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Literary Magazine Reviews
Posted December 15, 2009
Bartleby Snopes - Bellevue Literary Review - Bloodroot - Evergreen Review - Fifth Wednesday Journal - Gander Press Review - Gigantic Sequins - Hanging Loose - inscape - Iowa Review - Long Story - MAKE - make/shift - Malahat Review - The Meadow - Moon City Review - Paul Revere's Horse - Shenandoah
Bartleby Snopes
November 2009
Online Monthly
Review by Henry F. Tonn
This literary journal presents eight stories a month to the reading public and then has viewers vote on their favorite. That story becomes the featured story of the month, to be included in a downloadable biannual collection produced in July and January. Two new stories are featured each week, encouraging frequent visitations to the website by interested readers. This is strictly a fiction website, and there is a range from microfiction up to 4000 words.
The November edition presents "Snapshot Resolutions" by Brent Krammes, an absorbing story about a man in a Las Vegas casino who has a heart attack when a performance artist, in the interest of self-promotion, throws out a string of firecrackers to the floor. We then learn of the involvement of numerous people in this tragedy, including the performing artist himself, the man's wife, and the attending waitress. Nicely constructed.
David Erlewine writes a piece of flash fiction entitled "Go On, Please," about an elderly man dying of cancer who rambles on to his disinterested social worker about Stanley Milgram, a psychologist in the '60's who did a series of experiments proving that most people will voluntarily murder someone if given proper clearance by the right authority figure. There is black humor here, and the story can be appreciated even more if one is more intimately acquainted with the now-famous study (can be Googled).
In the October issue, Robert Meade writes "Lord of the Leaves," an entertaining story about a young boy who is being beaten up regularly by two neighborhood thugs, and his creative way of ultimately exacting revenge. And Howie Good offers a nice stylistic prose-poem entitled "Hotel Dystopia," a story that can be lingered over and tasted for a while.
Going back to the September issue, I thoroughly enjoyed "The Second Coming" by Townsend Walker, the September Story of the Month. It concerns a conniving preacher and a seventeen-year-old nymphet named Charity, both of whom have their agendas, but only one will achievement fulfillment (Gosh, I wonder which one?).
This journal is essentially a one-man show, run by Nathaniel
Tower, who reviews all the submissions and even gives feedback
concerning the ones he rejects – which compose about ninety per
cent. All this and he publishes relatively prolifically himself
on various online journals. Pretty impressive! A website to
visit for sure.
Bellevue Literary Review
Volume 9 Number 2
Fall 2009
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
I admire Bellevue Literary Review for its consistency and the polish, confidence, and competence of its contents. Produced at NYU's Langone Medical Center, with a focus on "illness, health, and healing," it is easy to conceive of a journal that might compromise on or sacrifice literary quality in its quest to adequately represent these themes, yet Bellevue pays as much attention to composition as to subject matter. Featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and book reviews, the journal presents the work of accomplished writers with impressive credentials from the world of medicine, literature, the social sciences, education, and the MFA poetry scene.
I appreciate the journal's generous editorial stance which makes room for eclectic approaches, which include a memoir style piece, "She Might Die," by Magda Montiel Davis, a brief meditation on the possibility of losing her mother, written from the perspective of her childhood self; a personal essay part family story/part geo-historical exploration of Galveston, Texas by Hazel Kight Witham; a nonfiction "short" by Kurt Maggsame, "The Consolation of Anatomy," a kind of meditation on the body of death; sudden fiction by Christopher Shacht, "Shark Eyes"; stories from the perspective of patients, the perspective of doctors, and the perspective of those observing the interaction between the two; and a personal essay by New York-based Israeli writer Itzak Kronzon, translated from the Hebrew by Iris Karev Kronzon, "In Kalvarija Father Died," what I am tempted to call a "medical immigration story." I was particularly taken with Luther Magnussen's "At War with General Franco," a fascinating essay about the writer's experience in the Thomas Jefferson Brigade in Spain. The piece is understated and all the more powerful for its restraint and an important glimpse into the history of the period.
This issue includes many fine poems as well, deftly, tautly composed work, though there is less variety in styles and approaches in the poetry than in the prose. I was impressed in particular, with a short poem by Karina Borowicz, "Martin, 1918," which illustrates poetry's potential for simultaneous economy and expansiveness:
When life was meted out
he was allowed childhood
transparent enough to be seen through
from beginning to end.
He did not of course know
about the epidemic standing sentinel
at the border between twelve and thirteen.
Some games he played halfheartedly,
before bed now and then he'd refuse
his mother's embrace.
The last day of school
walking home on the dusty path
he dragged a stick
which drew a long line behind him.
And a poem, "Brazil, 1968," by Claudia Cortese is
breathtaking, terrifying, and unforgettable. Borowicz and
Cortese convey nearly as much with their titles as they do in
the body of their poems, but it's the relationship between what
these titles suggest and what the poems express (as much by what
they do not say, as by what they do) that makes them
Volume 2
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
This second edition of Bloodroot, "dedicated to publishing diverse voices through the adventure of poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction," features the work of 27 poets, five fiction writers, and one essayist. Poems tend to fall into one of three categories, personal narratives, nature scenes, or personal encounters with nature, with a few exceptions (including a few more metaphysically oriented pieces). David Strait's "Christmas Day" is characteristic of the personal narrative. The poem begins:
The box came on time
and I signed for it
with a shaking hand,
a broad smile.
Under a brightly lit tree,
I peeled back cardboard flaps
And sorted through a sea
of Styrofoam beads.
Gary Hanna's "Lewes Beach in Winter" is characteristic of the journal's "nature poems." The poem begins:
Winter ice crowds
The beach, pushes up
The sand and folds
Like slabs of stone,
Crystal in the half-
Suzanne Dudley Schon's "Honeysuckle," is characteristic of the last category, the intersection of a poem's speaker with the natural world. The poem begins:
Climbing the back fence or
wrapping the trees with leafy skirts.
Where our fingers learn to
Pinch just enough to open the base
but not cut the little strand.
Two prose pieces stand out in particular, Josh Green's
personal essay, "The Aftermath: Why I Hitchhiked to Hurricane
Katrina," noteworthy, above all, for its contribution to the
growing archive of literary images that help us develop a
clearer picture of what that experience looked and felt like;
and an usual story by Kerry Jones, "Los Días de los Muertos," an
unsentimental and surprising consideration of the aftermath of a
Evergreen Review
Issue Number 120
October 2009
Online Bimonthly
Review by Henry F. Tonn
This magazine was founded in 1957 in print form and none other than Jean Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett contributed to its pages. In the years to come, it continued to feature such luminaries as William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Terry Southern, and Allen Ginsberg until the final issue in 1973. The Review was revived as an online edition in 1998. The present edition, issue number 120, has a pleasant mix of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and several reprints from the past.
First off, there should be plaudits given for the marvelous essay by Alan Kaufman entitled, "The Electronic Book Burning," which concerns the lamentable and inexorable closing of bookstores all over the country and the gradual movement of publishing companies toward electronic books. To say the author is furious about this would be an understatement. There are so many good lines in this text that it is unfortunate space restricts me to several, but: "Hi-tech propogandists [sic] tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it." And: "Had I been told from youth that my literary destination would be some 7 inch plastic gizmo containing my texts shuffling alongside thousands of other "texts" I would have spit in the face of such a profession and become instead a hit man or a rabbi."
Alan Kaufman also contributes an excellent short story entitled "In the Province," a bare, haunting tale about a ruthless soldier trashing a village in the late Yugoslavian war. Richard Milazzo continues the international perspective with three nostalgic poems: "Saigon," "Cambodia," "The Green Lantern." This excerpt is from "Cambodia":
And where armless and legless antiquities
Do not describe the order of the day,
Land mines and leprosy and STDs do –
A kind of generic limblessness
Seems to have taken hold,
A dark corruption of the soul.
There is an interesting reprint of the 1959 article by B.H.
Friedman entitled "The Most Expensive Restaurant Ever Built,"
and three lively book reviews, one particularly controversial
regarding Todd Farley's Making the Grades, My Misadventures
in the Standardized Testing Industry, reviewed by Jim Feast.
The author and reviewer appear to arrive at the conclusion that
standardized testing in our society is practically useless – an
extreme view, to say the least.
Fifth Wednesday Journal
Issue 4
Spring 2009
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
"Defining literature. In real context." is how Fifth Wednesday describes itself, making smart use of the multiple layers of meaning these terms evoke (I especially like "defining," which works grammatical overtime). That said, I'm not sure what this actually does mean. What I do know, thanks to publisher Vern Miller's Editor's Notes, is that each issue is guest edited (fiction editor this issue is J.C. Hallman and poetry editor is Nina Corwin); in this fourth issue the journal has now added a section of book reviews; and the magazine feels "obligated" to bring readers some new voices in literature. Alongside these emerging voices, Issue 4 also includes a poem by the incredibly prolific and popular novelist and poet Marge Piercy and award-winning poet Arielle Greenberg. An interview with Greenberg opens the issue.
Greenberg's poems often straddle the space between buoyancy and restraint, and she admits in the interview with John Bradley to a decided preference for the use of humor in poetry. I would say that her work sometimes comes across as sly rather than funny.
"In the Pod House, Morren Fruits & Vegetables Farm," while not humorous or sly, is typical of Greenberg's work and her ability to convert a seemingly ordinary image into a personal epiphany:
that treefinger nodded at me all night long
against the fast of the moon in wane
and one star was my star
my hip joints opened as wide as they were supposed to
the screen door unlatched, singing on its hinge
and the night came in the gaps, came in, came over, came in
While much of the poetry in the issue is similar to Greenberg's, quite a number of the works of fiction are less "real" (I am borrowing the word from the magazine's self definition), with imagined, surreal, or fantastic elements. These include Michael Minassian's story about a meeting with physicist Stephen Hawking in the supermarket; Edie Meidav's parable "Kingdom of the Young"; and Henry Ronan-Daniell's stream of consciousness style portrait of the changing landscape of "Alabama," which may be intended as an essay, not fiction, or even as a prose poem. Works in the magazine are not identified by genre.
The middle of the issue features 13 black and white
photographs by eight photographers in a section titled
"Impressions." Work by Leigh Wells, in particular, is stunning.
Sharply observed and impeccably reproduced images that evoke
stark landscapes and even starker emotions, the best of which is
"Transamerican Picnic." The interplay of snow, light, shadow, an
electrical grid/tower, and a Transamerica truck parked under a
warehouse evokes the loneliness of a deep winter night in a
single glance.
Gander Press Review
Spring/Summer 2009
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
I recognized only two names in the Table of Contents, Nahid Rachlin and Simon Perchik. Yet, even a quick glance at the Contributors' Notes lets me know that most of the 16 fiction writers, three nonfiction writers, and more than two-dozen poets whose work appears here have substantial publishing credits. Despite the popular notion that people don't read and the literary world is suffering, languishing, or on the decline, there are so many journals of all kinds, and so many people writing and publishing, it is difficult to keep up with them all. Gander Press Review, published by Loosey Goosey Press in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is doing its part to keep small press publishing thriving.
The most exceptional or unusual piece is a short essay by Adeline Scout, one of the few writers in the issue whose bio lists no publishing credits at all. The editor's note that precedes her short essay, "Naked on Charrette," explains: "When I received this article (written under a pseudonym), I was both intrigued and a bit suspicious. But the author's story has been verified. While I certainly cannot condone some of her actions, I found her writing to be instructive in what occurs within the correctional system as well as the mind and family of the incarcerated." The story is odd, disturbing, and, as the editor says, intriguing and makes a valuable contribution to "prison literature."
Another terrific prose contribution is Anne Walls's story, "No Pink," with its successful anaphoric structure ("I hate licking envelopes; I hate shopping; I hate the way I looked in junior high school; I hate dealing with florists; I hate paper cuts; I hate the first few minutes of any social gathering; I love the feeling of being everywhere and nowhere all at the same time; I love how everything looks after it rains, etc.). Readable, engaging, original.
A poem by Jean Paul Ferro, "Letter from a Soldier," brought me to tears:
But I am just a little bit broken,
broke in all the right places –
a million little jewels that split apart
all across the ground
And I found myself wanting more from Taylur Thu Hien Hgo whose prose poems "The Somnambulist Journal" and "Memoir" moved and impressed me with their deceptively simple language. These are powerful pieces with the capacity to lead a reader from complacency to great emotion.
What most of the pieces in this journal have in common is
movement toward the unexpected or unanticipated – surprises,
twists, a quirky turn of events or resolution. The same could be
said of the relationship between the journal's cover, an almost
fairy-tale like drawing of a goose (or is it a gander?) and two
geese perched on a book, and the journal's contents.
Gigantic Sequins
Volume 1 Number 1
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Editor-in-Chief Kimberly Ann Southwick kicks off her new mag with a warm welcome to potential contributors:
The irony of our name is supposed to be that the small guy is the big guy to us. We don't need you to be anyone we've ever heard of to consider putting your words out there: we just want you to be good at what you do…we merely prefer that you are multi-talented. We want you to be a musician and a writer; a painter and a poet; run your own brewery when you're not building sculptures in your garage.
Small does, indeed, describe the journal's format, which fits in my palm. Busy-at-more-than-one-pursuit may well be true of the journal's contributors, but it is difficult to determine this from most of their bios. Peter Harren, for example, "started in 1984 and is free sometimes." Max Goransoon is "an unassuming character of few words [who] lives in Brooklyn." Jeff Laughlin isn't in college anymore and enjoys it, he says. Shoni Lamar "would like to have an exceptionally cold corpse, not now, when he's dead."
The journal features poetry, short fiction, a personal essay (family memoir), book reviews, and a series of whimsical (though not always lighthearted) pen and ink drawings by Peter Harren. Jeff Laughlin's poem "List" is characteristic of the style of much of the work in this inaugural issue, direct, unadorned language that means to be digested quickly in one gulp, even as it may be slightly off-center or inventive. The poem begins:
List, you sit anchored by a book of fictions and facing an oscillating fan.
I wonder what you hold in store for my roommate. Groceries? To-dos?
Inane drunken ideas?
No. You are a list of grand accomplishments – mountains climbed,
women wrested, missions accomplished, footprints scattered across the
globe like broken down cars on an interstate.
My favorite piece in Gigantic Sequins is the opening
poem, "We Don't Need Boats We Swim," a short, accomplished poem
by Ben Fama (who is, as is happens, indeed, multi-talented; he
co-edits the poetry journal Supermachine, works with Ugly
Ducking Presse, and is composing a chapbook.) The poem is
deceptively easy, asks me to dig under the surface once I've
realized my mistake in underestimating its impact, and leaves me
wanting another Ben Fama poem. Just one more little sequin.
Hanging Loose
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Hanging Loose always does a good job of mixing it up: a combination of established poets and newer voices, along with the fresh work of "writers of high school age." The youthful poems are particularly appealing this issue, more mature in their insights than one has a right to expect from such young writers.
Here is Randie Adler's "Detention Center":
I once heard of a boy who
picked fights
so someone would throw him
in juvie,
and he could write.
What a fool.
Not because he has incriminated himself
(people incriminate themselves every day)
but because
every mind is solitary confinement
and every poem
a fight.
To escape the solitary confinement of the mind, we seek the company of good poems, I think, precisely because they "fight" for our salvation as part of more than a community of one. We are, at least temporarily, engaged in something larger than our own sense of isolation.
In this issue, that engagement includes wonderful poems by Maureen Owen, "my neighbors relax on their southwestern porch chatting in Spanish / Just like I always wanted my neighbors to do / Christian monasteries and Ottomon mosques or there arrives the fitful pinched" and "the beauty of the air So tonic draught intensity a liquid or when you were dead will I still always be there." These poems are composed, as their titles suggest, of the unlikely and delightful juxtaposition of images and ideas that are hard to imagine coalescing into a meaningful whole, yet they do. Owen loves lush sounds and she shoves them together with a kind of force that can be abrupt, but somehow also fluid ("the sound of real string beans snapping / punish the dense and the glamorous"). Her poems are paintings (references to Courbet and Monet), their images both dense and precise, but they are not painterly. The sheer urgency of her breath at work just below the surface of the lines gives them a sense of quick movement and immediacy.
Another particularly engaging entry this issue are excerpts from a "memoir in letters" by Hettie Jones, Love, H: A Correspondence. Jones, author of 23 books for children and adults, traces her literary and social life from 1960 forward and provides a great view into the New York literary scene that is now, unbelievably, a half century gone in chronological accounting and a whole lot more gone than that in a kind of metaphorical literary time. I can't wait to read more of the memoir.
Another stunning way to forget one's solitary confinement is
to engage with "Coming Attractions," a series of acrylic on
canvas paintings by Arnold Mesches, well reproduced here. The
paintings are preceded with the artist's brief remarks: "I have
lived through . . . the Great Depression, wars and threats of
wars, reactionary times and massive demonstrations for peace and
civility. I've organized, mobilized, picketed and screamed,
marched, cried, been thrilled and frightened, uplifted and
thrown to the ground, only to paint again." These are beautiful,
mysterious, dense, colorful, sometimes whimsical, sometimes
scary paintings with rich historical references and sharp
political and social perspectives. "Questioning lasts longer
than dogmatism," Mesches says. This must certainly be why
Hanging Loose has survived, happily, for so long.
Volume 34
Review by Terri Denton
This edition of inscape finds loss of every sort within its pages. Each piece is different, naturally, but the element of emptiness seems to touch each poem, each story, in this journal. The first I'll give a glimpse of is Brian Brown's "History of Time":
while you stare blankly at the Folio Shakespeare
you'll never read, vacuous to a fault.
Cigarettes and their condiments of drink and sex
are the bad chi in your library of loss.
Yet there are volumes you've set to memory,
thin and lyrical histories of the wiregrass,
[. . .]
Books such as this you've read your whole life, heard
in the crackle of longleaf pine against the dawn,
but you never liked the way they ended.
So here begins your autobiography.
Brown's piece, here, is about the loss of history, inherent in our failure to read and understand what has come before us.
Brown has another beautifully written poem, this one, perhaps, about the loss of faith, but with it, an acknowledgement of the need that's inhabited faith's empty space. "Theory of Relativity," a scientific phrase, to be sure, nonetheless becomes the lynchpin for this piece on faith. Offers Brown, "We try to hold every epiphany / but always come up short. // [. . .] Waiting for God / isn't something we do, / but rather / the energy of everything."
John Boucher's nonfiction piece, "Speaking in Tongues," is a heartbreaking rendition of the loss of his life-partner and lover, Rex. Reading this, I was brought nearly to tears. Pouring out his soul, the author writes, "When Rex got off the phone, he found me waiting on our couch. The couch we picked out. / The couch we made love on / the couch we watched TV on / the couch we read to each other on / [. . .] the couch we almost broke-up on / the couch I would wait with my parents to go to his funeral. The couch I finally had to throw out." Further in Rex's story, Boucher has asked Rex's estranged mother if she'd like something of Rex's. Rex's sister, Ruth, leaves a message on John's answering machine with Rex's mom's request: "She said what she'd really like is a picture – of you both. She said when you spoke to her at that restaurant it was just like talkin' to married people." When Boucher explains that he sent the last picture that was saved on Rex's camera – of the two of them at John's father's birthday – it is a palpable loss that the reader feels. It is as if Boucher's loss belongs to each and every one.
I was particularly touched, in this atmosphere, and at this time in which we live, by Zachary Kluckman's "Dog-Tags and Butterflies" poem:
In the silence there is nothing.
A void of sound like the failure of emotion to capture
the moment when a flag falls over a soldier,
and the ground swallows both.
When the gunfire ceases suddenly
the ground echoes with the sound for minutes afterward.
The thunder of fire swallowed by the sand;
a pulse you can feel with your hand.
A storm you can play in your head like a song.
Press your ear to the ground and you can still hear the dead.
The loss that permeates this edition of inscape should
not dissuade the reader from picking up a copy, rather it should
be the very reason that one does.
The Iowa Review
Volume 39 Number 2
Fall 2009
Review by Terri Denton
In May and June of 2008, The Cedar River, after days of torrential rain, broke through its restraints, and the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was suddenly plunged into a flood, destroying the city and displacing most of its inhabitants. The memory of this event permeates the pages of this edition of the Iowa review, and the journal cannot be read without feeling the loss that these people, and these writers, felt. So deep was their loss, and their shock, that stories and poems about the river fill each and every page, with nostalgia, sadness and anger. All manner of emotion can be found within The Iowa Review's pages.
Guilt, perhaps not surprising, is felt by the survivors, the ones who are back to their lives despite the river's attempts to ruin them. For example, Joe Blair cannot help but recall the beauty of destruction, but is surprised by his own reaction:
The days of the flood are the most beautiful days. I know that's blasphemy. How could I say that when over one thousand city blocks in Cedar Rapids were under water? When the Quaker Oats plant shut down. When retired people who lived a mile from the Cedar River, so far from the river that they never had a fleeting thought of buying flood insurance, lost the largest investment of their lives and were forced, in some cases, to live on the streets? But it's true. At the very moment the river, at the last second, changed its mind, and decided to fuck everything up, the sun broke through and the wind died down and there was a blindingly beautiful river where a city used to be.
Amy Leach, another victim of nature's wrath, likens the caprice of the river to a dance: "if you have been frantically stationary, wishing to spin or to be spun but being suspended; there is music that will dissolve your anchors, your sanctuaries, floating you off your feet, fetching you away with itself."
David Wagoner's piece, "By a Creek," also invokes the river. "It kept saying / I'm here. I wasn't here / an instant ago, but now / I'm here and gone. I'm going / to be here again this moment, / and already I'm falling / out of the same place / I'm going to always be." The beauty of this piece cannot be ignored, but it, too, can't help but elicit responses of grief, and the frustration of the persistence of a river's unstoppable flow.
Marvin Bell's "The Book of the Dead Man (The River)" imagines a protector of the victims. The poem is filled with both pathos and hope: "The dead man stands on the banks of a river that overcame its banks. / He stands where the river has made a new road to ride. / He strides the shore and salutes those in boats looking to help, / the homeowners in rubber boots and the store owners / who carried their inventory on their backs." Pattiann Roger's "The Great Deluge and Its Coming" can be seen as somewhat of a companion piece to Bell's, but it stands alone just as effectively, with its horror: "We were mewing / and choking, spitting / and barking in our plight, the bundle / of us in a jumble, struggling, shifting constantly, losing hold / in white water, breaking apart // carried away, found again. / . . . Direction was destiny."
Other jewels in this collection are Fleda Brown's "Northern
Pike" and Laura Rigal's "Watershed Days on the Treaty Line,
1836- 1839." All the pieces in this collection of sadness are
remarkable in their ability to rise above the water, and make
themselves heard.
The Long Story
Number 27
Review by Terri Denton
This journal is, not the least surprisingly, composed almost entirely by long, short stories. It was a joy to read, and it is my sincere hope that, at the end of this review, I will have convinced you to purchase a copy.
There is humor to be found, for example, in Jan Schmidt's "The Cab Driver, the Yoga Lady, and the Cell Phone": "He wondered if aliens from outer space looked at the earth, if they would think the streets were veins bringing people corpuscles to feed the buildings. Not to mention the lady on the corner scooping the dog doo-doo with a plastic bag over her hand. Aliens would probably think humans revered their dogs, even collected their sacred droppings." Schmidt's story is filled with everything from regret to mild-shock, but her humor is the part that I enjoyed most.
With Kathleen J. Stowe's "A Good Old Dog," I sympathized, perhaps too much, with the family's reaction, and in particular, the son's reaction, to his father's stay at a hospital in the final stages of his life. Stowe solemnly writes, "But in my father's lonely room, there seemed no purpose at all for the bright intrusive light that shone down from the fluorescent fixture above his bed. [. . .] It lit his head and shoulders in a way that made the wisps of his blond hair shine dark and greasy, and the hollows in his cheeks were gray and so unlike my father's usual ruddy tan." I think we've all got memories such as this, of loved ones passing away so slowly and yet so quickly that the shock stings for a long time after.
T. L. Toma's "This Vision of the World," too, is a standout amongst these stories. The lead character, named only as Knapp, had his world revealed perfectly by Toma, puzzling piece by puzzling piece. When Knapp's self-owned business had begun to fail, his wife, Claire, an actress, arrived at home at the critical moment: "Still, none of this might have mattered had Claire not come home one afternoon – this was during the low moment of his difficulties at work – churning with good news." This is a wonderfully written glimpse into Knapp's future and, while I could not possibly detail the rest of the story, just know that Knapp's love for Claire shines through every word.
I thoroughly enjoyed this journal, and will be certain to
pick up future issues should I see them at my local bookstore.
A collection such as this doesn't appear too often in the vast
landscape of literary journals, and it deserves a space on every
Issue 8
Summer/Fall 2009
Review by Anthony Bonds
One appreciates a literary magazine with a central theme, and this is precisely what MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine delivers. It trains it sights on the underdogs of society, with stories and poem focused on character and a sense of place, depicting individuals who have been brushed aside or overlooked by society.
This is MAKE's 8th issue, and the theme this time is "This Everyday." According the editors, the theme suggests "a celebration of the normal, an exaltation of the banal . . . In this issue, you will find work that observes and deconstructs the quotidian, discovers worth in modesty, and unveils the sublime in the most unlikely of places. The authors and visual artists herein look at what we often overlook and try to name it, rename it, and otherwise make sense of our relationships with each other and with our selves."
This deceptively slim volume is densely packed, and although the print is somewhat small (with two-column pages), the stories and poems are infectiously readable. But what sets MAKE apart from many other magazines is that, in addition to first-rate fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art, there are a few extra touches: book reviews, interviews and collaborations.
Okay, maybe book reviews aren't all that uncommon, but it's nice to read well-written and insightful reviews on widely distributed titles from Simon and Schuster alongside reviews of the more modestly distributed, university press titles.
"This Everyday" features two interviews, and both of them are conversations between two big names and mediated and transcribed by a third person. "I Don't Understand the God Part: A Conversation Between Dorothea Lasky and Lauren Berlant" hits on heady subjects you'd expect to overhear at a sociology conference: case studies, their inherent jump from the individual to the general, and how the ideas therein can be applied to art. The second interview is slightly less academic, but for aspiring writers, may be a shade more grim. In "Two Separate Conversations: An Interview with Dave Daley and Stephen Elliot," the subjects discuss the present and uncertain future of the rapidly changing publishing industry.
This issue also involves a collaboration between Marvin Bell and Marvin Tate. Four years ago, Chicago poet and musician Marvin Tate interviewed Marvin Bell, Iowa's first Poet Laureate, for the inaugural issue of MAKE. For this issue, "The Marvin and Marvin Show" reunited for a collaboration via e-mail merging song, poetry, and the theme "This Everyday." The reader encounters this collaboration in sequence, on one page is the song, written out in musical notation on a treble clef staff, and on the adjacent page is other-Marvin's response poem, then another song, then another poem. The ingenious part of this collaboration is that the poems and songs were subsequently recorded, and the album is available at the magazine's website.
The fiction element of MAKE's "This Everyday" issue seems to focus on characters on the periphery, but each story deals with this theme in its own way. In Laura Gabel-Hartman's "The Cookout," a woman who struggles to put a little fire back into her relationship is faced with the horror of finding her kindergarten-age daughter with her hand down a young boy's pants during a cookout. "Koba's Bad Cut," by Jim Snowden, is a Kafka-esque story about a Russian officer's chance encounter with Joseph Stalin, and the agony of debating with himself over how to best answer a single question posed by the iconic leader: "Do you like my new haircut?"
The nonfiction pieces are similarly focused on the outsider. With his essay, "Them," Bryan Furuness takes us through a frenzied snippet of his life as an insurance salesman and illustrates the pitfalls of being a moderate liberal in a sea of hyper-conservatives. "Receptionist," by Christen Enos, is a fun look at what it's like to be a fly on the wall at PR firm that represents famous Hollywood celebrities, but the social divisions observed by the author are stark, and very much black and white.
The photography in this issue is striking. The art is printed in full color on non-glossy paper, which adds a certain warmth to the images. Keeping the paper consistent also helps to ease the reader's transition from text-material to image. Just another nice touch in the aesthetic of the magazine.
All in all, even though this is only MAKE's 8th issue,
the layout is as slick and professional as any journal that has
been around for decades. My recommendation: this magazine is
well worth the $10 cover price.
Number 6
Fall/winter 2009/2010
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
I didn't even realize publications like make/shift still existed. What a relief! Reading this radical magazine-style (not journal, magazine!) publication made me nostalgic for Off Our Backs (maybe even for On Our Backs) and Lesbian Connections and the let's-turn-the-world-upside-down rags I looked forward to every month in the 70's and 80's when women's bookstores were (sometimes) dangerous and (always) exhilarating, and I could rely on feminist writing to inspire and sustain me.
make/shift "creates and documents contemporary feminist culture and action by publishing journalism, critical analysis, and visual and text art." And, of course, there is an editorial collective. (Music to my ears.) And a commitment to "antiracist, transnational, and queer perspectives." If this feels like something of a time warp, believe me, it isn't. In the years since the publications I cited above, we've reckoned with HIV/AIDS as evidenced in the interview with choreographer Sean Dorsey about his work Uncovered: The Diary Project; seen an explosion of interest in and connection to transgender issues, as evidenced in Kai Kohlsdorf's essay "ReSexing Trans," and numerous other pieces here; and continue to indulge the preoccupation with the relationship between new technologies and new identities, as expressed in an interview between librarians Emily Drabinsky and Lia Friedman in "When Reference is Radical."
The magazine includes reviews of books by mainstream and indie presses; brief personal essays; and poetry (though I wouldn't say this is the magazine's strength); and this issue contains a special feature "Beyond the Medical-Industrial Complex: Health and Healing in Community," with a series of short essays/articles which are personal, political, critical, and significant on so many levels. It is unlikely that the people who really need to read these pieces (hello, White House staff) will actually see them.
There is something that can feel terribly youthful (or perhaps I mean playful) about the publication – the writer's bios, for example: "J. Max Stein is a dirty, happy queer living in Brooklyn"; "Jessica Lawless is exploring her new home in Santa Fe. Come visit"; "Teht Ashmani is a genderqueer trans of color cross-dresser, writer, and student." But not only, not exclusively. There are also Kebby Warner "a woman prisoner, mother, and anarchist fighting for her freedom" and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore "the author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and Nobody Passes and That's Revolting.
"We lived to tell the tale," writes Lennle Moïse (a
self-described "award-winning poet, playwright, and performance
artist") of her experience of being verbally assaulted by a
"skinhead" on the 1 train (subway) in Manhattan. I ride the 1
every day. make/shift helps me believe that I will
survive the MTA (Manhattan Transportation Authority), healthcare
reform, on-going discrimination of more kinds than I wish to
acknowledge, and our culture's general stupidity and
narrow-mindedness to tell the tale.
The Malahat Review
Number 168
Fall 2009
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Despite much evidence to the contrary, or the apparent – or at least underestimated – challenges of doing so, it is possible to write an original and unforgettable speaker-meets-nature poem; or a speaker talks-to-poem poem; or a family story poem; or a poem with diction as casual as a nonchalant conversation; or a poem with images of popular culture; or yet one more poem about the mystery of math. It is possible to write an original and satisfying story from the perspective of a child or an adolescent that is also mature and inventive, not excessively playful or childish. It is possible to write a book review that exhibits intellectual sophistication without resorting to jargon. It is, in fact, possible to find all of these original and exceptional pieces in one place, writing by Susan Gillis, Jefferey Donaldson, Sam Cheuk, Rachel Rose, Eve Joseph, Ross Leckie, Eliza Robertson, Devon Code, Jackie Gay, Eric Miller – in The Malahat Review.
Don't skip a single piece in this issue. Not Priscilla Uppal's rant, "Fortress," which concludes:
Deep in the gut
of this millennium, our amazing graces
are sanctioned like cigars. We hold them
up to the light for appreciation, smell
our delicate fingertips, await the arrival
of zillions of more vulnerable babies,
until a large man with a bass tone
breaks plate after plate upon
the force field of mankind
Or Stuart Friebert's personal essay, "Germany's Ganges," which retells his experience of a biking accident and a brief hospital stay in 1949 in the Rhineland in the context of post-war sentiments, perspectives, and regrets.
Or Ross Leckie's exquisite metaphysical poems with their long lines and even longer meanings. Here is the beginning of "The Brain a Cauliflower":
There is the negative judgement, the one that bends the tulips to the ground.
Nothing is possible in empty time. Small wonder. The brain, that is,
with its various habitats, the ants tunneling in its moist soil.
Or Eve Joseph's poem "White Camellias," so much restraint and refined yearning ("Those I don't write are loyal like all broken things.") Or Gwendolyn Jensen's poem "Earth Has a Thousand Faces," which sounds like so much hyperbole, and is not, not, not.
Or Eliza Robertson's beautiful, heartbreaking, and cleverly composed story, "Ship's Log," winner of the magazine's Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, about an imaginary voyage to China. A made-up story about a made-up story.
Don't skip the reviews or even the ads (you'll find out
what's happening on the Canadian poetry scene). If you go slowly
enough, you might just have enough to get you through to issue
one hundred and sixty-nine.
The Meadow
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
The Meadow is an annual journal published by Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. Truckee Meadows students serve on the editorial board and represent the largest group of contributors to the magazine, although this issue's contributors also include several MFA students from large universities and a few more seasoned writers. The centerpiece of the issue is an interview with novelist and memoirist Kim Barnes (A Country Called Home, Finding Caruso, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country, Hungry for the World), conducted by the journal's fiction editor, Mark Maynard. They discuss the genesis of Barnes's most recent novel, the importance of place in that book, her writing process, and her upcoming work.
Most of the writing, poetry and fiction, in this issue has a decidedly casual tone, as exemplified by Kelly Ogilvie's poem, "Alaskan/Firefighter/Psychologist," which begins:
I went to the bar Friday night
to be alone.
And this Alaskan started talking to me.
He asked me if I was frustrated
because I had peeled the labels off my beer.
And then he asked me
if I wanted to peel the label off his.
Or Krista Benjamin's "Dad," which begins:
I don't know which one of us snapped
the picture, but Dad is successfully ignoring
the photographer. He wears what we called
the "O" shirt: brown rayon covered
with little white circles, an endless, single-player
game of tic-tac-toe.
The nonfiction work, three personal essays, is the most memorable writing in the issue, in particular Linh Cao's "The Ex-Camp Site," which recounts a visit to Viet Nam where the author's family still lives. The author's father was imprisoned in Central Viet Nam in the 1970's and a desire to understand that experience is at the heart of the essay.
A section of well-reproduced photographs by Abraham Abebe,
Amy Alden, John Kett, Brandon Lacow, Joy Wong, and Naho
Hasegawa, both color and black and white, rounds out the issue.
All exhibit a thoughtful sense of composition and original ideas
of how to frame a subject to optimize its unique stance in the
Moon City Review
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
For twenty years, Moon City Review was a student-run biannual journal published by the Missouri State University department of English. With the 2009 issue, the magazine transitions to a "book annual featuring work in various genres from multiple communities; from current students and faculty to celebrated alums and artists of regional, national, and even international reputation." The new journal will include a section titled "Archival Treasures from the Ozarks," which will "'bring back' artists whose works lie languishing, and largely forgotten." In their lengthy introduction announcing these changes, the editors invite submissions for future issues, which will focus on special themes, though not to the exclusion of other work, to include "speculative fictions," an alumni issue, and the art and literature of children and adolescents.
In its status as a literary-artistic annual (and as an academic small press of the same name), Moon City remains a mythic place, forever a 'new town' . . . where Ozarks history and literary artistic-culture can be both remembered and re-constructed, engaging back-and-forth with the rest (and best) of the world.
If every issue includes one feature as interesting as the essay on the inventor of the Kewpie doll, "Portraits of Womanhood in the Artwork of Rose O'Neill," by Missouri State University professors of English James S. Baumlin and Lanette Cadle, Moon City Review will certainly be worth keeping eye on. Kewpie, a "wildly collectible popular-culture icon" considered the greatest success in the history of toys, turns 100 this year, and the story of the woman who dreamed her up is a fascinating glimpse into issues of class, gender, commercialism, and creativity. The essay includes wonderful photos and illustrations.
Another fine contribution is Billy Clem's memoir essay, "Some
Confirmation: A Gay Man Comes of Age in the Missouri Ozarks."
Clem's poems also appear in the issue, along with the work of
more than a dozen other poets. Clem's prose is plain, yet
appealing, and his writing is at once modest and engaging. His
poetry is representative of much of the poetry in the issue,
language that avoids heightened, imagistic tendencies and tends
towards a casual approach in both tone and diction. A
"conversation" between former Missouri State University
classmates Kevin Brockmeier and Shannon Wooden, the former now a
fiction writer and essayist, and the latter a professor of
English, is also worthwhile.
Paul Revere's Horse
Volume 1 Number 1
Spring 2009
Review by Terri Denton
For those of us fortunate to live in Massachusetts, the name Paul Revere nearly conjures magic, in the fairy-tale sense. Perhaps it was by design, then, that the publishers of this journal's very first edition would use tales that evoke feelings of long-agos, and far, far-aways. Micaela Morrissette's tale, "The Glowing Light in the Forest" is the perfect ambassador for Paul Revere's Horse's first foray, and the perfect example of magic conjured by pen. Truly, I can give but a hint or two of her ingenious story/poem. For example, "In the cool, damp, dark forest, a princess." If this seems like a slight tease, then I'll add one of Morrissette's devilishly clever lists: "The forest. The princess. The well. The tower. The red rose. The frog. The ring. The dog. The tear. The servant. The key. The mirror. The witch. The disguise." But that is all I will say. To give you, the reader, more would spoil the surprise that is Morrissette's writing, and her utterly captivating tale. This imagining would be enough to recommend the journal; it's that good, but Paul Revere's Horse has so much more to offer.
Here, too, is a collection of works by John Murray. Simply encapsulated as "Three Poems," they are everything but simple. In "Ghost/Home," Murray writes, "You are the sailor / Twenty years gone // Seashell on the water // Magician / Pirate // Witch of the mountain/ Witch of the sea." Are you feeling Murray's magic yet? Perhaps "Visitant" will do it for you. In it, the author writes, "The dreamcatcher caught me / Darting past your window in deep winds of sleep, / Spied you draped across your bed." Finally comes Murray's last poem, "The Dark of the Moon," of which I will not share a single word: It is a very short poem. While not as magical as its completing pair, it makes up for it in sheer delight. "Three Poems" is a collection not to be missed.
Next up is Miranda Mellis's "Transformer: Excerpt, Part 1." Not to be outdone, Mellis tosses her pen into the witch's brew of literary sleight of hand. To wit: "A girl's mother, testing her, asks her daughter to set fire to the woods behind their house from a distance, with her mind. Wanting to please her mother, and curious to see if she can, the girl tries. She looks up at the forest and thinks, OK now burn. But it doesn't. She fails."
Also to be found is Christine Choi's "Fifteen Love Letters." Number 1 is as follows "I. DO NOT CLARIFY. IN CLARIFYING, YOU ARE SAYING THAT THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN POINTS IS A LINE – WHEN IT ISN'T." Continuing with the first letter, Choi writes that, "I want to tell you about a swollen animals dream. A cushion dream, logged with faded dog-eared texts, the tavern lamp and its moths, cumulous clouds puffing up on the horizon. In my dream, we all eat fruit and understand that we are animals. We love our pet mice and birds as if we'd built a language together from scratch." There is something magical in the speaker's dream, rounding out these pieces.
Perhaps, again, it is only because I live a scant 20 miles
from the scene of Paul Revere's ride, the image of Paul Revere's
horse racing through the streets of Lexington has an evocation
of long-ago, and a bit of far, far away for me. And this edition
of Paul Revere's Horse elicits these same feelings. But I
suspect that you need not live in the cradle of liberty to feel
the unrestrained magic of this journal. It's absolutely
Volume 59 Number 2
Fall 2009
Review by Sally Molini
As usual there are great poems and stories in the latest issue of Shenandoah, though I must say that the two essays, Jeffrey Hammond's engaging "My Father's Hats, and a wrenching must-read by Shari Wagner, "Camels, Cowries & A Poem for Aisha," about harrowing conditions in Somalia, are stand-outs. Set within the frame of a memoir, Jeffrey Hammond's essay, "My Father's Hats," is an entertaining history of the hat, beginning with the snug pilos, the Greek name for a common, helmet-shaped cap made of felt. I sat at my computer as I read, Googling the names of hats as Hammond's prose moved through the centuries.
Shari Wagner's essay discusses life in troubled Somalia, a country she describes as a terribly "harsh place for women – especially during their childbearing years." Wagner's article includes the stoning of thirteen-year-old Aisha who, after having informed the militia that she had been raped by three men, was executed for adultery. How the image of a cowrie shell fits into Wagner's narrative is painfully apt and devastatingly poetic.
Poetry claims the largest section of this issue, with several pieces being about animals, birds, insects, hunting, and fishing. Margaret Reges's two poems are beautiful, with long, undulating lines filled with in-the-moment detail. "Saguaro," a piece by Pablo Peshiera, is an arresting depiction of Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish explorer of the New World, its piercing lines spoken by a native voice. Wendell Hawken's "Elegaic" and "A View" are deftly rendered poems on two different kinds of hunting; and Katy Didden's "Mind's-Eyed Island," about Surtsey, Earth's newest island, is set in triplets and reminds the reader where "earth's beginning gets re-set" and that it is "so hard to leave be what the law ropes off."
The six stories that appear in this issue share various threads of sex and precarious situations in which the characters often feel cornered. Holly Goddard Jones' story, "Allegory of a Cave," is a rather reluctant coming-of-age tale about Ben, a ten-year-old whose eyesight is deteriorating; his other cross to bear is his can't-be-intermittent-enough relationship with his father. Jones' tale reminds this reader of how children are constantly at the mercy of a parent's state of mind. Sheba Karim's fiction piece, "Telescope," offers a meaningful glimpse into the life of a Pakistani couple, Firoze and Fariha, living in a suburban neighborhood, the title suggesting that objects observed from a distance may be colored with the viewer's own projections.
An interview with fiction writer Robert Olmstead closes the
issue. Responding to interviewer Bruce Bays's question on the
habits of a writer, Olmstead answers, "Your ear becomes a sort
of pickup, a mike for all kinds of ambient conversations,
ambient sound, the turns of phrase." Shenandoah's does
indeed reflect current ambient conversations: always with us are
creatures of nature; acts of violence of one kind or another;
the birth of something new, even land; abuse; prejudice – all
reflect human states of consciousness, ransacking, empathetic,
harsh, generous, etc. Whether poem, essay or story, all the
pieces here stand as witness to the wide, raging vicissitudes of
human perception, which are, as always, both real and imagined.
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I miss home and how comforting everything seems to be over there. Please take me to Cagayan de Oro right now. :-(
Being in the crazy kitchen everyday for more than 6 hours a day, everyday (yes, including Sundays) finally took its toll on me. I'M OFFICIALLY SICK. I hate having to work and feel so uncomfortable because of my runny nose and drowsy feeling. Plus the addition of my incredibly dry throat and sore legs aren't helping at all. My body is still not used to this insanely demanding pace and work load. Lord, please help me get better very, very soon. :-(
9 hours to go until my first day of OJT at Cafe Ysabel begins! Goodness, time flies so fast! I could still remember writing a blog entry 3 months ago about how nervous and excited I was for my first day of culinary class and now, we're on to our on-the-job-training already.
I really hope I'll learn a lot from this experience be it good or bad. I'm just glad I was grouped with my close friends in class so we could get through this together. I know this isn't going to be a smooth sailing ride but I believe it's still going to be a lot of fun.
De La Salle University - Manila's Library.
De La Salle University - Manila's Library.
Our culinary batch and my friend, Jay, gets featured on the Philippine news program, 24-Oras.
Tumblr Challenge
Day 16 - Something that you want to do within the next five years.
My goal within the next five years is to be doing something I'm passionate about. I'm hoping it's about food.
Since I started my culinary classes at CACS, not a single day has passed where I did not look forward to going to class (yes, even on exam days). I enjoy being in school a lot and I learn a ton of things in just one day.
I am really happy where I am today and I can't wait to see what God has in store for me in the coming years. But I'm taking everything as it comes - day by day.
[Photo by Jjay Cabelin]
I missed day 16 (May 16, 2010) of the Tumblr Challenge because since my relatives are here and day 16 falls on a Sunday, I was out for family day. I was pretty tired from the previous night so I woke up late, we left for the 2:30 P.M. church service at CCF St. Francis (amazing and comical speaker btw), and hung out at Megamall right after.
Dinner at Saisaki, SM Megamall
My cousin, Cay and I
with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. ( See how I am not peculiarly tall at all? Even the senator is taller than me :| Jeeeez )
I missed day 16 (May 16, 2010) of the Tumblr Challenge because since my relatives are here and day 16 falls on a Sunday, I was out for family day. I was pretty tired from the previous night so I woke up late, we left for the 2:30 P.M. church service at CCF St. Francis (amazing and comical speaker btw), and hung out at Megamall right after.
Dinner at Saisaki, SM Megamall
My cousin, Cay and I
with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. ( See how I am not peculiarly tall at all? Even the senator is taller than me :| Jeeeez )
Yesterday in class, we learned how to make soufflés and custards. Overall, it was an amazing day. Since we were only given three recipes for the day, Bujong and I were paired up to create Soufflé Au Grand Marnier (Orange Soufflé). Things went really well. We were able to create a great base for the soufflé, whipped the eggwhites to a soft peak, lightened the base and folded the eggwhites to the base with extra care and correct timing, and the end result was 8 ramekins holding our beautiful (very delicious) soufflés. I am so proud of myself and my partner Bujong as well as my three other groupmates for the lovely creme brulee they've made.
Just as I was starting to love dessert making, we'll be taking a break from it and move to pork/poultry/duck/lamb fabrication for the upcoming weeks. Tomorrow will be our last pastry arts session until the 1st of May (which happens to be my mom's birthday and I want to come home badly). BOO
These are my group mates from culinary and pastry arts class.
On another note, the school's welcoming party for us freshmen is next Saturday already and I still don't have a dress!!! I really hope Trixia and I can find the perfect LBD tomorrow!
Today, I waited for an hour in the classroom only to find out that our lecture on gastronomy was cancelled and will be moved to another date. Bummer. I could've left for CdO today had I known! In school, I've been getting along way better with the boys than the girls. Which goes to show why I'm the only girl sitting on the right side of the classroom while all the others are on the left. It doesn't matter since I hardly talk anyway. Next week, we'll be wearing our uniforms already. With the shoes, of course. I'd love to show you a photo but I can't find the means to. I left my camera and cellphone cables back home and my webcam doesn't seem to function.
Anyway, tomorrow's the day!I have to wake up friggin' early though! I have to be up at 4:30 A.M. and leave the house by 6 for my 8:15 flight.
Right now, I'm typing extremely slow to avoid make dents on my newly polished nails.
I'm hungry and my snack's here which means, I got to go.
I have nothing to do and I don't feel like watching television. I did finish watching all of the old dvd's here though and three of those films all have Colin Firth in it (That he's starting to grow on me now). I read all my new magazines, surfed the net, and right now, I'm trying to go through and understand a 20-page handout on gastronomy. It has a lot of huge and foreign words that boggles me.
Today in class, we were told that our welcoming party (to be hosted by the upperclassmen) will be on the 17th of April. Dress code is all black and attendance to the party is a must (unless we'd rather serve an additional 100 hours in the kitchen). I'm not at all into the party scene; not a single bone in my body has interest in going to clubs and drinking 'til the wee hours of the morning but we all have to comply on this one (except for the drinking and smoking, duh). So the big question is: WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR?!!!
On a different note, I'm excited to see T for lunch (and lunch only since she has work BOO) tomorrow! But really, thanks a lot for making time, T.
Another thing to be excited about: My visit to my home sweet home on Friday! Nothing beats the idea of home and the presence of my adorable family. But despite the fact that I'm extremely happy to go home for a short bit, I actually don't like to miss my 6th lecture class on Saturday. That's what make-up classes are for, I guess.
Just as luck would have it, I was never called to write down my solution and answer on the board. That's right, NEVER! It was like I was meant to just chill in Math class. To make things way better, we were dismissed an hour and a half early. Ahh, pure joy. But I still dislike you, Math!!!
Today, we were given our school uniforms. I hated it at first (during enrollment where I had my fitting), but I'm starting to like it now that I got to wear it with the entire set. I have to say it looks quite good. But the kitchen clogs look really funny to me. But I'd rather wear the clogs than have something bad happen to my toes.
I'm nervous about the kitchen tasks already! Even if it's still in two weeks. I'm scared of a lot of things, really. But my fears are way overpowered with excitement and curiosity. I hope Culinary is as fun as I think it is!
My ultimate reminder: STUDY HARD. AIM HIGH DON'T SETTLE FOR MEDIOCRITY. DON'T GET DISTRACTED!
Second reminder: DON'T GET FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
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So far, I've been having a wonderful time in my Culinary classes. That it's like, lately, the stars are on my side. It hasn't been this wonderful during the start of the year. I really hated 2010 then. I thought it was going to be my worst year ever! After all the successive miseries and mishaps. Oh well, that was then, and this is now. I feel like I'm finally in the right direction (so far).
Today, I had my French Culinary class and we had Ms. Cecile Mauricio as our instructor. She is remarkably chic and if you close your eyes and listen to her speak in French, you'd think she's a true-blue Parisienne. She speaks the language so beautifully and she has the guns to back it up, too. She holds one of the highest levels in languages at the Alliance Française de Manille. She totally made my day. So far (I have to keep stressing that just because…), the instructors are incredibly inspiring. Miss Cecile has given me a ton of beautiful words of encouragement and valuable advices to motivate me to continue to study French. All those kind words, coming from her, really meant a lot me. And to think that she's a really strict instructor (but not to me, YET), I think she's amazing. *winkwink*
I love my school and the opportunities and experiences it's giving me. Thank you, God.
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TOMORROW IS THE DAY. I'm really looking forward to my first day of culinary class but at the same time, I'm fifty times more nervous about going back to school. I hope things turn out well. God, I lift up everything to you.
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For as long as he could remember, Paul has been an avid athlete and fitness enthusiast. In 1993, he decided to take that passion and enthusiasm into a professional capacity. From 1993-2001, Paul walked through the doors of nearly 1,000 health clubs throughout the New York metropolitan area as a distributor/representative for over 30 commercial fitness manufacturers. During this time, it became very obvious to Paul that these fitness facilities were designed to attract and cater to a very small percentage of the population. The balance of the population, Paul felt, were not members of these facilities for many reasons: these people were either frustrated from previous attempts to become healthy, they were intimidated by all the fancy looking equipment and machines that these fancy gyms had or simply overwhelmed and unmotivated to even know how to start taking care of themselves. This experience planted a seed in Paul's mind. That seed was to figure out a way how to attract all these "lost" people and teach them how to live healthier lifestyles for good.
In 2001, Paul had an opportunity to become part owner of a semi-private group training facility, but soon realized that it too, catered to a very small percentage of the population. Then "9/11" occurred and everything changed. Several months later, Paul, his wife Marianne and their two small boys relocated from Northern New Jersey to Richmond, Virginia. After a brief stint as a mortgage banker, Paul knew there was another calling for him; he had to get back to his life long passion of fitness, but couldn't put his finger on what exactly that looked like. After nearly 15 years of quietly thinking things thru and dreaming of what it would be like to create such a unique wellness "system," it all finally came to fruition. On August 3rd, 2007 Paul Founded Adrenaline Sports USA, INC., now doing business as "Team Adrenaline International." Team Adrenaline International is a private group training enterprise, held exclusively outdoors and is completely "organic" in nature, never utilizing equipment, machines or devices. After exposing well over 1,000 people to his system thru grass roots marketing, Team Adrenaline has proved to be a "HOME" for EVERYONE! Team Adrenaline has three distinct market channels: student athletes, community and corporate. Because of the program's unique platform, it is not uncommon to see an elite athlete training right along side a severely de-conditioned individual. "We are a confidence boosting program not a boot camp, Paul is quick to point out." "We attract and accommodate all walks of life." It is not uncommon to see a dual inspiration taking place on any given day where an elite athlete is being inspired by the gritty determination of someone who hasn't exercised in 30 years, but knows they need to and is doing it!!!
In 2010, Paul partnered with and international wellness company and is now teaching and licensing this concept to communities, towns and city's world wide. Team Adrenaline International makes exercise simple, fun and addicting and attracts positive, like minded attitudes and personalities who could care less about egos. Team Adrenaline forms a culture that helps to not only establish healthy behaviors, but sustain these behaviors for life. Paul has always said that the body is the most amazing "machine" on the planet and whatever the mind wills, the body follows. "We have seen couch potatoes become marathoners and triathletes or simply have become better spouses, moms and dads as a result of taking care of themselves and programming their minds to think positively and to think big. Paul' short term goal is that within 5 years (This August marks the company's 5 year anniversary) Team Adrenaline International will have locations in all 50 states and several others throughout Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. Paul's long term goal is that Team Adrenaline will have such a following, it will be a house hold name. "The demand for our services is tremendous with literally hundreds of thousands in need to become healthy but simply don't know how and what to do. Currently, these people don't even know a program like this exists let alone works! Paul's professional life and purpose is completely dedicated to exposing and affecting as many people as possible to this concept. We are a human resource driven business, so I am constantly looking for like minded leaders to take our concept back to their individual communities to help stave off this powerful, unhealthy tide we are all up against. "I want everyone to know (no matter what their age, gender, background or current condition) that they have a true HOME on Team Adrenaline." New participants are simply encouraged to do what they are capable of doing and our group leaders, called Team Motivators, are adept at providing modifications for virtually every exercise routine, so everyone can participate on some level and feel good about themselves. On a personal note, Paul has been married to Marianne for 17 years. They have 3 children: Cole, Christian and Noelle who all understand the importance of taking care of their health from an early age and are all active student athletes. In addition, Paul competed at the Division 1 level in track and field for Rutgers University as a 400/800 meter specialists from 1985-1989. Paul has 10 years of mixed martial arts experience, competes at the Masters level of track in National competitions, has run 5 full marathons, over 25 half marathons, several sprint triathlons and even ran 40 miles on his 40th birthday simply to celebrate the gift of health with his family and friends. "I love teaching and helping people understand how easy it is to take care of yourself. It is real easy sharing my enthusiasm and passion with them. Watching our clients succeed is far more rewarding then anything I have ever personally accomplished."


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The beachy suburb of Kommetjie enjoys incredible views of Table Mountain, Chapman's Peak, the Sentinel and Hout Bay across the ocean. Swimming can be a challenge in the chilly water and dumping waves but the views, beach walks and sunsets more than make up for it. You can walk for miles along the beach from Kommetjie to Noordhoek. Along the way you'll encounter the rusty shipwreck of the Kakapo.
Kommetjie is a surfers' paradise and has some well-known, popular surfing spots that work best with a southeasterly wind. The most frequented are at Long Beach, offering a consistent left and right reef break that is can become crowded.
Amped surfers and body boarders tuck into 'Krans', a gnarly hollow beach break that often dishes up a few barrels. Serious big wave surfers paddle out or boat to ride giant waves at the impressive reef break, 'Sunset'.
On Kommetjie's southwestern side, the elegant Slangkop Lighthouse presides over the rocky coastline. Reef breaks here are 'The Komm', 'Boiler' and 'The Ledge', haunt of experienced and silver surfers. The far more mellow 'Inner Komm' attracts longboarders and kids.
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Nishnawbe Aski Nation says a landmark court decision will significantly impact development of the Ring of Fire.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that a BC First Nation has control over 1,700 square kilometres in its traditional territory.
NAN Grand Chief Harvey Yesno said the ruling sends a strong message that the government must recognize and respect Aboriginal title and deal honourably with First Nations.
"There's a number of First Nations that are in land claims negotiations," he said.
"I'm hoping it'll be a positive impact to settle or accelerate."
That includes the much-talked-about chromite-rich mining area known as the Ring of Fire, located in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario.
"There's no question that this ruling is creating, I think, a reason ... to enhance the positions that First Nations have been taking," Yesno said.
Northern Development and Mines minister Michael Gravelle said the province will review the ruling.
But he noted there's a significant difference between BC and Ontario because, unlike the Ring of Fire, the BC land in question doesn't fall under a treaty.
"Regardless, I certainly recognize — as does our government — how important it is to meet, if not exceed, our duty to consult, [and] work as closely as we can with our First Nations … and our Aboriginal peoples on all major projects."
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Ranch Spread Snowman Recipe
Let your kids use their imagination and decorate their snowman with colorful vegetables and fruit. They may want to leave a few under the tree for Santa to nibble. —Sherry Al-Tamimi, Sugar Valley, Georgia
- 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 envelope ranch salad dressing mix
- 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Assorted decorations: small pitted ripe olives, pretzel sticks and sweet red and/or orange pepper
- Assorted crackers and fresh vegetables
- In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add the dressing mix, mustard and garlic; mix well. Shape into two balls, one slightly larger than the other. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Remove from the refrigerator 15 minutes before serving. On a serving plate, stack the small cheese ball on top of the larger ball to make a snowman.
- Cut ends from olives to make small circles; attach to snowman for eyes and buttons. Insert pretzel sticks for arms. Cut top hat from pepper; place on top of snowman. Trim pepper to make a nose; insert into face. Serve with crackers and vegetables. Yield: 2-2/3 cups.
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This receipe is quick and very delicious although i made it for me it was too much for me to eat alone. I took it to work and it sure was a big hit!
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Loved the softness of it, but wow, that's a lot of butter. Even using reduced fat cream cheese, it felt a little decadent. Still, it was a great holiday party offering.
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I had way too much fun reading Brad Paisley's tweets the other night. He was getting yelled at by his record label to NOT release his new music before the release date.
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Anytime he would post a link of music they would delete it or remove the video from YouTube all together.He still wasn't about to give up. The next morning he called a Nashville radio station and had them play the song on the radio. Which is also a big no no, but did Brad care? NOPE!
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The fifth grade girls have made a clean sweep the past two years.
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Hi-tech crime and sexual partner surveys 'biased'
Some men wildly exaggerate the number of sexual partners they have had, analysis suggests
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Surveys of cyber crime and numbers of sexual partners have a lot in common, researchers have suggested.
Both are self-reporting, uncorroborated surveys that are subject to "catastrophic errors", according to analysis by a Microsoft research team.
Over-reporting by a small number of survey subjects can wildly skew final estimates.
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There were deep similarities between surveys that try to get a snapshot of hi-tech crime and those that peep into human sexual relations, said Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley in a paper entitled Sex, Lies and Cyber Crime Surveys.
Typically these surveys build up their totals from self-reported estimates because both phenomena defy "large-scale direct observation".
In the case of sexual partner surveys, such self-reporting produces totals which suggest that men have had far more female sexual partners than women have had male sexual partners. This, according to the researchers, "is impossible".
The truth is that in these surveys men over-report partner numbers and women under-report. Plus, said the researchers, some men tell "whopping" lies about their sexual lives and, as a result, vastly inflate the final results.
The same is true of cyber crime surveys, in that respondents tend to over-report. Also some wildly overestimate the financial loss they suffered or the time it took to resolve problems caused by theft of login details, credit card numbers or other valuable data.
Mathematical analysis of the surveys shows that it only takes a few large overestimates to produce a total that bears little relation to the facts.
"Our assessment of the quality of cyber crime surveys is harsh," wrote the researchers. "They are so compromised and biased that no faith whatever can be placed in their findings."
David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Labs, said he was always "sceptical" about figures that tried to quantify cyber crime.
"It's by definition a covert economy," he said, "cyber criminals don't publish annual accounts."
But, he said, it was not necessary to produce a global market estimate to be sure it was a big problem.
"Look at the reports in online media of arrests of cyber criminals and the figures cited for what the criminals would have 'earned' had they been successful," he said.
"These are real figures," he added. "Given that this is just the tip of a much larger iceberg, it's clear that it's a lucrative business."
The Sex Lies and Cyber Crime surveys paper is due to be presented at the forthcoming Workshop on the Economics of Information Security.
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The Blazers blistered the nets in the first half against the Utah Jazz on Friday night, hitting 10 of their 13 attempts from 3 to take a 67-56 lead into the locker room.
The Jazz have had their share of shooting struggles this season, but the first half wasn't one of those performances. Utah shot better than 54 percent from the field.
The Jazz trailed by 20 less than a minute into the second quarter.
But Alec Burks helped spark a comeback effort, scoring 11 of his 13 points in the quarter. Jeremy Evans came off the bench to score eight and grab seven rebounds in the first 24 minutes.
But on the other end of the court, the Jazz couldn't slow down Damian Lillard and the Blazers. Lillard scored 21 points in the half, schooling Jazz rookie Trey Burke in the process.
Former Jazz man Wes Matthews had 10 in the half. And All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge, whose play of late earned him a light cheer of MVP from the fans at Moda Center Friday, chipped in nine points and nine rebounds.
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Summary: What would happen if your entire staff took the path of greatness? How would your productivity, bottom line, and work environment be affected? In this session, Michael B. Ross will give you instructions on how to unify your organizational culture through common values. He will also teach you how to leave a legacy of leadership which will affect next generation of Powder Coaters.
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Summary: As custom coaters we are often at the end of a long drawn out process intended to provide the end user with a desired product. This presentation will draw on the experience of one custom coater's work with fabricators, engineers, and architects to adapt product design, specifications, and material to provide an easier to coat product that will perform equally or better than intended and ensure the coating life intended by the coating manufacturer is possible – while giving the end user what they originally envisioned!
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Summary: This presentation will cover the latest developments in quality control instruments including uncured & cured film thickness, gloss, climate, surface profile, and cure oven data. It will also cover comprehensive software solutions for both statistical process control and documentation.
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Kalyani's Welcoming Verandah
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Name: Kalyani C.
Location: India
Size: 250 square feet
Your Favorite Thing About Your Outdoor Space: Coming in out of the rain. Whether I'm on foot or on the scooter, when I get home and open the gates, I'm in shelter, away from the elements, and this gives a good feeling. The loud patter of rain on the roof magnifies the feeling that I am safe. And I can fish out my keys, out of the rain.
Passers-by too, take shelter from sudden showers in the verandah. And many of them stop here to get a drink of water from the tap in the corner. Our cool green verandah is relaxing and welcoming the moment you step in.
Biggest Design Challenge With This Space: One half of our verandah doubles as a car port. It was not possible to keep any plants in this half without them being knocked over. So I painted a mural of the Sun God in bright colours. Its the first thing that guests see and they're cheered immediately.
Tips for Creating a Great Small Outdoor Space: A secluded space outdoors to read, eat, chat, and enjoy a cup of coffee gives a home added character. Make an enclosure while still allowing in glimpses of the space outside. Use hardy materials. Seating which can withstand the weather is important. Bring in as many plants as you can. Dress the walls. Bring back little interesting inexpensive objects from your travels to add colour. Spend as much time here as you can.
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nice and sweet...location in india??
@susrith, the applicant didn't tell us.
HI Susrith, thanks for the comment. We are in Ooty, south India
I've heard that it rains 364 days in Ooty (and you get sunshine for one day) Is it true?
it looks very refreshing and energizing! creatively done. Sun God looks nice.
That looks oh-so-welcoming! rain, or no rain. We are tempted to plan a vacation soon, or simply walk in.
Very Ootyish................The verandah is Lovely Dark & Deep.............classy graffiti............ truly bringing Nature Indoors !!!!!!
@dnr, its about half of the 365, i think. right now we havent seen the sun for weeks, and that's we why we have to create our own and the bright colours.
@Shanthi, thanks
@latha, welcome any time. Plan a trip soon
@shashi, Thanks!!
how gorgeous. i love it! can't imagine such greenery in my little Delhi balcony.
Gorgeous space and colors! I live in Bali Indonesia and am wanting to do just this for my husband's previous home in Sulawesi. We are planning the renovation now and I would LOVE to see an image on the carport side, if possible. My email is anna (at) frombaliwithlove (dot) com


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Fun Foodie NYC offers seasonally-inspired walking food tours in history & culture rich neighborhoods throughout my native New York City.
The term "foodie" is a lot like the term "hipster" these days. They both carry the essence of these cool clubs that everyone wants to be a part of but no one wants to admit they're in. And I'd really like to take the stigma away from the word. I'm attempting to do this by having my guests see, taste and experience the fun in our foodie culture here in the heart of the world's capital! I call myself a foodie with pride and I hope that, if you don't already, that you will by the end of one of my Fun Foodie Tours!
I started this company to share my passion for food and beverage as well as my passion for my native city with locals as well as tourists. And, as they say, timing is everything! The timing with which I finally felt the need to push this thing to fruition came from the seasonality of the holidays! Although it can be exhausting at times, we do get to enjoy all four seasons in full, here in NY. So, why wouldn't I take advantage of that?
Not only will there be tours that are just inspired by the neighborhoods we explore, but more importantly they'll be seasonally inspired…for the most part anyway. Down the line I'll have a tour or two that run year-round as well, but as I started with the holidays, why not continue the trend, as I find I'm always inspired by the seasons in the city anyway!
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MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - A half-dozen jurors are starting to hear testimony Monday, in deciding whether prosecutors should file charges in the death of a Milwaukee man in police custody.
An inquest is getting underway into the death of 22-year-old robbery suspect Derek Williams.
Former Circuit Judge John Franke will conduct the proceedings. The jurors will issue an advisory verdict – but ultimately, it's up to Franke whether to file charges. He's acting as a special prosecutor in the case.
Milwaukee D.A. John Chisholm says he wants the new review to be, "untainted" by previous findings and conclusions.
Last summer, the Journal Sentinel dug up a police video which showed Williams gasping and begging for help in a squad car for almost eight minutes before he collapsed and died.
In the days after that video was shown, the county medical examiner's office changed the cause of Williams' death from natural causes to homicide.


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