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Voteraide Launch

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October 30, 2012
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After months of development by our brother David, last week saw the soft-launch of Voteraide, a nonpartisan social network designed specifically to give voters a stronger voice and a place to participate and engage in politics.  We’re so proud of him and wanted to introduce you to the site.

Having worked on numerous political campaigns, David gained first hand knowledge of how campaigns use voter lists to target their efforts and predict outcomes.  Voteraide takes these same campaign tools and applies them in a way that empowers voters, maximizing individual power.  Users can find election information, see their ballots, pledge support of and endorse campaigns, connect with other users, post articles and voice opinions.  As Facebook is for your online social life, and LinkedIn is for your online professional life, Voteraide is for your online political life.

While Voteraide will be available to all registerd voters nationwide and worldwide, this test version is offered exclusively to REGISTERED OHIO VOTERS.  However, if you’re not a registered voter in Ohio, you can still sign up as a General User.

We encourage you to check out Voteraide.

Picturesque

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October 29, 2012
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Hope it was a delightful weekend full of Halloween cheer and effective storm prep, for you fellow East Coasters. Having the 31st fall mid-week means that there’s been a steady stream of random costume sightings in NYC over the past several days. I love it.  Now onto the pics. Thanks for this week’s batch folks!

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Carolyn – New York, New York
Warm October rooftop nights

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Lauren – New York, New York
Mural in the Audubon Ballroom at The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center


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Ryan – Cross country trip
Lexington, VA

Sunset Beach, NC

New Orleans, LA

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Colleen – Rocky River, Ohio
The sweetest Babar we’ve ever seen

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Have a picture you wanted to send in? It’s not too late.

Send over a photo for next week’s Picturesque post to Lauren at sisterdisco dot com

Homie of the Day: Rhode Montijo

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October 26, 2012
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For the past couple of weeks my various newsfeeds have been full of treats spreading the Halloween spirit.  My friend Rhode Montijo is an amazingly talented children’s book author, illustrator and artist with a deep love for Halloween, and I’ve been closely following all of his postings.  He is also truly one of the nicest people I have met.

Two years ago Rhode published The Halloween Kid, and has since put out two zines under the same name.

Rhode has also been decorating his parents front yard in California for Halloween each year since he was in the fifth grade; I’ve never seen it personally but can only imagine it to be the most delightfully festive sight you could see.  This year Rhode is also part of an annual Halloween group art show, Bewitching II at Stranger Factory in Albuquerque, NM.

In addition to his Halloween-specific work, Rhode is the creator of Skeletown, “where every day is the Day of the Dead and all of the inhabitants are skeletal!”

You can keep up with Rhode’s work here, and find @HALLOWEENKID and #rhodemontijo on Instagram. It is not to be missed.

Other Rhode Montijo projects include the books Super Grammar, Cloud Boy, Lucky Luis and more.

Autumn in New York

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October 25, 2012
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Last week I got an email from one of my best friends asking for recommendations for her colleagues who were coming to NYC for the weekend.  The couple had been here before and had already visited many of the standard, first-time tourist destinations.  It was looking to be a perfect autumn weekend, weather wise, so I wrote back a list of mostly outdoor stops that are tried and true favorites among New Yorkers and tourists alike.  By the time I finished the email, I felt almost envious of their trip.  It was a good reminder to branch out from my usual destinations and revisit some of my favorite place in Manhattan.

1.  The Met Rooftop  Whether you have time to visit the full museum or not, a trip up to its roof is always worth it.  It’s open from May to late fall and has a new installation each year.  There’s also a little cafe, so you can get a bite to eat and have a drink while overlooking Central Park.

2.  The Highline Park is converted old rail lines turned into a blocks long walkway with awesome landscaping and interesting stopping points along the way.  It really never gets old.

3. Cafe Sabarsky is a lovely Viennese cafe inside the Neue Galerie.  I went there for the first time the afternoon of my 30th birthday, after a visit to the Guggenheim Museum.  It was pretty idyllic to start the celebration.

4.  The Union Square Farmers Market is simply nice to walk through, whether it be for people watching, shopping or both.

5.  I’d lived in NYC for years before I ate at the Central Park Boathouse.  Regardless of whether you actually go inside, it is a beautiful little spot.  I can go ages without going into Central Park, which always seems criminal once I finally get there.

6. I often feel an overwhelming need to get to water.  One of my favorite destinations for this is Battery Park.  On the other side of the World Financial Center there is a little marina, lots of places to sit and from certain points you can see the Statue of Liberty (which still seems smaller than I think it will each time I see it).

Special Edition

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October 24, 2012
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This week our One Word, Two Ways series made its way over to the online magazine The Indie Chicks with a special edition “Sister Disco – Essentials: NYC and a Trip Around the World“.  There Farrell talks the essentials of backpacking around the world and I roundup my New York City living neighborhood favorites.

The Indie Chicks was launched in the spirit of getting out there and making things happen.  It’s a site full of authentic, badass ladies doing their thing.  We’re psyched to join the crowd, and can’t help but be reminded of all of our phenomenal Homie chicks who have offered us so much inspiration. Bottom line, people are doing cool stuff.

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Picturesque

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October 22, 2012
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Hi friends.  It’s that time again.  We’ve got a round of your photos to start off the week.  Many thanks to this week’s contributors.

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Jo – New York, New York
My Tibetan friend invited me to a Tibetan Celebration of the Dalai Lama, where they were wearing regional costumes and performed regional dances. I was the only westerner there and I felt like I was getting a secret peek into a glorious and exotic world!

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Mom – Lakewood, Ohio
Just a pup

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Paul – New York, NY
NY Comicon 2012


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Brendan – New York, NY
Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel

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We’d love to post your photos next week. If you’ve got something, send it our way!

One Word, Two Ways: Quote

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October 20, 2012
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(Ashish, Spring 2013 via here)

I want this sweatshirt.  I’d wear it all the time.  Sometimes I come off so serious – here, in pictures and in person.  It’s mostly not true.  Occasionally, it is.

While reading the book Shantaram on my iPad, I took notes of some of my favorite quotes in the book. I thought maybe you would like to see them.

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Guilt is the hilt of the knife that we use on ourselves, and love is often the blade; but it is worry that keeps the knife sharp, and worry, that gets most of us in the end.
~Chapter Twenty-One

There is no meanness too spiteful or too cruel than when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
~Chapter Eighteen

Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.
~Chapter Twenty-Six

Love makes men big, hate makes them small.
~Chapter Twenty-Eight

Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that’s greater than zero.
~Chapter Twenty-Eight

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
~Chapter Thirty

No love, is no life.
~Chapter Thirty-Four

Love is the passionate search for truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is part of the universal good: it’s part of god, or what we call god and it can never die.
~Chapter Thirty-Four

The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul.
~Chapter Forty-One

We carry oceans inside us, in our blood, in our sweat. And we are crying the oceans in our tears.
~Chapter Eighteen