Day Twenty Four: Monday June 30, 2008

Day Twenty Four: Monday, June 30, 2008
Volvo Tires
Family Outing to Wall-E
Abalone Feast II
Walked with Christine on the morning Ilsa walk. I ran the loop. Then have been working on GYE stuff. Amazing how far what I did do two years ago is from what I thought I did. I have to rethink how to fill all the time because apparently there are two fewer hours than I thought.

I ordered a new point and shoot camera, the Canon 950 that Linus had, from Costco.com. I had to pay tax, but got a free memory card

At about 9:30 I took the Volvo the get new tires at Big O (it needed two) which cost a little over $100.

Robert arrived home at about 12:40 and the four of us went to see the 1:40 showing of Wall-E at Greenback.

Quite and odd and amazing movie. Didn't quite know what to think about it. But I liked it.

"The first 40 minutes or so of “Wall-E” — in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen — is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in. The scene is an intricately rendered city, bristling with skyscrapers but bereft of any inhabitants apart from a battered, industrious robot and his loyal cockroach sidekick. Hazy, dust-filtered sunlight illuminates a landscape of eerie, post-apocalyptic silence. This is a world without people, you might say without animation, though it teems with evidence of past life.
We’ve grown accustomed to expecting surprises from Pixar, but “Wall-E” surely breaks new ground. It gives us a G-rated, computer-generated cartoon vision of our own potential extinction." – A.O. Scott New York Times
Robert slept through much of the movie after a Magic card fest until 4 a.m. We all went to Starbuck's afterward and we have been cleaning the house since we got home.

Abalone Feed

Tom and Alan pound the steaks.


The perfect steak and the killer mallet.


The pounding continues.


A great steak.


Alan breads the steaks with Dixie Fry. He used to use italian breadcrumbs, but he likes this better.


Fry time.


For some reason this pan worked much better.


Alan frying the steaks to a golden brown.




All you can eat.

Day Twenty Three: Sunday, June 29, 2008

Day Twenty Three: Sunday, June 29, 2008
Worship
Church Business Meeting and Potluck
The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Ran today-the usual San Juan-Palm-Dove-Quail loop. Then off to church with Christine in the truck. Something seemed to be leaking from the van. It is going to be time to let the Odyssey go before too long.
At church we had a commissioning ceremony and prayer for Billy and Wayne as this would be Billy's last Sunday and Peter Rodgers preached on the Prodigal Son.
We came home and Robert had brought Gordon in. We bought sandwiches at Raley's. Tonight is the church business meeting.
I drove Gordon out in his truck so he could meet Manasa and go back to Donner then Christine picked me up and we went to church.

Had a great potluck and a good meeting, but the highlight of the evening was at the very end when the congregation surprised Billy with their rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Billy was trying to close the meeting as it had run late when the back doors opened and Jeff Kiefer walked in play a snare drum followed by about 30 singers who mounted the stage area. Jim Jeffereies played the trumpet for the first time since we have been in the new building, Christine was on the piano and Joanne was on the organ. It built to a great crescendo with several flags marching up the front and down the sides. I sincerely think that both Tricia and Billy were touched. Just wish I had had a camera!

Day Twenty Two: Saturday, June 28, 2008

Day Twenty Two: Saturday, June 28, 2008
Returned from New York a little after midnight. Got a good night's sleep in a bed with real sheets that didn't pull out from the bed. :)

Squeeze Inn
We are heading out to Squeeze Inn to meet Gary and Peggy; it's about 9:45. Apparently Gary and Peggy got caught in the Sunrise Avenue parade traffic so they were going to be a little late so we ordered for them and sat out in the back.

Danny and Kevin came too. We had the usual and the consensus was that it is not the same experience eating out back although it was fun to hear about the wedding from the blond waitress who was married on June 14.



Siting out back.


Squeeze burger with cheese skirt.

Scott Harvey in Sutter Creek
Although we had to figure out when Zoe was going to be back from Wildwood so we could pick her up, we decided to go up to Sutter Creek to pick up our last shipment at Scott Harvey. We got there at about 12:30. I thought it didn't open until 1, but it was open when we got there. Paulette wasn't there again. It was Ed instead. I picked up my shipment, but they couldn't find Gary's. We did buy a couple of three liter "big boy" bottles of Syrah for $64 each, about $16 a normal size bottle.

We decided to head right back to the Gubitzes where we watched this week's So You think You Can Dance until Zoe called for us to pick her up at church.

Back from Wildwood.


Zoe and Natasha


Zoe and her Sharpie tattoo.

Next we had to figure out how to pick up Gordon at Rebecca's and get him and Robert out to the ranch. Robert agreed to spend the night with him again out at the ranch which is a great thing for him to do.

Day Twenty One: Friday, June 27, 2008

Day Twenty One: Friday, June 27, 2008
Last Day



Went to Starbucks for coffee and then found Mary Kay sitting out front of Carman so we had a nice chat on the bench in the cool morning air. We then all walked over to Camille's for one last breakfast. I just had a blueberry muffin. Couldn;t bring myself to have the blueberry pancakes after all that meat last night.

Breakout 3: 9-9:45
The Big Mo
I didn't sweat it much but did have a keynote ready to go. What I finally decided to do was put up the post-it poster paper, divide them into groups of three and have them brain storm answers to the questions: What do you do to motivate your staff and what motivates you? The insight and discussion was great and we had ten groups so it took the full time! I never got past the first slide. I think I had well over 30.

At 10 my yearbook leadership group came back to me and we spent most of the time talking about creating a staff manual. I had them work on their calendars, deciding exactly what they were going to teach for the first several weeks. Then I had them write their staff letter. We also discussed what should be put in the style guide. Rebecca came in and we did the class evaluation thing. I later discussed with them what they felt worked and what could be improved and it seemed that they were pretty satisfied.
We cleaned the room and some helped me carry my stuff up to room 503 and I took the rest up.

Editorial Leadership - Yearbook Awards
Outstanding Yearbook Journalist
Anna Dukhovich Newton North

Outstanding Yearbook Writing
Sandra Brooks Emma Willard
Maestro Award
Cali Pantazis Bronx Science
Teresa Gianotti Friends Academy
Jenny Zhao Newton North

Outstanding Yearbook Layout
Jocelyn Chuang Bronx Science

School Theme Award
Emma Willard
Coral Shores

The award ceremony went well. Although the newspaper folks give a TON of awards and they get away with using much less serious names-especially Bobby Hawthorne. (The Bend and Snap Award)
Ed also had a interesting slide show and audio of a speech that Eisenhower gave at the CSPA luncheon in 1948(?) when he was the president of Columbia. It was very interesting but a strange choice for the last word of the workshop.

We checked out and Crystal and I went down to the Penn Station area. We walked to a place where she loved the raspberry coffee. I guess she and Therese had stayed nearby on one of their trips. We then decided to walk to B and H to check it out. We walked past the Empire State Building, but by the time we got to B and H it was closed because to it was close to shabbat.

We walked up ninth through Hell's Kitchen then over on 42nd and up to 50th. Crystal wanted to go the the American Craftsman store so we hand to walk a bit more to find it. It was close to 2:30 by the time we got on a train back to Columbia. Once we were back on the westside we had lunch at Amir's then a treat at Pinkberry. Pinkberry is this tart yogurt stuff that you add toping to. Not  bad I would go there again.

I was starting to get antsy to get going so we got back to Carman, gathered our stuff and made it back to Broadway to catch a cab. Just like happened to Pete a couple of years ago, no cabs were stopping. One finally did stop and I asked him why he wouldn't take us and he said it was because of the shift change at five. A couple of gypsy cabs had slowed but I wasn't ready to go there yet. We decided to split up and work both sides of the street. We were ready to go there in just a few minutes so when a gypsy stopped again we got it. He would charge us $50 and give us a receipt, so we went for it. It was the usual crazy drive through Harlem to get on the Triborough bridge , but we made it and actually got to JFK  in just about an hour in pretty heavy traffic. Not to worry. I gave him $65 and we were all set.

Check in went fine but I had go through that extra security again (there were multiple SSSS on my boarding pass), but even that turned out to be no big deal. Crystal got set up with jetBlue wireless and then I trundled off to catch my plane at about 7. As usual we were late getting on board and then we didn't get off for about an hour and a half. Still waiting to leave JFK on time. The flight was uneventful except I did sit next to the newspaper girl from Center and we did have an empty seat in between us. I think we arrived right around 12.

Day Twenty: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Day Twenty: Thursday, June 26, 2008
Last Full Day
Maestro Activity
Theme Presentations


Pete was up soon after I got up at 6, and we decided to go out for a run together. He said he was coming back from an injury and he would take it easy on me. We were going to do about 40 minutes down and back in Riverside park. We ran mostly, we stretched once and walked a little and the out and back stretched to 48 minutes. I think we made it own to somewhere in the 70s.

A Sincere and Pure Devotion to Christ
This devotion appeared in one of Sam's regular emails. Worth saving and pondering.

A Sincere and Pure Devotion to Christ (1) (2 Corinthians 11:3) Sam Storms Enjoying God Ministries

I want to be a person known for one thing. Although I'm an author, it matters little if people buy my books. Although I'm a speaker, it matters little if they hear what I say. What ultimately matters, what is of preeminent importance, is that I be a person known for "a sincere and pure devotion to Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:3).

I can't begin to describe the effect these simple words have had on me of late. Perhaps it comes from getting older. The more one sees and experiences in life, the less important much of it becomes. Time has a way of exposing what is superficial and weeding out so much of what I once regarded as essential. Things that used to occupy my time and capture my attention no longer do. What I thought I needed, I'm fine without. What once was sweet has of late turned sour.

This isn't to say I'm not still tempted! God knows, I am. Worse still, the temptation all too often turns to sin. But at least I know that's what it is. At least, by God's grace, I know what I ought to value and pursue, even if far too often I fail to do so. So, like I said, it's come down to this: a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

The apostle Paul had grown deeply concerned, dare I say fearful ("I am afraid," v. 3a), that some of those in the church at Corinth had been led astray from the simplicity and centrality of this sort of passion for Jesus. Unashamed, extravagant affection for the Son of God was being corrupted by a different gospel that proclaimed a different Christ in the power of a different spirit. Thus he wrote:

"I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough" (2 Cor. 11:1-4).

Sincerity and pure devotion, in themselves, are useless if not centered in Christ. People are often described as passionate and zealous, or sincere and single-minded, especially when it comes to religion or spirituality. But it's all for naught if it isn't for Christ! Our society applauds people for being singularly devoted to their "faith" or their "god" or their "cause", whoever or whatever it may be. In fact, the latter doesn't matter much at all. In our pluralistic world, all that counts is commitment. The focus of one's faith is less important than the faith itself. Thatwhat one believes. Paul would beg to differ! one is a believer is more important than

Zeal is a colossal waste of energy if its aim is anything other than Christ. Spirituality is a sham if Christ is not its substance. Passion, no matter how intense or well-intended, is a meaningless vapor in the human soul if it is not awakened by the beauty and splendor of Christ and has for its goal the glory and praise of Christ. There simply is no value in religious activity that is not Christological at its core.

Each week, in churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, shrines, and homes around the world, people will worship. They will sing and pray and dance and genuflect. Some will raise their hands, a few will clap, and others will lie prostrate in the dust (or on the carpet). They will read sacred texts and burn candles in symbolic praise. They will proclaim ancient truths and seek for contemporary relevance. But it is all to no avail if Christ Jesus is not central and supreme in their affections. No matter how deeply they believe it or how generously they support it or how clearly they defend it, if "it" isn't Jesus, it is for naught.

What precisely does Paul have in mind when he speaks of a devotion to Christ that is "sincere" and "pure"? At its most basic and foundational level, he's talking about a single-minded and altogether exclusive preoccupation with the person of Christ and a life that pleases him. This must be contrasted with half-hearted, lukewarm, convenient Christianity, the sort that is happy to have Christ on Sunday or when one is in a crisis or a time of need.

Paul is calling for an unswerving commitment to believing the right things about Jesus and doing the right things on his behalf. No duplicity, no divided loyalties, no double-mindedness can be allowed. As it was in the first century, so it is in the twenty-first: cunning and devious paramours seek to turn the allegiance of our hearts away from Jesus and to capture our affections for another.

There is also a moral quality to this devotion, without which its sincerity is of little use. It is a pure devotion, a righteous passion, a holy heart that will not tolerate sin, for which Paul makes his appeal.

Earlier in v. 2, Paul spoke of his desire "to present" the Corinthians as "a pure (hagnos) virgin to Christ." It's no mistake, and not without significance, that now in v. 3 he uses a related term (hagnotes) to describe the only sort of devotion to Christ that counts for both time and eternity.

So again, speaking and singing much of Christ while consciously toying with sin is far removed from the devotion here in view. Have we not seen enough of public figures who tout their religious zeal (often to gain votes) while repeatedly and unrepentantly violating their marital vows? Have we not heard enough of people in the pew whose private lives differ little, if at all, from their atheistic neighbors? Have we not all grown weary of our own hypocrisy, our declarations of love and faith from the same mouth that spews hatred and contempt?

I'll have more to say in a subsequent meditation about Eve and the serpent and Paul's allusion to their encounter in the garden, but for now I only draw your attention to the verb translated "led astray" (v. 3). The word means something along the lines of "to corrupt" or "ruin" and in doing so "to seduce", "deceive", and "lead astray".

Here's how. The enemy, through a variety of means, lies to us. He wants you to believe that the pleasure he promises is more fulfilling than what may be found in a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. He rarely threatens or intimidates. His strategy is to allure and seduce on the strength of what sin can bring you now. If he can deceive you into believing that the way of Christ is hard, with no reward, that it is demanding, with no delight, that painful sacrifices are required with no satisfaction either now or in the age to come, he's won.

This is why the focus of Paul's ministry in Corinth, as in every city, was Jesus. Simply Jesus. The spiritually blinding, breathtaking splendor of the "light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 4:6) alone will avail to trump the enemies lies and empower the soul to pursue and rest satisfied in a "sincere and pure devotion to Christ," and to Christ alone.

Is Christ the ground and source of your joy? Is Christ the object and focus of your faith? Is Christ the aim of your affection and the point of your passion? Or are you just into religion for the ride? For whose sake are you "sincere"? To what end are you "pure"? To whom are you "devoted"?

"Glorious Father, turn our eyes from the tawdry and transient pleasures of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Let us see your Son! Satisfy us with his goodness and grace. May our sincere and pure devotion be centered in him. Amen. Sam

Morning Session: 9-11:30
I was late to class when I had to go back to get my projector connector. I knew I had forgotten it too when I was getting on the elevator, but I still went over.

We did a journal topic about Legally Blonde. I also hung eight sheets on the wall where we gathered info about the play. Each one who went to the play wrote what they remembered on the papers and I added some. It would have been much better if all the Bronx Science people were there, but they had all taken the Physics Regents test. I then took them through the "Steps to Great Copy" presentation and then "Captivating Captions." This took me right until about 11:20 so I divided them into their maestro groups so that they could start working at one after lunch. We had decided to move today's breakouts to Friday morning so we would have more class time.

Mary Kay came down and we go Crystal and had lunch at Cafe Swish. I had a bento box with tempura, rice and California roll for $8.50. After lunch I went over to the bookstore and bought a shirt and a hat. I have been needing a new Columbia cap.

Afternoon Session: 9-11:30
Maestro Activity
It took awhile to get everyone here, but this was a work session. Currently we have 17. They worked much harder then I thought they, even the Bronx Science kids.

Maestro team: Matt, Alexa, Terin

Maestro team: Anna, Sandra, Michelle

Maestro team: Laura Marie, Peter, Bitsy

K. Leigh, Lauren, Kathy

Teresa, Jenny, Cali – Their layout won the Maestro contest

Peter judging the maestro layouts

Judging the Maestro layouts

Another nice layout

The winning layout

Only three of the groups finished well however. Two of the copies were actually good too. The team of Cali, Teresa and Jenny won. Probably not the one I would have picked, but it still deserved to win.

I went back to the room and puttered a bit, but managed to get a half hour nap. I feel much better.

Evening Session: 5:30-7:30
Theme Presentations

We had students sign up to do presentations and interestingly only eight schools actually presented. We actually only chose two winners. They were OK but nothing spectacular. It does seem to be a good idea that we did not force anyone to do any thing.

Dinner at Rack and Soul
Because it had gotten late, MK and her gang wanted to eat closer so we decided not to go to John's Pizza, but to go to a rib place called Rack and Soul on 109 and Broadway.

Fried-chicken fans took notice when chef Charles Gabriel decided to open an offshoot of his Harlem mainstay, Charles’ Southern Style Kitchen: His crisp, meaty bird ranks among New York’s best. Those in the know will order it with a warm waffle, though other sides like smoky collard greens and spectacularly gooey mac and cheese are equally worthy accompaniments. The Rack end of things refers to sweet, glistening ribs, tended to by pitmaster John Wheeler. Time Out

I had the combo platter with ribs and pulled pork. The two sides were collard greens and mac and cheese. For dessert we had a great bread pudding ans a dry red velvet cake. It was all pretty good, but just don't think I like that much meat. Too greasy.

Amazingly we were back to Carman by 10 p.m. I had plenty of time to create tomorrow's Mighty Mo session!

Day Nineteen: Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Day Nineteen: Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Legally Blonde experience
Carmine's for dinner
Workshop Day Four


Went to bed at around one and woke up a about 6. At least that's a little better.
We leave for the play experience at 9. Had breakfast at Camille's-finally tried the blueberry pancakes with bacon. As usual we were supposed to be by the Furnald lawn by nine, but it quickly became evident that there was a problem. For some reason they did not have the Metrocards and they were waiting for them to arrive. It was pretty hot out so the kids had to find shade, but eventually the solution was that Becky bought the cards with her own money! She stood at the gate and counted while we all went in! Over $1,000. She is bviously not too happy with Tony. I had a small group made up primarily of girls from Marymount and so it worked out well but we didn;t leave until after 10. We got to B.B. King's without a hitch and because we were late we wound up eating lunch. The usual pasta bar with chicken and salad. The desserts were good and the Coke was flowing.

For the press conference we had six people-two producers and four from the cast. Marc Bruni (Associate Director); Dori Berinstein (Producer) were the creative team. Paul Caanan; Natalie Joy Johnson; Asmeret Ghebremichael (Pilar) and Beth Curry (ensemble). As usual it was fun except for the repetitive questions. Paul is one of the judges on the Search for Elle Woods on MTV so that also made it interesting.

I was leading group 13 and as usual it was quite the experience walking the kids to the theatre. But no problem we all made it without a hitch.
The show itself was actually pretty good and we had great seats in the mezzanine.

"This high-energy, empty-calories and expensive-looking hymn to the glories of girlishness, based on the 2001 film of the same title, approximates the experience of eating a jumbo box of Gummi Bears in one sitting. This may be common fare for the show’s apparent target audience — female ’tweens and teenagers who still believe in Barbie. But unless you’re used to such a diet, you wind up feeling jittery. Laura Bell Bundy [did not see her] sings and dances flawlessly, and she delivers silly lines as if she meant them. But she lacks the quirkiness and irresistible watch-me egotism that a big, heroine-worshiping musical needs at its center. This means that the weight of the show, directed with hyperkinetic effusiveness by Jerry Mitchell, shifts to its feel-good formula. With its pink-dominated color scheme and matching cherry-soda score of ballads of self-empowerment, “Legally Blonde” is infused on every level with the message that it’s O.K. to be a princess. But what about those who don’t appreciate the value of a manicure or a leg wax?" — Ben Brantley New York Times

Evening Session: 6-8
It's a tough sell to get kids to come back and work after the show. In actuality there were quite a few kids and I have a bunch of great conversations with kids about their books and theme ideas. I also went over the theme assignment with the projector so that it might be totally clear. Don't want that cropping up on the evaluations as a negative.

Carmine's
Called for a reservation for nine last night so we were all set. Bobby, Brett, Helen and Pete, and I walked and Mary Kay, Linus and Crystal walked. We only had to wait a couple of minutes and promptly got in.

There were eight of us and we ordered.
Carmine's salad
Calamari
Chicken Scarpariello
Chicken Parmigiana
The pasta of the day with all kinds of seafood (clams, mussells, shrimp, calamari)
Titanic

All for under $240 including tip. About $32 each. Unbelievable.

The same group walked back and we were back just a little after 11.

Day Eighteen: Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Day Eighteen: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Up Early to Prepare, Teaching, Ticket Hunt, In the Heights

Woke up at 5ish and have been working on today's sessions. I purposefully left the final prep until now and it all had come together at least well enough to be good.
I felt good enough about it all to go to Camille's, but I just had a pecan muffin.

Morning Session: 9-11:30
Name Game-20 minutes
Journal-ten minutes
Creating the ladder-30 minutes

Intro to Design with updated keynote. 40 minutes
Step by step Design-homecoming. 30 minutes
Very little work time was left to finish layout one.

Breakout Session: 1-1:45
Design Quest. Had about 32. They were a good group but really pretty dead. A session after lunch really needs to be more interactive or something.

Afternoon Session: 9-11:30
Layout workshop. Pasted up first layout with construction paper. Did sticky note voting. Barely finished by 3:30.

Layouts and post-it judging

The breakouts have definitely had an effect on my curriculum. I am one full segment behind in what I normally teach. By this time they are usually actually writing a story and we just finished the first design. What we needed to do was actually teach in the evening sessions for one night. We needed at least two more hours of teaching time.

Ticket hunt to TKTS and Times Square
Crystal wanted to see another show so even though I was pooped we decided to go down to TKTS at the break and see what we could get. We didn't get there until between 4:15 and 4:30 and there wasn'r much up on the board. Also for whatever reason quite a few shows start at 7 on Tuesday nights. There really were only two we were mildly interested in. Mary Poppins and Thurgood with Lawrence Fishburne. I sort of wanted to see Thurgood, but Crystal thought she was too tired for a one man show. With the decision made we went up to get the tickets and they only had a single. So we went and talked to the guy at the board and found out it only runs 90 minutes so we decided to go for Thurgood after all only to find out they only had a single for that. The guy said they might have more tickets in ten minutes but when we checked back they said they wouldn't have any more. So apparently we might get SHUT OUT! On a lark we decided to walk over to the Richard Rogers Theater to see if there might be a chance to get tickets to the 2008 Tony Winning Best Musical In the Heights. Amazingly they had two tickets, although they were supposedly obstructed view, we went for it at about $113 a pop. Amen. What a great God thing. We headed back by about 4:45 and were up to Columbia by 5:05. Exhausted and ready to teach at 5:30 in the party space.

Evening Session: 5:30-7:30
We took roll and did a very quick thing on the play and interviewing and even had thm generate some questions for the Legally Blonde press conference tomorrow. Then we spent the rest of the time doing critiques and discussing themes. We left about 7:25 and made it to the theater with about five minutes to spare.

Dinner!

In the Heights at the Richard Rogers Theater


First seen Off Broadway last year, In the Heights moves uptown with its considerable assets confidently in place: a tuneful score enlivened by the dancing rhythms of salsa and Latin pop, sounds that are an ear-tickling novelty on Broadway; zesty choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler that seems to put invisible wings on the young cast’s neon-colored sneakers; and a stage amply stocked with appealing actors who season their performances with generous doses of sugar and spice. Its fundamental deficiencies are also along for the ride, unfortunately. In the Heights consists of a series of vignettes that form a vivid but somewhat airbrushed mural of urban life. Directed by Thomas Kail, it is basically a salsa-flavored soap opera, and if there is an equivalent of schmaltz in Spanish, this musical is happily swimming in it. – Charles Isherwood New York Times.

I was quite disappointed that the show's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda what not there. Someone said his throat was a little sore. But it still was a lot of fun. Even though our seats were on the side they weren't that bad, actually had some interesting angles on the audience and the actors together. I slept a tiny bit at the beginning of the second act but I bounced back quickly.

After the show we went to Europa Cafe for a quick bite and were back to Columbia by 11:30. I made a brief search for my poster guy without any luck.