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v. To distinguish the flavor of by taking into the mouth.
v. To eat or drink a small quantity of.
v. To partake of, especially for the first time; experience.
v. To perceive as if by the sense of taste.
v. Archaic To appreciate or enjoy.
intransitive v. To distinguish flavors in the mouth.
v. To have a distinct flavor: The stew tastes salty.
v. To eat or drink a small amount.
v. To have experience or enjoyment; partake: tasted of the life of the very rich.
BOX DATE: 2019
MANUFACTURER: M.G.A.
DOLLS IN LINE: Twang; Metal Babe; Prom Princess; Tough Guy; M.C. N.Y.C.; Valley B.B.; Splits; Pins; E.D.M.B.B.; Rainbow Raver
RELEASES: 2019 #Hairgoals; 2021 Hair Hair Hair
BODY TYPE: No date; painted bodysuit
HEAD MOLD: 2018; open mouth; ear slots
SPECIAL FEATURES: Color change
***The doll on the right is wearing 2020 #OOTD Tricksta B.B.'s outfit.
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Pins wasn't one of the dolls I hoped to get from the #Hairgoals "Wave 2" line. But I was just happy to have the chance to get my hands on a doll from this set. My local Wal-Mart had gazillions of the "Wave 1" dolls in the clearance section, for just $9 each. I say "just" nine dollars...but let's be honest that is a lot of money for tiny dolls (you are mostly paying for packaging). I didn't want to chance getting two dolls from the same wave, because knowing my luck they'd be the same. And I am not a gambler, nor do I condone this general idea of surprise themed toys. I think toy companies and kids are getting a little carried away with this concept, and I cannot fathom who would want to gamble $16 on a doll they can't even see! Anyways, I was allured to the L.O.L. Surprise dolls after encountering the Glamper in the toy aisle a few days before. I was enchanted by this camper, that was marketed for big and little dolls (I am a sucker for playsets). This intrigued me, and made me want to know more about the dolls that were marketed with it. So when I saw the L.O.L. dollies pop up in the sale section, it seemed like fate. I was only going to buy one that night at Wal-Mart, but then I saw one lone "Wave 1" package sitting in the throng of "Wave 2" dolls. I decided that this was destiny. I saved opening this doll for last, since I preferred the "Wave 1" dolls in general (as there were more rainbow colored ones). I admit that when I pulled Pins out (the gal on the left, I was perplexed. I had not remembered she existed based on the little research I had done preemptively. But as soon as our eyes met, it was love. She reminds me of a miniature Bratz like version of Mary Ellen from American Girl. I love her sweet pin up ensemble and her delightfully long red tresses. She also immediately won the heart of Colleen as well. Thanks to her and Yang Q.T. (the "Wave 2" doll I scored that night), I became a full blown addict of these L.O.L. Surprise dolls. It's a good thing that I wouldn't gamble money on the concealed dolls, or I'd already be broke. I was lucky enough to get Pins and Yang Q.T. with a gift card, as well as Beekeeper Barbie, one night in January of 2020!
It's quite ironic that both of my first two L.O.L. Surprise dolls were among the ones I got duplicated first in my collection too! In June of 2021, my second Pins (on the right) joined the family. Clearly she isn't nearly as nice as my store bought lady. I'm not remotely disappointed that I got my first lady brand new. Not that I would have been overly bummed that my secondhand Pins was missing a few things. She was part of the "L.O.L. Flea Market Surprise Lot." I was shocked to see such a new L.O.L. doll already cast aside for secondhand sale. I guess kids these days don't stay interested in toys long. Anyways, this Pins models a fashion pack on my display, but it's nice knowing that she has her original outfit to wear just in case.
The curtain is slowly falling on 2011 only to rise again for a new year. I wish everyone out there in the Flickrverse a happy, peaceful, and photographic 2012!!
Title borrowed from lyrics in the song Little Talks by the newly 'discovered' Arcade Fire/Mumford & Sons/Head and the Heart-sounding Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men...be sure to give them a listen (linked in the first comment below).
Happy Holidays!!
West Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine.
Noodling around in the front yard with my Country Blues Twanger, on a sunny Saturday afternoon. (:>)
I remember almost stepping on this frog...seeing it at the very last minute. I guess the camouflage was fulfilling its design intention...but its very success almost got the little hopper squished.
Plunk your magic twanger Froggie.
Long curly seed pods are a feature of trees in Grenfell Street Adelaide at certain times of the year. I wish I knew what there were called.
Sigma SA7 (35mm analogue SLR) FP4+ film
Coffe shop/Guitar shop in Stockholm. Nice place!
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Eugene Edwards knows how to inject the twang in Dwight Yoakam's songs.
Eugene Edwards sabe cómo inyectar el "twang" en las canciones de Dwight Yoakam.
Simon Long from our sponsor, Nature's Path, learns how to 'twang' his fork to entice the worms to the surface.
Wrecked -- "In Clark's slapdash 13th mystery to feature New York City PI Regan Reilly (after 2009's Cursed), the disappearance of divorcée Adele Hopkins interrupts the plans of Regan and her husband, Jack, to celebrate their first anniversary at their weekend place on Cape Cod. During a storm, Skip, a local caretaker, finds Adele lying in a heap outside the house she's renting, her face bloody, her rowboat banging against the rocks in the nearby bay. By the time Skip returns with help, Adele is gone. As Regan and Jack aid the authorities in locating Adele's next of kin, clues surface that suggest Adele has been the victim of foul play. The two co-owners of the boutique Pillow Talk, who knew Adele as one of their best customers, offer Regan and Jack an important lead, while a visiting theatrical troupe lends a bizarre plot twist." -- from www.barnesandnoble.com
Decked -- "The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home - and into the hands of a young girl's killer." -- from www.barnesandnoble.com
Snagged -- "Snag, Run, Rip...It's Sheer Murder! Murder at a Miami panty-hose convention? It's a perfect case for a sleuth with panache and great legs. Coming to trendy South Beach for a wedding, Regan Reilly meets the bride's favorite relative, the seventy-something Uncle Richie. He's also headed for a legwear bash with his newest invention: run-less nylons that women-and rival manufacturers-would kill for! After two attempts on Uncle Richie's life and the discovery of another suspicious death, Regan finds herself in a rollicking Miami hotel filled with suspects of every stripe-and knee-high deep in a caper that could cost her her life..." -- from www.barnesandnoble.com
Iced -- "P.I. Regan Reilly has high hopes for her Aspen vacation. But a mystery soon has the chic detective snooping rather than skiing. Million-dollar paintings have been disappearing, and an old friend of Regan's-a folksy ex-con named Eben Bean-has vanished too. Everyone except Regan believes Eben has gone bad...again. Her hunt to find him leads away from the tourist crowd into the founding families of this former frontier town. She never expects to get in hot water with a wild and woolly seventy-something lady who has a shocking secret she'd die to keep. Or get in over her head trying to save a famous portrait a dangerous criminal would kill to steal. Now the snow is falling, the plot is thickening, and Regan is engaged in a different winter sport, one that's right up her alley-trying to catch a thief!" -- from www.barnesandnoble.com
Twanged -- "Sleuth Regan Reilly is hired as a bodyguard for singer Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star who has been receiving threatening "love notes." Brigid also possesses a "magical" Irish fiddle said to be cursed-whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Still, Brigid brings it to the Hamptons, where her band will perform at a Fourth of July concert. Chappy Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and his ditzy wife, Bettina, are their hosts. Regan joins them at "Chappy's Compound," an oceanfront estate where they encounter Bettina's guru Peace Man, Chappy's bumbling sidekick Duke, a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture-and a party guest found floating face-down in the pool. Is the curse of the fiddle real? Is there a murderer in the house? As the concert nears, the menace to Brigid grows, and Regan must discover the truth before it's too late..." -- from www.barnesandnoble.com
These were all enjoyable mysteries...lighter-hearted then Mary Higgins Clark books, but still intriguing and fun to figure out whodunit.
Wrecked -- Started: May 16, 2011 Finished: May 17, 2011
Decked -- Started: May 17, 2011 Finished: May 20, 2011
Snagged -- Started: May 24, 2011 Finished: May 26, 2011
Iced -- Started: May 30, 2011 Finished: May 30, 2011
Twanged -- Started: May 31, 2011 Finished: June 1, 2011
25 Book Challenge 2011 Books #39, #40, #42, #46 & #47
Located in ‘the purple house’ on Hereford Avenue in the heart of Ganges on beautiful Salt Spring Island. Delighting locals & visitors alike with uncommonly beautiful finds: stylish clothing, artisan jewellery & handbags, beautiful home accents, fine soaps, journals, a fantastic greeting card selection & more.
Twang & Pearl offers boutique shopping with warm country hospitality: ”A little bit country, a little bit cocktail party.”
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An Exhibition of pottery 1947 - 1996 made by Bill Newland with additional pieces by his wife Margi Hine and colleague Nicholas Vergette.
Obituary: William Newland - The Independent 12.05.1998
THE POTTER William Newland had bold theories about clay and creativity which he often planned to write down. Now we will never read his thoughts on the Great Knerle (Newland's term for a basic pattern found on prehistoric pots excavated in the Euphrates) and on the origins of sgraffito. But his work remains, an array of prancing thrown-and- assembled tin-glaze bulls with curved horns, handsome thrown platters on which he drew mythological scenes, proud press-moulded cockerels and great press-moulded dishes slip-painted with big birds and Matissean heads.
Newland was born in 1919 at Masterton in the Wairarapa, the premier sheep- farming area of North Island, New Zealand, and his voice never lost a slight, musical Kiwi twang. His grandfather had jumped ship in 1870 and went up into the hills behind Wellington to start the settlement known as Newlands. His father was a sheep and cattle drover and a stock buyer.
By the age of 13 Newland was a drover too, with a horse and five dogs, able to keep a thousand sheep together and on the move. During the Depression he and his brother ran a butcher's shop in Masterton and he attended evening classes in drawing. When the Second World War broke out he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in Greece and the Middle East followed by three years as a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany.
In a PoW camp at Gorlitz in Sudetenland he met white Russians - "marvellous men, artists and architects" - and studied Kimon Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw (1941), an inspirational book filled with reproductions of the world's most beautiful drawings from both East and West. Newland began to paint and draw his fellow prisoners with crayons and paints sent by the Red Cross.
From 1945 until 1947 he studied painting at Chelsea School of Art, going on, as part of an agreement he made with the New Zealand government, to train as a teacher at the Institute of Education, at London University. There he discovered a remarkable natural facility with clay, attending Dora Billington's classes at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and reading Marion Richardson on education and art.
He saw himself doing for ceramics what Richardson had done for painting in schools. In ceramic terms this meant a healthy suspicion of the certainties of Bernard Leach's overnight 1940 classic A Potter's Book. Newland did not like the idea of "sitting in Bloomsbury painting bamboo leaves on pots with a Chinese brush". In 1948 he became a lecturer at the Institute and also gave evening classes at Central.
His energy and ability drew numerous painters taking an art teacher's diploma to ceramics. Margaret Hine (whom he married in 1950), Nicholas Vergette, James Tower, John Reeve and Ian Auld were all taught by Newland and all went on to become potters of the first rank.
Like many British artists after the Second World War, Newland looked south for inspiration, immersing himself in Mediterranean culture, ancient and modern. In 1949 he travelled in Spain with Margaret Hine and Nicholas Vergette, studying country potteries and paying a visit to Malaga to look at tin-glazed Hispano-Moresque wares.
Tin-glaze and the casual light-hearted beauties of Picasso's ceramics came to represent an alternative to the solemn aesthetic of neo- Oriental stoneware. Newland, Hine and Vergette's 1954 show at the Studio Club in Swallow Street revealed the strong influence of Picasso combined with long hours in the British Museum studying Tang horses and clay figures from Tarentum.
The accessible humanism of Newland's ceramics was recognised by Stuart Mason, the Director of Education for Leicestershire who bought quasi-religious figurative pieces like Daniel and the Lion and a series of variants on the Flight into Egypt for Devotional Rooms in Leicestershire's bright new schools. Newland's magnificent large bowl of 1955, with a brushed image of Europa and the Bull, suggests his capacity for the grand gesture.
Much of Hine and Newland's joint work of the 1950s and early 1960s enlivened the interiors of coffee bars and restaurants with figurative groups of fishermen and harlequins and women releasing doves or seated on donkeys. In the 1960s they created playful interiors for the Kaye brothers' Golden Egg chain of restaurants. Few of these schemes survive, although their voluptuous reliefs of Indian gods and goddesses can still seen at the restaurant Mumtaz near Regent's Park.
Underpinning all Newland's work and teaching was a sense of social responsibility and a special kind of robust New Zealand egalitarianism. He was passionate about his role at the Institute of Education. He believed that working with clay was a powerful therapeutic force and that to create in three dimensions was a crucial, if neglected, aspect of visual education, teaching what he called "tactile knowing". He believed that giving young children clay at school would result in future generations of better architects, town planners and designers. Partly thanks to Newland and his relations with county education officers, pottery was taught in most secondary schools after the war and kilns and other equipment were installed.
As a member of Sir John Summerson's National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design (NCDAD) Newland also played a crucial part in the encouragement of ceramics in art schools after 1962. In recent years, to Newland's sorrow, there has been no specialist pottery instructor at the institute.
Developments in education in the 1980s, especially the shift away from material-based teaching in schools, caused him much concern. Just after the war it was different:
Everyone was full of enthusiasm. We all thought that we were going to change the world. This sort of spirit was in the clay, it was in the paint, in the teaching of painting, in the teaching of craft. Kids were going to paint if they wanted to, pot if they wanted to, weave, book-bind . . .
After retirement from full-time work at the institute in 1982 he continued to run the Bedford Way Gallery in the foyer of the Institute of Education. This was very much his creation and was used to mount a series of stimulating exhibitions looking at craft, art and design in the context of education. The area has now been turned into a bookshop. Retirement also enabled Newland to devote more energy to his own work.
The death of his wife and collaborator Margaret in 1987 hit him hard, but the 1980s and 1990s saw the rediscovery of his work of the 1950s and numerous students and researchers paid him court, charmed by his joie de vivre, by his practical and original theories about education and by his deep understanding of ceramic history and technique. In 1996 he had a splendid retrospective exhibition organised by Aberystwyth Arts Centre which gave him much pleasure.
Newland remained a dashing figure to the end, fond of a rolled cigarette and a glass of red wine. He was a keen gardener and a superb cook. He embodied that optimistic post-war spirit which perceived the practice of all the arts as a peaceful civilised reparation for the miseries and trauma of war. He leaves a daughter, Sally, an illustrator and painter, and a son, Jeremy, a potter.
Rupert William Newland, potter and teacher: born Masterton, New Zealand 5 February 1919; Lecturer, Institute of Education, London University, part-time 1949-60, 1986-92, full-time 1962-86; Tutor, Central School of Arts and Crafts 1949-60; married 1950 Margaret Hine (died 1987; one son, one daughter); died High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 30 April 1998.
Located in ‘the purple house’ on Hereford Avenue in the heart of Ganges on beautiful Salt Spring Island. Delighting locals & visitors alike with uncommonly beautiful finds: stylish clothing, artisan jewellery & handbags, beautiful home accents, fine soaps, journals, a fantastic greeting card selection & more.
Twang & Pearl offers boutique shopping with warm country hospitality: ”A little bit country, a little bit cocktail party.”
(If you'd like to use any of these photos for anything pls contact Kris Krüg first - kriskrug@gmail.com or 778. 898. 3076. Thank you! (c) (r) (tm) 2016)
The guys at Twang Beer Salt encourage you to be all kinds of naked. But please, what ever you do, don't drink naked. That would just be totally tasteless.
A hot, sweaty and well packed pub, an awesome band full of talented musicianship kickin out Outlaw Country, Rock'n'Roll tunes highlighted by the great voice of the luvly Jenny Don't ... what a great fun night out in Bremens very own Horner Eck in the Steintor-Viertel an Quartier where i once spent quite some time in my youth surfing the punkrock bars, clubs, youth centers and record stores and was enjoying a great return home after several odd years with Portland' s Jenny Don't and teh Spurs.
She of the bordello air
Sweet suthern twang and sexy flair.
"Hi ther', Mister!"
"Mi casa, su casa!", "the night we can share".
"If you wish, 'til forever!"
"All it takes is a few dollars to spare".
(Wink!)
But those are days long gone.
Oh, New Orleans. My Nu Orlenz.
(She reminded me of those days when New Orleans was notorious... and drunk with its celebration of opulence, decadence and excesses... That was a period when "Red Light" meant red light. I took her picture after I captured hers.)
The guys at Twang Beer Salt encourage you to be all kinds of naked. But please, what ever you do, don't drink naked. That would just be totally tasteless.
Hair: Amacci Hair - Maddy Brown pack
Fit: Suki Song Dress black @) 09n
Shoes: N-Core ROXY 1. Rare black&glass
Jewelry: Choker Rebel Gal
Aisling nose chains
Bracelet & Ring MANDALA Tensei
Mesh Body: Slink Hourglass
Sodajerk began in Pittsburgh with longtime friends Bucky Goldstein and Poppa John Tucker as an outlet for their shared love of 50's rockabilly, 60's country, 70's classic rock, 80's metal and early 90's college rock. They found that when they mashed the booze filled swagger of The Replacements with the tear-in-my-beer twang of Johnny Cash, something special happened....the Sodajerk sound was born.
The first record (1999's "Can't Put You Down") was almost entirely recorded by just the duo, and was greeted with warm reviews and high critical praise in their hometown, ultimately winning a spot on the Top Five Releases of 1999 by local press.
They followed with 2001's "Unhappy Hour" which continued the tradition, ending up on yet another Top 10 Releases of the Year list in Pittsburgh's press and leading to the bands involvement with festivals such as the Nashville New Music Conference and North By Northeast in Toronto. The end of 2001 brought them the honor of being chosen by Jim Beam as one of their 5 finalists in the Jim Beam National Backroom Band Search held in Nashville, of which Sodajerk ultimately placed second (not bad for some yanks!) They followed that with the release of the only official Jerk live record, "We're Going To Hell Now Because Of You Guys".
The winning streak continued in early 2002, as Sodajerk took top honors in the Grafitti Rock Challenge in Pittsburgh, a long running, yearly band competition, that in the past has seen the participation of such bands as Pittsburgh's own Rusted Root and The Clarks. This led to the recording of the bands third record (2003's "Brand New Low") which landed the band in regular rotation on such AAA stations as 91.3 WYEP. It even found its way onto celebrated singer songwriter Jesse Malin's website under the heading Fine Art: Top 25 Albums, alongside legends such as Wilco and Neil Young (were blushing now!)
The constant gigging in Pittsburgh and other cities on the east coast, plus the opportunities they've had to share the stage with bands as diverse as The Jayhawks, Charlie Daniels, The Drive By Truckers, Reverend Horton Heat, Scott Miller, John Mellencamp, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Bobby Bare Jr., Robbie Fulks, The Red Elvises, The Tarbox Ramblers, Marah, Montgomery Gentry, and even heavy hitters such as Nashville Pussy and Static X led to Bucky and Poppa Johns desire to capture more of their live sound on the next record, which ended up being simply titled "Sodajerk", released in 2005. It's a raw rock n roll blast that immediately has found its way into regular rotation again on 91.3 WYEP (garnering 15 spins a week) and to the top of critics lists.
In late 2005, the duo relocated to Atlanta and recruited Blake Parris on bass and "Saint" Freddy McNeal on guitar. In 2007, the band released "Sodajerk 2" which was a honky tonk affair from start to finish complete with fiddles, pedal steel and dobro. Folks from both Pittsburgh and their new hometown Atlanta appeared on the record, and the band hit the road to promote it. In 2009, the band combed through 10 years of unreleased tracks to create "The Complete Jerk", a celebration of the band's first 10 years. The band also released a new record called "Songs For The Empty Handed" in 2010, which showed the band returning to it's more roots rock sound.
Whether its the rootsy blast of "Song For The Empty Handed", the twangy hook laden "Another Town" or the trip hop country masterpiece "Cow Hop", Sodajerk is a band that lives to challenge the stereotypes of all music. One Pittsburgh writer put it best, Its all you need for a night on the town.....or the end of the world!