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Let's discuss Breaking Bad.
If you don't watch this, I'm so sorry. Just bear with me. It's just that I understand the addiction of meth now, because this show has to be equally addictive.
One of our favorite parts is Jesse Pinkman's t-shirts. We are about halfway through Season 4 and last night he wore one with a big pink cross on it and it occurred to me that Jesse, a meth cook and junkie, dresses an awful lot like a lot of worship pastors I know.
Just give him a guitar and this is his edgy Christian album cover.
Is this Derek Webb?
Look, this shirt even has a cross on it, sorta. He is so rocking the youth-pastor-on-meth look.
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His tattoos work too, because y'all might not have known this, but in order to pastor a church in Austin, it is a city ordinance that you have to have tattoos. The more the holier.
Okay, now I'll quit alienating half my audience like (tatted) pastors do when they make a sports reference in a sermon.


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Self-Portrait: U.S.A.
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"He simply stood there--a mountain of a man around whose flag-crowned, straw-hat summit the everyday life of his delegation parted and swirled and then regrouped, but left him unmoved. Applauding to himself . . . whistling to himself . . . reflecting to himself--he appeared to be one of the loneliest of all humans on this teeming earth. And yet, he was contributing to the group effort of the convention. He was the Delegate. [August 1968.]" Self-Portrait: U.S.A., p. 47.

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Tuesday, 7 March 2017
My one star review of a furniture superstore. But really, the one star is for me. For being there. #BritishDadStuff
You know that you are a Great British Dad...
...when you take the time to review your family's life on Google Maps.
What are we doing with our lives?
The one star is for me.
For being here.
Thought we'd combine it with taking back the recycling bin lid that doesn't work.
You know exactly where this is going.
Because I'll take a guess that this happens to you too.
The bin is made by the shop.
The lid doesn't work.
You ask if you can swap it with one that does work.
"Sorry, we need a receipt."
We've got a Family Card - doesn't that "insure" us against your faulty products?
Sorry, we need Proof of Purchase.
I'm a man, in his forties, walking around with a bin lid - can that maybe count as proof of purchase?
Sorry, we need a receipt - because it's a part exchange.
We just need to swap a bin lid that doesn't work, for one that perhaps does? Does it have to be a Part Exchange?
I can look up your receipt on our system?
Great. Do you need our Family Card?
No, I just need the last 4 digits of your credit card.
Okay it's--
...And the date of purchase.
I haven't got that.
Or the receipts.
Well, we do - they're in a pile in the dresser. Which, as you also know look like one stream of heidertreidertrondheimEtomuderBattersprart.
We get it.
We're here to be rinsed for cash, and feel good about the stuff that'll end up in landfill.
Via the bin that doesn't even work.
For myself, for being here and the choices I make, it's one star.
Come gather round its little twinkle.
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Prof seeks Emerson's seat
UBC medical-school professor Kerry Jang has told the Georgia Straight that he plans to seek the federal NDP nomination in Vancouver Kingsway. Jang said he hopes to address local issues such as daycare and social housing, which he claimed have been overlooked by Liberal and Conservative MPs. Jang also said that he wants to protect the Canada Health Act.
Last April, the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC awarded Jang, 44, its academic-of-the-year award for creating support programs for homeless people in the Collingwood area of East Vancouver. He recently stepped down as president of Collingwood Neighbourhood House, which provides a range of community services, including drug-awareness programs for youth.
Jang, president of the provincial NDP constituency association in Vancouver Kingsway, said that federal NDP leader Jack Layton called him a month ago and asked him to seek a nomination. "The Chinese community has been pushing me quite a bit as well," Jang said.
According to Statistics Canada, 68 percent of the population in Vancouver Kingsway belonged to a visible minority in 2001, and 42 percent of the population was of Chinese descent. Jang claimed that the federal Liberals and Conservatives both lost support in the Chinese community with their handling of the head-tax issue, in which fewer than 300 living survivors and their spouses will be compensated with $20,000 each. Families with members who paid the tax but are no longer living will receive nothing.
"We're not asking for thousands of dollars for every generation," Jang said, quickly adding that the Conservatives and Liberals "don't understand Chinese family structure" .
The sitting MP is David Emerson, who crossed the floor to the Conservatives after the 2006 election. Emerson did not respond to the Straight's request for an interview by deadline.
Jang noted that he has lived his entire life in the riding, apart from a couple of years when he attended school in Ontario. "I'm a local boy," he said. "Whatever happens to you in this riding happens to me."
Former Liberal MP Sophia Leung lived near UBC while she was MP for Vancouver Kingsway. Emerson lives in Kerrisdale. The current Liberal candidate, Wendy Yuan, lives in Richmond.
Vancouver Kingsway extends from Oak Street on the west to Boundary Road on the east, and is mostly bounded by 16th Avenue on the north and 41st Avenue on the south. In the 2006 election, Emerson defeated the NDP's Ian Waddell by 4,494 votes.
Last year, Jang spearheaded a "people's by-election" that showed 95 percent of people agreed that Emerson should have quit and run in a by-election as a Conservative candidate. Jang said that during that time, people on the street told him they were tired of having candidates "parachuted" in from other areas. "They're saying stuff like, 'We really want someone who is from here, who understands us,'" Jang claimed.
Yuan, president and CEO of exporter Bradley Pacific Enterprises, told the Straight that she is committed to the people of Vancouver Kingsway riding and has spent the past three or four years knocking on doors in the riding. "I do live in Richmond, but I intend to move in the riding right away," she said.
Yuan also pointed out that unlike Jang, she speaks Mandarin and Cantonese in a riding with a large number of voters for whom English is a second language. "Definitely, when you're Chinese, people in that riding expect you to speak their prime dialect," she said. "I speak both Cantonese and Mandarin. It is going to be to my great advantage to communicate with voters."
Jang quipped that he can speak good "restaurant Chinese" . On a more serious note, Jang said that most voters are bilingual, and he claimed that the NDP has been winning support in the Chinese community with its efforts to preserve health-care services at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital. "That was a really big thing," Jang said. "It was the Chinese hospital."
Yuan pointed out that she is supporting former environment minister Stéphane Dion in the federal Liberal leadership race and said she is stressing the importance of an "environment-friendly economy" . Yuan also said she thinks it's worth "considering" a tax on gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, but she added that she opposes Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff's proposal for a carbon tax.
When asked about peak oil, Yuan said she hadn't given the issue a lot of thought and didn't have anything to say about the subject.


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Last weekend, the Boston Red Sox came into Minute Maid Park and pretty much did everything to the Astros they possibly could short of making sweet love to all of their wives and girlfriends. If you're an Astros fan, it was just another lost weekend in a litany of lost weekends that are rapidly comprising the worst season in team history.
Coming off another oh-fer weekend of baseball, it wasn't so much losing three more games that pissed off Astro Fan (we've become numb to that), but instead it was the way that the Astros seemingly rolled out the red carpet for the Red Sox fans.
Playing "Sweet Caroline" between innings? Check. Lobster rolls available in the concourse? Check.
One Red Sox tradition of which I was completely unaware, but would have absolutely participated in had I known about it, was the "Top of the Third Inning Breast Fondle"! Who knew? But sure enough from last night's game between Baltimore and Boston at Fenway Park....
Observations from that video:
1. The feel-copper is a very lucky guy on a couple fronts -- first, he has a hot significant other who obviously at least likes sports and is at least tolerant of public boob-touching, which (barring major psychological issues) puts your quality of relationship at a minimum of a B+.
2. Red Sox play-by-play guy Dan Orsilla handled the situation perfectly, mostly because he handled it exactly the way most of us would have -- by laughing hysterically and then not being able to compose himself for the next two minutes. Kudos, Dan. The Emmy is in the mail.
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3. On the other hand, there was something a tad unsavory about Jerry Remy, color analyst, wanting to throw the broadcast down to the very attractive sideline reporter Heidi Watney less than a minute after a boob fondle was broadcast over the air. He seemed a little too anxious to involve her in the festivities. (To be clear, I was fine with it. Me and "unsavory" generally live in the same neighborhood.)
So if the Astros want to truly continue to rip plays from the Red Sox playbook, may I suggest making Mondays or Tuesdays (traditional wretched attendance days, as opposed to weekends, which are just moderately wretched) Breast Touch Day at the ballpark. If you want to punctuate it by allowing kids to run the bases at the end of the night but stop at second base, well, Astros Marketing, you can have that idea, too.
Seriously, Craney, when you take over ownership, I have a million ideas to boost attendance. Call me.
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My sweet sweet girl is sick.
Katey NEVER gets sick.
She had a little bit of a fever yesterday and she looked like Death smacked her in the face. There was no way I could send my sweet girl to school. She didnt leave the couch all day. Then last night, she looked and sounded worse. I gave her a theraflu and sent her to bed early. I woke up at 3am and found Katey stretched out asleep on the bathroom floor. She didnt want to move, she just wanted to sleep on the bathroom floor. I never in my life saw her look so pitiful in my life. I took her temp and it was 103.5 HOLY CRAP! I got her some Ibuprofin, some vics vapor rum and a cool washcloth for her forehead and got her all settled back in bed.
She has an appt today at 2:30.
Lets hope she doesnt end up in the hospital like her sissy did.


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Lasaretti Hotel Is Fabulous!Reviewing: Lasaretti Hotel Holiday Hotel In Oulu, Finland | Rating:
Last July hubby and I went to Oulu (mid Finland) and we decided to try out Lasaretti Hotel since the price wasn't too expensive (we got a room rate of €88 for a double room at that time). Plus we found out that the hotel had a swimming pool and sauna. We didn't know anything much about the location. Turned out the hotel was located next to Hupisaaret Park (you can see two pictures of the park that I've uploaded). We got a room on the third floor and it had a FANTASTIC view of the river (see my uploaded picture).
After we arrived, we decided to walk around the area. There was a beach across the river where people were sunbathing, playing beach volley, or just lazing around. There were also ducks in the park that you could feed and plenty of birds (see pics). It was such a gorgeous park and they also had an open theatre in summer and plenty of beautiful flowers and statues.
The lobby and the hotel itself look VERY modern and not tacky at all. After our long walk across the river and around the park, we decided to go swim. The swimming pool wasn't too big, BUT on that particular day it was empty. It felt as though we owned the pool! The water was warm and after that we could enjoy sauna in their HUGE sauna room.
The room is very clean and everything looks new. We also found out that it wasn't far from a kebab/pizza restaurant that was open 24 hours a day, so it was easy to find something to eat even late at night. The next morning we had breakfast in the dining room and there were plenty of choices to eat and drink.
We are VERY pleased with this hotel and next time we go to Oulu again, we'll definitely stay at Lasaretti again. It felt like a honeymoon, you know? So if you decide to visit Oulu, this hotel is HIGHLY recommended!


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In an almost impossible manner, while all Isles are separated to the most extreme of degrees, the Forbidden still exist. More widely known as "The Cult of the Forbidden" these groups of beings, each a select few from the races of their staple Isle, are searching for rare artifacts known as the "Shards of Thanatos".
No group has ever met another and yet they each work hardily and without halt towards this ultimate goal. Each connected by some dark event in their life, murder of a loved one, theft of innocence, or some other agent that drove them to the darkest of followings. None of them knows for sure what will come of their acquisition but many pray that it will bring closure to their tattered souls.
Assassinations, disappearances, and other acts of secret destruction can safely and accurately be tied back to these groups. Even on the most pious of nations these groups exist and they seem almost unstoppable, if only because so few believe they exist. A slick sliver of steel stabbing deeply into the spine without ever being seen are they.
Some forty shards are all that stand between the entire planet of Scion and what many assume to be the darkest of days. The ceasing of time and quite truly the ultimate end.


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Though filming has been underway in Los Angeles for a while, MGM has taken until now to get together a legal challenge to the upcoming indie sequel to "Raging Bull" reports Deadline.
The company has filed a seven-page complaint citing breach of contract and four other counts against 91-year old former boxer Jake LaMotta and the producers of the film RB II Productions.
They allege LaMotta had no right to allow RB II Productions the rights to his 1986 sequel book without first offering it to them.
MGM wants the courts to order a halt on production of the film and is seeking compensatory, punitive and exemplary damages – enough to deter them from letting the film see the light of day.


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I like talking about music. Apart from games it's probably the one art form that most appeals to me. And so when the announcement came out today that Medal of Honor composer Michael Giacchino would be providing the score for Call of Duty, I was happy to have the chance to speak with Michael about his role on the new project.
IGNPC: Let's talk about how you got involved in this project.
Michael Giacchino: As you know, the Infinity Ward guys were all on the Allied Assault team. I had worked with them when I was doing Medal of Honor at EA. The producer, Peter Hirschman I had worked with going all the way back to Lost World on the PlayStation. I had a relationship already there with the Infinity Ward team and also with the PlayStation Call of Duty game that's going on now. That team's comprised of people who did Medal of Honor Frontline. We all had worked together before. We all had done the Medal of Honor stuff so when the mass exodus came, it just made sense for me to stick with my friends and the guys I had worked with in the past.
IGNPC: How's it easier working with people you're already familiar with?
Michael Giacchino: There's definitely a shorthand that happens after working on so many projects with each other. We know each other so well, we know what we can and can't do. There's a whole area of trust that you can rely on to get the work done in time. The schedules can be tight and it's nice to not have to figure out how to communicate with each other. That said, we did try to do some different things on this game. We've worked on Medal of Honor for years and we didn't just want to make another. There are some new things to be figured out and some different ways of scoring the game. We wanted it to be different, more about the fear and scariness of being in war, not so much about the bravado and heroic action that sometimes takes place. Medal of Honor leaned more on that. It's a much more operatic approach.
IGNPC: But the first Medal of Honor also made great use of certain contemplative themes. Is that less the case here?
Michael Giacchino: No, I don't think so. The best way to explain it is that Medal of Honor relied on heavy cinematic stuff, things you could almost hum. I always considered it orchestral pop music filled with little tunes and melodies. Talking about doing Call of Duty, we all discussed doing something much more unpredictable, music that was a little harder to get your head around and that would reflect the chaos of what was going on in the war. That doesn't mean that we left behind the idea of doing contemplative stuff -- we have that too. It's choosing the couple of moments that would make the best use of that. We went through the storyline and the characters.
In one level of the game, Pegasus Bridge, you're left alone to hold off the enemy. You're on a bridge with your squad waiting for reinforcements. For that I thought it would be cool to say, here's this guy who's pretty much in the middle of nowhere, far from home, all alone and he's told he has to stay here no matter what, even if there are a hundred guys coming towards him. For that I thought it might be neat to do a hymn-like piece, a reflection of this guy praying for himself. It's about finding moments like that. The other moments, which are more action-based, are hyped up, unpredictable and scary textures.
IGNPC: You also seem to rely on motifs, whether in contrast or harmony with the rest of the score.
Michael Giacchino: Yeah, there are definitely motifs that are being used to represent certain ideas in the game. They're not as clear or concrete as perhaps they were in Medal of Honor where you'd have a Nazi theme that stretches out over eight bars. For this one I wanted a very primal and simple thing, not a fanfare. It comes down to a string run. [Michael hums a repeated, descending four-note figure in 16th notes with a big punch at the end.] It's really loud and dissonant. It's almost as if there's a huge behemoth coming towards you. That's what you have to stop. I wanted this to feel more grave and serious. The other one is more like a Saturday morning action movie.
IGNPC: You mentioned the style already. Let's talk about form. How do you balance the loops versus the scripted cues?
Michael Giacchino: That's one of the neat things about Call of Duty. There are areas in the game where we were able to score the gameplay. One of the areas is the Red Square charge. You're sitting there waiting with a bunch of guys lined up on a small ridge and you know you're about to charge in to the center of the city. There's a moment of waiting but, as a designer, you know no matter what, that that guy's going to blow his whistle and everyone has to go. What's nice about that is that I have a timeline to follow. I knew what was going to happen and when so I could score the moment of waiting. When he blows the whistle, I could rely on that happening at the same time every time. When the guys head across the field, this big majestic theme rolls in as everyone's heading across to begin the battle.
One of my favorite things in the game is when you're on the back of this truck.. You're heading across the bridge and you've got your partner with you. The truck stops, your partner gets off and heads out to plant explosives on the bridge. Your job is to hold guys off the bridge and give your partner enough time to plant the explosives in time for you to escape. There are these really tense moments that we could score right to the picture. When the bridge blows, the music does a certain thing; when he hops back in to the truck, it does another thing. There are these moments of battle and struggle that we can follow.
One of the things I was never thrilled about with Medal of Honor was that it was non-stop music. In Call of Duty we're taking a much more cinematic approach and just using it where it's needed. In that way it becomes more effective. Now when the music comes in, it means more to the player.
IGNPC: In playing the early games, it seemed like the cues came about independent of the player's actions. You'd still have the accidental coincidence of entering a room as the music swells. Are you tying music cues to triggers in the game now?
Michael Giacchino: We're planning on triggering more accurately. It was always kind of a serendipitous moment when that happened in previous games. I remember reading articles about the interactive music and thinking, it's just luck that you rounded the corner just as the Nazi theme plays. We're trying to make that something that occurs in response to things happening. On Call of Duty, we did a total of about 48 minutes of music. We tried to figure out where it would best be used.
IGNPC: What about instrumentation?
Michael Giacchino: It's not very different. It's pretty much the same. We had a 75-piece orchestra which we recorded last Wednesday. I think the instrumentation is very similar but the use is very different.
IGNPC: How so?
Michael Giacchino: Going back to what I said earlier: using them in a more of an effect-oriented way. Keeping them gritty and dirty and coming up with rhythmic ideas that are more based on sound than melody.
IGNPC: Do you conduct your own scores?
Michael Giacchino: No. We're going at a breakneck pace when we're doing these things so generally it's better if I can sit in the booth and listen back. A good friend of mine, Tim Simonek, conducts for me. If you're on the stand, you find it necessary to go back and listen to what you did. This way there's no down time and we can move on to the next thing.
IGNPC: What kind of research have you done for this project?
Michael Giacchino: I'm a huge history buff, so I've been doing research into this area for years. The first thing I do is take the story line and find those moments they're talking about in history and start reading about it. I talk to as many people as I can. If I can find people who were there, I'll definitely talk to them. I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2 so over the years I've talked to him many times. I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life. But even having done so much, there's still so many more things you can learn. Every story branches off into a hundred other stories.
IGNPC: That's useful for getting you in the right mindset?
Michael Giacchino: Absolutely. It's totally useful for getting my brain locked in to an idea as to how to approach the writing, even if it's a discordant vein. When I recall the conversations I had with my uncle, most of the time he talked about how scared they were, how chaotic things would get and how, most of the time, they didn't even know what was going on. In a big battle it's about praying and slowly inching forward, picking out little sections of the battle that you could control yourself. You felt like everything around you was so uncontrollable. He was just grabbing at any little thing he could get to control. That franticness and uncertainty is a great way to approach this score.
IGNPC: Thanks so much for your time, Michael.


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Hello my lovely readers and welcome to the new post on my blog!
How are you? I hope you are doing well!
I haven't done one of the these music playlist posts for so long and I think it's time for me to share with you some amazing songs you NEED to hear.
I think music is one of the best things on this world basically because ... When you cannot take it anymore, when life gets really bad, there's music which speaks the words you cannot and which makes you at least little bit better.
I don't know if it is just me but I think my life would be miserable without it. But like really!
If you are with me here from the very beginning of everything, you know which music genres I prefer but if you are new on my blog, I'm just going to tell you this : I love songs with meanings, it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast song, rap, rock or pop, if I like it - I'm going to listen to it.
So I think it's time to show you what's on my playlist!
- Eminem - Space Bound ( I've been listening to this song so much lately, I am obsessed with it and I think you have to hear it )
- Zedd, Alessia Cara - Stay ( This song was published two days ago, I think. I can just say : this is what happens when Zedd and Alessia work together - stunning song! )
- Alan Walker - Alone ( For the times when you don't know whether you are sad or happy...)
- Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill ( Song with a beautiful story.)
- Ed Sheeran - Photograph ( This is probably one of my best songs ever. )
- 5SOS - Amnesia ( You have probably heard this song but if you haven't - you need to! )
- Shawn Mendes - Never Be Alone ( This song is so beautiful I cannot even explain it, you need to hear it! )
- James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go
- One Direction - They Don't Know About Us
- Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
- Sleeping With Sirens - Madness
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The club of novelist-poets is distinguished but tiny. Thomas Hardy is the founding member, Herman Melville and D. H. Lawrence take turns at the reception desk, and loitering at the door are talented contemporary (or near-contemporary) writers like James Dickey, Margaret Atwood and Denis Johnson. Any way you count them, though, the true novelist-poets always seem outnumbered by the novelist-essayists, the novelist-memoirists and the fell horde of novelist-story writers.
This isn't to say novelists don't try to be poets and vice versa. But most writers turn out to be so much stronger at one endeavor than the other that they resemble fiddler crabs: NOVELIST-poets like John Updike and Cynthia Ozick, or novelist-POETS like Philip Larkin and Randall Jarrell. What causes the imbalance? One possibility is that poetry and prose are more like different musical instruments than different musical genres. While we don't expect violinists to be accomplished pianists, we're not at all surprised when a good pianist can play both Gershwin and "Boogie With Stu." Similarly, we don't find it unusual when a writer who excels at one prose project also excels at another — both, after all, involve sentences. Whereas poetry supposedly involves . . . something else.
It's an appealing theory, but not completely convincing. In particular, it breaks down whenever the work in question undermines our ideas about its reputed genre. James Joyce is a novelist, certainly, and "Ulysses" is a great work of prose. But it's a great work of prose partly because its prose often resembles poetry. Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" is a brilliant example of poetry, but do its length and narrative structure really justify its subtitle: "A Novel in Verse"?
Perhaps the most difficult case of all, though, is that of Vladimir Nabokov. And it's difficult for several reasons. Nabokov was multilingual, and an overwhelming majority of his poetry was written early in his career and in Russian. The new VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Selected Poems (Knopf, $30), edited by Thomas Karshan, contains only 23 original English poems — essentially his entire output — compared with about three times that number translated from the Russian by Nabokov himself or by his late son, Dmitri (and there were many more to choose from). It's possible, of course, to be an excellent poet in one language and an excellent novelist in another. But leaving aside the linguistic status of Nabokov's own translations, questions of quality in Russian poetry should be left to Russian readers, and those of us who read Nabokov in English are reduced to looking at not quite two dozen mostly short original poems.
They're a decidedly mixed bag. Nabokov's English poems share some of the qualities of his prose, notably its confident lucidity (Nabokov is complex, but never garbled) and elegantly unfolding inventiveness. While the poems are slightly simpler in diction than the typical Nabokovian sentence, his fondness for half-dollar words is still much in evidence: over the course of 10 pages, we get "prototypic," "anchoret," "scholiastic" and "dendrologists." And as you might expect, Nabokov fixates on — and is sometimes fixated by — formal prestidigitation. Notice the way he not only juggles the potentially heavy rhymes in the tercets that conclude "Lines Written in Oregon," but throws in a little French and German as well:
And I rest where I awoke
In the sea shade — l'ombre glauque —
Of a legendary oak;
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Where the Phantom Orchids
glimmer —
Esmeralda, immer immer.
The poem, which recalls Nabokov's own visit to Oregon, is about the interaction of Old World and New (thus the French and German, which would otherwise be little more than showing off). But there's an additional, subtle formal touch. The poem's unusual trochaic meter is also used in Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha," one of the definitive early poems of America — and that meter in turn was inspired by the Finnish "Kalevala," one of the great mythic poems of Europe. It's an ingenious fusion of structure and theme.
At his best, Nabokov writes a delicate, knowing poetry of crystalline surfaces and twisty depths, and in work like "Lines Written in Oregon," as well as "A Literary Dinner" and "An Evening of Russian Poetry," his talent is displayed in all its appealing peculiarity. Still, there are very few poems to judge here, and some are fairly light (nor are the lines written by the undergraduate Nabokov likely to impress, unless you like your poetry rich in "o'er" and frosted with "moonlight dim"). If this sample were the total of Nabokov's claim to poetic greatness, it would be hard to call him more than a talented dabbler.
But of course, it isn't. There is still the elephant in the room, which in this case is also a dead bird beneath a window. Because Nabokov's English poetry arguably includes the 999 lines of "Pale Fire," the centerpiece of his novel of the same name, whose opening is quoted as frequently as many of the past century's most admired poems:
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff — and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
In the novel, the poem is attributed to John Shade, a noted poet whose manuscript has been appropriated by a man called Kinbote, who may also be the exiled monarch of a kingdom called Zembla. Kinbote's deranged commentary on the poem provides the substance of the novel, as his remarks become increasingly less about the lines than his own tattered psychology.
The poem itself is a seemingly cleareyed discussion of death and natural patterns centered on the poet's loss of his only child, an unattractive and disturbed girl who drowned herself after being scorned by a blind date. The entire poem is written in heroic couplets (Shade is presented as a Pope scholar), and the lines discussing Shade's awareness of his daughter's looming unhappiness are typical of its strange power:
At Christmas parties games were
rough, no doubt,
And one shy little guest might be left
But let's be fair: while children of her
Were cast as elves and fairies on the
That she'd helped paint for the school
My gentle girl appeared as Mother
A bent charwoman with slop pail and
And like a fool I sobbed in the men's
Although couplets were the dominant poetic form of the 18th century, they sound odd to many modern readers. But they're well chosen in "Pale Fire" for two reasons. First, within the context of the poem, the couplet form has a crisp exactness that enhances the work's reflective surfaces (the opening bird lives on in a reflection; the "azure" sky later appears as the "azure" entrance to the bar at which Shade's child is humiliated; the poem's unwritten last line is probably its first line; and so forth). The paired rhymes are the twin beams of light around which the mirrors revolve. Second, "Pale Fire" is frequently in dialogue with other poems, particularly those of T. S. Eliot. In addition to mockingly poaching some words from Eliot's "Four Quartets," the poem's third canto rewrites part of the "Game of Chess" section from "The Waste Land." Eliot, as Nabokov probably knew, wrote a book on Dryden, the master of the couplet. And indeed, the original draft of "The Fire Sermon" included a section in couplets (a section Eliot wisely abandoned). It was perhaps brash of Nabokov to have written in such an odd form partly as a challenge to Eliot and his heirs, but the technical achievement is hard to deny.
Still, the merits of "Pale Fire" have been debated over the years, with earlier critics tending to dismiss the poem in favor of its baroque prose trappings. But more recently, the poem has come into its own, so to speak, a process culminating in a stand-alone edition that's also a literary artifact. PALE FIRE: A Poem in Four Cantos by John Shade (Gingko Press, $35) is an almost ridiculously lovely package: the poem itself is printed in a small booklet, the note cards upon which Shade "wrote" the poem are recreated (complete with faux ink stains), and an accompanying critical text contains helpful essays from the Nabokov scholar Brian Boyd and the poetry critic R. S. Gwynn (who makes a smart case for Nabokov having used couplets partly as a response to Robert Lowell's early work). If you're a Nabokov devotee, this is comparable to getting a special edition of "Physical Graffiti" with a facsimile string from one of Jimmy Page's custom violin bows inside.
But does it work? Can the poem "Pale Fire" exist without the novel "Pale Fire"? There are reasons to think it cannot. In a New Yorker blog post last year, Paul Muldoon conceded that "Pale Fire" is "a quite wonderful poem," but he asked, "Isn't it like one of those tall buildings which incorporates in its core the very crane that raised it?"
This is beautifully put, but there is another way to look at things. When authors write "as" a character, particularly in a third-person novel, we usually understand that the text created by that character is subordinate to the world in which the character exists. In "Persuasion," for example, Jane Austen brings the novel to its emotional peak with a letter written by Frederick Wentworth — which we understand is really written by Austen and dependent for its resonance on the world of Anne Elliot, the Musgroves, Lady Russell and the rest. It's hard to imagine anyone reading the letters of Frederick Wentworth for their own sake, just as it's difficult to conceive of anyone separating the e‑mails of Denise from their place in "The Corrections." In general, the writing of fictional characters is dependent on the larger work, and it is the larger work that reflects the author's worldview.
Lyric poems present a slightly different picture (as can first-person novels, though often to a lesser degree). A lyric poem depends on the development of a single sensibility. That sensibility might involve a construction called "I" that could stand in for the poet, but it could just as easily take the form of a Greek warrior (Tennyson's "Ulysses") or a giant toad (Bishop's "Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics"). Which is to say, lyric poems don't have characters, they are characters — and characters with an oddly doubled aspect. We hear the voice of the poem, but we also understand that we're hearing a filtered version of the poet's own voice. We're hearing both a giant toad and Elizabeth Bishop; both Gerontion (who may himself be more than one person) and Thomas Stearns Eliot; both "I" and Robert Frost. The poet isn't so much taking on a character as donning a mask.
There is obviously great potential for confusion as to who is saying what in this arrangement. And this confusion over voice is central in many ways to the development of early-20th-century poetry (remember, the original title of "The Waste Land" was "He Do the Police in Different Voices"). By placing a long poem at the center of "Pale Fire," and refusing to turn Shade into a character clearly divisible from himself (unlike Kinbote or Humbert Humbert), Nabokov encourages and deepens this confusion. His most obvious peer in this project is the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, whose own poetry is written in the voices of some 70 different heteronyms, all with different personalities, biographies and styles — yet all of them inseparable from Pessoa.
So perhaps it's wrong to ask whether "Pale Fire" can hold up as a poem on its own, or whether it should really be attributed to Nabokov. No poem is ever on its own. And the poem is not Nabokov's any more than it is John Shade's. "Pale Fire" is a voice within a voice — a mirrored and thoroughly modern sensibility. And that sensibility, whatever name we give it, is one hell of a poet.Continue reading the main story


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Friday, February 1, 2008
Five For Friday: Influential Books
This week's edition, the very first, I'll list the five books that have most influenced my thinking/theology. These aren't necessarily the best books on their particular subjects, and they're not even necessarily what I would most recommend to anybody else. They are just the ones that made the difference for me in certain areas.
In no particular order:
1. God in the Dock by C.S. Lewis
2. The Challenge of Jesus by N.T. Wright
3. Exegetical Fallacies by D.A. Carson
4. The Gospel of the Kingdom by George Eldon Ladd
5. The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
How about you? In the comments, tell me what books have most influenced your theology.
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- Vitamin Z said...
Biblical Theology is cool. Gospel of the Kingdom. I need to get that one.
Here are some others that I have been into lately that are great along similar lines:
Michael D. Williams - As Far As The Curse Is Found
Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen - The Drama of Scripture
Creation Regained - Wolters
More to add, but enough for now...
- February 1, 2008 at 11:57 AM
- TK said...
Hey Jared,
I have been reading your blog for a while. I think this may be my first comment though.
The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning helped me fall in love with Jesus
Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby greatly expanded the idea of a relationship with God.
Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard gave me a totally new perspective on Spiritual Formation in Christ
I have started the Divine Conspiracy about 12 times and have yet to finish it. ~sigh~
Looking forward to what others have to say.
- February 1, 2008 at 12:08 PM
- Bob said...
Hi Jared: I'm right with you on #s 4 and 5. Haven't read 2 & 3, but will someday. I would add Gordon Fee's Paul, The Spirit, and the People of God,, John Stott's The Cross of Christ, Lewis Smedes' All Things Made New, and of course Bonhoeffer's Life Together.
C. S. Lewis' work is very special to me, but I don't know how much he influenced my theological understanding. He was teaching me even before I became a Christian, in fact, and I think his book on the Psalms helped me a good deal, as well as The Great Divorce. Eugene Peterson's works also look large in my mental bookscape, but I wouldn't know which to choose. They have had a cumulative impact on my way of thinking.
The Friday Five looks like a great new tradition around here. And thanks for the invitation to add our own 2-cents worth.
- February 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
The Challenge of Jesus - N.T. Wright
Spiritual Writings - Flannery O'Connor
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
All the Trouble in the World - PJ O'Rourke
- February 1, 2008 at 4:04 PM
- Ariel said...
I've been reading for awhile, but this may be my first comment...the book questions tend to grab me.
Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis (and other C.S. Lewis)
Desiring God, John Piper
Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer
Can Man Live Without God, Ravi Zacharias
The Message, Eugene Peterson (kind of a representative Peterson book...)
No doubt there are more, but those are some of the instrumental ones.
- February 1, 2008 at 5:49 PM
- Mark H said...
The Cross of Christ - John Stott
Let the Nations Be Glad - John Piper
Total Church - Tim Chester & Steve Timmis
Communion with God - John Owen
Jesus & the Victory of God - N T Wright
- February 2, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Weekend Fisher said...
On Being A Theologian of the Cross - Gerhard O. Forde
History of the Church - Eusebius (for making the reality/historicity thing click)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis - St. Francis of Assissi (for showing me the beauty of Christian counter-culture and service to Christ)
Letters to Children - C.S. Lewis (for opening my eyes to new ways to use the craft of writing)
Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm the first to admit that the scariest part about flying cross-country with our three young children was thinking about how in the world we were going to get our 2-year-old (Big Trouble) to sit still on the flights. I mean, he doesn't sit still at home or nearly anywhere else, so why would I even think he would stay in an easily escapable plane seat? Even though I have never used a car seat on a flight before, I knew I really didn't have any other options if I didn't want our flight crew to kick us off the plane. My tiny "angel" had to be strapped in.
I started asking around and getting ideas from various people and friends and family and while the consensus was that it is a pain to use a car seat on an airplane (yes, it is, when you factor in the narrow aisles and even smaller areas for leg room between the seats while you are trying to set everything up), there are things you can use to get it around the airport without a lot of trouble; everything from specialty bags with wheels, to collapsable luggage carts, to specialized straps that you can buy to attach the seat to a rolling luggage. The prices ranged from $19.95 to over $100.
Well, there was no way I was going to spend a ton of money when we hardly ever fly, not to mention that a lot of these products had to be ordered well in advance and had numerous reviews citing that they are not as easy to use as they appear so I would need to practice so that I don't hold up the line at security and getting on and off the plane. Um, no; having to practice something hardly makes it easy. But, we had a TON of luggage that would be going with us and there was no way anyone could carry the car seat through the airport. So, I looked around for an alternative and, guess what? I found it very easily for $1.50 at The Home Depot.
The mystery item that was the secret to my success? A bungee cord with plastic hooks. Seriously. That's it. It is an adjustable cord that allows it to go from 24″ to 42″ so it will fit any size car seat and rolling carry-on luggage (no, it was not created especially for this purpose but I had no idea what size I would need so the adjustable worked beautifully). And, it literally took me about 10 seconds to strap together and less than that to take it apart. Every time. Absolute life saver in my book.
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If your only thoughts of Stratford are field trips to see Macbeth for English class then you need to sit down for this one 'cause I'm about to blow your mind. Ever since our Belly Monster crawl through Stratford a few years ago, I've been quite smitten with this tiny town. Here is a list of my favourite things to do, eat, and see in Stratford, Ontario.
Much like Hamilton, Stratford absolutely loves to support their own. Everywhere we went restaurants were pouring Junction 56 Gin and Black Swan. Owner Mike Heisz quit his job at Blackberry to open Junction 56 Distillery back in July. They're open for tours, and of course, tastings. Same goes for Black Swan Brewery, started by two teachers who are absolutely adored by the community. We couldn't sit down for a meal without someone recommending them.The Architecture |
One of my favourite things about Stratford is the very European feel it has. The architecture and the general aesthetic of the streets are so quaint, you really feel like you're tucked away in some little village outside of Paris - but everyone speaks English, so that's a bonus. On our last visit just before Christmas, all the shops and streets were lined with gorgeous garlands and ribbon. I felt like I was going to turn the corner and run into Lorelai & Rory Gilmore. I am not going to claim to actually know anything about architecture - I'll send you to Rebuild Hamilton for that. But this city has a plethora of instagram worthy homes and pintrest worthy store fronts.
The Shopping |
I know what you're expecting when I say "shopping" in a small town. But no, I'm not into that kind of shit. You know what I mean, a bunch of little knick knack stores selling cheesy souvenirs. I swear on my heart there is some really good shopping here.
I absolutely adore Bradshaws - it's a home cooks dreams with Le Creuset in all of the colours of the rainbow and Kate Spade tableware that will make you swoon. They also have all those clever house hold gadgets that make your life a zillion times easier - yes of course I need an avocado slicer!
Small Mart also reminds me a little bit of O's Clothes in Hamilton. Very hip, one of a kind pieces with a sprucing of fun personality pieces. They have anything from Hershel backpacks, jewellery, to even furniture.
Any savvy gents out there? Cause The Artful Badger is an absolute gem. A mans, man cave. From gorgeous lush scarves to much needed beard conditioners and oils.
One of my first real "grown up" jobs was in the hotel industry - so I always pay extra close attention to where we stay when we travel.
The first time we were in Stratford we stayed at Mercer Hall. It was a little old school but the service was tailored beautifully to make each individual guest feel like they were kings and queens. I loved it. The food was also hella amazing.
We've also stayed on this huge farm outside of town. We booked through Air BnB. They had a farm dog and a bunch of chickens running around. There was a fresh loaf of bread for us in the morning (with farm fresh eggs too).
Stratford also has a plethora of B&Bs. The Cardinal B&B was my favourite -- staying with locals gives you the most authentic experience. The owners of this B&B were actually former Hamiltonians! It was the perfect location for us to park our car and walk everywhere! I felt like I was staying at a family friend's house. It also gave us a chance to finally see inside one of the many beautiful Victorian homes Stratford has. I'm a total house snoop.
Stratford is very quickly turning into a foodie's mecca and the town knows it! The tourism board have these fantastic self guided food tours. We partook in three tours on our last trip - The Christmas Victorian Trail, The Chocolate Trail, & The Bacon and Ale Trail.
We were running around all over downtown collecting little treats and gifts from every shop. It was a great chance for us to spark conversation with the shops and to venture into ones we would normally overlook.
Ok, I know what you're thinking. It wasn't just dinky little freebies and pamphlets you pick up at conventions. Nope, it was actually some really good loot! From a full pack of bacon, to bacon burgers to really luxurious hand lotion. Can you tell we were cleaning house on the bacon trail?
The Markets |
If you know anything about my ball & chain, you know he loves going to farmer's markets. He loves chatting up the vendors and talking about what they're growing this season, and just being an all around chatter box.
Luckily Stratford has more than one year round market. We visited both the Slow Food Perth County Sunday Market and The Stratford Farmers Market. When you're surrounded by such rich agriculture, you know the markets are going to be legit. Lots of fresh produce, artisan cheese, meats, and breads.
One of the biggest highlights of our trip was stumbling upon a last minute foraging tour with Puck's Plenty's Foraging Tours. We were literally in the middle of dinner when I saw his tweet about still being able to forage mushrooms so late in the season. I immediately DM'd him (yay social media) and asked if we could tag along the next time he went out. 24hrs later, we were in the woods foraging for wild watercress and mushrooms. Fun fact: Stratford was named one of the best places for foraging in the world by Travel & Leisure mag!
You saw this one coming right? There weren't enough hours in the day to eat everything I wanted. I know, I know, #firstworldproblems. But trust, if you consider yourself a foodie. Come to Stratford. They're right in the middle of prime farmland where some of the best meat and produce are raised so you'd better believe it's all going to be über local and fresh. There is plenty of upscale restaurants but also some great comfort/casual vibes. Lots of no fuss restaurants just doing their thing with no #$%@s given about annoying bloggers and their cameras and the nerve of them to stand on chairs to take pictures. Just saying.
A few highlights were this epic grilled cheese from Montforte on Wellington. They have their own dairy farm and a simple non pretentious, incredibly delicious rotating menu. Pazzo was also a place where the Belly Monsters and I absolutely loved. Beautifully made pizzas and pasta. On our recent trip, we were invited by FeastOn to one of their buratta making classes.
They make fresh buratta in their kitchen every single day. If Italian food is your jam - these guys are worth a visit. Truly simplistic, gorgeous dishes made in house, in a remarkably beautiful styled restaurant. We try to come in for dinner every time we're in Stratford.
Another surprising discovery on this trip was the Stratford Chef School (Carl Heinrich, winner of the first season of Top Chef Canada and chef-owner of Richmond Station, is a graduate). During the school year you get to be the guinea pigs for these up and coming chefs. We're talking multiple courses, wine pairings, and incredibly creative dishes. All executed by the students. We were luckily enough to feast from their Noma inspired menu as well as their holiday themed lunch. Don't walk in thinking it's amateur hour - we were served very complicated and skillfully executed dishes - without the overrated prices too!
Laohaus, was also a food gem we discovered. Nothing too fancy, just comfort authentic Lau dishes. The duck larb was definitely my jam and so was this beautiful sausage. Oh yeah, they also make bombass fried chicken. If I lived here - this would be my go to place.
So the next time you're crying tears about needing a vacation but your wallet is all, "LOL No" - Keep Stratford in mind. I may have focused on all the lovely things to eat but there is a primo amount of other things to do too!
Happy Traveling!
This was a press trip c/o Stratford Tourism. Opinions, sass, witty one liners c/o Chanry Thach.


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