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I make drawings and paintings. Louisville, Kentucky is my hometown but I've lived in Brooklyn (with one stint in Chinatown) since 2007. From 2012 to early 2018 I didn't have a studio space and got used to making small pieces at my kitchen table. I'm currently working in a studio near my apartment in Bushwick and scaling things back up from micro.
What are some recent, upcoming or current projects you are working on?
I'm working on these gouache paintings on panel, 2-3 at a time.
Besides that, a couple of things. For the past seven or so years, I've been accumulating unorganized image folders on my hard drive. I make a new one every month and save things to it. Sometimes the folder for a month will have 40 or 50 images, other months will have up to 700. I've been trying different ways of outputting these image directories to books, the idea being to print maybe 12 images per page so some kind of relationship emerges. The goal is to print them all, spiral bound so they'll lay flat, and have this very personal archive of reference material for my studio.
I'm also doing an art/literature podcast with a couple of friends whenever we have time.
What is one of the bigger challenges you and/or other artists are struggling with these days and how do you see it developing?
I think the struggles of artists today are similar to everyone else's in the capitalist meat grinder. Only the art world is so isolated from regular peoples' needs that the labor it asks for is super absurd. You're vying with hundreds of other people for a two week gig helping a more established artist make the Digimon logo out of spray foam and invoicing some duplicitous nitwit five times before they pay you. Going to a third interview for a position where you'd basically lug boxes around for a guy named like Cyril or Florian with stupid tattoos. Riding ass-to-armpit on a shuttle bus because some train is down, and having to pretend to be sorry when you're late because of it. Just constant humiliation.
As for how it will develop. . . I hope people continue to get pissed off and form labor movements, unions.
How did your interest in art begin?
Trying to draw Dragonball Z characters.
If you had to explain your work to a stranger, what would you say?
I'd say my abstract paintings are sort of like floor plans crossed with the splotchy shapes and colors you see when you close your eyes. And that my other work is mostly line drawings of people and ruins and graveyards.
What materials do you use in your work and what is your process like?
My paintings start with an underdrawing based on lots of sketchbook work. Then I'll sometimes layer a tile or grid or mosaic pattern on top of it and start filling in shapes with gouache. The ones I'm doing now have a huge range of hue/value contrasts and I find after a few hours my eyes are exhausted.
What artists are you interested in right now?
A lot of cartoonists and illustrators. Very obsessed with Frank Robbins, who started as an adventure comic strip artist and ended up writing a lot of Batman comics. He drew some Batman stories too but his visual style was divisive among DC dorks who couldn't see how incredible he was. He was also a painter and sculptor. I love the book NYR Comics put out last year of Nicole Claveloux's comics, The Green Hand. I've been grabbing up old issues of Julie Doucet's Dirty Plotte comics anytime I see them.
As for other art, I'm always looking at Shirley Jaffe, Felix Valotton, Stuart Davis, Charles Burchfield, George Grosz, E.L. Kirchner. But the comics stuff and the illustrators probably have a tighter grip on me, preoccupation-wise. That's the stuff I'm really hungry for.
What was the last exhibition, or project you saw that stuck out to you?
On a trip to Japan in May I was introduced to Shinro Ohtake's art and I'm really glad.
What is your snack/beverage of choice when working in your studio?
I had a big pack of pink Pocky but it ran out. Not a lot of eating at my studio because I live two blocks away. If I had a fridge at the studio I'd try to keep it stocked with cloudyboyz.
What do you do when you're not working on your art?
I commute to two different jobs a total of five days a week. I read or listen to a podcast on the bus/train. Our back porch is the best thing about our apartment and I spend a lot of time out there. Last Christmas my friend Corey showed me a dexterity board game called Crokinole and I got addicted to that pretty instantly.
If you had not become an artist what do you think you would be doing?
Twitch streamer.
What are you listening to right now?
I made these huge playlists recently. One is of every track I could find from my favorite still-running, but very 2000s-style music blog, Guess I'm Dumb. Just pure pop from all over and across time. The other is of every song Gary Panter has posted to Facebook. It's a like, 300 song hippie freakout.
How do you differentiate the work of your figurative sketches from your abstract paintings? Do you see these bodies of work existing separate from the other, or do you see them as connected?
The figurative work is usually so unpolished and referential that I think it's a good counterpoint to my abstract paintings. What they share is the approach to composition. Both rely on the same thinking in terms of carving out a spatial experience by apportioning the page or panel. My good friend Thomas has spent the last couple of years on a body of work that welds these two tendencies, and the result is totally weird and personal.
You have cited video games, comics and illustration as large influences on your work. Could you elaborate on this?
To me there's just so much juice in there. At this point I don't question it and I just let the richness of these influences just kind of do their thing to me. My obsession is with pictures, images. A single comic has hundreds to take in, and that's impossible to resist. Sammy Harkham found a Manny Farber quote:
""The rococo, squiggling composition of the average comic strip is too intricate, difficult, & unorthodox for cultured eyes grown lazy on the flaccid drawing-with-color technique & the pillow-like form of modern painting."
In addition to your paintings, you also host the podcast Mess Museum and have a well maintained and long running tumblr, both with a focus on illustration. Do you feel these extensions of yourself work to show appreciation for an underserved medium, or do you see them simply as labors of love?
My tumblr is my favorite place on the internet. I usually view it in archive view and just click through different months and find images I'd forgotten about. I like the constellation/nebula effect all the different constituent posts add up to. Someone, I can't remember who, compared the tumblr blog format to decorating the inside of your locker. It's very potent for me.
The podcast runs on similar impulses, putting disparate ideas together and doing research, and just joking around. If both projects concern illustration it's just because that's what I'm thinking about. Illustration history definitely doesn't see the kind of deep research and museum presence that it should, though.


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An easy roast beetroot salad with feta cheese that uses fresh beets for a delicious result! Top this beetroot and feta salad with a homemade honey dijon dressing for a filling yet light summer dinner!
Fresh beetroot has an earthy yet sweet flavor that pairs perfectly with this homemade honey dijon salad dressing! I added slivered red onions and feta cheese to my beet salad, but I'll give you other options later in the post for more add-ons.
If you've never had beets before, roast beets are the perfect way to try them for the first time. Roasting vegetables helps bring out the naturally sweet taste, and I'm convinced that roasting just makes everything tastes better!
Beetroot is actually naturally sweet, though, and VERY healthy! In fact, it's considered a superfood because it's so high in potassium, magnesium, fiber and vitamin C. Not bad, huh? Plus, that deep red color is just so pretty to see on your dinner table! The nutritional info for beets is off the chart!
How to Cook Beetroot
That vibrant, gorgeous color that I mentioned before is because beets have such a strong pigment. This also means that the color tends to get all over you and can stain. I highly recommend wearing disposable gloves and an apron to help protect your clothes and so you don't end up with red hands for the next few days!
You can boil your beetroot, but you'll lose a lot of nutrients that way so it's not preferred.
I much prefer to roast beetroot and it's so easy that I think everyone should use this method!
Using a cutting board, cut off the tops and bottoms of each beet. Our beets were pretty enormous, so we decided to use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin and then cut into large chunks before roasting.
I lined a cookie sheet with foil first. Then I drizzled with about 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt and pepper. Toss them all around to coat them.
Wrap the foil around it to form a little pouch and then roast at 425 degrees for about 40-50 minutes. The time will depend on how large your pieces of beetroot are. You'll know it's done when you can poke a fork or skewer through it easily. You want nice and tender, roast beetroot and not crispy pieces.
I let the roast beetroot cool before I add it to my salad. In fact, you can store it in the refrigerator for up to a week and just pull it out as needed.
It even freezes well too! After it's done cooling, place it in freezer-safe containers and store for a couple months until you need it.
If the beetroot that you're roasting is small to start, you can leave your beets unpeeled and whole and roast them that way. When they're done roasting, remove them from the oven and use a dishcloth or paper towel to rub the skin right off. Just make sure you use a dish towel that you don't mind getting stained.
Homemade Honey Dijon Salad Dressing
For way too many years, I only used store bought salad dressing. For the last couple years, though, I've been experimenting with homemade salad dressings delicious recipe and I'm kicking myself that it took me this long to realize how easy and how delicious they are!
You can totally just mix and match whatever flavors you like to come up with your perfect salad dressing in minutes! For a healthy, Greek yogurt based dressing, we love this homemade Green Goddess dressing recipe. My kids even use it as a dip! In the summer, nothing beats using up fresh garden tomatoes in this Tomato and Basil dressing that pairs perfectly with a Pizza Salad. My favorite Honey Lime dressing pairs perfectly with a grilled shrimp salad and I seriously could go on and on! I've become obsessed with salad dressings made from scratch!
So, of course, I had to try my hand at a honey dijon salad dressing. This dressing has the consistency of a vinaigrette more so than some of the thick honey mustard dressings you get at restaurants. I wanted something light and refreshing for this roast beetroot salad, and this dressing pairs perfectly.
In a small jar, I add 5 tablespoons of olive oil, 3 tablespoons honey, 1 tablespoon dijon mustard and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Close the lid tightly and shake to combine. That's it! It's all ready to pour over your easy beetroot salad!
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Tips and Tricks for Roast Beetroot Salad
- I made my salad using a spring mix but it would be great on a bed of spinach too.
- I used thinly sliced red onions, but feel free to leave those off. Or use chopped green onions or yellow sweet onions.
- Roast beetroot salad with feta is a pretty common combination but you can substitute it with goat cheese and that would be delicious too!
- If you aren't up to making homemade honey dijon salad dressing, then feel free to use your favorite bottled dressing. But try the homemade version!! It is SO easy and delicious!
- Fun salad additions would be mandarin oranges, toasted almonds, or walnuts.
Roast Beetroot Salad
- 2-3 large Beets
- 1 Tbsp. Olive Oil
- Sea Salt
- Pepper
- 4-6 cups Spring Mix
- 1/2 cup Feta
- 1/4 cup Red onion thinly sliced
- 5 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 3 Tbsp Honey
- 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil.
- Wash and peel beets. Cut into large chunks and place on prepared baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. Toss to coat. Lightly pull foil up and over beets to create a pouch. Place in preheated oven and roast for about 40 minutes or until fork tender.
- While beets are roasting, add all of your dressing ingredients to a small jar. Shake well until all the ingredients are incorporated. Set aside.
- On a large platter or bowl, arrange mixed greens and red onions. Top with roasted beets and feta. Drizzle with salad dressing and enjoy!


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Here are 143 words from my upcoming short story, From This Day Forward.
Context isn't really needed. This is from Henry's 1st-person POV:
I burrowed my face into Sam's neck and enjoyed the warmth and strength of his arms. We rocked together for a few moments, then I pulled away from his neck and angled up my face. He took the hint, and his mouth covered mine, softly teasing, his lips caressing, then adding firm pressure as his tongue skimmed my lips and tenderly pushed past. I reveled in the intoxicating mix of sensations—the salty taste of Sam's skin, the coarse caress of unshaven skin brushing my cheek, and his natural fragrance. Forgotten for five long years, I was now hyper-aware of his intoxicating musk.
A lovely, barely perceptible tremor stirred beneath my hands as they progressed up Sam's back, applying pressure, gently kneading. His hands cupped my face, and I hooked my arms to grip his shoulders from behind. Muscles flexed beneath my palms.
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This story will release on August 6, 2016, and is available for pre-order in ebook formats now at: JMS Books, LLC.
It's also available now as a bonus story at the end of the trade paperback format of the novel, 'Til Death Do Us Part.
Note: From This Day Forward is a direct sequel to my novel, 'Til Death Do Us Part, but will also stand alone as an individual story.
Revisiting the characters from 'Til Death Do Us Part, Henry and Sam Miller-Greene are enjoying life in the summer after Henry's rescue from a small South Pacific island, where Henry and three others were marooned.
Henry and Sam thought adopting Aiden—a child with whom Henry'd been stranded—would be smooth sailing. Matters are complicated by the public nature of their rescue that has turned the survivors into overnight celebrities. Anti-gay fueled animus rears its ugly head in the blogosphere, causing concerns over the the impact libelous rumors might have on Aiden.
Their nightmare separation behind them, Henry and Sam are anxious to renew both the intensity of their former intimacies—now hampered by having a curious and still apprehensive child sharing their home—and their commitment to one another.


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In honor of Slayer Day — which, in our opinion, is every single day — we've taken a deep dive through the thrash OG's catalog and picked out five of the band's sickest, most twisted lyrics. Expect plenty of Nazis, serial killers and raining blood.
"Angel of Death"
Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing
Through your eyes
Burning flesh, drips away
Test of heat burns your skin,
Your mind starts to boil
Slayer's masterpiece Reign in Blood opens with a bang, screeching out of the gates with Jeff Hanneman's no-compromise description of the real-life horror of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who tortured men, women and children at the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII.
I feel the urge the growing need
To fuck this sinful corpse
My tasks complete the bitch's soul
Lies raped in demonic lust
All you really need to know about this Reign in Blood cut is how Tom Araya has intro'd the song live in concert. "This is a song about older women," he says in the clip above. "The kind you find six feet underground. You know, the best part about older women is when you eat them out. You can hear the maggots in your teeth. Yummy."
"Dead Skin Mask"
Graze the skin with my finger tips
The brush of dead warm flesh pacifies the means
Incised members ornaments on my being
Adulating the skin before me
Infamous Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein inspired Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs and The House of 1000 Corpses with his horrific acts, which included making masks from the skin of his flayed victims. He also inspired Araya's lyrics in this beyond-creepy tune.
Primitive instinct a passion for flesh
Primal feeding on the multitudes of death
Sadistic acts a love so true
Absorbingly masticating a part of you
Araya also indulged his fascination with serial killers on this Divine Intervention cut, based on the cannibalistic crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer.
"Psychopathy Red"
Perversion, slow death agonizing
Stab around the eyes
Flow of blood, warm taste brings me pleasure
Eclipsing all reason
Pushing sperm, in her imitation
Painful act in vain
Organs cooked, bled out potency
Now I am now complete
Soviet mass murderer Andrei Chikatilo, who famously described himself as "a mistake of nature, a mad beast," murdered and mutilated no less than 52 women and children throughout the Eighties, making him an ideal subject for a Slayer song — namely, this one, penned by Hanneman four years before the guitarist's death.


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My first post in ever-so-long, with an image from the interwebz, from my friend Jen. Ahh, the simple pleasures in life!
welcome to the weird little world
inside my head, heart, and day-to-day life
Saturday, March 17, 2012
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- Tracy Anne said...
Me me me me me me me!! Alto to Soprono!
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- Tracy Anne said...
It's all about ME! It's all about you
So NOT! Love the Lord and you too!
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- Tracy Anne said...
Dude! I love you, but more important... God loves you AND so do I!
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- Can Opener Boy said...
LOL! You are goofy! Thanks Tracy -- love you too! =^)
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Back in 1983, Willie Nelson cut off his braids and gave them to fellow Highwayman Waylon Jennings "to cheer (him) on during his path to sobriety," according to auction house Guernsey's, who sold them for $37,000 on Oct. 5.
The "Remembering Waylon" sale, held at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, offered a treasure trove of Jennings memorabilia, including photos, instruments, awards, and stage outfits and equipment. Lot 249 was named "Willie Nelson's Trademark Braids, 1983." The braids are red. Jennings' widow, Jessi Colter, organized the auction.
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I come from a family of non-communicators. We wear it proudly like a badge — which is ridiculous because the only thing that comes from not telling someone what you want or need is frustration that festers until you explode 12 years later and blindside your spouse because you never liked the color of the downstairs bathroom.
Communication is one of the, if not the biggest, elements to successful relationships. This includes friendships as well. Here are the most effective things I've learned about communication from adulting:
1. Be clear.
I have a tendency to assume my husband "should just know" what I'm thinking or feeling. He does not. I have learned that telling him exactly what I need, and maybe even how that thing needs to be done, makes for smoother communication and less frustration over misunderstandings. For example, if I need to be by myself, there was a time when I would mentally will that message to him by being upset and stomping around. Turns out, saying, "Hey, I had a hard day, and I need to walk around the block," is much more effective than kicking a laundry pile around my house (that I'll have to clean up anyway).
2. Say how you feel.
Don't say, "I'm fine," if you aren't fine. The other person will assume you are fine — because you said you were. That's like saying, "Oh yes, I love live squid in my clam chowder," and then getting angry at the waiter when he serves it to you. It's confusing. And terrifying for others — squid included.
3. Let it go.
If we learned anything from Elsa, it's that this song is impossible to get out of your head, her snowman is adorable, and this is pretty good advice. It's tough to do at first, but learning to pick and choose your battles is liberating, not to mention it saves a ton of unnecessary arguments and resentment. Eye-rolling allowed.
4. Don't keep score.
Seriously, don't get that game going. Once you start keeping score, you open the door for the other person to start keeping score, because fair is fair. Then you pull your scorecard out four years later and so does the other person. You start with the topic at hand, and before you know it, you're hurling insults back and forth over insignificant issues that have been festering since the time you both said, "No, I'm fine." The result is neither of you is speaking anymore, you hate their shoes, and they think your hair is stupid.
5. Be the bigger person.
Sometimes this is the worst thing in the world. I know for me it takes swallowing a huge amount of pride as I clench my firsts and grit my teeth. I tell myself, "Fine!" the way Jerry Seinfeld used to say, "Newman." I hate being wrong when I think I'm right. But when it comes to clearing the air to keep from reigniting the longest war since the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, it takes someone to stand up and do the right thing to stop the nonsense. If you do, you can at least relish in the fact that you were the bigger person. Then, do Nos. 3 and 4.
6. Say, "I'm sorry" when you do something wrong.
Because you were wrong, and saying sorry is the right thing to do. See No. 5. Humble pie is the least delicious of pies. Apple is really the best.
7. Accept the apology.
It's also the right thing to do and the first step toward moving on. No one says accepting apologies means forgetting what someone said, it means accepting this person is sorry and making an effort to right their wrongs and then letting it go. In non-abusive relationships, accepting apologies is a chance to strengthen your bonds and grow together. It also gives the other person a second chance to do the right thing.
8. Don't assume.
It makes an ass out of you — and me. Do you know how many times I've spent time wondering how in the world I would forgive someone for something they weren't even aware they did? Communicate. See No. 1.
9. No guilt trips.
Also known as manipulation. It accomplishes nothing but one-sided selfishness and builds resentment. It's an ugly trait. We all do it (or have done it at some point), but it's a horrible thing to practice, especially with people you love.
10. Don't be a doormat.
Just say no to things you don't want to do. See Nos. 1 and 2.
Communication is more important to relationships than anything else. Unless you're telepathic, then it should be pretty easy for your significant other or best friend. It's also pretty important for parenting. The more clearly I communicate, the better my kids understand and communicate as well. Unless I'm asking them to clean up. Then I become the family ghost only the cat can hear, and that's if it's time for her to be fed.
The first few years of my marriage were about my husband and I learning to work together. A huge part of that was me not being afraid to communicate and to do it clearly without holding it back. Once I figured out how to do this, things smoothed out, and life surprisingly got easier. So don't be afraid to say how you feel, be the bigger person, and never kick laundry around the house out of frustration. I've got pretty good odds that you'll be the one picking it up anyway.
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"I found out that around £10,000 went into my account."
Fraudsters are paying struggling London students for their bank account details, in order to commit fraud. City of London Police reported that gangs are offering hundreds of pounds to international students so they can launder money and use students as "money mules".
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A great and tiny add-on that makes viewing the RSI Hangar better and more functional. One of the only recommendations I'd like to see is alt text added to the hovering UI element on the left stating it can be clicked on to change what information it shows (IE: CCU Totals, etc.) Yes, you can add alt text to text elements to have text appear when hovering over the text:
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- Noté 5 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 14921467 de Firefox, il y a un anReally good application, usefull and not intrusive.
- Noté 5 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 14702028 de Firefox, il y a 2 ansKorrigiert den "My Hangar" Bereich grundlegend. Alle Bilder stimmen, Suchfunktionen und Filter machen Sinn, Werte der Pledges werden angezeigt, ...
Ein Träumchen :)
- Noté 5 sur 5par wolfxwk, il y a 3 ansThis add on is really nice for viewing your hangar in an organized fashion, especially if you have lots of ships that are upgrades. I highly recommend this app to help manage your hangar.
Edit: I was having a problem seeing some of my ships, and the extension author helped me realize the problem was 100% user error on my part. 5 stars for being a great person and helping me solve that. Edited my review to reflect that.
Réponse du développeurmis en ligne : il y a 3 ansHi wolf, if possible, could you contact /u/alluran on reddit, or email@example.com so we can figure out why some of your ships aren't showing?
You're the first person to report this type of issue, so I'd be keen to get to the bottom of it with you.
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The New York Times recently ran an article with the headline: "What Do You Call a Retired Pope? And Is He Still Infallible?"
The first question sounds like the lead-in to a joke, perhaps along the lines of "What do you call a criminal lawyer?" -- "A redundancy!" "Retired Pope?" At least one punch line that comes to mind from another lawyer joke is: "A good start!" Perhaps "Revoke Pope?"
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One of the biggest areas of scrutiny with games on Facebook is just what happens to gift requests when they are sent from user to user to be redeemed in a specific game. The Gift Requests page has long been the standard, regardless of its positioning on the site, allowing users to pick and choose which request they'd like to respond to at any one time, but at one time, users were also notified about game requests and activities via their Notifications bar.
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The São Paulo – Alberta Magnetic Resonance (MR) Image Reconstruction and Processing BrainHack workshop is in its first edition. Our goal is to join experts in their fields and young researchers to discuss contemporary MR image reconstruction and processing problems and applications using machine learning approaches. The workshop will consist of a combination of lectures, scientific power pitch presentations, BrainHack challenges and lots of opportunities for connecting with new people. You don't need to be an expert on machine learning or brain MR to participate! We will have mentors, educational lectures, and a cross-disciplinary team that will support all participants to understand machine learning, and show how it can be applied to active research problems.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Edits continue, spell-check is ignored, days are lost, cycle is repeated
I don't despise outlines because I think it makes the writing bland, or even becayse they give me the screaming night sweats (although they do; my distaste for them is secondary only to query letters, bad grammar, and agents who 'only reply if interested'). No, I don't do outlines because I can't. You see, I don't actually know what's going to happen next.
I have a vague sense of the major events and themes in my stories (sometimes), but I don't know how I'm going to get there until I'm actually there. The story ebbs and flows as I travel through it, plot points and conflicts peeping up like mischievous islands beneath an opaque veil of fog. They advance, they recede; they creep in and take me by surprise or pop up in an entirely different place than last time, but gradually the story unfolds before me like a map. It can take a long time, and I can't always predict what part of the story I will learn next.
Last week, for example, while wracking my brain and scouring the undulating ocean of darkness for the next chapter in Book 2, I stumbled upon a chapter for Book 3. Startled me clean out of my knickers. "Where did that come from?" I wonder. But we mustn't offend the Muses, now, must we? We take what we can get, say thank you, and file it away for later.
It wasn't what I needed that second, but it gave me hope for my series.
I was snooping around the forums and I found a thread where someone was asking for advice: A publisher wanted synopses for all three books in her trilogy so they could consider offering her a three-book-deal. It sent me into a moment of blind panic.
"What if someone offers me a three-book-deal?" I wondered, uncharacteristically optimistic for no logical reason.
I can imagine the argument between myself and the psychopath who demands three synopses from me:
"How am I supposed to know what happens in the next book? I don't even know what's going to happen in this one! What do you mean, 'because I'm the author?' What do you mean, 'because it's my world?' Earth is your world…can you tell me what's going to happen next week? Then how should I know what's going to happen to Anaiiya? It's not enough that I spent countless hours hand-crafting you a literary masterpiece, now you want me to predict the future? Are you insane? I have trouble coming up with a couple hundred words three or four times a week for my blog. I hate you!"
There. I've ruined everything.
Serves me right; shame on me, jumping ahead to a three-book deal. I know better than to tempt the Fates like that.
So what about all of you? I know lots of writers have their stories meticulously planned out, but I've almost never been able to do that. How do you all write?
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I am an *ahem* organic writer myself. I outline when I'm having trouble figuring out what's next, but bullocks if I actually stick with it.ReplyDelete
I'm like you. I can't see too far ahead from where I am in the story. Makes for entertaining edits, but I still get a good tale out if it.
I wrote my early books as a response to the question, "What if my dad were actually a monster?" That was the entire basis for those books, and all of the planning involved. I do remember I had vague ideas about what might happen, but that none of those materialized as I allowed the characters to speak to me.ReplyDelete
I wrote a tentative map of my current WIP. I knew it'd best serve as "tentative," because inevitably characters seem to have a different idea about things than you think they ought. :)


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Athletics was always "it." When my peers were busy socializing or sneaking notes around class about their current crush, my crush was the rail setup I wanted to slide on my rollerblades later that week.
Early in my life I knew I was different. At the playground, I only wanted to jump off the top of the slide instead of sliding down it like everyone else, or attempt twirling jumps off the porch stairs while mom and dad held their breaths. I would walk down the block with friends in my knee-socks-and-mini-skirt high school uniform and invite challenges: "hey girls, check this out, think I can jump over that bench?!" I don't know where it came from, but I clearly had some thrill-seeking bug.
As I officially announce my retirement today, I think back to my last year of high school, at a local rail jam, I clicked into the first pair of skis in more than a decade and fell in love instantly. I experienced an inexplicable sense of belonging, as if the calling had been there all along. Everything was suddenly urging me to step off the beaten path, move to the west of Canada and pursue a sport I'd tried only… twice?
With an insatiable thirst for challenge, growing up in sport allowed me to push myself to places I'd once only dreamed of. Nature, the mountains, and the mental challenges involved in thriving in such a high-intensity sport were my teachers, and I was a motivated student plowing from one rich textbook of experience to another. Sport surrounded me with extremely talented individuals who had a strong sense of purpose - a profound desire to be the best they could be — which only pushed me to dive deeper into mine.
Breaking and mending
Over time, sport exposed me to countless different cultures and corners of the globe. Breaking and mending myself — both physically and mentally — it strengthened my notion of resilience… my steel will was a strong match for my physical ailments and fears. Standing atop and overlooking some of the highest peaks in the world, I breathed in perspective: both how significant I sought to be, and how miniscule I really was — ahead lay an entire universe worth of exploration.
I'll never forget my first months of training, when I didn't know a single soul in the ski world. Endless hours, plowing awkwardly through the trails. And then learning my first rotation off a tiny trail-side jump, one of my most vivid personal victories that sparked me more than I can explain.
I have great memories of hitchhiking every day with my friends Denise and Kim (admittedly, sometimes with some sketchy characters), eager to do whatever it took to ski as often as possible. I'll never forget the immense thrills of capturing some of my hardest-earned victories, and the heartbreak I felt after crushing losses.
I'll never forget meeting, for the first time, my heroes in the freeski world, Sarah Burke and Kristi Leskinen. Pure awe! And then, years later, when Sarah pulled me aside, gave me a little kick in the butt, and pushed me to try and land my first switch (backwards) 1080-degree rotation.
I'll never forget the day we lost her, lying on the bathroom floor, sobbing, in shock. Not even a month later, trying my best to carry Sarah's legacy, I landed the switch 1080 for my sixth consecutive X Games gold, a first in women's slopestyle history. And that victory was just as much hers as it was mine.
I'll miss the freedom the sport offered me, I'll miss soaring in the air. I'll miss my ski family; with whom I built special bonds in the outpouring of our souls into common goals. And thriving under extreme pressure, putting my entire being on the line of performance. It was in those moments that nothing else mattered — pure existence, pure presence.
So many people have asked me, "How can you let this go, right before the Olympics? You still have so much in you! How can you just walk away?" Well the simple (but not so simple) answer is: I'm not just walking away. It has taken a great deal of time to confront and embrace both what my soul and physical body has been asking for.
The insane part
Looking back, and writing out the list of injuries I've experienced, I have to smile at the slight insanity of it all: a severed pancreas, lacerated kidneys, bruised lungs, four knee reconstructions (three ACL), a torn and reconstructed shoulder, a shattered and plated arm and finger, different dislocations in my wrist, shoulder and sterno-clavicular joints, and countless other hard impacts to my body…and here I am to tell the story! Perhaps the more insane part is, I would never take any of it back. How could I? Giving it everything I had in my chosen pursuit was the only way I knew. As the saying goes, "to give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
I remember very clearly, a couple of years ago, sitting with a friend over dinner. She lowered her voice and leaned in, as if the topic was almost too dangerous to explore. What would you do, she whispered, if you could do anything in the world? I paused for a moment, but then smiled at the simplicity of the answer: This. I would have been right there, living and pursuing that very life. And that's when it hit me: no matter the results, the fame, the money I had made it, I was living my dream. And that is the gift.
I've been lucky to live that dream for my entire life. Now the honest truth is, I've been struggling with neck and head problems, mainly chronic daily headaches, for too many years now. And I'd be lying if I said I haven't felt worn down and at times overwhelmed, even defeated. After trying to get a serious handle on my health while maintaining my devotion to the sport, I've finally decided that my head is where I absolutely must draw the line...it's time to give myself the opportunity to heal fully in order to pursue my next dreams and passions.
So, the famous question, what next? From this amazing, arduous and challenging journey I have learned patience, compassion, strength, and the paramount importance of passion in my life. That is the ultimate takeaway.
My fascination lies in performance, more specifically in identifying the mechanisms related to resilience — the ability to rebound and thrive. In a way, the pursuit of a great athletic career has been a selfish endeavor — all of my efforts, and much of the efforts of the professionals who surrounded me, revolved around my own goals and routines. Moving forward, I am eager and feel it is my duty to pass on my insights to the next generation of athletes, and more broadly to youths, to help them tap further into their greatest potential.
In this pursuit, it's not so much about what I do, but how. It will be, quite simply, embarking on my studies, and publicly sharing my journey with as much heart as I did in sport. As long as I stay true to that, I'll always be able to answer that very question I was once asked with: I would be doing exactly this.
To everyone who supported me in my pursuits, and there are many, many of you, I'm not sure I could ever thank you enough. Your support has encouraged me, fueled me, picked me up, mended me, and kept me together. When I reminisce about this life of experiences and connections, my heart swells. I am very lucky. I am grateful.
Thank you.
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Dat looks like a box full of good stuffs!ReplyDelete
Almost anything is better than eating a stink bug.ReplyDelete
That looks like one super duper box of stuffs!! And yeah...we agree with Millie and Walter...much better than stink bugs!! Beautiful picture of you Wyatt!!ReplyDelete
Way to go Wyatt. Just in the knick of time we see. Bugs .....phew at least you did not have to resort to eating those. Have a marvellous Monday.ReplyDelete
Best wishes Molly
It's a worry when they start making treats that the peeps want to eat...just sayin'.ReplyDelete
XXXOOO Bella & roxy
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2014 at 2:18 AM
I agree that's much much better than a stink bug, that's THE BEST! And even your mom liked the bisquits lol! Please take a photo when you kill that cute white bear-thingy, buddy :o)ReplyDelete
Oh that looks like a boxy full of tasties!ReplyDelete
You didn't really eat that stink bug, did you, Wyatt? They really do stink! Those pizza treats are calling to us! What a fun box!ReplyDelete
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Bugs... YuckReplyDelete
I sound like such a girl, huh
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What wonderful things, it really looks like a box full of goodies! Do you have a box full of goodies every month?? I want one of those, what a treat full of treats!
I don't like eating bugs but I do like eating Spiders! Yum!
Its funny that you say that your Momma eats your dog treats because my Momma eats mine too, she likes the smell of the organic treats I have , they are carrot and herbs!
Love and licks from your furiend Frank xxxxxxxx
Your box looks very yummi. And I can see a new toy. Lucky you.ReplyDelete
sound like the box would be much better than eating a bug :)ReplyDelete
What is UP with the invasion of STINK BUGS??? We had so many of them last year.ReplyDelete
BUTT your super box of GOOD stuff is a real improvement over THOSE guyz. How long will that White toy be...WHITE??? Sorry your mom ate one of your treats.
Hmmm, I may have to start thinking my toys are torn to shreds by fatty and he is eating all my treatsReplyDelete
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Hey Wyatt!ReplyDelete
Wow, I got a huge chuckle about your almost-stink-bug-eating! BWAR HAR HAR The box of loot is definitely a better idea. What a great pressie pack. Love that cool white toy!
Grr and Woof,
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Looks WAY better than bugs! Wagatha's treats are awesome, aren't they? Let us know how the dental spray works.ReplyDelete


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Nearly a dozen new Android phones with camera cut-outs in their otherwise nearly full-screen displays debuted at Mobile World Congress last month. Rumor has it LG's next flagship will also have a camera "notch." And Google has officially added support for displays with cutouts to Android P.
While the first modern smartphone with a notch was the Essential PH-1, the general consensus is that Android phone makers are taking their design cues from Apple's iPhone X which attempts to increase screen space by eliminating part of the top bezel.
But I've been seeing rumors for a while suggesting that next year's iPhones won't have notches. Now another report from Korean site ET News cites "an industry source" who says Apple is killing the notch.
So what does that mean for all the copycats set to hit the market this year?
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The Fourth Arcanum is very interesting. It refers to the cross of four points, the cubic stone, which is the foundation of the Great Work. It is a stone that must be chiselled.
When referring to the schools of the Fourth Way, we find that Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Nicoll had written what they knew, but their expositions suffer from many mistakes. For example, Gurdjieff committed the error of mistaking the Kundalini with the abominable Kundabuffer organ, and Ouspensky committed the same error. We cannot desist recognizing the existence of that blind fohatic force that has people hypnotized; yet this one has nothing to do with the Kundalini, but with the Kundabuffer that is the lunar fire. The Bible refers to the forty-four fires, but only two great fires can be spoken of: Kundalini and Kundabuffer.
The Kundalini is the Pentecostal fire, the lightning of Vulcan ascending through the dorsal spine, the positive fire that crystallizes in worlds and suns. Its antithesis is the Kundabuffer, the negative fire that crystallizes in those psychological aggregates, those quarrelling and screaming "I's" that we carry within and which are negative crystallizations that have people immersed into unconsciousness.
Gurdjieff also committed the error of not speaking about the lunar bodies that everyone has. He only says that we must transform the Being and that we must build the solar bodies. Ouspensky speaks about the Second Birth, but his teachings are incomplete. To begin with, the solar bodies have to be built in the Ninth Sphere, thus reaching the Second Birth. But neither Gurdjieff nor Ouspensky give the clue.
The school of the Fourth Way is very ancient; it comes from the archaic lands. It is the foundation of the great mysteries and is found alive in Gnosticism, and in the religions of the Egyptians, Lemurians, Atlanteans, Phoenicians, etc.
One has to tread the path by that Fourth Way. We need to march with equilibrium in science, philosophy, art, and religion.
In the staged arts of long ago, the individual would receive information in his three brains: motor, emotional, and intellectual. In the schools of today however, only the intellectual brain receives information. Neurosis and the sick states of the mind are due to this. Mental disequilibrium is avoided by balancing the three brains.
Science itself is contained within all of the cosmos; science exists even when the study of sciences does not exist.
The Fourth Arcanum of the Tarot is the holy and mysterious Tetragrammaton. The sacred name of the Eternal One has four letters: יהוה (Iod, Hei, Vav, Hei).
These are four letters which take us into the Ninth Sphere, the forge of the Cyclops, the famous flaming forge of Vulcan, sex, in order to raise the sacred serpent of our magical powers, and to take this serpent into our heart. Thus, we receive the sacred cross of the initiation in the temple of the Divine Mother.
The number four also represents the four physical elements, and the four elements of Alchemy:
The ancient alchemists stated that the sulphur must fecundate the mercury of the secret philosophy in order for the salt to be regenerated. In other words, the fire must fecundate the water in order for the human being to be regenerated and Self-realized.
In the Fourth Arcanum we also find the secret of the sphinx, and this arcanum reminds us of the four sacred animals of Sexual Alchemy.
- Lion: Hides the enigma of the Fire; claws of a lion
- Man: Water; the face of a man; Intelligence
- Eagle: Air; the wings of the sphinx; Spirit
- Bull: Earth; the back hooves; Tenacity
These are the values representative of the sphinx, the four elements of solar Alchemy. We need the tenacity of the bull and the wings of the Spirit.
The sphinx speaks to us about the Great Work that must be performed with the four elements. During a certain occasion I had an interview with the elemental of the sphinx; this is a marvellous elemental. The elemental came with its feet covered with mud. The elemental blessed me and I said unto it, "I understand why you come with your feet covered with mud. It is because of this age of Kali Yuga."
The entrance into the old, archaic temples was commonly a hidden hole in some mysterious spot of the dense jungle. We departed from Eden through the door of sex, and only through that door can we return to Eden. Eden is the same sex. It is the narrow, straight and difficult door that leads us into the light.
In the solitude of these mysterious sanctuaries, the neophytes were submitted to the four initiatic ordeals. The ordeals of fire, air, water, and earth always defined the diverse purifications of the neophytes.
The neophytes are submitted to the four initiatic ordeals which are verified in the internal worlds. The human being still is not a king or queen of nature, but the human being is called to be a king in accordance to Melchisedec.
Disciples must be tested by the four elements in order to examine them. They are submitted to ordeals in the forty-nine regions of thought. These ordeals are for everyone, man and woman. One can help oneself by having pure thoughts, but this is not enough: meditation is necessary.
All students of Kabbalah must be familiar with all of the elemental creatures:
- Air: Sylphs
- Water: Undines and Nereides (Mermaids)
- Fire: Salamanders
- Earth: Gnomes
These elements are utilized in order to work on the transmutation of lead into gold upon the central mountain range (the dorsal spine).
In the words Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei, we find the mystery of the Tetragrammaton (the Holy Four), the four words, the four elements. More profoundly, we find our Being, our most complete Divinity.
From the Ain Soph, which is a Super-Divine Atom of each one of us, the three Primary Forces (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) emanate and give their final synthesis: 3 + 1 = 4.
Tetragrammaton is: יהוה. This is the sacred summation of the number four.
- The Master is formed by Atman-Buddhi.
- Atman is the Innermost.
- Buddhi is the Divine Soul, meaning the Divine Consciousness of the Innermost.
- When a Logos wants to redeem a world, it emanates from itself a celestial prototype formed by Atman-Buddhi.
- The Logos is the Sephirothic Crown, the individual Ray from which the Innermost Himself emanated. This Ray is Triune; it is the Holy Trinity within each one of us.
- Thus, every Logos is Triune.
- The Father is Kether, the Elder of Days.
- The Son is the Cosmic Christ in us.
- The Holy Spirit is the Divine Mother in us.
- The Mother carries a lamp in her hand. That lamp is the Innermost who burns within our heart.
Samael Aun Weor
His name is Hebrew סמאל און ואור, and is pronounced "sam-ayel on vay-or." You may not have heard of him, but Samael Aun Weor changed the world. In 1950, in his first two books, he was the first person to reveal the esoteric secret about sex that was hidden in all the world's great religions, and for that, accused of "healing the ill," he was put in prison. Nevertheless, he did not stop. Between 1950 and 1977 he wrote sixty books, and inspired millions of people across the entire span of Latin America. A true example of compassion and selflessness, he dedicated his life to helping others.