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A few months ago, David Fincher was having a problem with his new movie. This in itself wasn't especially surprising, as Fincher's productions seem to attract crises of the cosmic-joke variety, be they midshoot injuries (Se7en), last-minute casting switcheroos (Panic Room), or on-the-fly script rewrites (Alien3). Despite the director's meticulous planning—he can spend years preparing for a film—something usually goes awry. He's used to it. "All movies are a trial," he says matter-of-factly. "It's war."
But this latest battle was unique. In a roundabout way, it had to do with ABBA.
For much of the past year, Fincher has been filming The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, his roughly $100 million adaptation of the macabre Swedish mystery that centers on a punk-hacker heroine with distinctive skin art. On one of the first nights of shooting, Fincher and his crew were in Sweden, filming a murder scene that takes place alongside a gloomy dock. But after a night's work, Fincher didn't have the shot he wanted, and the film's ultratight schedule meant he wouldn't be able to return for months.
When Fincher began planning the reshoot, he learned that the property had been sold to one of the guys in ABBA. Apparently, the new owner—either Benny or Björn, it's not really clear—wasn't thrilled at the prospect of having his evening stroll interrupted by a simulated drowning, and he refused to let the crew come back. Rather than find a new location or make do with the footage he had, Fincher decided to build his own Swedish dock.
Which is why, on a late-summer afternoon, we're standing on a Los Angeles soundstage, examining a replica of a rural-Scandinavia mise-en-scène: mossy rocks, foliage-fat trees, and—perched high above the docks, turtlenecking out of the woods—a squat, deceptively cozy faux cottage. Like most sets, it looks a bit weird naked. But once the lights hit and the smoke drifts in, we are suddenly in the land of stunted summers and moderately high suicide rates.
As usual, though, Fincher is not satisfied. He stands in the middle of the stage, arms folded, a coffee stirrer clenched in his teeth. He's 49 and trim, dressed in dark jeans, a gray polo, and sneakers, his mouth framed by a neat turf of mostly salty salt-and-pepper whiskers. He then starts pacing the set, calmly relaying what needs to be changed, tune-ups that range from the subtle to the barely perceptible: a branch that's sagging a few inches too low; a pair of lightbulbs with mismatched wattages; a patch of leaves that needs to be a little bit darker.
Most viewers won't notice the way the pebbles are scattered or how high the watermarks rise on the fake rocks. But Fincher will. Even in an industry full of control freaks, Fincher stands out as obsessive—a guy who will scrutinize and engineer every element in the frame until the images on the screen fit the ones in his head. Sometimes that means repainting a few leaves; sometimes it means doing 50, 60, even 100 takes of a single scene.
Dragon Tattoo is Fincher's ninth film in two decades. And while the movies often focus on dark-hearted subjects—madness (Se7en), paranoia (The Game), nihilism (Fight Club), greed (Panic Room), obsession (Zodiac), and betrayal (The Social Network)—they're always beautiful to look at. Each is packed with so much careful detail—physical, aural, spatial—while also being so clean and composed that he's earned his own fanboy-bestowed sobriquet: Fincheresque.
Like middle class and pornography, the term is know-it-when-you-see-it elastic, but it's usually pinned on a scene that's darkly lit, darkly themed, and eerily beautiful. Think of the flashlights sabering through a shut-in's filthy apartment in Se7en or the skyscrapers exploding and folding like glass accordions at the end of Fight Club.
Moments like these have established Fincher as one of Hollywood's few accessible auteurs, a guy who can make commercially viable movies without 2s in their title and who never sacrifices his artful cynicism for phony uplift. "There aren't a whole lot of directors trying to find the balance between commerce and—loath as I am to say it—art," Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker says. "Somehow, he manages to make something incredibly handcrafted and heartfelt on a big budget."
But Fincher's bleak yet captivating visions might also be why, despite all his success, he's never had an Inception-size box-office smash. Even a movie like Se7en, which pulled in $300 million worldwide, had the aura of a cult hit, if only because it felt weird to enthuse openly about a movie in which a pregnant woman's decapitated head is stuffed into a box. "My whole career has been pervy books, pervy scripts," Fincher says, only half kidding. "It wasn't so much about finding a niche. It just didn't seem to me like there was any need to be doing more of what everyone else was doing." It's not that Fincher's films aren't beloved—they are—it's just that sometimes it take a while for audiences to come around to them. It's as if Fincher lives in the near future, releasing movies a year or two before the world is ready for them.
Fincher's first feature. It started filming without a final script and was ultimately recut by the studio.
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
Fincher refused to soften the infamous ending. Brutal then, today it wouldn't be out of place on CSI.
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
Though it scared off theatergoers, the bruising anti-consumerism tale became a DVD smash.
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
Fincher used a 3-D-modeling tool to choreograph every sequence of his taut home-invasion thriller.
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
The newsroom culture in the gritty film was inspired partly by Fincher's father, a journalist.
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
The Facebook drama took in nearly $100 million domestically and won Fincher a second Oscar nomination.
Photo: Everett Collection; Anders Linden; Baldur Bragason
Fincher began developing his CG-intensive fable almost seven years before its release.
Photo: Everett Collection
Photo: Everett Collection
It wasn't until The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008 and The Social Network in 2010 that Fincher made what could truly be called mass-market films. While neither was exactly upbeat—Benjamin Button is the story of a man aging in reverse, and The Social Network's IPOs-before-bros maneuverings and legal takedowns were as brutal as anything in Fight Club—they were audience-pleasing efforts, and both earned Fincher Oscar nominations for best director.
Now, with Dragon Tattoo, Fincher is going further, plugging into a presold, globally recognizable mega-property. Stieg Larsson's densely written (in every sense of the word) yet hard-to-put-down thriller follows a disgraced journalist (played by Daniel Craig) and an outcast hacker (The Social Network's Rooney Mara) as they team up to investigate a 40-year-old missing-persons case. Before it's over, they'll have discovered a warped fiefdom of mass murder and hate-sex and you'll have discovered that your mom has been reading some really weird shit lately.
In many ways, Dragon Tattoo is the biggest movie of Fincher's career. It's the first time since his debut—Alien3—that he has committed himself to a fanatically awaited pop-culture property; Larsson's novels are easily the most feverishly devoured books since the Twilight series. If the movie works, Fincher could very well be looking at his first franchise, not to mention a third Oscar nomination. (Sony optioned Craig and Mara for the second and third installments, though Fincher hasn't been announced yet as their director.) Most important, the movie could finally nudge Fincher into the realm of Spielberg and Scorsese—bankable filmmakers who can define and mine the zeitgeist simultaneously and who get to do whatever they want. And for Fincher, getting to do whatever he wants is worth going to war for.
I meet Fincher at a very strange time in his life, in part because he's allowing me to meet him at all. Even as Se7en and The Game became hits in the mid- to late '90s—right around the time when directors like Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson were becoming auteur superstars—Fincher kept a determinedly low profile. "I don't enjoy doing interviews, because I don't like being part of the noise," he tells me one afternoon as we drive between Dragon Tattoo's LA sets. "I just don't want to be grist for the mill."
In person, Fincher is casually friendly. He says "dude" and "peace" more than you'd expect, and says "fuck" about as often as you'd expect, considering he's trying to get a massively expensive tent-pole movie into theaters by Christmas. And, like his films, Fincher is unexpectedly, almost disruptively funny; at one point, while scouting a new location in LA, he dryly jokes that private trailers will be needed for the actors, because of Craig's chronic masturbation habit. (Craig, for his part, calls the director "very witty. It's a valve that needs letting off, especially when you're doing scenes about anal rape.")
As a result of Fincher's low visibility—and perhaps this was partly intended—he has maintained a sort of scary-wunderkind mystique. The few known facts about the director make him seem such an unbelievable prodigy that even today they are like the stuff of fan fiction: that he lived down the street from George Lucas. Or that he skipped college and found a job at Industrial Light & Magic, working on movies like Return of the Jedi. Or that, by his early twenties, he was already overseeing video shoots with major-label budgets and giant crews.
But it all happened. And when you look at how Fincher grew up—in Marin County, California, in the early '70s—suddenly it's hard to imagine it not happening. By then, so many directors had set up shop in the San Francisco area—Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Philip Kaufman (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Michael Ritchie (The Candidate)—that filmmaking seemed like a plausible, even admirable career path. "None of the kids in my neighborhood wanted to be doctors or lawyers," he says. "They all wanted to be moviemakers."
Fincher's father was an author and a bureau chief for Life magazine; his mother was a mental-health nurse who worked in a methadone clinic. At home, they'd discuss their work with Fincher. "My parents didn't keep much from me," he says. "They were like, 'Here's the world you're going out into.'"
They also encouraged their son to follow his singular, precociously realized goal: to make movies. In the third grade, Fincher was already taking an elementary-school film class; a few years later, he was directing super-8 movies with his friends. Figuring film school would be a waste of time, he worked his way into a job at ILM in 1982, when he was 20. "He knew what he wanted," remembers Terry Chostner, an ILM vet who was on staff with Fincher. "He kept telling people he was going to be a director. And this from a kid who wasn't even drinking age."
Fincher made his transition to directing by moving to LA to work in the nascent (and largely looked-down-upon) music-video industry. One of his earliest efforts was Rick Springfield's "Bop 'Til You Drop," a Mad Max-cribbing, dystopic-Jazzercise fantasy that involved slave labor, alien overlords, and laser beams. Though the clip's ominous story line was completely incongruous with the song's pro-bop message, the video established many of the hallmarks of Fincher's early director-for-hire career: light-bathed visuals, budget-straining production values, and a linear if only quasi-logical narrative.
Fincher didn't have much love for music videos, and he especially loathed doing commercials (and still does, though sometimes he will make one)—"they're awful," he says, "and they involve all sorts of bizarre, bureaucratic checks and balances"—but each assignment got him one step closer to making movies, and the money was spectacular.
After cofounding the famed production company Propaganda Films (which went on to produce works by directors from Michael Bay to Spike Jonze), Fincher directed dozens of clips throughout the '80s and early '90s, each increasingly daring and expensive: Madonna's "Express Yourself," a sweat-glistened, rain-soaked homage to Fritz Lang's Metropolis; Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun," a disturbing child-abuse tale with a police-procedural story line; and Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence," a crisp black-and-white portrait of Reagan-era hardship, influenced by photographer Robert Frank's famed '50s travelogue, The Americans. "There's always been a deep humanism to David's work," says director Greg Gold, one of Propaganda's founders. "Even the characters in his music videos had depth."
Fincher's Propaganda duties often required him to deal with label brass and ad agencies, something he didn't enjoy, particularly when they got in the way of his ideas. An ad exec might show up at a Fincher shoot and find out he was banned from his own set. Nosy record-label employees were circumvented or simply ignored. "He was opinionated and difficult," says Sigurjón Sighvatsson, another of Propaganda's founders. "But he wasn't arrogant. He was confident." Kim Dempster, who helped produce several of Fincher's early projects, remembers the shoots as being "extremely stressful. You had to have it together for him. It was much harder than working for other directors, but it was a much better product."
When I mention an early '90s Advertising Age article about his supposed strong-headedness, Fincher dismisses the claim—though he doesn't exactly deny it, either. "You're supposed to have an idea of what it is you're trying to do, right?" he says. "Aren't you being overpaid to have that? My job is to know what the fuck I want."
Fincher's headquarters is a neatly outfitted modernist building in Los Angeles' Little Armenia district. Inside his office, there's a Where the Wild Things Are skateboard, a massive coffee table book dedicated to Stanley Kubrick's never-filmed Napoleon biopic, and a Segway. On his desk is a black-and-white printout of a scantily clad Mara, the actress playing the hacker in Dragon Tattoo, with a computer mouse covering her genitals. Fincher wonders if it might work to illustrate this story.
"What are your bosses like?" he asks. "Are they corporate suck-asses afraid of their own shadow?"
At first, it might seem odd that Fincher would still be raging at corporate suck-assery: His advertising clients have included such behemoths as AT&T and Levi's, and unlike many of his contemporaries—Steven Soderbergh, David O. Russell—he's never made a movie outside of the studio system. He has certainly been well compensated by the corporate fat cats he claims to loathe; at one point in the mid-'80s, he says, Propaganda was billing nearly $80 million a year. Undoubtedly, a reasonable portion of that ended up in his pocket.
Perhaps Fincher clings to his deep antiauthority streak because it has always served as a crucial motivator—almost a muse. It started back in grade school, when he bristled at the idea of being required to study nonfilm subjects, and it continued through his video and commercial career. "He was always a rebel," Propaganda's Sighvatsson says. "He was always fighting with somebody, whether it was the establishment or whatever. Always challenging the status quo."
But whatever animosity Fincher harbored toward corporate power was surely cemented by his experiences making Alien3. Released in 1992, Fincher's first movie tells the story of Sigourney Weaver's beloved Ripley character being stranded in an all-male outer space penal colony, where she shaves her head, learns she's pregnant with an alien, and eventually kills herself by falling, slow motion, into a giant vat of molten lava. Alien3 was pounded by critics and largely ignored by audiences; the only way it could have done worse would have been if they'd actually called it All-Male Outer Space Penal Colony.
Fincher hates talking about Alien3, which started filming without a finished script and plunged him into daily battles with 20th Century Fox over control (in the end, the studio recut Fincher's version). "At midnight, he'd have to get on the phone with Fox and justify shooting the next day's work," remembers Weaver. "I think it hurt his feelings and was exhausting."
Several years later, Fincher made nice with Fox and somehow persuaded the studio to bankroll Fight Club, his caustic, anticorporate buddy comedy about an unnamed, culturally emasculated claims adjuster (Edward Norton) and a charismatic anarchist named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) who form an underground brawling league/terrorist co-op. Adapted from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club was grotesquely violent, unnervingly kinetic, and darkly funny. The mere existence of Fight Club is kind of a joke—a treatise on the neutering effects of corporate America, underwritten by an international media conglomerate. "We were making a satire," Fincher says. "We were saying, 'This is as serious about blowing up buildings as The Graduate is about fucking your mom's friend.'"
Released in 1999, the movie caused a bipartisan freak-out: Conservatives condemned its violence, while Hollywood liberals complained that it focused unwanted attention on shoot-'em-up films and TV in the months following Columbine. For Fincher, this was all a point of pride. "There's a quote from a film critic that David had enlarged, framed, and hung in his conference room," says Social Network writer Aaron Sorkin. "It calls Fight Club 'amoral and Godless.' I think he'd rather have that quote than a Palme d'Or."
Though Fight Club was only a modest success in theaters, it has sold millions of DVDs. Watch the movie now and it's easy to see why: Fight Club has yet to age; indeed, its time may still not have truly arrived. The movie addressed build-your-life-around-our-brand consumerism well before the cult of the iPod was founded, and it provided an inadvertent blueprint for the sort of decentralized, shits-and-giggles anarchy that would later be adopted by web collectives like Anonymous. When people watch it 50 years from now, they'll probably assume it was made in 2011 or 2021 or whatever bleak period it will have turned out to presage.
Fight Club also exemplifies Fincher's curious relationship with the modern era: It's a movie about the perils of IKEA furniture and luxe gadgetry, directed by a Segway-riding gearhead. This is a paradox that runs through Fincher's life and work. He's a director raised on CG who's known for embracing new techniques and effects, from the reverse-aging wizardry in Benjamin Button to the subtle Winklevoss head-swaps in The Social Network. Yet Fincher has never been sucked too deeply into the whimsy-indulging, physics- bending cartoon rabbit hole of CGI that has engulfed directors like Tim Burton and George Lucas. And while his characters are frequently analytical brainiacs (hackers, coders, claims adjusters), they're often also prisoners of modernity.
Consider Panic Room, in which Jodie Foster's character takes refuge inside a Sharper Image-indebted, high tech steel sarcophagus. Or The Social Network, which contrasted Mark Zuckerberg's frictionless online communication with his fractured real-life friendships. Even the solitary, decades-long hunt for a serial killer in Zodiac can be seen as a cautionary tale about informational fixation—an allegorical warning for the Internet age, when a time-suck can become a life-suck without your even noticing. In Fincher's world, the innovations that safeguard and enrich us are also the ones that do us in.
Back on the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Mara's angry-hacker character, Lisbeth, is having her way with a treacherous Swede, courtesy of an imposingly huge chrome vibrator with a serrating buzz that sounds less like a joy machine than an irked Taser. This is Fincher's third attempt at the book's infamous rape-revenge scene, one of the key plot points in Larsson's story.
As it turns out, I'm not supposed to be here: Because the scene is so intense, this is a closed set—limited to essential cast and crew only. Before walking me in, Fincher makes me promise not to tell Mara I'm on set, then promptly finds me a seat right next to hers. I can't help but wonder if it's a semiplayful attempt to unnerve me. He denies this later, though I'm not sure I believe him. ("He is quite mischievous," Mara says a few weeks afterward, laughing. "But we were all pretty desensitized at that point.")
The relatively at-ease atmosphere on the Dragon Tattoo set is surprising, not only because of the subject matter but because stories of Fincher's endurance-test directing style are legendary: How he made Jake Gyllenhaal perform in Zodiac with a high fever; how he put Mara and Jesse Eisenberg through more than 90 takes of The Social Network's opening breakup scene. "Challenging people," Mara says, "is one of his greatest joys in life."
Fincher's reasoning for putting his actors and crew through so many takes is simple: Making a movie requires flying people thousands of miles, putting them up in hotels, and spending days building sets. What's the point of all that preparation if you're just going to do your scene three times?
As grueling as it might seem to work under Fincher, he inspires loyalty among many of his actors and crew members. Rigidity, after all, also doubles as structure. "When you're working with somebody you trust, there's a really nice feeling of just submitting to their goals," says Eisenberg, who got an Oscar nomination for his role in The Social Network.
This confidence isn't limited to actors. "He really is the best technician I've ever worked with, ever," says Jodie Foster, who has directed four films. "He knows more about making movies than anybody I've ever met. He pretty much knows everybody else's job better than they do."
Still, at times Fincher has played God a bit too ferociously. At one point while filming Panic Room—a production so tense, according to Fincher's DVD commentary, that some people freaked out and needed to be escorted off the set (Fincher won't get into specifics)—Foster stood with him behind a monitor, watching him agonize over each take. "He looked at me, and he was like, 'I just don't know anymore,'" she says. "I'm like, 'You know what? I usually see what you're going for. This time, I don't see the difference between take two and take seven.' And he's like, 'Oh my God. I'm crazy, aren't I?' He recognizes it. He knows he has an issue. But he has to be 100 percent comfortable with the scene."
Fortunately perhaps for Fincher's current cast members, there hasn't been quite as much time for such micromanaging on Dragon Tattoo. It's his fourth film in five years, and it came together rather quickly—surprising, given its many ostensible obstacles. For starters, there's the fact that film versions of Larsson's three Girl books have already been produced in Sweden and are readily available on Netflix. And the movie came with an unwigglable holiday-season deadline.
There was also the material itself, a return to the gritty settings of Fincher's early career. "I try to choose things that aren't a rehash of places I've been," he says. "But I liked the idea of these two people navigating this odd world thousands of miles away. That was more interesting to me than the notion of 'Oh look, more depravity.'"
And hooooo boy, is the Dragon Tattoo book depraved (sample sentence: "The killer concluded his barbarities by shoving a parakeet up her vagina.") It's also unevenly written. For the first 100 pages or so, it's almost impossible to believe Larsson's series has become a top choice for book-clubbers and frequent-fliers around the world.
But oddly enough, once you finish it you can't wait to see the movie. Maybe it's the animosity-flecked charge between the lead characters or the monstrous (yet recognizably human) villainy or the way it makes computer hacking seem like such a weirdly sexy calling. There's something undeniably dank and alluring about Dragon Tattoo, something almost … Fincheresque. With its sunless settings, multipronged cruelty, and emotionally bruised tech addicts, it's impossible to imagine any other director making it.
In fact, Larsson's gruesome work might never have found such a huge audience if Fincher hadn't long ago snipped off our eyelids and shown us the entrenched nastiness around us. Fifteen years earlier he would have had to fight to make a film as twisted as Dragon Tattoo; now it's set to be a holiday blockbuster. David Fincher's future, it seems, has finally arrived.
It's an early morning in Hollywood, and Fincher is listening to the words of a ghost:
"If a dove is the sinner's offering, the priest shall wring off its head, cleave its wings, and burn it upon the altar."
We're in a sound studio where dialog for Dragon Tattoo is being recorded. In the corner of the room, standing at a microphone, is Moa Garpendal, a fair-skinned, long-stemmed Swedish actress who plays Harriet, the teenager whose mysterious disappearance sets Dragon Tattoo in motion. As she reads the line—a short bit of voice-over that appears halfway through the story—Fincher paces the floor, making eye contact only when he has a suggestion.
"A little more finality at the end," he says. "Bring your voice down."
She gives it another reading. "Let's do one more," Fincher says. "Read it like a recipe. 'If you do this, then you have to do this, then this.'"
More tries, more notes.
"Give me a little more 'wring off and cleave,' just to make it more punitive."
"Try to make the inhale a little bit softer."
"Good. Do one more."
Sometimes, Fincher raises his glasses and pinches his eyes closed, shutting out everything but the sound. Whatever he's listening for this morning, whatever way the words fall together in his head, will not be arrived at quickly. At one point, he catches a noise deep in the background of the track and halts the session. "Are you hearing that?" Fincher asks the room. "It was like a truck passing."
They listen. There doesn't seem to be anything there.
"Maybe I'm having a stroke," Fincher says, shrugging. "Let's do one more."
They try again, the words rising into the air over and over again, finally landing somewhere only David Fincher can hear them.
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7 Tips for Pitching to an Agent or Editor at a Conference
Because summer is a busy time for people traveling to writers'conferences
nationwide, I am re-running this great 2014 post.Enjoy.
I'll admit: I was scared to death to live-pitch my book the first time, and I almost didn't. I figured I was better with words on a page, so I'd just query the agents I met at conferences. I am a huge proponent of pitching your book in person to an agent, though, because it's incredibly beneficial. Here are seven tips to keep in mind:
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Column by Peggy Eddleman, author of the 2013 middle grade adventure
SKY JUMPERS (Random House), and the forthcoming THE FORBIDDEN FLATS
(Random House, 9/23/14). She lives at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains with
her three hilarious and fun kids (two sons and a daughter), and her incredibly
supportive husband. Besides writing, Peggy enjoys playing laser tag with her
family, doing cartwheels in long hallways, trying new restaurants, and
occasionally painting murals on walls. You can find Peggy online
at her blog, on Facebook, or on Twitter.
Tip #1: If you can get a pitch session with an agent/editor, do it!
Agents get tons of queries every single day, and a good 90% of them come from people who haven't worked very hard to perfect their craft. Agents know that if you go to conferences, you're likely in the 10% who have. If you go to a conference and pitch, you're likely a top 10% writer who has a book close to being worthy of representation. It also gives both of you a chance to meet each other, and that's invaluable.
(Do you need multiple literary agents if you write different genres?)
Tip #2: If you don't register in time to schedule a pitch session, get on a waiting list.
Pitch sessions fill up quickly. People get nervous, though, or don't get their book ready in time, so they cancel often. They shouldn't, but they do, and this is good for anyone who is on the waiting list.
Tip #3: Figure out what you want to cover during your pitch session.
Don't memorize a script, but do memorize the points you want to cover. Then you can talk like a normal person about it. And definitely practice talking like a normal person about it to everyone who will listen. The more comfortable you feel when talking about your book, the better your pitch session will go.
Tip #4: Go with other questions in mind.
I speed-talked my way through my first pitch session, because when I'm nervous I don't ramble– I leave things out. So my pitch was done in less than 30 seconds. After asking me a few questions, the agent requested my full. Then she said, "Do you have any questions for me?" I hadn't thought about questions for her! I sat there, feeling awkward, said, "Um.... Nope?" then shook her hand and left, with seven minutes of our meeting unused.
Don't do what I did! Use that time to ask about their agenting style. Ask about the industry. Ask about the process. Ask about craft. Ask questions about your plot. Ask about anything writing related. Chat. See how your personalities mesh. Just don't leave seven minutes early. You paid for that time– use it.
Tip #5: Don't cancel your pitch if your book isn't ready.
When you signed up for a pitch, it was five months before the conference and you thought your novel would be ready, but it isn't. Don't cancel your pitch! (Unless, of course, you've signed with an agent since then.) If your book isn't ready, but you're working hard to get it there, pitch it anyway. When you send a query to an agent and they request pages, you should get it to them within about 24 hours. When you pitch, you have a YEAR to get it to them. A year! So don't stress that it isn't completely ready– there's plenty of time to make it shine. You are pitching to see if the story idea fits with them, if they think its a marketable enough idea that they want to see pages, and if it's a story that they have the right contacts to sell.
(Can writers query multiple agents at the same agency?)
Tip #6: Your pitch session doesn't have to be used to pitch.
That ten minutes you've signed up for is YOUR TIME. Use it wisely. You've bought not only that agent's (or editor's) time, but their expertise. And it is expertise in an area they are incredibly passionate about. They want to help you. If, for whatever reason, you don't want to pitch your book, use that ten minutes in non-pitching ways. Some examples:
- Show them your query letter, and ask for a critique.
- Have the agent read the first pages of your manuscript until they would normally stop. Then talk about what stopped them.
- If you're about to start a new novel and are wondering which of your ideas are most marketable, pitch them to the agent, and ask which they think would be best to focus on.
Tip #7: Don't be nervous. Really.
The most important thing: remember that they are just people. It may feel like they're rock stars, but they're actually completely normal. And because they are, they just might be a little nervous, too. It helps to remember that when you're sitting across a table from them.
So the next time you get an opportunity to pitch to an agent or editor, make sure you seize it!
GIVEAWAY: Peggy is excited to give away a free copy of her novel to a random commenter. Comment within 2 weeks; winners must live in Canada/US to receive the book by mail. You can win a blog contest even if you've won before. (UPDATE: MikeHays won.)
Check Out These Great Upcoming Writers Conferences:
- Feb. 11, 2017: Writers Conference of Minnesota (St. Paul, MN)
- Feb. 16–19, 2017: San Francisco Writers Conference (San Francisco, CA)
- Feb. 24, 2017: The Alabama Writers Conference (Birmingham, AL)
- Feb. 25, 2017: Atlanta Writing Workshop (Atlanta, GA)
- March 25, 2017: Michigan Writers Conference (Detroit, MI)
- March 25, 2017: Kansas City Writing Workshop (Kansas City, MO)
- April 8, 2017: Philadelphia Writing Workshop (Philadelphia, PA)
- April 22, 2017: Get Published in Kentucky Conference (Louisville, KY)
- April 22, 2017: New Orleans Writers Conference (New Orleans, LA)
- May 6, 2017: Seattle Writers Conference (Seattle, WA)
- May 19–21, 2017: PennWriters Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)
- June 24, 2017: The Writing Workshop of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- Aug. 18–20, 2017: Writer's Digest Conference (New York, NY)
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Other writing/publishing articles & links for you:
- What Does a Literary Agent Want to See When They Google You?
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Launch of the 2011 State of the World's Volunteerism Report: Universal Values for Global Well-being.
The report is availble here.
Core messages
1) New Development Architecture
- Volunteerism should become an integral part of the New Development Consensus
- Volunteer action is essential for the way forward
- People-centred approaches and partnership are key to delivering on the sustainable development agenda
2) Well-being
- Well-being should be an essential part of a New Development Architecture
- Discourse on well-being has to recognize the reciprocal values of volunteerism
3) Measuring and universality of volunteerism
- Reliable data and the addressing of misconceptions are vital for moving volunteerism forward
- There is a pressing need to compare and benchmark volunteerism at regional and global levels
Additional messages
1) Volunteerism in the 21st Century
- New forms of volunteerism contribute significantly to Human Development
- New opportunities to volunteer are excellent news for the social fabric of our societies
2) Sustainable livelihoods and social inclusion
- Volunteerism plays an important role in overcoming barriers
- Links beyond the community are needed to tackle poverty and supportive legislation is required to eliminate social exclusion
3) Violent conflict and disasters
- Volunteer action is an essential asset in the face of war and disaster
- Volunteer action increases the resilience of societies and reduces the impact of violent conflict
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
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The Game of Harmony
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DescriptionThis strategic action puzzle game features original gameplay. You control a spacecraft situated on a globe which you can rotate and move around the screen. You must knock globes into others of the same colour, to rid the screen of all the globes. The screen has no borders, so globes can be pushed off the side of the screen, increasing your tactical range. Knocking globes of different colors into each other produces smaller pods which need to be picked up quickly, giving you energy, or they will turn into globes and you will have to get rid of them too. Many of the globes are linked to other globes (or the ship) via string, and the level layouts include barriers as obstacles (and ricochet points), making the Newtonian physics more complex.
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Alternate Titles
- "Sphericule" -- Alt. Amiga UK title
- "E-Motion" -- European Release
User Reviews
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Critic Reviews
|Computer and Video Games (CVG)
|Apr, 1990
|95 out of 100
|ZX Spectrum
|May, 1990
|91 out of 100
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Atari ST
|Apr, 1990
|90 out of 100
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Apr, 1990
|90 out of 100
|The Games Machine (UK)
|ZX Spectrum
|May, 1990
|88 out of 100
|ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
|Amstrad CPC
|Oct, 1990
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|Apr, 1991
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|The Games Machine (UK)
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|Apr, 1990
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|Your Sinclair
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|May, 1990
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Cancelled PlayStation portAt one point, an English company called Darkhex was working on a PlayStation version of E-Motion, but the project was canceled. Screenshots and even a downloadable ISO with a work-in-progress version of the game was available at http://www.hermitgames.com/emotion.html
MarketingThe Game of Harmony was marketed in the US as a Zen device -- a game that rewards you for relaxing and staying calm under pressure. (See advertising blurbs for specifics.) However, the game was universally frustrating at times, so this particular marketing angle was quite ironic. Of of Trixter's personal experience of working in a retail software store at the time this game was published, He can remember almost every single copy of the game being returned by frustrated gamers.
TitleThe E in E-Motion stands for "Einstein". A caricature of Albert Einstein appears on the cover of the European box, and on the loading screen for most versions.
Version differences
- The American release contained updated code and support for more music devices.
- Due to it not having color, in the Game Boy's case, or not being able to display enough colors on screen, in the ZX Spectrum's case, these versions did not have multi-colored spheres. Instead, they had spheres with different shapes within them, such as squares, triangles or circles.
- Amiga Joker
- Issue 01/1991 – #4 Best Dexterity Game in 1990
- Amiga Power
- May 1991 (Issue #00) - #30 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"
- ST Format
- Issue 01/1991 – #3 Best Puzzle Game in 1990
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State government's inability to deal with various issues, such as paying for a capital plan, prompted a dozen female lawmakers to embark this week on a "listening tour" to hear about the issues that concern other women.
State government's inability to deal with various issues, such as paying for a capital plan, prompted a dozen female lawmakers to embark this week on a "listening tour" to hear about the issues that concern other women.
"This is just a start," Rep. Ruth Munson, R-Elgin, said Wednesday at a state Capitol news conference. "You're going to be hearing more from us, and you're going to be hearing more from the women of Illinois."
The lawmakers said their "open dialogue" with women throughout the state would continue. Part of that effort will focus on their Web site, www.womensvoicesillinois.com, that provides information, such as how to register to vote, and invites public comment.
Munson and 11 other Republican members of the Illinois House traveled this week to Chicago, Park Ridge, Palatine, Grayslake, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Elgin, Plainfield and Quincy. They visited businesses, a hospital and an early childhood education center.
Munson said they chose the stops on the basis of "geography and areas of interest and not party affiliation." She and her colleagues said their "Women's Voices Illinois" project is not meant to be partisan.
Rep. Sandra Pihos, R-Glen Ellyn, said: "This isn't a partisan issue because we care about and we legislate and we do things for everyone."
Education and health care are among the top issues Illinois women raised with the lawmakers.
"The women we talked to are concerned about their schools. They are concerned about the funding," Pihos said. "They're concerned about their children receiving an education that will make them competitive at universities and competitive in the world when they go out to find jobs."
While visiting a Downers Grove hospital, the lawmakers heard comments about the nursing shortage, said Rep. Jil Tracy, R-Mount Sterling.
One solution, she said, could be a "reciprocity" agreement under which nurses who earned their licenses in other states could work in Illinois without having to get an Illinois nursing license.
The lawmakers also heard about the public's dissatisfaction with the legislative gridlock that has dominated much of the 2007 session of the General Assembly.
"It's totally turning people off," said Rep. Renee Kosel, R-New Lenox. "We heard that over and over and over again. People don't send us down here to have games, to have that kind of gamesmanship going on. They send us down here to govern, to make decisions, to move forward."
Munson said the group's next step will be to put together a long-term "work plan" based on input from the tour.
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How to Hack a Vending Machine : 9 Tricks to Getting Free Drinks, Snacks, & Money
A vending machine is an invaluable, yet totally frustrating piece of equipment. It's a godsend whenever your tummy's growling or you need an ice-cold drink on a hot summer day. But when something gets stuck inside or the machine flat out malfunctions, it quickly becomes your a ...more


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Milford man who molested 4 grils while in Peace Corps sentenced to 15 years in prison
HARTFORD -- Jesse Osmun, the Milford man who admitted to molesting four girls while serving in the Peace Corps in South Africa, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Chief U.S. District Judge Alvin Thompson called the case "exceptional" and "atypical" because Osmun was fully cooperative with investigators and seemed to be remorseful for his crimes.
"It's more important what kind of person you are trying to be," Thompson said to Osmun, referring to how some offenders express remorse only in an attempt for a reduced sentence.
Osmun admitted to sexually abusing four girls under the age of 6. He resigned from the Peace Corps in May 2011, after being confronted by its program director about the sexual abuse. He was investigated by the Peace Corps Office of Inspector General and ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents.
See previous story and guilty plea story.
Thompson's sentence was less than the prison sentence of between 17½ to 21 years and 8 months that prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office were seeking. The sentence was also less than what sentencing guidelines recommend, Thompson said.
Osmun's attorney, Richard Meehan, argued that Osmun should have to serve between 14 and 17½ years because of the atypical nature of the case, noting that a noncourt-ordered restitution fund was in the process of being set up for the victims.
He also talked about the case of Douglas Perlitz, who is serving a 19-year-7-month sentence for sexually abusing boys in Haiti. He said the two cases were different because Perlitz was more intrusive with his abuse, and it was over several years.
U.S. District Attorney David Fein argued that six similar cases Meehan brought up during the sentencing that had much shorter sentencing terms didn't apply because Osmun's victims were much younger.
Family members and about a dozen parishioners of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of which Osmun's father, the Rev. Andrew Osmun, is the former pastor, sat behind Osmun during the sentencing. Many cried as Osmun spoke to the court. Meehan and Thompson both said that it was atypical to see so many people come to support someone accused of Osmun's crimes.
Osmun apologized to his victims, to his family and church members and to the Peace Corps organization and its volunteers.
"I have spent the last 14 months in reflection and prayer," Osmun said.
He went on to say that he didn't want to plead for leniency or place blame on others, like Jerry Sandusky did during his trial.
"They [victims] will live with the scars forever. ... Their suffering will be far greater than mine," he said.
Osmun has already served 14 months of his sentence while awaiting sentencing.
Osmun's sentence also includes 10 years of supervised release, which includes registering as a sex offender and not having contact with people under the age of 18. He will also have to have electronic communications monitored to make sure that he isn't contacting minors without permission of the probation office.
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Historical Fiction
May 2018
Recent Releases
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton,
wife of American founding father Alexander Hamilton -- a complex and determined woman who contributed much to the birth of the United States while enduring many personal and public tribulations.
For fans of:
the musical
who are hungry for more about this Revolutionary War-era figure.
You might also like:
I, Eliza Hamilton
by Susan Scott Holloway and
The Hamilton Affair
by Elizabeth Cobbs.
Charles Frazier
What it's about:
Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War, learns that her marriage of security and comfort comes at a steep price.
Why you might like it:
If you enjoyed bestselling author Charles Frazier's
Cold Mountain
, you will rejoice as he returns to the same time period in U.S. history.
Read it for:
the fascinating character study of Varina Davis through which we can ponder topics like culpability and complicity.
The Room on Rue Amélie
Kristin Harmel
What it's about:
Three disparate characters are drawn together in Nazi-occupied Paris: Ruby Benoit, an American newlywed with questions about her secretive French husband; Ruby's Jewish neighbor, 11-year-old Charlotte Dacher; and British Royal Air Force pilot Thomas Clarke.
Why you should read it:
This poignant tale is based loosely on the true story of an American woman who aided Allied soldiers in Paris as part of a resistance group called the Comet Line.
For fans of:
World War II-era fiction like Kristin Hannah's
The Nightingale
and Martha Kelly's
Lilac Girls
Mary Sharratt
What it's about:
Set amid the spectacular whirl of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna,
introduces readers to aspiring composer Alma Schindler, who -- while capturing the heart of the much-older conductor Gustav Mahler -- dares to defy the expectations of her time.
Who it's for:
Readers who like strong female heroines, especially women in history whose stories deserve to be better known.
You might also like:
Elizabeth Hickey's
The Painted Kiss
, about the relationship between painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Fleoge.
Focus on: Debuts
The Courtesan
Alexandra Curry
What it's about:
Born during Dowager Empress Cixi's reign, legendary Qing dynasty courtesan Sai Jinhua witnesses numerous transitions throughout her long and eventful life. From being sold to a brothel for a handful of coins at the age of seven to traveling to Vienna as the concubine of a government official, Jinhua's story reaches a dangerous climax during the Boxer Rebellion.
For fans of:
Authors Lisa See and Amy Tan as well as Arthur Golden's
Memoirs of a Geish
The Other Alcott
Elise Hooper
May Alcott, sister and rival to Louisa May Alcott and the model for Amy March in Louisa's classic
Little Women
, who aspires to greatness in the male-dominated art world.
Reviewers say:
"Not to be missed" (
Library Journal
You might also like:
Marie Benedict's
The Other Einstein
, which also focuses on a less well-known relative of a historical icon, or Priya Parmar's
Vanessa and Her Sister
, another biographical historical novel that addresses complex sisterly relationships.
The Mapmaker's Daughter: The Confessions of Nurbanu Sultan, 1525-1583
Katherine Nouri Hughes
What it's about:
From her deathbed, Cecilia Baffo Veniero -- the illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mapmaker -- recounts the story of her rise to become Queen Mother Nurbanu, the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire.
Media buzz:
The Netflix series
Magnificent Century
is loosely based on Nurbanu's dramatic life story.
Further reading:
The Architect's Apprentice
by Elif Shafak, which is also set in the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century.
The Moon in the Palace
Weina Dai Randel
What it's about:
In Tang Dynasty China, 12-year-old Mei believes that her life is over when her father dies and her family is cast out of their home. But Mei's fortunes change when she is summoned to the emperor's palace to serve as one of 15 maidens in the Inner Court.
Is it for you?
If you like historical fiction with a heavy dose of romance, don't miss this lush and sweeping page-turner (and make note that the sequel is
The Empress of Bright Moon
The Gardens of Consolation
Parisa Reza
the Amir family: Sardar and his young bride, Talla, whose arranged marriage is also founded on love, and their bright university-educated son, Bahram.
Why you might like it:
The growth of the Amir family is set against the changing political climate of early 20th-century Iran.
About the author:
Debut author Parisa Reza emigrated from Iran to France as a teenager in the 1980s;
The Gardens of Consolation
received the 2015 Prix Senghor for a debut novel by a Francophone writer.
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April 24–July 22, 2007 at the Getty Center
For centuries artists have displayed their technical virtuosity by composing scenes in which light penetrates darkness. Nocturnal light—whether its source is divine, artificial, or natural—has held many symbolic associations beyond its functional role.
Divine Light
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, light is a visible sign of the divine. The Gospels refer to God as "the Light of Men," and Christ refers to himself as "the Light of the World." When artists depicted the presence of God, they often relied on the contrast between darkness and divine light to heighten drama, elicit strong emotional responses from the viewer, and to symbolize the power of faith.
In the 1600s candlelit night scenes became popular. Artists used candlelight to create the illusion of spatial recession through contrasts of light and dark. They also experimented with techniques to suggest the flickering of flame and depict textures in naturalistic detail. Candles also held symbolic meaning as emblems of vanity and faith.
Fire, traditionally associated with divine punishment and wrath, often appears in images of hell and the damned. Depictions of burning cities became popular in the 1500s, likely as visual commentaries on contemporary political, religious, and social conflicts. Displays of fireworks, on the other hand, often celebrated major political events. Thus, engravings depicting fireworks not only commemorated historical events, but also perpetuated the memory of ephemeral spectacles.
While 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters excelled at representing sunlit landscapes, they also developed the nocturnal landscape in which beams of silvery moonlight shimmer across clouds, rivers, and trees. In depicting moonlit scenes, artists explored the landscape's potential for drama and mystery through vivid contrasts of light and dark.


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Google's I/O conference continues to be the gift that gives this week: Chrome is coming to iOS.
One of the quickest, most elegant browsers around is queued up to make many Apple fanboys very happy. The browser hits iPhone first, then iPad.
Update: Maybe that above paragraph is too pie-in-the-sky. Chrome will not have Nitro, as Buzzfeed points out, so it won't be able to run the scripts as fast as the native browser, Safari. So this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, exactly.
U.S. & World
However, Chrome is at the top of the App Store charts, so more than a few are going to give it a ride.
Users pick up a browser that not only preloads sites, but also syncs tabs looked at on a desktop and have them automatically load on the phone. Your recent history follows you, basically.
Google didn't announce how this pleasant surprise came about, but Engadget muses it's most likely a matter of integration.
Safari, Apple's native browser, has a vast lead on mobile/tablet browser share, according to NetMarketShare.com. But, of course, Google has an even huger lead in mobile search. So, pair the two together and ... Google still needs to sell more Android phones to close the overall business gap.
That said, later today, thousands will add Chrome to their iPhone life via the App Store.


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Big Ten Weekly Five: 08.28.12 EditionPosted by Deepak Jayanti on August 28th, 2012
- ESPN has released a list of the 50 best college hoops programs over the past 50 years. The order is based on a scoring system that awards points for national titles, Final Four appearances and conference titles, but also penalizes the program for any NCAA violations or sanctions. The details of their exhaustive scoring system can be found on the ESPN blog. How did the Big Ten fare in this system? Indiana is the only top 10 team on this list, coming in at #7. Michigan State is ranked #11, with Michigan at #13 and Ohio State at #15, which adds up to four B1G teams in the top 15 of this list. College hoops fans love these types of lists and this leads to hours and sometimes days of debates about the efficiency of the scoring system or the historical significance of these programs.
- Speaking of questions that could spark a debate, how about this one: "If you pick any active coach to lead your program, who would it be?" CBSSports.com conducted an anonymous poll among coaches and this was one of the questions posed. Michigan State's Tom Izzo placed first with 27% of the vote followed by Kansas' Bill Self at 23%. Now, the criteria on which the coaches voted is tough to decipher but Izzo's rank should not come as a total surprise for a guy who has been so clutch in March and demands the respect of his players and rest of the coaches around the country. Izzo has won over 70% of his games at Michigan State and has created a culture of tough-nosed Spartan basketball since the mid-90s.
- Matt Painter and the Purdue Boilermakers have released their non-conference schedule for the 2012-13 season. They will participate in the 2K Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden after playing a couple of home games against opponents that have yet to be determined. The Boilers will play 10 games at home during the non-conference schedule and some of the key match-ups include contests against Xavier and West Virginia. The overall schedule is challenging yet does not seem to overbearing which is helpful for a team that has lost at least three starters from last season. They will field a young squad that needs some time to gel together before conference play begins and playing several tough but winnable games at home will be a huge confidence boost to youngsters such as Anthony Johnson and Terone Johnson.
- Former Iowa Star Matt Gatens is heading overseas to play for a Spanish team, UCAM-Murcia. The team is located in Murcia, Spain, and Gatens has signed a one-year contract with the club after playing for the Phoenix Suns summer league team in July. Gatens hit for 41% shooting from beyond the arc and his long-range abilities make him a good fit for the European style of play. In recent years, some other former Iowa alumni such as Luke Recker and Jared Reiner have played in Spain as well. Gatens gives a lot of credit to Fran McCaffery for his improvement during his senior season as his scoring average increased from 12.6 PPG to 15.2 PPG. Many players take another shot at the NBA after a few seasons in Europe and Gatens has already indicated that he won't give up his dream of playing in the US again after his time in Spain.
- Big Ten fans are aware of the new additions to the Michigan rotation in the 2012-13 season, specifically incoming freshmen Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson, III. Both of these freshmen will be part of a great starting five as they will collaborate with returning players such as Jordan Morgan, Tim Hardaway, Jr., and Trey Burke. But John Beilein needs production from his bench in order to make a serious run at the Final Four and redshirt freshman Max Beilfeldt might be able to contribute after sitting out last season. The 6'7″ forward enoyed a successful high school career, averaging 20 PPG and 11.2 RPG during his senior season. The departure of Evan Smotrycz leaves some playing time for others and Beilfeldt might be one of those new faces in the rotation. MGoBlue's Morgan Bailey caught up with the redshirt freshman wing this offseason as he is eager to contribute to a potential national championship contender.


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Potato Balls
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes1-1/2 to 2 dozen
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup mashed potatoes
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Oil for deep-fat frying
- In a bowl, beat eggs. Add potatoes. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; stir into potato mixture.
- In a large saucepan or kettle, heat about 1 in. of oil to 375°. Drop mixture by heaping teaspoonfuls, four or five at a time, into hot oil. Fry 2-3 minutes or until golden brown, turning once. Watch closely since they brown quickly. Drain on paper towels. Serve immediately.
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EVERY ONE Loved them.at the end of the night doing clean-up one fell on the floor & the cat ate itAlso when mixing my potatoes ,I mixed in some flour & mixed together. I made over or close to 40 as this was for dinner , about 12 people. I went by feel of the mixture. Also cooked in Deep Fryer and kept warmish/hot in oven. Another occasion I tried doing them the day before & heated in the oven. When trying a new recipes I make extra for my tasting ( for seasoning & even to see if they're heating up at the speed I have them at or do I need to turn up the oven a bit & maybe just throw a pc. of tin foil over them so they don't get over browned
Jan 9, 2011
my husband just had some and he dipped them in ranch dressing so good I won't be making french fries any longer.our fry sauce is good as well.1 cup sour cream,1 cup ranch dressing and 1/2 cup ketchup.the sauce keeps for about 2 weeks in fridge.
Dec 21, 2010
like this. I will add different types of seasonings next time. Just to give it a less "plain" taste.
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ok but didnt turn out like picture
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I received a product sample to facilitate my review. All opinions are my own.
My 11 year old is really into graphic novels and books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid right now. I thought this book would be a good fit for her.
About the book:
Meet Tom Gates. When his teachers don't have their beady eyes on him, he likes to draw pictures and write about stuff. Tom's teachers think he is easily distracted and "lacks focus," but that's a bit harsh—can he help it if his grumpy big sister, Delia, made him late for school (again), or that last night's homework had to be sacrificed to stave off a vicious dog attack? Master of excuses, creative storyteller, and middle-school comedian extraordinaire, Tom Gates is guaranteed to get kids turning the pages—and keep them laughing.
About the Author:
L. Pichon says that when she was little, she loved to draw, and her mom said she was very good at making a mess (this is still true today). She kept drawing, went to art school, became a designer and art director at Jive Records, and began to publish children's books. After its publication in the U.K., The Brilliant World of Tom Gates won several prestigious awards, including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, and the Blue Peter Book Award. L. Pichon lives in Brighton, England, with her family.
What Natalie (11) had to say:
This book is about Tom Gates and his life right now. It's about his school and his favorite band. It's mainly about his school life kinda like Diary of A Wimpy Kid. It's a really good book and I'd like to read it again.
From Mom:
She was really interested in this book and got into it right away. She finished it quickly and asked me if I had book 2! I'd say she liked it.
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JP2 Mass Appeal
Publisher's note for Oct. 9-22 issue in time for John Paul II's first feast day, Oct. 22. John Paul, pray for us!
Our series on the new translation of the Missal continues in this issue with a thoughtful expository story on collects and prefaces by Benedictine Father Jeremy Driscoll.
Providentially, his story falls in the publishing cycle that includes the first celebration of the feast day of Blessed Pope John Paul II (Oct. 22). It doesn't seem like it has been five and a half months since that incredible weekend in Rome in May when Pope Benedict XVI beatified his immediate predecessor. And so the Church will use for the first time the Collect specifically for Masses of thanksgiving for Blessed John Paul.
We hope you will join us in offering thanks on that day for the gift of Blessed Pope John Paul II to the Church.
O God, who are rich in mercy
and who willed that the Blessed John Paul II
should preside as Pope over your universal Church,
grant, we pray, that instructed by his teaching,
we may open our hearts to the saving grace of Christ,
the sole Redeemer of mankind, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
God bless you!


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Now one year later he has accepted, and even though he is excited for the venture he says he has very big shoes to fill.
But Wendell is meeting the challenge head on. He already plans to transform the society's monthly meetings and to contribute to the society in many ways.
"There are so many things I want to do," he said. "I want to get some grant money to print out coloring books for kids on local history. I want them to get involved in some contests. There are just so many things."
Wendell is no stranger to Woodhaven. He was born and raised in the neighborhood, went to school there and his wife is also from Woodhaven. He is also the president of the active civic group the Woodhaven Residents Block Association (WRBA), and runs an informative blog about the neighborhood called Project Woodhaven.
When he was elected president of the WRBA, he was already used to getting involved with the community. He admits that for a while, he was like many others – just leaving for work and going back home, not really paying attention to his area.
But a few years ago, when he started to notice all of the graffiti around Woodhaven, Wendell started to take an interest in improving the area, and now that interest has grown into a passion.
Pushing Woodhaven even more into the spotlight to show that it is one of the dynamic neighborhoods of Queens, Wendell's plans for the historical society involve getting children involved and promoting his hometown more through the Internet, as well as word of mouth.
He has already added one board member to the society and he also plans to include tours of the neighborhood and alternate the monthly meetings between day and night.
"Overall, we're going to be doing some interesting stuff," he said.
The first meeting of 2012 will be held on Wednesday, January 25, at 1 p.m. at Emmanuel United Church of Christ, located at 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard.


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The RCMP said Tuesday that information released by an international hacktivist group identifying a Vancouver-area man as Amanda Todd's tormentor is "unfounded," and warned against the spread of false information through social media.
"The outpouring of support, emotion and information is literally overwhelming," Sgt. Peter Thiessen of the Lower Mainland District RCMP said in a release. "The Internet and social media were central to Amanda's story and they are central to our investigation.
"One of our big challenges right now, is false information that is being spread by people who appear to be trying to use Amanda's story to do harm or make a profit."
The man's name was released Monday by the hacktivist group, which claimed it had tracked down Amanda Todd's online harasser. The Vancouver Sun interviewed the man, who said he corresponded with Amanda online but was not one of her tormentors.
The man, who appeared in Surrey court Monday on unrelated charges, said he met Amanda online through her YouTube videos in which she is singing. He said she then contacted him to help her, because "I was a known hacker."
Amanda, 15, died last Wednesday after years of harassment and bullying.
The problem started in Grade 7 when she flashed her breasts in front of a webcam, she said. The person on the other end later threatened her and circulated those images online.
The man identified by the hacktivist group — whose name is being spread around social networks but has not been published by mainstream media — told The Sun that he offered to uncover the identity of Amanda's blackmailer.
The Lower Mainland man, who appeared in court in a black hoodie emblazoned with the words 'Stompdown Killaz,' said he got some "sketchy" information about the blackmailer, who he says was 26, lived in New York and goes by an alias of Viper. The man said he passed this information to the RCMP and NYPD, but he couldn't remember whom he spoke with.
"I tried to help, to do everything I could," he told The Sun.
He said he only knew Amanda in "a sense," but denied he was one of her cyber-bullies.
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The io9 Book Club meets once per month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. In May, we're meeting on the 3rd to discuss Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks. Watch for a post that day announcing the book club, and jump into comments for discussion! There's still time to read the book, too.
Surface Detail is part of Banks' Culture series, but it's a standalone novel and you don't need to have read the other books to understand what's going on (the Culture books are set in the same universe, but don't follow the same characters). Here is our review of the book.
We're hoping Iain M. Banks will join us later that week for a discussion, but no promises!
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Friesen, Martin W. (1912-2000)
Martin W. Friesen: educator and Mennonite historian; born 1 October 1912 in Grunthal, Manitoba, to Martin C. and Elisabeth D. (Wiebe) Friesen. He was the eldest of nine children. Martin W. Friesen grew up in a Mennonite community in southern Manitoba. His father was the bishop in the Chortitza Mennonite Church of Manitoba, when the group decided to leave Canada for Paraguay in 1927. Martin W. Friesen worked closely with his father in providing leadership to this immigrant group. Even before the group reached Paraguay, they had planned the education system for the future Menno Colony. Martin and his father did much to organize the colony's social and economic life in the early settlement period in Paraguay.
Although for the first 25 years, education of the children in the colony very much followed their earlier tradition of a school in every village which taught very basic reading, Bible and Catachism, it was Martin W. Friesen, who eventually organized a summer school for teachers. This "upgrade" for teachers enabled them to introduce additional subjects from Germany's school curriculum during the 1950s. During this same period, Martin W. also started a Bible School in Menno Colony, a forerunner of what soon became the Vereinsschule, then the Zentralschule, and finally Escuela Secundaria (High School) in Loma Plata.
Martin W. Friesen was also the archivist and historian for the Menno Colony in Paraguay. Among his most important historical works were: Kanadische Mennoniten bezwingen eine Wildnis: 50 Jahre Kolonie Menno – erste mennonitischen Ansiedlung in Suedamerika (Loma Plata, Parguay, 1977) 173 pages, and Neu Heimat der Chaco Wildnis (Altona, Manitoba, 1987) 502 pages.
Martin W. Friesen was married to Elizabeth Thiessen in 1938 in Paraguay. After 62 years of service in South America in the Menno Colony, Martin died on 7 November 2000 in Loma Plata, Paraguay.
Gerbrandt, Henry J. "Martin W. Friesen 1912-2000, Historian." Preservings No. 19 (December 2001): 66.
GRANDMA (The Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry) Database, 5.03 ed. Fresno, CA: California Mennonite Historical Society, 2007: #530499.
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Understanding the Ultimate Power of Pay Per Click Campaign to Create Expired-Domain Fortunes
The ultimate power of a Pay per Click program to enhance the power and potential of an expired domain is undisputed and unquestioned. A PPC campaign is a well conceived program that helps you earn small income, apart from guiding a constant stream of expired domain traffic to your expired domain. However, the underlying principle of using a PPC program is still mysterious and suspenseful; it pays you a lot when you make an effort to learn all these secrets and hidden principles. A highly organized PPC campaign provides you a number of benefits and advantages to your expired domain name. Some of these advantages are:
It is possible for you to reach the right type of traffic when you use PPC; this program is very innovative in nature with its precise mechanism in reaching the right type of target and to convert them into a highly productive site visitor.
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Power Ranking the Top 10 Celebrity Ice Bucket Challenges
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has caught on like wildfire in recent weeks, with everyone from Justin Bieber to Ethel Kennedy getting in on the fun.
The ALS Association has raised over $15 million since the start of the challenge, thanks in part to the awareness raised by the gaggle of celebrities who have taken to social media to voice their support for the cause.
While every video, at the very least, helps to raise awareness for the movement, some celebrity posts are definitely more epic than others.
Here's our list of the top 10 celebrity ice bucket challenge videos.
10. The Rock
After being challenged by UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, the action movie mega-star gave a cold response — he didn't flinch a bit while dumping the freezing bucket of water on his head. Your move Marky Mark.
9. Weird Al
Weird Al deserves a spot on the list for his insane hairdo as well as for his choice of nominees. The world needs a Pope/Dalai Lama ice bucket challenge video.
8. Oprah
The Big O! Need we say more?
7. Drake
The hip-hop star called out Beyonce after getting drenched by rapper Lil' Wayne at a recent show. Pretty bold move challenging Queen Bey.
6. Melissa Etheridge
A freezing bucket of ice didn't stop Etheridge from jamming out during her challenge video.
5. Jimmy Fallon
Fallon was joined by comedian Rob Riggle, Horatio Sanz, Steve Higgins, and his back-up band, The Roots, for the challenge on a recent episode of "The Tonight Show.''
4. Bill Gates
After being challenged by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the Microsoft founder created an intricate rig for his ice bucket video. The humorous post has almost 6 million views on Youtube.
3. Lady Gaga
Did you expect Lady Gaga to post a normal video? Didn't think so.
2. Chris Pratt
The "Guardians of the Galaxy'' star posted one of the funniest challenge videos to date, downing a shot of vodka and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice before getting doused by his wife, Anna Faris, and a friend.
1. Justin Timberlake
Timberlake takes the top spot on our list for not only posting an epic video, but also because he accepted the challenge at the request of two Boston Marathon survivors. Class act.
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