Newsletter, Ed.21:1.
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
Editor: Lake David Enterprises Management
Subject: Where Have You Been Hiding Yo Ides
INTRODUCTION
Dear pilferers, amigos, village volunteers, fanatics of Korean TV
dramas such as "Palace," "My Lovely Samsoon," and "My Love Toram," sun
goddesses, the couple at the bar/restaurant who you can tell is on
their first date, the iPhone, Jeff & Michele, Brayden & Griffen, Seth
& Carmen, Ryan & Andrew, Wendy, Ginger, Faith, Pickett, James Wood, PV
and the whole crew, the Garden State Philharmonic, Maggie Judith
Cipriano, friends who are getting married soon, friends who are still
searching for the perfect someone, Matt Cuts, John Winsor, Jon Pratt,
Seth Godin, Ralph F. Wilson, other people who waste cyberspace by
sending me useless search-engine marketing articles and conference
invitations, heads of school on the beach, volunteers, former global
volunteer staff and comrades, former FHI staff and comrades, a lot has
transpired my friends. Some of you may have kept current on happenings
through ramblings, musings, entertaining and educational writings on
lakedavid.com; for the rest, we invite you to bookmark the page
blog.lakedavid.com has it has become our new home online, and we
suspect will eventually totally, completely, and without remorse,
replace the once acclaimed ASCII newsletter format. For now, we
request that you breathe a sigh of relief, because the executive
management of Lake David has decided to send out at least one more
bulk e-mail not to be mistaken for spam by readers or e-mail readers.
We hope this letter will quench your thirst for information, wet your
whistle for working on Wednesday, teeter your totter, rizzle your
razzle, echo shamalama in the study, bring your eyeballs closer to
your specs, filter the simon says sounds you hear in your ears when
all else is quiet and still, put schools first and professional
athletes second, and teach you why 'content is king' will never be
proven false.
Imagine that time stands still, the grumbling fan in your 8086
brick-inspired PC is absent, all around you are rich colors of red,
orange, yellow, blue, indigo, or violet. The omnipresent scent of
unidentified food that's been in your freezer far too long vanishes
from your senses. You are lounging in your favorite chair --
preferrably leather -- and have at your side a small round end table,
upon wich sits a Scandanavian lamp with a dim CFL energy efficient
bulb, and a perspiring double stack glass complete with ice and Birch
Beer from a yellow can and rum. You swoosh the froth away with your
orange curly straw and as you stretch like a fat cat you begin to hear
the sound of the ocean. The waves crash on the scalding hot sand just
ahead and, if you aren't careful, you may become the victim of a freak
kite accident. You are safe under the care of your palapa umbrella,
and with your drink in hand, you can now imagine yourself playing
basketball in the water. It seems strange that you are only 29 and
everyone else is 74. Is it possible that a place exists where the
average age is even higher than that of your local community band?
It's not the Lion's Club or the Elk's Club or the VFW fish fry where
you long to showcase your musical talents. . it's a tranquil place
where you can be at peace with your reading, your music, your drink,
and the odd looking koala bear in the seat next to you, who clasps her
arms around a flag of Queensland.
Bored of looking at people nearby, you head to the tiki bar for a
change of pace. You pick up a coconut lava drink. The sounds still
etched in your memory, you stretch again like a fat cat. You brush the
sand off your feet only to venture back across the molten sand. Along
the way various things become trapped in the confines of your
Birkenstock sandal. A jellyfish. A broken oyster shell. Three
chocolate coins. A ladies wrap that could also double as curtains in
your Grandmother's house. An avocado. A plate of nachos with cheesey
dip. Lettuce. A toothpick (ouch!). An Education Minnesota Photo
Calendar from the Minnesota State Fair. Jingle Bells. Ferocious
fishes. A dink adorned with miniature license plates. A snowshoe. A
corned beef. A large shamrock shake. Matches. A horrible piece of
music by Tichelli. Power lines. A cookie from Great Harvest Bread
Company. Dave Letterman's cue cards. A fiddler on a roof. Bagpipes.
A polka band. A University of Delaware no parking sign. Some sloppy
ribs from Warmdaddy's. A glass of champagne from Swanky Bubbles.
Freshly sprouted pastel Tulips. A Sun Country Turkey Melt.
After removing your foot from the sandal and tossing aside the
carefully selected assortment of...of...things...you reach your
lounger, kick back, keyhole the bottom of your new drink, and go to
town on what is sure to be the finest article on the Lake David
newstand that you've come across in the last 702 days. Go on, we dare
you!
THE PREVIOUS JOB SECTION SECTION
Let's play a little game of true or false with excerpts from our last issue...
"Scooby Dooby Doo, David is employed!!!" TRUE
"Name: Forward Hindsight (FHI)" FALSE
"If all goes according to plan...take on the marketing strategy/brand building aspects " FALSE
"What's the catch?" TRUE
"Sound too good to last?" TRUE
Does this have you all confused? You must not be one of the folks who visited my website or e-mailed me in the last year because as of Jan '06 I have no longer worked at aforementioned firm. While it's been over a year and my marketing career has broken ground as a result, the
bitter taste in my mouth from what was an unexpected and unpleasant departure, will be difficult to erase from memory. Every bad experience is a good lessoned learned, or something.
What has happened since 01 06 has been positive. The last year has gone by FAST for David and we will explain why.
THE WHAT IS YOUR NEW GIG SECTION
David joined Global Volunteers in Feb '06 as their Internet Marketing
Manager. It is a new position which has been good and bad. David has
filled a generalist role, managing everything from online advertising
and search engine sponsored keyword campaigns, to brand management and
development, to business analysis to competitive intelligence, to
integrated communications and e-mail marketing, to website design and
development. For any interested in checking out the website, it's
located at http://www.internationalvolunteer.net. Don't even bother
searching the company name as the existing site is planned to be
phased out of existence in the very near future.
What does David love about the job? His coworkers are all very nice
people. The work is pretty diverse, as you may gather from previous
description. It allows space for independent work and ongoing
self-education. There is also a quick adoption for small projects and
a visible reward. David has worked on as many as a dozen print
projects that you can hold in your hand if you are interested. He's
also had a free trip to Salvador, Brazil (October; see
http://picasaweb.google.com/dyussen for pictures) where he volunteered
with preschool children and took in some local South American culture.
For more info on David's work, read past articles on the lakedavid website or e-mail david @ lakedavid.com.
HISTORICAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN NO PARTICULAR SEQUENCE
Matt P, 8/31/05:
"Unfortunately, being in London I will not be able to make the
wedding. But I will make up for it by offering the spare bedroom in my
flat to you and Christine sometime between now and Feb. 1 for as many
days as you can put up with me! Hope you are doing well."
Thanks for staying in touch Matt ;-) Seriously, it's good to have
those 5 word email exchanges every 15 months or so. For those who
missed it, Matt has since returned from London and is now consulting
for McKesson, based in Durham, NC. How did the Birthday of
Significant / Groundhog day party go? Send us photos!!
HAS, 11/9/2005:
"I went to Memphis once, for the Liberty Bowl. We actually played on
Beale Street, and it was awesome. Tho the band had to stay at a
Holiday Inn in Olive Branch, Mississippi, because they thought we'd
cause too much trouble in the city since we were there for a whole
week. I think that was the trip where we brought massive amounts of
duct tape and taped up the "l" and the "i" in the big lit up letters
of hotel name -- turning it in to the "Ho' day Inn". Hmm, I'd better
be careful -- I bet there's a warrant out for our arrest for that one.
We also played at Graceland, and they let us in free. I forgot that
Graceland is in Memphis. Our field show, "East Carolina, the 51st
State" got us quite a reputation down there in the South -- we played
up the stereotypes -- surfers, gay folks, communists (that last one
isn't us, but since we had red uniforms we used it) and demonstrated
all of the above -- including dropping our pants to reveal surf shorts
and, um, you can figure out the others. There was also more than one
band member who decided that the best way to avoid being hung over was
to be drunk for the whole week. Good times."
>> School name has been omitted to protect the innocent but you can
probably take an educated guess <<
Hint: it's West of all points East.
Thanks for the amusing tales of college band days!
Scott Y, 11/11/2006:
"The girls fell into the school routine nicely this year. It actually
seems to get easier each year they get older. They have *excellent*
teachers this year. Carly's first grade teacher is a very nice lady
with lots of experience and she already has Carly reading at an
end-of-first-grade level. Gillie has a male teacher for the first
time and she's actually responding quite well to him. She got to take
home the class guinea pig, Eddie, for a long weekend in October."
Thanks for the updates! We are staying on top of things with yanoff.org as well.
JCT4, 11/24/06:
"Greetin's Y'all from Ole Virginny, the state that spends one dollar
on transportation infrastructure for every three on corn liquor
promotional campaigns. . .***New this year!!! We have got a John Deere
Gator, you know, those golf cart things that they use to carry injured
football players off the field when they're too pussy to walk it off
like a man! We can pick you up at the bottom of the driveway, and no
one has to experience life under the bumper of Juan's car!***
-Justin, contactable in the Poconos by calling 570-123-4567 or through
unprotected sex."
Justin's roof:
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Seeing as though Justin was the only person who's emailed David with
ASCII art, we felt this to be highly deserving a spot in the
newsletter. The previous were excerpted bits of laughable prose from
his winter ski event legal disclaimer.
SCR, 2/4/07:
"Looks like I'll be coming for a visit! Don't know what the perks are
yet, but I'm sure I'll find out more later. No clue what I'll be
speaking on so I'll have to work on that too."
http://www.cfobjective.com/conference/index.cfm?event=page.speakers
Jinkies! Congrats on the speaking gig. Does the pass include all you
can drink? Expensive. But we're sure you'll have free time in the late
evening hours to visit Lake David, of course!
BIG SIS, 2/5/07:
"basics: avo, tomato, red onion, lemon or lime juice, garlic salt,
regular salt. optional: cilantro, white canolini beans
I'm enjoying our mild weather, but excited to hear we're getting rain
later in the week because that means we'll finally get some much
needed snow in Tahoe.
I just booked a flight to so. cal to go to Joshua Tree over Presidents
Day weekend. Some new friends invited me. They used to live there
and have a crew of close friends there. Can't wait. I've never been
and I think we'll do some hiking, climbing, and possibly camp one
night"
Thanks for the update Elayna! We can't wait for the personal lesson on
that killer guac recipe.
CORY, 11/27/06:
"cool,"
Never one to waste words on e-mail, we appreciate your saving the
internet from useless drivel like this newsletter, and from emails
that go on for pages about coworkers and babies and coworkers' babies.
TIMELINE OF SELECTED EVENTS
Aug 3, 2005: dyussen@hotmail.com is discontinued. All hail gmail!
Aug 4, 2005: Irish tap dancers and David gets sloshed at the Illusion
Theater downtown.
Oct 1, 2005: Married (see below)
Jan 21, 2006: Old Time Music Showcase at Hexagon Bar
June, 2006: Bought a house!
July, 2006: Moved to Kenny neighborhood.
Sept 9, 2006: Cabinet door in basement completed. Housewarming BBQ.
First ever Uptown Row Django Jazz Fest.
Dec 16, 2006: Rockin party at Faith's dope pad
"Hanukkah Hangover" by Cory aka "Drink That Makes You Wanna Kegstand"
1 part absolut vodka
1 part triple sec
watermelon midori
club soda, ice
Feb 9, 2007: Heather gets high speed internet
Feb 16, 2007: Justin's ski weekend. Sorry we missed it!
Feb 14: C&D in Nueva Vallarta Mexico (see yah-cd.com for pictures)
Mar 3, 2007: Revival of the Porter midwinter Blah's party (see
yah-cd.com for pictures)
June 20 - 24, 2007: Great River Energy Bicycle Festival
http://www.minnbikefestival.com/index.html
THE RETURN OF THE FAIRS & FESTIVALS WOOHOO! SECTION
Spring is upon us and that means two things in the Lake David neighborhood. 1)
Readily available Batter Fried Cheese Curds, 2) Abundant Outdoor Music
For a taste of what's at Lake Harriet, our favorite concert venue,
please see the following schedule. LHBS is our favorite because it is
just around the corner from David's home, and of course the beautiful
lake front back drop.
http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=4&parkid=266#1070
Here is a lovely photo of Lake Harriet bandshell:
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/1693
July 6-7, 12th Annual Basilica of St Mary BLOCK Party
http://www.basilicablockparty.org/aboutTheParty/index.asp
Once again, twelve excellent bands will performing: Guster, The Fray, Trampled by Turtles, Mike Doughty, The Hopefuls, Wannabee Hasbeens, Train, Aqualung, Mat Kearney, Freddy Jones Band, ALO, and Nathan Anderson.
Hot Summer Jazz Fest, downtown Minneapolis @ Peavy Plaza
June 22 - July 1st, 2007
Schedule of performance to be announced.
http://www.hotsummerjazz.com/
41st Annual Edina Art Fair, June 1 - June 3, 2007
http://www.50thandfrance.com/2007ArtFair/index.cgi
Only 121 days until the 68th Annual Minneapolis Aquatennial Celebration!
Events to be announced.
http://www.aquatennial.org/
August 3-5, the Uptown Art Fair!
Friday 12 pm - 7:30 pm, Saturday 10 am - 7:30 pm, Sunday 10 am - 6 pm
Artists to be announced.
http://www.uptownminneapolis.com/art-fair/
A Festival of Arts: Minneapolis MOSAIC: Celebrating Cultural Diversity!
June through August, ongoing.
http://www.minneapolismosaic.com/
August 23 - Labor Day, 2007... the Great Minnesota Get-together!
Grandstand features: Brad Paisley with Jack Ingram, Kellie Pickler and
Taylor Swift, "Weird Al" Yankovic with Tonic Sol-fa, and Mercyme with
Aaron Shust.
http://www.mnstatefair.org/
THE ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS SECTION
We can't believe it but it appears that a newsletter has not been
published since prior to David and Christine's wedding on Oct 1, 2005.
Rather than recall the magnificent events we will simply offer some
photo memories to share with our readers.
Locations: Reh Dinner, St Anthony Main (Ceremony and Reception),
Honeymoon on Kanapali Beach, Maui.
http://www.yah-cd.com/wedding/index.html
There's more to come!
* Owen F and Jessica have planned a May wedding this year in beautiful
Francis Slocum State Park.
* Jake F and Julie have planned a June wedding in New Jersey.
* Chris D and Laura have planned a July wedding this year in the
beautiful Morris Arboretum.
* Thad J and Angie have planned an early October wedding at Packer Chapel, Lehigh campus
Lake David wishes to extend a big smile and congratulations to each of
these dear friends as they prepare for their weddings and
celebrations.
THE SOME OLD SOME NEW FEATURED BANDS SECTION: ** NEW **
1. Mazel Tov Cocktail is based in Minneapolis, MN. We are a 7 to 9
piece band. We play Klezmer and Gypsy music.
2. Pocahantas Country is a bluegrass band from St Paul. They played
their last gig for a while last weekend at the Cabooze with Pert Near
Sandstone (which, we learned, does not refer to Sandstone, Minnesota):
http://blog.cryns.com/2007/03/12/pocahontas-county-slideshows/
3. Cryns#3, a new 3 pc rock and roll band from Mpls with a unique
connection to David's MBA school. They're playing Mar 24 at the
Hexagon.
http://www.cryns.com/blog/
4. As always... Roadshow is the ultimate entertainment.
http://www.billyjohnsonsroadshow.com/shows.htm
Cafe Barbette? That should be interesting.
5. The Jack Brass Band - self-explanatory. Hails from Minneapolis.
http://www.jackbrassband.com/gigs.asp
6. The Kissers. Fantabulous Irish Rock band from Wis. We've seen them
at the Irish Pubs a few times and they put
http://www.thekissers.com/shows/shows_home.asp
7. Power of Ten - Mineapolis funk band.
8. God Johnson
9. The B Team (B + George Scott McKelvey of Hookers and Blow)
10. Mark Bloom & Kathy Jensen, Marquis Jazz Combo
TOP TEN LIST
Gettin hip wit the 00's before the fad passes like yesterday's
Commodore 64, here are Ten Top web feeds!
10. http://grady-o.blogspot.com/atom.xml
9. http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleSightseeing/
8. http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/paulmcenany/hee_haw_marketing
7. http://blog.lakedavid.com/rss.cfm?mode=full
6. http://feeds.feedburner.com/mattcutts/uJBW
5. http://feeds.feedburner.com/YanoffFamilySite
4. http://www.countermarch.com/blog/rss.cfm?mode=full
3. http://www.techsoup.com/rss/todayints.xml
2. http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/index.rdf
1. http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag
HOPKINS BAND UPDATE SECTION
This January marked 6 years that David has been in the Hopkins
Westwind Concert Band! Now that is a proud statement. For any visitors
or would-be visitors to Lake David, we once again are pleased to
inform you of the following upcoming 2007 calendar year showcase
performances of our favorite community band that we play in that
rehearses at the Hopkins High School on Wednesday evenings and which
is conducted by the famous Don Bates.
Mon, May 28 2007 09:30 am Memorial Day, Hopkins Downtown Park
Sun, Jun 3 2007 07:00 pm Spring Concert, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Tue, Jun 19 2007 07:30 pm Lake Harriet
Sat, Jun 23 2007 02:30 pm Burwell House Ice Cream Social
Sat, Jun 30 2007 04:00 pm Huber Park, Shakopee - 150th Year Celebration
Thu, Jul 12 2007 07:00 pm Hopkins Downtown Park - Raspberry Festival Kickoff
Sat, Jul 14 2007 03:00 pm Hopkins Downtown Park - Raspberry Festival
Wed, Jul 18 2007 07:00 pm Centennial Lakes
Mon, Jul 23 2007 07:00 pm Hilde Performance Center
Tue, Jul 31 2007 07:30 pm Como Park
Sun, Nov 4 2007 07:00 pm Hopkins Center for the Arts
** Late Breaking News ** Travis Shephard, our illustrious associate
conductor (That's Associate, NOT to be mistaken for Assistant) has
formally announced resignation of his tenure on the podium. As a
farewell tribute the band played S&S for him one last time (did they
ever play it for him before? Probably just the once when he was full
conductor al temporare). The folks at Lake David truly do hope that
Travis continues to grace the band with his presence in the low brass
section as an instrumentalist, however we also recognize the
possibility that he may just be ready to move on, and ease some stress
in his life by letting go a little bit. For any of you who know how
hard it is to leave a band behind, we certainly empathize.
CONCLUSION
There's nothing left in the bottom of the barrel of monkeys so look no
further for more banana peels and honey! Thanks for reading, hope you
had fun! The Lake David Board of directors has voted and the jury
offered two suggestions for dedications. First, they requested to
dedicate this 21st edition of the Lake David Fanclub Newsletter to Al
Franken. However, never one to spout political views, the editorial
staff has vetoed this nomination. Second, the Board recommended Steve
Jobs. His marketing genius is a marvel to us all. The satirical Apple
Computer marketing videos and rampant success over the last two years
(since the 20th edition was published) in building an empire in the
portable audio industry is something we at Lake David admire from
afar. For any who missed the hype, the next big hit is claimed to be
the iPhone, but that is questionable in our minds. The revolutionary
innovations that blindside us are not generally things people were
formerly whispering about so darn much. Enough with the
techno-ramblings. The motion to dedicate to Stevie J was shot down
with finality by a hard core extremist PC Gamer in a dark alley. All
he left behind was a note that said something about the human IQ being
an inverse proportion to the degree to which one adores Macs. Besides,
we think he might have been a dedication recipient in a previous issue
of the newsletter! Putting an end to the squabbling, the editor in
chief of the Lake David staff has proclaimed that this issue shall be
dedicated to the marvelous Ivone DaSilva of Salvador de Bahia. While
David visited Brazil last October, Ivone is a grandmotherly figure who
went to extraordinary lengths to make his stay enjoyable, and to fight
local bureaucracy to help him speak with Christine by cell phone,
internet, or any other medium. Here's to you, Ivone!
We promise to send an all new complimentary newsletter again soon,
whence we have some more letters from our fans, news to report,
political elections to discuss, weddings to recap, jokes to tell, and
people of whom to make fun. Please submit your comments, blood
pressure, pulse, bank account number, criticisms and any other
material for the next LDFN to david@lakedavid.com so that he may
respond in kind by mailing you Surface Mount Technology publications,
beer of the month, or calling to give a shout out, a howdy, or an hola
grande!
