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A MEATY TUBE Lean how to make chorizo

by Steffanie Bezruki

KID COULTER

umping into the subdivision pond for an impromptu backstroke race, slurping a body shot off your exposed academic advisor, or hopping a fence and evading security for a chance to catch a chord of your favorite musical group. Making out on the roof of Davenport Hall, or tossing water balloons at unsuspecting pedestrians from that roof! As many understand, the summer heat seems to dredge up our most mischievous behavior. No summer is complete without a few wild days and nights. Maybe you woke up in Mexico, or maybe just your TA’s bed; buzz now gives the residents of C-U an outlet to share their most dastardly deeds of Summer 2011.

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IS 2012 THE END? 6 ON THE217.COM COMMUNITY If you haven’t read it yet, make sure to take a look at Avani’s column, “Seen Around CU.” Always an entertaining read, each week she muses about the oddities of life and the community.

MUSIC Lollapalooza was fun, but you didn’t go, so check out some more interviews, and then you could pretend you were as cool as us. Lulz.

MOVIES & TV I promise: there is a review of Smurfs 3D online right now. I do not promise that the movie is good, nor do I promise the review is any good, either.

“Took suggestive and inappropriate pictures on the quad one night while the sprinklers were on. I did this with some people I knew ... and some that I didn’t. Unsure where the pictures are now.”

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PAIGE WHIPPO JUNIOR, RECREATION, SPORTS & TOURISM STUDIES.

“Snuck into the top floor of Joe’s to chug Crown Royal and pose on the bar. Thought I got away with it for a while, too, but apparently they have security cameras up there.” 2

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RUDY GARCIA OF CHAMPAIGN

A few tales of summers past

New seasons of your favorite shows will be popping up pretty soon, so check out Stacey’s column that connects food and the most popular TV shows! It’ll be online Saturday. Get cooking and Netflix-ing..

EDITOR’S NOTE DYLAN SUTCLIFF

As I wrote in my likes, I lost my glasses at Lollapalooza last Friday. I have no backup, so I must resort to putting little slices of plastic in my eyes —I forgot how annoying they are — but the experience has got me thinking about the four years I had my frames and the future of my astigmatized eyes. Until junior year of high school when I bought my thick-framed, “hip” glasses, I wore contacts every day. I’m from a very small town that had absolutely no knowledge of the existence of indie — or really any of my interests — and most didn’t care to find out. It was basically Grandkids guitarist extraordinaire Evan Metz and myself alone who knew of the “subcultures” that existed beyond Top 40 radio and blockbuster films. When I showed up to school with my thick, largeframed glasses, most people did not react positively. Comments like, “I don’t know” and “I liked what you looked like without glasses” were very common for the first couple weeks. But I obviously kept them, and everyone, including my mom, got used to it. I started thinking about getting new frames probably two years ago, but I never got around to it. The glasses I had were extremely recognizable both in style and as a contributor to my overall image; it would be very difficult for me to find new frames that could fulfill both of those requirements in a way that was wholly different from my current pair. So I did what everyone does when they are posed with a difficult but unnecessary problem — I ignored it. Although I was completely aware of my stylistic dependence on my glasses, I was not exactly comfortable with it. I never saw myself as a “hipster” until so many people started wearing RayBans with the lenses poked out; or even worse, those RealD glasses that people got from seeing Nightmare Before Christmas around Halloween. My frames became marginalized by the fakes, creating the possibility that I was propagating an image instead of fixing my eyesight. It’s bittersweet to be forced into the decision of whether or not to get new glasses, but now I must embark on choosing new frames that will represent me as me. Whether or not I’m up to the task is yet to be seen.

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Keep your eyes peeled and check off those days on the calendar, Champaign-Urbana. August 14 and 15 will mark an event held by the Champaign Park District called CU Days at Douglass Park. Running from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday the 14 and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the following Sunday evening, residents, families and University students are asked to come out and enjoy a community-wide celebratory event. Mary Howell, receptionist at the Champaign Park District, said this event has been going on for over 30 years. Entertainment, senior bingo, softball and basketball games, food, merchandise and children’s activities will cause an explosion of fun at one of C-U’s local parks. Howell said kids can play in the bounce houses or get their faces painted at the event. There will also be one clothing vendor, six food vendors and 28 information vendors, including the city of Champaign, the Champaign Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice, and Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University, Howell said. Angela Clark, assistant program director at the cultural center, said the center had a booth at last year’s event and it went well, distributing information to the families and residents in attendance. Howell said the attendance level of the event is largely dependent on weather. As little as five people to as many as 1,000 people from the C-U community can show up to celebrate the CU Days at Douglass Park. “It’s important to be involved on campus and in the Champaign-Urbana community,” said Clark.

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» Summer rainstorms: Quite possibly the most beautiful, refreshing weather-related phenomenon. The air cools off, becomes still, and the rain starts. Soft and refreshing, it quietly patters on sidewalks and leaves. You can almost see the grass getting greener by the minute, rehydrating after however many weeks of humidity and heat. And then there are those last few moments near the end of the shower, when the clouds lighten and the sun shines through as the last few drops of rain fall. Glorious. » Blue-burries: Juicy little lovelies. I like ‘em big and tart (the “bluecrop” variety). I went blueberry picking the other weekend with my parents, and it was a blast. Standing in the sun for hours, sweating and picking these little guys, one by one, bunch by bunch. I picked 5 pounds of blueberries! Next on the agenda: Blueberry crisp and vanilla ice cream. Mmm... » Mosquitos: Alright, so this is a stretch. I actually hate mosquitoes. Who doesn’t? But let’s try to find some good things about them. Erm...Okay, so they suck your blood and leave a nasty, swollen red bump that itches like hell. But at least it feels good and satisfying to scratch it, right? And bats eat them! Bats are cool. Spiders probably eat mosquitos, too, but I don’t like spiders. Let’s focus on bats.

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» Losing my Glasses: Even though I only went to one day of Lollapalooza this year, it still managed to fuck up my whole weekend. I saw Girl Talk, and it was so sweaty in that tent that my glasses started to fog up. I put them in my pocket, and then they fell out. Damn my dancing soul to hell! » My pockets: This is the second time that the shorts I was wearing have failed in holding important objects. The first time this happened was in Dixon, IL two years ago during the Fourth of July Petunia Festival when I lost my iPod during a Blues Brothers cover band. That’s right. I was dancing to a Blues Brothers cover band hard enough to have something fly out of my pocket. Either way, those shorts are retired and are in the running to be burned at our next bonfire, or at the very least retired from dance-heavy situations. » Blurry-ness: It was pretty hard to get around Chicago without being able to see! Considering the fact that I’m not too familiar with Chicago’s layout and that I couldn’t read any of the street signs, I’d say I was lucky to get out of the city alive. Lucky for me, there were enough hipsters wandering aimlessly through Chicago this weekend that I just fit in with the crowd.

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OK GO

by Adam Barnett and Dylan Sutcliff

idiculous videos of treadmills and Rube Goldberg machines aside, OK Go makes good with the power pop, though it’s difficult to gauge whether more people are fans of their wacky, inventive dances or their tunes. In just a few short weeks, the Chicagogone-L.A. quartet went hyper-web-technology with an interactive video based in HTML 5, played the president’s 50th birthday and squeezed in some time at Lollapalooza for a high-octane set. That’s where this interview came in: »buzz: Who do you want to see here at the festival? Tim Norwood: I know Dan wants to see Skrillex. Dan Konopka: I wanna see Skrillex. I just met Skrillex, and he’s sort of a hero to me right now. He’s, like, a pretty badass guy. TN: I wanna try to catch Cults if we’re done in time. I’d really like to see Ratatat. » buzz: I’m sure everybody has been asking about this. Your new video for “All is Not Lost” is a pretty big and cool deal, so how did that all start? TN: We were approached by a dance troupe from New York called Pilobolus that we’ve been fans of for a long, long time. And they asked us if we wanted to do a collaboration with them, which we were really excited about. We’re two kind of like-minded outfits. So we brought out Trish Sie, who we work with on a lot of our videos… ‘cause she’s also a big fan of Pilobolus and has a dance background, and so we all got together and collaborated. And Trish came up with this idea to build a glass table and put a camera underneath it and sort of mess with the perspective of gravity in that way. We started rehearsing for that and then Google kind of came along and asked if we would do an HTML5 project with them. So, this seemed like it would be a good thing to parley into an idea like that. And we were able to do a lot more than just one static shot with a glass table. All of a sudden, we could have four, to eight, to twelve tables, and then it became a question of “What do we do on those tables?” And we realized that we could spell out letters with the dancers’ feet. DK: Google allowed us to take our videos to another level, making it interactive. The beginning of the video, you can type in a message, and the dancers write out the message at the end with their feet. So we did the entire English alphabet. We also did the Japanese alphabet. And the song is “All is Not Lost,” and it was a message of hope first directed towards Japan and the people who suffered through those natural disasters. So we tried to take it as far as we could in the technological sense with Google. And it was just a big, happy collaboration for ya. » buzz: Have you typed in any cool phrases? TN: My phrases have been pretty “vanilla,” actually. Like, we made it, so we’ve seen a lot of edits of it. So when it came time for it to actually go live, I did a “Hey, how ya doin’? I’m Tim”-type message. Just to make sure it was working. DK: I did a lot of things to try and impress my 4

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mother-in-law. Like, “I love you, Mom,” “I’m not a deadbeat drummer, Mom,” “I can really do it, Mom. Trust me, Mom.” TN: Dan has Mom issues. DK: Nah, I think it’s working. With the Obama thing and the feet message — I think we’re safe now… » buzz: You guys have done some other stuff with Obama. When did that start happening? TN: We met Barack on the [presidential] campaign trail… and we were playing at the University of Wyoming, and he was speaking at the University of Wyoming, and we asked if we could meet him because we’re huge fans and supporters. So we were granted that meeting, so we got to meet him back then. He talked to Damien a little bit about net neutrality ‘cause Damien was about to testify in front of congress for net neutrality. And a few years later, all of a sudden, we got called to ask if we wanted to play his 50th birthday party. DK: Which was a really exciting event. We got to share the stage with Jennifer Hudson and Herbie Hancock, and we all got together and sang to Barack for his birthday. It was all here in Chicago. It was right at the Aragon Ballroom. TN: Which was nice because we started in Chicago. So it was a bit of a homecoming… » buzz: Do you believe that at the rate technology is moving, we will soon have physically interactive videos, like in Willy Wonka when Mike Teevee removes a Wonka Bar from the TV? TN: Man, it would be awesome. I’m gonna say yes. That will be possible. You’ll be able to grab into your computer screen and pull something out of our video. DK: It’s gonna really change the porn industry, basically. For the better? TN: Definitely for the better, in my opinion. » buzz: What kind of video would you guys make with that technology? TN: I’d like to do one where it’s just a wishing well, and you can just flip coins into it from wherever you are and make wishes. DK: I would like to make one that’s like HBO Boxing, so if you wanted to get your ass kicked, there would be a heavyweight boxer, and he would just reach out and clock you, so you could have that experience in your life where you got knocked out by a Mike Tyson type right at your desk. TN: I like his idea better than mine. » buzz: The wishing well thing is cool, too. Maybe you could make a profit off of it. TN: I think it would be a good charity-type thing. DK: Yours is a better idea. » buzz: I think they’re both great ideas. DK: Pain and cash. TN: Pain and cash. It’s what makes the world go ‘round, boys. I’m not sure if you’ve learned that yet. » buzz: On the same note of technology, Damien has been a pretty big supporter of the slow-internet movement, especially with the song he wrote, “Love Me Long Time”, that premiered on NPR. What are your thoughts on the slow-internet movement?

Used with permission from OK Go

TN: I’m a big promoter of retro anything. It was a truly cool, cool time for the internet. I remember when the internet took patience. And I feel like it’s something the younger kids don’t know anything about anymore. So when I have kids, I’m gonna get dial-up, and I’m gonna make ‘em go through that first before I get high speed anything. I’m into it, man. I’m into books, mail, I’m into the newspaper, and I’m into stairs, and walking to places and dial-up internet. DK: I feel kind of the same way. I mean, my wife and I have a baby on the way, and you hear parents say, “I wanna give my son everything I never had.” Well, I don’t want to give my son anything. I don’t want him to have an iPhone. He’s not gonna get the car, not until he’s 21. Clothes: maybe. He’s gonna have a Tarzan kind of thing, and he’s just gonna have to like it… » buzz: In your new record, it seems that your drums and the lower end have a bit of a lo-fi feel, and it almost has a Neutral Milk Hotel style to it. It sounds really cool, but I was wondering where the shift came from. TN: Well, I think what you might be thinking of is lo-fi as in distorted. And it’s funny you mention that. We actually referenced Neutral Milk Hotel a lot on this record, just because we love their records. But yeah, there’s definitely a super blown-out sound, especially between the bass and drums, which we were specifically going for. DK: Working with Dave Fridmann allowed us to

do a lot of unusual recording things that — it was sort of a kid-in-the-candy-shop thing. Dave had so many different things we could choose from, so we just kind of went to town to make the most interesting sounding record we could. TN: It’s sort of lo-fi/hi-fi in that sense… Sometimes, people think the record is broken. We’ve gotten people writing in, “Your record sounds broken.” Which, to be honest, we were sort of going for that. I don’t know if we’ll go for it next time or not… » buzz: How many times have you been asked about treadmills? TN: We obviously get asked about treadmills a lot. These days, we just get asked about our videos a lot, not even about that one specifically anymore. » buzz: That was a segue into my next question. I was just wondering if you guys actually even run on treadmills. I see you guys more as exercise bike people, or elliptical men. TN: I’m an elliptical man for sure. I messed up my knees after doing two years worth of performances in Cuban heels. I used to wear these white Cuban heels, and we’d always do the “Million Ways” dance at the end of our shows, and my knees were just smashed. So I do the elliptical when I exercise, but I don’t think I’ve exercised in two years. DK: I have a treadmill, and I use a treadmill at home. But I walk a fast walk. It’s really all you gotta do. You don’t have to run because I have rough knees too…

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YOUNG THE GIANT

by Adam Barnett

f I had a nickel for the amount of months Young the Giant has had a presence in the US, I’d have less than a dollar. But if I had one for every fan they’ve accumulated since, I could probably buy myself an Xbox (or a PS3. I hear those are good). YtG is a buzz band for good reason: Great, catchy vocals, danceable hooks, excellent musicianship and dashing good looks. buzz was able to chat with guitarist Eric Cannata on Saturday at the festival to talk about the future, what life would be like as a giant and other interesting shenanigans. »buzz: How did you feel about your set yesterday? Eric Cannata: I think it went really well, and I think it was a very pleasant surprise that when we had soundchecked an hour before our set, there were maybe 70 to 100 people sitting right in front of the stage, and I didn’t really see the people come in — I was just in the dressing room. By the time I got up on stage, there were around 10,000 people watching us. So in that one hour, it went from 100 people to 10,000, and my energy level just shot up because I had been so jetlagged from coming from Australia. So I think once we saw all those people, we all looked at each other and were like, “Holy shit. How did that just happen in an hour?” So we were very pleasantly surprised and very

excited, and the crowd response was amazing, and we couldn’t have asked for a better time. » buzz: How was Australia? EC: Australia was really cool. It was our first time there. We spent a couple days off by the beach at the Gold Coast attempting to surf. We went to Splendour in the Grass Festival, which was a really cool festival near Brisbane. After that, we played two dates with an awesome band from LA called Grouplove; we played in Melbourne and Sydney. Those were two really fun club dates that both sold out. And then we flew out to Chicago for Lollapalooza, and now we’re here. » buzz: I hear you guys are actually going on tour with Incubus in the near future... How did that get set up? EC: I think that either the manager or the guys from the band listened to and dug the music. But we didn’t actually go to them; they came to us asking if we wanted to do support for them. And we’re really excited. It’s our first time that we’re gonna be in a bus, as well, and it’s just us and them, so they’re gonna be very big shows, and we couldn’t have asked for a better opportunity right now... » buzz: I know that you’ve got a remix EP coming out soon. What’s it like getting your stuff reinterpreted by bands like Tokyo Police Club?

Used with permission from Young the Giant

EC: The remix EP idea I really like because Tokyo Police Club, Two Door Cinema Club — which is funny because both have “club” at the end of their name — and Ra Ra Riot did a remix, and we have a bunch of friends who did them, too. I enjoy hearing other peoples’ takes on the songs, and I like messing around, as well, and making beats on Logic and such, and it’s really fun. We have friends that are just messing around and totally fucking with — sorry for the cussing — our songs and making Sameer’s voice sound ridiculous. And then there’s just some people that have no idea what doing remix really means, and I think the fact that we put the stems online opens a lot of different windows to people doing really good remixes, but then there’s so many people that — not to bash on anybody — don’t really know how to do a remix, and they’re just taking a crack at it for the first time. So it’s funny to hear all the different kinds.

» buzz: If you could have just one band ever to remix your songs, who would it be? EC: Wow… I’d like to hear a Tom Petty version of one of our songs. That’d be badass. Fleetwood Mac? That’d be tight... » buzz: What would you do if you were a giant? EC: I would help people. I would take cats down from trees. I don’t know. I would definitely relax a lot. If people gave me shit — it depends if I was the only giant. People would probably give me shit and try to take me down, and I’d have to fight, probably. Or I’d just cross the ocean. I don’t know how tall I am as a giant, but I’d just swim across the ocean and kick it in some remote island so no one could give me trouble. » buzz: That’s a very noble thing of you to do — to remove yourself from society. EC: If I was the only giant, I wouldn’t want to get shit from people. You know, people are gonna try to shoot you down.

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it’s the end of the world as we know it, and i feel anxious and frightened and scared Talking to Apocalypse Expert, Dan Martin about how the world is going to end eventually by Nick Martin

clever fox once said, “Chaos reigns.” Things fall apart; entropy rides everything. You and everyone you’ve ever known is going to die. And who’s to say it won’t be someday soon? Who’s going to promise that the world won’t end? Not Dan Martin. Martin is a former engineer for Boeing Aerospace and currently an expatriate of society itself. Dan lives with his wife in a Mexican desert. He’s written thirteen books about building your own free home, installing DIY solar panels and other elements of off-the-grid living. His most recent book, Apocalypse: How to Survive a Global Crisis, is a synthesis of Dan’s rugged survivalist know-how and information supporting our civilization’s impending doom. I talked to Martin over a satellite Skype phone while he took a break from traveling, giving seminars and going to Haiti to rebuild schools in the most sustainable way possible. Hopefully, after you read this, you’ll know whatBUZZ to do after the world erupts in glorious THURSDAY hellfire flames. AUGUST 11 corp note...keep this same size always » buzz: You’re a pretty prolific writer; how did you start writing books about self-sufficiency and 1 X 5.417 doomsday preparation? pagefor about four and a half DM: I was1/8th in the military years. Then I worked for Boeing Aerospace; I was an aerospace technician for about five years. One day, I woke up — or “opened my eyes,” I like to say — and realized living in society wasn’t for me. So I bought some raw land in west Texas, and I built a ranch. My wife and I sold all our property and cashed in our accounts and investments. We sold the car; we got rid of everything. We built our own house and our own farm road. The cabin we lived in for eight years had no utilities — electricity, water, phone, garbage, etc. We caught rainwater for drinking and bathing; we made our own composting toilets. We made furniture and grew our own food. Eventually, we installed windmills, solar heating and cooling, hydroponics... » buzz: This seems to explain your massive Amazon page. After you learned how to do all this stuff, did you just think, “Well, might as well turn this stuff into books.” DM: When I started, you couldn’t just buy a book or download something that explained how to be completely self-sufficient. So I just had to learn hands-on. I decided I had to get this information out to people so they don’t have to fight as hard as I did if they’re inclined to try these kind of things. » buzz: Did your experience as an engineer help

you figure out how to do this stuff? DM: When I was at Boeing, I worked with NASA and helped with the space station. We learned how to synthesize nitrogen from air, oxygen from air, separate the gases and what not. Not to mention, I grew up in the mountains and camped in the woods. Worked on cars and stuff. I’ve always been a do-it-yourself kind of person. Anything I didn’t know, I just figured out as I went. » buzz: Well, I just finished up Apocalypse. Let me make sure I’m getting your main argument: essentially, while we can’t say for sure where and when a government meltdown will happen, we can be pretty certain one will happen eventually, and the least we can do is prepare. Does that sound right? DM: Correct. Not only will it happen, but I think it’s already begun. Look at economic collapse, major earthquakes around the world, tornadoes, record-setting floods, wildfires. In March alone, 24 countries tried to rise up against their governments ... I’m not religious, I’m not spiritual, I’m not prophesying any magical forecasts. It’s just when these religious or cult-like entities prophesy these things, and then when scientific entities like NASA are backing them up, it’s something we should pay attention to. There’s so many prospective ways the apocalypse could happen: asteroids, nuclear warheads — I personally subscribe to the idea of super-solar flares. In September of 2010 — I’m not sure — NASA released a report that states in 2012, solar flare bursts are predicted to go through Earth’s atmosphere. It’s not uncommon for the sun to become superactive. The last time was in 1959-1960. Back then, the only electronic grids were telegraph machines and wires. They didn’t have electrical wires, phone lines, computers, whatnot. All the wires and cables of the telegraph grid spontaneously ignited and burnt up the whole system. They had to replace the whole system ... Today, we’re dangerously dependent on our electrical grid, and it’s extremely susceptible to this type of power failure. It’s essentially a big sponge for these types of solar flares...

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(Editor’s Note: I looked for this report, but could not find it. Ron Paul’s website published a story citing the report, but didn’t include a link. Universe Today has a great article breaking down the science of solar flares that does say solar flares would be disastrous for electronics; however, they’re skeptical that the flares predicted for 2012 would be able to do that. Guess we’ll have to wait and see! ) » buzz: What are you doing December 21st, 2012? Should we be doing the same thing? Should we find bunkers? DM: The whole solar flare thing isn’t going to kill everybody on Earth. It’s not going to burn anything down; you don’t have to go underground. It doesn’t have the potential to be that severe; it would just affect electronics. Essentially, it will be a normal day until all of a sudden our iPods and laptops and ATM machines stop working. American society depends so much on that stuff, and society is so fragile that it could set into motion a collapse that society couldn’t recover from. Me, I’m going to be sitting on the beach drinking a beer on Dec. 21st because I’m so far away from civilization that I don’t have to worry about that stuff.

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» buzz: If the apocalypse hits in 2012, we don’t have much time. What should we do to prepare? DM: The most important thing to do is educate yourself. America is dependent on a servicedriven economy. If something happens with the plumbing, call a plumber; if you’re injured, call a doctor, etc. The most important thing is to learn about as many fields as possible. Learn the fundamentals of electricity, mechanics, plumbing, medicine, welding, hunting, cooking! It’s really dangerous to be dependent on just one thing because if it gets taken away, what do you do? If you’re used to having a roof without leaks, and after a societal collapse you find out there’s leaks in your roof, what do you do? » buzz: What are the most essential supplies to surviving an apocalypse? DM: According to my solar flare prediction, you should stock up on non-perishable foods and ammunition. Money, credit cards and currency will be worthless. You’ll need something else to barter with. I foresee things like cigarettes, coffee, toilet paper and things you don’t think have much worth will be extremely valuable because people are addicted to these things. Even if you don’t smoke or drink coffee (which I don’t), I’ve stocked up on cartons and cartons of cigarettes and crates of coffee because I know they will be worth something if the factories close. Besides learning all these trades, take a step to convert your body and yourself away from luxuries. We’re so used to climate-controlled areas, so turn

your air conditioning and heaters off. Live with that so your body accumulate to these temperatures. I hear about the heat waves in New York where people are dealing with 110 degree tempatures; that’s an average day in Mexico. We’re used to that down here. But most people leave their air conditioned house for their air conditioned car until they get to their air conditioned office and go to an air conditioned resturant for dinner. Hike. Run. Build your muscles up, and walk places instead of driving to them. Lay off the cell phone and laptop, and stop being dependent on them, if only to get a taste of what things might be like if you’re cut off from modern society. » buzz: Those sound like reasonable things to do regardless of impending doom. Who’s going to take control after society collapses? DM: The United States government is a capitalist-run government: it runs on money. If the economy collapses and everyone loses their jobs, no one will pay their taxes. If that’s the case, there will be no one around to uphold the lifestyle we’re used to — the police, armed forces and security will have no reason to protect and serve. The prisons will empty because there won’t be money to keep them open. Gangs will rise up. Even out of work law enforcers might abuse their authority and take control. The strong will survive. There will be confusion, suffering, death, ignorance, looting, rape, murder. That’s the way it always is.

Whenever a government collapses, that’s what happens. Look at the USSR in the 90s and Africa right now. » buzz: So my readers should probably go out and buy a gun? DM: If you’re living in society, your only option is to batten down the hatches, arm yourself, stock up on some food and ride it out. The better option, though, is to get away from it. Go out where there’s no people. If you can go out where there’s no people, there will be a lot less danger. Eventually, things will calm down. People will adapt; humans are very resilient. We will build new societies and new forms of government just as faulty as the last one. That society will fall in 500 years, or 100 years, just like the ones before it. That’s the way we are. Every government fails; none has ever survived. Especially superpowers! It sucks, but that’s the way it is. » buzz: You write that motorcycles and trucks will be the preferred mode of transportation, but what about horses? Well, I say motorcycles and trucks because my book is for people living in the city, living in society. In the city, it will be a lot easier to get a hold of a motorcycle than a horse. But if you’re in an environment with horses or donkeys, and you have experience riding and taking care of big animals, that would be the way to go.

Between horses and donkeys, though, donkeys — or what we call burros — are a better option. Horses are bred to move heavy weight and run real fast. That can be a bonus in an emergency situation, but in the long run, you’d want an animal that could move over any terrain. A dedicated security animal. That’s why you’d want a donkey. A horse has a “flight” demeanor, while a donkey has a “fight” demeanor. A donkey will stay and protect you, while a horse would probably run away. » buzz: What are you going to miss most about civilized society? DM: I’ve been out of society for almost ten years now. When I lived on the ranch, I didn’t see any other people for eight years. I haven’t had a phone, or a calendar, or an alarm clock in almost ten years. I haven’t owned a wallet in almost ten years! We’ve eliminated anything we were dependent on. When I left the ranch, everyone had cell phones. Big, black cell phones they’d hold up to their face. But when I came back, nobody had cell phones anymore! They were just talking into little speakers. Just talking to themselves and shouting out into the air. Now I see people with cell phones, but all they do is tap on them! » buzz: I think you mean Bluetooth headsets and smart phones. DM: Yeah, probably.

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At the Store Chorizo, a spicy Mexican sausage, gets the royal treatment by Stacey Klouda

little spicy, a little meaty, and formed into a tube-like shape — what’s not to love about chorizo? This distinctively reddish sausage originated in the Iberico region of Spain and is most commonly made with pork, pork fat, smoked pimentón (paprika), and salt that’s spiced, marinated, then cured. That said, there are more types and varying flavors of this sexier cousin of kielbasa than you can imagine due to Spanish colonization, chorizo’s hardy nature, and, obviously, its pure meaty deliciousness (there are also soy and meat-alternative options being shipped out of Cali for all those veggies and vegans out there, but honestly, what’s the fun in that? Just saying). Now, some of you might be thinking, “This delightful tubular meat might kill my killer beach bod,” but wait. It’s a great source of protein, sodium and thiamin and a perfect addition to any diet in moderation! Not surprisingly, this meaty treat makes a great addition to many dishes — from a simple scrambled eggs to stews to dips to simply eating slices of it with crackers. If you look to the end of the article, there are a couple simple chorizo recipes to try if you’re intrigued — which you should be. There’s also a quick recipe for chorizo itself, if you really can’t find some. But seriously, despite the seemingly daunting selection of chorizos world-wide, there is the perfect chorizo waiting for you in your friendly neighborhood grocery store — whether it’s County Market, Meijer, El Charro on Green, or, honestly, any place with a decent meat counter. So next time you’re wandering around the supermarket trying to figure out what’s for dinner, why not try a Latino staple and flavor heavyweight? Why not try something as delectable as it is versatile? Why not try chorizo — the other red meat. Recipes This is the best con queso dip I’ve ever had. I got it from a great cookbook by a man named Grady Spears. Once you try this, I guarantee you will be a fan of his, too. Total time: 30 min Yields: 4 »1 tablespoon corn oil » 1/2 lb chorizo sausage » 1/2 cup minced white onion » 1 clove garlic, minced » 1 cup diced tomato » 1/3 cup roasted poblano chile, diced » 1/3 cup chicken stock » 3 cups grated mild cheddar cheese

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Directions:

Chunky Chicken and Chorizo Chili

1. Warm the oil in a heavy saucepan over med heat. 2. Add the sausage and cook for 2 minutes, or until the fat begins to melt. 3. Add the onion and garlic. 4. Cook until the chorizo is well-browned. 5. Drain off the grease and add the tomato, chile and stock. 6. Bring the mixture to a simmer, and slowly add the cheese, blending with a spoon. 7. As each batch of cheese melts, add more, cooking over very low heat. 8. When the cheese has melted and the mixture comes together, it is ready to serve. 9. Keep warm while serving.

Total Time: 40 min Yield: 6

Notes: Serve with tortillas or fresh tortilla chips. Also, you could use canned pre-roasted poblanos, but roasting one yourself is really simple. (Take a poblano chile, rub with a bit of corn oil, put under the broiler and let it cook until the skin starts to char. Turn it over and continue this way until the skin is charred all over. Take it out (with tongs!), put it in a plastic zip-lock bag and let it sit until cool. Remove the chile, and the skin will peel right off, then tear it open and remove the seeds and stems — just like roasting a bell pepper.) Cited from: http://www.food.com/recipe/cho rizo-con-queso-49033#ixzz1Tzf1Wocg

» 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, 1 turn of the pan » 3/4 pound chorizo, chopped » 2 pounds ground chicken » 3 tablespoons chili powder, 3 palm fulls » 1 tablespoon ground cumin, a palm full » 1 onion, chopped » 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped » 1 red bell pepper, chopped » 1 (15-ounce) can red beans, drained » 1 bottle beer » 1 (28-ounce) can diced fire roasted tomatoes » Salt » 6 cups chicken stock » 2 cups quick cooking polenta » 2 tablespoons butter » 2 scallions, finely chopped » 2 tablespoons freshly chopped thyme leaves Directions: 1. Heat a big, deep skillet over medium high heat with 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil. 2. Add chorizo and render its fat, 2 minutes. 3. Push the chorizo off to the sides of the pot and add chicken meat. Brown and crumble the

chicken, 5 to 6 minutes. Season the chicken with chili powder and cumin while it cooks. 4. Combine the onions, garlic, peppers and beans to meats and cook another 5 to 6 minutes. 5. Stir the beer into the chili and reduce the liquid a minute. Then, add the tomatoes and heat through. 6. Season the chili with salt, to taste, and reduce heat to low. 7. Bring 6 cups stock to a boil in a medium pot, stir in polenta and keep stirring until the polenta masses and thickens to a porridge, 2 to 3 minutes. 8. Stir in butter, scallions and thyme, and season with salt to taste. 9. Fill bowls halfway with polenta, and make a well in the center. Fill up bowls with chili and serve. Recipe: Rachel Ray More recipes to try: http://www.food.com/cookbook/chorizo-recipes-35991 Bonus: If you can’t find chorizo, why not make it? Chorizo may not be available where you are. We have a simple recipe for chorizo that can be made in the home. Grind one pound of pork, not too fine. Add 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon red chile powder; mash 1 large clove of garlic very thoroughly with 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, add to the meat and mix well.

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A Garden of Treasures Second Hand Rose sells unique antiques by Amy Harwath

rowing up, Denni Hubert’s mother and father owned a jewelry store. Her dad was a serious clock and watch collector, and the family would go to auctions together. Surrounded by old jewelry, watches and auctions, Hubert developed an eye and knack for antiques at a young age. At her first auction, her dad hoisted her up on his shoulders so she could see better. A dog figurine was up for sale. Perched on her dad’s shoulders, Hubert bid for it, but she didn’t win it. After the auction, the lady who had won the dog figurine saw that Hubert, who was then only four or five years old, was the one she bid against. The woman approached Hubert and kindly said that she would have let Hubert win it had she known she was bidding against a little girl. But Hubert smiled up at her and said, “No, that’s alright. I’ll win next time.” That same positive, go-get-‘em, nothing-bringsher-down attitude still sticks with Hubert today. Now, Hubert owns Second Hand Rose, an antique store at 901 E. Main St. in Urbana (east of Vine). She has been in the antique business for a total of 34 years and has been antiquing for most of her life. Antiques come from all over, and Hubert travels around to antique shows, malls, flea markets, garage sales and estate sales in search of treasures and trinkets to sell at Second Hand Rose. Even then, Hubert doesn’t need to hunt around for antiques all the time; “We’ve been open so long, people bring [them] to us,” she said. When she was six years old, Hubert began reading books about antiques and price guides, which helped her develop an eye for and understanding of authenticity, materials, and quality. “You need to know what something is before you know what it’s worth,” she explained. That’s how you know if an antique is worth

shelling out those big bucks. The best way to know if what you’re getting is the real deal is to be familiar with antiques yourself. Or, you can get an item appraised by an expert like Hubert. After approximately 54 years of antiquing (she is now 58 — “It’s alright, I’m proud of my age,” she smiled), Hubert promises that she runs an honest business. “We will not be deceitful,” she assures customers. Second Hand Rose looks like the epitome of an antique store: there’s barely any room to walk; jewelry sparkles in every corner of the many rooms; colorful and vintage books, furniture, accessories and appliances are piled from the floor to the ceiling; and it smells a little musty. But that’s exactly what an antique store should be like. It’s charming. It’s enchanting. It’s a 3-D treasure map just waiting to be picked through and discovered. Jewelry is Hubert’s favorite item to look for and sell, possibly because she grew up around jewelry, or because her arthritic knees, which had to be replaced, just couldn’t handle picking up heavy boxes anymore. “I just think it’s beautiful,” she gushed about jewelry. “I feel thrilled when I see a lady at a party and she’s wearing something she got from us.” Aside from the usual antiques — jewelry, old dial telephones, ancient leather-bound books falling apart at the spine — Hubert has seen some unusual items pass through her store. Like a rectal rejuvenator, which she paid 25 cents for, and which sold for $125 on eBay to a guy in New Jersey. Other out of the ordinary finds include a taxidermy peacock and manikins. “Manikins — that was the most bizarre,” Hubert laughed. Years ago, a clothing store was going out of business, and had thousands of extra, old manikins and manikin body parts that they didn’t know what to do with.

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“I became enchanted with these weird manikins,” Hubert said. She bought them all. And she sold them all, every single one. “Artists, salons, stores, bachelor parties,” she said. “They were used for so many uses — it’s so fun!” Hubert’s incredible passion for what she does shines through every single item in the shop, which she personally selects. “I feel like I’m an adoption agency for people’s wonderful, special little goodies,” she said. “They may be second hand, but they’re still wonderful little roses, waiting to be plucked.”

“Dicker Days” Sale Second Hand Rose will be having what it calls its “Dicker Days” sale, which started on Aug. 8 and lasts 42 days (only 32 days left!). Dishes, pots, pans, bedding, furniture, records, and a bunch of other second hand items and antiques will be on sale in and around the store. Address: 901 E. Main St., Urbana 61802 Phone: (217)469-0000 Hours: Fri-Sun, 12-7pm

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THURSDAY 11 live music Jazz in the Courtyard Illini Union, U, 12pm Billy Galt and Jeff Kerr AnSun, C, 7pm Chillax Radio Maria, C, 9pm Ole #7 Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., U, 9pm

dj DJ BJ Dance Night Po’ Boys, U, 8pm Here Come the Regulars Red Star Liquors, U, 9pm DJ Luniks Firehaus, C, 10pm, $5

karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Memphis on Main, C, 9pm RockStarz Karaoke: Presented by 3L Entertainment Senator’s Bar & Grill, Savoy, 9pm RockStarz Karaoke: Presented by 3L Entertainment Bentley’s Pub, C, 10pm

lectures

New Riders of the Golden Maize Luna, C, 5pm ‘Appy Hour Silvercreek, U, 5:30pm, $2-$10 FREE Happy Hour Show! recreation Memphis on Main, C, 6pm Tale for Twos The Dirty Feathers w/ Douglass Branch Library, C, Secret Colours and Creepy 10:30am Band Cowboy Monkey, C, 9pm, $5 fashion Kilborn Alley Yarn n Yak Memphis on Main, C, 9pm Rantoul Public Library, Decadents Rantoul, 7pm Mike ‘n Molly’s, C, 9pm, $5 Groove Avenue kids and families Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., U, Preschool Story Time 9pm Rantoul Public Library, dj Rantoul, 10am Raising Readers DJ Tommy Williams Rantoul Public Library, Chester Street, C, 9pm, $3 Rantoul, 10:30am, 3:30pm DJ Delayney ArtsFusion Music & Mo- Highdive, C, 10pm, $5 tion with Donna Warwick DJ Cal Emmerich Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm 3:45pm, $8 dance music Fairytale Ballet with Donna Warwick Urbana Country Dancers Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Contra Dance 4:30pm, $12 Phillips Recreation Center, U, 8pm, $5 Governments Making Decisions: Theory Versus Reality Urbana Free Library, U, 7pm

mind/body/spirit

Open Yoga Practice Amara Yoga & Arts, U, movies 5:30am, $8 Srugim Viewing Hot Yoga The Hillel Foundation, The Evolve Fitness Club, C, Margie K. and Louis N. Co- 12pm, $10 hen Center for Jewish Life, Core Yoga with Maggie C, 7:30pm Taylor Fast Five- Illini Union Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Board Quad Cinema 12pm, $12 Illini Union, U, 9pm Ashtanga Yoga with Certified Yoga Teacher stage Lauren Quinn Open Stage at Red Herring Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Red Herring Coffeehouse, 5:30pm, $12 U, 9pm Yin Yoga with Certified Yoga Teacher Lauren sporting event Quinn Sunset Paddle Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Homer Lake, 7pm, $4-$8 7pm, $12

art exhibit

food and drink

museum exhibit

museum exhibit Lukas Clide Illini Union, U, 12pm A to Z to ! Andy Moreillon U of I Main Library, U, Fat City Bar & Grill, C, 4pm 8:30am

A to Z to ! U of I Main Library, U, 8:30am 10

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FRIDAY 12 live music

recreation Open Gym Volleyball Champaign County Brookens Administration Center, U, 5:30pm, $1

literary

Zionist Food for Thought The Hillel Foundation, The Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life, C, 12pm

mind/body/spirit

art exhibit

Surfaces and Comments in 3D Cinema Gallery, U, 10am Of Dreams and Fable Illini Union, U, 12pm

Rural Route 3 Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., U, 9pm Elam McKnight & Bob Bogdal with Big Black Hand Fireside Bar and Grill, C, 9pm

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classes and workshops

DJ Belly Red Star Liquors, U, 9pm DJ Randall Ellison Chester Street, C, 9pm, game-playing $3 Chinese Students and DJ- Presented by 3L Scholars Association Entertainment Karaoke and Board Game D.R. Diggers, C, 9:30pm Night Goth Night Asian American Cultural The Clark Bar, C, 10pm Center, U, 8pm DJ Space Police Boltini Lounge, C, 10pm

Yoga Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, C, 12pm Lunchtime Express Powconcert er Flow with Certified The Dirty Feathers with Yoga Teacher Amanda Secret Colours and Creepy Reagan Band Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Cowboy Monkey, C, 9pm, $7 12pm, $12 Vinyasa Krama Yoga with karaoke Don Briskin RockStarz Karaoke: Pre- Amara Yoga & Arts, U, sented by 3L Entertain4pm, $12 ment Happy Hour Flow Yoga Senator’s Bar & Grill, Sawith Amanda Reagan voy, 9pm Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Karaoke at Po’ Boys 5:30pm, $12 Po’ Boys, U, 9pm miscellaneous DJ Bange Phoenix, C, 9pm International Coffeehouse art opening Etc. Coffee House, U, 4pm Animalia: An Art Show food and drink for Animal Welfare Amara Yoga & Arts, U, Half Price Happy Hour 7pm Emerald City Lounge, C, 5pm

Surfaces and Comments in 3D Cinema Gallery, U, 10am Of Dreams and Fable Illini Union, U, 12pm

Krannert Uncorked Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, U, 5pm

Spring Prairie Skies William M. Staerkel Planetarium, C, 7pm IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System William M. Staerkel Planetarium, C, 8pm

SATURDAY 13 live music Live Jazz with Panache Jim Gould Restaurant, C, 7pm Candy Foster and Shades of Blue Boomerang’s Bar and Grill, U, 8pm

Yoga Fundamentals Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 9am, $12 Saturday Power Flow with Corrie Proksa Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 4pm, $12

Eating Healthy on a Budget Common Ground Food Coop, U, 1pm

food and drink

Trivia Night The Blind Pig Brewery, C, 7pm

mind/body/spirit Slow Flow Yoga with Linda Lehovec Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 2:30pm, $12 Hatha Flow Yoga with Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 4pm, $12 Collective Meditation Ananda Liina Yoga & Meditation Center, U, 5pm

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Sensational Saturday Tasting Sun Singer Wine & Spirits, C, 12pm Half Price Happy Hour Emerald City Lounge, C, 5pm

Salsa Night with DJ Dr. J Radio Maria, C, 10pm

SUNDAY 14

karaoke

live music

RockStarz Karaoke: Presented by 3L Entertainment Senator’s Bar & Grill, Savoy, 9pm Liquid Courage Karaoke Memphis on Main, C, 9pm

Live Jazz with Panache Jim Gould Restaurant, C, 7pm. Lake of the Woods Blues Fest Lake of the Woods Pub, Mahomet, 4pm, $4 Second Sunday Garden Concert Series Museum of the Grand Prairie, Mahomet, 5pm ThreeBird Acoustic Trio at Boomerangs Bar and Grill Boomerang’s Bar and Grill, U, 6pm

Salsa Dance Lessons: Beginners Capoeira Academy, C, 6pm, $5 Salsa Dance Lessons: Intermediate/Advanced Capoeira Academy, C, 7:30pm, $5

festivals Champaign Park District Streetfest Guido’s Bar & Grill, C, 7pm

art exhibit Surfaces and Comments in 3D Cinema Gallery, U, 10am Of Dreams and Fable Illini Union, U, 12pm

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IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System William M. Staerkel Planetarium, C, 8pm Amazing Stargazing William M. Staerkel Planetarium, C, 7pm, $3-$5

kids and families Family Yoga Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 1:15pm, $6-$12

community Market at the Square Lincoln Square Mall, U, 7am

Open Mic Nite Phoenix, C, 7pm

The Zionist Lunch and Learn Cafe Sababa, C, 11:30am

classes and workshops

food and drink Champagne Brunch with a Diva! Emerald City Lounge, C, 10am, $12 Sandy’s Bagel Brunch and Games The Hillel Foundation, The Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life, C, 11am

MONDAY 15 live music

One Dollar Wild MonDrag Show days Chester Street, C, 10pm, $4 Canopy Club, U, 10am Jesse Johnson art exhibit Illini Union, U, 12pm Of Dreams and Fable dj Illini Union, U, 12pm DJ Randall Ellison campus activities Chester Street, C, 9pm, M and M: Midrash and $2 Meal Eletro/Industrial Night The Hillel Foundation, The Chester Street, C, 9pm, Margie K. and Louis N. Co- $2 hen Center for Jewish Life, karaoke C, 6pm RockStarz Karaoke: Pregame-playing sented by 3L EntertainBig Dave’s Trivia Night ment Cowboy Monkey, C, 7pm Mike ‘n Molly’s, C, 10pm

stage Monday Night Comedy Illini Union, U, 7pm

art exhibit Of Dreams and Fable Illini Union, U, 12pm

art MELD: Monday Evening Life Drawing group McGown Photography, 7pm, $7

museum exhibit A to Z to ! U of I Main Library, U, 8:30am

campus activities Nutrition Walk In La Casa Cultural Latina, U, 5pm

game-playing Puzzle Exchange Rantoul Public Library, Rantoul, 5pm Trivia Night Bentley’s Pub, C, 7:30pm Bingo Night Memphis on Main, C, 10pm

kids and families Baby & Me Yoga with Corrie Proksa Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 10:30am, $12

mind/body/spirit Hatha Yoga with Grace Giorgio Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 5:30pm, $12 Tarot Reader Boltini Lounge, C, 6:30pm Restorative Yoga Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 7pm, $12 Yoga St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church and Campus Center, C, 7pm Prana Flow Yoga Living Yoga Center, U, 7:15pm, $15

classes and workshops Kitchen Basics Common Ground Food Coop, U, 6pm Poetry Workshop Red Herring Coffeehouse, U, 7:30pm

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Tuesday 16

kids and families

live music

Walk-in Storytime and Creative Play Class Act, C, 2pm, $2

Alec Stern Illini Union, U, 12pm The Parkland Early Jazz Ensemble Iron Post, U, 7pm Blue Tuesdays- Presented by 3L Entertainment Senator’s Bar & Grill, Savoy, 7:30pm Dueling Guitars Jupiter’s II, C, 8pm Dueling Guitars at Jupiters/Crossing Jupiter’s II, C, 8pm The Piano Man Canopy Club, U, 9pm

karaoke RockStarz Karaoke: Presented by 3L Entertainment Bentley’s Pub, C, 10pm RockStarz Karaoke: Presented by 3L Entertainment The Corner Tavern, Monticello, 8pm Rockstarz Karaoke Chester Street, C, 10pm

open mic Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey, C, 10pm

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Tango Dancing Cowboy Monkey, C, 8pm Salsa Dancing Cowboy Monkey, C, 10pm

Students for Environmental Concerns University YMCA, C, 6:30pm

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RockStarz Karaoke: Presented by 3L Entertainment Senator’s Bar & Grill, Savoy, 9pm SuperStar Karaoke AnSun, C, 9pm

Storyshop at the Branch Douglass Branch Library, C, 10:30am Common Ground Story Time Common Ground Food Co-op, U, 10:30am Wrestling Fan Club Rantoul Public Library, Rantoul, 4pm

lgbt Rainbow Coffeehouse Etc. Coffee House, U, 6pm

mind/body/spirit Open Yoga Practice Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 5:30am, $8 Hot Yoga Evolve Fitness Club, C, 12pm, $10 Hatha Flow Yoga with Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 12pm, $12 Awakening Yoga with Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 7:15am, $12 Slow Flow Yoga with Amanda Reagan Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 5:30pm, $12 Ashtanga Yoga with Certified Yoga Teacher Lauren Quinn Amara Yoga & Arts, U, 7pm, $12

Israeli Movie Club The Hillel Foundation: The Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life, C, 7:30pm

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Of Dreams and Fable Illini Union, U, 12pm

Taco Tuesdays Emerald City Lounge, C, 5pm, $5

museum exhibit A to Z to ! U of I Main Library, U, 8:30am

Real Computing Help Douglass Branch Library, C, 6pm

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Revive, Restore, Relax: Weston Wellness Weston Residence Hall, C, 3pm Knitting Club and Glee The Hillel Foundation, The Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life, C, 7pm

Kirby Kaiser Illini Union, U, 12pm Donnie Heitler: Solo Piano Great Impasta, U, 6p The Neighborhood Nights Concert Series Meadowbrook Park, U, 6:30pm Open Deck Night Radio Maria, C, 9pm

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Puzzle Exchange Rantoul Public Library, Rantoul, 2pm Trivia Tuesdays Memphis on Main, C, 7pm

DJ Tommy Williams Chester Street, C, 9pm, $2 DJ Randall Ellison Boltini Lounge, C, 9pm

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literary

Old School Night Red Star Liquors, U, 9pm Wompdown Wednesdays: Chalice Mug Night! Canopy Club, U, 9pm, $1 I Love The ‘90s with DJ Mingram Soma Ultralounge, C, 10pm

open mic Open mic night at Samuel Music Samuel Music, C, 5pm Writ ‘n Rhymed Poetry Open Mic Women’s Resources Center, C, 8:30pm Open Mic Nite Phoenix, C, 9pm Open Mic Comedy Night Memphis on Main, C, 9pm

Raising Readers Rantoul Public Library, Rantoul, 3:30pm Nomad Speculative Fiction Book Club Champaign Public Library, C, 6:30pm

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Moving On and Moving In Amy’s NEW apartment All day Saturday, August 13 Cost: Two arms and two legs If you’re a faithful buzz reader, you saw that last week, I was moving out of my summer apartment. Well, this week, I’m moving in to my new apartment! Once again, so exciting! My parents and I will be moving all my junk into my awesome new room and big kitchen. I encourage you to come add your strength to our numbers and help move some boxes. For real? No, not really. But if you really want to, you can! The reward this time: Spending some quality time with the Harwath family. — Amy Harwath, Community Editor

Buffyfest 2011! Comic Con 5555 N. River Rd. Rosemont, IL 60018 August 11 - 14 Buffy is probably the best thing ever created since prokaryotes. That means that, though the show is over, it needs to be celebrated. Xander, Xander’s other half, Cordelia, Harmony, Spike, Darla and Glory are all going to be there, and I’m really excited, and I’m probably going to cry because I’m so fucking excited. If you’re not excited, I’ll make you cry by killing your puppy over and over again until you go. But I won’t really do that, because that would be rude. I’m sorry. — Adam Barnett, Music Editor

Senior Free Wii Days Phillips Recreation Center, U, 9am

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classes and Euchre workshops Po’ Boys, U, 7pm Live Trivia Improv Workout Buffalo Wild Wings, Savoy, Class Act, C, 6:30pm, 8pm $10

Champaign Park District Streetfest Neil St. & Main St. Saturday, August 13 7:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. You think you’re street? You ain’t street. Fool. I say, you and me should go out to the corner. Mingle a little. Play basketball, drink soda with straws. My pocket watch is a necklace — don’t touch it. I found a dead body in a tenement house once. I was really scared. — Nick Martin, Movies & TV Editor

Sunset Paddle Walnut Hill Boat Launch Homer Lake Forest Preserve 2573 S. Homer Lake Rd, Homer, IL Thursday, August 11 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. 18+ (Kids 8+ may attend if accompanied by an adult) $8 per person, $4 if you bring your own canoe Ah, Homer Lake. Many a morning I spent on this lake (read: 5:30 AM) with the Illini Rowing Team for practice. This is the exact opposite of that. Instead of breaking a sweat before dawn, this canoe ride is checking out aquatic life that comes out at dusk. But you have to already know how to drive a canoe. Sorry first-time nature enthusiasts. If you’ve never been to Homer Lake, check it out! — Sam Bakall, Food & Drink Editor

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voice! This could mean voicing your own personal experiences around sexuality explicitly, or using your own experiences to help shape the discussion generally. Doin’ It Well decided we weren’t going to use our own sex lives as examples. However, we also know that many authors are able to incorporate frank conversations about their own sexual experiences in a very educational and supportive way.

s we said last week, Jo and Ross are saying goodbye to Doin’ It Well this week. This has been an incredible six years for all the authors of Doin’ It Well, and we have been blessed with the opportunity to deliver weekly sex education through buzz and the217.com. After almost seven years, we are tired, and we are excited about the budding sex educators and columnists who might write the next great sex column. In our final column, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and offer some unsolicited advice for aspiring sex columnists.

Sex Positive

Writing a sex column also means a responsibility with your readers. We received serious questions from readers dealing with everything from size discrimination to STD diagnosis. However you write, know that your readers will be looking for themselves and their sexuality in your writing. If you’re hoping to reach lots of people, it means using language that’s inclusive and tolerant of many different sexualities, genders and sexual behaviors. Often, people think being sex positive means anything goes as long as those involved are consenting adults. But sometimes, the “anything goes” mentality only sexually liberates some, while putting down others. We decided to take a strong feminist stance with our column, frequently examining issues of fairness and access. That doesn’t have to be your angle. Just keep it happy and healthy for everyone — not just some.

Filling a Hole

When Doin’ It Well first set out, the authors made a few decisions. First, we would not use the column as a way to sensationalize sex. Sex sells just fine on its own; we wanted to open up a dialogue on sex and the even stickier topic of sexuality. Second, we would provide medically accurate sex information in a sex positive way. Kim Rice and Jo Sanger both felt strongly that because there is so little “good” sexual health information out there and because people very often get mixed messages about sex, our column should be easy to understand. Third, we would provide a space to think about the many different ways to enjoy sex in our society. This was our niche. When you’re writing your own sex column, it’s up to you to figure out the voice that is absent — that can become your column’s

students to write a weekly sex column in a campus community magazine. Thank you to all of our illustrators who rose to the challenge of illustrating our writing. Thank you to Kate Ruin and Kim Rice, the original authors of Doin’ It Well, who gave this column the shape and spirit that it has today. Thank you to all of our readers, including those who gave us questions, topics or suggestions. We were constantly inspired by the individuals who let us know that they were faithful readers! Doin’ It Well would have been just “doing it okay” without all of your support, reading and feedback. You stay sexy, Champaign-Urbana.

At the same time, take care when writing columns about populations or behaviors you are either not familiar with or not a member of. For example, people really liked our column on furries, or when Ross visited a bath house in Chicago, but we spent a lot of time making sure that we weren’t sensationalizing sexual behaviors for entertainment purposes. In sex columns, there is a fine line between exposing readers to new things and presenting individuals or behaviors as a “freak show.” Picking Topics

Commonly, we would be asked, “How do you decide what to write about?” It can be as easy as asking friends or family what questions they have or have heard. Or frequently, just telling people you write a sex column can create a great conversation starter! Keep a record of questions you keep hearing or topics you hear people talking about. When you get a good personal question, ask if you could write a column about it. Nothing is worse than feeling like you’ve unintentionally breached someone’s confidence by writing about their intimate question.

Jo and Ross can be reached at buzzdoinitwell@yahoo.com. Become our fan on Facebook (Doin’ It Well), and look for us to post our favorite columns of the past seven years!

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Sex Resources We Love » Advocates for Youth (advocatesforyouth.org) » CDC.gov » Go Ask Alice (goaskalice.columbia.edu) » Scarleteen.com

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES

(March 21-April 19)

Dr. Larry Dossey thinks we shouldn’t just automatically dismiss the voices that speak to us in the privacy of our own heads. Some of them may actually have wise counsel, or at least interesting evidence about the state of our inner world. Besides, says Dossey, “it is vital for our mental health to keep the channels open, because when the voices of the gods are shut out, the devils often take up residence.” This would be good advice for you to observe in the coming days, Aries. Don’t let the nagging, blustering, or unhinged murmurs in your head drown out the still, small voice of lucid intuition. (Dossey’s book is *The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps.*)

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20)

What are you going to do to attract or induce the phenomena I name in the list below? At least three of them could come your way in the days ahead: 1. a “limitation” that leads to more freedom; 2. an imaginative surrender that empowers you to make a seemingly impossible breakthrough; 3. a healthy shock to the system that tenderizes your emotions; 4. a tough task that clarifies and fine-tunes your ambition; 5. a seemingly lost chance that leads to a fresh promise through the vigorous intervention of your creative willpower.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20)

Thirteen will be your lucky number for the foreseeable future. In fact, a host of things for which the average person has an irrational aversion could be helpful to you. For that matter, influences that you yourself may have considered in the past to be unsympathetic or uncongenial could very well be on your side, and may even conspire to enlighten and delight you. At least temporarily, I urge you to shed your superstitions, suspend your iffy biases, and dismiss your outworn fears.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)

Anne Cushman wrote a book called *Enlightenment for Idiots.* It wasn’t a how-to book, but rather a novel about a spiritual truth-seeker wandering through India. As far as I know, no one has written an actual instructional manual with the theme she named in her title. If anyone could do it, though, it would be you right now. Lately, you’ve been getting smarter by doing the most ordinary things. You’ve been drawing life-enhancing lessons from events that others might regard as inconsequential or unsophisticated. I suspect that this trend will continue in the coming days. Through the power of simplicity and directness, you will succeed at tasks that might have defeated you if you had allowed yourself to get lost in complicated theories and overly-thought-out approaches. Congrats!

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22)

For 34 years, a diligent Californian named Scott Weaver worked on creating a scale model of San Francisco using toothpicks. Meanwhile, Eric Miklos, of New Brunswick, Canada, was assembling a 40-foot-long chain of bottle caps. And in 2006, a team of artists constructed a 67-foot-tall gingerbread house, the world’s largest, inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. These are not the kinds of stupendous feats I advise you to get started on in the coming weeks, Leo. The astrological omens suggest that you’ll attract blessings into your life if you launch deeply meaningful masterpieces, not trivial or silly ones.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estes loves life’s natural rhythms just as they are. She says we can avoid a lot of suffering if we understand how those rhythms work. “The cycles are birth, light, and energy, and then depletion, decline, and death,” she told *Radiance* magazine. In other words, everything thrives and fades, thrives and fades. After each phase of dissipation, new vitality incubates and blooms again. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Virgo, you are currently going through a period of dwindling and dismantling. The light is dimmer than usual, and the juice is sparser. But

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LIBRA

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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Where do you want to be at this time next year? What do you want to be doing? I encourage you to fantasize and scheme about these questions, and be alert for clues about possible prospects. Here’s my reasoning, Libra: Some foreshadowings of your future life may soon float into view, including a far-off whisper or a glimpse of the horizon that will awaken some of your dormant yearnings. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these visions must be acted upon instantly. Instead, ruminate leisurely on them, regarding them as the early hints of potential long-range developments.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, that you can’t get The Most Beautiful Thing. It’s out of reach forever. You simply don’t have the connections or wherewithal to bring it into your life. Could you accept that disappointment with a full heart, and move on? Would you be able to forgive life for not providing you with your number one heart’s desire, and then make your way into the future with no hard feelings? If so, Scorpio, I bet you would be well-primed to cultivate a relationship with The Second Most Beautiful Thing. What images would be most helpful for you to fill your imagination up with? What scenes would heal and activate your subconscious mind, inspiring you in just the right ways? I invite you to make a list of at least five of these, and then visualize them often in the coming days. Here are a few possibilities to get you warmed up: peach trees filled with ripe fruit; the planet Jupiter as seen through a powerful telescope; a magnificent suspension bridge at dawn or dusk; a large chorus animatedly singing a song you love; the blissful face of a person you love. Scientists have proved beyond a doubt that heavenly bodies cannot possibly exert forces that affect events on earth, right? Well, no, actually, according to research reported in the December 24, 2009 edition of the science journal *Nature.* It turns out that the gravitational tug of the sun and moon sends significant tremors through California’s San Andreas Fault, and could potentially trigger full-blown earthquakes. Speaking as a poet, not a scientist, I speculate that those two luminaries, the sun and moon, may also generate a lurching but medicinal effect on you sometime soon. Are you ready for a healing jolt? It will relieve the tension that has been building up between two of your “tectonic plates.”

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“Follow your dreams,” read the headline on some random blog I stumbled upon, “except for the one in which you’re giving a speech in your underwear.” In the comments section, someone named “Mystic Fool” had posted a dissenting view: “I would much rather have a dream of giving a speech in my underwear than of being naked and drunk and inarticulate at a cocktail party, trying to hide behind the furniture.” Mystic Fool’s attitude would serve you well in the coming week, Aquarius. Expressing yourself in a public way, even if you don’t feel fully prepared, will actually be a pretty good course of action -- especially as compared to keeping silent and hiding.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20)

Some substances that seem to be rock solid are in fact fluids that move verrrryyy slowly. Bitumen is one example. It’s a form of petroleum also known as pitch. In a famous experiment, an Australian researcher set up an apparatus that allowed a blob of pitch to gradually drip into a container below it. Since the experiment began in 1927, eight drops have fallen. I like to think you’re engaged in a similar long-term process, Pisces. And from what I can tell, a new drop is about to drip.

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Across 1 “Buddy on ___” (Buckethead song) 6 “Pierrot le ___” (Jean-Luc Godard movie) 9 Sheet music header for the viola or bassoon 14 “Drag Me To Hell” director Sam 15 Neighbor of Greece: abbr. 16 Pimiento’s place 17 Make an escape 19 Hot dog option 20 Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? 22 “Annabel Lee” author 23 Alum 24 Hip-hop label “Respecting DJs since 1984” 28 Nat ___ (documentary network, for short) 29 Spooky mammal 32 Native Alaskan 33 Took to court 34 E pluribus ___ 36 Dubliners add liquor to the circle (or a soap ad interrupted by a furniture store ad)? 39 ___ Maarten (Caribbean island) 40 Feels under the weather 41 Sunni’s faith

42 One way to wager on horses: abbr. 43 Dachshund diagnoser 44 Ron who’s changing his name 45 “Clan of the Cave Bear” author Jean 47 Dept. of the Interior org. that employs forest firefighters 48 Reynolds’ impressions of an MTV dimwit (or a cosmetics ad interrupted by a rental car ad)? 54 Stephen Vincent ___ 55 King Arthur’s sword 57 Scrabble 3-pointer 58 “Go team!” 59 Circumvent 60 Horny mythical beast 61 Baseball execs 62 Final decision

Down 1 Wall St. worker 2 Health scare of 2002-2003 3 “In ___ of flowers...” 4 “___ of the World” (Pat Metheny album) 5 Dirt trail in a park 6 It’s a travesty 7 Muffin spread 8 They make techies look tame 9 Hot chocolate 10 Thunderous event

11 Bellybutton stuff 12 Days before the big day 13 Palin impersonator 18 Gift tag word 21 Wear away 24 Speaker’s platform 25 “The river,” in Mexico 26 Fakeout move 27 By a hair 28 Remorseful feeling 30 Like an old lady (anagram of ELIAN) 31 Sushi fishies 33 Director of 2011’s “The Adventures of Tintin” 35 Band with the 2010 album “Congratulations” 37 Comes to the rescue 38 Money in the sky 44 Thomas Edison’s middle name 46 Speak 47 Family of classical composers 48 Test release 49 Student’s daily workload 50 Big test 51 Lead single from The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Gish” 52 Place to do your bidding? 53 Brew 54 Little bullets 56 Rock’s ___ Speedwagon

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by MICHAEL COULTER

mommy, I’m bored! Shut up and listen to this audio book When I was a kid, summer vacation was often no vacation at all. It was fun, or at least it seemed that way on the surface, but there were times when it sort of became too much. Sure, it seemed like I was always crazy and playing and wildly ecstatic that I wouldn’t have to learn anything for a couple of months. In fact, not only would I not learn anything — I would also forget a large portion of what I had learned. There’s a certain age when that sort of deal is about all you can ask for. Still, there were many times when I was a dumb, sweaty, dirty and hot little bastard without much going on. Kids can get bored when they have nothing to do for 12 weeks or so.

talk about something going from kind of decent to kind of crappy really fast. It’s just like Nicolas Cage’s career path. Another idea is to get an exciting audio book and only let the children listen to it when they’re in the car. This will supposedly make them eager to run errands with you so they can listen to the book. My guess is that it will make them eager to not get sucked into your little audio books trap ever again. Another car idea is to play games while you’re driving. When I was a kid, we used to do this when we were taking long trips, and it usually led to me throwing up. In all fairness, most things generally led to me throwing up on long trips when I was a kid. At least the fun little car games distracted me enough to hold my vomit in a little longer than usual, I will admit, however, that some of but it was a temporary cure at best. that learning in summer was fun. Another idea was to get a telescope and let your kids explore the The trick is to learn something when stars. This is good because it’s sort you don’t think you’re learning. A of fun, and they also learn something along the way. They will likely learn fun camp when you build things and what the Big Dipper is, and it will give accidentally learn about geometry is them an appreciation of how vast universe is. It will also probably great. A terrible camp where you are the teach them to sneak around and told about Jesus constantly and have use the telescope to spy on the hot neighbor as she sunbathes. This to read the Bible is not all that great. skill can also be useful, and if they’re around 13 years old, it will introduce I suppose we often had some sort of plan. My them to a completely new hobby they can enjoy mom’s advice was generally something along the for the rest of their lives. Staying on the learning theme, they also reclines of stay cool and try not to get so bored you accidentally burn the house down. It was good ommend summer school. This is a particularly advice. These days, parents try to make sure their good idea if you’re trying to make your child children’s days are packed with little events that run away from home. I will admit, however, that help keep them in line. Boredom used to make me some of that learning in summer was fun. The creative. Now it apparently just makes kids into trick is to learn something when you don’t think delinquents. I found an article that gave parents you’re learning. A fun camp when you build tips for keeping their children out of trouble. If things and accidentally learn about geometry is I were a kid, I’d pick boredom over many of the great. A terrible camp where you are told about plans offered, but let’s take a look anyway. The Jesus constantly and have to read the Bible is first idea to keep the little bastards occupied is not all that great. slow food. This is a great idea if your child is 42 The thing is, you can make all the plans you years old. Sure, cooking all day seems fun now, want, and the kids are probably still going to but I’m fairly certain I would have hated it back think they’re bored. They usually have the attenthen. Hell, the 12 minutes it took for a frozen pizza tion span of a housefly. I get the impression they felt like an afternoon. Children are generally not would be just as happy sitting around playing known for their patience, and the ones that are video games. Hell, even at my age, that could patient are probably not the ones you want to be a pretty swell couple of weeks. It used to be spend a day with in a hot-assed kitchen. you could just leave them alone, and before you Movie night is another idea offered, and I get knew it, they would be playing sports or climbthat one. Movies are awesome in the summer ing a big tree or possibly even breaking an arm, because the theaters are usually freezing cold, often all in the same afternoon. These days, they and it’s a nice place to really relax. This idea is a evidently need a little more structure. Sure, they little different than I was thinking, though. In this might be fine if you just gave them a chance to case, the parents just let the kids stay up late and entertain themselves, but what parent could risk watch movies at home ... with their parents. Wow, something like that? 16

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