compassion for human beings. Case closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, the message of these shows creeps into us, no matter how “media savvy” (shout-out to high school!) we think we are. I guess that’s what my dad was saying, with the heroin thing, though in his metaphor, the message is more forcefully injected. It’s impossible to watch two hours a week of these beautiful people, going on bizarre dates, getting loosened up by liquor until they are totally vibe-ing and making out (which must be strategically edited because they never seem sloppy) (maybe it isn’t just alcohol the producers give them) and not, at least in the most deep, secret part of your brain, think, “I wish I could be on a mega yacht in Fiji with the man of my dreams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/courtlinz.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\n\u003cp>Who will it be? Also, does it matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>So tonight is the season finale of Ben’s \u003ci>Bachelor\u003c/i>. While it’s possible that he will pick the cute, made-for-TV Lindzi to propose to after an hour-long infomercial on diamonds, it’ll probably be the model, Courtney, who spells her name like a human, comes off as a pretty terrible person on TV, and looks great in short shorts. They’ll probably date for a few weeks and then be contractually obligated to submit to an interview by the vampire when the “relationship,” without cameras, dramatic dates and hot tubs at every turn, inevitably falls apart. They will apologize on national television for their failure, by which they will mean their inability to stay together in a monogamous relationship forever, a failure pretty much every single adult person has had multiple times, not their mistake to think it would be in any way a good idea to go on TV in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight, I’ll be watching, for old time’s sake, one last hit of the reality juice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I started watching \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> a million years ago in \u003ci> Bachelor\u003c/i>-time, but only like 2 years ago in real time (Jake Pavelka’s season, Season 14, in January 2010). I don’t know what started it. Probably peer pressure. My friend Marisa had started a few seasons earlier, when someone she knew from high school was a contestant, and it sort of spiraled out of control from there. It used to be just a social thing but now I watch every week, mostly on my computer since I am too busy to meet up with my \u003ci>Bachelor\u003c/i> watching friends. Marisa lives in New York now and so we email each other our commentary, looping in our other friends, Kevin and Amick, who sometimes let me come over to their house and watch the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not proud of how deeply I’ve gotten involved with the contrived set-ups and death defying “dates” that these highly manicured “Account Managers” and “Sales Reps” share in front of the cameras. But there is just something about watching people who seem suspiciously like robots try to “find love” for the “right reasons” in a leased mansion in LA, in helicopters and on exotic islands. Every season is the most dramatic, and of course “the most controversial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s always been easy to forget the show is “reality” because it barely is. The men and women fall so easily into characters, whether through editing or their own obsessive watching of previous seasons. There is the sweet one and the evil one and the ridiculous one. And they are all suffering from either amnesia or magical thinking because the romantic success rate of this show is barely 5%. (Even though I just made that statistic up, I stand by it since I doubt anyone related to the show knows how to do anything other than magical math.) Only about 3 of the couples created in 16 seasons of \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> and 5 seasons of \u003ci>The Bachelorette\u003c/i> are still together and yet one of the most repeated phrases you hear from contestants, besides, “I didn’t come here to make friends,” is “I believe in this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/thebachelor1.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\n\u003cp>Get ready for the process!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Cut to the beginning of January. I had learned to live with my addiction. My dad, who compares watching \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i> to doing heroin, seemed to have toned down his rhetoric. And then the current season of \u003ci>The Bachelor\u003c/i>, Season 16, started, starring a local, Ben Flajnik, who is ostensibly from Sonoma but \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/ben-flajnik-the-bachelor-san-francisco_n_1261375.html\">actually lives here in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Ben started his reality career on the last season of \u003ci>The Bachelorette\u003c/i>, where he proposed to a girl named Ashley on some island (because the boys always have to propose to the girls, even when the girl is doing the choosing, which adds an extra splash of patriarchy and cruelty to the show). “All of America” (another oft-repeated, totally false phrase) watched as he was rejected by the tiny blond, hoping he would not quit while the quitting was good and would instead go on to be The Bachelor. On that season, Ben seemed like the most normal of all the dudes to ever be on one of these shows. He had a sort of weird haircut; he didn’t look like he worked out 4 hours a day. He seemed like a guy I would hang out with. When I found out that a friend of mine from Sonoma actually knew him from childhood, he became even more normal. If he was her boy next door, he could be mine too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But a guy I know was in a background shot, doing the only thing a reasonable San Franciscan would be doing in this situation which is: drinking beer on the roof and watching the mayhem. So using that as an excuse to watch, I back-slid and was snagged in, once again, this time by the “reality” mixing with actual reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was so much worse than I expected it to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, I compared Ben to the boys I actually know in real life. He is exactly my age, and I don’t know if you know any 29-year-old, upper-middle-class, straight, left-leaning-men with shaggy hair, but here’s a little glimpse behind the curtain: the majority are not interested in getting married. They are however, NO MATTER HOW NICE THEY ARE, \u003ca href=\"http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/44059/the-bachelor-tape-study-how-courtney-the-model-engineered-the-ultimate-practice-wedding\">interested in sleeping with a model\u003c/a>. Though I am no model, I have never been mortally offended by this reality. Most boys I know don’t actually get the chance to make this happen, or, once they do, they realize it’s pretty similar to sleeping with a non-model. But this desire creates a problem for the show, whose main message is very conservative: men and women belong in life-long monogamous relationships with each other, these relationships must be chaste enough to be cemented in front of a chaperone, and anything other than that constitutes failure. And it also creates a problem for me, because apparently, after season upon season of watching, I have bought into this subliminal message. By the time the girls and Ben left the tropics, I hated him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I was not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some excerpts from emails between Marisa, Amick and me:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Me:\u003c/b> Subject: I am beginning to despise Ben\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body: That is all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amick:\u003c/b> Beginning?! I’m telling you, he’s the new Jake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisa:\u003c/b> He is the worst. Worst Bachelor yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a list of the things that Ben did that made us feel this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) He “broke-up” with Kaci B., a delightful airhead from somewhere South, after meeting her conservative parents and realizing he really didn’t want to date someone he couldn’t sleep with before marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) He continued to be enamored with the “mean” model, mainly because she took her clothes off and went skinny dipping with him in Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, none of us are conservative Christians and some of us are even living in sin ourselves. We generally say that above all we value honesty, which is basically what Ben was acting out when he let the girl who he did want to sleep with but didn’t want to marry to do it, go. Also, we aren’t girls who would generally turn our noses up at skinny dipping with anyone in Puerto Rico, let alone with a reasonably attractive dude. So what has happened to us?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, it is time to face up to some nasty truths about this show that I have thought for so long was just a harmless fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Chris Harrison, the host, is a vampire. He never ages and he has no compassion for human beings. Case closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, the message of these shows creeps into us, no matter how “media savvy” (shout-out to high school!) we think we are. I guess that’s what my dad was saying, with the heroin thing, though in his metaphor, the message is more forcefully injected. It’s impossible to watch two hours a week of these beautiful people, going on bizarre dates, getting loosened up by liquor until they are totally vibe-ing and making out (which must be strategically edited because they never seem sloppy) (maybe it isn’t just alcohol the producers give them) and not, at least in the most deep, secret part of your brain, think, “I wish I could be on a mega yacht in Fiji with the man of my dreams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/courtlinz.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\n\u003cp>Who will it be? Also, does it matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>So tonight is the season finale of Ben’s \u003ci>Bachelor\u003c/i>. While it’s possible that he will pick the cute, made-for-TV Lindzi to propose to after an hour-long infomercial on diamonds, it’ll probably be the model, Courtney, who spells her name like a human, comes off as a pretty terrible person on TV, and looks great in short shorts. They’ll probably date for a few weeks and then be contractually obligated to submit to an interview by the vampire when the “relationship,” without cameras, dramatic dates and hot tubs at every turn, inevitably falls apart. They will apologize on national television for their failure, by which they will mean their inability to stay together in a monogamous relationship forever, a failure pretty much every single adult person has had multiple times, not their mistake to think it would be in any way a good idea to go on TV in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight, I’ll be watching, for old time’s sake, one last hit of the reality juice. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Election Day 2008, I found myself on Divisadero Street in the middle of a spontaneous mob scene celebrating Obama’s victory. Sloppy grins poured out of every doorway and hung out of every window. The air was thick with chants of “Yes, We Can!” and “U.S.A.,” the smack of high fives, the slurp of shared whiskey, and the shouts of girls on boys’ shoulders: an unbridled patriotism I had never seen from my generation. But there was something keeping me from giving myself over completely to the celebration: Proposition 8. The final results weren’t in, but the outlook was getting bleaker by the minute. I felt sick and went back home to the aftermath of the victory party I had just thrown, feeling separate. That feels like forever ago, but the battle over marriage equality in California still rages on in the courts with Perry v. Brown, a federal constitutional challenge to overturn Prop 8, which has successfully advanced through Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit of Appeals. Not that you would necessarily know that. All footage of the trial has been kept from the public, due to the persistent efforts of the defendants. Until now, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a clever maneuver, Dustin Lance Black, the Academy Award winning screenwriter of \u003ci>Milk\u003c/i>, and acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner decided to put on a one-off play titled \u003ci>8\u003c/i>, to be streamed live on YouTube, that would showcase pivotal moments from the trial with the help of Hollywood’s finest. The all-star cast is an embarrassment of riches: Brad Pitt as Judge Walker, George Clooney as David Boies, Martin Sheen as Theodore B. Olson, Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the plaintiffs, and on and on and on. Now, you might think that rehashing some court case might be a snoozefest, but \u003ci>8\u003c/i> is emotional, riveting, at times hysterical, and most importantly enlightening. Here are just a few reasons why 8 is worth a watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://29.media.tumblr.com/KdEsECxkZmltv2jleAWUxmDzo1_400.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– President Bartlet. Uh, I mean Martin Sheen. Yes, I realize that he only played a president on television and never actually survived that assassination attempt or had to make those tough calls to keep us from the brink of war, but I can’t help but get super emo whenever I see him. The man has serious sway with me. When he speaks, I listen like it’s a legitimate Presidential address, and that’s the draw he has in this play, specifically in a rousing speech he gives at the very end (watch below). The audience and most of the cast burst into applause after he’s through, partly because of the truth expressed in Ted Olson’s closing argument, but also because of Sheen’s inspired performance. Be right back, must find \u003ca href=\"http://i1.cpcache.com/product/12802715/josiah_bartlet_for_president_lg.jpg?color=White&height=460&width=460\">\u003cb>Bartlet for President\u003c/b> bumper sticker\u003c/a> for the car I don’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PbuRp63WC0&version=3&showinfo=0&hl=en_US]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– Chris Colfer is known as the resident gay on \u003ci>Glee\u003c/i>. An unknown before that show, he has come to represent gay adolescents dealing with bullying and adversity in high school. \u003ci>8\u003c/i> finds him playing a young man whose family forced him into a program run by NARTH (National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), an organization that tries to cure homosexuality. His performance is beyond moving and clearly informed by personal struggles Colfer faced growing up in Clovis, a rural conservative town in California. I dare you not to cry. And, just in case you’re wondering if the reparative therapy worked on that young man, here’s his answer: “Nope, just as gay as when I started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31wm4MclAZc&version=3&showinfo=0&hl=en_US]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– It’s no surprise George Takei is involved, as he seems to be everywhere these days, even in Donald Trump’s board room. In \u003ci>8\u003c/i>, he plays one of the opposition’s witnesses. When asked about where he heard that countries that legalized same sex marriage saw alarming moral decline, Takei almost steals the entire show with a single line: “It’s in the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– Have you heard of Maggie Gallagher, the figure head of NOM (National Organization for Marriage)? Surely, you’ve seen her talking over people on some news show about the sanctity of marriage, “civl wrongs,” and how we must “treat different things differently.” In a brilliant casting move, Jane Lynch (who couldn’t look any less like Gallagher) brings this woman’s intense convictions to the stage to hilarious ends. Is there anything Jane Lynch can’t do? (No.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.net/2012/03/06/janelynch.jpg\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– However, the best moment of the play, by far, involves George Clooney cross-examining John C. Reilly’s character. One time, I saw JCR step out of a cab in the Tenderloin and, while my friend was freaking out, I couldn’t have been more apathetic. After watching this scene in which Reilly’s flustered character fumbles through a rambling answer to a “yes, no, or I don’t know” question, I want to hop into a Delorean and go back in time to that precise moment and slap myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the close of the production, David Boies said that the play was a form of poetic justice. If the opposition hadn’t fought so diligently to keep the trial footage under wraps, the videos would have been aired on C-SPAN and only seen by that channel’s meager audience. Instead, with the star power of all these celebrities and the omnipresence of YouTube as a viewing medium, what happened during this trial will now be seen by millions around the world. Boies went on to have the final word of the night: “Now, you have all seen that we did put fear and prejudice on trial and fear and prejudice lost.” However optimistic those words are, the battle for marriage equality in California continues at a snail’s pace all the way up to the country’s highest court. But, along with poll numbers drastically tipping in favor of marriage equality and more and more states legalizing same sex marriage, it’s reassuring that we’re already looking back on this civil rights struggle and finding it possible to laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch \u003ci>8\u003c/i> in its entirety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUG8F9uVgM&version=3&showinfo=0&hl=en_US]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A few years ago it became clear that at some point I was going to have to pull the trigger on grad school — ie: actually graduate and start paying back all that free money that had been appearing in my checking account for the last four years that was apparently not actually free. I had two options: move in with my parents in a tiny town in Washington state or enter what the Hip Hop-types call \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=paper%20chase\">“the paper chase.”\u003c/a> Since I was living with a really cute boy I had a major crush on at the time, the choice was obvious: I needed paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for me, I landed a sweet gig as a temp in the membership department right here at KQED. I say it was sweet because I was working for a place whose mission I believed in, that paid me very well for basic data entry and customer service and was three blocks away from my apartment. There was of course a downside: I was used to skateboarding around, having adventures, surfing, coming up with insane art projects, writing stories, cooking rabbits and generally living the dream with my roommate/boyfriend. Look, I don’t feel sorry for me either, now, but he was out using his brain and his body and making magic while I was handcuffed by my student loans to a cubicle workstation, fixing email addresses and making sure everyone got the emergency radio they asked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at some point during this dark hour that I put out the call to my friends on Facebook for entertaining podcasts. I had already gotten to the point where I had listened to every existing \u003ci>Radiolab\u003c/i> episode and now \u003ci>This American Life\u003c/i> was making me cry too much to effectively do my job. I had gone through a books-on-tape phase that ended with Jeremy Irons reading \u003ci>Lolita\u003c/i> into my headphones which made me feel too dirty to look anyone in the eye. It turns out that listening to things via headphones is a very intimate experience. So when my friend Mark, who is known for having the best taste of anyone in the universe, suggest a podcast called \u003ci>Uhh Yeah Dude\u003c/i>, I subscribed to it on iTunes, no questions asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now’s the part where I have to describe \u003ci>Uhh Yeah Dude\u003c/i> to you, and this is the hard part, because while I can tell you that I love it and it’s perfect in every way, it is difficult to say what it is exactly. Basically, it is two dudes, Jonathan Larroquette and Seth Romatelli, talking to each other about things they find on the Internet. Jonathan is a \u003ca href=\"http://www.myspace.com/joggermusic\">musician\u003c/a> and also the son of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0488662/\">the guy from \u003ci>Night Court\u003c/i>\u003c/a> who gave him his name and Seth is an actor and comedian best known for his role in the Britney Spears opus, \u003ci>Crossroads\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/NwzsCYMDhRM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/NwzsCYMDhRM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I started recommending them to every single person I liked at all and a lot of those people started listening too, especially the ones who were working like me, all day at jobs that seemed a little underwhelming when compared to the lines we’d been fed since preschool about how if we were smart and worked hard, we could do whatever we wanted. We were/still are in our mid-to-late 20s and following our dreams doesn’t really seem to be panning out so well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Seth and Jonathan totally get us! They are having the conversations we wish we were having with each other but can’t be, now that we are stuck behind computers and we can’t spend so much money on beer and so much time on being hung over. They read Craigslist casual encounter ads out loud to each other, and that is funny enough, just like it was when we used to do that with our friends. It is like one of those hilarious nights, when you are sitting around with a bunch of friends, and everything just keeps getting funnier and funnier even though some of it is so depressing (product recalls from China, horrible parenting stories in the news) and you can’t stop laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this happens every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth and Jonathan really do seem like people I know in real life, and they especially did at that point, when I was doing such mindless work and they were talking into my ears for hours at a time. They give out their phone numbers even, a land line that Seth listens to (he doesn’t have a cell phone) and Jonathan’s cell. They have nicknames that I use with the widening circle of people in my life who listen to them too, Jah and sometimes Sethro. We talk about them like we know them. We quote from the piece Jah wrote as a kid about summer camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then one week, almost two years ago, everything in my whole life seemed to come apart and my boyfriend, who I really liked so much, moved out forever and a girl I knew, a best friend of a best friend, was murdered by someone she trusted. I was so lonely and freaked out I couldn’t sleep or really do anything but curl up in a ball on my bed and cry like crazy. This is going to sound insane, but that’s when \u003ci>Uhh Yeah Dude\u003c/i> saved me. I could turn it on and hear the voices of these two, for all I know, genuinely nice and funny guys, talking about how absolutely unbelievably bananas the world is, joking about it. I played episodes one after another, falling asleep to their voices and waking up, freaked out again, putting on another episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, I called and left Seth a message, thanking him for that. 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And it turned out perfectly that my LA friend couldn’t make it to the show and I got to sit there, at the Largo, in the exciting city of Los Angeles, next to my little brother, having a sort of secular religious experience, laughing our faces off while the dudes on stage talked about how terrible guys are at birthday presents, Ringo Starr, and, of course, Craigslist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the show we stood around and shook hands and took pictures with Seth and Jonathan, who were in real life insanely nice and present for all of us, even though they must have been tired and a little overwhelmed by the crazy fans. It turns out I am not the only \u003ci>UYD\u003c/i> listener with an enthusiastic downline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that a few paragraphs up I called \u003ci>UYD\u003c/i> perfect, and I have to mention, before I finish, that it is not always, for everyone. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sometimes I get into the Super Bowl (Sunday, February 5, 2012) for all its ads and associated snacking, but usually I can take it or leave it. This year I decided to devote my entire afternoon to the game only if I found a really compelling and creative event to attend. I know, high standards. But this is what happens to a small town (OK, medium-sized town) girl when she lives in the big city for 3 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Event listings in the Bay Area for Super Bowl Sunday consist of like 20% football events and 80% other cool stuff to do. And the football-related activities are pretty weird (the kind of weird I moved here for). 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It’s a benefit for \u003ca href=\"http://sfindie.virb.com/\">SF IndieFest\u003c/a> and the Roxie, so you’d be serving your community by attending. The narrators themselves, Chet Smiley and OJ “Yeah, I know” Patterson, were kind enough to answer a few questions about the big day for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How would you explain the Super Bowl to someone who’s never watched football?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Chet:\u003c/b> Well, it’s a game, first and foremost. There are two teams, composed of what we call “players,” and they are vying to transfer the football (by kicks and carries) into the end zone, which is the place where they trade the ball in for points. 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"content": "\u003cp>I come by my non-belief in any sort of God honestly: I was raised by an atheist and an agnostic who are themselves the children of atheists and agnostics. Three of my grandparents left the church (in one case, the synagogue) of their own accord at very young ages; the fourth grandparent was raised by a Unitarian Universalist and another agnostic. My own religious life was confined to the few months I spent as a teenager, attending every church in town, as a form of passive-aggressive rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people will think my childhood must have been a wonder-less, data-driven wasteland, where all decisions were based on cold logic and the sky was just a God-shaped hole. I would however, like to set the record straight: I never felt the absence of religion in my life. My parents are two of the most moral and ethical people I’ve ever met. There was love everywhere, as well as stories and community and tradition, and we always, of course, celebrated Christmas. We had a tree and lights and stockings and, while my parents never encouraged us to believe in a bearded white man in the clouds, they never discouraged us from believing in a bearded white man in the North Pole. I guess they figured the Santa story is less problematic than the God one, and that belief in Santa is almost never chronic and generally not terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does this mean for you? Well, what follows are 12 ways you too can enjoy a friendly, happy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?page=what§ion=main\">Secular Humanist\u003c/a> Christmas. Work on one a day until December 25 for maximum enjoyment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/gnc.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\">\u003cbr>Santa sells!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1. Buy Nothing Month\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the actual day of this has passed (\u003ca href=\"http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd\"> it’s the opposite of Black Friday, in which you don’t buy a single thing the day after Thanksgiving\u003c/a>), the ethos of it is exactly what you need to get into celebrating Secular Humanist Christmas (from now on, I’ll just call it “SHC”). The idea is that we aren’t buying into the hype about Christmas from anyone, including corporate America. So for SHC, it’s good to find presents that are cheap-ish or reused or handmade. It’s also important to not be emotionally manipulated by things like instrumental versions of “O Holy Night” at Nordstrom’s or by the red cups at Starbuck’s. Feel the feelings you’re feeling! Live in the moment! Don’t let religion or capitalism define you!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are at loss about how to live Buy Nothing, The Bay Area-based fashion blog, \u003ci>Ironing Board Collective\u003c/i> has \u003ca href=\"http://ironingboardcollective.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/occupy-your-holiday-shopping/\">a great guide\u003c/a> to help you with all your occupy holiday shopping needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg>\u003cbr>Save the Rebel Alliance for Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cb>2. Advent Calendars\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Advent” is a decidedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.catholic.org/clife/advent/advent.php?id=5\">NON-secular word\u003c/a>. But there’s nothing that increases excitement like a good countdown (just ask astronauts). I like to go with the traditional chocolate calendar but you can definitely get a little fancier. LEGO has a pretty sweet \u003ca href=\"http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Star-Wars-Advent-Calendar-7958\">Star Wars calendar\u003c/a> (which I know about because of my friend Nicole Bernard who took the picture above) and if you are still occupying your shopping (AS YOU SHOULD BE), Etsy has about a bazillion handmade advent calendars to choose from, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.etsy.com/listing/62388717/paper-advent-calendar?ref=sr_gallery_34&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=advent+calendar&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_ship_to=US&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade\">this one\u003c/a> which is secular AND cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>3. The Tree\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHC doesn’t involve a lot of talk about the baby Jesus, true, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t based in tradition. Most people know that a lot of the Christmas rituals come from old Pagan holidays. The tree is one of those things! Using evergreen branches and wreathes to celebrate life in the dead of winter \u003ca href=\"http://symboldictionary.net/?p=2733\">goes back to the pre-Christian Norsemen\u003c/a>. It makes sense that when every other thing is dead, and we are cold and wet and it is dark out, evergreen branches are a good reminder that we will make it back to the sunshine and plants will continue to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad, a botanist, has always refused to buy a tree from a lot. Luckily I grew up in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, home to many, many Christmas tree farms. One of the best ways to get your SHC celebrations going is to take the family out to a place where you can actually saw down a tree. Yes, there will be disagreements and maybe even injuries, but when you strap that tree to your car, you’ll feel such a sense of Christmas-y accomplishment! Just make sure you strap the tree on really tight to avoid a Christmas-y lawsuit and/or trip to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Here in the Bay you can experience the lumberjack life at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvchristmastreefarm.com/\">Castro Valley Christmas Tree Farm\u003c/a>. If you want a tree cutting experience that includes train rides, try \u003ca href=\"http://www.santastreefarm.com/\">Santa’s Tree Farm and Village\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>4. Secular Christmas Music\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone knows that music is the quickest way to an emotional experience. Here are a few songs my family uses to get in the Christmas mood:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rebel Jesus,” preformed by The Chieftains: SHC doesn’t have to be completely devoid of Jesus!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDwy8JkFFI&w=420&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty Paper,” preformed by Willie Nelson: This record was strictly not allowed to be played in our house in months other than December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNFdFbo8cA&w=420&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Merry Christmas from the Family,” preformed by Robert Earl Keene: An important part of any Christmas celebration is comparing your family to other families. I love my family but let’s be honest, these guys seem like a lot more fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg&w=420&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>5. Drinks\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An important ingredient for making all family events go smoothly, or at least interestingly, is alcohol. For some standard recipes, check out \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/12/04/holiday-cocktails-for-a-crowd/\">the Bay Area Bites holiday drink guide\u003c/a>. My drink of choice for a happy holiday time is what I call “The Special Smiley Hot Toddy” which, unlike a margarita, you can drink even when you have a fever and can’t breathe out of your nose, without people suggesting you hit up a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how you make it: squeeze 2 small segments of lemon into a cup, add 2 tablespoons of honey and 5 tablespoons of whiskey and fill the cup the rest of the way up with hot Good Earth Decaffeinated tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those is equal to 2 hours of Christmas caroling in gently falling snow, in terms of getting you into a Christmas spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg>\u003cbr>Celebrating Hanukah alone in my kitchen last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>6. A Menorah\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a one-quarter Jew, I took up the tradition of lighting a menorah in college. I also go to the equal-opportunity menorah lighting ceremonies at work, which take place every single day of Hanukah. When you are celebrating SHC, it’s important to be inclusive and to take all opportunities you can to leave your desk. Also, I think candles are fun and related to the whole Christmas lights/darkness in winter/pagan thing. I also love trying to chant the prayers and I always feel like people think I am part of something cool when they think I am Jewish, kind of like I am one of those kids back in high school with a huge family and five super hot older brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>7. Gift Tags\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family has never gone in for lavish gifts. When I was 10, my brother and I both received new pillows as gifts from Santa Claus. Most gifts under our tree are equally functional. However, we do try to spice the whole thing up by writing on the gift tags vague and esoteric hints about what is inside. One example of a memorable tag was the year my dad wrote to my mom, “Get ready to join the pod people.” She was openly excited about the iPod she was clearly about to receive and very politely excited when it turned out to be a small tripod for her digital camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>8. The Nutcracker\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of SHC entertainment, always choose \u003ci>The Nutcracker\u003c/i> over \u003ci>A Christmas Carol\u003c/i>. For one thing, \u003ci>The Nutcracker\u003c/i> involves dancing and music and no Dickensian moralizing. For another, the magic is more creepy (mice army??). If possible, participate in \u003ci>The Nutcracker\u003c/i>. For example, I was a baby mouse in a local production when I was six. My mask fell off on stage and the humiliation ended my ballet career. But it was all very Christmas-y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfballet.org/tickets/production/overview/nutcracker\">See it for yourself at the San Francisco Ballet through December 27\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>9. Movies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know I just told you to avoid \u003ci>A Christmas Carol\u003c/i> but that does not extend to the brilliant 1988 film version \u003ci>Scrooged\u003c/i>, which stars Bill Murray as a modern-day Scrooge. Forget \u003ci>Love Actually\u003c/i>, Bill Murray is a comic genius and \u003ci>Scrooged\u003c/i> is the BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE OF ALL TIME.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjhx9WfpofE&w=420&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg>\u003cbr>Do not let the Christmas hats distract you. This is about to be a war zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>10. Fighting\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes with the music and the tree cutting and the drinking: you will get in a fight with your little brother about the truck you stole from him when you were 18. Your uncle will make you cry when the dinner discussion turns to trade unions. But look at holiday fighting as a way to reinforce those bonds of family, that special something that makes these people with whom you share the most DNA the only people in the world you can scream at and insult who will still buy you a present and eat the weird food you prepared and love you, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cb>11. Christmas Morning\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important that you wake up early on SHC. If you are the first one up, make sure the lights are plugged in on the tree and that the stockings at least look full. You might also want to wake up siblings by sitting on top of them and poking their faces while they lie in bed. If this leads to a fight, see number 10. It might be just what you need to jump start the Christmas magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/family.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\">\u003cbr> World’s cutest family: mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>12. Family\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, being an atheist or an agnostic or, as I prefer to call it, a secular humanist, isn’t about the absence of a God, it’s about the presence of life on Earth, at this exact moment. Celebrating Christmas comes down to that, being so grateful for the people I love and the chance to see their faces, even if we all only get to be in the same room with my aging kitty cat once a year. Even if it’s a “tight Christmas”(what my parents used to tell us it was going to be, yearly, when our consumerist natures took hold in late November and we started demanding things like skateboards and American Girl bedroom sets and trips to Disneyland), it’s always a little magical to be with the same people, doing the same things around different Christmas trees every year. So go find some people you love. Merry Christmas!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Just make sure you strap the tree on really tight to avoid a Christmas-y lawsuit and/or trip to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Here in the Bay you can experience the lumberjack life at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvchristmastreefarm.com/\">Castro Valley Christmas Tree Farm\u003c/a>. If you want a tree cutting experience that includes train rides, try \u003ca href=\"http://www.santastreefarm.com/\">Santa’s Tree Farm and Village\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>4. Secular Christmas Music\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone knows that music is the quickest way to an emotional experience. 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I love my family but let’s be honest, these guys seem like a lot more fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/P37xPiRz1sg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/P37xPiRz1sg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>5. Drinks\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An important ingredient for making all family events go smoothly, or at least interestingly, is alcohol. For some standard recipes, check out \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/12/04/holiday-cocktails-for-a-crowd/\">the Bay Area Bites holiday drink guide\u003c/a>. My drink of choice for a happy holiday time is what I call “The Special Smiley Hot Toddy” which, unlike a margarita, you can drink even when you have a fever and can’t breathe out of your nose, without people suggesting you hit up a meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how you make it: squeeze 2 small segments of lemon into a cup, add 2 tablespoons of honey and 5 tablespoons of whiskey and fill the cup the rest of the way up with hot Good Earth Decaffeinated tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those is equal to 2 hours of Christmas caroling in gently falling snow, in terms of getting you into a Christmas spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg>\u003cbr>Celebrating Hanukah alone in my kitchen last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>6. A Menorah\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a one-quarter Jew, I took up the tradition of lighting a menorah in college. I also go to the equal-opportunity menorah lighting ceremonies at work, which take place every single day of Hanukah. When you are celebrating SHC, it’s important to be inclusive and to take all opportunities you can to leave your desk. Also, I think candles are fun and related to the whole Christmas lights/darkness in winter/pagan thing. I also love trying to chant the prayers and I always feel like people think I am part of something cool when they think I am Jewish, kind of like I am one of those kids back in high school with a huge family and five super hot older brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>7. Gift Tags\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family has never gone in for lavish gifts. When I was 10, my brother and I both received new pillows as gifts from Santa Claus. Most gifts under our tree are equally functional. However, we do try to spice the whole thing up by writing on the gift tags vague and esoteric hints about what is inside. One example of a memorable tag was the year my dad wrote to my mom, “Get ready to join the pod people.” She was openly excited about the iPod she was clearly about to receive and very politely excited when it turned out to be a small tripod for her digital camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>8. The Nutcracker\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of SHC entertainment, always choose \u003ci>The Nutcracker\u003c/i> over \u003ci>A Christmas Carol\u003c/i>. For one thing, \u003ci>The Nutcracker\u003c/i> involves dancing and music and no Dickensian moralizing. For another, the magic is more creepy (mice army??). If possible, participate in \u003ci>The Nutcracker\u003c/i>. For example, I was a baby mouse in a local production when I was six. My mask fell off on stage and the humiliation ended my ballet career. But it was all very Christmas-y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfballet.org/tickets/production/overview/nutcracker\">See it for yourself at the San Francisco Ballet through December 27\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>9. Movies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know I just told you to avoid \u003ci>A Christmas Carol\u003c/i> but that does not extend to the brilliant 1988 film version \u003ci>Scrooged\u003c/i>, which stars Bill Murray as a modern-day Scrooge. Forget \u003ci>Love Actually\u003c/i>, Bill Murray is a comic genius and \u003ci>Scrooged\u003c/i> is the BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE OF ALL TIME.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xjhx9WfpofE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xjhx9WfpofE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg>\u003cbr>Do not let the Christmas hats distract you. This is about to be a war zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>10. Fighting\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes with the music and the tree cutting and the drinking: you will get in a fight with your little brother about the truck you stole from him when you were 18. Your uncle will make you cry when the dinner discussion turns to trade unions. But look at holiday fighting as a way to reinforce those bonds of family, that special something that makes these people with whom you share the most DNA the only people in the world you can scream at and insult who will still buy you a present and eat the weird food you prepared and love you, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cb>11. Christmas Morning\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is important that you wake up early on SHC. If you are the first one up, make sure the lights are plugged in on the tree and that the stockings at least look full. You might also want to wake up siblings by sitting on top of them and poking their faces while they lie in bed. If this leads to a fight, see number 10. It might be just what you need to jump start the Christmas magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/family.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\">\u003cbr> World’s cutest family: mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>12. Family\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“If you really want to occupy Wall Street,” suggests an image circulated on Facebook, “shop locally.” The current emphasis on conscientious consumption as a form of politics, disseminated widely now through the meme sparked by \u003ca href=\"http://occupywallst.org/\">Occupy Wall Street\u003c/a>, boils down to choosing local, sustainable practices, supporting small businesses and buying locally made goods. Indeed, the ripples caused by shopping locally can have global effects, from community building to supporting artists. Other reasons to buy locally made items include undermining corporate giants and rejecting outsourced mass production, often achieved under compromised working conditions. Beyond politics, of course, the gift-giver is perceived as cool and politically aware. It is a winning situation all around — and it’s fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as we look for new ways to perpetuate the protests ignited by Occupy Wall Street, might I suggest some of these Bay Area resources for artist-created wares? It is possible to participate in the movement without pitching a tent in front of city hall. In fact, real economic change will require subtle, wide-reaching gestures beyond symbolic protest, and this largely boils down to how your money circulates in the economy. Frustrated by cheap mass-produced goods and the absence of American production? Hit up a local craft fair or local arts organization. One of the best ways to occupy your time and money this holiday season is to shop locally, and support artists and small businesses in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/tonymay.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>\u003ci>Name in Lights\u003c/i>, Tony May; courtesy SJICA.\u003cbr>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Many nonprofit arts organizations feature storefronts that generate organizational support while also supporting local artists. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kala.org/sales/sales.html\">Kala Art Institute\u003c/a> (1060 Heinz Ave., Berkeley; Tuesday through Saturday, 11am-5pm) and the \u003cb>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sjica.org/prints_for_sale.html\">San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Print Center\u003c/a>\u003c/b> (60 South First Street, San Jose; Tuesday through Friday, 10am-5pm) both offer original prints created by former artists-in-residence. At the SJICA Print Center, discover Tony May’s \u003ci>Name in Lights \u003c/i> (2011), a sculptural “print” lit from within, or a series of quietly beautiful prints by former SECA awardee Rosana Castrillo Diaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"http://rpscollective.org/store/\">Rock Paper Scissors Collective\u003c/a>\u003c/b> (2278 Telegraph Ave., Oakland; Wednesday through Sunday, 12-7pm) is a volunteer-run nonprofit that promotes skill sharing — here you might learn how to build your own bike or buy handmade jeans. Its retail space features funky silk-screened clothes and local music, among other items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend (December 9-11), wear your walking shoes and check out the numerous pop-up holiday fairs featuring local makers. Admission at most is free. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelab.org/schedule/events/569-holiday-art-sale.html\">The Lab’s Winter Wunderkammer\u003c/a> (2948 16th St., San Francisco; Friday, December 9, 6-11pm, Saturday, December 10, 11am-4pm) promises a wide range of handmade objects, all under $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/centerforbook.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>Artwork by Summer Makovkin; courtesy SF Center for the Book.\u003cbr>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfcb.org/events/holiday-fair\">San Francisco Center for the Book\u003c/a> (300 De Haro St., San Francisco, Saturday, December 10, 12-5pm) is hosting a holiday fair featuring handmade stationary, letter-pressed goods, books, journals, and prints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmade.org/sfmade-holiday-gift-fair/\">SFMADE Holiday Gift Fair\u003c/a> (Fort Mason, San Francisco, Sunday, December 11, 10am-5pm) boasts more than 50 local makers showcasing everything from chocolate to clothes to pet gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3rd Annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.renegadecraft.com/holiday-sf\">Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Market\u003c/a> (Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco; Saturday and Sunday, December 17 and 18, 11am-6pm) next weekend will feature more than 250 local and national makers, amidst great food and libations, showcasing handmade functional objects and artworks. Participate in workshops to craft your own terrariums and make your own wrapping paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of arts-minded retailers are exploring alternative commercial models through an emphasis on handmade goods all year long. \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernmousegifts.com/\">Modern Mouse\u003c/a> (2228 South Shore Center, Alameda, Monday through Friday, 10am-7pm, Saturday, 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-6pm) features locally made objects alongside those created further afield, while \u003ca href=\"http://%20www.rootscollaborative.com\">Roots Collaborative\u003c/a> (84 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, call for hours) promises that every item in their inventory is made within a 50-mile radius of its Mill Valley location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Bay Area art subscription services offer unique options for supporting artists throughout the year. San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.thethingquarterly.com/\">The Thing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://alulaeditions.com/\">Alula Editions\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepresentgroup.com/\">The Present Group\u003c/a> in Oakland each focus on commissioning the production of artist multiples in various formats. Subscribers receive a set number of items throughout the year based on a subscription cycle. The Thing focuses on text-based functional objects, such as quirky beverage coasters designed by Tucker Nichols. Each new edition is a surprise until its release; past items include a double-sided poster by Suzanne Husky and a pencil with two erasers by Colter Jacobson. Alula Editions creates exquisite objects with artist-designed textiles. (Allison Smith’s \u003ci>Crewel Work\u003c/i> (2011) — a piece of fabric printed with an image of the tree of life accompanied by an embroidery kit — is an accessibly priced distillation of her larger body of historical reenactments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you buy a subscription to The Present Group, or even a single item, you are buying into the larger goal of developing new models for supporting artists, while receiving 3 limited edition works of art. Past examples include David Horvitz’s viewmaster project and Davin Youngs’ three-booklet box set. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepresentgroup.com/gift\">Gift subscriptions\u003c/a> are also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/jeremymiranda.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>Artwork by Jeremy Miranda; courtesy Little Paper Planes.\u003cbr>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Other web-based innovators, such as Jen Bekman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.20x200.com/\">20×200\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlepaperplanes.com/\">Little Paper Planes\u003c/a> facilitate affordable art collecting online from a diverse range of artists — browse bios or send inquiries to narrow your search for local artists. Asking questions not only informs your understanding of the work, it is, in itself, a path towards community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enjoy the revolution this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a more comprehensive list, check out KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/multimedia/article.jsp?essid=38821\">2011 Holiday Shopping Guide\u003c/a>, or post your favorite source for gifts made by local artists on the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/KQED-Arts/231139070292217\">KQED Arts Facebook page\u003c/a>. Share ways to think globally, shop locally and support artists.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Allison Smith’s \u003ci>Crewel Work\u003c/i> (2011) — a piece of fabric printed with an image of the tree of life accompanied by an embroidery kit — is an accessibly priced distillation of her larger body of historical reenactments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you buy a subscription to The Present Group, or even a single item, you are buying into the larger goal of developing new models for supporting artists, while receiving 3 limited edition works of art. Past examples include David Horvitz’s viewmaster project and Davin Youngs’ three-booklet box set. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepresentgroup.com/gift\">Gift subscriptions\u003c/a> are also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/jeremymiranda.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003cbr>Artwork by Jeremy Miranda; courtesy Little Paper Planes.\u003cbr>\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Other web-based innovators, such as Jen Bekman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.20x200.com/\">20×200\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlepaperplanes.com/\">Little Paper Planes\u003c/a> facilitate affordable art collecting online from a diverse range of artists — browse bios or send inquiries to narrow your search for local artists. Asking questions not only informs your understanding of the work, it is, in itself, a path towards community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enjoy the revolution this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a more comprehensive list, check out KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/multimedia/article.jsp?essid=38821\">2011 Holiday Shopping Guide\u003c/a>, or post your favorite source for gifts made by local artists on the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/KQED-Arts/231139070292217\">KQED Arts Facebook page\u003c/a>. Share ways to think globally, shop locally and support artists.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The best thing about this fair’s gingerbread house competition is that the house doesn’t have to be a house at all! Your saccharine creation can even be, the website says, a \u003ci>box.\u003c/i> I’m not sure gingerbread boxes will fare well in the silent auction held at the end of the day, but at least the judging is silent, so your shaming won’t be too public. There will also be glogg, saffron buns, and waffles with strawberry jam. Yikes. (St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Watch the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calistogavisitors.com/calistoga-lighted-tractor-parade.php\">Calistoga Tractor Parade\u003c/a>, Dec. 3, 7-9pm\u003c/b>\u003cbr>While usually only farmers covet tractors, the big mechanical lunks are really hard to resist when they’re covered in Christmas lights, rolling charmingly along the main street of a small Northern California town. Don’t blame me when you discover a John Deere deliveryman on your doorstep this weekend — he’s just braved the city streets to bring you the tractor you purchased the night before in a love-blind haze at the tractor parade. They weren’t even supposed to sell the tractors, but you were so persistent.(On main street, Calistoga.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.org/2011/12/01/BazaarBizzare.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Browse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/sanfrancisco/\">Bazaar Bizarre\u003c/a>, Dec. 3, 12-6pm and Dec. 4, 11am-6pm\u003c/b>\u003cbr> Since I love alliteration, putting nouns before adjectives, and words that sound like other words (homophones, if you’re into literary terms), Bazaar Bizarre is my kind of event. Oh, and I also love locally produced arts and craft shows. This weekend, you should first wander through the endless warehouse full of giftables made by indie artists and designers. Then, you should watch a laser-cutting demonstration or make a Mason jar snow globe. Then, in SCRAP’s sculpture workshop, reuse items intercepted on their way to the trash — they promise Easter eggs and buttons. And if you aren’t too pooped, pose for a photo with the Bazaar Bizarre Yeti (if it really exists). (Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Support a local artist at \u003ca href=\"http://rootdivision.org/121011.html\">Root Division’s Misfit Toy Factory\u003c/a>, Dec. 10, 7-10pm\u003c/b>\u003cbr>For some, avoiding the malls this year is a statement against rampant consumerism. For others, it’s a statement against a kid spilling an ICEE on your shoes in the line at Forever 21. Either way, stick to your boycott and check out Root Division’s Misfit Toy Factory. At this live art-making event, you’ll watch your gifts grow from mere scraps and threads into elephants and airplanes (the stuffed variety). They’ve got some pretty cool art-makers participating — including Root Division’s resident artists. (Root Division, San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//u.s.kqed.org/2011/12/01/partynails.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" alt=\"\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Get holiday nails at \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Party-Nails/204093386337234\">Party Nails Pop-up Salon\u003c/a> at Shotwell’s, Dec. 11, 4-7pm\u003c/b>\u003cbr>I’ve been a nail-biter since my nails were mature enough to take the abuse. I’ve tried everything to quit — deep breathing, gum chewing, Sriracha sauce — but nothing worked until I discovered Taylor Watson’s nail art. When Taylor adorned my nails with elegant monochrome chevrons, I got so many compliments that I didn’t bite my nails for a week. I still look back on those days fondly. So I wasn’t surprised to hear that the nail diva herself is hosting her first pop-up salon this month at Shotwell’s. Don’t miss the debut. Taylor’s prices are a steal, she has excellent nail-side manner, and she’s even agreed to do holiday nails. But I recommend asking for the space nails. (Shotwell’s, San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>See the results of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/events/half-moon-bay-boat-decorating-contest-in-half-moon-bay\">boat decorating contest\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay, Dec. 10-31\u003c/b>\u003cbr>Each December in my hometown, my neighbors lovingly applied Christmas lights to a dusty boat that chilled in their driveway all year. I don’t think the boat ever saw open water. I’m pretty sure my neighbors had forgotten it was a boat and believed they were decorating a surprisingly smooth and hollow hedge. But that was Sacramento. 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