tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79602930355286085312024-03-13T12:04:07.787-07:00Your Mom is So Berkeley (TM)A repository of jokes about your mom and her relationship to Berkeley.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-82554263334459667892015-05-09T16:18:00.000-07:002015-05-09T16:48:15.381-07:00Your Street is So Berkeley<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today we're going to depart a little from our usual format. We've been having some fun over on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/101088487178/permalink/10153273342162179/">Facebook page</a> with a <a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2015/05/04/berkeley-street/">quiz</a> that was recently posted by the <a href="http://www.dailycal.org/">Daily Cal</a>. The quiz purports to tell you what Berkeley street best fits your character.<br />
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There were some claims that the results are random. Louise said, "<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273617002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273617002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273617002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273617002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">YMISB
she took the 'quiz' several times keeping her answers the same each
time but alternating which Daily Cal button she pushed. "See kids,
these internet things are just a ruse . . ." The implication is that the only driver of difference was which Daily Cal button you choose. Anne claimed the issues ran even deeper, "</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I've
taken it 3 times. Each time I picked the same answers (even the same
"Daily Cal"), and each time it gave me a different street (Telegraph,
College, and Cedar)."</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Of course, since most Cal students are not Berkeley natives the response
from YMISBers was mixed at best. Some people were happy with what the
quiz spat out. Others claimed that a "real" Berkeley quiz wouldn't
include a reference to Starbucks rather than Peet's. Could it be that
the Starbucks question was intended to ID transplants? Who knows. Whatever the case the comments section was soon flooded with street/personality descriptions that were important to native or long time Berkeley folks.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I've listed some of the comments below. It gets pretty deep into esoteric Berkeley cartography so even you natives may need to fire up Google Maps to get every one of them.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273576997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273576997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.0"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273576997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273576997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273576997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "You
are Frontage Road. You're smelly at low tide and a bit sketchy/possibly
dangerous. Same goes for the people who associate with you."</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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"<span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273876862179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273876862179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273876862179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273876862179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Panoramic. You are high and have expensive tastes. You somehow
manage to intersect yourself. You confuse everyone except those close to
you."</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Marin Ave. People find you to be either a struggle or a thrill. You
intimidate posers with your depth and contours. Every once in a while
people roll pumpkins down you."</span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273882102179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273899402179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273899402179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273899402179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273899402179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "You
are King St. People are a little afraid of you and no one is surprised
that you are on the way to Alcatraz. Many think you are actually from
Oakland."</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> </span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "You
are Dohr St. You are short and oddly fragmented. Even though you've
been around a long time most people in your community have never heard
of you. You're like that person who shows up at reunion and everyone
thinks you're a crasher from a different class."</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Dwight Crescent. Your very existence is a bit puzzling as you seem
to serve no purpose other than to confuse otherwise mundane situations.
People take you for granted and would only notice you if you
disappeared. But even then they would say, "</span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">Whatever
happened to that one um...you know, the..the person who we...gosh, what
was the name? Anyway, it was easier when they were here, but I guess
it's not super important." Then they would realize a slight down tick in
local accidents."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0">You
are Cedar St. You're useful and nondescript. Like you're fine and
everything but you're basically just a longer version of Rose and people
often confuse you two."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"> "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Hopkins. You get all your hook ups from Sacramento. When you meet
people they usually know you because, "Oh yeah! you live over by the
pool right?" Yup, that's you alright, everybody loves the pool. Respect."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You are Josephine. You are my girlfriend from Jr year. WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO ME??!!!! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004737179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.0"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I mean, um, you're a street. Just a regular street that I have never thought of since high school. </span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274004997179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0">(Good save Berto. Yeah. Good save)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Bonar. You really like the color red. You have a really nice side,
and a side that's kind of dangerous and brings down the value of those
around you. Even with your well deserved reputation the people closest
to you love you intensely and stick up for you when outsiders talk
trash. Just, y'know, please keep them babies out the street."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span 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data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273923932179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Henry. People are always making lame candy bar jokes about your
name. You always claim that you hate it, but deep down you know it's
better than being ignored."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span 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data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273945392179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273995517179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274018712179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274049907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274059907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274059907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274059907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274059907179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">You
are Grizzly Peak. You can be aloof in a way that some people find
pretentious. Part of it is that you spend a lot of your day in a fog.
You engender some resentment, but though you keep your inner circle
small and hard to penetrate you do welcome visitors to come and play.
Those who take that opportunity are happier for having done it."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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St: you are mostly unnoticed between your more popular siblings Rose
and Cedar, but prone to fits of rage at 8am when you are shortcutting to
work. All that gourmet food has gone to your head."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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you straightened out. So we were all pretty surprised when you suddenly
decided you were "Fulton." I mean, we accept it, but if I'm totally
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data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274202817179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274202817179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274202817179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">And finally: "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153273907652179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" 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class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274202817179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274202817179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274670902179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274670902179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274670902179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".yn.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274670902179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">YMISB she got Hopkins; the Himilayan Ghetto."</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> 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<span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".s3.1:4:1:$comment10153273342162179_10153274001002179:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">So, what would you add? Let us know in the comments.</span></span></span></span>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-71080516971420647832015-03-26T14:17:00.001-07:002016-12-30T09:07:12.430-08:00Your Move is So Berkeley<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="375" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/3398583885/in/photolist-jJ2mP-5gsLdQ-Fhfpy-fs6JV5-dUxGZM-kuDYxa-dUDkyw-bp3YAC-bBYERz-bp4KHm-6CFvbq-5E7i8k-dSwunz-ecBjsN-2o1zjr-bp4KwN-59hUZD-guHkJ-bR8stF-4bojL8-9hkwyk-9aTeSJ-6bjCzT-eSodyy-bR8sqn-cnNk1m-7yYuBu-j7g7Sd-7FvSK3-b1TU7-cjyL3C-cjyKQo-CSu7q-ez75Dy-p1bRT-5qmNXA-2qRHL1-c7VBXY-7oomNv-3gGzpd-5E7TTm-99kNDR-KtcS6-hQDyGt-7TGqsE-6PAEAV-t39ud-mtSdiR-5PXcgD-68sU6E/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>
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So every time we get an influx of new members we get a bunch of the standard jokes that reemerge because they're the first ones people think of. Any member who's been around more than a few weeks will recognize the all time #1 most posted YMISB joke: YMISB...she calls it Grove St. Other common jokes have to do with body hair and PCITD (Post Carob Induced Trauma Disorder)<br />
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One of the other common types of jokes is about where your mom moved to because that place is either now more Berkeley than Berkeley, or it's just more affordable. A while back I compiled some of the place your mom has gone. Because your mom gets around.<br />
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Examples from members include:<br />
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YMISB...<br />
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...she is debating selling the house and moving to Oregon or Maine cause Berkeley has become "so fucking precious".<br />
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...she moved to Covelo.<br />
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...she moved to Sonoma about 1982.<br />
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...she moved to Oakland 30 years before it was cool.<br />
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...she moved to the South during the civil rights movement to be a part of
it. In 1966, back when her maiden name was Jamieson, she was the first
white woman to attend Grambling as part of an NAACP integration
strategy. Afterwards, her and my dad chose to move to tolerant Berkeley
to start our interracial family, and I was born in 1970. (Ed. Note: This is way too much info for this format, but your mom seems pretty cool.)<br />
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...she moved to Albany cuz Berkeley was getting too yuppie!<br />
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...she moved to oakland, which is realer than berkeley.<br />
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...she moved to oakland! Couldn't afford the rent<br />
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... the cost of living in Berkeley is making her consider a move to *gasp* Albany<br />
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...she moved to Bolinas<br />
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...she moved to SEBASTOPOL<br />
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...she had to move to eugene<br />
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...she moved to Santa Cruz...and leads Goddess rituals<br />
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...she moved to west oakland <br />
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...she moved to some other place that's cooler or even more Berkeley.
Like um, Takoma Park, MD. Or (Your city here). The dream of the 60's is
alive in Portland (ME)!<br />
(Ed. Note: No. It's not.)<br />
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...she refused a profitable opportunity to move to Kensington because in her memory "that's where all the Feds always lived." (Ed. Note: Thank you!) Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-24377582133238696882015-03-20T06:37:00.000-07:002015-03-20T06:37:00.535-07:00More from Lyrics BornNice reaction to the Lyrics Born post, and honestly, I wanted to include more than 10 in the first go-round. So here's 10 more from the very funny Bay Area legend.<br />
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Happy 4,000 everyone!<br />
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Your mom is so Berkeley...<br />
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...<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">she thought Portlandia was too right-wing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">she named her cat "Anna Purr-na"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">she only checks "Other", then adds "-Worldly".</span><br />
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For about two years hip hop legend Lyrics Born joined the group and displayed the wit that helped make his brand. Wikipedia describes his mom as "an Italian/Jewish-American union organizer," which is pretty damn Berkeley. We're hoping to some day get an interview with him. But until then, please enjoy the best of Lyrics Born, and happy 4000!<br />
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...she thinks the Ashby Flea Mkt is elitist.<br />
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...she was her own doula. Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-81694841984814200432011-08-08T04:08:00.000-07:002013-09-16T06:50:59.416-07:00DJ Dave Wittman, Is He "Berkeley Enough?"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last week we brought you our interview with YMISB member <a a="" foods="" href="http://www.yourmomissoberkeley.com/2011/08/delia-brown-is-so-berkeley.html%3EDelia%20Brown%3C/a%3E%20who%20made%20the" lot="" parking="" response="" video="" whole="">"Revenge of the Black Prius."</a> Of course within seconds of setting that up we thought, "Man, we should see if we can track down the first guy and see if he'll talk to us." What we didn't know at first was that the creator of the original WFPL video is also a YMISB member. David "DJ Dave" Wittman joined YMISB back in the early days and we were happy to have a chance to catch up with him.<br />
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<b>Your Mom is so Berkeley: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">For starters, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, were you went to school, what you've been doing since you left Berkeley and a little about Fog and Smog?</span> <br />
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<b>David Wittman: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Okay. I went to UCLA and studied economics, but always played music. I've played music with Sam Dorman who went to BHS, back about 10 years ago, and our families/moms are both from Berkeley and I'm marrying a girl from Berkeley, too. Rebecca.</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">When you were in Berkeley what music projects were you involved with (BHS jazz ensemble, Bay Are Wind Symphony, Souls of Mischief, etc)</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">BHS Jazz was a big part of my life, Charles Hamilton etc. I also made some friends in the Bay Area Wind Symphony on trips to both Japan and Australia in the early '90s. I think I did a show with "mystic journeymen" back before they were really formed, but I'm not sure. Love Heiro, but have never been affiliated directly. My other music projects (commercial/film work) are mostly on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.davidwittman.com%E2%80%9D">davidwittman.com</a>.</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What are your favorite spots in Berkeley? Where do you have to go when you visit?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I love Cancun Taqueria. I used to go there back when it was on the OTHER</span> side of the street!!! (Like, '90ish).</div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Can you tell us about your parents? What's your mom like, does she fit the YMISB vibe?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My mom and dad still live in North Berkeley, my mom is the greatest</span> Berkeley mom!!!! She's not really in that category I see on your group so much, although she has rocked Birkenstocks at various points. But she's not like, big on Subaru Outbacks or other stylistically hippie stuff. You can catch her stopping to smell flowers on her way up to the French Hotel to get an extra foamy latte from Angel and being an active member of many communities!!! She's a pillar of the community I do believe and is the greatest Berkeley mom!!! Just dunno if she hits all the "touch points" you guys have, but hey, I think she defines her own category. Oh, and she hates attention...eek! Anyway...</div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah. I hope this doesn’t get you in trouble with mom. I think your description of her highlights an important point, that there’s a lot of ways to be a Berkeley mom. I don’t think any one mom out there really possess all the qualities or quirks we talk about on YMISB but even having just one or two helps people identify with that “Berkeley mom” thing.</span></div>
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OK, back to you. You graduated from BHS in 1992. Were you ever shot down by self proclaimed “drama geek” Rebecca Romijn? </div>
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Rebecca R., no. Never shot down, didn't know her, but my sister I think was friends with her sister or something? And I guess she (Rebecca) did date a guy I played in some band in the mid-90's with named Zack...but I don't remember any details. I am going to marry</div>
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<b>YMISB:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Right on. Congratulations on the marriage. It looks like <a href="http://www.fogandsmog.com/">Fog & Smog</a> was put together for the Whole Foods video, is that the case or was it already in the works and this just happened to be the first project?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fog & Smog as far as the name/website was created around the production and release of the WFPL vid but the group of friends existed before that so, it's sort of hard to say exactly. More like it solidified around that? Yeah.</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you plan on doing more work as Fog & Smog? What can we look forward to?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The follow up. Well, yeah...got a bunch of different material, just trying to feel out the best way to move through the next couple projects.</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Most musicians I know are doing three or four things at the same time. Advertising and movies keep you in kambucha and Whole Foods made you a YouTube sensation, what else you got going on?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes you're right, for me, different irons in the fire. Steady commercial work, may do the score for a new documentary, have done a few movies of the past 2 years...working on more stuff for myself and Fog and Smog, fielding weird offers like casting agents calling from various networks, etc. And of course planning the wedding in November. Actually coming to the bay pretty soon for a visit!</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What’s up with the offers? You know every knucklehead with a video camera wants to become a hit on YouTube in the hopes of being “discovered.” On the other hand you actually have a pedigree and talent and now that you got the exposure what kinds of offers are you getting?</span><b></b></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah, I have thought about that in terms of like, this isn't just some random YouTube vid with somebody tickling a cat. There's part of me that just wants to do more creative fun stuff, another part that's interested in production opportunities for the crew, another part that's excited to be contacted by casting people! Random. I just say, keep the feet moving, keep doing creative work.</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">There was a response video to “Whole Foods Parking Lot” called “Revenge of the Black Prius,” have you seen it? What did you think? Is it flattering to have someone feel inspired to make a response or do you think it’s biting? Do you know Delia Brown at all?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes, did see Black Prius. Thought it was okay, def. flattering. Funny that she put old guys in our shot...but then, she's kinda old, so that was weird. I'd give it a B-. Sort of a diss, but also an homage, like, her own version. I'd like to see either a totally different take on it, (own version) or a FULL DISS, like, getting AFTER us. She was sweet. Wrote me on FB, all that. Nice person. We have a mutual friend from Berkeley actually. But I told her you gotta go harder with your disses, and sent her a history of great rap battles to study. :)</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What’s it like dealing with the kind of notoriety that comes with being internet famous? Do you get recognized at Whole Foods now?</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Not as much recognition at WF as you'd think. I think I'd need to wear the clippers hat! But recently I had a really nice check out with some guys who recognized me and were super cool. It's fun, cuz it's where I'm at all the time anyway. So it's like, very honest and feels homegrown. I wanna do a duet with that guy <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/07/28/berkeley-musician-responds-to-whole-foods-music-video/%E2%80%9D">LaeCharles</a>.</span></div>
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(<b>YMISB: </b>Oh hey kids, here it is.) </div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yeah, what’s up with the Clippers cap? Wasn’t growing up with the Warriors bad enough?</span></div>
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<b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">For sure. Right on, well it’s been great chatting with you, it’s always great to see Berkeley, and especially Berkeley High, people doing well. Thanks for taking the time.</span></div>
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<b>DW: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks so much for your interest! And thanks for your kind words about the video.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">When I started the blog component of Your Mom is So Berkeley I always thought about doing some kind of periodic member profile featuring interesting YMISB members. So far the closest we’ve come is the link to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-kids-mom-is-so-berkeley-that.html%E2%80%9D"> Jane Stillwater’s YMISB inspired blog post</a> and last month’s release of our <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.yourmomissoberkeley.com/2011/07/long-time-lets-catch-up-real-quickwe.html%E2%80%9D">theme song</a>. Well today I am thrilled to bring you our YMISB interview with group member <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Brown%E2%80%9D">Delia Brown</a>. Some of you may recognize Delia’s name as she’s been a very active poster and commenter on the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.facebook.com/groups/101088487178/%E2%80%9D">facebook group</a> the past couple months. It turns out this Berkeley born, LA raised, New York polished woman has a lot going on. Aside from the posts to the YMISB group Delia made a video called <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idG_Odfk9fI&playnext=1&list=PL85AEA681704C4239%E2%80%9C">“Revenge of the Black Prius,”</a> which is a response to fellow YMISB member David Wittman’s <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU&feature=related%E2%80%9D">”Whole Foods Parking Lot”</a> video. We were very happy to have a chance to grab an interview with her. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Your Mom is So Berkeley:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> For starters, how did a woman from Venice, CA who lived in NY and then went back to LA end up on YMISB? It looks like you spent your early years in Berkeley?</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Delia Brown: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My parents met at UCB, and all the things I've written on the FB group page are from my life...I was in my mom's womb when she was rallying at Peoples' Park, my dad really ran for Berkeley City Council, I was babysat by Tom Hayden, my parents almost joined a multi-family Berkeley commune, etc etc. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I was born at Alta Bates hospital and lived, until I was 9, on Buena Ave, then we moved to LA cuz my dad's first teaching job after he got his PhD from UCB was at UCLA. On Buena Ave I lived across the street from fellow YMISB members Janie Dalton & Jennifer Lin, next door to Monica & Sherron Selter, and their brother Adam Sawyer (son if famous Ken Kesey pal, the late Unitarian minister Paul Sawyer). I never got to eat a grape, or anything with red dye, and my parents boycotted Safeway and only shopped at Berkeley Co-op (I started the lil conversation about moms who still remember their Co-op membership#). </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The first joint I ever smoked was sent to me in an envelope from a friend in Berkeley, when I was 13 (and I got expelled from my junior high for smoking it - in the classroom). My younger sis lives in Oakland now and my parents talk all the time about moving back to the Bay Area, though now they live in Santa Monica (known by right-wingers as Soviet Monica). I could tell stories all day about being the child of activists, etc. They weren't hippies, they were activists.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">When I got in touch with you it was because I wanted to know why you thought a video so clearly set in LA would be relevant to Berkeley, what do you say?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I just thought that it was so interesting that both Dave Wittman and I are the children of Berkeley moms. I've noticed a lot of kids who went to Berkeley High are really into hip-hop, and so it seems like both Dave and I (I don't know him personally, but we have a mutual friend), doing a kind of middle-class liberal white-person rap thing, is very Berkeley-influenced. Like, somehow the characters we play in our videos are the obvious adult outcomes of kids of raised in Berkeley (who now live in LA!). Also, the fact that doing a rap battle is similar to doing "the dozens", which is what YMISB is all about, right?!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Agreed on all counts. After I sent you the email I started going back through the history on the page and it started to come together a little more for me when I saw the stuff you posted before. I also did the obligatory internet stalki…uh…research. Can you tell me a little bit about your previous rap career?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I was in a 2-girl rap group in the early 1990s called The Fuzz with my friend Evelyn Charlot. We performed around town in LA and worked with a production company called Shake City Productions...we got offered a deal for a single with Loud Records (Wutang was on them - in fact we got to open up for Wutang in San Francisco on their first west coast tour in 1993, just randomly, because our buddy Bigga B was their west coast tour manager). So I had some amazing experiences hanging out with people like them - shit not many other white woman have probably seen! Such as hanging out at the Pharcyde Mansion cuz we were also friends with their DJ Mark Luv. But we didn't take the single record deal with Loud, cuz I had the audacity to think that they were dicking us around by not signing us for an LP! Evelyn is African American, so people used to think it was funny to call us Salt & Pepper which got on our nerves. Back then we put everything on cassette, and I still have not got around to digitizing The Fuzz but when I'll do I'll put it Soundcloud.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What was your stage name?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ideal (it's an anagram of Delia)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> When was the last time you were in Berkeley?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b>I<span style="font-weight: normal;">'m in the Bay Area often, like once every 3 months, because my sis and her family live in Oakland. My uncle lives in Berkeley and I have other friends still there, like Janie Dalton, another YMISB member. My niece goes to preschool in Berkeley. I went to Berkeley Hills Nursery School btw, and Jefferson and Franklin elementary schools.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you have any favorite Berkeley places or memories?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My favorite place up there now is actually in Oakland - Yayu, a kick-ass Ethiopian restaurant near Lake Merritt. But in Berkeley, I go to The Dailey Method (an exercise studio) when I'm up there, and of course we always shop at the Berkeley Bowl. </span>Today the Rose Garden across from Codornices is my favorite place to go in Berkeley. Back in the day it was Lake Anza, and the baby animal petting farm and merry go round at Tilden. <span style="font-weight: normal;">When I was a kid it was all about the Ashby Flea Market, Mr Mopps, Yogurt Park and Top Dog (I think was the name of the hot dog joint). And some Chinese place on Telegraph that had a beer ad clock or something that had a moving picture lightbox of a waterfall on it. I think the restaurant was called Yangtze or something, but we called it Moving Picture. I also used to love to go to Walnut Square. Now it's super bougie!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Oh my Parents just corrected me, Yangtze or whatever it was called (no longer there - maybe someone on YMISB can remember the name) was on Shattuck, & my mom just told me it was a Hamms beer ad.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">OK, multi-part question: What's your experience with video production? I know you've done some videos of your artist "alter ego," <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.deliabrown.net/Delia_Brown/Video.html%E2%80%9D">Chelsey Green</a>. How much of the Black Prius video did you do yourself in terms of editing, shooting, etc? How much time goes into a project like that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I made a music video of a singer named Goapele (actually from Berkeley/Oakland!) some years ago, as an art piece, so that was my first foray into video-making. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Revenge of the Black Prius just was a sudden idea that I had when I saw Whole Foods Parking Lot video, thinking "Damn, I wish I'd made that video!" Because it was so fresh, but also because it really was something I'd do. In fact I had written a song a while back with the lyrics "I'm just another Prius in the Whole Foods parking lot/Thought I was special but I guess that I'm really not". So then I thought I'd pull a Roxanne Shante and just be the driver of the black Prius that stole DJ Dave's parking spot. I wrote the lyrics and my friend Nelson Marquez did the beats, and that took us like a week, and then I just posted a lot of FB pleas for help making the video, and my friend Justine Bateman turned me on to a great DP and an editor that were willing to do it for free - I suppose as a favor to her. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Dillon Moore was the DP and he was awesome. I had a shot list and storyboards of everything I wanted to shoot, and we just ran around the Westside getting kicked out of various Whole Foods until we had all the footage we needed. The scene of me and my friend Danielle (also a YMISB member!) smoking a joint and drinking Charles Shaw was done at the end of the shoot day, and I was totally exhausted and so I immediately got really wasted and so I was super faded when we were shooting. I could barely do the lipsync and it really shows. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The hippie hottie in the gluten-free aisle was a guy I just accosted while he was having lunch at a picnic table in front of the Venice WF. I had already stalked two other guys (followed them to their cars as they came out of the store) who turned down the role. But this Italian dude Stefano was just loafing, so he agreed to be in it, and in the meantime he told me about his meditations on the beach and about going onto alien spacecrafts. Yep. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We shot the footage in one and a half days, and then this guy Ted Gianopulos did the editing (I sat with him for a bunch of it but he did a lot on his own too) in like 2.5 days. It was really amazing to have these guys I didn't even know devoting time and real professionalism to the project, which was just for kicks.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I am crazy for writing lyrics and also performing, so any excuse I have I will do either of the two, or both. I am thinking now about a theme song for my FB group Bitches Who Eat Burritos (BWEB). It's only for chicks who can finish their burritos - no burrito bowls, and no "I'll take the other half home for later". BWEBs are the kind of girlfriends I prefer.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Freaking awesome. I love the Roxanne Shante reference and the getting kicked out of various WF until you got what you came for. Silly questions but is your friend Justine Bateman from "Family Ties?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Yep!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">And of course you’re also an accomplished visual artist. Good enough to get some nice write ups and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9D" http:="" watch?v="54zUMJvFW-U”" www.youtube.com="">national attention</a> even if some jerk from the New York Times wasn’t so kind. It’s been great talking to you, any last thoughts?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>DB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh yeah the NYT. It was mainly just Michael Kimmelman but he doesn't write about art anymore. I actually had an 8-page spread in the Times Magazine right before he wrote that review, and since then they've done a couple other small features on my work, so it's not really too terrible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I'm so excited you're going to write about me on YMISB! The best press I've ever had ha ha!!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>YMISB: </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Aw shucks, now I’m flattered. This can’t be the best press you’ve ever gotten, you played your self on an episode of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9D" http:="" watch?v="FwXJ_PzukaI”" www.youtube.com="">"The Young and the Restless!”</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">OK, so there you have it, the lovely and talented Delia Brown. We leave you with Delia’s best posts from Your Mom is So Berkeley:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You mom is so Berkeley…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">…that 2 years ago, when she was moving to a new house, you finally convinced her to let go of the Co-op jars of spice in the spice cabinet. Keep in mind that she hasn't actually LIVED in Berkeley since 1979.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">… she can’t come to the phone because she's re-potting/mulching/doing something with worms</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">…you knew all of Holly Near's songs by heart at age 8. And also the Joans - Armatrading AND Baez.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your moms are so Berkeley that - wait, which of your moms should I talk about first?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">…that your very first memory of language was "Ho Ho Ho Chi Min. NLF is gonna win"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And of course, here's the video:</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/idG_Odfk9fI" width="560"></iframe></div>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-22305969077252890972011-07-14T11:08:00.000-07:002011-08-02T13:23:54.173-07:00Long Time, Let's Catch Up Real Quick...WE HAVE A THEME SONG!<img height="257" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4944083796_2c9e561e1a_m.jpg" width="320" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sort of how I imagine a Village of Cream Puffs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Stephanie Johnson </span><br />
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UPDATE: The Cream Puffs are Somewhat Misleading!<br />
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It seems my mistake was misreading the credit for the song and giving attribution to the label and not the artist. My bad, though I do think Sound Cloud needs a better layout.<br />
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Well this does give us the opportunity to give credit where it's due. The true artist behind the YMISB song is a woman from Berkeley who publishes and performs under the stage name <a href="http://www.facebook.com/cactusdawn">"Cactus Dawn."</a> The YMISB song is sort of a rough cut but you can find her more polished work on her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channeldawn"> YouTube channel</a>.<br />
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Hi All,<br />
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So it's been a year since my last post. As you know I've been chasing a PhD which required that I move back to DC. In that time my "So Berkeley Mom" of a wife and I had another kid who may well grow up to be a Berkeley mom herself.<br />
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Also in the last few weeks we almost fell victim to the new Facebook rules for groups. I wasn't super bummed. No one had posted in a while and I figured maybe this thing had run it's course. After all, I hadn't had time to promote it and keep it going. I sent a "farewell and thanks" note to members on Facebook and they got enough traffic to the page to save it. It was a heartwarming display from the YMISB community. In that process we added about 300 members. But it's funny, we can't seem to get past 2,500 and stay there. Every time we get over 2,500 we lose a few. I don't know if that's a Facebook limit or just the vagaries of people's online habits but it's interesting to me.<br />
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The last few weeks have seen a bit of a rebirth on the Facebook page and I've been putting some of the gems out on the twitter feed (@yourmomissoberk). One of the best things we've had in a while is that an act called <strike>Village of Cream Puffs</strike> Cactus Dawn, has written us a theme song. Well, they didn't really say it was our theme song but since the song is called "Your Mom is So Berkeley" I'm adopting it as out official anthem. Give it a listen below.<br />
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<object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F19001498"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F19001498" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <a href="http://soundcloud.com/villageofcreampuffs/your-mom-is-so-berkeley">Your Mom is So Berkeley</a> by <strike><a href="http://soundcloud.com/villageofcreampuffs">village of cream puffs</a></strike><a href="http://soundcloud.com/villageofcreampuffs"> Cactus Dawn </a><br />
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Thanks <strike>VoCP</strike> Cactus Dawn! And thanks to all of you readers and members out there!<br />
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You can find the original post by <strike>Village of Cream Puffs</strike> Cactus Dawn by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/villageofcreampuffs/your-mom-is-so-berkeley">clicking here</a>.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-90541498772703983242010-08-04T21:17:00.000-07:002010-08-04T21:17:13.223-07:00Where Have You Been?<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Wow. It’s been a long time since my last post here and the truth is I don’t know if anyone is still stopping by to see if there’s anything here. Why would I let the slim momentum we had going peter out? Well, the answer is grad school. Just about the time of my last post I got word that a new PhD program in my field (the first of it’s kind) was finally approved for this fall. Exciting news, but it also meant that I had twelve days to study for the GRE, and another two weeks to write my essays, get my transcripts, and cross my fingers. That was only the beginning. Once I was accepted I had to figure out how to move my entire family to the east coast, find a place to live, rent my house, quit my job while keeping my health insurance, and pack. This has left me no time for writing. I promise as soon as I get settled in DC I’ll get back to bringing you more Berkeley related fun.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“But how can you leave Berkeley?” I know this is on your mind. Leaving Berkeley so soon after coming back is hard. Leaving means missing my friends and family and losing out on all the great relationships I’ve started as a result of YMISB. But the PhD is a long time dream of mine. It’s also the best chance I have to further my career and my family’s well being, so off I go. But, like Patton, I will return. I know, Patton never did return, but I will.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With travel, specifically my upcoming cross country drive with my dogs on out mind we present this:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Alison Williams: My mom is so Berkeley that one time on a camping trip in the VW bus, the fan belt broke. My dad was clueless (my mom always fixed the bus herself) but my mom made a makeshift fan belt out of pantyhose. "Mom, why do you have pantyhose?", I asked in shock. "I don't know, but I'm glad I did..."</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your mom is so Berkeley…<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… the only downer part of her trip to Europe in '68 was that the East German police confiscated her Cuba Revolution poster<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she named her travel agency in Walnut Square, Berkeley Unified Travel Service because it had a nice "come together" feel to it. Or maybe it was just because she had a good sense of humor and knew the acronym would be "BUTS".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… she left her car door unlocked "just in case a homeless person needed a place to sleep." Which actually eventually happened, and stunk the inside of the car up to holy hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she drives around with artwork epoxied to her car.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… she taught you whenever you travel and you have to go to the bathroom, just find the nicest hotel in town and go right in.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-46408868509803161462010-06-04T07:48:00.000-07:002010-06-04T07:49:16.009-07:00Food II<img height="400" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs460.ash1/25308_1377042995645_1518964953_963826_4139820_n.jpg" width="375" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">What is your mom cooking? What's in my food? AAHHHH!! Photo courtesy of Chelise Stroud Hery</span><br />
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I know what you're thinking, "Dude, finally! Where have you been?" Well the last few weeks around YMISB HQ have been consumed by "Application Madness 2010." I've made the decision to go back to grad school and see what this whole PhD thing is all about. The "madness" part is that the program was just approved two weeks ago for fall enrollment so everything's been compressed and stressful. Thus, no time for posting.<br />
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But enough about me, let's talk about your mom. Food still rules the roost at YMISB your mom really scarred us all with her carob muffins and frankly we're not over it.<br />
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Your mom is so Berkeley…<br />
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…you thought 'Bragging' referred to seasoning your food.<br />
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…she puts tofutti on croissants<br />
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…she buys people food stamps ($1 for $1) so they will have cash to buy non-food items.<br />
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…when you were broke you got sent out to pick dandylions for soup.<br />
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…your special family dinner was putting a giant bowl of couscous on top of a sheet on the floor and having us sit around it, rolling it into balls and-always as the meal digressed-throwing the couscous balls at each other.<br />
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…she decided that a burnt Dominos pizza pie looked like art and so she nailed it right to the wall above the kitchen table, where it stayed for quite some time.<br />
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…Or framed two boxes of peeps and hung them on the wall for 15 years.<br />
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…you didn't know what refined sugar tasted like until you went to public school.<br />
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…you never went to McDonald's until Junior High with out of town friends.<br />
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…you just assumed everyone knew what an olallieberry was until I went to college and people had never heard of it before!<br />
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…you were shocked (at the age of 30) to find that mainstream families keep a snack drawer in the kitchen into which they place all kinds of junk food and which is apparently open access, even to the kids<br />
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…she still thinks rice cakes and grind-your-own peanut butter is the perfect breakfast.<br />
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…hemp continually replaced oregano as the main seasoning at dinner<br />
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… she still uses cheesecloth to strain store bought yogurt into thicker "homemade" yogurt<br />
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…she bought cheese in a driveway.<br />
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…she puts hemp seeds in her whole wheat banana pancakes.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-31703350184979235372010-05-27T22:00:00.001-07:002010-05-27T22:00:17.102-07:00Pop Culture I<meta content="" name="Title"></meta> <meta content="" name="Keywords"></meta> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta> <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta> <meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator"></meta> <meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator"></meta> <link href="file:///Users/robertosantiago/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Clipboard/msoclip1/01/clip_clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link> <style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she's in that movie, "Berkeley in the 60's"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… she wouldn't let us watch the 6 Million Dollar man because the music was too scary.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… she swears the movie Pretty Woman is a subversive patriarchal plot against feminism<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Let’s just say you didn’t need to wait for “Social Living” in tenth grade to learn about the “birds and the bees.” Or as your mother called them “Sex. Often involving a penis and a vagina but also sometimes two penises or two vaginas.” Example:<br />
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My mom is so Berkeley that when I was 7 (in 1975) she told me, "it's okay if you're gay honey." To which I answered, "What's gay, mommy? Can I have my dollie?" Ironically, she was right!<br />
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The rest of you:<br />
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...you were conceived at Woodstock and all you know about your father is he was the bus driver and his name was "Moonwalker"<br />
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…she left The Joy of Sex and, Our Bodies Ourselves laying around the house. Ok, so maybe the Joy of Sex was for her<br />
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… she slept with Mr. Panasenko (of Berkeley high) possibly while underage.<br />
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…you were only allowed to have dolls that were anatomically correct (with vaginas and penises) so that I wouldn't get the wrong idea about sex.<br />
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…she will keep your boyfriend up all night talking about poets she slept with and leftwing politics<br />
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…she bragged that her gay son got his first hicky from a lesbian<br />
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…that I used to be afraid that our parents "Women's Group", "Men's Group", "Couples Group", and "Therapy Group" would all get together and have an "Orgy Group".<br />
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…you have two of them, and a gay bio-dad.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-86703330484894699822010-05-19T05:45:00.000-07:002018-06-26T13:51:48.308-07:00Story Time<img src="http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs042.snc3/12942_1294550403471_1221642987_30916793_2072681_n.jpg" /><br />
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I know it's been a little while since our last post but things have been chaotic here at YMISB world headquarters. Sick babies coupled with GRE study have conspired to keep us off teh interwebs. So to make up for it here's an extra action packed post.<br />
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Every so often we get posts that aren’t really jokes and can’t be fit into the standard “Your mom is so…” format. While this flies in the face of YMISB’s founding principles a lot of these stories are too good to discard. They show the passion people have for Berkeley and for their moms. You’ll notice, when we find one that fits, we often include these stories in the posts here as a lead in to the standard joke posts. Today we present a whole post dedicated to people’s stories and introduce some of the categories they seem to fall in to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Susan Raymond: Well, my mom is not officially "Berkeley", but she did take me to see the original Los Angeles cast of "Hair" at the Aquarius Theater way the heck back when. She also met John and Yoko, and subsequently cut her hair super short, just like J & Y were stylin'. Mother is, however, a princess at heart, so the closest she... would get to Berkeley now is a nice stay in a luxury suite at the Claremont - oh, and dinner at the Chez Panisse. Upstairs or down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Anna Moyles: So many of these rang true for me. I was also the college freshman who had to be taught how to use the dryer, the microwave, and the cable box. I went to Dairy Queen for the first time and asked where the frozen yogurt was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Kim: My mom (love her!) doesn’t wear jewelry, makeup, a bra. She doesn’t watch TV. She is skeptical and slightly paranoid, she only shops at thrift stores, she cuts her own hair. My mom is awesome :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Molly Moore Mccoy: My Mom is so Berkeley that...We hitchhiked to Altamont to see the Rolling Stones in concert,when I was 5. I hitch hiked to Bolinas by myself to see friends when I was 13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Adi Benveniste: My mom is so Berkeley that she met her best friend (Elly Matsumura 's mom) in 1978 in the women's locker room at the Berkeley YMCA because they had matching Birkenstocks and accidentally went home in the other's pair of sandals and then had to meet to switch back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Wendy Rothenberg: My mom is so Berkeley, I can't tell what's Berkeley since it all seems so normal - memorization of co-op# 47289; first bra was a hand-me-down; bat mitzvah in our living room; ethnically diverse group around our Passover table; an annual New Year's 1-4a.m. alcohol-free pancake party for 200+. Seems normal and oh so wonderful to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Miwa Soto: My mom is so Berkeley that I was born at home on homemade tie-dyed sheets, I didn't have anything other than a birth name until I was 6 months (so she could get to know me), I took the public bus in first grade from Walden to the YMCA for swimming--by myself, she made and sold homemade bread out of our home, married my dad who was wearing overalls and had long hair and a full beard at the ceremony and then had the reception at her ex-husband's house, she *still* doesn't wear underwear or a bra (let alone make-up), we had a vegetable garden, chickens and bees, we didn't have a TV until 7th grade and I didn't eat fast food until I was in high school. Need I go on? My mom is so Berkeley; she is the best mom on Earth! There are so many more, but those are what I can remember right now. Oh, and I dressed myself out of the "freebox" down the block. We took the red wagon up to the Co-op to get old lettuce to feed the chickens--we lived walking distance away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Misti Walty: Oh the memories, this group is fantastic! I totally remember the coop peanut butter, the carob chip cookies, sesame honey sticks were a 'treat'. I added jam to plain yogurt in desperation! I always went to my best friends house, because she had Barbies, and her parents gave her Happy Meals, or bologna & cheese sandwiches on white bread as an after school snack. I don't think I ate grapes until well into my teen years. I loved the Pickle Family Circus in Glen Park. And 'mom' was a title not a name, so I've always used her first name. Long before Burning Man became fashionable, we went to the Black Hills Survival Gathering, and everyone danced naked. I’ve been at demonstrations since I was an infant in a backpack. My mom is so Berkeley, and so is my other mother - that we still celebrate Christmas together even though they separated 17 years ago. Oh and my sister's mom totally did that thing of 'correcting' pronouns in Dr. Seuss books!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Name Withheld: My mom is so Berkeley she still doesn't own any cloths that aren't brightly colored and don't come from desperate and underpaid starving people in third world countries. This however makes for great garage sales that I have when she doesn't want them anymore. I figure I deserve it, since being dropped of to school by a Jewish lady in a dashiki is fairly traumatizing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Nicole Moore: My mom was so Berkeley that she started the first city-wide recycling program in our town. My mom was so Berkeley that she read me Seth Speaks and my classmates at school told me I was going to hell. My mom was so Berkeley that instead of celebrating the bicentennial, we went to fight for passage of the ERA. Too bad I grew up in the bible belt and not Berkeley</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Instead of a normal post, today I bring you more from this weekend's guest poster Jane Stillwater. Jane has her own blog where she has written her own riff on the "Your Mom is So Berkeley" theme. So please click over and check it out. It's good reading.<br />
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<a href="http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-kids-mom-is-so-berkeley-that.html"> Jane Stillwater's YMISB inspired post.</a>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-33038279276340557722010-05-09T00:22:00.000-07:002010-05-09T00:22:27.717-07:00Mothers Day Bonus<img height="478" src="http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy351/bertissimo/ruby1.jpg" width="640" /> <br />
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OK, so I know I said we don't post on the weekends but I just got this via email and it's too good to hold on to.<br />
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My daughter is so NOT Berkeley!<br />
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One of my daughters was raised playing under the table at the Med in the daytime and sleeping under the table at the old Freight & Salvage at night while I made the brownies, sold the coffee and flirted with band members. And even despite all this wonderful upbringing, my freaking daughter rebelled and became a Yuppie when she grew up! It broke my heart.<br />
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Thank goodness that the rest of my children turned out okay.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-79621148993893456052010-05-07T06:10:00.000-07:002010-05-07T09:19:56.541-07:00Moms on Moms.<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">I am so Berkeley…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">When my daughter graduated from BHS, I gave her a round trip ticket to Cuba. What was I thinking?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Oh no, these sound so much like me. And I've never even lived in Berkeley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">I am so much a Berkeley mom that my son tells everyone he was the only guy at Cal to be chastised by his mother for having his hair too *short*!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">I am such a Berkeley Mom that I joined this group to see what my kids are saying about me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Yes, my sons joined and I can laugh. Hey, I still live in Berkeley. And I probably painted some of your faces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">I'm a Berkeley mom and proud of it. I tried (unsuccessfully) to make my child wash used produce bags!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Daughters tell me I am so Berkeley cuz Grandpa told me to "stand in the back, don't get arrested, and don't tell your mother." I guess they're right.</span></span>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-53279235948229387362010-05-05T19:34:00.001-07:002010-05-05T19:40:54.968-07:00Religion and Holidays I<img height="398" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs394.snc3/23978_115503001807957_100000447729243_185327_2611954_n.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dude, I don't even know where to start with some of these. Dude, what's up with your mom?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">… she has an emergency stash of dreamcatchers. Just in case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">… she thought the Palistinians were Jews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">… she had you lay on the floor while she smudged you with burning sage and called in the 4 directions before every airplane trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">…she tells you all "Quick hide! We're not home!" when religious people come to your house to talk to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">…she made it a point to bring you to parties where everyone danced around the maypole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">…she forbade you to date your first crush because you were incompatible with a Sagitarius and she had the charts to prove it</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">…when you was three she let me go trick or treating but she didn’t tell you that you could eat the "shapes" that they gave you</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">… she and ur pops let you go trick or treating, but made you give the candy to the "halloween witch" who left you a toy instead</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">…she handed out raisins and sticks of Carefree gum on Halloween</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">…she is a firm believer of 'mercury in retrograde' and warns of bad astrology forecasts =)</span>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-75635043358132222252010-05-03T16:34:00.000-07:002010-05-03T16:34:28.774-07:00Cars I<img height="315" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2178/172/111/574600462/n574600462_5914815_6063.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">... she's never owned a car that wasn't a VW or a Volvo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...she drives a Volvo older than you or better yet she upgraded to a bio-diesel Mercedes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…I swear she invented the term, "double park".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she let me fall out of the back of the VeeDub bus when I was 4 yrs old and didn't notice for 2 miles<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she painted a giant dragon on the family truck (I guess because the rhinocerous painted on the other side didn't stand out enough?)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she didn't learn how to drive until her sixties because she could take the bus and walk everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… she drives an electric car.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…you had to drive the old 1967 volvo to pick up your prom date<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">… she's got 50+ bumper stickers on the back of her car...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…even her Prius drives a Prius</span><o:p></o:p></div>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-34856864818070788322010-04-30T06:53:00.000-07:002010-04-30T06:53:17.019-07:00Politics I<img src="http://www.tc.umn.edu/~lcouncil/images/photos/Mondale-Ferraro.jpg" /> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">“My mom is so Berkeley that she just told me that at six years old, she asked me where I had been and I told her I couldn't tell her. She said that I had to tell her or I couldn't go there again and I started to cry I can't tell you, they're republicans and if I tell you, you won't let me go there again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your mom is so Berkeley….<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">... she believes that freedom of speech is an inviolable right. But she thinks republicans should all be quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...she thinks she still on the government hit list and blames all her failure in life on the conspiracy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…her kids are sworn to secrecy, until she decides never to run for public office.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she put a Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President button on your backpack for your first day of kindergarten (and you thought it was tight)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">... that growing up your 24 Hour Fitness was the YMCA, your Macy's was Goodwill, and you knew way more about local politics than you do now.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she was banned from a country for disobeying the laws on racial segregation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she used protest posters as wall paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she taught you Walt Disney was a fascist...and then took you to Disneyland anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…your mom is so Berkeley that you were having flashbacks from your childhood reading about the protests at UCB this week.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…you were raised with political correctness and feminism, both which shun "your momma jokes.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment-->Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-31154575250908880032010-04-28T15:52:00.000-07:002010-04-28T15:52:53.138-07:00Pot I<img height="298" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2178/172/111/574600462/n574600462_5915105_8539.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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Yeah, you knew it was coming. Contrary to popular belief there’s not a ton of posts about the herb but there’s enough for this post. I think it goes without saying that your mom has a pretty liberal stance towards the kind no matter what she told you in high school.<br />
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Your mom is so Berkeley…<br />
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...she gave your husband a bag of pot and a pipe the night before your wedding because he and his groomsmen needed to relax.<br />
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...she used to sell weed to the other cop that just pulled you over.<br />
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...she can always tell if your high from personal experience<br />
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...she always got some homegrown around, same shit you used to pinch in the 7th grade<br />
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…when she found your rolling papers she said, "If you are smoking pot I just want you to be cool about it.”<br />
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…she used to give me joints when you were at BHS so you wouldn't have to go to People's Park to buy them yourself.<br />
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…you can still taste, smell and feel the texture of goldenseal like it was yesterday!<br />
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…she let you, at age 4, name your cat 'roach ashtray' and it still comes up at the family table.<br />
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…when she asked you if you'd tried pot yet and you said "No," she then asked, "Why not?"<br />
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…she passed you joints at parties.<br />
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…she caught your smoking pot she couldn't get mad cuz 1. It was hers and 2. She was selling it to her patnahs!Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-66761244408171544112010-04-26T06:47:00.000-07:002010-04-26T06:48:46.235-07:00People I<meta content="" name="Title"></meta><meta content="" name="Keywords"></meta><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator"></meta><style>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"The Yo Yo Lady" and family. Pic courtesy of Mimi Zeiger</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like anywhere Berkeley has its own local celebrities.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> It is also a destination for various luminaries for various reasons.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Check out this cool story from reader Leather Sammie,</span><o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">“My mom is gone now, but she was so Berkeley I was allowed to go across the street and hang out with Jefferson Airplane while they practiced. Grace Slick used to make the BEST cookies! They would sit me and a plate of cookies to one side and play and play. I could sit in there as long as I wanted! I thought I was cool!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Here’s what you mom thinks about various well known people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">Your mom is so Berkeley…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...she made you feel like you knew a celebrity when Michael Ellsberg started at your school (apologies, Michael).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...you thought about booing when then VP Bush and Gov. Deukmajian visited your elementary school.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...your first CD was a Grateful Dead album that your friend designed the cover artwork for<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...my mom wrote an article about her for the East Bay Express.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">...she used to hang out and drink coffee with those dudes who are now homeless and crazy and she knows them by name and has stories about them<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…you thought Angela Davis must be a family friend, what with all the pictures of her at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…childhood pictures involve the Bubble Lady, the Med, the Polka Dot Man or being naked in the campus fountain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…HER mom sat on Alan Ginsberg's lap!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">…she misses listening to The Bob's at the annual KPFA craft fair.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText">…she used to take me by Grove Street on my way to school each day so I could wave at Mr. Charles.<o:p></o:p></div>Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-59123719785385177232010-04-23T07:06:00.000-07:002010-04-23T07:07:00.901-07:00Ecology Part 1<a href="http://s807.photobucket.com/albums/yy351/bertissimo/?action=view&current=00000314.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="285" src="http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy351/bertissimo/00000314.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Yesterday was Earth Day which got us thinking about your mom. <br />
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Your mom is so Berkeley...<br />
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…She planted a tree when you were born to account for your carbon offsets. <br />
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…she used all paper bags until they were tissue paper thin<br />
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…when friends came over she'd invite them to put on gloves and stick their full arms into the center of the compost pile to feel the extreme heat.<br />
…You got gloves? I don’t remember getting gloves.<br />
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…whenever she sees a bathtub, toilet tank or road barricade, she wants to make a flower planter out of it.<br />
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…whenever she has to "take a number", she brings home the little slip of paper from the store to recycle it.<br />
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…she goes thru the trash to double check that no recycleables made it into the garbage<br />
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…you had a compost long before the city of Berkeley started collecting it and she still uses that because she wants to have her own dirt for your front yard<br />
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…she uses the excess shower water to water her plants<br />
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...not only is every day Earth Day, every day is also Indigenous Peoples Day and 4/20.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-81612666009277516302010-04-21T00:10:00.000-07:002015-03-23T12:43:27.887-07:00Don't mean to bring down the room<img height="296" src="https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/v/t1.0-9/223151_10150291802564889_6282608_n.jpg?oh=4cd35156da554ddcc39803605c236004&oe=5575056E" width="400" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Me and mom, 1979</span><br />
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Note: This post was scheduled to run last Wednesday but I whisked away on a surprise vacation so there were no posts last week. Here is this one week late.<br />
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Today is the third anniversary of my mom’s passing. I don’t want to bring down the room, but I would like to take this chance to introduce you to the real inspiration for Your Mom is So Berkeley. <br />
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My mom moved to Berkeley in 1957 and she never lived anywhere else after that. She graduated from Berkeley High in 1970 (where she had Donald Schrumph and, I believe, Mr. Panasenko) and from Cal in 1974. She became a Berkeley mom four years later. Growing up in that time put her right in that classic Berkeley wheel house of being young and rebellious in that “Berkeley in the 60s” time period. She spent a year without shoes, grew hair down to her waist, and experimented with drugs while listening to “Sergeant Pepper’s.” <br />
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While I was growing up she had a string of interesting boyfriends, actors, painters, writers and randomly, a lawyer who was my favorite. Because of these connections I was exposed to a lot of really cool things as a kid. One of the random byproducts of her relationships is that we are both painted into murals in the east bay. I ended up in the <a href="http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy351/bertissimo/13302_516133433283_98200115_3073453.jpg">Jewish Heritage mural</a> in downtown Oakland and my mom is in the mural at the <a href="http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedImages/City_Manager/Level_3_-_Civic_Arts/West%20Berk-Mural%20Michele%20and%20Chiori.jpg">Berkeley Amtrak station</a> (on the far right).<br />
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As a Berkeley mom my mother allowed me to spend my Saturday’s gathering signatures for the GE boycott, which I begged her to let me do. As a single woman inclined towards the arts she signed me up for dance and painting and theater as a kid. I didn’t play organized sports until I was in high school and I don’t think she ever understood why I did it.<br />
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Over the years she became a locally known journalist writing for many of the local print outlets. She also did TV stints on local news and round-table type programs. She chronicled my teenage years in a column she wrote for Diablo magazine which was fine until a girl I knew suddenly knew a lot more about me than I’d told her. Through her writing and her great love of people, art, and her community my mother amassed an eclectic and loyal circle of friends. During the 1990s her annual September Party became an underground legend for the 30 and over set. One YMISBer even remembers my mom’s parties in the 70’s:<br />
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Rebecca Saulsbury: My mom is so Berkeley she used let me fall asleep on Chiori and Roberto Santiago <i>Senior's</i> bed at when the parties ran too late<br />
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When my mom was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 the community she had been a part of for so long rallied around her. Her friends in the arts community put on a <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-160713119.html">benefit for her at La Pena</a> to raise money for her medical bills. People brought meals for her and my brother so she wouldn’t have to worry about cooking while she was going through her surgeries and treatments. One day we were going through Tupperware to return to people and one of them a asking tape and marker label with an “eat by” date and the name of one of our local food luminaries. It was pretty cool since I don’t think my mom knew the person who had provided the dish. The calls and emails from well wishers and people wanting updates on her condition became so overwhelming we had to set up a website and email newsletter to keep people apprised of her condition<br />
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When she died in 2007 she was surrounded by her family and friends. She was remembered at a public memorial at the Oakland Museum and with a few articles and <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/18/BAGO2PAMNR1.DTL&hw=Chiori+Santiago&sn=001&sc=1000">obituaries</a>. These all covered the particulars of her life much as I’ve done so far. But to me all these things were ancillary. I never understood the impact my mom had on others until she got sick. To me she was just mom. <br />
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Sure, I looked up to her for carving a career out of the cold hard rock that is freelance journalism. I admired her for buying a house in Berkeley and essentially raising a family on one income while never clearing more than $60,000 in a single year. But to me she’s the mom who played “Peter Pan” with me in the environmental yard at Washington Elementary. She’s the mom who taught me how to grow strawberries and pumpkins. She’s the mom who tried her best to play catch and basketball and take me to A’s games even though her only athletic pursuit was swimming laps at the Y and jazzercise. (Oh, there was also her stint in an all women’s Greco-Roman wrestling league. I thought that was pretty cool.) <br />
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She’s the reason I’m not afraid of losing anything. Because after watching her lose and build and lose and build again I know that happiness comes from hard work and good friends. She was the woman who exposed me to the arts and to all the career possibilities outside of the traditional world. She’s the reason I’ve been a writer and an interpreter and a teacher and an actor and a lecturer and everything else I’ve been. I’ve been these things because she showed me that you’re never stuck being what you are and that it’s fulfilling to take risks, to try to make your career what you want it to be.<br />
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She’s the reason I’m writing this right now and the reason you’re reading it. If the YMISB book ever becomes a reality it will be because I had such a great Berkeley mom. Thank you for helping me share what she gave me.<br />
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A few posts about my real life mom: <br />
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Your mom is so Berkeley…<br />
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…she’s gotta name the car. Her photo albums have the car listed along with the people in the photo.<br />
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…she hijacked a PTA meeting by speaking only in Spanish and only taking questions and comments in Spanish to show the parents who DIDN'T speak Spanish why they should provide interpreters.<br />
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…your after school snack consisted of frozen peas in a cup and powdered milk. Ah childhood.<br />
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...you used to carry a wicker lunch box<br />
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...she says the cop that just pulled her over "was a dick when we were in high school too."<br />
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...she used to sell weed to the other cop that just pulled you over.<br />
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...you fell out of a tree at school and no one got sued.<br />
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...she pronounces sherbet with an r before the t<br />
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...she knows at least one person painted into a mural in town<br />
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I know this post has been long and not very funny but here’s one last story about my mom from YMISB member Debby Segal: <br />
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Roberto, so glad to meet you in cyberworld, and to tell you something straight from my heart. Roberto's Mom, the irreplaceable Chiori, was so Berkeley, that before there was a young Roberto, she adopted me: As my Big Sister via Big Sisters of America. She took me on and under her wing when I was a troubled teen (75 or 76?), who had a difficult home life. She was nonjudgmental, inspirational, fun, and kind, when I needed it most. One of my fondest life memories I have was of Mission district Carnival, a Bay Area tradition which she (and R.S. senior), were instrumental in spearheading. I will find a picture of me and her that RS took during that time, and somehow get you a copy. Much love, from the bottom of my Berkeley Heart. Greetings to RS senior.<br />
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Thanks Debbie. And thank you YMISBers. You all have turned this into the best way I’ve found to honor my mom and all the Berkeley moms out there.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-8957866519254145052010-04-19T21:01:00.000-07:002010-04-19T21:01:39.422-07:00Your Mother's Day is So BerkeleyWe at YMISB headquarters are happy to announce our first event, "Your Mother's Day is So Berkeley." This pot luck picnic will take place the Saturday before Mother's Day, May 8th 2010. If you are interested please click the <a href="http://www.yourmomissoberkeley.com/p/events.html">"Events"</a> link above for details.<br />
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Some things are still being worked out so please check back for updates.<br />
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Thanks!<br />
-BertoBertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-25473845652949724762010-04-19T16:34:00.001-07:002010-04-19T20:50:30.000-07:00Health<img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs429.snc3/24723_397159809888_505529888_3674896_2839680_n.jpg"><br />
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So I came back from last week’s terrific Seattle vacation with a cold. As nice as it was to be off work it sure was chilly. So, in honor of my illness I present your mom’s view on health care. We’ll start with a story from a member and then on to some jokes.<br />
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(Ed.’s Note: her name is “Waterfall.” How Berkeley is that?)<br />
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Madeleine Waterfall-Quiton: HAHAHAHAHAH! An email from my Mom today! :<br />
"Dear Maddie...I hope you had a good day with your patients and were able to get in touch with your healing energy and transcend the academic details. One thing about older patients, they probably are giving you a lot of knowledge and skill because they will recognize your goddess power. Love Mom" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA<br />
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Your mom is so Berkeley…<br />
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...she wears stones for their healing properties and does Reiki on the cat<br />
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…she delivered half the babies on Shattuck. And probably breastfed them too.<br />
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…you were delivered by your father(not a dr.), at home (not a hospital)<br />
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…she thinks yoga has too may "Warrior Poses". Peace out you kinda rainbow sisters!<br />
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… when she comes to visit me in Italy she brings the following American must-haves: chiropractic pillow, sonicare toothbrush heads, tension tamer and women's tonic herbal teas, trader joes almonds and cranberries, Peace and Calming essential oil, cucumber scented body time soap.<br />
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…you were born at home in a bed made of natural redwood that your mom built herself while she was pregnant.<br />
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… she had you "take a moment and visualize joyful places" before taking you to the emergency room with a broken arm<br />
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… she got a glass eye with a dophin-safe tunafish in it.<br />
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…she hitchhiked from Marin Ave. to Alta Bates on the day you were born.<br />
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…that I was afraid to tell her when I got my first period because I was afraid she would try to have a pagan ritual to celebrate<br />
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…your placenta is still stashed in the back of the freezer, waiting to be planted under a tree.<br />
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…she had her placenta made into pills to help fight post-partum depression.<br />
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…she paid the midwife who birthed you with a sheet rocking job.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960293035528608531.post-29410837512829967972010-04-12T09:09:00.000-07:002010-04-12T10:56:54.646-07:00On Vacation<img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs429.snc3/24723_396512429888_505529888_3658689_6624144_n.jpg"><br />
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I'm not sure how Berkeley it is but my wife swooped me off on a secret vacation to Seattle to see opening day baseball. So no posts this week. If you need a YMISB fix check us out on facebook or follow us on Twitter.<br />
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Thanks for reading.Bertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798563985886520384noreply@blogger.com0