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We also need to finally learn to forgive each other for being fucking monkeys, and start understanding and celebrating it instead.
That last bit is probably the most important, and it's the central deficiency of Boys' Love Manga as a whole work. Don't believe me? Then consider this: In a 200+ page collection of essays devoted to the study of red-hot homoerotic stories written and drawn by and for women, one word never appears in any form or variation, a word that one would think would be essential to such a book if one didn't know any better.
The word in question is "masturbate."
Oh, stop blushing. I'm serious. The idea that some yaoi fan, somewhere, might possibly be rubbing one out to these tales of androgynous boys giving it to each other up the ass ÔÇö let alone that one or two of these stories might actually have been created for just that purpose ÔÇö is entirely absent from the book in question. It's implied in the argument over whether or not yaoi constitutes porn, but at no point does a single author ever dare to speak its name out loud. Not once. Not with any euphemism, not with any coded language. The "Calamus" section of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass confronted its subject more directly in the 1860s than does Boys' Love Manga 150 years later.
That's just bizarre, isn't it? Women do masturbate, right? Yeah, of course it's a rhetorical question ÔÇö Hell, I'm a big ol' homo, and even I know better than to ask ÔÇö but you'd never know that they do from this gutless, cowardly wisp of a book. And biology surely must affect how women react to sexual fantasy ÔÇö and how they react to thoughts of beautiful guys getting it on ÔÇö for reasons that stretch far beyond simple masturbation.
Since I've just brought up the apparently uncomfortable topic of female sexual biology, which of course as a gay dude I am eminently qualified to discuss, why not stop for a minute or 30 and ponder its implications, shall we? Let's throw this fucker into overdrive, mix our metaphors and get our hands nice and dirty. Let's get everything dirty.
A bottom explains how he wants it in this sequence from the second chapter of "A Sex Therapist"; originally published in Ism #2, scanlated by Hochuuami, and created by and ©2006 Kazuma Kodaka.
But first: gay sex.
As I mentioned a few pages back, when my high-school boyfriend and I used to make the Beast With Two Backs some 20 years ago, I was invariably the one taking it up the butt. Yes, I was the uke. Indeed, to this day, if given the choice between pitcher and catcher ÔÇö and so long as I could be assured that whomever I was sleeping with was experienced in the fine art of fucking ÔÇö I'd be on my back with my heels in the air in a heartbeat. I am a gay bottom. Oh, I can top, if that's what circumstances require. I'm quite good at it, actually, but the reason that I'm good at it is precisely because I am a bottom, and therefore I know what a bottom wants from sexual intercourse.
Let me tell you a bit about what a bottom wants… no, scratch that. Let me tell you entirely too much about what a bottom wants.
Once upon a time, the biggest secret that a cock-loving nancyboy carried in his head, the one thing that would have been guaranteed to blow a straight man's mind, was the fact that the anus isn't just a sexual organ, but the one with potentially the most capacity for male pleasure. The reason for this? The prostate gland. For a quick introduction to this fascinating organ of the male body, we turn once again to Wikipedia:
The function of the prostate is to store and secrete a slightly alkaline (pH 7.29) fluid, milky or white in appearance, that usually constitutes 25-30% of the volume of the semen along with spermatozoa and seminal vesicle fluid. The alkalinity of semen helps neutralize the acidity of the vaginal tract, prolonging the lifespan of sperm. The alkalinization of semen is primarily accomplished through secretion from the seminal vesicles. The prostatic fluid is expelled in the first ejaculate fractions together with most of the spermatozoa. In comparison with the few spermatozoa expelled together with mainly seminal vesicular fluid those expelled in prostatic fluid have better motility, longer survival and better protection of the genetic material (DNA).
The prostate also contains some smooth muscles that help expel semen during ejaculation.
So: The prostate gland is where the male body stores the fluid in which semen swims when ejaculation occurs. Basically, it's an internal sexual organ. Yes, men have such things. And because it's a sexual organ, it's loaded with the same sort of pleasure-oriented nerve endings as are the penis and testicles. It's astonishingly sensitive ÔÇö you can give a man a small rush of pleasure just by inserting a finger into his anus and rubbing it for a few seconds. Provide more stimulation, and the pleasure that you give him is correspondingly greater.
If he's receptive to it, you can even use this technique to give him an orgasm.
Pay attention to that word, "receptive": It's important. Bottoming is a far more complex and subtle art than that of a top. One has to be relaxed, and one has to be in the mood, or it won't work nearly as well. The anus is sensitive, and if it isn't properly relaxed and lubricated, penetration can hurt like a motherfucker. Even then, it helps if you go slow. Furthermore, the anal canal is comparatively easy to tear if you aren't careful and don't know what you're doing. And just sticking a penis up there and bouncing it back and forth for a few minutes isn't necessarily going to produce the pleasurable sensations that the guy on bottom craves ÔÇö technique and staying power are essential if you're going to make a guy quiver with uncontrollable pleasure by fucking him. There's an age-old saying in the gay community: "A good top is hard to find." This is why.
Then there's the orgasm ÔÇö
(No really, this will lead back to yaoi in a bit, but right now I need you to be patient: We have to spend a bit more time talking about gay men having sex first.)
ÔÇö then there's the orgasm. It's important to note that a prostate orgasm is very different than one produced merely through stimulation of the penis. In their book Human Sexual Response, the physicians Masters and Johnson noted four stages on the road to orgasm: arousal, plateau, orgasm and resolution. (Or to put in terms that a man who's actually had sex will understand: initial interest, gettin' there, ejaculation and afterglow.) A traditional male orgasm is very… what's the term? Oh, yes: phallocentric. Very direct and easy to second-guess… you know, like men themselves. Arousal is basically understood as whatever gives one an erection, and since men are hardwired to respond to the simplest sensory stimuli, then barring some sort of sexual disfunction, the object of his desire generally needs do little more than show a bit of flesh and maybe offer a kiss or two. When in doubt, use porn. That almost always works. If he's a gentleman rather than a total jerk, then the object of his concentration during the plateau phase will be to prolong said phase for as long as possible, since he'll be trying to make his partner's plateau phase as enjoyable as possible, since it's entirely possible that he'd like to have sex with said partner again at some point. Again, unless he's a total jerk, at which point, all bets are off. Now, for any stray female readers still following along, I should note that this is more difficult than it sounds, because his body's first instinct is to to get it over with and eject the sperm into the womb as quickly as possible. (Did you go all the way with a boyfriend when you were a teenager? Yeah, that.) Making intercourse last awhile is a learned skill for a male of the species, and should always be respected as such.
This image and next: Gravitation creator Maki Murakami has created explicit dojinshi of her own series. This is from Gravitation Remix 10, scanlated by Liquid Passion, and created by and ©1996 Maki Murakami.
Finally, the orgasm. While the state of orgasm can vary psychologically from guy to guy, the actual physical sensations are usually centered almost (if not entirely) on the penis itself ÔÇö it becomes sort of like a little light-saber of pure pleasure, basically, and all his attention is going to be concentrated on that don't-call-it-little length of meat for as long as he's experiencing the orgasm. It usually lasts around 20-30 seconds (and sometimes not even that long), at which point there's a period of afterglow generally lasting anywhere from 5-10 minutes… 15 minutes or more isn't unheard-of, but usually intoxicants are involved at that point.
For a man on the receiving end of anal sex, however virtually everything about the process is quite different. Arousal isn't so simple as getting a stiffy ÔÇö as I said, he has to be in a relaxed state, which can mean anything from the mood of the room to maybe a drink or two, but definitely involves foreplay. You may also need to loosen him up with a well-lubed finger or two, but not always. Once he's actually in the mood and you've successfully gotten yourself inside his ass, things tend to get a bit weird for him: There isn't the same distinction between plateau and orgasm for the guy on bottom as there is for the guy on top. The sensations are far more fluid and can seem to slide almost imperceptably from one to the other at a moment's notice. Moreover, if you leave the penis alone and don't induce an actual ejaculation, you can make said sensations last for almost as long as you can keep him in the mood and focused on the act ÔÇö I was once kept in a state of neo-orgasmic bliss for over an hour, although I should confess that my hands were tied behind my back at the time. Sooner or later, he'll beg for release, will do practically anything to achieve that release, and while you can tease it out for a while, eventually the sensation becomes almost as much torture as pleasure. If he's lucky.
Which leads us (again!) to the orgasm. It can be quite different than a traditional male orgasm, depending on how you've played him up until that point. Bad sex can result in an inferior orgasm, but good sex is quite another matter. Remember what I said about the light-saber thing? A prostate orgasm, like the plateau state, runs throughout the body in more diffuse fashion, starting in the abdomen and then spreading out to the rest of the body. In theory, the actual sensation is a bit less intense than a traditional male orgasm, but it lasts much longer and because it flows more smoothly from the plateau state, the effect is more cumulative and far-reaching. I've felt such orgasms in my fingers, and by that time my eyes had rolled back into my head and I was moaning and begging like a I was faking it for a porn film or something. It's difficult to describe.
The afterglow can be intense, and usually lasts far longer than that from a traditional male orgasm ÔÇö again, longer still if intoxicants are involved. I've stumbled back home and found myself weak-kneed and unable to concentrate a full hour and a half after a really good night out.
(Disclaimer: While some of what I've just described is based upon observation, most of it is my own personal experience, which can obviously be different from guy to guy. Your Mileage May Vary, and all that.)
Okay, assuming I haven't bored every last reader senseless, a question for the ladies: Which of the above two descriptions of sex sounds more familiar to you? Obviously, I can't say for sure, having never been female myself, but I've talked sex with more than my fair share of female friends over the years, and invariably when I'm discussing the mechanics and sensations of bottoming, I'll hear some variation on "That sounds a bit like the female orgasm" from whomever I've engaged in conversation. While I doubt that the sensations are interchangeable, I've heard that enough times to be left with the suspicion that they're at least somewhat similar. Moreover, I've been at this long enough now to have noticed how the act itself has changed the way that I perceive sexuality. My experiences as a bottom are so radically different from what you might call the traditional male experience that it basically involves an entirely different mindset. I'm not sure that this gives me enough perspective for actual male/female triangulation, but barring actual brain-transfer surgery ÔÇö or at least considerable improvements in gender-reassignment operations ÔÇö I'm as close as you're going to get.
With that in mind, may I be forgiven a few observations and (at least possibly) semi-informed speculations? Here's what I think:
- Actually, let's start with what I actually know: The stakes for the receptive partner in penetrative sex are very, very different from the stakes for the penetrator. Take disease, for example: The person on bottom is essentially the jizz jar ÔÇö Buddy Bradley reference added at no cost! ÔÇö and is therefore obviously likelier to catch something from the guy on top than is said guy from whomever he's, ummm, jizzing. Scientists and researchers disagree wildly in estimating how wide the differing threat risks in transmission actually are between genders engaged in heterosexual activity, but most if not all seem to be in agreement that there is a difference.
- And if that's true of disease, then it's certainly true where pregnancy is concerned. I'll respect your intelligence and assume that I don't have to elaborate.
- Moreover: Even if you take disease and pregnancy out of the equation, women almost certainly still have more at stake than men when it comes to the heterosexual sex act. For a man, the proposition's fairly straightforward: Stick it in, bounce it around a bit and presto! An orgasm. Unless lubrication's a factor, he's been at it so long as to rub it raw or she's stuck broken glass up her cooch, a man isn't going to worry about damaging his junk by sticking it inside a woman.
- By contrast, I've had inept lovers leave me in discomfort, pain and/or bleeding on several occasions after trying to poke me. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and assume that this is also a consideration that women have to deal with, as well.
- It takes more skill and technique to make a woman come during penetrative sex than it does the man on top of her. I've heard enough anecdotal evidence on the subject that I'm not even going to bother equivocating on this point. Hell, as I've said before, it's true for me, and I have a difficult time believing that it's less true for someone with a vagina.
- Finally, the sexual process and variety of sensations are far, far easier for me to articulate as a top than as a bottom. The former is an "A+B=C" kind of thing, while the latter can be all over the map. I find it reasonable to assume that sexual response can likewise be more difficult for a straight woman to articulate and define, as well. That said, if there were no perceived rewards to be gained from the act, sane women wouldn't do it. The desire is clearly there, even if there are more reasons for a woman to be cautious about sex than there are for men.
Do the physical circumstances surrounding the sex act affect how women perceive erotic desire? I have a very difficult time believing that the answer is no. The questions therefore become, "How, exactly? How does this affect their sexual fantasies, and how might these issues be ameliorated or enhanced by removing women from the equation altogether and fantasizing about homosexual men?"
I can't even pretend to know the answers. I certainly didn't learn anything from Boys' Love Manga that might have given me a clue. And that's a pretty big fucking oversight, if you ask me.
As I said above, my speculations are semi-informed at best, and the room for error is immense. Furthermore, if there's one thing that my own encounters with sex have taught me, it's that life is wilder, weirder and woolier than anything we can imagine. Experiences aren't even necessarily the same from person-to-person within genders, let alone from one gender to the other. Second-guessing the world is a sucker's game ÔÇö and each of us carries a whole world within us. This planet contains billions of them. I don't know your world, and despite all I've told you in this essay, you don't really know mine, either. Hell, I'm not at all convinced that I know it myself. After all, I've been wrong before.
This is why I trust those who question and listen over those who explain. It's also why we should give each other as much latitude as possible where our dreams, fantasies, fears and desires are concerned. There's nothing more important than the stories we tell ourselves. I hope that your stories give you hope and comfort, and I hope they give you pleasure, and if they get you a little hot and bothered too, well, so much the better. Why they do so is for you to decide, and for you alone to decode. It's okay: It's your head, after all. Anything you do in there is fine, whether you're a man fantasizing about lesbians in bondage, or a woman with the same fantasies about men. When I first began experimenting with yaoi manga, my reaction turned out to be all kinds of wrong: That's not really my face at all, ma'am. It's yours. You can do whatever you like with it, and don't ever let the explainers tell you differently. I've been down that road once before, and I assure you: That way lies madness.
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
Bea in recovery.
Just to say that our lovely Bea got hit by a car nearly 3 days ago and someone kindly stopped and rushed her to a vets, to which I'm forever grateful. Bea had severe head trauma on right side but is recovering very well although she has a long way to go. She is very wobbly on her feet and her co-ordination is not great but we are hoping and praying that with time she will get much better. Sometimes I wish I had kept our kitties as indoor cats but they so love the outdoors.
Feeling rough.
Stretched out and feeling a lot happier.
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Monday, 19 September 2011
Hidden object.
Our two legs mom has been busy doing other things rather than our posts and writing comments on your posts. She has her priorities all wrong!
This afternoon our mom went to tidy up..
Mom goes to pick up the sleeping bag. It seems very heavy to her! She puts it down again...
Suddenly a paw appears! Mom opens up the bag....
It's me Buttons. Hey, I'm trying to sleep in here!
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It was serendipitous that my keynote at the Pathways 2 Sustainability Conference was in the Telus Spark Science Center. The HVAC system was designed by the Calgary office of Dialog who have described the IEQ systems as;
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You can see some of the interior photo's at our photo library https://twitter.com/healthyheating
Interestingly, the HVAC zone for the exhibit hall (converted into the P2S2013 conference space) was tested beyond its functional capacity as over 250 delegates filled a space likely designed for less. (hopefully someone from Dialog will show up and correct my assumption). Despite the load, the thermal comfort was well beyond most conference halls that I have visited (and there have been hundreds). The air quality not so much. As the occupant load increased it was necessary to open the adjoining doors connecting a large open hallway to the conference room and that one simple solution seemed to do the trick for most of the attendees.
The point being - despite a heavy occupant load during three days of rain the radiant cooling panels never once condensed as the air system was capable of maintaining a lean air mixture.
I really like how the Architectural/Interior Designers and Mechanical Engineers incorporated the ventilation columns into the space – very nice.
Brad Struble Telus Spark representative and director of design gave us the tour and did a great job explaining the project as well as helping adapt the space to the conference and for the adaptive measures to help maintain the indoor environmental quality.
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So, I have been communicating with those friends of mine who are designers of a cycling bent. Or rather just designers that cycle. Or commute. Or just ride.
Maybe they are cyclists first and then designers second. I dunno. That's up to them.
Here's the idea.
This whole blog is about what we ride and why we ride, it's also about how we ride and why we ride that in that way.
If its getting more women on bikes that work for them.
If it is getting more people to commute.
If it is getting more riders to ride more.
It is about having the right bike.
Bikes are machines. You wouldn't use an egg beater to make a smoothie, you wouldn't use a microwave to make creme brûlée, ya damn well shouldn't be using the wrong machine to ride where-ever you want to go.
Just as you wouldn't drop of your kids at school in a cement mixer, Or take a lap around Road America in a double decker bus, bikes are made for purposes. When you have the right bike for the right purpose. Everything is easy.
So in a way, that's my quest.
The right American bike, for the right American cyclist, with the regular American needs, in standard American use.
(I only say this cause I'm not Euro/Aisian/Arabic/islander/etc.)
The talk will begin shortly. Rotating and evolving discussions about bikes, riding, and life, with a designers perspective in mind. For those of you out there who wish to join in comment! Or hell! You're on WordPress! You have a gravatar! Email me with your answers to these same questions. I'll put ya in the blog.


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On a cool late-season evening before a Yankees game earlier this week, across the street from the old and abandoned stadium, Fritz Peterson sat behind a table on a sidewalk filled with passing fans and flattened cigarette butts.
He was beneath the shadow of the elevated tracks and under the rumble of the trains. When cars stopped for the red light in front of him, Peterson smiled and waved at drivers and passengers, who quizzically gazed back.
Peterson, a former Yankees pitcher, was signing copies of his new book, "Mickey Mantle Is Going To Heaven" (Outskirts Press, $19.95). Eventually, Peterson says, he plans to meet Mantle there and talk about old times.
At age 67, Peterson is fighting prostate cancer for a second time. He is intensely religious in his philosophy of life and death, and blunt about his predicament. His humor is macabre.
For instance, he said he wanted to return to New York during next month's playoffs to sign copies from a casket. "Wouldn't that be fun?" Peterson said. "If I were to die now, I'd be a very happy camper."Continue reading the main story
He looks relatively happy, a stocky man in glasses with a little white beard and longish white hair peeking out from the back of his blue Yankees' cap.
Peterson, a left-hander, pitched from 1966 through 1976, most of it with the Yankees, and went 133-131. His presence in New York served as an unusual counterpoint to the fanfare that Derek Jeter created last week as he passed Lou Gehrig's record for most base hits by a Yankee. Gehrig and Jeter are about Yankee tradition and championships. Peterson? He never got to the postseason with the Yankees and played before a lot of empty seats.
"Mediocre at best," Peterson said of those Yankee teams that followed the Mantle-Maris era. "Pathetic at worst."
In his best season, 1970, he won 20 games for the Yankees, and he was the starting pitcher for Cleveland in 1975 on 10 cent beer night, when that riotous promotion ended in a forfeit.
But Peterson is best known for one of baseball's strangest trades. In 1973, Peterson and Mike Kekich, also a left-handed Yankees pitcher at the time, revealed in spring training that they had exchanged families, like something out of a John Updike novel.
Peterson moved in with Kekich's wife; Kekich moved in with Peterson's wife. Although Marilyn Peterson did not stay long with Kekich, Fritz married Susanne Kekich.
The Yankees and Peterson stayed together for one more year after the swap was disclosed; Fritz and Susanne have remained together for 35. But one of many strange things about Peterson's quirky book is that he does not mention his spouse by name, only as "my new wife." She opposed his book, he said.
"She's pretty sensitive about that stuff," Peterson said. "She read the first three chapters and then stopped."
In the book, Peterson treated the exchange of wives in a peripheral way and complained about how the story was handled in the news media. He said he still communicates occasionally with Kekich by e-mail. "If I saw him at an Old-Timers' game, we'd have some great laughs," Peterson said.
Peterson said he rushed the book into publication before his wife could talk him out of it, and critical readers will notice misspellings and rambling repetitions.
And Yankees fans might be taken aback by some of Peterson's judgments of others. He is an evangelical Christian who used to work with the Baseball Chapel, a man not without sin who is casting a few stones.
In some respects, the Peterson book echoes the "Ball Four" tell-all by Jim Bouton. Coincidentally, Peterson and Bouton roomed together, but Peterson said he had not read Bouton's book and was offended that Bouton never told him he was keeping a diary.
Peterson is also not a fan of Joe DiMaggio, describing him as arrogant and stubborn. Curiously, a photograph in the middle of the book shows a young Peterson standing next to DiMaggio. It was taken on Old-Timers' Day in 1967. Both are smiling. Another picture shows Whitey Ford and an inscription, "Fritz, if you only would have listened to me."
Friendly enough, but in the book Peterson tells of how Ford doctored the ball to make trick pitches and how Ford warned Peterson not to send Christmas cards to his teammates until he was on the Yankees for at least five years.
When asked whether he feared his book would burn bridges with the franchise's former players, Peterson replied: "You know, I am. But if they get mad at me, that's O.K. I hope they get serious with the Lord."
Much of the book is lighthearted, recounting pranks. An appendix shows a letter Peterson wrote to the former Yankee first baseman Moose Skowron on a fake letterhead from the Baseball Hall of Fame, asking Skowron to donate his pacemaker after he dies. Another page shows a letter Peterson faked on Yankee stationery requesting Clete Boyer's participation for what he purports to be an official drinking contest against Don Larsen and Graig Nettles.
In the book, Peterson tells of getting arrested for drunken driving in 1995 and how his wife took a picture of him emerging from jail to shame him.
But Peterson said he still enjoyed drinking. He has homes in Colorado and New Jersey and often travels in a camper. He worked briefly as a hockey announcer and has held various sales jobs.
"I stunk," he said. "I hated sales." His best post-baseball job, he said, was when he worked for years as a casino dealer.
"I don't condone gambling," Peterson said. "But it was fun."
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is $3.99 right now, instead of the usual $9.99.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Knights of the Old Republic is on sale at iTunes
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Dystopian Lego City
Utopia above, environmental disaster below by DF Inc.
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Rick Perry Is a Domestic Financial Terrorist
California (-3,000 jobs) + Kentucky (-1,000 jobs) + Texas (+4,000 jobs)= 0 net jobs.2. "Starbucks' latest tea (and soda) activities follows news that the company has basically stopped buying coffee due to soaring Arabica prices."
Financial cost to the public: -$40 million.
When Golden State Warriors assistant coach Darren Erman was fired earlier this month, the reason given was a "violation of company policy."
It turns out that Erman's violation was secretly recording conversations between the team's coaches and players, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
This spider is so transparent that you can see it's eyes moving around inside its head
"Yellow amycine jumping spider, Reserva Canadé, Ecuador
One of the most transparent jumping spiders I've ever seen. Note how visible the primary eyes are." Via.
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1. The latest Hitman game was inspired by The Rich Kids of Instagram.
2. "The Skylanders series has existed for less than three years, but in its 27 months is has made over $2 billion at retail."
3. SyFy is "developing" a series based on Lev Grossman's The Magicians. (I loved the first two books.)
4. Charlie Stross says we should encourage wealthy corporations to fund airship settlements on Venus.
5. Grantland says a big factor in the NBA playoff upsets is the teams like the Mavs, Wizards, and Grizzlies that payed up for veterans are beating the teams like the Rockets that tried to fill out their roster with cheap players that were 80% as good as the veterans.
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I hated the book (and it sounds like they're changing some pretty key elements), but the images from The Maze Runner movie are pretty cool.
Tiny missing posters of mice posted in New York to promote a rodent control company.
Lego hardsuit by Garry.
Starship Troopers, Medal of Honor, and Zetman ZET Play-Arts Kai figures are 35% off at Entertainment Earth.
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Anyone dying to buy a Star Wars librarian action figure?
The Star Wars toy selection is so weird--just made available for preorder: Jocasta Nu with Dooku bust:
At the request of Star Wars fans, Jocasta Nu is making her very first appearance as a 3.75" figure! Jocasta Nu comes on a Vintage card, encased in a premium package designed to resemble the holocron vaults that she oversees as Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives. Nu comes with the bust of Master Dooku, along with a mantle to hold the bust.
Accessory List
Lightsaber handle (unlit)
Lightsaber (lit)
Battle bag with string closure
Master Dooku "Lost Twenty" Bust
(Relatedly, Bastila is once again available for preorder for KOTOR fans.)
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1. "The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba, that were aimed at encouraging open political discussion, Obama administration officials said Friday."
2. "Twitter stock is down about 10 percent in after-hours trading, below $40 per share. It was at over $70 in December."
3. A blogger scanned and posted a bunch of pages from the Ralph Steadman edition of Animal Farm, complained when Buzzfeed reposted the images, and Buzzfeed actually removed the post.
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1. Some really great Image comics are included in the latest Humble Bundle.
2. Nightmare fuel turns adorable.
3. New York school canceled its annual musical to devote the time to focus on reading, writing and other skills needed for college.
4. Cards Against Humanity details their Extreme Gaming Oatmeal campaign:
Finally, we had to get these packets into the U.S. with FDA approval, and they had to fit into the convention center's strict rules that ban giving away food. This was a big design challenge that we solved by shipping empty packets to the U.S. and then filling them with less than once ounce each of good old domestic U.S.A. oatmeal.5. The Game of Thrones opening remade with Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
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Art roundup
Concept art and the 20-minute-long epic Elder Scrolls Online movie by Blur.
The Healer by Ricky.
On July 23 (Batman Day), you can get Batman masks designed by Ryan Sook.
Bene Gesserit by Emily Carroll.
Olly Moss-esque Planet of the Apes blu-ray cover.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Art roundup
Sculptures, nesting dolls, and illustrations from the Hellboy tribute show.
Thundarr layouts by Jack Kirby.
Storyboards for Adventure Time: Escape from the Citadel.
Last Exit to Nowhere's latest tee is inspired by The Return of the Living Dead.
Colin Fix.
Illustrations by Yuta Onoda for Evolution Magazine.
*Buy Thundarr toys at ebay.
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The Justice League and Avengers as rock stars
Super hero rock stars by Andrés Moncayo available as prints. Via.
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Deathstroke Funko Pop Vinyl
Deathstroke Funko Pop Vinyl figure available as a Diamond Comics exclusive.
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Iron Man 3 included Man-Thing's origin
In Iron Man 3, AIM is using a formula based on plant research to give people superpowers. In the comics, Man-Thing was originally a scientist who was doing top secret research on plants in the Everglades when his wife betrayed him to AIM. In desperation, he injected himself with his untested formula, only to discover it had seriously unexpected consequences. The female AIM agent (played by Stephanie Szostak) who battles Tony to the death midway through the film is named Ellen Brandt, who is Man-Thing's treacherous wife. The character even has the scar on her face she received fighting Man-Thing in the comics.
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Two Perfect Scores for iOS Game Wayward Souls
I'm re-addicted to DC's Injustice, but just ordered Wayward Souls based on perfect reviews at AppSpy and Touch Arcade. Also, this:
Buy the game now at an introductory sale price of $4.99 USD. Every time we do a big content update, we will raise the price by a dollar. We plan to do several updates.Available at iTunes.
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Adventure Time: Wake Up storyboards
The storyboards from part 1 of last week's 2-part epic Adventure Time episode (in which the heroes are reminded not to trifle with The Lich).
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Plants vs. Zombies figures
Plants vs. Zombies figures available for preorder.
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1. The Pope's audience hall looks like a Final Fantasy boss fight.
2. Kaiju size comparison chart.
3. The new Mickey Mouse cartoon.
4. $22k official Monster Hunter guitar looks like a giant sword.
5. 12-minute-long Alice in Wonderland-themed anti-drug commercial by the Department of Health.
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Video of the threezero's new Mazinger Z
Short video showing off threezero's Mazinger Z from all angles. You can preorder it here.
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
Tyrion sculpture by Ale Buz.
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Darkplace poster
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace poster available at Etsy. Also in the shop is this Camp Crystal Lake print:
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Antique wood cook stoves can be purchased from professional restorers such as the Good Time Stove Company in Goshen, Massachusetts; the Barnstable Stove Shop in West Barnstable, Massachusetts and the Love Barn in Orland, Maine. These restorers also maintain online inventories for buyers who cannot visit their brick-and-mortar locations.
All three restorers carry a variety of vintage wood cook stove makes and models. The Good Time Stove Company and the Love Barn both offer stoves from different manufacturers, whereas the selection on the Barnstable Stove Shop website mainly features stoves from the Glenwood line of Weir Stove Company ranges. However, Barnstable Stove Shop states in its FAQ that they have over 500 vintage stoves in stock and many of their stoves are sold before they are put on the website, so buyers should call to check for availability if they have a particular model in mind.
Customers who would like to purchase a stove from any of these three restorers must contact the companies directly. All three restorers advertise that they can ship vintage wood cook stoves to most locations in the United States. In the majority of cases, crating and shipping costs vary from anywhere between $300 and $700, and are calculated based on shipping destination and the stove's weight.


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Man's body found in Pain Rock River; son is charged
January 8, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an Alabama man has been charged in connection with his father's death.
A Madison County Sheriff's Office news release says 31-year-old Eric Jones was charged with murder.
Sheriff Blake Dorning tells news outlets that a family member contacted investigators Friday and reported that Eric's father, 55-year-old Anthony Jones, had not been seen since Dec. 19.
Eric was pulled over by deputies and taken to jail on unrelated warrants.
The father's body was found in Paint Rock River. Authorities have not released details about the cause of death.
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The GabrielsFinborough Theatre, London
Van Badham's latest offering takes on a characteristically hot issue, with a now familiar combination of political and personal conflict animating the relationships between the characters. An unconventional family strains under the weight of everyday strife and trauma flavoured by an ethical dispute over the role of science and the status of life.
Of Badham's previous work, The Gabriels most resembles Camarilla, which indeed also featured Lois Norman (Bonnet) in a similar role, namely an older version of Badham herself, bewildered by the lifestyle choices and worldviews of her offspring. Badham's plays don't so much promote her own left-wing, feminist politics, as perform experiments on them, putting them in awkward situations, poking them a bit, and letting the audience sit back and see what happens.
Bonnet, as well as being mother to the grown up Jude and a learning-disabled toddler jointly conceived (in the sense that a movie is conceived) with her own partner Jane and gay couple Jerry and Allen, is a comic book writer. While her more successful work is lesbian erotica, her current project is set in a near future in which a Christian fundamentalist government has come to power, putting a stop to embryo research, and leaving the human consequences of its experiments to live lives that were never meant to be.
Whereas Mark Ravenhill's Handbag, which also concerns a gay couple and a lesbian couple having a child together, focuses surprisingly pessimistically on the consequences for parenting of such characteristically postmodern, provisional relationships, The Gabriels is more concerned with conflicting ideas about life itself. Having pitched the debate with Christian fundamentalists on one side, and enlightened secular humanists on the other, it is not surprising that Badham has the latter come off rather better, with a fine speech by science writer (and one half of the gay couple) Jerry, convincingly portrayed by Kevin Colson.
In the world beyond the Finborough, things tend to be a bit messier, with many right-on lefties getting distinctly queasy about genetic science and stem-cell research, especially when (inevitably) commercial business is involved. But Badham doesn't put contemporary anti-science trends entirely down to the ill effects of Bible-bashing. Bonnet's son Jude (Declan Harvey) explains that he needs to believe that there is more to life than coming and going, and we are invited to sympathise with this more candidly human objection to scientific instrumentalism. We don't, of course, but you can't say Badham isn't trying. The cartoon dystopia gives further headspace to contemporary fears about the future, even though its ostensible target is religion rather than science.
James Cotterill's design, with a series of cartoon strip-like windows on the back wall of the main, domestic set, through which we view the actors in comic-book mode, allows director Helen Eastman to make the most of Badham's split narrative. Bonnet sits at her kitchen table and takes notes as her characters act out their story, while the audience sits another layer back observing the whole thing. The comic-book story is suitably daft. Polly Conway, who plays Talitha, has a perfect face for cartoons (that's meant as a compliment), while the rest of the cast also get into the comic-book spirit for their secondary roles.
The Gabriels is political theatre in the old-fashioned sense of a forum within which a real-life debate can be brought to life and pondered by the audience. Badham certainly doesn't have all the answers, and for me the frequent Old Testament exerpts add little to the play, but there is enough going on here to stimulate thought and discussion whether people come to it with prior knowledge and opinions about stem cell research, or as uninitiated punters in search of entertainment. As Bart Simpson memorably put it, 'God, schmod - I want my monkey-man'.
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Bridge column, March 21: Who was on top with perfect play?
When we are first shown a bridge deal, it is perfect and puts the cards in our hands. Then, usually some mistakes are made -- after all, we are only human.
Sometimes, we can analyze a double-dummy problem. The contract is given and the result calculated, assuming everyone is looking at all 52 cards. At the table, you rarely play double-dummy. However, occasionally it is possible -- as in this deal.
How did South play in four spades? West led the club three (low from length since he had not supported his partner's suit). East took dummy's 10 with his queen and shifted safely to a trump.
South might have started with a takeout double, but he judged it unlikely that his side could make a slam.
Since there were only 12 high-card points missing, declarer could place East with the heart king and diamond queen. South, though, still faced four losers -- two hearts, one diamond and one club -- because he did not have a dummy entry to take the diamond finesse.
Declarer drew trumps, then played three rounds of diamonds. East won and was endplayed. He led the club ace, but South accurately discarded a low heart. Now East, whether he led a heart or a club, had to bring the dummy back to life.
There were other successful lines of play involving a squeeze-endplay on East, but this one was the easiest.
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by Barbara McNichol
A group of over-50s in my neighborhood are learning to love playing pickleball on our brand new pickleball courts. Players with a mixed bag of talent show up—from non-athletic newbies to proven tournament champs.
One of those tourney players recently told me that, to comply with the rules, I needed to change my serve. Not only that, she shared strategy tips I'd not heard before. Playing with her as a partner gave me the chance to practice those tips—both when she reminded me and when she didn't.
Feeling a little scrambled, I came away thinking, "How many new techniques can I apply at once?"
Back at my computer, I can better empathize with writers as they struggle to apply a number of new techniques that will improve their writing game. Practicing my pickleball serve again and again can be like rewriting paragraphs repeatedly until they work!
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Applying writing tips in a WordShop session provides an optimal opportunity for new habits to "stick." That's why I invite you to participate in an upcoming Business Writing Skills WordShop in Tucson, Arizona, sponsored by Association of Talent Development (formerly ASTD).
It's Tuesday morning April 21, 2015, at Viscount Suites in Tucson—breakfast included. Full details here.
Just as practicing my new serve is worth my while, I encourage you to invest time learning and applying new writing techniques. I guarantee you'll gain a lot in this interactive session—and you'll know what to practice going forward.
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Friday's Announcements
Post date: May 10, 2013 2:44:08 PM
Baseball and softball players will be released at 1:20 today.
Track students should be released at the end of 7th hour.
Baseball plays tomorrow afternoon at home in a make-up game against Highland.
There will be no 5th or 6th grade boy's baseball practice this Saturday. There will be an optional practice on Sunday at 2!
High School students: it is not too late to sign up for the ACT prep class which will run from July 22nd-July 25th from 9-noon. See Karen if interested.
Middle School girls: it is not too late to sign up for the Volleyball Basics class which will run from July 29th- August 1st from 9-noon. See Karen if interested.
Seniors: Please get a middle age picture into a yearbook member for the graduation video ASAP.
Fair forms for the Lafayette County Fair are due to Mrs. Meyers by Wednesday, May 29th.
Registration forms are due by Thursday, May 30th for the Green County Dairy Days Cattle Show on Saturday, June 15th at the Green County Fairgrounds. 4-H and FFA members in grades 3-12 can exhibit.
Reminder to Seniors: please have all your bills paid by the end of this month.
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When I think about the solitary eating adventures I've had in my life, I remember distinctly the one that started it all for me. Close to 15 years ago, when I first started coming to LA, I had a night alone and didn't know how to spend it. The thought of eating alone back then … Continue reading
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I enjoy eating solo. While I understand that sharing a meal is a pleasurable social experience, I also know that some of my most memorable meals have come when I've dined by myself. With company, I am easily distracted, my focus is pulled away from the food and I find it's harder to concentrate on the … Continue reading
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- Miss Boone
- 5 years ago
- Wedding: January 2009
Using an old account so that Darling Husband doesn't run across this, thank you in advance for any advice!
Long story:
Darling Husband and I dated for five years and have been married for five years. We grew up in the same hometown and now live 8 hours away while he finishes medical school. We have two children under 2. He was the first person in his family to finish college, let alone a professional degree. Once he graduates, we're moving to a major metropolitan area immediately (as in the day after) to start working. This was non-negotiable with the employer. This city is 10 hours from our hometown.
DH's mother and father (divorced) still live in our hometown. DH's father has come to visit every other month over the past eight years. DH's mother has come to visit twice in the last eight years. She's an able-bodied adult, married to her fourth husband who has a great job (postal worker), and chooses to be a housewife. They live beyond their means, have no savings, and are continually looking for the next "get rich quick" scheme (right now it's buying rare chicken eggs off of Ebay) and failing. As a couple, we don't agree, but we've stayed out of it and tried not to pass judgement, because it is none of our business. She didn't want to be a parent (told Darling Husband this) and has never enjoyed being a parent (told me this). [The preceding info is only mentioned to display that his homelife with her was never very stable]
DH's mom has made promise after promise to come see him and be part of his life. She says she'll come visit, but the day before she's supposed to leave something breaks or the person who was supposed to feed the chickens or peacocks or _______ couldn't make it. She says they don't have any money, that it's too expensive of a trip, but indulges in new electronics and expensive lifestyle choices (expensive cable, pricey cigarettes, jewelry) [Just so we're clear, I'm mentioning this solely for the fact that Darling Husband is aware that she has money to spend on other things, but doesn't prioritize seeing him]. She didn't show up to graduation, to see his daughter, or to see his son. She hasn't come for a single holiday. I've watched him get excited and then get crushed as she breaks these promises. He keeps expecting her on the biggest days of her life and she keeps disappointing him.
I've been taking the kids back to see her every 3-6 months, when I can with my work schedule, or else she would have never met them. Darling Husband is not able to visit due to his school schedule. He hasn't seen his mom in nearly two years. They talk once a week on the phone and lately she's seemed interested in his life and he gets just like a 8 year old talking to someone important– almost giddy that she's acting like she cares. We won't be able to visit our hometown again for about another year due to employment schedules and the start of student loan repayment.
So, I'm guessing you can see where this is going. The biggest day of DH's life is coming up– med school graduation. He has worked so SO hard to get to this point while being a good person, husband, and father, that I absolutely value it above even our wedding day in importance. I can't put into words how proud I am of him or how hard it has been for him to get to this point in his life (he had trouble with academics). I think he recognizes graduation day as a symbol of all of the years of classes, clinics, and sacrifice.
DH's mom isn't coming. I don't know what reason she gave– I think she couldn't leave the chicken eggs alone AND it was too expensive to come. Every bit of enthusiasm for the day completely drained out of Darling Husband. I've tried to talk to him about it and he flat out refuses to discuss it. I volunteered that we could fly her out and pay for her meals. It would be difficult financially for us since we hadn't planned for the expense, but we could pull it off. He got mad at the suggestion and once again said to leave it be. He's been talking about changing our phone numbers, email, and not giving her our new mailing address to get her out of our lives forever. He doesn't want her to disappoint her grandkids like she continually disappoints him.
If you made it through this ridiculously long post, here is my dilemma: How do I stand by and watch the person I care about most is getting his heart broken by his mom, especially now that he's a father and would go to the moon and back for his kids?
At this point, I feel like my options are:
1. Do nothing. It's not my business. As much as it sucks, just watch him get hurt.
2. Buy her a plane ticket, hope she shows up and that me doing this doesn't ruin his day/start a fight. (difficult to do a surprise because we have shared finances)
3. Send her an email, tell her it would mean the world to him if she was there. (I don't think this will work, but I'd be willing to try. He said this to her on the phone)
4. Send her an email, tell her she'll never her grandkids again if she doesn't figure out a way to get herself over here. (Yeah, I know it's nasty, but it's looking like the truth at this point).
So, what do you ladies think?? Any words of wisdom?
*Just wanted to add, it's true that I really don't like this woman– I've felt the same way for the last ten years. She has no clue that I don't like her. I've tried to do option #1 throughout our marriage and to not let my feelings for her impact the relationship Darling Husband or our kids have with her. I'm willing to continue to do option #1 for the rest of my life if that's truly the best choice.*
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This week, the boys talk to Christian Cantamessa, Chris Pasetto, and Lukas Ketner about their upcoming Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment miniseries Kill the Minotaur! A retelling of the classic tale of Theseus, Hero of Athens, with a decidedly greater emphasis on the horror elements of the story. Also, the gang remembers the legacies of Chris Cornell and Sir Roger Moore.
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Leona was born in an
unnamed village, and spent her childhood there with her family. When Leona was
still a child, Goenitz
came to her village and demanded to talk to Guidel, Leona's father and the
leader of the village. Goenitz requested that Guidel join him in their duties
to serve Orochi, as everyone in the
village were Orochi bloodline members. However, Guidel refused as he and his
family liked peace and not the violent tendencies created by the Orochi blood.
Enraged, Goenitz leaves, but not before smiling at Leona. That night, Leona
lost control of herself, entering the Riot of Blood, and slaughtered everyone
in the village. Goenitz was pleased, and put her blood lust to rest for a time
"when he needs her again". After the event, Leona loses her memories
and wanders aimlessly until she is found by Heidern,
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fighting ability, and decides to train her as a warrior under his command.
In KOF '96,
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mission: to take Heidern's place in the Ikari Warriors Team for the King of
Fighters tournament. Her partners were Heidern's top mercenaries: Ralf
and Clark.
Their mission was to investigate Geese
Howard, Southtown's well known kingpin of crime. In the finals of KOF
'96, Goenitz confronts Leona and reminds her of her Orochi lineage, which
leaves her upset and concerned for her future.
Leona remained
troubled for a while and it even effected her performance on the battlefield,
which lead to her and her partners being relieved from military service. Ralf
wanted help Leona's outlook and enters them into the the KOF '97
tournament. Ralf's idea worked better than he had imagined, because Leona
eventually remembers her past completely during the events of King of
Fighters '97. Towards the end of the tournament, Leona, along with Iori,
suddenly went into the Riot of the Blood (which was induced by Orochi). By the
tournament's end, Leona is successfully subdued and Orochi is sealed away
again. Afterwards, Leona was distraught and attempts to end her life.
Thankfully, Ralf stops her and reminds her that she is no longer alone.
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many years throughout the NESTS saga of KOF.
In KOF 2003,
Orochi's presence is getting stronger towards the end of the tournament and
the seal is broken again. Leona once again enters the Riot of the Blood and
attacks Ralf and Clark, seriously injuring them. Heidern decides to have Leona
sit out King of Fighters XI due to the emotional trauma she suffered
after the incident. Ralf and Clark still trust Leona and convince Heidern that
the KOF XIII tournament will help her, and Heidern agrees. Leona is
determined to live with whatever flaws the Orochi blood invokes and enters the
KOF XIII tournament. At the end of the tournament, Leona loses
consciousness and ends up sleeping for several days. Her team was worried for
her and stay beside her until she awakens. Leona eventually wakes up and comforted
by their concerns, she laughs for the first time in the series.
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As somewhat of a
replacement for Heidern in the early part of the series, I think Leona was a more
original & likeable character overall. However, I always found her original
look to be somewhat boring. She's
actually one of the
few "popular" SNK girls that I've never really cared much for. If you ask me, her
blue hair just seems unnecessary and never matched with
that olive green... but in fairness, her hairstyle is cool at least. Also, I always found her
personality to be dull and robotic, but I guess that's purposely part of her
design? Still. Zzzz.
However, Leona grew on me since her KOF XII appearance where she
acquired a sleeker, sexier outfit, and
even her default color scheme improved... it's almost as if SNK took my advice
(I've been dissing her original color scheme for a decade). lol.
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May 24, 1964
'The Line of Life Lies Between Paralysis and Frenzy'
By MILDRED ADAMS
o Mexicans, "the revolution" has two distinct meanings. The phrase, for older people, refers to the violent events which, unseating Porfirio Díaz and his regime in 1911, upset the economic and social structure of Mexico and started waves of repercussive violence that continued for years. They may hate or reverence it--depending on how it affected their fortunes--but for them it is over. For the young, and particularly the young intellectuals who detest the events of 1911 as out-of-date, insufficient and betrayed by those who made them, "the revolution" is a dream to come, a goal for the future more or less tinged with Marxist ideals.
By Carlos Fuentes.
Translated by Sam Hileman
Carlos Fuentes, a young Mexican novelist and brilliant polemicist, belongs to the second group. What he seems to be saying in this extraordinary novel is not only that the 1911 revolution has come to a dead end, but also (and more important) that, given man's nature, Marxist solutions are facing the same blank wall. He proposes an existentialist way out, but his sense of courage is greater than his suggested submission to man's apparent destiny.
The author's hero-villain, Artemio, is disintegrating when the book starts, relives his life in flashbacks, is dead when it ends. But Fuentes believes there will always be an Artemio. He was a rebellious young lieutenant during the revolt against Díaz, and a hard-fisted exploiter of the beaten aristocracy and the peasants afterward. In love with a beautiful girl, he sees her violent end when his own men take her village, and for years afterward he finds her image in every new skirt. This does not help his relations with Catalina, daughter of a fading landowner whom he marries as part of taking everything that the old man has.
It is not the plot, or the subsidiary plots, or the confusing technical tricks that make this novel remarkable, but the scope of the human drama it pictures, the corrosive satire and sharp dialogue, the occasional reach for the stars. This is not a book to feel at ease with. Fuentes is an angry young man--so angry that, at times, his rage takes him to the edge of incoherence. If you can make your way through the shuffling of timespans, endure the earthy vocabulary and the sentimental counterpoint, you will find within this book a passionate echo of the inchoate protest which causes young Mexican intellectuals to find themselves (at least in theory) disenchanted with material affluence and yearning for a cause worthy of their devotion. An old man explains one source of their discontent: "At times it seems to me that the absence of bloodshed and death drives us desperate, as if we feel ourselves alive only when surrounded by firing squads and destruction."
The task now is to define new goals when the old ones are growing stiff with age. Each generation, says Fuentes in surprise, must face its own frustration and learn to accept it. "You will survive. . .the line of life lies between paralysis and frenzy." Yet in a Latin-American novel of social protest a passive acceptance of man's destiny comes hard. That destiny, as here pictured, is mostly repulsive. We have read about too many wars, too much blood, rot and cruelty: gutter terms dealing with the physical human lose their impact quickly. To play with four-letter words for their own sake, as Fuentes sometimes does, is to play an adolescent's game. He and Mexico deserve better of each other.
Fuentes is, at least in Mexico, a source of political as well as literary leadership. To the young who read his books the world is as he pictures it. He has the poet's power to lift them up, or to cast them into a deeper pit of confusion. To tell them that the world is evil, that it must be accepted and that the stars do shine, seems hardly adequate to their need. One wonders whether this is the best he can do--or whether, with his abundant imagination and great skill, he may find for himself and his disciples the goals which, in his own words, are "to raise up all men."
In the meantime, this is a novelist to be watched, on both sides of the Rio Grande.
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Paris, not Los Angeles, will play host to the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships, it was announced Saturday in Thailand.
French weightlifting federation officials decided to submit Paris as the proposed site, rather than Strasbourg, France, in the final days before the decision. Paris reportedly got 10 votes and Los Angeles eight.
"While we were disappointed not to have won the bid, the result demonstrates that we have a good relationship with the [International Weightlifting Federation] and have reason to be optimistic that we will host a future IWF world championship," Los Angeles Sports Council President David Simon said in a statement.
Simon said in an e-mail that the reason for L.A.'s loss "appeared to be strong doubts on the part of several IWF voters that their countries' athletes and officials would be able to obtain visas to enter the United States for the competition. . ."