Davy Jones, 1945-2012
What’s your favorite Monkees song? I think mine’s “Valleri.” Davy Jones died of a heart attack this morning in Florida. He was 66.
States Sleepy
What is the sleepiest state? The one I’m in right now! No, seriously, I have been tossing and turning for the last couple of days, and this weather certainly isn’t helping. Man, now I want a nap.
Living La VIDA Loca (Sorry)

Yesterday VIDA, an organization devoting to promoting women in the literary arts, released its annual slideshow of pie charts representing the proportion of female to male publication in literary journals and book reviews, including The Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, the LRB, the NYRB, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and the Nation. It was not remotely news to anyone that far more men than women write for these publications. Reactions were varied, and ranged from knee-jerk to profound. Some men piously proclaimed that their publications needed to do better; some women found the idea that women need affirmative action to succeed “offensive.” Some people interpreted this data to mean that “America’s Top Magazines” are “Still Not Hiring Women”. But here’s the thing: these magazines are only “America’s Top” in the sense that they are the most culturally elevated; they are certainly not the “top” in terms of circulation or in the rates they pay their writers. Could it be that part of the imbalance is caused by the fact that women are choosing not to write for these magazines? Due to … the fact that they have free will, and are not just passive victims of an unjust system? It’s not difficult to imagine why some women (and men) might not want to write for these magazines: They do not, on the whole, pay well or assign articles with reliable frequency to, pretty much, anyone. If your options include: waiting a year or more for the legendary septuagenarian editor of a historically important book review to tweak your prose so that you can someday receive a check for 50 cents a word, or spending an evening hanging out with a movie star, writing about it for a sorta-vapid glossy, then cashing a check that pays your rent for four months, who is to say which is the wiser choice? That’s my issue with this tally, anyway: it doesn’t allow for the idea that women have agency, and they might be choosing to avoid having bad (albeit prestigious) jobs.
I’m not denying that both high and low culture need women’s voices, but maybe it’s worth considering that we might want to leave these print dinosaurs to the rapidly-aging crew of men who’ve dominated them since they founded them, and decamp for spaces where there is no shortage of women’s voices. Or, hey, we could stop waiting for their magazines to accept us and start our own! We can work to unlearn the values that make us feel we need that mainstream high-cultural stamp of approval. We can work for places that want to hire us or pay us and not be snobs about it. Instead of pleading for admission to an often lame-seeming club that doesn’t want us to be members, we can ignore the club’s existence and watch it fade into obsolescence. I don’t want to play a sad game that only a bunch of sagging middle-aged white men play!! (Squash?) IF BOB SILVERS DOESN’T WANT ME, THAT’S HIS LOSS AND I’M STARTING MY OWN REVIEW AND IT’S CALLED THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF EMILY BOOKS!!</counterintuitive take>
Okay, but for real, obviously some things about some of these magazines are great and they should certainly work harder at, um, not ignoring the voices of half of humanity. But getting a bunch of male editors to phone in sound bites about how chastened a pie chart makes them feel doesn’t seem like the first step towards accomplishing that goal, to me. I dunno, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Baby Seal Has A Meal
Are baby seals cute? Of course they are. Tiny versions of anything are cute. Anyway, enjoy.
Survey Says! The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide For Women
by Logan Sachon

Many moons ago, a few thousand of you filled out a survey about dating online. A few moons after that, we compiled all the best tips and tricks shared by folks who date men. And now here we are with advice for women, kindly suggested by the men and women who date them. Some of this advice is the same advice that people wanted to give to the men! But some of it is different. Then next week we’ll share your many, many horrifying (although sometimes okay) Online Dating Stories and we’ll all have a good cry, laugh or “awww” together. For now, though, here’s what our respondents had to say about dating women.
Post true-to-life pictures, and be honest about your weight.
• Ladies, apparently a lot of us are posting high-school-circa pictures of ourselves on these dating sites, and we need to stop doing this. Also, no one said this explicitly, but I’m going to say it: be true to you! If you are cool with you as you are, someone else will be cool with you as you are. Don’t hide behind pictures of a younger you. You are great!
Don’t do duckface photos.
• I had to look up what that meant. I had just called that “looking attractive,” but apparently I’m just as wrong as the rest of you, because the dudes and dudettes that are checking out our pictures see right through our faux-hollow cheeks and plumped-up lips and they are having none of it. Don’t try to look sexy! Just be sexy.
Don’t lie about anything except for the one thing that you’ve rationalized it’s okay to lie about.
• “Better to be straight up front and not lie. If what you are hiding is a deal breaker, it’s better to break the deal from the outset. Now, having said that, I lie about my age but most people think I am 10 years younger than I am and if I told the truth, I’d never get a date with a younger woman.”
I repeat: Let your true self shine through.
In your profile, use specifics about who you are and what type of relationship you’re hoping for.
• “Please do not state that you like to ‘have fun,’ ‘just hang out,’ or ‘listen to music’ in your online profile. This suggests that you are in fact not human, just trying to sound like one.”
• “Write why you’re on and what you want, rather than ‘I like cycling, tea, wine, reading and cheese.’”
But if that doesn’t work.
• “Have a lot of good -ooking pictures on your profile. Also, make a shit load of money.”
Don’t hurry love.
• “Chill out on the ‘I love you’ thing within, like, a month of dating. It kind of creeps most guys out to be jumping into that too soon. Especially mid-coitus!”
• “On the first date she asked, “Do you believe that you can love somebody for just one night?” As she clumsily ran her boots up and down my slacks under the table. She proceeded to tell me about her ‘Before Sunrise’-esque night of passion in Kiev during a semester abroad.”
Tweeting about your date is bad form.
• “I went on a date with someone who complained via Twitter about me being late before I got there.”
• “Immediately after hanging out she posted on Twitter, ‘Ugh, what’s with all the shitty boys on [dating sites]?’”
On the first date, don’t lead with all that’s Debbie Downer in your life.
• “I have had SEVERAL first dates with people who spend a long time talking about dead parent(s). FYI: I empathize! Having dead parent(s) sucks! But I do not want to talk about it when we are JUST MEETING.”
• “Discussing family and medical issues is not a good idea on a first date.”
Unless the health problems are Relevant To Their Interests, in which case, spill.
• “Nowhere on her profile did it say anything about her being an acid casualty and ketamine dealer.”
• “The problem is that, just like pre-Internet dating, it does end up taking a while to really get to know someone, and by that I mean ‘realize after dating for six months that they are pretty clearly suffering from borderline personality disorder.’ Unfortunately, people in general do not have a habit of making this clear when composing their profiles … so until sites start allowing you to filter profiles by DSM diagnosis code (I’m a 296.32 if that’s a deal breaker, ladies), your luck as is good or bad as ever.”
Beware of this in yourself and others.
• “The worst part is the general feeling of self-disgust that comes with sleeping with someone despite loathing their personality … when I find myself on a date with someone that is reasonably good looking, there is some biological fuckedupness that kicks in and says, ‘sleep with this woman despite everything.’’”
Sometimes it’s good be a quitter.
• “It’s happened a couple of times to me where we’ve met and *instantly* known that we’re not really interested in each other — and gone through with a couple of hours of date anyway. So you see something right at the beginning — this person is really unhappy, or dull, or just really doesn’t like me — and you can usually pick this up in about 10 seconds — and you sit through it anyway. Mad.”
• “If the convo isn’t flowing, time to get going.”
What’s there online isn’t always there in person — and that’s okay.
• “I don’t have any real horror stories, mostly just disappointment that there ends up being no chemistry with someone who I’ve so enjoyed talking to online.”
Please don’t use your dates as an opportunity to scout for “material.” (At least openly.)
• “Going on a date with a woman who told me halfway through that she was writing a book on online dating, that’s the only reason she went on the date with me.”
Don’t hate on online dating if you’re online dating.
• “The few times that online encounters turned into dates, it seemed like both parties were slightly embarrassed for having met online. It’s not the best atmosphere for trying to enter the other’s pants/skirt/jeggings.”
Know your audience.
• “She called “herself a ‘foodie’ and used the phrase ‘it’s whatevs’ way too many times. Really, any more than two ‘whatevs’ in a night and a red flag goes up.”
“Be honest about yourself and your reasons for dating”
• “The one thing I will say is that when I dated women of a certain age — say, early to mid-40’s -there was a palpable desperation tinged with anger, as though they wanted to know by the end of the first date whether this was going to be a serious relationship or not, and I found that off-putting.”
Manage expectations, and be open to deviations from your fantasy image of your date
• “Hang onto your expectations only so tightly. No one is exactly what you think they are when you first meet them, and no one can describe themselves perfectly. These are fundamentally good things to understand when dealing with people in any context.”
Previously: The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide for Men
Related: My Superpower Is Being Alone Forever and Party Of One
Photo by Foxtongue, via Flickr
There Are No New Ideas So Let's Just Jam The Old Ones Together
Of COURSE they are: “Bacon-Filled Macarons Coming to St. Mark’s Place”
Celebrate Leap Day With Kevin Kline's Magnificent Chest Hair
So everyone grew up watching the 1983 film of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Pirates of Penzance repeatedly, and had their budding brains shaped by it, and gets its songs stuck in their heads on a scarily regular basis, right? Thought so! If not, it is on YouTube in its entirety and Leap Day is a major plot point (something something, the protagonist must do something by age 20, but he was born on Leap Day so he’s actually only five, see above). It stars Angela Lansbury and Linda Ronstadt in addition to Kevin Kline at the peak of his ridiculous oddball hotness. Seriously, give me 1983 Kevin Kline over the charisma-less smooth-chested supposed sex gods of our era anyday. (Are people seriously attracted to Ryan Gosling? What on earth is that Non-threatening Boys Magazine nonsense about?)
When Black Women Had To Play Maids To Win Oscars
On this day in 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award, for her role as a housemaid in Gone with the Wind. It’s amazing when you think about how far we’ve come since then.
The Sun Might Do Bad Things To Us

“The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.” Now, to be fair, that means that there’s a 7/8th chance that nothing’s going to happen, but seeing as if it does it could result in “disruption of the transportation, communication, banking, and finance systems, and government services; the breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure; and the loss of perishable foods and medications because of lack of refrigeration,” we should probably just panic anyway.
The Epic Live-Tweeting Of Last Night's Park Slope Coop Meeting
Last night Park Slope Food Coop held its monthly members meeting. At 7:26 p.m., senior Reuters Opinion editor Chadwick Matlin began live-tweeting the proceedings; two hours and 14 minutes later, “meeting is adjourned.” It’s difficult to pick a favorite here but “In europe I have been using the biodegradable, and they degrade so fast by the time you’re at checkout you don’t know where the bag is,” “’but my collards won’t fit!’ — one of the actresses in the silent film PSA,” and “”My name is Robert Dow. No relation to Dow Chemical.” have to be contenders.
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Chadwick Matlin I wasn’t going to, but it’s too good not to tweet. The park slope food coop meeting has begun.
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Chadwick Matlin Despite not being on the agenda until next month, was canvassed with Israel food boycott materials before even entering meeting.
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Chadwick Matlin The room is tense with passive aggression. Israeli food referendum dominates. Free Oreos given out, but not free hummus.
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Chadwick Matlin 7:31 pm: First mention of “fascist food.”
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Chadwick Matlin Man gets up, says coop should ban Israeli food only if it bans american food because of native American occupation. He’s wearing yarmulke.
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Chadwick Matlin Coop spending $4,000 to rent high school for Israeli vote. And ppl say Israeli boycott would be bad for economy.
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Chadwick Matlin Coordinator reports that since inception, coop has sold more than 400 mil in goods.
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Chadwick Matlin Food coordinator admits that even though clemntines are coming from Morocco, they’re really delicious.
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Chadwick Matlin Goes on to say “everything is coconut these days.” in related news, she went birding in Sri Lanka and had some great coconut water there.
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Chadwick Matlin Discussion about whether coop should post directions to next months meeting. Woman: “there’s a huge antennae in the sky, just look for that”
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Chadwick Matlin Member! These are my people. I am them. They are me. RT @irincarmon: @ChadwickMatlin are you a member or are you just lurking?
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Chadwick Matlin Have now moved on to tonight’s business: whether to eliminate plastic produce bags at coop. No vote tonight. Just discussion.
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moorehn Heidi N. Moore
Chad is live-tweeting the Park Slope food co-op hummus controversy. RT @ChadwickMatlin: 7:31 pm: First mention of “fascist food.”
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Chadwick Matlin @moorehn technically no hummus vote tonight. That’s next month. Whether to eliminate plastic bags is tonight.
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Chadwick Matlin Plastic produce bag rollout would take 3 months. Follow in footsteps of plastic shopping bag ban already in place.
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@ChadwickMatlin are you a member or are you just lurking?
marcatracy marc tracy
@irincarmon @ChadwickMatlin non-members aren’t allowed in, or so I was told. I’ll be relying on your reporting tomorrow (seriously!)
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Chadwick Matlin @marcatracy no Israel stuff tonight! No vote at least. Not on agenda til next month.
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Chadwick Matlin Slide: “plastic bags + fracking?”
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Chadwick Matlin Coop plastic produce bag stats: 383 bags used per hour. $22k per year spent on providing bags.
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Chadwick Matlin Proponent saying one reason to ban plastic bags because they go into trash that goes through low income community in South Bronx.
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Chadwick Matlin Proponent says one option to replace plastic bags is that members can make their own cloth replacements.
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Chadwick Matlin Anti plastic bag PSA being played. Called “The Shopper”. Spoof of “The Artist”
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Chadwick Matlin “but my collards won’t fit!” — one of the actresses in the silent film PSA.
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Chadwick Matlin Point of order for non members out there: every speaking member must introduce selves and what shift they work. Receiving, Shopping, etc.
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Chadwick Matlin Also, coop newspaper is called “linewaiter’s gazette”
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Chadwick Matlin Lengthy speech abt cost of cloth bags compred to plastic bags on scale. Half cent on a scale, not factoring in cost of water to clean them.
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Chadwick Matlin Board member tried to cut speech off. “it’s going somewhere!” man protests.
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Chadwick Matlin “The true objective here is to get international media attention for booting out roll bags.” Success!
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Chadwick Matlin Woman next to me has finished her squeeze pack of Almond Milk/Butter/Thingie.
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Chadwick Matlin Woman proposing that coop could have muslin (sp?) bag donation drive.
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Paul Smalera Actually, every speaker so far RT @ChadwickMatlin: Board member tried to cut speech off. “it’s going somewhere!” man protests.
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Chadwick Matlin Counterpoint! “Bio bags have their own sustainability issues. A lot of them are made from corn.” Proposes group bag share w mutual cleaning.
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Chadwick Matlin “Most ppl have a bag of bags. I used to have a bag of bags that took up half the closet.”
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Chadwick Matlin “I do checkout, you know, so that’s why I’m speaking. I’m right on the firing line, you know?”
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Chadwick Matlin Potential corruption scandal: Woman on checkout committee proposes taring scale purposefully high to account for bag weight.
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Counterpoint! “Bio bags have their own sustainability issues. A lot of them are made from corn.” Proposes group bag share w mutual cleaning.
jgperras Justin Perras
@ChadwickMatlin I need you to swear on your life that these are all real. Because right now you’re Santa Claus delivering me these gifts.
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Chadwick Matlin @jgperras I am a sworn journalist. Ethics apply! All true.
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Chadwick Matlin “I’ve been a member for 37 years, and I’ve never taken a plastic bag from the coop. I use bags until they disintegrate in my house.”
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Chadwick Matlin Man comes up to speak and say that he heard on the news that somebody may have discovered a plastic-eating bacteria.
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Chadwick Matlin “My name is Robert Dow. No relation to Dow Chemical.”
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Chadwick Matlin “corn production contributes to dead zone on ocean, so that’s one thing to consider if we use corn bags”
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Chadwick Matlin Clarification! Woman says this isn’t a ban on plastic bags. Just plastic bags the coop provides for free. We are all free to use our own.
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Chadwick Matlin But she wants us to know that “plastic doesn’t really have a role to play in frugal living”
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Chadwick Matlin “In europe I have been using the biodegradable, and they degrade do fast by the time you’re at checkout you don’t know where the bag is”
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Chadwick Matlin “poop and pee and trash juice”
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Chadwick Matlin Bag washing instructions: “you dump them in water with white vinegar. A week later it’s still smiling!”
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Chadwick Matlin European woman on a role. Woman gets out camera, points it at her. “No picture. My face belongs to me, sweetheart.
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Chadwick Matlin “I understand the applause. But please, no applause” — board member in response to our response to the European messiah.
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Chadwick Matlin “the responsible thing for the coop to do is to remove the temptation”
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Chadwick Matlin Advice from somebody for no bag advocates: “come armed with a flier…or a reusable flier”
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Chadwick Matlin Man raises hand (and bag) to speak on issue. Wonder what he thinks. http://t.co/OrNOEWKO
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Chadwick Matlin Opposition beginning to organize. Arguing ban would punish ppl doing right thing. “you’re not ordering takeout. You’re going home to cook!”
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Chadwick Matlin Opposition beginning to organize. Arguing ban would punish ppl doing right thing. “you’re not ordering takeout. You’re going home to cook!”
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Chadwick Matlin @kimseverson tonight your former compatriots are out in force, the linchpins for the plastic bag ban. On the self-described “firing line”
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Chadwick Matlin Suggestion that the plastic bag PSA be played on endless loop on monitors at checkout line, TSA security check-style.
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Chadwick Matlin Clear sentiment emerging to pass the ban. But it’ll have to wait until enviro committee hones proposal, brings back another month for vote.
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Chadwick Matlin “If we were to frame this issue as ‘we’re giving away toxic sludge in the produce aisle’ there really would be no discussion”
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Chadwick Matlin Nuanced point of civil liberty implications of ban raised (by my roommate.)
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Chadwick Matlin Nuanced point of civil liberty implications of ban raised (by my roommate.)
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Chadwick Matlin “If you go to trader Joe’s, that’s how they do it.” Boos from the crowd. “Terrible!”
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Chadwick Matlin Plastic bag discussion now closed. Moving on now to whether all coop members should be required to shop with carts. (to prevent theft)
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Chadwick Matlin In January, the coop had 14 shoplifters.
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Chadwick Matlin Getting history lesson on coop theft history. At one point in 80s, someone installed in high chair to watch over cashiers. (no longer)
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Chadwick Matlin “We had something called the no food zone.” In a grocery store.
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Chadwick Matlin 2 hours after beginning of meeting, sign in book still making the round. Yes, it’s in a composition notebook.
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Chadwick Matlin “150 linear feet of vegetables. Most of which, organic. Just thrills me.”
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Chadwick Matlin “what if we need two personal carts? What if I shop at union market before? Will my shopping be monitored In a corner?”
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Chadwick Matlin “I come from a country where thieves are rewarded for creativity”
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Chadwick Matlin “I come from a country where thieves are rewarded for creativity”
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Chadwick Matlin “My name is Steven FTOP.” Everyone laughs. Inside jokes!
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Chadwick Matlin Mandatory shopping cart usage far more controversial than plastic bag ban. Only at the coop.
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Chadwick Matlin By the end, even the most hearty coop member goes supine. 15 mins left. http://t.co/WAiO885o
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Chadwick Matlin New concerns about racial profiling being raised if we create a culture of “criminalization.”
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Chadwick Matlin Point of order for non members: reason why everyone still here because you have to sign in at beginning AND end of meeting. To prevent abuse
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Chadwick Matlin Board of directors meeting now happening, inside of the general meeting. Escher in the house!
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Chadwick Matlin Final segment of meeting is time for questions about meeting. Man asks question about whthr discussion should be for comments…or questions
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Chadwick Matlin Now, finally, time for ride share announcement.
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Chadwick Matlin “Meeting is adjourned.” See you all next month for the Israel vote. (Or, rather the vote on whether to allow a vote)
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