Letters to My Neighbors

Celebrating my neighbors one word at a time.

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alt+Friends May Mixer

Thursday, May 23, 2013        7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Bonn Lair Pub      3651 J st, Sacramento, CA (map)

Drink, be merry, and mingle with the Friends! We’ll have a couple tables at Bonn Lair and we invite you to drop in and have a drink with us. There will be some conversation starter cards, but this is really just a casual hangout. If you’ve been paying attention to our Facebook/Twitter Feed, you’ll know we’re having a membership drive this month. At the mixer, you’ll be able to take a peek inside our “New Member Welcome Kit” and learn about the raffle for those who join in May. (via alt Friends May Mixer - alt library (Sacramento, CA) - Meetup)

Hey Gang!

Come have a drink with me at Bon Lair next Thursday! Thursdays are ladies night so…….. if you are a lady there really isnt any excuse not to come UNLESS YOU ARE DEAD.

-YN

See you there?

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LUNAFEST: Short films by, for, about women

Sacramento Attend LUNAFEST and enjoy great films while supporting an important community cause. You’ll have fun and make a difference.

Saturday, May 18
$10 Matinee Show 4:00 pm
$15 Evening Show 7:00 pm
Tasty bites, live music, and fun between the shows 3:00 to 7:00

Sierra 2 Theater
2791 24th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818

(via LUNAFEST: Sacramento)

Hey Ladies!

I forgot to mention this, there’s a short film festival tomorrow afternoon/evening called Luna Fest, watch the trailer, it looks cute and proceeds go to the breast cancer fund, st. john’s shelter, etc. The shorts seem like they will be entertaining and heart wrenching, so maybe go light on the mascara.  Plus free Luna bars! (I am not sure what a Luna bar is but I hope its full of moon beams and empowerment!)

Let me know if you go! I’d love to meet up!

<3 Your Lady Neighbor

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May 16th: The Lost and Found Show

horseysurprise:

I’ll be reading a goofy piece I wrote for this show at the Happy Ending bar in NYC - would love to have friendly asses in the seats! May 16th at 7:30, whattayasay??

Dear NYC Neighbors,

You should probably got to this. For the laughs.

Thursday, May 16, 2013
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Doors 7PM)
Happy Ending
302 Broome St. between Eldridge and Forsyth

I do miss going to shows like this. I like stories.

-YN

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AM Alert: &#8216;Ambassadors&#8217; waddle and slither through Sacramento
Most of the delegations that visit Sacramento to meet with lawmakers have a few bills they&#8217;re advocating for, or at least a vague agenda, but it&#8217;s a little hard to press your cause if you lack opposable thumbs and the capacity for abstract reasoning. Yes, a team of &#8220;animal ambassadors&#8221; from SeaWorld will be dropping in on the State Capitol today to spread some furry cheer.
The current guest list includes two penguins, two lemurs, a kangaroo, a peregrine falcon and a boa. You can come say hello on the north steps from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Assuming they&#8217;re not feeling too temperamental, the penguins and the lemurs will be venturing into the building, first to meet legislators in the Senate Lounge and then to drop in on the governor&#8217;s office (hopefully they don&#8217;t get spooked by the bronze bear).

Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy&#8230;.
We could almost be friends.
-YN

AM Alert: ‘Ambassadors’ waddle and slither through Sacramento

Most of the delegations that visit Sacramento to meet with lawmakers have a few bills they’re advocating for, or at least a vague agenda, but it’s a little hard to press your cause if you lack opposable thumbs and the capacity for abstract reasoning. Yes, a team of “animal ambassadors” from SeaWorld will be dropping in on the State Capitol today to spread some furry cheer.

The current guest list includes two penguins, two lemurs, a kangaroo, a peregrine falcon and a boa. You can come say hello on the north steps from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Assuming they’re not feeling too temperamental, the penguins and the lemurs will be venturing into the building, first to meet legislators in the Senate Lounge and then to drop in on the governor’s office (hopefully they don’t get spooked by the bronze bear).

Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy….

We could almost be friends.

-YN

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Sacramento Brony Expo is created by the Sacramento Brony Management Team — a community organization that creates events where fans of the cartoon reboot ‘My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’ can come together and create new friendships as well as nurture ones already established with fellow fans (‘bronies’). (via About Us | Sac Brony Expo)

Dear Neighbors, 
Words cannot describe how excited I am to witness this. 
You&#8217;re welcome. 
-YN

Sacramento Brony Expo is created by the Sacramento Brony Management Team — a community organization that creates events where fans of the cartoon reboot ‘My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’ can come together and create new friendships as well as nurture ones already established with fellow fans (‘bronies’). (via About Us | Sac Brony Expo)

Dear Neighbors,

Words cannot describe how excited I am to witness this.

You’re welcome.

-YN

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wilwheaton:

jenniferdeguzman:

He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.

mechcanuck:

I don’t know when this interview happened but I AM SAD AND ANGRY NOW 

The philosophies in Star Trek are kinda part of the actual setting. If you don’t get that, why are you allowed to make Star Trek movies.

Sigh. The whole point of Star Trek is that it’s philosophical. If you don’t want philosophical Science Fiction, there’s plenty of that for you to enjoy, but Star Trek is philosophical. Philosophy is part of Star Trek’s DNA, and if you’re given the captain’s chair, you’d better damn well respect that.

Dear Jon Stewart,

Always on point. For shame J.J. Abrams. Go make some more pointlessly frustrating garbage and leave Star Trek alone.

-YN

(Source: catbushandludicrous)

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jtotheizzoe:

The Sun is getting feisty … 

The star at the heart of our solar system has released three X-class solar flares (the most powerful class of flares) and their associated waves of charged particles in the past 24 hours. Luckily for us, they have been pointed away from Earth, as seen in the upper left of the video above from NASA.

NASA’s SDO and SOHO satellites captured the explosive magnetic arcs and bursts of plasma in stunning form in the video, which is full-screen worthy. By viewing the sun through different wavelength filters (the colored angstrom filters you see above) we can zoom in on activity happening at different temperatures and involving different ionized elements from hydrogen to iron. 

This happens as the sun ramps up for its predicted 11-year solar maximum later in 2013. Wear your sun(plasma)block!

Don’t you wish there was sound in space so you could hear these things? Sigh.

Dear Neighbors,

Something about the phrase “feisty sun” terrifies me. TIME TO BLOW THROUGH THAT TRUST FUND!

-YN

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