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Below are my handpicked selections from the most memorable of the products I reviewed in 2010, and also the all important READERS CHOICE AWARD 2010 that you guys all picked yourselves. Without further hesitancy lets dish some snazzy looking award banners out to the winners ...
I don't think anyone will be surprised by the winner of this award - I don't think any bookies would have even given you odds :D Lets not let some of the other stinkers get away quite so easily though - lets not forget the dismal showings from a very suspect Ador Mocha Oat Bar, Nestle;s Black Magic Classic Favourites and even the Thorntons' Raspberry Burst.
As bad as those all were there could only be one winner though ...
Le Whif (Breatheable Chocolate)
These chocolate inhalers were really something to behold - not only did they induce near death coughing fits, they also managed to taste disgusting and cost an absolute bomb. I'll save you the full marketing mix analysis, but these were incredibly bad!
Looking back across my selection box reviews there were some very memorable chocolate collections, and honourable mentions must go to the Lindt Swiss Luxury Collection, Hotel Chocolat The Sleekster Everything Selection and Hotel Chocolat The Sleekster Egg Box Selection.
There can only be one winner though, and that winner is ...
Hotel Chocolat The Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection
This was a masterful selection of chocolates that combined variety and great, seasonal tasting options. It attracted a lot of votes in the Readers Awards, and is well worthy of being crowned Selection Box of 2010.
This is one of my favourite awards as I think it gives the truest reflection of what product is really deserving of some mass acclaim i.e. not just based on what I think :D . In fact I can reveal I received nearly 1000 votes picking the winner for this award (Twitter and the offer of FREE chocolate helped alot with that one would assume haha!) and there were several different 2010 reviews suggested. There was one distinct winner, but I must pass mention to the likes of Hotel Chocolat The Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection, Lindt Petits Desserts Tiramisu, Chocri 'Jim's Fruit & Nut / American Creations' and several different Pocky reviews, as these products all recieved a vast amount of votes.
One brand really caught the imagination of ChocolateMission readers this year though, and it came as no surprise to me that it was a Heavenly Cakes product that won. Counting up the votes it was a very tight run thing between several of the Heavenly Cakes range but the eventual winner was ...
Heavenly Cakes Marathon Flapjack
Yes the Marathon Flapjack beat off tough competition to win the title of Readers Choice 2010. If you are one of the readers that voted for this review, but still haven't indulged yourself in a slice yet, I strongly suggest you do. It really is as good as you think it will be!
Out of all the categories this is probably the most ambiguous, questionable, debatable ... say what you will. In 2010 I was near writing a review a day, sampling just as many chocolates to keep up with the hectic pace. As you can imagine, things get a little same old, same old, so every now and then I always appreciate a product that really shakes things up, even if they don't end up setting the ChocolateMission leaderboard ablaze.
With that in my mind you will understand why I haven't handed this award to the likes of Galler or Hotel Chocolat - I expect good quality from these guys given their premium proposition. From all my reviews in 2010, the one product that genuinely surprised me was ...
Zotter Coffee Plum with Caramelised Bacon
If you were a dedicated reader throughout 2010, you will have seen that my experiments with bacon and chocolate weren't always successful (Chocri Jim's American Creation) but Zotter really pulled it out the bag here. This Zotter Coffee Plum with Caramelised Bacon was nothing other than delicious. The saltiness of the bacon, the sweetness of the caramel and the delightful outer chocolate made this a chocolate to behold and exceeded my expectations by a factor of ten. I don't for one minute think it is a chocolate that everyone will enjoy, but I would strongly recommend you at least give it a chance.
In 2010 we had several new products come to market - way too many for me try and mention in this small round-up paragraph. The ones that stick out in my mind personally were the launches of the Cadbury Dairy Bar of Plenty, Galaxy Orange & Shortcake, Cadbury Dairy Milk Bliss, Twix Fino ... the list could go on forever.
One brand however, innovated constantly throughout the year, and most importantly did so with a high degree of quality throughout. Indeed Ritter Sport struck gold with several of their 'new' bars this year. The Ritter Sport Winter-Kreations and Ritter Sport Summer 2010 offerings were fine examples of them at the best. There can only be one winner though ....
Ritter Sport Espresso
My favourite new product of 2010 has to the Ritter Sport Espresso. This bar was everything I wanted it to be, and I'm constantly nagging the Ritter team over in Germany to start selling it here in the UK
I'm sure it will come as little surprise to you that the category of Misc Product of year is dominated by one company in particular. Indeed, the emergence of Heavenly Cakes this year might mean that some of the following may be a distant memory to you all - Marks & Spencer Milk Chocolate & Caramel Layered Cookies, Thorntons Mini Caramel Flapjacks and the Flipz Double-Dipped Peanut Butter & Chocolate
The winner however could only have come from Heavenly Cakes, and with great difficulty I have managed to narrow the winner down to ...
Heavenly Cakes Billionaires Cakes
'Belgian milk chocolate brownies, covered with rich caramel & Belgian milk chocolate with white chocolate drops' ... just look at the photo, need I say anymore?
Time for the big one!!! Like many of you, I had great difficulty picking my 'Best Overall Product 2010'. Looking back across the year I was tempted to go for so many. Heavenly Cakes were by all means a complete revelation for the site this year, as were several of the Galler offerings that I tried. Other products of note were of course the Ritter Sport Espresso, Hotel Chocolat's The Sleekster Classic Christmas Selection, L'Artisan du Chocolat No.1 Sea Salted Caramels .... trust me the list could go on forever and I will no doubt have missed something out.
The winner of the award this year has to go to a product that I think represents the tablestakes of ChocolateMission - pure chocolate that can be appreciated by the masses. My 'Best Overall Product 2010' award goes to ... *drumroll* ...
Galler Heritage Lait Pleine Saveur
This may surprise a few, but I genuinely thought this was an outstanding product. In my review I said: "milk chocolate simply doesn't get much better than this Galler Heritage Lait Pleine Saveur .... one of the tastiest milk chocolates I have ever reviewed". Having bought it again several times since I still firmly stand by those judgements and I cant recommend it enough to anyone who has an appreciation for finer chocolates. Congratulations to Galler - Bring on 2011!!
So there you have it guys and girls, the awards are dished out for another year. Please feel free to share any thoughts or opinions on the winners, the ones I missed out etc etc. Your feedback is always very welcome.


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Presented through its own dark humor, a documentary which probes the life of Consuela Cosmetic, a black transexual who is best described in her own words as, "a black male, self-made star, show personality, couture specialist, liar, cheater, scam artist, credit card fraud, blackmailer, extortionist, victim of circumstance, leader, role model, and a person living with AIDS." The film tracks the last eighteen months of Consuela's life, from her fabulous cabaret acts, to the creation of a living will, from her appearance as a dominatrix on the Charles Perez show, to the silicone removal operations necessitated by her own weightloss. Consuela, died due to complications related to AIDS in March 1996, during the film's post-production.

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- The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
- Narrated by: Richard Thomas
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-02-2006
- Language: English
- Publisher: HarperAudio
Regular price: $36.75
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At the very center of this story is John Wilkes Booth, America's notorious villain. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. For almost two weeks, he confounded the manhunters, slipping away from their every move and denying them the justice they sought.
Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, Manhunt is a fully documented work, but it is also a fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as you've never read it before.
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- Mystery Writers of America 2007 Edgar Award, Best Fact Crime
- 2006 Quill Award Nominee
- Audie Award Finalist, Nonfiction, Abridged, 2007
"Pure narrative pleasure, sure to satisfy the casual reader and Civil War aficionado alike." (Publishers Weekly)
"Swanson's synthesis of the sources is bound to be a cover-to-cover reading hit with history lovers." (Booklist)
"Manhunt is vigorous and clear without sacrificing accuracy....Just as Booth did, the book saves its heavy ammunition for a final showdown." (The New York Times)
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- F. Elizabeth Hauser
- 14-12-2008
This was a natural after reading The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage. The story of the plotting of Lincoln's assassination, from the point of the assassin, and the ensuing account of his escape, 12 days on the lam, and eventual capture and death are told so well that it keeps the listener on the edge of his seat. The unwitting errors in navigation that led to Booth's capture make the reader realize just what a fluke it was that Booth was brought to justice, rather than disappearing into the deep South where he might have been hailed as a hero, rather than the cold-blooded killer that he was. On the flip side, the listener gains insight into the fact that Booth believed he was a patriot to a righteous cause, that of the lifestyle embraced by the South, and that his actions were justified. This is a "must listen" for any reader who enjoys American history or biography.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- 20-10-2008
Somewhat over the top
I hesitated before ordering because I generally don't like ABRIDGED works, but there was plenty here.
The story was an amazing part of history in ultimate detail, and I was left feeling that the author included every bit of his research in the book. The detail was so thorough that I wondered what an unabridged version could have added. I'm not saying this was a good thing... the drama added to the depth of detail resulted in a drawn-out narration full of (supposed) exclamation marks. The description of Booth actually pulling the trigger of the gun during the assassination was longer than this review.
The read by Richard Thomas was only fair. While I have always been impressed by Mr. Thomas' acting credentials, his read was pretty much "John Boy" all the way through, without much variation for the various characters quoted.
The two star rating is for the fascinating story told here -- despite the cumbersome writing and laconic narration, it was interesting to listen to all the facts that were unknown to most before the publication of Manhunt.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Scott
- 06-12-2013
What did you love best about Manhunt?
Historical nonfiction storytelling at its best. Rich in details and although most people are familiar with the events, the author manages to imbue a level of suspense throughout. The righteous fury of the pursuers and hopeless desperation of the conspirators add a compelling human element. Richard Thomas'' narration is superb.
Which scene was your favorite?
The confrontation with Booth at the climax and it's aftermath gives a real sense of time and place and conveys the perspectives of each of the main participants - satisfying and haunting at the same time.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
While a nation grieved, an army sought justice...
Any additional comments?
Will appeal to readers of suspense as well as history. Don't miss it!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- ellen
- 15-10-2011
What made the experience of listening to Manhunt the most enjoyable?
a wonderful history of the jwb manhunt. I was fascinated by the details and all that was going on during these 12 days. what an great education and delightful book to listen to
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Charles Atkinson
- 03-01-2011
Good Content, But That's All
I did not like the narrator or the narrative. I did find the content accurate and educational.
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- Jeff
- 11-05-2012
There have been several books on the Lincoln assassination written since this one, but I have no need or want of them because this book is written so superbly that no questions remain.
Swanson has done his research and has Very skillfully crafted not just a book of thoroughness but one of very high readability. MANHUNT is a facinating, exciting and rewarding read, Narrated well Highly Recommended !!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Douglas Lobdell Jr.
- 13-10-2008
Well researched; reads like great fiction
Swanson has done a masterful job of research, with every bit of this narrative taken from newspapers, diaries, letters, court transcripts, and other contemporary accounts of the actual manhunt. This story will keep you enthralled throughout; it's both superb storytelling and excellent history that will appeal to a broad audience. Highly recommended!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Davis
- 12-10-2008
Gripping History.
This is a fascinating, well told story, with all kinds of intruiging details that most history books ignore. The drama is so well told that it draws you in, even though you know the ending. Richard Thomas does a stellar job narrating.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Mike From Mesa
- 21-07-2008
At last some answers!
Like the rest of us I first learned of the Lincoln assassination when I was in grade school. Ever since that time I thought about the "whys" and "hows". How did Booth escape? Why was Dr Mudd arrested for only setting a visitor's ankle? Why was Mary Surratt hanged for running a boarding house? When I asked these questions of the teachers I was told about the excitement of the times and the lack of justice.
After reading this book I found out that much of what I was told was wrong. There was a reason Dr Mudd was arrested. There was a reason Mary Surratt was hung. This book is very well written, well researched, mostly well read and extremely informative. My only real complaint had to do with the way the reader made so many parts sound as though they ended in exclamation points. Other than that I thought it was great and would recommend it to anyone with questions about the Lincoln assassination.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Bruce
- 13-01-2008
A good story and not a dry documentary text book.
I put off buying this audio book for a while because I really don't like abridgements. Since there is no unabridged version available I decided to give it a shot. Pun intended?
Abridged or not, I loved Manhunt. The last time I was on F street, you could see the back of Ford's Theater though the vacant lot that was once the Atlantic building. The alley I always new as "Rat Alley" was still there, but without the right side wall, it looked very strange. I'm sure there is a building at 930 F now, but I haven't been by to see. The book is wonderful, and I enjoyed the interview with the author as well. I usually skip over them. This is a STORY about people, not a textbook, and I recommend it.
There were some things I wanted to know about that were not mentioned. I had hoped that Francis Tumblety (Spelling? He was a flamboyant Jack the Ripper suspect) who was arrested and held during the manhunt would have been mentioned. I don't think this is a fault, I was just hoping to hear more about people who were falsely or erroneously arrested and held after the assassination. That might have been too much for one novel.
I would still like to have an unabridged recording, and would buy it if one because available. I'll buy the print version in any event.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Craig
- 02-05-2017
Where does Manhunt rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
This is up with the best of them.
Any additional comments?
This is so interesting. It is very detailed and well narrated.


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Using an upcycled hardcover book, card stock, glue and decorations, crafters will make a hanging organizer at the 1 p.m. Saturday, July 16, Crafternoon program at the Fond du Lac Public Library.
The program is free and open to adults and teens in middle school or older. Space is strictly limited. All supplies will be provided. Under-aged children and walk-ins are not allowed.
Dementia can't be prevented, but progression of the disease can be slowed through exercising the mind. Get a fun mental workout at Brain Aerobics 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, in the Fond du Lac Public Library's new Idea Studio. The program is free; no registration required.
Does your money seem to disappear faster than a snow cone in summer? Want to go on vacation without going into debt? Family Living Educator Michelle Tidemann will provide budgeting tips to help you better manage your money at a free program at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 14, at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Registration is recommended at the Calendar or by calling the library Help Desk at (920) 322-3929. Drop-ins are welcome also.
Summer is in full swing, and so are savings at the Fond du Lac Public Library's used-books-and-more Chapter 52 Bookstore. Through July, the store is offering two sales:
The American Red Cross is holding a blood drive at the Fond du Lac Public Library from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 27. Donors must be 17 years old (or 16 with parental consent), weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health. Donors can schedule their appointment at www.redcrossblood.org or by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS.
The 14 artists in Fond du Lac Visual Arts will exhibit a wide variety of work – painting, collage, photography, jewelry, sculpture and fabric art – at the Fond du Lac Public Library's Langdon Divers Gallery from July 6 to August 2. The public is invited to an artists' reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 7. Refreshments will be served.
Despite a detour to the emergency room with possible pneumonia and forced bed rest, Dave Haase rallied to finished second overall and first among U.S. riders on June 24 in the 2016 Race Across America (RAAM), the world's toughest bicycle race.
Heading to the beach this summer? The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews would make a perfect beach read. Set on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina, the author takes us on a wild ride of secrets, betrayal and deception. Written in her trademark blend of humor and warmth, and with characters and a setting you can't help but fall in love with, this book is a perfect summer escape.
Why did the United States' relationship with Mexico influence our country's participation in The Great War? Local historian Wayne King will delve into the complex forces at work and their ramifications in Fond du Lac in his program, Prelude to War presented at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at the Fond du Lac Public Library.


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If you recall, last month we posted three different stories about the Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Cliq. First there was the rumored November launch timeframe, followed by Motorola seeking a handful of users to test out the new build. The last story we ran was supposed to be the official release of the Android 2.1 build for the Cliq, but it turned out that it was simply the test build which was never supposed to be shared with the general public.
Well, today we're back and it finally looks like we have the final product! Those of you who still own the Cliq (and have not rooted or hacked it in any way) should head on over to the Motorola Cliq's Support page for detailed instructions on how to download and install the Android 2.1 update. The update to Éclair will not wipe your phone, but Motorola does suggest you do a backup of your contacts and any other important information you might not want to lose just in case something goes terribly wrong.
We're hoping this is the last time we have to write about the Motorola Cliq Android 2.1 update. As always, let us know how the update goes and feel free to share your thoughts on the many new features now available on the Cliq.


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We NEVER add any commission, making easybuyproperties more desirable to buyers, resulting in more viewings and ultimately that elusive sale.
easybuy are not just another internet based marketing company. Your property will be marketed both locally and internationally. To attract buyers from other countries including the UK we market properties on several quality websites including "Think Spain" (which usually costs an individual 90€ for just 3 months) and of course easybuys own website.
Once you have contacted easybuy, a member of staff will take photographs and property details to enable your home to be marketed in the best possible way.
If you are not living in Spain we can hold your keys and escort prospective buyers in your absence. (see option C)
You are of course free to negotiate directly with the buyer, ensuring the sale goes smoothly.
Option B - Premier Package - Extra Advertising Boost
This option has been specially designed to give the seller an extra boost in the promotion of their property, whether your property is a Luxury Home, you are in a hurry to sell, or you just want your property to stand out amongst the rest, then this option is for you.
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We visit your property to take up to 20 photos and the property description and give a full consultancy with regards to the sale of your property. We will discuss the best way to achieve the sale of your property
Your property will be included in our normal advertising across the board
Your property details will be entered onto www.easybuyspain.es. www.thinkspain.com. www.FSBO-Spain.com and a few more sites too
Your property will be included on the Luxury Property section of the easybuy website if over 400,000 Euros
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Your property will appear on the front page and all information pages of www.easybuyspain.es for a period of 3 months
Accompanied viewings by arrangement. You will receive a 10% discount off any of our other services such as Property Exchange & key holding
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- The initial payment for Premier Property is a fair price as the money is spent directly on advertising to get your property noticed
- Because there is No Commission to pay my property was marketed at a more realistic price, giving me a better chance of selling than my neighbors.
- Another major bonus is, because easybuy don't take a commission, the owner gets to keep all money from the sale, which has got to be a good thing!!!
We do not charge the buyer any fees.
- Buyers and sellers can have direct contact with each other to ensure a smooth sale
- easybuy visit the property to take photos and write a description
- We upload your information to various websites and fully market your property until sold.
- easybuy are well known for their No Commission policy and attract both local and international buyers and investors.
- All properties are marketed to international buyers on the internet and are displayed on various websites including the easybuy site & Think Spain. Think Spain is the most popular and most used Spanish property website with 20.000 visitors a day.
- easybuy also attend many exhibitions a year where potential buyers can view your property details.
- Get your Spanish property noticed with easybuy no commission sales. Sell faster with easybuy
- The fastest way to sell a Spanish property is to have the correct price that is realistic.
Co-Ownership, which is the same as fractional ownership, is one of the fastest growing areas of property sales now available.
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Co-Ownership is available on carefully selected resale and key in hand new properties, making property investment more affordable, with a quarter share starting as little as €25000
easybuy have joined forces with Draycott Browne, specialist lawyers regulated by the Law Society in the United Kingdom and regulated by the bar Council of Spain, who will be handling all the paperwork for our Co-Ownership transactions.
If you wish to sell in Spain in order to return to the UK but can't find a buyer then why not exchange with someone in the UK that has the same problem?
Do you wish to up or down grade but can't find a buyer, then, property exchange is the answer!
All paperwork will be handled by the specialist law firm of Draycott Browne, members of the Law Society in the United Kingdom and regulated by the Bar Council of Spain.
As part of our marketing strategy easybuy has opened a webpage on the easybuy website dedicated to property exchange which is available to existing clients at a one off payment of 75€ and available to new clients as an extra service and charge.
easybuy specialise in key in hand new properties through carefully selected developers and are offered with cash back or Guaranteed rental income, the amount will be dependent on the property in question.
Why pay more?
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easybuy can deal with any developer, but will be selective in which ones we choose, in order to ensure that our clients get the best deal possible.
If you are looking to buy a Business For Sale in Spain you have come to the right place, easybuy have a wide range of businesses for sale in Spain from bars and restaurants and Guest Houses to more unusual businesses such as children's play centres, pool cleaning rounds, hair salons and a variety of franchises. easybuy has something for everyone whatever your budget. We can offer freehold or leasehold businesses and franchises that give you all the support you need leaving you to concentrate on building your business.
Buying a business in Spain couldn't be easier and there is help available for both buyers and sellers throughout the whole purchasing process. Many businesses in Spain are bought using a private agreement between buyer and seller, especially leasehold businesses and Traspaso. If you are buying a freehold the sale will take place at the notary.
Leasehold businesses in Spain
Renting a business or commercial unit in Spain is another option that you may consider if you do not have the finance to purchase a freehold. There are many types of businesses for lease including bars. restaurants, hair salons, children's play centres: the list is endless. If it is an established business with an established client base it is likely that the buyer will pay a lump sum for the business and thereafter take over the rental agreement and pay the monthly rent. If you are interested in an empty commercial unit in Spain you would usually pay a few months rent as a deposit and the monthly rent thereafter.
Opening licences for business premises on the Costa Blanca Spain
All businesses in Spain and on the Costa Blanca need opening licences, these are obtained through the local town hall, you will generally need to employ an architect to draw up the plans and file the paperwork with the town hall, once the architect has started the process it is usually fine for the business to start trading as it can take months and in some areas years to obtain the final approval from the town hall. It is fairly common for the local police to pay a visit to a new business or a business under new ownership, as long as you can show your opening licence or prove that it has been applied for the police will be satisfied. If the business you are purchasing already has an opening licence it can often be transferred into your name providing you are not making any alterations to the premises or changing the name. easybuy are happy to give you advise on these issues.
Company formation in Spain
There are a number of ways you can run your company with regards to paying your taxes. You can be self employed and pay your contribution each month (currently around 240 Euros per month) this then entitles you and your family to health care and other benefits that Spanish residents are entitled to. You could open an SL company (which is the equivalent to a Limited company in the UK), this option is quite expensive to set up but depending on the business you are running could be the best option. There are also other options to ensure that you are fully legal while running a business in Spain and our legal department is happy to discuss the best option for you, your business and your family.
Start searching for a business for sale in Spain or the Costa Blanca by clicking here. You will find a large range of commercial businesses in Spain including bars, restaurants, shops, offices, hair salons, franchises, bakeries, gift shops, supermarkets, car sales, guest houses, bed & breakfasts plus some businesses with living accommodation. easybuy offers the widest selection of business at the best prices on the Costa Blanca Spain.


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I am a JCC Maccabi Games Athlete.
November 5, 2013
By Brianna Key, JCC Maccabi Games 2013 Milwaukee Delegation Athlete
I am a JCC Maccabi Games Athlete.
This summer I went to Austin, Texas with the JCC Maccabi Games Milwaukee Delegation. Not only was it one of the best Jewish experiences I have ever had, but it was also one the best experiences I have had!
When I first heard about the JCC Maccabi Games, I was sold on the fun parts: the sports games, opening ceremonies and the dance parties. When I first signed up, those were the main reasons why I wanted to go. Looking back on my experience though, the JCC Maccabi Games became so much more. The JCC Maccabi Games are meant to be a place for Jewish teens to meet other Jewish teens, but in a fun and Jewish-related way. To me that was really exciting; I had never done anything like it before.
I attend Brown Deer High School, where there are only three or four Jewish teens. I do not get to meet many Jewish teens besides the eight that are in my Sunday school class. While traveling and preparing for the JCC Maccabi Games, I made a bunch of Jewish friends from all around the Milwaukee area that I am still very close to. In fact, I ended up going to a volleyball camp with one of them after the games. I also got to meet Jewish teens from across the country and around the world. I now have a friend in Israel who I still talk to on a regular basis. How many kids can actually say that? So while the sports games, opening ceremonies and dance parties were fun, the main reason why I loved my time at the JCC Maccabi Games was because I got to meet Jewish teens from all over the city, country and the world!
This summer I also learned so many things about myself, and I honestly think that the JCC Maccabi Games changed my life for the better. Not only did I become a better athlete, but I also became a better Jewish young adult.
I strongly believe that every Jewish teenager should go to the JCC Maccabi Games because it gives a positive Jewish experience to someone who may not have had that opportunity… like me. The JCC Maccabi Games were such a great experience, and I definitely cannot wait until I go to Boca Raton, Florida next summer and also when it comes here to Milwaukee in August 2015!
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NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discusses the impolitic in education, art, and architecture with Tom Wolfe. Wolfe is the author of fourteen books, among them The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, and his most recent, I Am Charlotte Simmons.
Bruce Cole: I wanted to talk about literature and you as a chronicler. You just spent a lot of time on college campuses talking to kids. What is happening with how we study literature and how we interpret literature in the academy now?
Tom Wolfe: The study of literature has been so politicized at the graduate level that I urged my daughter, who has a degree in English from Duke, not to even think about it. It's a theory-ridden field now and the theories, somewhat like the theories of the international style in architecture, are essentially political.
The assumption is that all languages have been molded by the masters. It's kind of considered vulgar Marxism any longer to talk about the capitalists. So, you don't use terms like the proletariat, the bourgeosie, infantile leftism, and all those things. You talk about the masters of the establishment or the powers that be. The idea is that the powers that be have been able to mold the language so that--to use the most blatant example--the word "women" is 60 percent men. I don't know if you remember the age when feminists were urging that we spell women with a y--"womyn"--instead of an e.
Cole: Or "history" and "herstory." His-story is only part of history.
Wolfe: Which leads to the theory of deconstruction. First, you have to deconstruct the language to show the way that language itself has been manipulated as a way of trapping your mind according to a prescription written by them, the masters. Then you can actually study literature.
I notice from reading The Chronicle of Higher Education that we may be at the beginning of the end of theory, but it certainly has not ended yet.
Take Stanley Fish and his reader response theory--that no piece of writing means anything. The entire meaning is given to it by the response of the reader. So, if the reader has been conditioned to have the wrong responses, the literature becomes worth that much less. It's the lesson that says you've got to reeducate the readers politically.
Cole: If it means something different to everyone, then it means it doesn't mean anything.
Wolfe: It doesn't mean anything.
Cole: Is this because some people believe there are no universals any more, no truths?
Wolfe: I'm sure Stanley Fish has his universals, but they wouldn't fit into conventional teaching of literature.
Cole: What has been the effect of all this, either on how people read or how they look at literature as art? Has it had ramifications in the wider world of writing?
Wolfe: In my experience in going around to these different colleges, it has very little effect upon most undergraduates. They just discount it. But they also give the teachers back whatever they want. As Solzhenitsyn said, if you give the dishonest response long enough, you might as well be believing it.
It does create a climate in which it becomes impolitic to stress certain things. Eventually, everybody needs reinforcement by some kind of authority, whether the beliefs are about literature or religion. It makes you wonder--I'm going to exclude myself--it makes you wonder about your own beliefs and your own theories of the meaning of life.
This brings us to political correctness, which also is ignored, I would say, by 80 percent of all undergraduates. It does have one rather positive effect: it has become extremely bad manners almost everywhere in college to use racist slurs and to speak intolerantly about almost anybody.
Now, that's a good thing: just simply increasing respect for all sorts of people. Of course, it has down sides, too. No longer does the premise of racial-ethnic harmony hold at all. Diversity means something else. Diversity really means dispersion, which you can see in any university dining hall. There is far from being any integration. There are ethnic clusters all over the dining rooms, ethnic and racial.
But I really don't find the students terribly political.
Cole: I can't remember where I heard the slogan, "unity in diversity." I could never quite figure that out.
Wolfe: I think the assumption was that there would be unity. No, there's diversity in diversity.
Cole: Let me turn to your work. You've described yourself as a chronicler. What is that exactly?
Wolfe: Balzac enjoyed saying, "I am the secretary of French society," meaning a secretary who takes notes, not like the Secretary of Labor or something . . . He keeps tabs on what is happening in society, in the sense of social mores as well as just "society" with a small s. If I'm working well, I'm first and foremost bringing the news.
That was Nietzsche's expression when he said "God is dead." He said this is not a manifesto for atheism. He said, I'm just bringing you the news. I'm bringing you the news of the biggest event in modern history. God is dead, by which he meant, of course, that educated people were beginning to have no faith in God any longer. This was the 1880s. He predicted that in the twentieth century would come the rise of "barbaric nationalistic brotherhoods," leading to "wars such as have never been fought before." In other words, he predicted Nazism, Communism, and the world wars. Not bad, no matter what anybody thinks about his overarching take on life. In the twenty-first century, he said, would come the total collapse of all values.
He said if that happens, it will be worse than the world wars. He said the psychological devastation when people come to the point where they believe there is absolutely no meaning to life will be horrifying.
With a book like I Am Charlotte Simmons, my feeling is that I'm just bringing you the news.
Cole: You're the secretary.
Wolfe: I'm the secretary. In fact, in all the long books I've written I do not think you can find a political agenda. I Am Charlotte Simmons was interpreted by a lot of reviewers in a political way. On the left, there was great hostility to the book which at first I couldn't comprehend. I don't dismiss the fact that people just may not like the book. I didn't mean to say that. Then a number of conservative commentators went out of their way to defend the book, which is just the other side of hostility.
Cole: What was the criticism from the left?
Wolfe: There was the notion that this was simply not the case: that college wasn't like this. These were reviews written by people in their fifties, who hadn't been near a college for thirty years or so. They really had no idea what goes on.
Among liberals, it was taken as an attack on the sexual revolution because the sexual activity of the heroine, or the pressure of sex on her, had devastating results. Intellectuals pride themselves on having been liberated from the harsh grasp of religion when it comes to sexual mores. I make a distinction between intellectuals and people of intellectual achievement.
Cole: Who are intellectuals?
Wolfe: An intellectual feeds on indignation and really can't get by without it. The perfect example is Noam Chomsky. When Chomsky was merely the most exciting and most looked-to and in many ways, the most profound linguist in this country if not the world, he was never spoken of as an American intellectual. Here was a man of intellectual achievement. He was not considered an intellectual until he denounced the war in Vietnam, which he knew nothing about. Then he became one of America's leading intellectuals. He remains one until this day, which finally has led to my definition of an intellectual: An intellectual is a person who is knowledgeable in one field but speaks out only in others.
This whole business was started unintentionally by my great idol, Émile Zola, in the Dreyfus case. Zola was an extremely popular novelist. A popular writer writing fiction had never been considered a person of any intellectual importance before, but in the Dreyfus case he and Anatole France and others who were trying to defend Dreyfus were singled out by Clemenceau as "the intellectuals." The term had never been used that way before-meaning people who live by intellectual labor. That was Clemenceau's term.
When Zola wrote his great manifesto, J'accuse . . .!, it appeared on the front page of a daily newspaper. All 300,000 copies of the newspaper were sold out by afternoon. Suddenly the world of writers and teachers and all of these intellectual laborers realized that it was possible for a mere scrivener to be called an intellectual and be considered an important person.
Zola, incidentally, was very knowledgeable about the Dreyfus case. He knew it as well as anybody, as well as any law clerk did. That part was lost later on; it was considered not necessary to go that deeply into anything. All that was required was indignation.
Marshall McLuhan once said that moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity. I think that's quite true these days.
It also meant--the Zola example--that the intellectual is really above the government. It doesn't mean he hates his country or even hates his government. It just means he looks down upon it from a great height, and he's been raised to this height by indignation. Without it, it's impossible to be an intellectual or to be taken seriously.
It caught hold here in the twenties and thirties, this idea of the intellectual who is above all the dim bulbs who actually govern.
Cole: You are a visual artist as well as a writer. How did you get into art?
Wolfe: My mother always encouraged me in that direction. I took art classes during the WPA era in Virginia. It cost twenty-five cents a week. Probably in every state during the Depression, down-and-out artists were given employment by teaching in the WPA art project. Wonderful artists were teaching art. I attended these classes for about three years. Then I just drew. I used to like to draw a lot and even did some painting. I started working summers for a commercial artist. Then when I was working in Springfield, Massachusetts, on my first newspaper job, I was sent to cover a murder trial. Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom. I saw something I'd never seen before anywhere. The defendants sat in a half cage, which was like a hockey goal, and I said, "I don't believe this. I mean, here the jury sees defendants who have been put in a cage." It just didn't seem fair.
As I sat there covering the trial, I drew the cage and the defendants from the back and the rest of the courtroom. And the newspaper ran it. I started doing illustrated features for the Sunday magazine and an occasional one for the daily. Then I sold myself to the Washington Post as a reporter who illustrated his own stories. I did some of those for the Post, but I tell you, it will drive you crazy. When you're on a scene and you're drawing--this is what I found--you can't hear words, just sounds. That must be the left side and right side of the brain in conflict.
Cole: You have a PhD. What was your dissertation?
Wolfe: My dissertation was on the League of American Writers. The subtitle was "Communist Activity Among American Writers, 1927 to '42."
This was a very dangerous dissertation to do. We're talking about the late fifties now. I got my degree in 1957, which was still known as the McCarthy period. And many people advised me not to even undertake this. As a result, if anyone ever had the bad fortune of having to read it, it's written as if it's by a man from Mars who has arrived in a strange land and these things are happening.
For example, I would refer to Ernest Hemingway as "E. Hemingway, a novelist of the period," to make it absolutely remote in terms of objectivity. I was intrigued with sociology. The dissertation was a sociological study of the makeup of the literary world, complete with the usual statistical data.
Cole: What impelled you to choose that subject?
Wolfe: I did a paper in graduate school about the first American Writers' Congress. Why was I interested in that? I honestly don't remember, In the stacks at Yale, I remember coming across volumes of the New Masses, which was a Communist publication--quite well done, incidentally.
This first American Writers' Congress was held in 1935 . It was an attempt by the Communist Party to remove the red glare in the coloring of their cultural movement--in the arts, movies, literature--and to focus on the anti-Nazi, anti-fascist cause.
In fact, it was the Communist Party that invented the word fascist to apply to the Nazis. The fascists were only in Italy, members of a socialist party known as the Fascisti. The word was never used in Germany. The Communists wanted to obscure the fact that the Nazis and the Fascisti were, like themselves, national socialists. The acronym NAZI stands for the National Socialist Workers Party. So, was Soviet communism national socialism? Absolutely. Communists the world over never did a thing that wasn't for the defense or the advance of the Soviet Union.
Cole: This is when Hitler and Stalin were getting ready to sign the nonaggression pact.
Wolfe: Actually, it was before then. They started in 1935 and they were going great guns. If you look at the roster of the League of American Writers, which was a front, it includes most of the well-known writers of that period because it was presented to them strictly as an antifascist organization. Then in 1939, you get the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact. And that destroyed the whole movement.
To this day, the fact that National Socialism in Germany and so-called International Communism in the Soviet Union led to exactly the same results really never has registered among intellectuals who still look at Communists as liberals in a hurry.
Cole: You got out of graduate school and then you were a journalist, right? When did you start writing fiction?
Wolfe: That came much, much later. I came out of college and like most people who want to be writers, I assumed I was going to write novels eventually. So, I did something which used to be common before the Second World War: I went into journalism as a form of writing. Then I fell in love with it and with the life.
You get wonderful little status points every day: Here's your byline and you can go through the police line. You have this press card that will get you almost anywhere. You get a little, nice status stimulation every day.
I finally reached New York, which was my goal. I worked on the New York Herald Tribune and then came a strike in 1962. All the papers were on strike and the strike lasted for months. Just to make a living, I began freelance magazine writing and then became interested in what was eventually called the New Journalism, which was very, very similar to the journalism Stephen Crane did in the 1890s.
I just wrote an afterword for a Penguin edition of Stephen Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. Crane was most famous for a novel, The Red Badge of Courage. But most of his career was journalism. He loved getting material as a journalist. Before he wrote Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, he spent night after night in the 1890s version of the homeless shelters. Namely, the flophouses, seventeen cents a night or less. Probably where he got tuberculosis, which he died of at the age of twenty-eight.
He did many pieces in which he stuck to the facts, like any conventional journalist, but wrote using the techniques of the short story and the novel. They are very specific techniques, incidentally.
I hadn't read any Stephen Crane at the time, but his kind of work was beginning to be done in the early 1960s. I noticed it first in Gay Talese and Jimmy Breslin. I said, "Hey, this is exciting." By the time I got into it, I was not even thinking about novels any longer. Up to this day, I think that the experimental nonfiction that was done in the sixties, seventies, a little bit in the eighties was the most exciting new direction in literature in this country in the second half of the twentieth century.
For the novel now, it's all downhill. It's heading downhill very fast because the writers today almost always come out of Master of Fine Arts programs such as the famous ones at Iowa and Stanford. These programs are like standing water. Mosquitoes breed in standing water. It has become unfashionable to put your hands in the social muck of a society and deal with all these vulgar motivations such as social status or greed or anything of this sort.
The psychological novel, which is mainly the novel of yourself at home, is what is taught. Your own experience is the only valid experience that you can draw from.
If Dickens had believed that, he might have had one book in him, probably David Copperfield, but that would have been it. Tolstoy was lucky. He was many things: warrior, socialite, farmer. He would have had two books, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina features both High Society and farming, ton after exhausting ton of farming, in fact. But those two books would have been quite enough, I guess.
Anyway, nonfiction was very exciting. It remains, I think, a very strong direction and one that will survive, unlike the novel. There's no reason why the novel will survive, except as an anachronism like epic poetry. Unfortunately, that's the way poetry is now regarded--as a worthy but unpopular pursuit, enjoyed only by a sympathetic coterie.
The novel will become a worthy but unpopular pursuit unless the novelists get outside of their own lives, depart their comfortable little studies, insulated floor to ceiling by shelves of books, the poor scrivener's version of Proust's cork-lined room, and do what writers did in the great period of American literature, which was the first half of the twentieth century. Everybody from Stephen Crane to John Steinbeck quite intentionally went outside of his own experience. Steinbeck became a reporter for the San Francisco News. By this time, he had sold Tortilla Flat to the movies and had no financial incentive to write for a newspaper, but he saw it as a way to get materials for a novel. So he started going around these migrant labor camps he knew nothing about. He ended up with his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, which probably is what won him the Nobel Prize.
Cole: This is a zealous secretary in a way, isn't it?
Wolfe: Yes, it is; it is.
Think of Sinclair Lewis. He decided that he wanted to write a novel about the Protestant clergy, which had tremendous power in the 1920s. To prepare for it, he used to fill in for ministers who wanted to take a vacation in the summer and he would give sermons. He would go to Chautauquas. He would go to divinity schools, carrying around his five-by-eight cards, where he would take notes to write Elmer Gantry, which I like the best of all of his books.
This was what you did. Dos Passos would go out into the country to get materials for Manhattan Transfer or the USA trilogy. You got outside of yourself.
Alfred Kazin said in a book that he wrote in 1942 that American novelists were in love with every last detail of American life. They might be skeptical of it, but they loved the material and they just couldn't get enough of that material. I think the novel could revive and survive if that attitude were renewed.
I didn't mean to write but one novel. It was The Bonfire of the Vanities. It came after I had written the book The Right Stuff, nonfiction, about the astronauts. It gave me the first financial cushion I had ever had as a writer. I said to myself, "well, I know that a lot of people are saying that this New Journalism is just a very complicated writer's block so you don't have to face the big one, the novel. Now is my chance to try the so-called 'big one.'" I ended up writing The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Even then I had to go to Rolling Stone and persuade them to run it serially in the magazine. I needed the deadlines. Otherwise, I would never have gotten the thing done.
I wasn't going to write another novel, but that book did so well on a lot of levels, temptation overcame me, and I said "maybe I'll try another one." As a result, I've now written three, but I still believe that nonfiction is the great American form of the last fifty years.
Cole: Running a book in serial form was something Dickens did. I take it you're an admirer of Dickens.
Wolfe: I am a big admirer of Dickens, but I must confess that I think the greatest serial novelist was Zola. You could see Dickens spinning his wheels. There are passages in his books where really nothing is happening. If you read biographies of Dickens, he would be in a book store browsing and somebody would come in and say, "where's the new Dickens installment? When is it coming out?" He'd say, "Oh, my God, I need to go home and start writing it. I have about a week to go."
Zola used to do about 40 percent of his books ahead of time. If you've done 40 percent, then you've worked out most of the big problems.
Cole: One final question. As well known as you are as a writer, you cut a figure in and out of literary circles for your white suits. A friend of mine wanted to know if Vincent Nicolosi is still your tailor.
Wolfe: Yes. In England, you're not supposed to tell the name of your tailor, but I want to make sure that the tailors flourish.
Mr. Nicolosi is a perfectionist in details. He does his own sewing for jackets. There's a million stitches. And he does nice little things with curves on the end of cuffs and so forth. He's very attentive to details. But he's much more flexible than British tailors. The British tailors will tell you that they will do anything for you, but they won't. They have an idea of what a suit should look like and that's it.
Cole: When I lived in Italy as a graduate student, nobody bought suits. You'd have your suits made. That was absolutely incredible for me.
Wolfe: I think today, given how much suits cost in the department store or a boutique, you might as well have them made. For a little more, you're going to get exactly what you want.
My father lived in a small town in Virginia and there was no such thing as a department store. He was born in 1892. All men had their suits made.
Cole: Why is fashion important? What does it tell us?
Wolfe: Every man and every woman is equally fixated on fashion. Men who would bridle at that suggestion are usually men who want to fit in in whatever milieu they want to be in. They do not want to stand out in any way, shape, or form. That's just as true in the stands at the stock car races as it might be at Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm.
Somebody like myself, perhaps, stands out on purpose with just minor variations on the conventional. My suits are conventionally cut. They just happen to be white. The same with shoes, everything else.
I feel it's to a writer's advantage, since he sells a mass-produced product called a book, to catch attention any way he can. This is not shared by my fellow writers, you understand. But you'll notice how few writers are willing to appear on the back of a book with a necktie on. That's a bohemian fashion that's supposed to show one way or another you're thumbing your nose at convention. Then it becomes a convention itself. If I saw one more writer with an open shirt, the wind blowing through his hair, I was going to stop buying books. They've calmed down a little bit, but still the tie is anathema.
Ironically, if you read a book such as The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, about the arts in Czechoslovakia under a Communist regime, the writers in the Writers' Union were dressed like businessmen. They were on top. If you were in the Writers' Union, your books were published automatically, even if no one read them. And I've just been reading Huizinga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages.
Cole: That's a very great book, I think.
Wolfe: The attention to status detail and dress is absolutely fascinating. I forget the French nobleman who was found guilty of a capital crime, who insisted on arriving in his full regalia--an ermine-trimmed coat and the works--for his beheading. He just wasn't going to show up looking like a common, vulgar victim. I liked that.
To this day, I think it hasn't changed. It's just more covert now. Style is always a window into what a person thinks of his place in the world or what he wants his place to be in the world.
Balzac often would start off chapters with a description of a room and the types of furniture. He might point out that the curtains on the windows were not really damask. They were half cotton. He would give you a whole picture of the inhabitants just through his status details.
And Saint-Beuve, who I guess was the leading French critic of the day, said, if this man Balzac is so obsessed with furniture, why doesn't he own a shop and spare us these tedious novels. [Laughter]
Tissot, who has become my favorite painter the more of his work that I see, is a great example of that. For a long time, Tissot was written off as a sort of fashionista. He was in love with the look of women's clothes. But I think now he's being perceived as a great painter.
Cole: He's a much more nuanced painter, I think, than people give him credit for.
Wolfe: A lot of the work was outdoors in that period. I'm not talking about landscapes, but paintings done of things going on in the street. And on boats. The love of illustration was quite frank and open. Then suddenly, it became a much-denigrated approach to art; by the 1940s, to call a painter an illustrator was one of the worst things you could call him.
Interestingly enough, right now abstraction is going out of fashion. Young painters are crying for life classes in the art schools and a lot of art schools are left with very few teachers who can teach draftsmanship. They are returning to the object and to the human form.
Cole: As the idea of object was denigrated, the illustration got denigrated the most. So did wonderful painters like N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish.
Wolfe: Remember how absolutely bottom of the swamp that Norman Rockwell was? Now, he's been accepted as a painter of American folk myths. He's been gone long enough. El Greco, who went way out of fashion after his death, is now quite all right.
Cole: This is very true. If you're going to do a history of twentieth century American art, you'd have to put Rockwell front and center. If you went around asking people to name a twentieth century artist, they'd probably say Rockwell. They wouldn't say Rothko or Motherwell or someone like that.
Wolfe: Or they might mean Rockwell, but thinking that you might know better, they'd try to dream up some fashionable artist.
What we call the art world is such a small number of people. I once estimated it as 10,000, probably 3,000 in the United States, about 2,700 in New York. They're either in New York or they orbit around New York galleries and New York museums. It's really a very few people.
The critics today don't dare discover anybody, because they might be discovering the wrong fashion. So, they're just couriers. They bring you the opinions of this small group of people known as the art world and they bring it to you in the New York Times or in Time magazine or in Newsweek.
There are huge sectors of art works that simply aren't considered. They aren't reviewed.
Cole: Since Picasso, the hallmark of great art has been originality, which was certainly not the case in the preceding periods. Since everyone is original now, how do you know who is original? There are no boundaries anymore.
Wolfe: Well, the art world decides for you. That's, that's really what happens. Tom Stoppard in his play, Artist Descending a Staircase, has one of his characters say that imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Cole: I do think you're seeing a return to the object and the figure. But my question is can you ever put it back together again after artists have really seen things in different ways?
Wolfe: Often the artists simply have not been taught. They don't know enough about draftsmanship to do it. They don't know enough about color. They don't know enough about light and shadow. You can see a lot of it in Picasso.
Picasso left art school at the age of fifteen, on the grounds there was nothing more they could teach him. This is extolled in biographies of Picasso. Unfortunately, he never learned perspective. In his realistic period, early in his life, there's never a room with perspective. He puts a figure or two and a stick of furniture in the foreground, and everything beyond them is fog. He never really learned anatomy. In many of his realistic pictures, fingers and thumbs are like a bunch of asparagus that you buy in the grocery store. He was never very good on things like foreshortening. If I were as ill-prepared as Picasso or Braque I would have thought up a name like Cubism, too, as a way of legitimizing one's lack of skill.
Cole: If you look at Jackson Pollock's figurative things, poor guy, he never could draw.
Wolfe: Think of De Kooning. His skills are negligible.
However, some of the people will fool you. I was thinking of Joseph Albers, who spent the last thirty years of his life trying to solve the problems, if any, of placing one square of color on top of another. In his youth, he was a wonderful artist of the human figure. He had a touch of Egon Schiele in his work.
Cole: The only abstract artist I can get excited about is David Smith and that's because it's sculpture. I like that interplay between those three-dimensional or two-dimensional forms.
Wolfe: Architecture is no different. The new generations in architecture are returning as fast as they can to pure Le Corbusier. They feel that there are some first principles of early Modernism, about a hundred years ago, that have not been properly understood and appreciated. They look upon Postmodernism as an aberration, to quote Brad Cloepfil, who is one of the fashionable new reactionaries.
Cole: What do you think about Postmodernists in architecture--this revival to fantasy and whimsy and revivalism. Is that a good sign?
Wolfe: Anything that would break out of the box, to me was a good sign. In early Modernism, so-called International Style, the architects very willingly tied one hand and both elbows behind their backs, which meant they couldn't handle anything but a straight edge and a pencil. It's amazing what they were able to do anything at all, and even more so that their tastes prevail today, going on a hundred years.
You look at what was done at the Bauhaus by Gropius or Mies, Breuer, any of them and what was done by Le Corbusier. It was founded on essentially a socialist notion that the bourgeoisie had caused World War I--which was a horrible piece of self-destruction by European civilization--and that therefore you should take all bourgeois elements out of architecture.
That's a piece of false reasoning. It's reasoning by analogy and science abhors analogy. Let's say the bourgeoisie did cause--which is a stretch itself--did cause the First World War. What does that have to do with removing whatever the bourgeoisie liked, such as comfort, from architecture?
They ruled out easy chairs. They were too bourgeois. No more applied decoration like moldings or any kind of ornament, because that was bourgeois. No pretty colors. The only colors allowed were black, white and a rather pallid beige.
Cole: This then turns into the kind of symbol of high capitalism in the United States. Take the Seagram Building.
Wolfe: I think that architectural historians and cultural historians said, basically, this is a good move. It was antibourgeois architecture to be imposed upon the very Babylon of capitalism, which is New York City or America in general.
It was really ludicrous and I think that is what was on Edward Durell Stone's mind when he did the New Delhi Embassy with a lot of ornament.
Cole: Anyway, I have to say thank you for The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House. Those were such validating books. They gave people some armor, you know, some ammunition.
Wolfe: I intended those books as permission slips for everybody to like what they want.


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I was originally going to be an American Gladiator for halloween last year. That didn't happen. Well the next best thing would be adding a second flag-inspired swimsuit into my collection, especially one by Jeremy Scott. Hey, I go to the beach like A LOT in the summer. Plus this can double as a bodysuit! On another note, I put up new stuff in the Mart.. go PEEP.
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UH merica
Labels: jeremy scott, spring 2012, summer, swimwear
4 comments:
- Six Six Sick said...
You're one of the few ladies I know who could make this outfit look GOOD. I can't wait to see this happening when summer comes!
- January 12, 2012 at 6:12 PM
- Amanda said...
aw thanks lady! yeah i'm gonna scope it out when it hits the originals store in soho.
- January 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Woah nice.. sadly there is no way in hell I could pull that off.
- January 13, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- applebum said...
Ahhh Charlotte, killin' it everytime! Loving the blue shadow too...
- January 21, 2012 at 1:12 AM
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I had a procedure done at my "gynie's" office tonight. I'll spare you the sordid details-- suffice it to say that it involved Novocaine, ghastly instruments and a 20 year flashback to childbirth. As my husband drove me home, I told him that there is no way that I would be able to stand and cook dinner. My husband (who doesn't like to cook, and therefore cannot cook at all) valiantly stopped to pick up pizza. His gallant effort to help his wife, was to bake it and set the table.
I had the perfect excuse for wanting a "palate cleanser". I could hear my blood orange sorbet, that I made last night, calling my name. It had set to a creamy texture with a beautiful ruby red color. I've made Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit sorbet and Myer Lemon Sorbet, ever since I bought my ice cream maker. But Blood Orange Sorbet...ahhhhhh. As my son said, last night, when I offered him one sample spoonful, "Mom, this is chronic!" In young adult language, that's the ultimate compliment.
Yes, it's chronic. It's one of those "let me sit in my corner, alone, to savor every bite" moments. It's what makes the doctor's pain go away. Heaven. I'm afraid that I'm going to be very territorial with my container of sorbet. I'll have to find more fruit to buy, so that I can enjoy the beautiful deep red color and flavor...before the season is over.
I've made sorbets with fine sugar and I've tried corn syrup. Through trial and error, I decided that my favorite recipe is to use a simple syrup. I keep a glass jar of simple syrup in my fridge, for making quick sorbets. The ratio of simple syrup to fresh squeezed fruit depends on the tartness or sweetness. Here's how I made this one-- and I would not change a thing!
Blood Orange Sorbet
Note: I use an ice cream maker where the bowl stays chilled in the freezer.
6-8 blood oranges, squeezed to equal about 2 cups of juice
1-2 tsp of zest (optional)
1 cup of simple syrup (taste the fruit, first, for tartness)
1 Tablespoon of vodka (I used Citroen Vodka). This works as "anti-freeze"
To make simple syrup:
2 parts sugar to 1 part water
In a saucepan, heat sugar and water just until dissolved.
Remove from heat and chill. Overnight is best.
Mix the chilled simple syrup with the fresh fruit juice and vodka
Chill for at least an hour
Turn on the ice cream maker and add the sweetened fruit juice.
Depending on your ice cream maker, the sorbet should be ready in about 25 minutes.
I like to chill my finished sorbet overnight. I've been told that it will store for several days. I have never been able to test that theory, as it disappears within 2 days!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Just let me savor it "Blood Orange Sorbet"
3 comments:
- Culinarywannabe said...
I'm so sorry to hear about your procedure and hope you are feeling better!! I was just there a few weeks ago (with the same type of doctor!) so I really do feel for you. I'm glad you had something to lift your spirits! I will definitely be making this - it just looks beautiful. My prayers for a speedy recovery.
- February 6, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- Katherine said...
Your recipe looks so good! If and when blood oranges make it to K-town, this is a must try!
I love the pix of you and your horse!
- February 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- A Feast for the Eyes said...
Thanks! I'm feeling much better, today. In fact, I'm off to make a new recipe for dinner. Pasta!
- February 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM
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"Yorkshire Ripper" charged with murder
On This day in 1981 Peter Sutcliffe was charged with the murders of 13 women in the county of Yorkshire, Northern England. Sutcliffe was identified as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer believed to be responsible for at least 13 murders and seven maimings over a period of six to ten years. The Ripper preyed mostly on prostitutes and was the subject of many televised pleas by police for information, resulting in so many leads that authorities were overwhelmed to a degree that made the case virtually unsolvable.
The Yorkshire Ripper case is one of the inspirations behind Red Riding, an excellent trilogy of feature-length television episodes that first aired in March of 2009. Red Riding captures the bleakness of Northern England in the 70's and 80's while weaving together a dark and complex story that is not easy to forget. You may be compelled to watch the series many times, each viewing transporting you to a particular time and place in Britain.
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Teenage is always more of fun, going through higher levels of education, hitting puberty and going through various mixed emotions. Hardly any boy cares about building muscles at that age. But according to a recent study by Swedish experts who had tracked a million teenage boys for 24 years found that those boys who have low muscle strength, weaker arm, leg muscles and a limp grip are at an increased risk of early death.
Researchers behind the British Medical Journal (BMJ) believe that muscle strength reflects general fitness. These findings do not mean muscle building makes you live longer , however the link between early death and muscle power remained in the study. As may as 26,145 men died over the course of the study.
The teenagers who scored above average on muscular strength at the start of the study had a 20-35 % lower risk of early death from any cause and also from cardiovascular diseases, the report said. They also had a 20-30 % lower risk of early deaths from suicide and were up to 65 % more likely to have any psychiatric diagnosis, such as schizophrenia or depression.
Well it's not really surprising to know such facts given that teenage boys are spending more time in front of television and gaming consoles instead of play grounds. At teenage one doesn't actually need to the gym to build muscles. If you love any sport don't play it on a X box or play station, instead play the game naturally outside the house and it's more fun too. X box and play station are cool no doubt but there should be some limit to it. Parents should take special care of their children in their teenage and should make sure that they are more into sports and less into video games.
Also, diet becomes more important at this age and having junk food should be avoided whenever possible. Eating health protein based food and enough physical activity at this age is more than enough. In teenage, the body is still developing and good nutrition and good muscle weight will only benefit in later stages of life. It's no rocket science to understand that teens with more muscles are likely to live longer.


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