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My kids and I went to the store one night this week in search of a birthday present for my mom. We discussed on the short drive there what we might purchase – What does Mana like? What is her favorite color? I was at first met with blank stares; then my 3-year-old daughter suggested either a big scooter or pillows. I can say with certainty that her grandmother would NOT want a scooter and I have no clue what she meant by "pillows!" But I had a suspicion that both items reflected her own desires more than what she believed her grandma would want!
We get into the store. Oh, so many fun, distracting things!! Plus, it was near bedtime on a school night – so it was a major challenge to keep them corralled! Now that we're in the store, the birthday gift ideas really started to flow! How about bubbles, or these pink beads, or this skein of yarn, or a bright green St. Patrick's day hat with clovers dangling from the sides? Or, better yet, how about something from this wall of children's dress-up clothes?!?
For the sake of my 7-year-old – who will read this and be mad if I embellish the story or inaccurately portray his role – I'll admit that most of these obviously inappropriate ideas for a birthday gift for grandma were from my daughter. My 7-year-old had better ideas. (Though I think we would both agree he was easily distracted by things that he wanted – like anything Star Wars!)
We ultimately decided to go with a grown-up coloring book, filled with pictures of butterflies and birds, both things my mom likes. The kids sincerely picked this gift on their own – and because it is from them in love, the gift will be received with joy. And, in turn, as they witness the joy in their grandma's response, both of my kids will experience their own joy and happiness; thus proving that giving to others in love produces joy for all.
I've continued to ponder this story through the week, laughing over the gift ideas of my young children. I began to consider how much easier it is to be focused on our own wants and needs instead of those of the people around us… "I work hard to buy things for myself, or afford this trip I want to take." Or "I have a schedule each day and I want to stay on task with my own to do list." If someone gets in the way of acquiring the things I want or think I need, it is a perceived inconvenience. Which means that I believe my wants are somehow more important than wants and needs of others!
It is so, so easy to move forward in life focused on our own desires, missing the needs all around us. But we are, of course, called to meet the needs of others! I recall the message to us from Jesus in Matthew 25, blessing and promising the inheritance of the kingdom of God to those who cared for and welcomed others:
And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." Matthew 25:40 (ESV)
Like my kids with the birthday gift for grandma, we too will experience joy when we recognize and then fulfill needs of others. This is a different joy – often a greater joy – than the pleasure we feel when we acquire something we want for ourselves. We live in a materialistic society, one that glorifies acquired wealth and individual accomplishments. So, it takes commitment, intent and many reminders – to look beyond ourselves and focus on the needs of others through gifts of time or wealth. There we find joy, love, peace – divine gifts of a loving God who knows through experience that it is far better to give than to receive!
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:3-4 (ESV)


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It's a pun! Do you get it? Because it is men who are smoking hot, and also actually smoking, like smoking cigarettes. Okay, so it's kind of a lame theme, but I still have holiday brain, and who knows, maybe seeing all of these photos of themselves will inspire some of these guys to make it a New Year's resolution to stop smoking.
Gotta start with Shahrukh. Both because he is everyone's favorite and because he smokes All The Time. And therefore looks very good doing it.
Okay, he doesn't look so good here, but that is more the hair than the cigarette.
Better here, I like the casual cigarette in one hand look with the suit.
Perhaps too casual. But very real, drinking and smoking at the same time.
This fits as the older version of the last one, the older guy who just can't quit.
Youthful again, very cocky with the cigarette balanced in his mouth.
Somewhere in the middle, looking very good in that sweater.
Another youthful one, phone and match and cigarette all together, looks like something he has done a thousand times before.
Oooo, cigarette and glasses!
Cigarette and open shirt? This might be almost too dissolute for me.
I don't know what's happening.
Salman doesn't smoke as much (probably more health conscious), but still enough not to look totally ridiculous with a cigarette. Okay, he looks a little ridiculous here, but that is mostly the glasses.
Totally not ridiculous here, shirtless and smoking truly does look natural on him.
NO! Somehow the cigarette is the best thing in this picture, way better than his hair or jeans or even face (what is up with his eyes?).
Awwwwww! So cute! These guys should just make out already.
Sanjay, of course, looks just right with a cigarette. Serious, thoughtful, and not thinking about how he looks.
Even when he was younger, the cigarette was just there, it wasn't something he felt the need to wave in our faces.
Okay, there was a little anger, but it wasn't directly cigarette related.
You know who looks surprisingly good with a cigarette? Despite a total lack of maturity otherwise? Viviek! Somehow it gives him just the right amount of bad boy maturity to make everything work.
See? Even when he is going the traditional good boy route with everything else in the look, the cigarette makes him all hot and bad.
Speaking of hot, my goodness does John Abraham look right with a cigarette!!!!! I can see why he was cast in "No Smoking". This is exactly the actor you want to watch smoking onscreen for 3 hours.
See? Even in cool black and white!
Oh yeah, that's a bad boy who just doesn't care about cancer.
Still bad.
A little flirty and bad.
Really doesn't care now.
While I am thinking of hot high cheekboned slightly older guys, Arjun Rampal! Oh yeah, he looks right with a cigarette. Maybe not the tribal tattoos, but the cigarette.
Very depressed sensitive artist, right?
And back to "youthful golden boy with a dark streak shown by cigarette".
Intellectual professorial button down type, whose inner rebel is hinted at through the cigarette.
Old school smoker, smokes because it's what gentleman do.
Speaking of gentleman, shall we check out Fawad Khan? I think we shall! This is a very "just rolled out of bed, but I carry my dignity with me always".
Okay, this is him still a little rumpled after a late night, but going out in a perfectly tailored suit anyway, because to him you aren't even dressed unless you are in a suit.
See???? Not even dressed without the suit.
Okay, just to wind things up, let's go old school! Amitabh! Does the coolness of the cigarette balance out the uncoolness of the bow tie? I am not sure.
Definitely the cigarette is doing it's job here. Giving that little touch of an edge to the sweet baby face of Amitabh.
Someone who never had a baby face, Dharmendra! That cigarette dangling from his mouth, that just seems natural.
Oh yeah, even makes it work with a fedora and pink shirt.
This one, this is the definite "I came from a small town where all there was to do at night was drink and smoke, so I did both" kind of image.
This is Shammi, believe it or not, who somehow looked way more dangerous as a youth than he did as he grew older. Strong contender for most evocative smoking shot ever. Earns the descriptor "Brando-esque"
Okay, you ready for your challenge?
Which image is most "I am a sexy young toubled bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks who smokes to distract me from my demons"?
I say it is this one
Which image is most "I carry my cigarettes in my grandfather's silver cigarette case and I smoke because it is what gentleman do"?
I say this one
Which image is most "I smoke because I am too old to quit and too old to think of it as anything more than an addiction I have learned to live with"?
I say this one
Which image is most "I am a working class guy and I smoke to distract myself from the grinding boredom of my life"?
I say it is this one:
Which image is most "I am a sexy artist type who smokes because he doesn't believe in life"?
Definitely this one
Which image is most "I smoke, and I probably drink, and I will DEFINITELY cheat on you, but I am as addictive as a cigarette and you just can't stay away from me"?
I say this one

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Curiculum Vitae
1979 Hernando Rico Sanchez is born in Bogota, Colombia.
Currently live and work in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, USA.
2010 Universidad de Alcala. Liceus. Master in museum studies. Madrid - Spain.
2008 BFA at Kean University. "Magna CumLaude". New Jersey - USA.
1999 Art Student League of New York. New York - USA.
1998 – 99 Studies of fine arts under the tutoring of Argentine artist Francisco Ruiz. Bogota - Colombia
1997 – 98 Studies Of fine arts under the Tutoring of Colombian artist Rodrigo Carvajal (ROCA) Bogota - Colombia
2010 - 11 J CIty Theater Artis in residency (Gallery 9 creation - Director & Curator project), J City Theater, Jersey City, USA
Museum Exhibitions:
2012 The Monmouth Museum, "Juried Photography Exhibition" Lincroft, New Jersey - USA
2011 Alexandria Museum of Art "24th September Competition Exhibition" Alexandria, Louisiana -USA
2010 The Monmouth Museum, "Art from the Found Objects" Lincroft, New Jersey - USA
2010 LaGrange Art Museum, "Biennale Lagrange National XXVI" Lagrange, Georgia – USA
2007 Provincial Museum of Fine Art Rosa Galisteo. "M.I.A.D Venado Tuerto" City of Santa Fe – Argentina
Exhibitions on Galleries & Alternative Spaces:
2015 Art Guild of New Jersey, "Roots / Raices" - Rahway, NJ, USA.
2014 Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art Gallery, "Lines Drawn" – Washington DC, Meryland, USA
2014 Passaic County Community College Art galleries, "Feelings /Sentimientos" – Paterson, New Jersey, USA
2013 Therese A. Maloney art Gallery "Held Against Their Will" - Morristown, New Jersey, USA
2012 The Gabarron Foundation / Carriage House Center for the Arts, "Two Hemispheres", New York, New York, USA
2012 The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, "White Hot Gold" Murray State University, Murray - Kentucky, USA
2011 Visual art society of Texas "43rd Annual Visual Art Exhibition", Denton - Texas, USA
2011 Visual Art Center Of New Jersey " 25th International Juried Show" Summit, New Jersey, USA
2010 J City Theater "Jersey Shorts" Jersey City, New Jersey - USA (solo show)
2010 Meryland Federation of Art "Eye of the Beholder: The Art of the Found Object" Annapolis, Meryland - USA
2010 Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery "Art 2010" Boca Raton, Florida – USA
2009 Gallery RFD "Sweet Escape" Swainsboro, Georgia - USA
2009 J City Theater "Passion" Jersey City, New Jersey - USA (solo show)
2008 Museum of the Americas, "international Art exhibition" Doral, Florida – USA
2008 Pierro gallery of South Orange, "Wake up! Are we desensitized?" South Orange, New Jersey - USA
2008 James Howe Art Gallery "Expression, Fragility & Humanity" Union, New Jersey – USA. (solo show)
2006 Altered Esthetics Gallery "Guerrilla art show". Minneapolis, Minnesota - USA
2005 Dublin's tsunami-aid auction at the RHA auction house. Dublin – Ireland.
2003 James Howe Art Gallery. Union, New Jersey – USA.
1999 Artist Space Gallery " Night of the 1000 drawings". New York, New York – USA.
1999 Hungarian Cultural House "Contemporary artist exhibit". New York, New York – USA.
Art Fair & Festivals:
2005 15 Art Fair Tuyap Istanbul "Artists 2005". Istanbul – Turkey.
2005 Third International Art Festival "Chania 2005". Chania, Creta – Greece.
2004-07 Hrsanchez in cooperation with artist Sandor Barics give live to Blubark Art Group in Copenhagen, Denmark creating multiple digital projects.
- Body surfing
- Santo Subito
- Children's of the dump
The Gabarron Fundation Collection , barcelona , Spain
Privete colectors in the Ingland, USA and Argentina


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For those of you familiar with my all-or-nothing work habits, the fortune I extracted from last night's pre-ballet cookie will likely make you smile:
Don't just work hard, work smart.
I'm trying! I'm trying!
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
For those of you familiar with my all-or-nothing work habits, the fortune I extracted from last night's pre-ballet cookie will likely make you smile:
Don't just work hard, work smart.
I'm trying! I'm trying!
Today's Wall Street Journal drama column is a triple-header. First up, Jumpers, about which I had nothing but great things to say:
Most playwrights of ideas are content to play with the ideas of others. Tom Stoppard has his own, and in "Jumpers" he serves them up with plenty of hot pepper on the side. Imagine a Broadway show in which a beleaguered professor of moral philosophy agonizes over the existence of God. Then stir in a pin-striped totalitarian sharpie, a half-witted police inspector, a half-crazy musical-comedy star (that's the professor's wife), a mute secretary, a jazz trio, eight acrobats and–oh, yes–two murders. That's "Jumpers," the frightening farce currently being performed by the National Theatre of Great Britain at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in a revival directed with coruscating flair by David Leveaux….
Next is Raisin in the Sun, a generally outstanding revival that has, alas, a gaping hole smack dab in the middle:
Not to keep you in suspense, but Sean Combs, the Rapper Formerly Known as P. Diddy, can't act, though he does what I suspect is his best in the revival of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" playing through July 11 at the Royale Theatre. Not only does he remember all his lines, but he even manages to insert a touch of emotion here and there. Alas, Mr. Combs hasn't the foggiest idea of how a thirtysomething father from the Chicago ghetto circa 1950 might have looked and sounded. Instead, he portrays Walter Lee Younger as a proto-rapper–blustery, adolescent and phony to the core. That he should have the gall to make his Broadway debut alongside Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald suggests that his capacity for embarrassment is insufficiently developed….
Last and most definitely least, Bombay Dreams:
It won't be enough if "Bombay Dreams" flops–I'd like to see it removed from the Broadway Theatre with bulldozers at high noon. Not since "Urban Cowboy" have I endured a show so irredeemably stupid as this backhanded "tribute" to the musicals churned out in boxcar lots by "Bollywood," the Bombay-based Indian film industry. Their simple-minded scripts and drop-of-a-turban production numbers are said to be charming, but you couldn't prove it by "Bombay Dreams," a mishmash of tuneless tunes, vapid lyrics, dull choreography, and pointlessly expensive sets (including a sunken on-stage fountain) that put me in mind of an Elvis Presley movie with a billion-dollar budget….
No link. Go buy Friday's Journal. (And yes, Aaron, it only costs a dollar, nyaah nyaah nyaah!)
"I move my head imperceptibly, because of his moustache which brushes against my nostrils with a scent of vanilla and honeyed tobacco. Oh!…suddenly my mouth, in spite of itself, lets itself be opened, opens of itself as irresistibly as a ripe plum splits in the sun. And once again there is born that exacting pain that spreads from my lips, all down my flanks as far as my knees, that swelling as of a wound that wants to open once more and overflow–the voluptuous pleasure that I had forgotten."
Colette, La Vagabonde
• Thursday wasn't nearly so busy as Wednesday: I wrote a speech in the morning, met Maud for lunch, then came back home and blogged a bit. (My scheduled nap slipped through the cracks.)
As for the evening, I just got back from seeing New York City Ballet dance
George Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer. It was the first time I'd seen NYCB since writing All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine, and the first time the company has danced Liebeslieder Walzer in several seasons. Here's what I said about it in the book:
New York City Ballet toured the Soviet Union in 1962, the first time Balanchine had been there since his defection thirty-eight years before. "Welcome to Russia, home of the classical ballet," a Soviet official told him as he stepped off the plane in Moscow. "Thank you," he replied without missing a beat, "but America is now home of the classical ballet. Russia is home of the old romantic ballet." But that didn't mean he had turned his back on the romanticism of his youth. Liebeslieder Walzer (1960, music by Brahms) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962, music by Mendelssohn), for example, were both profoundly romantic in every sense of the word–as well as formally innovative.
Liebeslieder Walzer is set not in a sky-blue void but a candle-lit ballroom where four aristocratic-looking young couples in evening dress spend an hour waltzing together, accompanied by the four singers and two pianists with whom they share the stage. The couples are entangled in subtly differing ways (one of the women, for example, appears to be older than her partner-lover), though there is no plot or Tudor-style "acting" to give away their intimate secrets. Romantic ends are achieved by modern means: all you see are the setting and the steps, with everything else left to the imagination. The dancers drift outdoors into a moonlit garden and the curtain falls for a breathless moment. When it rises again, the ballroom itself is flooded with moonlight, the women are wearing tutus and toe shoes, and the decorous ballroom dancing of the first act is replaced by the heightened gestures of ballet. At the end, the women reappear in their party gowns, and the couples listen in stillness to the last waltz, whose words, sung in German, are by Goethe:
Now, Muses, enough!
You strive in vain to show
How joy and sorrow alternate in loving hearts.
You cannot heal the wounds inflicted by love;
But assuagement comes from you alone.
"The words ought to be listened to in silence," Balanchine wrote, surely thinking of the joys and sorrows of his own complicated life.
The costume change midway through Liebeslieder Walzer is a stroke of fantasy as stunning in its quieter way as the climactic flying lifts of The Four Temperaments. Balanchine revealed its meaning to Bernard Taper: "In the first act, it's the real people that are dancing. In the second act, it's their souls." But more than a few members of the ballet's earliest audiences, bored by its unending succession of "love-song waltzes," would slip out of the theater during the pause between acts. In an oft-told anecdote that may or may not be true, Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein were watching a performance together. "Look how many people are leaving, George," Kirstein moaned, to which Balanchine replied, "Ah, but look how many are staying!" Today, though New York City Ballet now performs Liebeslieder Walzer only infrequently, it is loved by connoisseurs for what Arlene Croce has called its "persistent note of melancholy and tragic remorse," and there are those, myself included, who regard it as their favorite Balanchine ballet of all.
That isn't a bad description of Liebeslieder Walzer, but reading it immediately after having seen the ballet is somewhat disheartening. To capture the smallest part of its mystery and complexity would have taken me at least a chapter, which I didn't have to spare. In any case, few things are more futile than trying to describe a Balanchine ballet in words, least of all this profound meditation on romantic love. All I really hoped to do was make the reader want to go see it, which you can do on Saturday and next Tuesday at the New York State Theater. (Go here for details.)
The program also included Symphony in C, about which I last had occasion to write in a piece about a performance by American Ballet Theatre that I saw only a few short weeks after 9/11:
Then, too, there was George Balanchine's Symphony in C, which received its long-overdue ABT debut. Few other modern artists working in any medium have had Balanchine's uncanny ability to transport the attentive viewer into a better-ordered universe of romance and grace–and humor. So it was with Symphony in C. As the curtain rose for the ten thousandth time on that familiar stageful of women in white tutus poised before a blue backdrop, one felt the world snap back to normal again–just what all the pundits had been assuring us would never happen. It put me in mind of a poem by Edwin Muir, "Reading in Wartime," that makes the case for sonnets about skylarks: "Boswell's turbulent friend/And his deafening verbal strife,/Ivan Ilyich's death/Tell me more about life,/The meaning and the end/Of our familiar breath,/Both being personal,/Than all the carnage can,/Retrieve the shape of man,/Lost and anonymous."
I guess that isn't dance criticism, but I like it anyway, if only because it brings to mind an evening that meant a great deal to me at the time.
• Now playing on iTunes: Ernie Wilkins' "The Jazz Connoisseur," recorded in 1961 by Harry James and most recently available as part of Jazz Masters: Harry James, a Verve anthology of James' MGM recordings. I was introduced to this up-tempo swinger by a musician friend who several years ago underwent a life-threatening operation that left him partly paralyzed. He later told me that listening to "The Jazz Connoisseur" as he lay in his hospital bed helped give him the courage to carry on. I can't claim to know exactly what he meant–I've never been that sick–but I do know a wonderful big-band performance when I hear one, and this definitely fills the bill.
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Here malice, rapine, accident conspire,
And now a rabble rages, now a fire;
Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay,
And here the fell attorney prowls for prey;
Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Samuel Johnson, "London"
From God of the Machine:
As of this moment, God of the Machine is being read in twenty-five time zones. Hello Madagascar! (In what Guinness has certified as a new world record, it is being misunderstood in twenty-four of them.) We celebrated our 1,500,000th unique visitor and 10,000,000th page view, and that's just this afternoon. (How do I know this? I counted, every one of them.) I'd love to write more, but my wine column's due for The Spectator, Car and Driver is simply insisting that I take this damn Lamborghini out for a test drive, my agent needs to discuss the movie rights to my New York Review of Books piece on Proust's influence on Balanchine, I'm already running late for my date with Uma Thurman, and Gisele Bundchen's holding on the other line. Gisele so hates to be kept waiting.
V. funny. In fact, that's the best "About Last Night" parody I've seen since Mr. TMFTML gave us the blunt end of the stick last September. Alas, Uma hasn't called back yet, but Maud awaits. See you by the swimming pool….
UPDATE: A reader writes: "Please remind God of the Machine not to forget the bespeckled bare-breasted groupies in cheerleader skirts camped outside on your block reading Samuel Johnson, just waiting for a glimpse of you taking out the garbage every morning."
That'll be the day.
First of all, it's nice to have Our Girl back!
Secondly, the spam count in the "About Last Night" mailbox is octupling, so let me remind you:
(1) I never open e-mail with a blank subject header.
(2) If I'm chewing through a lot of spam, I don't always open e-mail whose subject headers are so oblique or obscure as to make no obvious sense to me.
Help me out here–be clear.
Finally, don't be surprised if I fail to post anything tomorrow beyond an almanac entry and my regular Friday Wall Street Journal theater teaser. I'm feeling signs of incipient burnout, compounded by acute schedule overload. (The speech got written, though.)
Whenever. And thanks for stopping by. See you soon.
Apropos of God of the Machine's wicked parody of one of my more breathless contributions to "About Last Night" (scroll down), is there anything more frustrating than ransacking your failing memory for the source of a half-recalled quote? That's what I've been doing ever since I got back from lunch with Supermaud (who says hi). At last, the coin dropped, and I went to my shelf of art books, took down N. John Hall's Max Beerbohm Caricatures, turned to page 15, and hit the jackpot:
As Edmund Gosse told a fellow writer whom Max had just caricatured: "I feel it my duty to tell you that something has happened to you that sooner or later happens to us almost all. Max has got you. We don't like it and you won't like it, but you must pretend you do. You can console yourself at any rate with the thought that it will give uncommon pleasure to your friends."
What threw me off the track was that I wrongly remembered this letter as having been sent by Gosse to Henry James apropos of "The Mote in the Middle Distance," the James parody in Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland ("It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it"), which also contains eerily exact parodies of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells. I chased that hare in vain for a good ten minutes, though I did find this highly relevant footnote in Simon Nowell-Smith's The Legend of the Master: Henry James as Others Saw Him:
Gosse told Siegfried Sassoon that James had roamed round the room discussing, "with extraordinary vivacity and appreciation, not only the superlative intelligence of the book as a whole but 'The Mote in the Middle Distance' itself, which he had read in a self-scrutinizing bewilderment of wonder and admiration."
As you may have gathered, I love parody and caricature, and it's one of my medium-sized regrets that I have no gift for either (though I can do adequate impersonations of a few of my friends). Alas, I find it impossible to get inside another person's prose style. I once tried to write a parody of a Jeeves novel in the style of Bright Lights, Big City. That was actually a pretty good idea, conceptually speaking, but I stalled out halfway through the fourth sentence, so it went unwritten, and the only thing I can remember about it now is that the very first word was, of course, "you."
This incapacity is all the more vexing because I believe parody to be one of the most powerful and illuminating forms of criticism. Some of Kenneth Tynan's most brilliant drama reviews were parodies, including his double-edged skewering of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun, which he rewrote in the style of Our Town:
Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Nothin' much happened. Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those faraway old stars are still doing their old cosmic criss-cross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk….
I wouldn't kill to be able to do that, but I might be willing to maim.
Wednesday was a very, very long day. I wouldn't have skipped a moment of it, not for anything in the world.
– I woke up at five-thirty to find my as-yet-unwritten Wall Street Journal review of Jumpers, A Raisin in the Sun, and Bombay Dreams rattling around in my head. It seemed pointless to try and go back to sleep, so I climbed down from the loft, booted up my iBook, and started writing. The piece was slow going–Jumpers isn't easy to sum up in four paragraphs, which was all I could spare–but I finally got it written.
– Midway through the first draft, I took a break and picked up my copy of Fairfield Porter's Broadway from my framer. It turned out that the upper right edge of the print had been slightly damaged in transit, which saddened me. But once I carted it home and hung it over the mantelpiece, I found that the flaw didn't bother me all that much, especially since the frame is so handsome–the photo the dealer sent didn't do it justice. Every time I walk into the living room, it's as if I see A Terry Teachout Reader writ large on the wall. I wonder how long it'll take before the association fades and I start to see Broadway solely as a work of art in its own right rather than a beautiful symbol of the pride I feel in my new book. Maybe never–and that'll be all right, too. In any case, I'm hopelessly in love with the latest addition to the Teachout Museum. For the moment, my other prints have receded into the background, and I now find myself staring at Broadway for minutes at a time, drinking it in.
– With Broadway safely hung, I sent off my Journal review, read and corrected the proofs of my Commentary essay, and checked in with the editor of my Washington Post column, which runs in Sunday's paper. (He had a few last-minute suggestions, all of which I gladly took.) Then I ran downstairs, hailed a cab, and hurtled across Central Park to watch Maria Schneider
and Bob Brookmeyer
rehearse tonight's concert at the Kaye Playhouse (go here for details). I can't be there–Thursday is the only night I can see New York City Ballet dance George Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer
this season, and it could easily be several years before they do it again–so I talked my way into the sound check instead. I'd never before had the privilege of watching Brookmeyer rehearse his music with a big band, and it was fascinating to watch him put Schneider's players through their paces on Celebration, the four-movement suite they'll be performing tonight.
– Back home again to return phone calls, check my accumulated e-mail, and read another half-chapter of W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson. (Incidentally, Erin O'Connor linked to what I wrote yesterday about the experience of revisiting one of my favorite biographies. Take a look–I like what she had to say.)
– Dinner with an out-of-town friend, then down to the Village Vanguard to hear Jim Hall's eleven o'clock set. Hall is my favorite living jazz musician, and I've never heard him play guitar other than wonderfully well, but this performance was memorable even by his own rarefied standards. Maybe it was because he'll be recording live on Friday and Saturday, or because Lewis Nash, the drummer, was in awesome form–I would have sworn he was channeling Shelly Manne. Whatever the reason, I've never heard Hall, Nash, or Scott Colley play better. "That's exactly how I'd want to play all those instruments, if I could play any of them," a singer friend told me afterward. What she said.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the set was that nobody played above a mezzo-forte all evening long. Even under the best of circumstances, the Vanguard can be an exasperatingly noisy place, but I didn't hear a single stray peep out of the enthralled crowd. It was a night of whispered confidences and sweet surprises. I'm going back on Saturday, and I'll be taking Sarah, who's in town for the week. She's in for a treat–to put it mildly.
Now that I'm home at last, I'm starting to feel the cumulative effects of the long day. I wish I could sleep in, but I have to haul myself out of bed in the morning and finish writing a speech before I head downtown to lunch with Supermaud. I suppose this whole week has been too much of a great many good things–but is that really possible? I'm not so sure.
I can't remember the last time it occurred to me to quote William Saroyan (he isn't exactly a favorite of mine), but a half-remembered line of his popped into my mind as I climbed the stairs of the Vanguard an hour or so ago: "In the time of your life, live–so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it." And that's what I did on Wednesday: I lived.
UPDATE: This inverted axiom just occurred to me: The unlived life is not worth examining.


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For a city as big as London it is hard to stay slow, relaxed and bike-friendly. Activists praise very well organised facilities of Amsterdam and Copenhagen, but it's usually omitted that the population of those two cities combined makes only 15% of the number of Londoners. So yes, maybe you couldn't expect that much in the given circumstances. Those who think otherwise still were witnessing that it was getting a bit better every single year. The death toll for cyclists has been continually decreasing: 21 lethal accidents in 2005, 19 in 2006, 15 in 2007 and 2008, then 13 in 2009, then only 10 in 2010. One too many, but the tendency was optimistic, especially considering that every year more and more people were getting involved as cycling gained its former popularity back.
As a mayor of London, Boris Johnson started with very inspiring pledges. Commuting by bike himself, he established the bike hire scheme (hence the unofficial but widely used name, BorisBikes), backed campaigns encouraging people to get on two wheels and introduced dedicated bike lanes, so called "cycle superhighways". Maybe it wasn't that bad after all.
So it went like that. Until 2011:
It's only November now, it's not snowing or even raining much, and yet there are already 15 cyclists killed on the streets by motorised vehicles - a regrettable record! Tensions were also risen by the contradictory TfL decisions over the redesign of several key junctions and "road bottlenecks", Blackfriars bridge to name. More of that, the city authorities (and "the cycling enthusiast" mayor himself) kept saying "No" to any suggestions, simply declining the existence of the problem.
In last three weeks, two people got killed on the same junction, and even more, on the very much celebrated "cycle superhighway", which suddenly turned out to be nothing more than a stripe of blue paint offering false feeling of protection.
In brief, that's how a humble flashride planned by two bloggers became an enormous "Tour du Danger". Today hundreds of cyclists rode through 10 of the most dangerous junctions in Central London and around in attempt to raise attention.
If you managed to forget about the reasons of the event, it was pleasant and smooth. It was different from the SkyRide experience as this time I was the one being marshalled having enough time to ring the bell and raise hand to greet cheering bystanders. Many thanks to today's marshals blocking the roads for us and enduring the yelling motorists' aggression (poor lads, today they reached their undoubtedly urgent Saturday destinations 5 or even 10 minutes later).
I only have videos of minutes before start and finish, and they don't provide the full idea of the event scale. More informative videos are easy to find though (search for #tourdudanger hashtags):
Some pictures (peek into the full Flickr set if interested):
Now a few tips to stay safe. They're trivial and most likely you already know them, but I'm still typing as it should also help me remember these points better myself:
- Be careful on left turns - it's surprising but most accidents happen on left turns rather than on more complex right ones requiring your to negotiate through lanes. If you're turning together with a large vehicle as a bus or a lorry, it can get too close to pavement with its long body, hitting you eventually. And if you're not taking a turn moving forward through a junction, it's even more dangerous as you need to make absolutely sure nobody is going to take that turn from the lane right to you. Hence always try to stay behind (not even in front of, when possible, for it wasn't enough for some victims) the larger vehicles when passing junctions.
- Ladies, take extra care - most of the victims are females, e.g. 10 out of 13 in 2009. I don't know why, but it is a very disturbing fact considering that there are not so many women cycling at all. So if you're a woman, please think what in your road behaviour could you improve. If you're male, however, it's worth thinking as well.
- Consider wearing a helmet - I can understand "Dutch-style" activists who are against wearing lycra and helmets as it turns casual cycling into something you need to be prepared for with a special set of clothes, shoes and stuff, making actually taking a bus a lesser hassle. As to me, lycra is too much indeed, and certainly helmet won't help you if you get run over. Still, if you're just knocked off your bike, it might help you get away with that. Incidents like that also happen. And fasten your chinstrap - many people have them dangling way below their chins rendering their helmets almost useless.
Another thing to remember is that we're having troubles also because of more people cycling, more than ever in last years. I can see that even with my short experience of living in London, there are more and more people on the roads. So don't be afraid and join us. It's fun.
P.S. I was recording the route, see it here. It's not very accurate near the Hyde park - my phone lost the signal there for some reason, so it just shows a straight way through Green park - but apart from that it's fine.
Update: You can see me twice (blue helmet, black beard) in BBC report starting from 31s and 59s.
Update: More decent and numerous photos from another participant (found myself there as well).
Update: Report from one of organisers with more links to media coverage.


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Things are seriously all over the place. The young man playing Jake has had a family crisis come up so has had to drop out of the film again. Luckily, he gave me contact information for another actor. I'm going to be taking a look at him today and see what I think. I also have a Kristine becoming a possibility. Here's the thing, I've become a bit nostalgic the past couple days. Mainly in seeing where my film started and seeing what it's slowly becoming. Here's a brief history on Invisible Diary of a Disabled Man:
When I was 11 or 12 the Terri Schiavo case was kind of a big deal. I remembered hearing about a woman in the persistent vegetative state and wondered to myself how terrifying that must be to still be conscious of the world around you but not be able to tell anyone anything.
When I was 15, Mrs. Schiavo passed away and I was still rolling around in my head how utterly terrifying it would be. I was making monster movies with my friends and stop motion films by myself at the time so never really put much thought into a movie or anything about this.
When I was 18, I read a book about making short films. I had made short films all of my life but nothing worth any note. However, it then occurred to me to write a short script about the human vegetative idea that I'd been rolling around in my head.
When I was 19, I was in technical college trying to get a degree for something to fall back on. However, I was continuing to try and get the film together. Any film, really. I shot a few things (Zedward) but nothing that was ever finished because I also had a job and my friends had other things to do than sit around making a stupid zombie movie.
When I was 20, I had a lot going on in my life (becoming a father, going to college, working) and seriously kinda gave up on shooting Invisible Diary. I wrote a few short films but a lot of garbage in my life prevented me from really pushing forward with anything.
When I was 21, my life felt like it was in ruins so I turned to religion. I had been...agnostic or atheist for a long time and just felt like I was digging a deeper and deeper grave for myself. I rolled around in this circle for a while and shot video projects for them. However, I felt really depressed hanging out with these people. I didn't feel like myself around them and felt like a fake. I kept the belief I had gained there but dropped everything else (remember in the first post, I'm spiritual but not at all religious?).
Anyway, here I am 23 (24 next Saturday) and I'm finally getting this film together. A film that I never felt super serious about has easily become a film I am very passionate about. It's funny how things work that way. The current draft of Invisible Diary is not the version I wrote when I was 18. I've edited the script as I've grown older and feel that certain parts of me have matured. The overall story is still the same but I feel like Jake has changed. He's still the punk ass kid I wrote about when I was 18 but he's grown a bit with me.
If this film turns out to totally suck, then I wasn't meant to be a director and I apologize to all my actors in advance. However, if my film turns out to be something truly great, something that transcends time, then I've done my job. However, Kurosawa once said, "Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good." In short, I'll probably never be satisfied with my films. I'm always going to be a junkie looking for his next fix. If anyone ever wants to quote me in the future, you're more than welcome to use that.
At the end of a day, no matter how terrible or how great, the only thing that truly matters is...
I'm Still In.
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It's six o'clock in the evening and it's still snowing. Show you my garden:
Wake up to snow that has fallen in the night. It's a real struggle this morning to leave my warm bed and go to the gym. You may think that I always bounce to the gym in a spirit of excitement, but when it's zero degrees and snowing I really don't want to go.
Eventually I dress and order an Uber and once I'm there I do all my weights and my physiotherapy exercises. Then walk to the off licence to purchase The Sunday Times; sparkling water; milk and porridge.
Make a toasted sandwich for lunch and eat it whilst reading the Style. Meditate but can't sleep.
At 3.30pm, give up trying to sleep, make a coffee and switch computer on. Write the first 2018 words of The Paedo Files. Am so pleased with self for starting it. It feels wonderful to begin a new writing project. Want to make a good start before going to Abroad to see brother, which is in ten days' time now.
Have just cut up and eaten an orange. I'm going to post this and then watch the programme about Scotland's new polar bear cub at seven o'clock. At eight o'clock it's the first episode of the new series of The Durrells. Excited!
Am listening to Lamb's album Between Darkness And Wonder and drinking lemon squash.
The attached photo is today's gym outfit.
Happy Sunday everyone!
*2003. Song by Lamb from the 2003 album Between Darkness And Wonder.


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I knew that Philip was going to be busy but we wanted to be with him and the teens.
Philip and I used to go to this retreat center when we were teens, before we started dating.
We were in the same youth group. :)
I have so many fun memories there with my friends and life changing, tear-filled weekends.
I went as a youth and then as a youth leader and now as the youth pastor's wife.
And my first retreat with my kids.
I stayed in the director's cabin instead of with the youth.
We had our own room and our own bathroom. :)
We went to the evening session. Both the kids were exhausted but were troopers.
We watched the cabin skits and laughed hard.
Anna thought Daddy was so funny acting up there with the guys. He was.
Worship time started. Anna stood beside teenage girls and was singing her heart out.
I held Oliver and was worshiping, too.
Philip started leading one of my favorite songs.
There is something about singing love songs to my God. It's one of my favorite things.
The song had barely started and Anna turned and told me she needed a drink. Now. She was dying of thirst.
My attempts to have her wait made her eyes well up with quiet tears.
Couldn't she see I was singing to the Lord?
Should I demand patience of her? To wait until my favorite song is at least over?
Isn't this what the Lord wants me to be doing? Singing to Him?
And then I looked down at her again. Her eyes were full of tears. She was thirsty.
And I heard Him whispering to my heart.
Give her a drink.
Tell her you love her.
Teach them about Me.
You are serving Me when you serve your kids.
We walked out of the room and they drank their hearts out.
And it hit me. Again. I am where He wants me to be. I am worshiping Him in the small moments of being a mommy to my kids.
We went back into the session until the message. It was time for bed.
The three of us left all of the youth, said goodnight to Daddy and walked back to our cabin in the dark, in the snow.
We talked about how funny Daddy was.
We got pajamas on, prayed together and, exhausted, they were asleep within minutes.
'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.' Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'
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Why bother flying at all?
It was reported recently that airlines across the world are planning an even smaller standard for carry on luggage. The International Air Transportation Association (IATA) claim this move will ensure that everyone can fit their carry on luggage into the overhead bins. This claim is pretty ridiculous, as the main reasons the overhead bins are crammed are charging for checked bags and cutting the size of overhead bins. Additionally, the seats that are used on planes are usually not the ones called for by the original manufacturer, and those seats have more room underneath. The airlines prefer to use smaller seats so they can jam them closer together and herd more passengers on per flight.
This latest move proves that every day, the airlines care less and less about their customers. Especially on long flights, where people will typically stay longer and need to bring more clothes with them. What really defies logic, however, is that they keep making policies that typically will affect their most frequent customer, the business traveler. In this modern age, many travelers are juggling several electronic devices to get their work done, and they have to pack all that with them. They also need to carry professional clothes that they don't want to cram into a tiny overnight bag so things don't get wrinkled. With so many options for virtual meetings and the continued push by airlines to make things harder on travelers, I am surprised there is much business travel at all.
This will no doubt harm the tourist flights as well. A family of four packing for a week long vacation can take up a lot of room. In addition to paying extra for luggage they need for their trip, the amount of things they can bring on board to keep their kids from annoying other passengers just got smaller. With gas prices lower than they have been in 6 summers, I would bet more families are going to load up the car for a road trip than have in many travel seasons.
Bottom line, it seems that the airlines ultimate goal is to push passengers so hard that they just quit flying altogether. Obviously that is not their intent, but their nearly total lack of customer consideration is going to drive them there. If someone could come along like Jeff Bezos from Amazon, who invested his own money for five years to keep the company afloat until profits began to turn, they would revolutionize air travel. Bezos built his company on the old (but seldom followed) idea that the customer is the company's paycheck, and they should be treated in such a way that they will want to come back. Airlines assume people will always need airplanes. However, as seen with the shake up of the US Postal Service, technology can steal your whole customer base and leave you scrambling to survive. The airline industry is heading that way soon unless some players begin to realize their business is run by customers, not stockholders.


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14 Jan 2019
What's the best way to get more people to save for retirement on the job? In 2019, a large national experiment will take shape that tests two very different approaches.
Some large states--including California and Illinois--will launch state-sponsored programs that mandate participation by employers. Meanwhile, Congress likely will approve a new type of 401(k) aimed at small employers that relies on voluntary employer participation.


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Daintree Valley Haven
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Beautiful 30 acre property in the lovely Daintree River valley with three very private self-contained, air-conditioned B&B bungalows overlooking a fresh-water lagoon and rainforest.
Tropical fruit trees, colourful gardens, walking/jogging trails, home to hundreds of birds and butterflies - a bird- and nature-lover's Paradise, honeymooners' haven or the perfect hideaway for a relaxing interlude.
Each bungalow has either a King/Twin or Queen bed plus convertable sofa for one extra adult - please request your preference when booking. All have lagoon and rainforest views from their verandahs and each accommodates a maximum of 3 adults.
There is an ensuite bathroom with large shower, kitchenettes have a microwave, cooktop, fridge and all cooking utensils, there is a timber dining setting, they are air-conditioned and insect-screened and there is a ceiling fan.
The Shed is an historic old timber building where you will find a gas barbeque and table, jacuzzi spa, dart-board and a selection of books and games. If you need to keep in touch free wifi is available in The Shed.
The rate includes a daily breakfast basket delivered to your bungalow the previous afternoon of tropical fruits, juice, cereals, home-made jam and yoghurt, locally-grown freshly-ground coffee and Daintree tea. Enjoy 'breakfast with the birds' at your leisure on your verandah.
For other meals guests may choose to bring their own supplies - a small menu of self-cook meals, wine, beer and soft drinks is available, and there are several restaurants in Daintree Village 8km.
Daintree Valley Haven is at the end of a winding trail through the stunning Stewart Creek Valley, 8km beyond Daintree Village.
There is very little public transport throughout the Daintree region and guests must have their own transport to reach Daintree Valley Haven. Stewart Creek Road is not sealed but is well-maintained by the local council and suitable for normal cars.
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Daintree River crocodile- and wildlife-watching cruises
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As gamers progressed through the original Resident Evil, it became increasingly apparent that there was no limit to the types of creatures Umbrella could mutate with the T-Virus. The Gamecube remake only worsened matters by adding increasingly bizarre and terrifying monstrosities.
Many people hate snakes. More people still loathe poisonous cobras. But gigantic, poisonous, T-Virus infected cobras? Where the hell is that exit?
Yawn lives in the attic of the Spencer Mansion. It would be simple enough to leave this snake and his man-sized jaws to his own devices, but Yawn also guards a vital puzzle piece. Therefore, gamers have to empty their shotguns and cross their fingers they don't run out and catch an oversized fang to the chest.
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence only worsens matters further. In this remake, Yawn survives the fight, grows a set of hardened scales, and takes up residence in the space formerly occupied by Plant 42. Just one more nasty surprise as gamers struggle to make their way out of the world's worst haunted house.


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James Turrell Amarna
Moorilla Daily
Turrell harnesses the numinous potential of light and space; kind of like what God would do if He decided to build a gazebo. We see Amarna as an elevation of the museum's hitherto subterranean ponderings of the human condition. If that sounds vague, that's because Turrell's art must be seen to be believed; or, perhaps, not seen, but believed nonetheless.
Amarna operates outside Mona's opening hours, at sunrise and sunset. No reservations will be taken - just turn up and let Turrell's perceptual spectacular unfold before your eyes. As nothing else will be open onsite, BYO thermals, snacks and bonhomie.
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Dan Keating Completes Bantry Bay Run!
WFL would like to congratulate Dan Keating on completing the 2016 Bay Run Half Marathon! The event took place on Sunday 15th May starting in Glengarriff and finishing in Bantry. All proceeds were in aid of the Bantry Hospice. Congratulations to all who took part and supported the event.


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Up to 1 million MP3 files could be removed as early as this weekend following a court hearing in the US...
NAPSTER have offered to filter up to one million MP3 files of copyrighted songs from their service in an attempt to avoid being shut-down by a US appeal court.
Napster representatives were at the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco yesterday (March 2) before US District Court Judge Marilyn Patel, who is formulating a revised injunction against the controversial file sharing network.
According to US press reports, Napster's lawyer David Boies revealed plans whereby Napster would screen its service for copyrighted file names, provided by record companies, from appearing when users search for songs.
According to BBC news, Boies said: "We are inserting a step between the uplink and the viewing of the index that will block out specific file names. The problem is that this will adversely affect performance of the system."
Boies said that the technology could be implemented within a week.
Speaking in a statement following the case, Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said: "We are grateful for the Court's diligent efforts to fashion an appropriate injunction and look forward to an order which makes clear that the infringing part of Napster's business – taking music which isn't theirs and giving it away – must come to an end.
"Given the overwhelming nature of this Court's and the Ninth Circuit's earlier conclusions that Napster violates copyright laws, we're confident that ultimately this will pave the way for a legitimate online music market to take hold and flourish."
Napster CEO Hank Barry said he continues to "(fight) to preserve the Napster community and the Napster file sharing experience".
He continued: "We proposed a workable injunction that follows the 9th Circuit ruling and keeps the Napster community together while we are working to settle this case and transition to our new membership-based service. While we await the judges modified injunction and while we continue to pursue our legal case, we will begin later this weekend to block the transfer of file names we have previously received from copyright holders, consistent with the 9th Circuit's ruling.
"We are working hard and fast to implement our new service. Napster… has been working for months to put in place a new membership-based service that has a solid business model and secure technology. We will continue to press forward in our effort to reach agreement with the other major recording companies.
"We must come up with a solution that works for consumers and pays artists. Let us never lose sight that the members of the Napster community are the worlds most passionate music fans and the industry's best customers."
The injunction relates to a copyright infringement case brought in 1999 by the major record labels under the banner of the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA). They claim that Napster are infringing on their copyright by allowing users to download MP3 files for free. An injunction was served last July, but last month an appeal court ruled the injunction should be narrowed.
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Mathias Nelson
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Mathias Nelson (b. 1984) is an American author living in Wisconsin.
[edit] Biography
Early life and Education
Due to an unknown scalp condition during childhood, Mathias was marked with dents and bald spots that taught him strong empathy for other people with problems, which later became beneficial to his writing. "I was terrified that the kids would find out that I had bald spots because they would undoubtedly heckle me for the rest of my life (so one assumes when young). I was unaware of hair gels or sprays that would help me to part my hair and cover the spots, so I used to sleep in certain positions at night to mold my hair, to press it into place. The wind was my enemy. The rain. I wouldn't go swimming. Kids would try to mess up my hair because they could tell I had tried to shape it, and I'd have to fight them off for what would normally be a silly, unimportant thing. I remember one boy that was relentless, like his whole day revolved around fucking with my hair. I had to resort to choking him in the school bathroom, with a cast that I had around my forearm." This, among other things, began his reclusive lifestyle.
Mathias Nelson started writing in High School, due to general apathy for what was being taught. "I glanced at the teacher as he read it [my story] at his desk. By the time he was done, hunched forward with his head in his hand and his mouth open like some idiot, he scowled and gave me this piercing, awestruck look, and it freaked me the hell out for a moment. I quickly looked away, but couldn't get the image out of my head. That's when I knew, when he looked at me like that, that something was happening."
He taught himself the basic mechanics of grammar, and his writing is fueled with intuition and passion, rather than form.
Literary career
Mathias Nelson self published his first chapbook, They May Try to Kill Me for This. It was a limited edition of around 70 copies.
His first full-length collection of poetry, Dip My Pacifier in Whiskey, was published by NYQ Books.
He's had poetry/stories in noteworthy magazines, such as The Sun, Rattle, and The New York Quarterly.
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Tony O'Neill acknowledged Mathias's work early on, "Mathias Nelson's poetry makes me excited about the US poetry scene again. This is the real deal, ladies and gentlemen, the kind of poems that make you forget that the whole artform is dying on its feet, makes you think that maybe - just maybe - that this Mathias guy with his beautiful, fucked up, dazzling poems could be part of something that will shake the whole scene to its foundations."
[edit] Selected Works
- "The People I Work With Don't Talk About Trump", The Sun
- "Cazzo!", B O D Y
- "Dip My Pacifier in Whiskey", Rattle
[edit] Further Reading
"They may try to kill me for this" reviewed by Christeene Fraser "Dip My Pacifier in Whiskey" reviewed by Christopher Crawford


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Well it took several late nights, a few extra glasses of whiskey, and more than one setback along the way, but I did it! I completed the edits to my "Passion Relapse" manuscript and sent it to the publisher. Now, it's back to my least favorite part of the process, which is waiting for a response/rejection.
To date, I've endured mostly rejections and/or frustrating delays for other books, namely "Embers of Eros." I'm really hoping that this response from "Passion Relapse" is a sign. The publisher I'm working with has been a lot more responsive than others. They've actually taken the time to discuss revisions with me rather than just rejecting it outright. To me, that shows they're serious to some degree.
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Sites in six states were selected from among 25 proposals from 24 states, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Dec. 30.
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CLEVELAND, OH – June 28, 2016 – Azim Nakhooda, a founding partner and principal of Cedar Brook Group, one of the region's largest independent wealth management firms, was elected to serve as a board member of the national Arthritis Association. A strong supporter of the Arthritis Association, Mr. Nakhooda has served on the board of the organization's Great Lakes Region since 2015.
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One of the most powerful ways to motivate a workforce is by enabling them to help others. At Mitchell, our "Ignite" program does just that by giving teams of employees money and time off to do random acts of kindness in our community.
It kicks off each January with a day of giving and lives throughout the year as employees receive time off to volunteer in the communities where we have offices.
Since it began in 2010, we've made cash and in-kind donations to help dozens of local nonprofits and individuals in need, ranging from homeless shelters, veterans service programs, elementary schools and organizations working with abused and neglected children and victims of domestic violence.
In 2016, the entire agency focused on supporting organizations that champion women and serve women's needs as a way to underscore our heritage as a women-owned/led company.
The company broke into teams, gave themselves very entertaining names, and decided where our time and resources would be the most beneficial. After deciding which organizations to support, teams like the Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies, Hawt Pink Flames and the Fairy Godparents set off to make a difference.
We are incredibly proud of the number of nonprofits and worthy causes we were able to support between our Fayetteville, New York and Chicago offices, including: Boys & Girls Club, Loving Choices, Glass Slipper Project, Girls on the Run, Peace at Home Family Shelter, Saving Grace, EOA Children's House, Dress for Success, God's Love We Deliver and Brookyln's Women Shelter.
After spending the afternoon working in kitchens, sorting clothing, changing light bulbs and most importantly, getting to understand the needs of our communities, we came back together as an entire agency to talk about our day. You never know what will resonate with someone during an experience like this, and it is so wonderful to hear the exact ways we as volunteers have been touched.
Ignite has been a powerful program for us and given us a far greater return than we could have imagined: employees develop deeper relationships by sharing the giving experience with each other; they see a greater connection between company values and their own; and they grow as individuals through understanding challenges that are facing their community in a real and immediate way.
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We'd like to send an extra special thank you to the following local businesses who made donations to help our efforts go even further.
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October 26, 2018
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The PMIGLC's theme this year highlights the need to harness the power of innovation, creativity and leadership to flourish in our rapidly changing times. The "Project Management Innovation, Creativity and Leadership" theme centers on the Great Lakes Chapter providing a user experience that stimulates both project managers and business analysts to learn new things and adapt to rapidly changing environments. Innovation, creativity and leadership are the levers to balance the sheer speed of change in our professional environments.
Professional Development Day: Organizational Structure: The Rock On Which Agility Is Built
Does it seem like you are fighting an uphill battle or have plateaued in your agile journey to become more responsive and adaptive to change? Do you have the right organizational structure in place to support the behaviors you want?
Agile is not an "IT thing" - it has much more to do with how your organization is structured into teams. Organizations generally focus on behaviors, policies, and tools to help them gain agility but don't change their environment to support agility.
As organizations grow and look for ways to scale they need to focus on creating an organizational structure that will nurture agility and enable continuous improvement. This talk focuses on organizational structure that will cultivate and sustain agility.
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Speaker: Chad Beier
Chad Beier, Whiteboard Consulting LLC, works with all levels of the organization to optimize your business to respond to change. He is passionate about moving organizations and people closer to agility.
His first experience with "agile", Scrum specifically, was in 2005. He was part of a global transformation team responsible for software customizations driven by a global consolidation of accounting software. The team ran into typical implementation challenges and organizational impediments.
Around 2012, Chad's passion for lean, agile, and continuous improvement grew. He left his traditional business analyst and project manager roles behind and evolved into an internal change agent kick starting an agile transformation. Now in an advising role as an external change agent across many organizations, He promote organizational agility.
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Ryan HooverPro@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Super cool. I'm in the process of decorating my newish condo and would love to use this to create custom wall art. @davitmasia, do you have a trial version of the app available?
@rrhoover Yep, there are some Demo versions you can test to see if work on your machine and for your needs ;) .
Nina Cvijovic@nina_cvijovic · UX Design & Content @ Etools
@davitmasia @rrhoover This is an awesome product! I love the idea of using it to create custom wall art! It will look great when it's framed and hanged on the wall. I'm also definitively going to try it out for some of my art projects. Davit thanks for the great product and Ryan thanks for the idea!
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@designxtek ME TOO! I built this game Orb: https://joeblau.com/orb/ and i did all my pixel work by hand.
This is so cool @davitmasia! What made you want to build this?
@amrith Well, this started as a small 1Bit conversion tool for a 3D project using 1Bit textures with some effects. Then i was updating for fun and added colors and palettes and saw that worked i 8-Bit much better than i thought. Also adding all kind of features received from my followers on twitter like Batch procesing or video exporter. After been sold on an assets packs bundle and got the sales increased a lot and see the people interest i started to work full time on it to release in 2018 the standalone version for Win/Mac/linux. And here we are, the app is starting to be featured in various sites that obvious helps me to get some visibility, so thanks to Pete , who added my tool here :P .
@davitmasia Interesting! Thanks for sharing :)
PeteHunter@peet818 · Community / Social Media Manager
@davitmasia It was my pleasure hunting your product. Also, thanks for building this cool tool! Bienvenido a la comunidad de Product Hunt. 😀
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Great job !!
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Damn I have to buy this now !