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"Caught slagging between Heaven & Hell."
Cute, probably 3.5 stars, but not nearly as good as the hype. I liked both 'American Gods' and 'Neverwhere' a lot better. I guess that is the problem with joint projects, I'm not sure whether Pratchett or Gaiman should be praised or panned for this book. Yes, it was funny. Yes, it was irreverent too. It just wasn't great. Perhaps, its limitations were built into the core concept and blueprint of the book. Perhaps, it couldn't escape mediocrity because it was pulled in two different directions by two good authors and instead of ending in Heaven or Hell it just plopped right there in the middle.
"Guns of August which I heard in September"
What an amazing piece of historical writing. Tuchman shows how August, 2014 was impacted by two failed plans (Plan 17 & the Schlieffen Plan), Generals and politicos who were either overly optimistic at the wrong time or overly pessimistic at the wrong time. She detailed how inadvertent acts by disgraced Generals might have saved France, how the politics and the national moods of France, Germany, Russia, and Great Britain may have contributed to the length of the Great War.
After the Civil War and the War of Franco-Prussian War of 1870, war had morphed into a whole new beast. Few leaders grasped this at the beginning of August but by September 1914 there were very few living on the European continent who could avoid recognizing that war would never be the same again. The vitality and the drama of Tuchman's narrative made this book seemed delivered by 420-millimetre siege howitzers. Chapter after chapter would absolutely devastate me as I listened (and read for the maps and pacing). I am very glad I wasn't in the French (or Belgian or German or Russian) military in August of 1914.
Lee is such a solid narrator. It wasn't a standout, but I have absolutely no complaints. He read well. It was easily listened to at 2.5+ speed.
"Everyman Civil Warrior = Martian Hercules"
Edgar Rice Burrough's popular John Carter/Barsoom novels started with 'A Princess of Mars'. I can only imagine reading this cowboy in space novel when it was first published. It was absolute pulp (violent fights, naked women), but like all of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels it can't be contained by any simple labels. Burroughs is able to explore ideas of eugenics and race, war and peace, love and family, all layered into a fast-paced, violent Martian travelogue. Burroughs loves supermen. The idea of John Carter having amazing strength because of the different gravities of Earth and Mars allows an everyman Virginian Civil Warrior to become a singular Martian Hercules.
Obviously, this is an extraordinarily influential sic-fi novel. It influenced everybody from Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) to George Lucas (Star Wars) to James Cameron (Avatar). It is hard to watch Han Solo walk without thinking of John Carter's swagger or dream about Princess Leah in chains without my subconscious somehow floating back into visions of Princess Dejah Thoris in -- yes -- chains. It is a shame that Disney's John Carter movie didn't do better. I would love to see further efforts to make films out of the Barsoom series. It is a strange world where a movie that makes $200M+ globally and is still judged a failure.
"Burroughs' Noble Savage"
Tarzan is one of those characters who came out of the post-Victorian, pre-WWI age that seem almost to exhibit a place larger than the actual book(s) he was born in. Like Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan is both a type and a rejection of type. It is amazing to see the arc this character has taken over the last century. From the actual books written by Burroughs to the various movies, comics, cartoons, and the eventual Disneyfication of the story.
I read this book shortly after getting LOA's 100 year anniversary edition of both Tarzan and Princess of Mars. It was classic pulp. Like other magazine stories told during this time (the Most Dangerous Game, etc) it points to a certain level of supple, straight, superman that exists beneath the clothes of civilization. There must be some base-level appeal for us modern men where we feel compelled to dream we could, with only a knife and a rope, if put in the right situation, conquer the wilderness. There is a king of the jungle/nobel savage in all of us. It is the same impulse that drives viewers to watch 'Man Vs. Wild' and 'Naked and Afraid', etc. Civilization provides us with many comforts, but it also robs us of something. Burroughs recognized this missing treasure. His Tarzan novels (and to a degree his Mars novels) exploits and explores this missing link to our past. He is able to illustrate that underneath our jackets and ties there might be a bit of the savage inside this actuary and a beast inside that accountant, just waiting an opportunity to break free.
This recording's narration was good, but the recording's overall quality was poor.
"A Tone Lifted from Fundamentalists"
I always enjoyed that line between humanist and believer. I remember when I was a Mormon missionary reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. After finishing it, I immediately felt I needed to read Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects. I don't have a real problem with agnostics, atheists, humanists, etc. I think the competitive nature of belief is important. I think religion NEEDS to be able to thrive under scrutiny. It can't be comfortable. It can't be too protected. It needs to offer something if it is going to continue to be relevant. But I just can't get too excited by Dawkins, Harris, and Maher's forms of Atheism. While I like and respect their ability and desire to look at facts, adore skepticism and the scientific method, etc., their tone seems to have been lifted from Fundamentalist Christians.
Perhaps, it is their evangelical nature I am rejecting. But it can't be that exactly. I loved Christopher Hitchens. It wasn't like he was just soft and kind. But he came off more like a drunk rationalist than I pious prig. Perhaps that is my main beef with Dawkins. When he is in positivist mode, he is exciting. I love reading his stuff about evolution and science and the scientific method. I just don't think he is very good and criticism. He seems to smug. Too cocky. To be fair to Dawkins I felt the same way about overly smug members of my own belief system, or Christians who seem more interested in bashing other's beliefs than showing the benefits of their own. Don't smash Buddhists, SHOW me what you have to offer. Don't smash belief, show me what skepticism has to offer.
As far as the narration, the back-and-forth narration between Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward was a bit distracting. The male/female, twisting narration helixes through the entire book, but I can't quite see the point of it. Perhaps it was just so that Dawkins didn't have to narrate the whole book himself. But why, in the middle of a paragraph, would you switch narrators. It was odd.
"Brilliant at ventriloquism and style-jumping"
It is hard to not like David Mitchell. He is literary, just not too literary. He is funky, just not too funky. He is hip, just not too hip. He is political, just not too political. He is spiritual, but also seems to leave room for a bit of humanist doubt. I can't think of another writer who captures the energy or direction of the slick, urban, cosmopolitan, educated, 21st century global zeitgeist.
David Mitchell is brilliant at ventriloquism and style-jumping. His books are filled with multiple narrative and style incarnations (the stacking-doll Cloud Atlas, or narrative leaping number9dream, or his most recent The Bone Clocks), but sometime I feel like he is starting to eat his own tail here. I want to see Mitchell do a Peter Carey and jump out of his slick, crowd-pleasing novels into something a bit different.
Do I know exactly what I want? No. I just see this author who I've liked enough to read everything he's ever published, and fear that we might just get two or three more of these books. I like them. Don't get me wrong. I liked 'The Bone Clocks' enough to give it four stars and review and read it. I just don't want to see Mitchell begin to get so comfortable in his archipelago of interconnected narratives that he doesn't push his talent into dark, rough, and uncomfortable places.
Anyway, Mitchell hasn't written a novel YET that I'm very disappointed with and Bone Clocks is no exception. There might be a couple slower chapters and the ending might have been a bit predictable, but I had a hard time putting the novel down while reading and was sad to put it down when I finished. That isn't rare for me, but it is a pretty good indication that the novel is on solid ground. People keep claiming to see the death of the novel around the corner, but Mitchell's talent and narrative slickness is at least one star that keeps consistently reappearing.
A point on the narration. A couple of the narrations (Jessica Ball, etc) were a tad difficult for me. They worked, but they were so heavily accented that I couldn't listen to it faster than 1.5 speed without losing the thread of what was being said. Not a huge critique, but just my two pence.
"A Geologist's Curiosity/Patience and a Poet's Pen"
McPhee is one of my favorites. I think his strongest form is the long-essay and I love his collections that are thematic. 'Uncommon Carriers' delivered exactly what I wanted with a bunch of surprises. Like always, McPhee is able to mix together great characters, fantastic observations, and a real sense of space and place and tell a story that illuminates some place or time that you have probably driven past without noticing a hundred times before.
McPhee has a a geologist's curiosity and patience (and a poet's pen) that allows him to spend an inordinate amount of time with a story to get that one detail that turns a good essay about boats into a fantastic essay about the craft of work, the beauty of place, the magnificence of the ordinary. The magic of McPhee isn't just that he writes new journalism almost better than anyone else on the planet, it is that he does more of it than almost anyone else. Up McPhee's other sleeve is his ability to make you want to follow him on his explorations. He isn't going to chase down your interests (rock stars, movies, money). Instead, McPhee is going to carefully let you follow him down his rabbit holes and help you onto his hobby-horses.
I would also be remiss if I didn't include a part of one of my favorite paragraphs. A barge McPhee is on, is flashed by a woman on a pleasure boat on the Missouri river. Here is McPhee's response:
...She has golden hair. She has the sort of body you go to see in marble. She holds her poise without retreat. In her ample presentation there is a defiance of gravity. There is no angle of repose. She is a siren and these are her songs. She is Henry Moore's "Oval with Points".
"A messy, ambitious, prognostic American novel"
Franzen's freshman effort is striking. First, just gazing at the picture of Franzen on the back of the original novel and it makes me think this kid must have been gnawing on ideas for this book in his mother's womb. Seriously, he looks like he might be wearing the same deodorant his dad gave him at puberty.
Anyway, I was inspired to read this book because I was heading to St. Louis for a couple days and figured given the recent Ferguson-inspired race tensions, there might never be a more appropriate time to crack Franzen's novel about an Indian woman who takes over as the St. Louis chief of police. There is sex, violence, politics, intrigue, etc.. It is a thriller that aspires to be literary, or a thriller written by someone who is simply writing in the wrong genre.
The book is ambitious, messy (plot threads abandoned all over the place), inventive, cracked in places, but destined to stick around. I say that knowing that there are some serious Franzen haters out there. I also say that knowing this isn't his best work (by far). But in 1988, Franzen wrote a novel that seems to have almost perfectly captured the paranoid, xenophobic, social and race conflict that surrounds President Obama (birth certificate, etc). Imagine while reading this novel that Obama is Jammu and the United States is St. Louis and let the details slide from Ferguson to the Gateway Arch and there you are.
Franzen's fixation on the American family (both in its function and disfunction) is in pupae form here. Family dinners, tensions between spouses, extra-marital encounters, spoiled children, holiday tensions, they all germ here. His prose is great, if a bit uneven (brilliant in parts and boring in others). His plot is complicated. His setting masterful. Again, this isn't a masterpiece, but it was a clear indication of his future ambition and trajectory.
"A Nostalgia Tour of a Great Man"
More of a tribute/essay/paean than a book, Coach is a relic. It is a reflection on Billy "Fitz" Fitzgerald, one of those influential and transformative men who through their character, courage and strength affect a large number of boys. Lewis recalls his memories of Coach Fitz and details the way both parents and children have changed (at least in the milieu of New Orleans and the Isidore Newman School). At heart it is a nostalgia tour of a great man and how lessons about adversity, strength, practice, resolve, respect and focus taught the right way to the right children can help children concur both fear and failure on the road to adulthood.
"Just below the Surface"
A slow soak in a bath of music, color, friends, loneliness, philosophy, creation and death. Murakami is a genius at writing with emotions swirling beneath the text. He gets the importance of the notes AND the silence of prose; of the unsaid, dreamy place that is both recognized and strange.
This isn't his most exciting work, but it is clearly not a throw-away either. It brings all the usual suspects to the Murakami table. Murakami writes best when he makes the reader feel like they are just near the surface of wakefulness. He bends the reader into a zone where it feels like a strange contractive tendency of the surface between sleep and wakefulness between musical, lucid dreams and surreal, philosophical nightmares.
It feels like you are balancing blind on the edge of a train platform; you feel the sound of the train and feel the compression of his words, but don't know if the Murakami train is going to hit you from the left or the right.
"Everyone is dying: Let's bawdy!"
Like 'The Canterbury Tales', 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights', etc., 'The Decameron' is an early masterpiece of European literature. It is one of those books I've previously avoided because I thought it would be stilted and boring. Hells NASTY Bells was I wrong. Boccaccio is funny, flippant, irreverent, libidinous, provocative, inspiring, insulting, crazy and always -- always entertaining.
100 stories told during the the summer of 1348 as the Black Death is ravaging Florence (and Europe). Ten aristocratic youths take to the country to escape the death, stink and bodies of the City and to hang out and amuse themselves on stories of love and adventure and sex and trickery. Bad priests, evil princes, saints, sinners, and various twists and turns paints a detailed picture of Italy from over 660 years ago that seems just as modern and funky as today. Things have certainly changed, but lords and ladies it is incredible just how many things have stayed the same.
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Autumn must be one of my favourite seasons. Everything is starting to go over now with beautiful colours, yellows, golds and reds.
I love the colours of autumn but I do not relish the nights getting darker earlier. Like spring, autumn is one of my favourite seasons.
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Following a Monday off in honor of Memorial Day, Night School hits phase two of its 40-week national fan education run on June 6 with a discussion of "Multi-Race Wagering Strategies".
Through 14 sessions, the interactive on-line program has exceeded the 30,000 cumulative mark in attendees, as horse racing fans worldwide are treated to a 90-minute expert discussion on various industry topics. The Night School sessions tackle a unique aspect of racing each week and include a well-rounded expert panel and hundreds of questions from a fan base eager to learn more.
Created by Horse Player NOW's Joe Kristufek and Jeremy Plonk, Night School is featured on more than 30 websites throughout the horse racing industry and debuted on Feb. 21. Presenting sponsors are Keeneland, the American Quarter Horse Association, National Thoroughbred Racing Association and Daily Racing Form. The collective acceptance of Night School by often-competing factions in the industry has been a remarkable success and indicator that racing fans are returning to the front burner of the industry's consciousness.
Panelists who have lent their expertise in recent sessions, in addition to Plonk and Kristufek's weekly appearances, have included Caton Bredar, Jill Byrne, Jerry Bailey, Gary Stevens, Donna Barton-Brothers, Ken McPeek, Tom Amoss, Randy Moss, Jay Privman, Mike Welsch, Terry Finley, Dan Metzger and Rene Kierans.
On June 13, Night School will explore "Breaking Into the Industry" with Doug Reed of the University of Arizona's Racetrack Industry Program serving as a guest panelist. On June 20, Daily Racing Form's Steve Crist joins the panel to discuss "Pick Six Wagering Strategies", and on June 27, American Quarter Horse handicapping will take center stage.
On Preakness Saturday at Pimlico, Horse Player NOW took the Night School fan education teachings to the infield. Armed with wipe boards and markers, television monitors and a public address sound system, the team mingled with and educated fans of all levels (see attached photos) in the Wagering 101 tent.
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Thousands of potential racing fans passed through the Wagering 101 tent throughout the course of the day, and were educated in simple wagering strategies and how to read the information in the track program.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (June 29, 2011)—Second in the 2009 Breeders' Cup Mile in his only previous visit to California, Courageous Cat will seek the first Grade I victory of his career in the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile Saturday at Hollywood Park.
The 68th running of the turf race is the richer of two Grade I events to be offered Saturday. A quality field of sprinters will tangle in the $250,000 Triple Bend Handicap at seven furlongs over Cushion Track.
Post time Saturday is 1 p.m. The Shoemaker is the sixth of 10 races. The Triple Bend is the ninth.
Named in honor of the legendary jockey, who won 2,416 races at Hollywood Park, the Shoemaker Mile is a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In'' race. The winner is guaranteed a spot in the $2 million TVG Breeders' Cup Mile, which will be run Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs.
Additionally, the Breeders' Cup nominated Shoemaker Mile winner will have pre-entry and entry fees waived for the BC Mile and receive a $10,000 travel allowance.
Owned by breeders Pam and Marty Wygod and trained by Bill Mott, Courageous Cat arrives from New York after beginning his 5-year-old campaign with a 2 ¼ length win in the Grade III Poker Stakes June 11 at Belmont Park.
A son of Storm Cat and the Rahy mare Tranquility Lake, Courageous Cat has won five of 12 and earned $781,300. He was defeated by a half-length by the brilliant Goldikova when runner-up in the 2009 BC Mile at Santa Anita.
Success in a turf Grade I at Hollywood Park would not be something new for Mott. The Hall of Fame trainer won the 2008 Hollywood Derby with Court Vision. Earlier victories include Duda in the 1995 Matriarch and Fraise in the 1992 Hollywood Turf Cup.
One of Courageous Cat's opponents is defending champion Victor's Cry, who rallied from well off the pace to win at 21-1 last year.
Owned by Equilete Stable and trained by Eoin Harty, Victor's Cry, who has earned half of his six victories on the Hollywood Park grass, will attempt to become the first repeat winner since Silic went back-to-back in 1999 and 2000.
An earner of $726,021 in 23 starts, Victor's Cry, a 6-year-old Street Cry ridgling out of the Clever Trick mare Short Time, will be making his first appearance since finishing fifth in the $5 million Dubai Duty Free March 26 at Meydan Race Course in the United Arab Emirates.
Caracortado returns to turf after finishing sixth – defeated by only three-quarters of a length – in the Alysheba Stakes May 6 at Churchill Downs.
Owned by Blahut Racing and Hi Lo Racing and trained by Mike Machowsky, who also bred the gelding, Caracortado has won seven of 14. The son of Cat Dreams and the Maria's Mon mare Mons Venus has earned $558,105.
Liberian Freighter will be seeking his sixth win on the Hollywood Park turf. A 6-year-old gelded son of Bertrando and the Slewpy mare Anachristina, the California bred is owned by breeder King Edward Racing Stable, Shawn Dugan and Charles Winner and trained by Neil Drysdale.
A winner of 10 of 28 with earnings of $736,740, Liberian Freighter won consecutive graded races earlier in the year, including the Grade III Inglewood Handicap April 24. He finished fifth of six in the American Handicap in his most recent appearance May 28.
Julio Canani will be represented by Blue Chagall as the trainer aims for a record-tying fourth win in the Shoemaker. Canani, who has won previously with Ladies Din (2002) and the aforementioned Silic will attempt to equal the mark held by James Nazworthy.
Owned by Prestonwood Farm, Blue Chagall, a French bred son of Testa Rosa and the Pitskelly mare Eloisey, has won six of 31. The 6-year-old gelding has earned $373,649, but is without a graded win in the United States. He won a Group III as a 2-year-old in his native country in 2007.
Smokey Lonesome, who has won two of five on this layout, will make his first graded appearance on turf for owners Bruce Chandler and Stuart Tsujimoto and trainer Art Sherman. The 5-year-old Teton Forest gelding and the Alysheba mare Exclusive Symbol has won four of 12 and earned $182,610.
Ashtar will make his first start in this country after winning six of 14 in his native Chile. Owned by Green Grass Stable and trained by Ruben Cardenas, the 4-year-old Merchant of Venice colt and the Hussonet mare Mey has banked $167,517.
From inside out, the field for the Shoemaker Mile: Courageous Cat, Patrick Valenzuela rides, 124 pounds; Blue Chagall, Joel Rosario, 124; Smokey Lonesome, Rafael Bejarano, 124; Ashtar, Martin Pedroza, 124; Caracortado, Joe Talamo, 124; Victor's Cry, Victor Espinoza, 124 and Liberian Freighter, Martin Garcia, 124.
A five time graded stakes winner, Smiling Tiger will return to a venue where he is undefeated (2-for-2) when he starts in the Triple Bend.
Owned by Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz and trained by Jeff Bonde, Smiling Tiger, who won the Lazaro Barrera Memorial May 22, 2010 and the Grade I Ancient Title less than five months later in his earlier races over Cushion Track, enters off a much-troubled trip in the Churchill Downs Handicap May 7.
The Hold That Tiger colt out of the Cahill Road mare Shandra Smiles, who won the Grade III Count Fleet Handicap April 14 at Oaklawn Park, finished sixth as the 5-2 favorite in the Grade II on the Kentucky Derby undercard.
Seeking to become the first 4-year-old to win the Triple Bend since Street Boss in 2008, Smiling Tiger enters with earnings of $999,353. He's won seven of 15.
A winner of two of three since being claimed for $40,000 Feb. 13 at Santa Anita, Camp Victory gained the victory in the Grade III Los Angeles Handicap May 30 after original winner Amazombie was disqualified and placed third for alleged stretch interference.
Owned by a partnership and trained by Mike Mitchell, Camp Victory, a 4-year-old Forest Camp gelding out of the Clever Trick mare Victory Trick, has won seven of 16 and banked $235,986.
Amazombie was denied a third consecutive win when he had his number taken down in the Los Angeles. The gelding had won the Grade II Potrero Grande at Santa Anita and the Tiznow on California Gold Rush Day (April 23) in his prior two starts.
Co-owned by trainer Bill Spawr and Thomas Sanford, the 5-year-old son of Northern Afleet and the In Excess mare Wilshe Amaze has won eight of 19 and banked $505,780. Spawr is aiming for his second Triple Bend win with a California bred, having scored with Sensational Star in 1989. The last Cal bred to win the race was Bilo in 2007.
M One Rifle, moved up to second in the Los Angeles, will seek his third victory at the Triple Bend distance. Owned and bred by trainer Bruce Headley, Ed Bernstein and Brian Greenspan, the 5-year-old gelded son of One Man Army and the Bertrando mare Leanessa has five wins in 14 starts and earnings of $491,002.
Fourth in last year's Triple Bend – 4 ¾ lengths behind winner E Z's Gentleman – M One Rifle's victories at seven furlongs both occurred in 2009 – the Real Good Deal for California breds at Del Mar and the Grade I Malibu at Santa Anita.
Undefeated in five starts around one turn, Bench Points will take on older rivals for the first time for a partnership and trainer Tim Yakteen.
A California bred son of Benchmark out of the Free House mare Mo Chuisle, Bench Points won the Grade III Lazaro Barrera Memorial May 15 in his debut at seven furlongs.
Bench Points, who has earned $278,280 while winning five of seven, will try to become only the fifth 3-year-old to win a race that will be run for the 60th time. He would join Zensational (2009), Messenger of Song (1975), Wallet Lifter (1962) and Nashville (1957).
After impressive wins in his first two starts as a gelding, Color of Courage will make his initial appearance in graded company for owner-breeders John and Cheryl Toffan and trainer Paco Gonzalez.
A 4-year-old son of Came Home and the Holy Bull mare Color Magic, Color of Courage has won four of six while earning $132,240. He had been away for more than 19 months when he won an allowance at 6 ½ furlongs May 15, then stretched to seven furlongs and prevailed again June 10.
A win by the bay would be the first in a Grade I for Gonzalez since Color of Courage's sire won the 2002 Pacific Classic at Del Mar.
Uh Oh Bango will cut back in distance after four consecutive starts around two turns. Owned by breeder Triple A Ranch and trained by R. Kory Owens, the 4-year-old Top Hit colt out of the French Deputy mare French Debutante has won four of 12 and banked $411,812.
He enters the Triple Bend on a two race win streak, the first of his career. The Arizona bred won an optional claimer by a half-length May 12 over Cushion Track, then shipped to Golden Gate Fields and won the Grade III Berkeley by a head over Bold Chieftain May 30. Both victories were at 1 1/16 miles.
Trainer Bob Baffert will be aiming for his third Triple Bend win in a row and a record-tying fourth overall when he saddles El Martillo.
Owned by Maria Gomez, the 6-year-old Tiznow horse out of the Mountain Cat mare Mountain Dawn has won five of 24 and earned $217,700. El Martillo won his last start, taking an optional claimer April 28.
Baffert, who won the race in 2009 with Zensational and E Z's Gentleman a year ago, would join Charlie Whittingham, who holds the record with four Triple Bend victories, as the only trainer to win the race three times in a row. Whittingham won in succession with Porterhouse (1955-1956) and Nashville (1957).
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Shisui Uchiha (うちはシスイ, Uchiha Shisui) was a shinobi from Konohagakure's Uchiha clan and was renowned as "Shisui of the Body Flicker" (瞬身のシスイ, Shunshin no Shisui; English TV "Shisui the Teleporter").
Shisui was noted to be one of the most talented members of the Uchiha clan.[2] At some point in the past, he fought with Ao of Kirigakure who retained an acute memory of Shisui's chakra colour, as well as the Uchiha's ability to control others with his Mangekyō Sharingan's ability.[3]
Shisui was best friends with Itachi Uchiha, who shortly after joining the ANBU began to act "oddly". Shisui was instructed by the Konoha Military Police Force to monitor Itachi because of this.[4] Soon afterwards Shisui was found drowned in the Naka River with a suicide note stating that he was tired of carrying out the clan's duties. The police suspected that Itachi had murdered him and used his Sharingan to fake the suicide note, since Shisui was very devoted to the clan, and suicide would have been highly unusual and uncharacteristic of him.[5] Itachi later told Sasuke Uchiha that he did in fact kill Shisui and forge the suicide note, all in order to awaken his own Mangekyō Sharingan.[6]
However, Itachi would later reveal the truth behind the incident to his brother: Shisui was perplexed that the clan would not deter from the coup d'etat that they were planning and Shisui was greatly concerned with the consequences that would follow their actions. He told Itachi that he had tried to use Kotoamatsukami to stop them, but Danzō Shimura stole his right eye, adamant on protecting the village his own way. Fearing that Danzō would get his left eye as well, Shisui entrusted it to Itachi, telling him to protect both the village and the Uchiha name.[7] In order to prevent conflict from arising over his eyes within the clan, Shisui made it appear as though he had crushed them before dying.[8] He would later erase his existence, leaving no corpse behind.[8][9] It would appear that Shisui's corpse had in fact disappeared, as even Kabuto Yakushi noted that he was unable to locate it. Shisui was one of Kabuto's prime candidates to be reincarnated.[9]
Itachi was Shisui's best friend; in fact, Itachi thought of him as a brother.[10] Shisui taught Itachi that "self-sacrifice… a nameless shinobi who protects peace from within its shadow…" was the true mark of a shinobi.[11] Shisui was also very devoted to the clan, which is why the Konoha Military Police Force asked him to spy on Itachi. It is because of this devotion that the police did not believe he could have committed suicide.[2]
Along with his clan, Shisui was greatly devoted to the protection of the village which he cared for deeply. He even went as far as to attempt to put his clan under a genjutsu in order to stop their coup d'etat which would lead to civil war.[12] With this in mind, he entrusted his left eye to Itachi and told him to protect the village.[13] According to Itachi, he and Naruto Uzumaki held similar ideals and goals.[8]
Shisui had short, unkempt, dark-coloured hair and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashes, that were turned upwards at each end. In the anime however, these lines are broken instead of whole. He wore the standard attire of the Uchiha clan which includes a high-collared, dark-coloured outfit along with a tantō strapped to the right side of the back of his shoulder. He also wore what appeared to be a harness for his tantō which ran across his chest and fastened over both his shoulders.
Shisui was noted to be one of the most talented members of his battle-excelling clan. He had earned the nickname of "Shisui of the Body Flicker", possibly implying that he had great mastery of the Body Flicker Technique.[2] He was also hailed as one of the most powerful genjutsu users of the clan.[11] Another testament to his prowess is that Kabuto Yakushi wanted to reincarnate him for the war but failed to find sufficient DNA samples.[9] He also displayed a high level of pain tolerance, as he didn't flinch from ripping out his own left eye to give to Itachi.[13]
Like many members of his clan, Shisui was a wielder of the Sharingan. Alongside his friend Itachi, he was praised for his mastery and sheer power in its use.[2]
Mangekyō Sharingan
Shisui was one of the few members in the clan's history that was able to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. It granted him access to powerful genjutsu techniques, the strongest of which was a unique genjutsu noted to be of the highest calibre: Kotoamatsukami.[11] This technique allowed him to enter a person's mind and manipulate them by giving them false experiences, making it seem as if they were doing things on their own free will; the victim wouldn't even notice they were being manipulated.[14]
This ability was apparently so unique and powerful, that Tobi wanted it for himself and was angry that Danzō managed to destroy it before he died.[15] Kabuto was also extremely thrilled when he learned that the remaining eye was within Itachi's crow.[16] This genjutsu however, could only be used once a decade,[17] unless the user had a way to augment the process such as with Hashirama Senju's cells, thereby drastically reducing the time required from ten years to only a few hours.[18][19] Shisui's eyes were also seen as something of a treasure even within his own clan, as before his death he had to ensure that it looked like he had destroyed them before he had died, fearing it would end in conflict otherwise.[8]
Throughout his lifetime and even after he influenced Itachi greatly as a friend, teaching him self-sacrifice and telling him that a true shinobi was one who protected the village from within its own shadow. This possibly influenced Itachi in his future actions and inevitably contributed to the staving off of a possible civil war within the village and a world war.[12] Even years after his demise, Shisui's powers and actions marked the world. Both his Sharingan have been used by Danzō and Itachi to protect Konoha in their own ways. Both of his eyes have now been destroyed however; Danzō crushed his right eye at his last moments, and Itachi used Amaterasu to destroy his left eye after the genjutsu was used to free Itachi from Kabuto Yakushi's control. Itachi also stated that above all else, Shisui wanted someone to inherit his will, something that Itachi sees inside of Naruto.[17] Part of Shisui's last request to his best friend included telling Itachi to protect the village.[13] During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Itachi was able to do just that using Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan ability: Kotoamatsukami to rewrite the control that his summoner had over him and fight on the side of the Allied Shinobi Forces. He was also able to confront the Impure World Reincarnation user and stop the technique altogether. Another part of this request was to protect the Uchiha name which Itachi had also tried to do, as he tried his utmost to never let Sasuke know the truth behind his actions, wanting his brother to seek him out and kill him in order to restore honour to the clan. He even went as far as to ensure that, on the off chance that "Madara" knew the truth, he would never be able to tell it to Sasuke. Itachi also showed shock upon learning that Naruto and others knew the truth behind the massacre and instructed the young shinobi to never tell another soul about it, not wanting the true motives behind his clan's demise to be known.[20]
- Shisui's name has two interpretable meanings. Combining the words Shi (死, Death) and Sui (水, Water), Shisui would mean "death water", which is a reference to his death by drowning. "Shisui" (止水) alone means "still water" or "stagnant water".
- (To Itachi) "…You're my best friend and the only one I can count on… Protect the village… and the Uchiha name."[13]
- ↑ Naruto chapter 222, page 7
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Naruto chapter 222, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 459, pages 14-15
- ↑ Second Databook, pages 38-39
- ↑ Naruto chapter 222, pages 4-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 225, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 590, pages 5-6
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Naruto chapter 550, page 11
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Naruto chapter 520, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 222, page 5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Naruto chapter 550, page 10
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Naruto chapter 590, page 5
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Naruto chapter 590, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 459, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 482, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 550, page 13
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Naruto chapter 552, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 461, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 479, page 5
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The early decades of the 1900s were fraught with "new fangled" inventions specific to jewelry. White gold and synthetic sapphires were the coveted items sought by the fashion conscious of the day. Here we see some of the new "technology" in the guise of a 14k white gold ring.
A central old European cut diamond of about .12 carats is set within a square bezel and flanked east to west by two (2) brilliantly colored and faceted synthetic sapphires. The horizontal profile of the period emphasizes the preferred streamlined geometrics of the era. The under gallery of the mount is a sexy labyrinth of open work white gold defining a plethora of rectangles, ovals, teardrops and more.
Date: Circa 1924.
Measurements: 1/4 of an inch (0.6 cm) in length north to south on the hand and rises 1/4 of an inch (0.6 cm) in height off the finger. Weight of 2.6 grams (1.7 dwt).
Ring Size: US 7 1/4 (UK O; Euro or Int. Circum. 55.0 mm; Int. Dia. 17.5 mm; Japan over a 14) and can be easily sized to fit most. Ring sizing information.
Condition: Excellent, sapphires have been reinforce for security, not visible to the eye, ring has been expertly resized.
Origin: American.
Note: Diamond has not been removed from mount to preserve the integrity of the setting. Diamond weight has been approximated by measurement and formula and may vary from actual weight.
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BMC Mountainbike Racing Team won its first major race in the off-road scene. Alexandre Moos dominated a world-class field at the Albstadt-LBS-Bike Marathon, finishing solo in 2:49:59 hrs.. Second in the finish chute was Swiss marathon champion Andreas Kugler (2:53:17 hrs.) ahead of third-placed Hannes Genze (2:53:17 hrs.). All three BMC athletes rode into the top 10: Balz Weber finished 5th, Yves Corminboeuf 10th.
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Friday, November 9, 2012
{sale} My Outnet Clearance Sale Picks
Have you or will you buy anything from the sale? Hurry up, there's only 4 days left! (The brown printed dress is one I own, seen here and here)
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The first dress, you need. The second looks far too much like one you've already got, so I'm saying no. Okay?ReplyDelete
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I suppose my laziness continues because I don't have a very exciting post for today. I hated quizzes in school, but Vegan MoFo quizzes are fun! I saw this one on Vegan Shizzle's blog. Here we go:
1. Favorite non-dairy milk?
Almond Breeze Original
2. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook for Vegan MoFo?
Tamales, Curried Sweet Potato Soup w/ Wild Rice, and Indian-Spiced Pumpkin Gratin
3.Topping(s) of choice for popcorn?
Salt, nutritional yeast, melted Earth Balance, and sometimes curry powder
4. Most disastrous recipe/meal failure?
Seitan Piccata
5. Favorite pickled item?
Dill pickles made by myself and my friend
6. How do you organize your recipes?
I have a huge binder for recipes printed from the internet that I hope to someday make, two shelves of cookbooks ordered by height (looks pretty!), and a small recipe box that rarely gets used.
7. Compost, trash, or garbage disposal?
Trash, but I am looking into compost options.
8. If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 foods…what would they be (don't worry about how you'll cook them)?
Kale, black beans, Peanut Butter Panda Puffs (a breakfast cereal) and hummus (I know that's 4, but who cares?)
9. Fondest food memory from your childhood?
Making mashed potatoes for my family every holiday dinner
10. Favorite vegan ice cream?
Coconut Bliss
11. Most loved kitchen appliance?
Vity, my Vita Mix
12. Spice/herb you would die without?
Freshly ground black pepper
13. Cookbook you have owned for the longest time?
The New Basics Cookbook – I never use it anymore because it is far from vegan and the photo of the authors on the back cover scares Tim senseless, but it does have useful tips and information
14. Favorite flavor of jam/jelly?
Homemade strawberry with hand-picked berries
15. Favorite vegan recipe to serve to an omni friend?
Veggie pizza
16. Seitan, tofu, or tempeh?
17. Favorite meal to cook (or time of day to cook)?
18. What is sitting on top of your refrigerator?
Five plants, a watering can, and a sugar pumpkin that will turn into pumpkin butter soon!
19. Name 3 items in your freezer without looking.
Frozen strawberries, tortillas, lots of beans
20. What's on your grocery list?
I just went shopping last night, so nothing right now.
21. Favorite grocery store?
Food Fight – they have the best produce and the nicest owners on the planet
22. Name a recipe you'd love to veganize, but haven't yet.
Hmmmmm… I guess a Newman O, which is already vegan, but I'd like to figure out how to make my own.
23. Food blog you read the most
Have Cake Will Travel is my favorite because I love Celine
24. Favorite vegan candy/chocolate?
Sjaaks Almond Butter Bites
25. Most extravagant food item purchased lately?
Honestly, I can't think of anything…
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27. Favorite food cart?
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