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For many writers, especially the authors of memoirs, it can be hard to predict where and how readers will make the strongest connection to their stories. For Richard Blanco, whose The Prince of los Cocuyos is one of our favorite memoirs of 2014, the part of his book that seems to be attracting the most attention is especially surprising: It involves a can of Easy Cheese.
Growing up in Miami in a family of Cuban immigrants, little Ricky Blanco accompanied his cantankerous abuela (grandmother) to Winn-Dixie, a rare incursion onto the turf of los americanos. Blanco yearned to fit in with his American schoolmates, so he asked his abuela to buy a can of that uniquely American food, Easy Cheese. ("What? Queso en una lata? she questioned, unable to fathom the idea of cheese in a can. But I could tell from the tone of her voice that she was intrigued.") We won't spoil the story by telling you what happened next, but it's clear that the anecdote is making an impression on readers.
Blanco, the inaugural poet at President Obama's second inauguration in 2012, recently began a tour to promote The Prince of los Cocuyos. During one of his first stops, at Brookline Brooksmith in Massachusetts, a reader presented him with a very special gift—you guessed it: a can of Easy Cheese.
Will the gifts become a trend? No Easy Cheese was evident during Blanco's weekend appearance at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, but we have a feeling that Blanco might end up with a lifetime supply of canned cheese before his book tour is over.
To learn more about Blanco and his tender and keenly observed coming-of-age memoir, check out our Q&A with the author.
Of all the many authors I had the pleasure of seeing and meeting at this year's Southern Festival of Books, it was especially thrilling to take a moment with award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson to talk about her new memoir-in-verse, Brown Girl Dreaming.
This truly marvelous book reveals a childhood caught between worlds, and her poignant verse succeeds in stripping away extraneous details, allowing room for readers to make an instant emotional connection.
Throughout her session, Woodson quoted from several of her books, including a selection from Locomotion that instructed a young mind to "be quiet" and to allow memories to make themselves known. She read several of the poems from Brown Girl Dreaming, including her favorite, "Music," which begins:
Every morning the radio come on seven o'clock
Sometimes Michael Jackson is singing that A-B-C
is as easy as 1-2-3
or Sly and the Family Stone are thanking us for
letting them
be themselves.
Sometimes it's slower music, the Five Stairsteps
telling us
things are going to get easier, or the Hollies singing,
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
So on we go . . .
After her session, Woodson graciously agreed to chat with me about the book, her complex relationships with music and the South, and so much more. A preview:
Why did you think verse works so well for this book?
It's how memory comes. Memories come in these small moments, with all of this white space around them, but the moments are very distinct. I feel like I have all this information, [but I'm] not sure what it's connected to. And then the exploration of years and months and days brings the connection together. But it wouldn't have been a straight narrative. A straight narrative would've been a lie. It's not how you remember things—you remember them in small moments.
Author Kimberly McCreight had a hit on her hands with her suspenseful 2013 debut, Reconstructing Amelia, the story of a grieving mother trying to figure out what made her teenaged daughter leap from the roof of her exclusive private school.
McCreight's second novel, Where They Found Her, which Harper will publish on April 14, also starts with the discovery of a body. But this time, instead of a teenager, it's an unidentified infant. Freelance journalist Molly, a new local resident, is hired to cover the story, but her search for answers uncovers some dangerous small-town secrets.
The publisher describes the book as "another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery."
Sounds like an intriguing follow-up to an Edgar- and Anthony-award nominee to us! And that's not all: McCreight also has a YA trilogy in the works, set for a 2016 release, so fans have a lot to look forward to.
Fall, in my humble opinion, is the best time of the year. And it's also the best time of the year to pick up books with some sinister themes! From slightly spooky to absolutely terrifying, these books will put you in the mood for Halloween.
You know the phrase, "If walls could talk"? Well, the walls of this house want to tell the Walkers something. And it's not a pleasant story.
We're pretty pumped about the resurrection of Rice's Vampire Chronicles! The first installment in a decade finds the vampire world in shambles, but your undead favorites are just as creepily flamboyant and terrifyingly unpredictable as ever.
Calhoun creates a world in which almost no one can sleep, and civilization collectively loses its mind. There is nothing I love more than sleeping, so this novel is my worst fear realized.
Dark fairy tales and historical realities twist together in this novel set in Nazi Germany.
There's something horrifying about an evil you can't see. In Bird Box, a presence is out there that drives anyone who glimpses it to destruction. And that's all the reader, or anyone in this dark and suspenseful novel, knows.
More vampires! Owen takes a traditional, Victorian-inspired approach to blood-suckers in her debut novel. But Dracula, it is not. Bram Stoker had to rein in his blood and gore for his Victorian audience, while Owen revels in the gruesome details.
A spirit haunts the halls of the Riddell mansion, and as teenager Trevor Riddell explores the massive and strange estate, it becomes clear that the ghost, and the house itself, are harboring secrets.
This Top Pick in Fiction from February is guaranteed to send chills down your spine, because honestly, I got chills just reading the review! The first sentence is enough to make you check under your bed: "The first time I saw a sleeper, I was nine years old."
Children are great! But is there anything more terrifying than creepy children? (The twins from The Shining, anyone?) In this chilling novel, a troubled boy's disturbing drawings seem to take on a life of their own.
One creepy child is bad enough (see above). But three?! After inexplicable, simultaneous plane crashes around the world leave just three young survivors, things get weird. The survivors' behavior becomes increasingly erratic, and people begin to wonder: Is this the end?
When an isolated town is snowed in together, a collective sense of foreboding déjà vu has terrifying implications.
A Boy Scout troop's annual camping trip turns horrific when a deranged man stumbles upon their campsite. But this isn't your usual weirdo-in-the-woods tale—this man is carrying something deadly.
Mining the transitional stage of new motherhood for all its creepy possibilities, this novel follows two mothers separated by a century. However, they are both haunted by the same spectral visions.
The sequel to 2012's Breed, this novel follows two 12-year-olds as they make the always scary step into the teenage years. Except these two's transition is even more fraught with terror, because a strange genetic disorder promises that they will slowly become violent, monstrous humans.
Any creepy reads from the past year we missed? Let us know in the comments!
Lauren Oliver, known for her YA books, succesfully ventures into adult territory with Rooms, a novel focusing on a family haunted by their painful pasts, as well as the ghosts that live in their dead relative's home. Our reviewer writes, "Rooms doesn't scare so much as haunt, and for a tale narrated in part by ghosts, it is remarkably full of life. Utterly captivating and electric, this richly atmospheric ghost story is excellent reading." (Read the review here.)
We were curious about the books Oliver has enjoyed reading lately, so we asked her to recommend three favorites.
People often ask me why I've chosen to write books for all age groups and in a variety of genres. I think my desire to do different things stems in part from the diversity of my reading. I've always been a kind of omnivorous reader, devouring fiction, nonfiction, narrative essays, short stories, books about science—you name it. The three books currently doing rotating duty on my bedside table are a great example.
Full disclosure: I picked up this book initially because I've been writing a book that takes place in part during the 1920s, and I am ashamed to admit it's the first Bryson book I've had the pleasure of reading. I'm sad I've waited so long. Woven together seamlessly are narrative strands about the seminal political, social and cultural events of an astounding year: Charles Lindbergh's first flight, the Yankees' record-shattering season, the advent of the "talkie" pictures and the floods that rocked the Mississippi Delta. America in 1927 was a country on the brink, and Bryson's book practically vibrates with the energy of growth and distension, fracture and change.
One of my deepest pleasures is a great locked-door mystery. I've read all of Agatha Christie's canon multiple times, delighting in the fact that since I can never remember what happens in any particular book, I can enjoy her work ad infinitum. When I discovered that A.A. Milne, of the beloved Winnie the Pooh series, had written a single work of armchair detective fiction, I had to have it. It does not disappoint. Secret passageways, English manors, decorative ponds and ne'er do well brothers—this book has it all.
A middle grade book that can easily be enjoyed by older audiences (a fact of which I am proof), The Glass Sentence is an immensely imaginative book about a world in which different continents have slipped into different eras. Its protagonist, Sophia, niece of a famous mapmaker, must go on a rescue mission after her uncle disappears, accompanied by a boy from an entirely different time. It's an epic, expansive and marvelous story that reconceives the relationship between time and place and even invents new and fantastical ways of getting from Point A to Point B.
Thank you, Lauren! See any books you would like to pick up, readers?
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Locker Combinations is a Book Case feature by BookPage contributor and young adult (YA) literature expert Jill Ratzan. Using a variety of literary, cultural and educational perspectives, Jill guest blogs about the latest in YA lit and the general direction, trends and changes of the field. This month, Jill looks at one of our favorite classic YA novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.
Teen Read Week kicks off this Sunday! As an annual celebration of reading for fun, this is the perfect time to look back on one of the most fun YA books of all time.
Fourteen years ago, 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson made her debut in the pages of Louise Rennison's laugh-out-loud funny Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. Nine more books, an online short story and a movie would follow.
In hour by hour—and sometimes minute by minute—diary-style entries filled with British slang and her own neologisms, Georgia relates her adventures with her half-wild cat Angus ("I used to drag him around on a lead, but as I explained to Mrs. Next Door, he ate it"), her 3-year-old sister Libby, her best friends Jas, Ellen, Rosie and Jools, and most of all her attempt to snag—and snog—Robbie, the Sex God. In between, she and her classmates study geoggers and blodge (geography and biology), debate what boys really mean when they say "see you later" and handle various beauty mishaps, like shaved eyebrows and attempts at hair dying.
If these seem like silly concerns, they're supposed to be. As Rennison told BookPage in 2003, her path to writing about Georgia started when a newspaper column of hers caught a publisher's attention in an unusual way. (The publisher "asked me if I would consider writing a teenage girl's diary book. I said, er . . . why me? and they said, because we have never read anything quite so self-obsessed and childish, so we thought you could do a really good job.")
The glossary at the end of the book might be even more fun the main story. Georgia spells out the exact meanings of deely-boppers (an amusing piece of headwear), nuddy-pants ("literally nude-colored pants, and you know what nude-colored pants are? They are no pants"), "double cool with knobs" (which means "very" but is "altogether snappier") and other terms, to hilarious effect.
Recently the Guardian featured a guest piece by author Louise Rennison reflecting on how well the British humor of Angus, Thongs and its sequels has translated to "Hamburger-a-go-go land"—that is, the United States. Among other points, Rennison relates a confusion as to whether or not Americans wear knickers and an oddly impossible interpretation of the British title of the fifth book, . . . And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand.
Rennison's article was perfect timing, because I had recently been reminiscing on the bizarre incidents, urban folklore and noteworthy reputations that've accumulated around this cult classic over time.
First, there's Rennison's unusual path to writing about Georgia's "fabbity fab fab" life. As Rennison told BookPage in 2003, a newspaper column of hers had caught a publisher's attention in an unexpected way. (The publisher "asked me if I would consider writing a teenage girl's diary book. I said, er . . . why me? and they said, because we have never read anything quite so self-obsessed and childish, so we thought you could do a really good job.")
Then there's the climate of YA lit into which Rennison was writing. Angus, Thongs, a 2001 Printz Honor book, entered the American YA lit scene in April 2000, at a time when the Printz Award had just recognized its first crop of winners, John Green was about to graduate from college, and Harry Potter fans were eagerly awaiting the upcoming fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Technology was different, too: Georgia and her friends pass notes in class rather than texting, call each other from "phone boxes" and listen to music on audiotapes. But their desire to evade school rules, their interest in kissing lessons and their frustrations with their parents are universal teen themes.
And don't forget about the longstanding appeal of the diary format itself. Georgia's entries are immediate and highly emotionally charged, with the quick ups and downs characteristic of teens' feelings ("6:00pm: Is my life over? Is this all there is? . . . 8:05pm: Jas has just phoned to say we've been invited to a party at Katie Steadman's and . . . Katie has asked Tom and Robbie. YESSSSS!!!!")
Although Angus, Thongs didn't invent diary format or even bring it to YA lit for the first time (it's a defining feature of 1971's anonymous Go Ask Alice, for example), Rennison's book might very well have popularized and encouraged this way of telling stories. Diary format has gone on to be used in dozens of other YA novels, ranging from The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (also published in 2000) to Girls Like Us, longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
And finally, there's the book challenges, the complaints and the apologies. In 2005, the second book, On The Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, was challenged in a Bozeman, Montana, middle school on the grounds that "an unstable person seeing a girl reading the book might think from the title that the girl was promiscuous and stalk her." (Louise Rennison had appeared on the American Library Association's most frequently challenged authors list two years before, in 2003.)
In another incident posted on a children's lit listserv at the time, a bookseller found herself awkwardly explaining to a horrified parent what "snogging" meant (it means kissing, not to be confused with the significantly more R-rated "shagging").
Lastly, one of my own YA lit students shared an incident of her own with our class. Echoing Seventeen magazine's review—"You might want to refrain from reading this one in public"—my student found that Angus, Thongs and public transportation didn't quite mix. "I was reading it on the bus and laughing hysterically, and everyone was looking at me funny," she mock-complained.
Fans of Rennison's latest work might want to check out last year's The Taming of the Tights, her third book featuring Georgia's theater-loving cousin Tallulah Casey. But to some readers, nothing quite compares to their very first encounter with one of YA lit's funniest teens.
What retro YA book have you been meaning to read . . . or re-read? Let us know in the comments!
So you're a fan of Jojo Moyes' best-selling, tear-jerking 2012 release, Me Before You. (Who isn't?) This story of the relationship between down-and-out Louisa Clark and the wealthy, quadriplegic she becomes a caregiver for is as touching and warm as it is thought-provoking, making it a perfect fit for book clubs.
Other than tearing through Moyes' backlist (she's published 10+ other books, including a new one out this summer) what's a Me Before You fan to do next? Not to worry: BookPage has some ideas.
(Warning: minor plot spoilers; after all, this is for those who have already read Me Before You!)
OK, so this one might not be much of a surprise, but no one does the ethical dilemma novel™ better than Picoult, and My Sister's Keeper is one of her most controversial. If debating right to life/quality of life issues was what turned you on about Me Before You, give this one a whirl. Read it already? Go for the not-yet-adapted-for-film Second Glance.
Speaking of medical ethics . . . best-selling author Gawande may not write novels, but his essays on the challenges of medicine, especially when it comes to drawing the line between treatment and quality of life, certainly make for compelling reading. Anyone who came out of Me Before You with questions about the medical issues involved should pick up this sensitive and smart new colllection that will leave you wiser.
One of the most compelling storylines in Me Before You was Lou's journey of self-discovery—the way she realizes there's more to who she can be. Shortridge's fifth novel offers a more extreme version of that theme. It's the story of Lucie Walker, who awakens in the San Francisco Bay with no idea who she is or how she got there. She doesn't recognize the handsome man who shows up claiming to be her fiancé.
If the "odd-couple" dynamic between Louisa and Will was your favorite part of Me Before You, don't miss The Rosie Project, last year's word-of-mouth hit that chronicled the romance between a professor who is logical to a fault and a whimsical, fun-loving bartender who comes to him for help finding her biological father.
So you liked Me Before You because it was a tear-jerker? Try Maria de los Santos, especially the poignant Belong to Me, which follows a 30-something who is dying of cancer.
More obvious runner-ups: The Time-Traveler's Wife, The Fault in Our Stars.
One of the themes of Me Before You is appreciating the joy to be found in life, no matter what your situation might be. In Jackson's compassionate sixth novel, Someone Else's Love Story, her heroine Shandi has to do just that, even as she uncovers some uncomfortable truths about her life and meets the equally wounded, but less resiliant, William.
Readers, what do you think of these picks? What did you read after Me Before You? Tell us in the comments!
RELATED CONTENT: Read our previous "Read it Next" posts.
The BookPage offices are located in Nashville, so the Southern Festival of Books is our favorite event of the year! Will you be attending? Check out a list of the events we're most looking forward to this weekend, and say hi if you see us!
View the full session schedule here, and be sure to download the Southern Festival of Books app!
Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome
Kevin Powers, author of Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Destruction and Creation: Poetry and Prose Inspired by War
2:00pm - 3:00pm | Nashville Public Library Auditorium
Lauren Oliver, author of Rooms
2:00pm - 3:00pm | Room 12, Legislative Plaza
James McPherson, author of Embattled Rebel
2:00pm - 3:00pm | Room 16, Legislative Plaza
Frances Mayes, author of Under Magnolia
2:00pm - 3:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Third Floor Program Room
Gabrielle Zevin, author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
3:00pm - 4:00pm | Nashville Public Library Auditorium
Richard Blanco, author of The Prince of Los Cocuyos
10:00am - 11:00am | Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Julie Danielson and Betsy Bird, authors of Wild Things!
10:00am - 11:00am | Room 29, Legislative Plaza
Charles M. Blow, author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones
11:00am - 12:00pm | Room 16, Legislative Plaza
Marja Mills, author of The Mockingbird Next Door
11:00am - 12:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Tony Earley, author of Mr. Tall
11:00am - 12:00pm | Nashville Public Library Auditorium
Karen Abbott, author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Room 31, Legislative Plaza
Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Nashville Public Library Auditorium
James Ellroy, author of Perfidia
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Rick Bragg, author of Jerry Lee Lewis
12:30pm - 1:30pm | War Memorial Auditorium
Ishmael Beah, author of Radiance of Tomorrow
1:00pm - 2:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World
1:00pm - 2:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
Rebecca Makkai, author of The Hundred-Year House
Maggie Shipstead, author of Astonish Me
Backward Through Time: Fiction and Reckoning
2:00pm - 3:30pm | Room 12, Legislative Plaza
Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure
2:00pm - 3:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Maureen Corrigan, author of And So We Read On
3:00pm - 4:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Scott Stossel, author of My Age of Anxiety
3:00pm - 4:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Third Floor Program Room
Kendra DeColo, author of Thieves in the Afterlife
Patricia Lockwood, author of Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexual
Profundities, Profanities, and Wry Poetics
3:00pm - 4:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Special Collections Room
Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
Patricia Lockwood, author of Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexual
Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke
Abraham Smith, author of Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer
Literary Death Match
8:00 pm | Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S., Nashville
$15 | 21+ | Tickets
Joshilyn Jackson, author of Someone Else's Love Story
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Room 12, Legislative Plaza
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
1:00pm - 2:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room 1AB
Lily King, author of Euphoria
Allegra Jordan, author of The End of Innocence
Danger, Desire, and Discovery: Captivating Historical Novels
1:00pm - 2:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Conference Room III
Daniel Wallace, author of The Kings and Queens of Roam
Maggie Shipstead, author of Astonish Me
Nashville Writers Circle
2:00pm - 4:00pm | Nashville Public Library, Nashville Banner Room
Drink coffee and wear good shoes, because the fun kicks off tomorrow. Plus there are so many other great sessions—how do we choose?!
Where will you be this weekend at SoFB?
Yotam Ottolenghi's sublime second collection of vegetarian recipes, Plenty More, is our Top Pick in Cookbooks for October! The Middle Eastern magic abounds in his 120 recipes, which are organized by cooking method over 12 chapters.
Apricot, Walnut and Lavender Cake
Serves Eight
The combination of walnuts, apricots and lavender is as French as a good baguette with butter and ripe Brie, and it is every bit as invincible. I seriously urge you to try this cake, and not just as a French classic. It has a moist and soft crumb and a delicate fruity topping, and it will keep well, covered, for a few days
Preheat the oven to 375ºF/190ºC.
Place the butter, oil, superfine sugar and almonds in a stand mixer and beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add the eggs in small additions and continue to beat until well incorporated. Fold in the walnuts, flour, vanilla, lemon zest, 1 teaspoon of the lavender and ⅛ teaspoon salt.
Line the base and sides of a 9-inch/23-cm cake pan with parchment paper. Pour in cake batter and level the top. Arrange the apricot halves, skin side down and slightly overlapping, over the top, right to the edge. Bake in the oven for 70 to 80 minutes, covering with aluminum foil if the top starts to brown too much.
While the cake is baking, make the icing. Whisk together the confectioners' sugar and lemon juice to get a light, pourable icing, adjusting the amount of sugar or juice if needed. As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, brush the icing on top. Sprinkle the remaining ½ teaspoon lavender over the top and leave the cake to cool before serving.


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A group of super heroes fights against aliens coming down from the sky in endless waves.
They were playing Galaga. They thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
Holy crap
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I legitimately let out an "Awww!"
I don't watch the show but I think Nick Fury just told Agent Coulson that he saved him using drastic measures because he's an Avenger and I'm tempted to take it up again because his face has like eight different emotions in that last GIF.
Seriously, that man deserves an Emmy.
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this was the best fucking sass in the movie
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Come to earth they said.
Subjugate they said.
It would be fun they said.
Loki's real punishment.
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Stunning visual moments of The Avengers: Black Widow
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#steve is like what #someone's playing galaga #wait i don't know what galaga is #shit what if it's important #is it a sport #is it a band #is it a board game #like monopoly #(thank god they still have monopoly) #god i'd better just look #it's behind me isn't it #there is nothing behind me #GOSH DARN IT 21ST CENTURY
I like how many parts of the movie you realize Thor, Steve, and Loki really do not know what the fuck is going on.
I just want a movie with Thor, Steve and Loki attempting to figure out this century. LIke, no action, no adventure, no explosions. Just wifi.
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the guy in the cab is like "the fuck?"
I love how someone actually went there and took this photo.
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people might just need a little old fashioned.
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Joss Whedon's Avengers commentary
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Can we have a Clifford live action movie? Not a kids movie either.
Like, Emily Elizabeth's parents are working for a government agency developing a super soldier serum. None of their testing is working and they start testing the serum on larger mammals in hopes of seeing better results. They inject a variety of animals, including a dog. Nothing. They are desperate and on the verge of having their project shut down when they notice one of the test dogs is pregnant. It gives birth and they bring one of the puppies home for their daughter.
To their shock, the puppy they brought home starts to grow at an incredible rate, its fur mutating into a brilliant red as it does so. They are ecstatic because their research has finally seen a result, albeit one they weren't expecting. There is only one problem.
Clifford has become attached to Emily and refuses to leave her side. Emily, too, has fallen in love with her new pet. They decide to let their project be canceled rather than try to separate the two. Unfortunately, the government discovers their secret and begins a campaign to retrieve Clifford at any costs. During the initial conflict, Emily Elizabeth's parents are killed trying to help her and Clifford escape. Emily and her dog flee into the wild. This sets the opening of the movie.
Over the course of the movie, Emily and Clifford are on the run and we see Emily grow into a young woman, everything about her honed into a survivalist expert. She and Clifford roam the backwoods, constantly in fear of being captured. On one of her rare trips into town one day, Emily witnesses a bank robbery in progress involving multiple hostages. She calls Clifford and the two of them save the lives of the hostages but wreck the bank in the process. The local news capture footage of Clifford and it isn't long before the military arrives in town.
Emily wants to just run away again, but she sees that the military is destroying the town, driving people out of their homes and destroying property in their search. She decides that enough is enough and rides Clifford back into town and fights the military. Amidst the fighting a huge truck arrives. A general (who was her parent's superior officer) gets out and smirks. He tells Emily Elizabeth that Clifford's mother wasn't the only animal that gave birth to a litter of babies after receiving an injection. The back of the truck unfolds to reveal a massive tabby cat. The cat strains against its bindings and tears free, immediately leaping onto a nearby group of soldiers and devouring them. Emily is horrified and orders Clifford to attack.
What follows is the dramatic battle between Clifford and the mutant cat. Clifford has strength, but the cat is too fast and agile. It looks like Clifford is down for the count, when the townsfolk, recognizing that Clifford is on their side, come to his aid. They distract the cat long enough for him to finish the beast off for good.
The military retreats, the general swearing vengeance on the two of them, and Emily and Clifford ride off into the night once more. But the legend of the big red dog has already started. And Emily Elizabeth knows that the day will come when she and Clifford will need to ride into battle against the forces of evil once more.
The credits roll.
Post credits, the screen fades to black for a moment. The sound of waves crashing on shore fills the air. The screen flashes brilliant white. The light of the lighthouse moves on, revealing a rocky shore on a rainy day. The camera pans down to find Clifford and Emily gazing out to sea. A massive object hangs in the air off the coast, obscured in the clouds. A smaller object rapidly approaches them. It resolves itself into an advanced helicopter that silently lands just down the shore from them. Clifford lets out a low growl but Emily quiets him with a hand on his leg. A lone figure emerges from the aircraft, huddling his arms around himself to fight off the cold.
He approaches the two. His hair is short and somewhat curly. He wears glasses and a grey flannel shirt and seems unlikely to pose a threat to the two.
"Emily Elizabeth," he says over the sound of the crashing surf, "I worked with your parents. It's taken us a while to find you, after the Birdwell Island incident."
"And who exactly is 'us'," she responds, eyes narrowing suspiciously.
Ignoring her question, the man continues. "Me and Clifford have a lot in common, actually." He smiles a little awkwardly, then presses on. "I was hoping you might be interested in meeting my boss. He's fairly excited to talk with you."
"You still haven't answered my question. Who are you and who do you work for?"
The man smiles. "My name is Banner. And I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative."
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Best Trivia Nights In Chicago
Are you up for a little game of trivia? If you were awesome at Trivial Pursuit and know a lot of random facts about a lot of random things, then you need to head to one of Chicago's trivia nights. Read ahead for some top bars to head to for your trivia fix.
Rock-Throwers Damage At Least 12 Vehicles On Stevenson Expressway
For the sixth time in the past week, rock-throwers have damaged cars on a Chicago area expressway.
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Just over half of Americans believe that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to get married, according to a poll released on Thursday by ABC and The Washington Post.
Fifty percent of respondents to the survey said that the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection gives the couples the right to marry, while 41 percent said it does not.
Moving past the constitutional issue, 59 percent of responders say they support same-sex marriage, with 34 percent saying they are opposed. This is the largest gap in the history of the poll tracked by ABC and The Post.
"I mean, it's kind of complicated," sophomore and health care management major Simone Isaacs said. "I don't really [personally support] gay marriage, but [gay and lesbian couples] are still human. We shouldn't treat them any differently because of their preferences."
Since 2004, support for same-sex marriage has increased by 21 percent according to the Post-ABC poll.
The same poll also shows that 61 percent of Americans support same-sex couples' rights to adopt a child, and that 81 percent of respondents said businesses should not be allowed to refuse service to gays and lesbians.
The poll comes out the same week that a case was argued which could make Michigan the 18th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Michigan voters approved a ban on same-sex marriage in 2004, but a lawsuit challenged that measure, and a federal judge said on Friday that he expects to make a ruling on the case in the next two weeks.
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I found an old mutuel ticket, how can I find out if it's a winner?
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I have an old winning mutuel ticket, how can I cash it in?
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When are racing programs available & where can I get one?
Our live racing program is generally available the afternoon before the race day and can be printed from the Program Kiosks. Combined simulcasting programs (Harness and Thoroughbred) can be purchased on 1st floor of the Clubhouse, as well as printed from the kiosks (individual racetracks only.)
Daily Racing Program past performance and picks for Delaware Park races are also available online by clicking HERE. We also sell the Daily Racing Form on Club 1.
How can I meet one of the Delaware Park jockeys?
Not only is our open-air paddock one of the prettiest in the country, but it allows you the opportunity to see the pre-race action up close. The Jock's Room is located directly adjacent to this area and the jockeys are always willing to greet visitors before dashing off to their mount.
I misplaced my Win/Loss tax statement. How do I get another one?
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Can I bet a Delaware Park race without being on the property?
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Does Delaware Park run any other types of live races, besides Thoroughbred?
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Darlings! I do hope you enjoy this post as much as I enjoyed making it! Tomorrow I'll be off to a couple of places that La Diva ALWAYS has fun at: La La Land and the land Down Under!
Los Angeles is a fantastic place to hang out and get into mischief and tomorrow night I'll be in the glamorous City of Angels being FABULOUS. La Diva thinks it would be simply impossible to not have a grand old time in L.A. and as part of my blogging duties, I shall try my best, darlings!
But for now, my head is already in Sydney! I started doing this food porn thang last night and went a bit mad reminiscing about all the wonderful food over there! So, if I can get to a computer at some point tomorrow, I will post part two! Enjoy!
The strange, succulent and delicious Balmain bugs
Tiger prawns are an Aussie specialty and can be quite large!
You know you want it. Go on, click, baby, click!
In America, it's called dim sum, in Australia, it's yum cha. To the Cantonese, it's brunch. La Diva had a lovely Chinese restaurant just down the block so you know where I was every Sunday morning with sidekick DJ Nevah L8!
Tiger prawns are an Aussie specialty and can be quite large!
You know you want it. Go on, click, baby, click!
In America, it's called dim sum, in Australia, it's yum cha. To the Cantonese, it's brunch. La Diva had a lovely Chinese restaurant just down the block so you know where I was every Sunday morning with sidekick DJ Nevah L8!
It was always a MUST that we take the custard tarts off the passing carts as soon as they went around because if you came to yum cha too late, you'd miss out, they'd be all gone!
Petersham, an inner-west suburb of Sydney, boasted a number of Portuguese chicken shops where you could pick up the juiciest grilled chickens, don't even ASK me how they seasoned them, I would not fathom to guess. However, the franchise fast-food Oporto used to make a Portuguese chicken sandwich that was to die for!!!! I'm still trying to replicate it!
The Oporto Bondi burger...is it fried? Is it grilled? Is there a light dusting of flour on the chicken before they cook it?? La Diva does not know. She just knows its DAMN GOOD.
Hello, possums! You can't get any more dinky-di than Dame Edna Everage! And I'm certain she makes a mean lamb roast dinner with all the fixin's. A typical Sunday dinner in 'straya!
Look at that mash! And La Diva can just imagine HOW GOOD dose roasted veggies are that have been cooking in all the lamb's juice!
What do these gorgeous aboriginal boys have to do with Turkish pizza? NOT A THING! However, bush tucker is not a cuisine that is easily found or eaten with any sort of regularity by most folks in Australia, so I just wanted to give a shout-out to our native brothers, lest we forget their huge contributions to Australian culture.
Called Turkish "pizza," the "pide" bread is a wonderfully chewy and tasty way to serve a variety of toppings such as ground meat, cheese, spinach, egg and tomatoes! La Diva used to buy the plain bread, adorned with black sesame seeds, and then grill it and serve it with butter....ahhh.....Why hasn't anyone opened a Turkish pizza place here in Miami? (Don't even try suggesting Pashas!) La Diva has found a few recipes and is going to give it a shot when I get back!
Well, darlings, I do hope you enjoyed my food porn journey! Check back again for Part II and perhaps the BEST of the food porn available in Sydney! And, in only four more sleeps, I too will be enjoying at least some of these dishes in person!
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The House Majority PAC, a "Super-PAC" with the goal of winning back the House Majority for the Democrats, is targeting Michael Grimm as a vulnerable Republican candidate in a competitive district, according to a press release from the group.
The language in the press release describes Grimm in, uh, grim terms, lumping him in with conservatives like the controversial Minnesota representative Michelle Bachman, who is also being challenged by the PAC.
"In 2012, House Majority PAC built a strong record of success and in 2013 we are ready to hit the ground running to hold these Republicans accountable and communicate with swing voters about their extreme records and backwards priorities," said Alixandria Lapp, Executive Director of House Majority PAC.
"Whether it's supporting the end of Medicare as we know it, backing tax cuts for the wealthy, working to roll back the clock on women's rights or opposing stem cell research, these Republicans are simply out of step with the districts they represent. House Majority PAC will work to ensure voters know the truth."
With the House Majority PAC's record of success, defeating 63 percent of the Republican opposition they contributed funding to, Grimm is in for a hard fight to keep his seat.
The announcement comes just days after news broke that Coney Island Councilman Domenic Recchia is considering pulling out of the race for Brooklyn borough president, with an eye towards challenging Grimm in 2014.
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As it was such a lovely day today, we decided to go over to Gloucestershire and have a look around Westonbirt. By sheer coincidence, so did everyone else!! It was sooooo busy, not surprisingly I guess, so I've created a bit of a montage as every other shot had togs in it!
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You had to be strong and determined – both physically and emotionally – to survive this year's Big 12 Championship. When the dust finally settled on Saturday night, it was Iowa State that was the final team standing and the tournament champions for the second time in the Big 12 era. The Cyclones outlasted Baylor in one heck of a title game, 74-65 with more than 19,000, mostly Iowa State fans, looking on at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
The Cyclones got off to a terrible start, falling behind 11-1 and not scoring their first field goal until Naz Long drained a three-point shot with almost seven and a half minutes gone in the opening half. Iowa State never had the lead in the game until there was just over six minutes remaining in the game.
The contest was tied at 50-all when – who else? – the Big 12 Player of the Year, Melvin Ejim, nailed a straight-on 20-foot shot to put the Cyclones ahead for the first time in the game, 53-50. The No. 7-seeded Bears would tie the game one more time at 53 a piece, before fourth-seeded State slowly stretched out the lead and won it with free throws in the closing seconds.
Baylor was playing its fourth game in as many days, but early on, the Bears seemed to be hardly affected by the three previous days of action. In fact, the Bears showed amazing energy and intensity for a team that had played and beaten TCU in the opening round on Wednesday followed by convincing wins over No. 2 seed Oklahoma and third-seeded Texas in successive nights.
By now most everyone either watched the championship game on TV or has heard 0r read about the results. Here are a dozen story lines from the 18th Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament championship tilt that you may not be aware of:
- Baylor's 7-1 center Isaiah Austin had his typical double-digit scoring performance against Iowa State, recording 10 points. He also had seven rebounds, but had only one blocked shot in the conference championship game. That compares with 17 total blocks in his three previous tourney games.
- Baylor senior shooting guard Brady Heslip made four-of-six three-point baskets in the championship final, giving him 14 in this year's tournament, the second most in a Big 12 Tournament.
- Iowa State set a new record for three-point shots made by a team in a three-game Big 12 Tournament. The Cyclones made 31 of 63 three-pointers (492) in this year's tournament (seven of those came from Naz Long; DeAndre Kane mad six three-pointers over the three days of this year's tournament).
- No team from the state of Texas has ever won a Big 12 Tournament championship. This was Iowa State's second tournament title. Kansas has 12 tournament crowns, Oklahoma has won it three times and Missouri won it in 2012, its last season in the Big 12 before moving to the SEC.
- Iowa State missed it first 13 shots in its tournament championship game with Baylor. The Cyclones ended the first half hitting just 8-of-25 shots for 32 percent. The second half, though, was a completely different story, however, as Iowa State shot 16 of 23 from the field for a red-hot 70 percent.
- Neither of Kansas City's hometown favorites, Kansas or Kansas State, made it to the championship game on Saturday. That didn't seem to matter, though, because the attendance for the title game drew 19, 108, the fifth highest for a single session in Big 12 Tournament history.
- Baylor was the taller and longer team in its championship battle with Iowa State, with 7-1 Isaiah Austin and 6-9 Cory Jefferson's presence clearly an obstruction in the paint. Despite this, however, Iowa State outscored Baylor in the paint 30 to 20.
- The score in the championship game was tied twice (both times in the second half) and the lead changed hands five teams. The largest lead was 10 points: Baylor, 11-1, at the 13-minute mark in the first half; Iowa State, 72-62, with 10 seconds remaining in the game.
- Iowa State's record in Big 12 Tournament games is now 10-16 and 2-0 in championship final. Baylor is 14-18 in all Big 12 Tournament games and is 0-3 in the title game.
- A good portion of the Iowa State fans in attendance at this year's championship final wore a bandage over their right eye in tribute to Georges Niang, the Iowa State player who was struck in the face late in the semifinal game with Kansas and had to leave the game to get stitches to repair a deep laceration above his eye. Niang had his difficulties inside against the Baylor bigs, shooting just 5 out of 15 for 13 points in Saturday's final.
- Iowa State placed three players on the All-Big 12 Tournament Team: DeAndre Kane, Melvin Ejim and George Niang. Kansas freshman sensation Andrew Wiggins and Baylor's Isaiah Austin also made the All-Tournament Team.
- The loss to Iowa State was only Baylor second in its last 12 games. The Bears were 2-8 at one point in the conference season. but went on a late season streak, winning seven of their final eight league games to finish the season at 9-9. The Bears are now 10-2 and will be one of seven Big 12 teams headed to the NCAA Tournament.
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Gatekeeper is a new security feature of OS X in Mountain Lion. It allows you to prevent apps from being installed depending upon the source of the app. You can decide to only allow Mac App Store apps, or also allow signed apps, or turn off Gatekeeper if you don't want to use it. Learn how to set Gatekeeper and why it will help you keep your Mac more secure.
Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode let's take a look at the new Gatekeeper function in Mountain Lion.
So Gatekeeper is a new security measure that's in Mountain Lion that allows you to basically say only allow apps from the Mac App Store to be installed on this computer. Alternatively, you can say you will also allow apps that are signed by an official developer to be installed on the computer or your third option is to turn the Gatekeeper off and things will operate as they did in Lion and in any OS before that. Let me show you.
The Gatekeeper settings are found in Mountain Lion in System Preferences and you go to Security and Privacy and under General you will see them listed here. You have to unlock in order to access them.
So here are the three options. So if select the first one that means only software from the Mac App Store can be installed. If you try to download other software from another web site or you get software via email something like that it won't let you install it. However you can still install software from optical disks. So for instance if you buy something like Microsoft Office on disk and you want to install it on your iMac you can still do that. This only applies to the network for getting software off the internet.
Now the second option allows you to install software from the Mac App Store but in addition to that it allows you to install software from developer's web sites as long as the developer has signed up with the Apple's Mac developers program and they sign their apps with their unique identifier that Apple gives them. This provides accountability. Basically the developer has identified themselves with the software and it makes sure they are held accountable if the software is actually some sort of malware which is highly unlikely if they are signing up for this program and identifying themselves to Apple. In the extreme case if the software misbehaves then Apple has the ability to identify the piece of software and send out signals through its' malware protection software to actually disable it. Probably that will never happen as the accountability here is pretty strong. So it's kind of a second level and expect to see some developers use this. The Mac App Store has very strict restrictions on what software can do. For instance utilities that access the operating system and do various different things can't be in the Mac App Store. So some of the more tech geeky tools won't be in the Mac App Store but may be available from the developer on their site as a signed app and you will be able to install it if you have the second option selected.
Now the third option, and you see when I select it it is actually going to make sure that's what I want to do, sets everything up like every OS before. You can install software from anywhere. You can download from web sites, it doesn't need to be signed, and you can install it.
Malware protection is still in place. This is separate from malware protection. So everything you have in Lion is available including malware protection if you select Anywhere.
Now there may be some developers that don't want to be part of the Apple Developer Program but they are perfectly legitimate developers. You may also work in an environment where you have all sorts of software traded back and forth between say students in a university, part of a classroom work, at a work environment where apps are developed and used in-house and there is no need to actually go out to Apple and have them certified. So this might be useful for those folks.
Now it is easy to switch back and forth between these as you can see. So there is no harm in setting yourself to being Mac App Store only and then if you do need to install another piece of software you can temporarily change it and go ahead and then change it back after installing it.
The Mac App Store setting is ideal if you are maintaining your computer used by a non-tech savay family member. It makes sure they don't go installing things when you are not around and then running into trouble. So you can set it to that and then if they really need something you can go in and change the setting, help them install that software,and then set it back.
The best thing about Gatekeeper is that it is there if you want to use it and if you don't want it you can just turn it off.
Hope you found this useful. Until next time this is Gary at MacMost Now.


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Conversation with The Onion's Editor-in-Chief Joe Randazzo
After four years as editor in chief of The Onion, comedian Joe Randazzo is leaving the paper, and America's self-proclaimed "finest news source" is relocating its offices from New York to Chicago. City & State editor Morgan Pehme talks with Randazzo about his tenure at the helm of the popular satiric publication and asks him if there's anything funny about Andrew Cuomo.
City & State: What's so funny about politics?
Joe Randazzo: You have a high concentration of egotistical people who oftentimes put their worst qualities forward to get noticed and to be recognized, and this lack of compassion, humanism and altruism often leads to success in politics. These are the worst qualities of humankind that people who are being put forth to represent all of humankind are embodying, so that inherently is a tragically hilarious juxtaposition.
CS: How seriously does The Onion take itself?
JR: I think it's understood that there's this bedrock responsibility to speak truth to power, to call out bullsh-t when The Onion sees it or hears it, and to always try to fall on the right side of issues, to never be against the victim—and not to try to maintain objectivity but to keep any target open, so Democrats are just as open to ridicule as Republicans. But in order to get to the good jokes that make The Onion successful, all the writers have to do is make each other laugh. I think a responsibility to the broader social conversation is genetically encoded in The Onion as an institution and that rubs off on the writers, but on a daily basis Onion writers aren't thinking about their responsibility or taking themselves very seriously. It just needs to be funny jokes.
CS: At The Onion, are you a journalist first or a comedian?
JR: I come from a little bit of a journalism background. I majored in journalism at Emerson and I worked for NPR, but I'm definitely a comedian first.
CS: Earlier this year, Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana mistakenly thought a story in The Onion about a planned "AbortionPlex" was genuine. On other occasions The New York Times and Fox News have reported on your articles as fact. How blurry is the line between real news and fake news in the current media environment?
JR: That one was really wonderful, because the whole point of the AbortionPlex story itself was to try to give as much credence to what we imagined every right-wing nut job's worst nightmare of Planned Parenthood could be and to explore that and give it The Onion treatment, which is to present it in a very dry, authoritative way. That's our formula; that's the lens through which we observe the world—that's where 90% of our comedy comes from—so when we do it really well, sometimes people who aren't familiar with us take it seriously. I think it does to a degree speak to—especially during the Bush Administration and the rise of FOX News, not that Rupert Murdoch is an evil person, per se—this sort of reinventing news as entertainment that that has really taken hold in American culture.
I think in [Rep. Fleming's] case, he's a pandering guy who's not that intelligent, who thought that something obscenely ridiculous like the AbortionPlex could ever possibly be real. But actually, one of the things that lent it some credence was that somebody went and created an actual Yelp site for the AbortionPlex—we didn't solicit this, they just did this of their own accord, organically—and hundreds of people who were in on the joke started giving it thumbs up or thumbs down and writing reviews like "It was great! My husband and I are going to go there every year for our anniversary" and stuff like that, which sort of gave texture to this world we created that we never could have done on our own. I think that story, paired with that kind of real-world response to it, painted this picture that for some people made it much easier to believe that it was real, even though the story itself was ridiculous. I mean, it's a $7 billion AbortionPlex or something like that, where they're killing, like, 1500 babies a minute. There's waterslides, and you can have a martini while you wait. It's like there's no way that would ever be real, even from Planned Parenthood. It's delightful when people take that stuff seriously.
CS: Does constantly mocking hypocrisy and ineptitude in government make you hopelessly cynical about the state of our country?
JR: I think a lot of comedians are cynical. I'm generalizing, but comedians tend to be fairly sensitive people who have to kind of harden their souls to the fact that they're going to get hurt, and that everybody's going to get hurt, and that people are imperfect and that, you know, ultimately we're all going to die. I think that's actually the background of every comedian's mind. So, I think there's a side to that sensitivity that hopes for good, that wants to be optimistic, that wants to be idealistic, but that's a vulnerable place to be, and rather than going out and trying to collect names for Children's International, comedians write nasty jokes about Rush Limbaugh. Personally, I wouldn't say that I'm cynical, but I'm not an activist.
I think that our country, if we continue on this path which is consumed with the endless obsession with consumption—that's physically unsustainable, spiritually unsustainable, and culturally unsustainable. Politics is just a reflection of that, trying to keep order out of all these different types and groups of people, who are all basically just trying to get by in a material world—I think Madonna said that at some point. So I don't actual think I'm cynical, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope for, like, big change. For one thing, we'll probably have to wipe out, like, three quarters of the population maybe before anything good can happen, and that's okay, I'm comfortable with that. I'm just enjoying my life while I can before the big purge comes.
CS: As a comedic journalist, when scandals like the ones that brought down Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer hit the papers, do you just think to yourself, Thank you!?
JR: Something like Eliot Spitzer or Anthony Weiner is a little more in the purview, from The Onion point of view, of late-night talk shows, like one-liners and zingers. The Onion tends not to really comment on those types of little blips, and when we do it tends to be more of a comment on the media's take on something. We try to write stories that can be evergreen, that you can read in 10 years and they would still make some sense. We try to look at it with more than a 24-hour news cycle mentality. When Anthony Weiners come up I think we actually say, "Sh-t!" because we have to either figure out a joke that nobody else has done, or we won't be able to cover it at all.
CS: The Onion hasn't really run a satiric article featuring Andrew Cuomo since his days as HUD Secretary. Is there just nothing funny about Cuomo to write about?
JR: I don't think there is. He's boring, right? That's his whole thing?
CS: In 2009 The Onion was awarded a Peabody, and last year you actively campaigned for a Pulitzer. Does The Onion really deserve journalism's highest award or was that just a shameless publicity stunt?
JR: I think that we would all actually really like to win a Pulitzer—and now that I'm leaving in two days, I think I can say that The Onion absolutely does deserve a Pulitzer. In terms of commentary I don't think there's anyone who has consistently done a better job with sort of more integrity that The Onion has. The Onion also does lots of stupid, horrible jokes that have no business being published, but I think there isn't any other organization that has for 20 years observed the American condition as consistently as The Onion has. It's been amazing to be able to work for them for six years. The Pulitzer campaign was definitely tongue-in-cheek. It was meant to be sort of a comment on awarding prizes for journalism, which is kind of a weird thing. In many ways, even though you are talking about things that are supposed to be good for the community, it can get wrapped up in just as much vanity as the Academy Awards can. So we thought it would be funny, instead of pretending we don't care about prizes like many news outlets do, just shamelessly going for one and saying we will actually just buy one from you, if you allow us to do it.
To read the full article at City & State click here.
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