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Today's episode of The Walking Dead promises to either bring many separate conflicts to a head in neat and interesting ways, or to completely bore us and hold off on further development until we return next year. Eww. Hopefully they chose to move things along.
So, what's today's Mid-
Will Rick and his small group of roamers break through the walls of Woodbury?
Will Andrea finally wake up and realize that the Governor is a disgusting slimy doucheball?
Will Carl be able to hold down the fort/prison with Rick and Daryl gone?
carl's hp has varied strongly from season one. he's even attained +4 bullet resistance. i guess that justifies placing him in charge of grown-ass adults?
For the answer to these and many more questions, jump with us, and get a little party going.
8:30 - well, i guess as long as we keep opening these things up early, somebody's going to keep being early. nothing exciting has happened yet, no walkers killed, no human drama started. maybe take a few minutes to get instrospective. maybe step outside for a little while and think.
not sure why daryl took this moment to remove his cool crossbow, but hey.
just don't blame us when you realize it's cold out, and you forgot your sleeves.
8:45 - with rumours of many scary and exciting things on the go for tonight's episode, we're going to need to be able to insulate these here emotions. we'll be doing that with james ready beer and mad tom ipa. david's tea will soothe our throats after.
8:55 - mute your phones and turn out the lights. the episode is just around the corner!
9:00 - hey... when did shows start doing midseason finales?
...or offering guest walk on roles? and two screen experiences?
we open on some shots of sunrise over a foggy field, and then a stock woman's scream.
a walker is attracted to it as we hear the woman again in the background.
a man, who presumably is tyreese shows up and beans it.
i like his little hammer deal he uses..
he runs into a woman who has a shovel and wears pearl earrings and confirms he's tyreese.
glad they kept the trademark toque.
they're part of a group that's not faring too well in this small horde they've encountered.
someone's mom is bitten, and an escape is made, walkers and the kid's mom in tow.
nice to see another functional multi-racial group though - that's, well, better than normal here.
9:03 - tyreese comes upon the guard towers of a prison. a woman cautions him.
"we don't know what's in there."
"but we know what's out here," tyreese says.
they decide the bitten woman can't live. she's a liability.
"we have to kill her now."
"maybe," tyreese says.
then there's a beauty of a shot of the prison (i think it's the prison) from the back with some nice theme music creeping in behind it.
then we go to a commercial.
9:07 - andrea's checking herself out in the mirror,
then finding some pictures of the governor in his past life. he walks up behind her, and they discuss milton and cremating mr coleman. kind of sounds like a movie title, no?
interesting sexy talk.
anyway, andrea talks about helping the people through this mess, and the governor goes on about woodbury growing on her. then they kiss of course, and she takes off.
9:08 - later, the governor is in his head room, and we find out he keeps the daughter, penny there.
he turns on some music and calls her out.
"penny, hunnie, it's daddy."
he's got a bowl of gross shit to feed her, and she comes racing out at him, her head covered in a sack.
this child doesn't act it well (wriggles from the shoulders, but very little head-lunging), but the makeup is nice.
anyway, the gov goes and sings to the daughter, and it seems like she's calming down?
no, she really just wants the guts he brought her.
perhaps the governor should try keeping bacon in his pocket.
any way, she ignores him, and he starts screaming "look at me!" she ignores him some more ('cause she's still a zombie), so he locks her up.
i'd care more about this if he wasn't so gross, but hey.
9:10 - we open up on glenn and maggie.
"maggie, did he uhh,"
"no," she interrupts. "he barely touched me."
she goes on that after all this time with walkers, she forgot how terrible people can be. how they always could be.
then they hug.
i guess that's like, closure or whatever?
anyway, they keep showing suspicious long shots of the walker, so glenn goes over to it.
he proceeds to rip off the arm, and almost puke, then break it off at the elbow?
then disgustingly, he pulls out the broken radius and fashions it into a shiv for he and maggie.
glenn is fucking awesome. if he dies, it's fucking over (note: we doubt that glenn will ever die - at least this season).
9:12 - outside of woodbury, rick and his group wait. they watch the walls, and hear a twig snap behind them. everyone swings around, but it's michonne, and they actually let her lead.
9:13 - back inside, merle and the governor talk about taking out the prison. not to move in or anything, but just to kill them for his fun?
merle goes on to say that his brother's there, and the governor says they'll make him their inside man.
"whatever happens, nothing happens to my brother," merle tells the governor.
then they decide keeping andrea, glenn and maggie all around is dangerous, so they'll take glenn and maggie to the screaming pits.
9:15 - inside a house now, where michonne was questioned, the group argues.
daryl decides they should split up.
some guy comes in and tells them he knows they're in there
"i saw you moving from outside."
the man walks in further and rick gets a gun in the man's face after they zip-tie him.
"we're our own people and you're holding some of our people. where are they?"
they shove a rag in the dude's mouth, and knock him right out,
9:16 - okay, so back at the prison axel is being a COMPLETE perv towards beth as she and carl hang out in a cell with judith.
"how old are you?" axel asks her.
"seventeen, interesting."
carol calls him out, and tells him to fuck off, and he says he hasn't seen women in a while, and he thought carol was a lesbian. i'd shoot him in the apocalypse. no question.
"you got the short hair. you're not a lesbian? my, my. this is interesting."
"no, it's not." she walks away. carol is pretty great. but yeah, totally kill that guy. he'll be trouble, and there've been enough sexual assaults this season.
axel is crawling with red flags. he should really get that checked out!
9:17 - holy shit!
maggie and glenn storm out of hold and maggie kills the fuck out of one guy with that bone, taking the advice of my grade 9 english teacher and going for the jugular. it's seriously impressive and pretty gruesome.
merle gets glenn pinned with his sword, but maggie's on him with the dead guy's automatic.
"let him go," she tells him.
he does gladly though, because reinforcements are there, having heard the scuffle.
he beats up glenn, and then we're off to commercial, and trailers for the animal-murdering adaptation of the hobbit.
9:21 - rick and the group seem pretty damn close to infiltrating the inner workings.
merle tells maggie and glenn "i'm glad we could catch up" and then they're both hooded - but not until we get a shot of the couple staring into each others' eyes as glenn exhorts maggie to just keep looking at him. it's pretty sweet and terrible all at once.
as glenn and maggie are led away, rick and daryl flash bomb the hallway. daryl runs in and grabs them out.
further away, andrea walks around being sexy, and there's some chaos happening as people react to the gunfire and the guy the group beating up earlier being found and telling his story.
"we're under attack. you find out who and you find out how. you shoot to kill and you don't take any prisoners, you understand?" the governor tells his men.
9:23 - rick and the group run into a house, maggie asking how they found them, and where "that woman was" referring to michonne.
how?! how do you not know my name?!
"daryl, this was merle," glenn tells him going in to explain how this was all done by merle.
"you mean merle is this scumbag?"
maggie explains that he's the governor's lieutenant or something.
daryl's freaking out, 'cause he wants to meet up with merle and talk to him.
"maybe they can work it out."
glenn explains "they" had to tell them where the prison was. it's pretty rad of him to continue to back maggie up and be on her side! we love glenn.
rick has to convince daryl to stay with him. even though i think rick's kind of a dickbag, i'm surprised he's able to talk daryl down like this. it's seriously like kicking a puppy. and reedus is a good enough actor for us to infer him blaming rick for him being separated from merle in the first place.
but, you know. it all works out.
9:25 - there's a tiny team meeting, and the governor delegates duties to his inner circle. merle leads a search team, and andrea (reluctantly) leads a door to door look around michonne.
9:26 - further away, michonne is in the gov's house, snooping about.
she unsheathes her sword and sits down to wait for him.
9:27 - rick's group throws another round of smoke bombs out the door and makes a run for it, under heavy gunfire. tons of woodburians are killed. andrea hears the gunfire and goes to investigate. daryl and rick and killing guys left right and centre.
andrea's shooting at people in the fog, not recognizing anyone yet.
she's joined by the governor.
"you alright?"
"i saw them," she tells him.
she explains one of the guys was "black guy, young. he was wearing a prison jumpsuit."
the governor opts for a pretty familiar fear-driven narrative: they must be escaped convicts! after our peaceful suburbian way of life!
governor decides they're not soldiers, they're survivors. they'll wait these people out.
daryl says he's going to stay behind and lay cover fire for the group.
this will obviously end well.
daryl hits some more people and the group slowly makes its way out.
rick is clearly going nuts 'cause he sees shane coming at him, and this shane guy kills oscar.
rick's nuts, obviously so he shoots the guy then goes to investigate. blah blah rick has feeeeeeelings and has forgotten about lori and OH MY GOD WHO CARES.
maggie has the common courtesy to actually kill poor oscar. she and glenn finally makes it over the fence as rick retreats and daryl looks caught up. of course.
hey guys, totally good job having a transitional black character between t-dog and tyreese so we umm, didn't think you were racist or anything, y'know?
oh well, at least reedus and lincoln are good actors, right?
one of which is a django trailer.
9:33 - carl's whittling and hershel finally got judith to sleep.
carl goes on about going to get some formula for judith, and being hard in general.
they hear screams, and carl decides to investigate, 'cause it's carl. interesting note - carl is concerned the screaming woman could be carol, but hershel informs him that carol is with axel. so...that somehow means she couldn't be screaming? get it together!
get it together, grouch.
9:34 - off he goes with his baseball bat lookin' silencer, through the dark, towards the screams. it's pretty fuckin' scary, really.
some noises are coming from the boiler room. he gets sentimental and weird, but a walker's up on him.
he blows its head off then heads in.
tyreese's group is killing the fuck out walkers but carl helps anyway.
"come on," he yells. "hurry."
they get into moral arguments about leaving the bitten lady, and then - !!
9:36 - we cut to michonne in the governor's house.
she hears the noises coming from his head room and kicks the doors in. she sees her boys and that soldier and becomes, well, pretty angry.
then she hears the daughter.
9:37 - she opens the door and crouches down to look in.
"it's okay," she says. "i'm not going to hurt you."
she clearly doesn't know.
but she knew the governor was so bad she thought he kept little girls chained up in his house? see...somehow to me, this means that michonne gets it in a way rick et al never will.
9:38 - anyway, michonne's right about to kill zombie-penny but somebody screams no, and it's the governor and he has a gun.
he quickly puts that down though.
"it's me you want," he tells michonne. "there's no need for her to suffer."
"she doesn't have needs."
great acting by the gov here! too bad i think he's mad yucky. it's a good performance nonetheless.
michonne straight fucking kills her, sword through the mouth and the governor's on her, punching her face and choking her. michonne gets the upper hand though, choking him with the sword. they struggle and eventually her head is slammed into the same fishtank as her boys, leading to her dragging down two MORE tanks, and she's cut up, and the heads are on the ground biting, and this is super intense.
why can't the entire show be this good?! goddamn! i mean, i'm having trouble watching this!
the's reaching for glass, and her sword, eventually choosing glas and ripping a piece of glass off of a fish tank with her bare hand and plunging it into the governor's eye.
i like to think this scene is an homage to this classic moment in dead and buried, but i'm probably wrong about that.
so there's blood everywhere, and screaming and she's about to kill him when andrea comes to his defense?
"what have you done?" she asks michonne.
look at this place! what has he done, andrea?
any way, there's a stand off, and andrea lets michonne go.
she heads in to help the gov, but then sees all the walker heads, and him with glass shards sticking out of his eyes holding his walker daughter, and this is gruesome, and crazy, holy shit.
didn't expect the glass in the eye, and the daughter death or all the gruesome fun all at once. wow.
glad i had so much food for dinner
9:46 - so here's carl inside the prison with tyreese's gang and their bitten woman.
he puts his gun up on her head and says he'll take care of it.
"she doesn't have much time."
"we take care of our own," tyreese says, then goes to use his hammer.
at least they put a bandana over her head.
they all stop when they hear a lock creaking.
"hey kid, did you just lock us in here?"
"this room is secure. you have food and water. you'll be safe in here."
the lady goes on screaming to carl about how they can't treat them like animals.
"back away from the man," tyreese says. "it's the best we've had in weeks, this man's house. plus we have things to take care of."
they walk away.
"shouldn't we help them?" beth asks carl.
"i did," he replies. carl's daddy taught him not to trust black people.
9:48 - back at woodbury, the indian doctor is still alive and helping the governor.
the governor apparently has some explaining to do for andrea, even though it won't make a difference to her and her foolish ways anyway. and really, why would he be obligated to tell her the truth? she's so naive it's almost painful.
"what the hell was that? why was she here? why was she fighting you?"
the governor, good ol' phil implies that andrea should know. after all, she spent all those months with that kitana-slinging loose cannon.
"the fishtanks? the heads?" andrea retorts
"i made myself look at them, to prepare me for the horrors outside."
"and penny," andrea asks.
boo, i called penny annie earlier.
any way, milton AND merle are here to help.
merle, uhhh, told the governor michonne was dead, so he's not to happy.
"they made it over the wall, i'll go after them in the morning."
the governor turns to merle, angry and kinda menacingly, then it's a commercial.
9:54 - we're back. michonne catches up with rick and his crow outside of woodbury, and rick has a gun on her?
he tells her to get her hands up and takes her sword.
"find the rest of your people?... i brought you here to save them."
rick says thanks for the help.
"you'll need help, to get them back to the prison, or to go back in there for daryl, either way. you'll need me."
her eyes are so pleading. ugh! i loathe rick!
9:56 - back inside woodbury, people are gathered around the biter fighting pen, and the governor appears to address them.
"what can i say? hasn't been a night like this since the walls were completed. and i thought we were past it. past the days when we all sat, huddled scared in front of the tv during the early days of the outbreak. the fear we all felt then, we felt it again tonight. i failed you. i promised to keep you safe. hell, look at me. now, i, i should tell you that we'll be okay. that we're safe. that tomorrow, we'll bury our dead and endure. but i won't. 'cause i can't. 'cause i'm afraid. that's right. i'm afraid of terrorists who want what we have. want to destroy us! and worse, 'cause one of those terrorists is one of our own! merle!"
there's a mumble and banter. and damn, he sure loves that word (terrorist).
"the man i trusted. he led 'em here, and he led them in." they take away his arm blade.
"it was you. you lied. you betrayed us all."
they bring out daryl, in a hood.
"and this is one of the terrorists. merle's own brother!"
"what should we do with them?" the governor asks
the crowd essentially starts chanting kill them, and we get a nice terminatoresque beat out of mcreary. oh fuck, we miss that show so much. it was sooooo fucking streets ahead of this mediocrity.
"you wanted your brother," the governor says, walking up to merle. "hey you got him."
then he walks back listening to the bloodthirsty crowd as we cut to credits.
whelp, that was actually a little less revelatory than expected, with very little really happening. like what? maggie and glenn swapped for merle? oscar swapped for tyreese? it was action filled and gory, and much less rapey, but does that really make it much better of an episode? (yes, yes it does. badass violence minus the sexual assault! whee!)
i guess we'll see where they take this moving forward, and what will really happen when woodbury retorts. february is a long time to wait, but that's when we'll have to reconvene for walking dead fun. make sure to stop by in the mean time, as some fun things are certainly in queue.


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The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference number for this case: 7-Oct-54-Corbigny. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. le1:] NEWSPAPER "L'EST REPUBLICAIN:"
The flying saucers disturbed the Sunday rest of a certain number of Frenchmen
Chamonix. -- The chronicle of the flying saucers and other "cigars" continues to be abundantly provided. During the last weekend, the witnesses who have, indeed, seen mysterious machines are countless.
It is apparently Chamonix which should be given the priority, since, at the same moment, officers of the high mountain school, gendarmes, and pilot Guiron who flew over the area saw during more than one hour a white shining craft move between the mount Lachat and Mount Blanc.
Pilot Guiron said that, flying at approximately 2.000 meters above Faverges, he saw a craft which, he said, did not have any resemblance to a normal plane. Moreover, the direction followed at high speed by this apparatus excluded a sounding-balloon.
In Corbigny (the Nièvre), several inhabitants saw a luminous disc of orange color which moved in the sky and disappeared vertically after having changed altitude several times.
In Breuil-Chaussée, in the Deux-Sèvres, Mr. Girardeau, 55 years old, went to his work when, in a turn of the road, he noticed a circular machine "close to which was a being which seemed to him dressed in a kind of diving-suit". The "being" moved towards him and Mr. Girardeau fled, frightened. A little later the circular machine went away at high speed!
"You would have said a haystack"
It is also a curious machine around whose two odd individuals wandered that two young people people of Vron (Somme) stated to have seen. "We approached, they entrusted to the gendarmes. A haystack you would have said. Suddenly, the machine took off".
In the Indre, as well in Levroux as in Vatan, about fifteen people lengthily followed the moves of a luminous ball of yellowish color which went up and down in the sky and could have been three meters in diameter.
[Ref. pv1:] "LE PETIT VAROIS" NEWSPAPER:
This is not the place to comment on the "true" - there are - and the "false" in the remarks attributed to Evry Schatzman; I wanted to make a few brief comments anyway:
[ast] This is literally true: Evry Schatzman certainly never met an astronomer "giving cfrredence to the saucer stories". What would be false is to claim that none existed (Hynek, La Paz, Tombaugh...)
[pol] Like many other French scientists of that time, Evry Schatzman was a Marxist, with an devotion to the ideology of the USSR. It had been claimed in these circles that the "saucers" were "political", that is, the "Pentagon" used them to make people anxious, whereas Communist countries would not do such a thing.
[est] It is totally false that there were no "saucers" in the Communist countries. Read Boris Shurinov, Felix Zigel, for example.
[mir1] It must be understood that the mirages on the ground do not make appear "saucers" nor "spacecraft".
[mir2] Evry Schatzman believed correct the ideas of the "skeptic" American astronomer Donald Menzel. They are without foundation on this matter; there has never been anything like a "luminous mirage in the sky". What can happen is a refraction of radar waves, detecting objects on the ground (truck, boats) and then showing them on the radar screens - but with the speed of movement and the trajectory of the truck or boat... The radarists of the time had to recognize them as such; later, these "false echoes", these radar returns of slow objects on the ground were filtered electronically so thatthe radar men did not have to bother about them anymore.
[sup] It is the French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit who later showed how even with our already known technologies (MHD), it would be possible to suppress the sonic boom. The argument could stand in 1954, it should no longer be used.
[fra] There is no shortage of cases with "fragments"; certainly often debatable if not debunked. The museum of the saucers remains to be built, no one having ever been concerned to preserve correctly the most intriguing fragments.
[hal] Mistakes are obviously not "collective hallucinations", the journalist does not seem to understand. Misinterpretations and collective misinterpretations exist, "collective hallucinations" simply do not exist. The problem is very rarely a "false perception", it is often a "false interpretation".
[Ref. fs1] "FRANCE-SOIR" NEWSPAPER:
Petrifying rays, flying eggs throughout France
[Ref. am1:] AIME MICHEL:
French ufologist Aimé Michel reports that on October 7, 1954, in Corbigny, in the Nievre, witnesses twice see an object corresponding to the description of a large vertical cigar, a sort of luminous cylinder of weak luminosity, orange when it is motionless and in vertical position, and white with a strong luminosity when it goes in horizontal position.
At a certain time, two small discs came out of its lower part.
[Ref. jv5:] JACQUES VALLEE:
[Ref. jp1] JACQUES POTTIER:
The author indicates that on October 7, 1954, luminous discs, landing or not landing, were reported among other places in Corbigny.
The author says that the 28 places of observations [The author indicates 9 of them] formed all spots that were aligned "along a line with a precision of one millimetre." He further adds that these observations spread on "straight lines, which while crossing, drew curious geometrical star figures", and that "alignments seemed to begin around one hour in the morning, covering our areas of a tight network of investigations of unknown origin."
[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that in Corbigny in the department of the Nièvre on October 7, 1954, by day, a luminous machine in the shape of a cigar carrying at its lower part two red discs as well as a luminous disc of large dimension and of orange yellow color, going at a vertiginous speed, leaving behind him a dazzling light, was observed.
The machine was of cylindrical shape and emitted red and orange gleams.
The source is indicated as La Montagne for October 8, 1954.
[Ref. go1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:
The Belgian ufologist indicates that on October 7, 1954, in Corbigny (Nievre), "Daylight observation. A luminous machine in the shape of a cigar carrying at its lower part two red discs. A luminous disc of great dimension and orange yellow color going at a vertiginous speed, leaving behind it a dazzling light. Cylindrical craft emitting red and orange gleams."
She indicates that the source is "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: 'Ovni, Premier dossier complet...' Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979, p. 133".
[Ref. ht1:] HERBERT S. TAYLOR:
October 7, time unspecified, Corbigny (Nièvre Department). The witnesses twice saw an object that corresponded to a cloud cigar. It was a kind of luminous "cylinder," with a faintly orange light when vertical and motionless, a strong white light when moving forward horizontally. At one point, two small disks were seen to leave the lower part of the object.
[Ref. lc1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the "Nièvres" in Corbigny on October 7, 1954, at an unknown hour, "In full day a luminous machine is observed, in the shape of a cigar carrying at its lower part two red discs as well as a luminous disc of great dimension and orange yellow color going at a vertiginous speed, leaving behind it a dazzling light. Craft of cylindrical shape emitting red and orange gleams."
Luc Chastan indicates that the source is "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".
[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 6 October 1954 at night in Corbigny, France, "Nocturnal lights were reported."
The source is indicated as "Newspaper Clippings".
[Ref. ud2:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 7 October 1954 at 19:00 in Corbigny, France, "Cigar-shaped objects were observed. Three cigar-shaped objects were observed by six witnesses on a farm. Explanation: Coincidenc."
The sources are indicated as Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01); Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.
[Ref. mr1:] MICHEL RIBARDIERE:
September 20, 2010
1954 Return on the wave of demonstrations of unknown machines on the national territory
1954 is an important year in the history of French ufology.
[General information]
Here some one of the encounters:
[... Other cases... ]
The day of October 7, 1954, observations, are announced in Herbourg [sic, Cherbourg], la Ferté-Macé (61), close to Saint-Jean D'Assé on main road 138, in Ballon, Lavenay, Montlevic and Cassis. These appearances are along a line with a millimetre-length precision. The same thing for Corbigny, Montlevic, Puymoyen and Marcillac i.e. on the whole 28 localities which were the theatre of demonstrations, which showed same docility to be lined up on straight lines. This at the very least strange fact was repeated curiously during the first fortnight of October. After that the wave calms down.
[... Other cases... ]
[Ref. ub1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case 8 times instead of once:
|Case Nr.
|New case Nr.
|Date of observation
|Place of observation
|Country of observation
|Hour of observation
Not looked for yet.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Corbigny, Nièvre, cigar, cylinder, vertical, horizontal, mothership, disc, cloudy, orange, luminous, white
[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
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|Patrick Gross
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|First published.
|Patrick Gross
|May 1, 2009
|Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [go1], [lc1], [ud1], [ud2].
|Patrick Gross
|February 28, 2010
|Addition [jp1].
|Patrick Gross
|June 22, 2010
|Addition [jv5].
|Patrick Gross
|July 29, 2010
|Addition [le1].
|Patrick Gross
|December 20, 2016
|Additions [mr1], [ub1].
|Patrick Gross
|January 3, 2017
|Addition [fs1].
|Patrick Gross
|February 17, 2017
|Addition [pv1].

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The third book I have read in my 100 book challenge for this year was The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. It has been years since I last read this classic and I found that passages that I highlighted in years past were still pertinent to my spiritual growth. I also found numerous others that hit home or had relevance in some of my other projects on the go currently.
I love the following quote:
I cannot even fathom how much time I wasted in my youth trying to be liked or fit in with a group of people. In the end you end up losing your true self and sometimes it takes years to get back to that person. That quote provided some great journalling time.
I also found that the whole conversation about nothing in the book provided some great insight into a conversation I had this week at church. I kept coming back to those little moments in the day that just seem to disappear into the depths of YouTube videos and Google searches.
This book is a classic and I wish I hadn't put it on my shelf for as long as I did. Here are a few questions that I had after reading this again:
What nothings are in your life and stealing away your time?
Who are you pretending to be and what are you running away from?
I would love to hear your thoughts on those two questions in the comments below.


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Douglas's tips for Comic-Con '08/
For the next few days, I'll be strapped into my carriage of the log-flume that is Comic-Con. When I'm not moderating panels (see below), I'll be wandering all over the show floor. But if you asked me to show you "the good stuff," here's what I would probably take you to first, and what I would probably advise you to flip through. (And by "here" I mean under the cut.)
1335 - Dumbrella: Scott McCloud is signing the excellent Zot! anthology there Friday at 3--at the same time as the Lynda Barry spotlight panel. Aaugh. Dumbrella's also got Zot! T-shirts; if I didn't already own, like, 800 T-shirts, I'd buy one, and I might anyway.
1514/1515 - Comic Relief: I guarantee that they will have something great you've never heard of, which is both why I want to support them right now and why I'm sure I'll end up supporting them, if you see what I mean.
1528 - NBM: I really want to read Dirk Schweiger's Moresukine, a Westerner-in-Japan diary comic that I got a peek at a few months ago. Looks like he'll be signing at their booth, too.
1529 - Drawn & Quarterly/The Beguiling: Lynda Barry signing! Original art by Jason and Farel Dalrymple! Remember to go to the ATM before you get to the convention center! OK!
1716 - Fantagraphics: They've got Love & Rockets: New Stories #1, which I suspect is going to be the first thing I read back in my hotel room on Wednesday night, plus Jim Woodring's The Portable Frank, which I suspect is going to be a present for a bunch of my friends later this year. And, at long last, Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4. And... the debut comic book by Natalia Hernandez, which I'm totally looking forward to seeing.
1732 - Buenaventura Press. Charles Burns' Permagel looks like it's going to be the luxury item of the show. 40 bucks for 32 pages, but you get bragging rights too.
1831 - CBLDF: They'll have Liberty Comics #1, a $4 book with new "Criminal" and "The Boys" stories, Darwyn Cooke, etc. They'll probably also have some of those gorgeous little original Larry Marder drawings of Beanworld characters.
1834 - Oni Press: Four words: SCOTT PILGRIM COLO(U)R SPECIAL.
2207 - Cooke, Stewart, Bullock - Cameron Stewart, David Bullock and Darwyn Cooke at the same table! All selling 48-page hardcover "pin-up illustration" books! They'll also have some (free) pins with Colleen Coover images of the Sentry. Colleen Coover pins of pretty much any kind are my idea of a good time.
2229 - Virgin Comics. Grant Morrison's MBX Sketchbook is the object of desire here. It's limited to 1000 copies; wonder how much they're asking for it?
5537 - Titan Publishing: Last year, they were selling their recent phone-book-size collections of old 2000 A.D. strips at substantially reduced prices. If they're doing that again, I'll be picking up a few volumes of Strontium Dog, and hoping for vol. 10 of Judge Dredd - The Complete Case Files. John Wagner's 30-years-and-counting run on "Dredd" is one of the most consistently interesting suites of superhero work I've read, and the later stuff is almost always better than the earlier stuff.
L7 - Octopus Pie: Meredith Gran will be selling the second collection of her fine web-comic about Brooklynites being Brooklynites.
S12 - Comic Foundry: Issue 3 is out. Hooray for Tim Leong and Laura Hudson.
somewhere in the IP Pavilion: Lightspeed Press--I always try to point people toward Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, one of my very favorite comics: a science fiction series that's really not much like anything else, and often tough to find outside of conventions where she's appearing. Start with the fourth volume, "Talisman."
AA-05 - Jim Woodring: Whatever he's selling, I'm buying.
AA-14 - Todd Klein: I imagine he'll be selling copies of his Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman collaborations.
BB-06 - Bill Sienkiewicz: I don't think I've seen him in an Artists' Alley situation before. If he's selling original art, it's certainly worth looking at.
CC-02 - Zander Cannon: I bought his "Master of Feng Shui" mini-comic at MoCCA and enjoyed it enormously.
GG-14 and thereabouts - Periscope Studio's Artists' Alley area, which always has some stuff worth picking up, and some exceptionally nice people.
I'll also probably be checking out a couple of the big new-comic dealer booths over in the low-numbered end of the hall, particularly for comics that don't tend to turn up in normal channels. In the last couple of years I've found a few of the special Marvel/AAFES co-published New Avengers comics, which are distributed more or less exclusively through military outlets but tend to turn up at San Diego. The latest one, Fireline, is apparently by Stuart Moore and Cliff Richards, and teams up Spider-Man and Iron Man with the National Guard's forest-fire fighting unit. And I'm wondering if anyone will have copies of glamourpuss #2.
Also: those 50-percent-off trade-paperback-remainder blowout people invariably have some stuff that's more than worthwhile for half the usual price. (I get all my Ultimate Marvel trade paperbacks there, and will be scouting out that Gerber/Mooney Omega the Unknown trade.)
While we're at it, I should plug my panels, since I'm moderating six of them and giving a lecture:
Thursday, 1-2 PM: The Future of the Pamphlet. With Carr D'Angelo, Joe Keatinge and Eric Shanower. Room 32AB.
Thursday, 6-7 PM: The Comics Blogosphere. With our very own Jeff Lester, David Brothers from 4thletter!, Laura Hudson from Myriad Issues, and Tim Robins from Mindless Ones. Room 32AB.
Friday, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM: I'm giving a short, polemical talk called "Against a Canon of Comics," as part of the Comics Arts Conference. Room 30A.
Friday, 5-6 PM: Teaching Comics. With Phil Jimenez, Matt Silady, James Sturm and Steve Lieber. Room 4.
Saturday, 11:30-12:30 PM: Image Comics/Tori Amos. With Tori herself, Rantz Hoseley, David Mack, Elizabeth Genco, Ted McKeever and Kelly Sue DeConnick. Room 6B.
Saturday, 2-3 PM: Lettering Roundtable. With Todd Klein, John Roshell, Tom Orzechowski and Jared K. Fletcher. Room 8.
Saturday, 4:30-5:30 PM: The Story of an Image. Kim Deitch, Jim Woodring, Jim Ottaviani and Kyle Baker will each discuss a single image from their work. Room 4.
Come say hi!


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Often, we don't do a fantastic job of acknowledging our own success. Some wise folks are rumored to have said that comparison is the thief of joy (FDR and Mark Twain, to name a few). It's so true, right? When we look back and try to imagine our old selves achieving our current accomplishments, we realize that we are often WAY too hard on ourselves.
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Thailand wooing Latin America market
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is hoping to attract more tourists from the emerging Latin America markets to the kingdom by increasing the awareness of Thai tourism products and services. This will be achieved through participation in major travel trade shows and by organizing road shows and special events to showcase the best the kingdom can offer.
Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik, TAT Governor said, "Latin America is seen as having the potential to become a big source of high-quality tourists who could be attracted to what Thailand offers. To get the message out to them, we need to showcase our unique services and attractions using both traditional and online marketing activities. So we're using events such as the World Travel Market Latin America 2014 to present Thailand's tourism offerings to tourism agents and operators in that region."
A TAT high-level delegation led by Governor, Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik, attended the WTM Latin America 2014, the largest travel trade show in Latin America, which was held from April 23-25, at the Transamerica Expocentre in Sao Paolo, Brazil. This event, now in its second year, attracted more than 1,400 sellers and over 16,000 trade visitors. This represented an increase of 3 percent over 2013.
As well as hosting an Amazing Thailand booth at the three-day trade show, TAT also held a breakfast meeting between its executives and some of the major tour operators in Brazil at the Pullman Sao Paulo Ibirapuera on April 23. This was followed by a press networking lunch with editors and writers from the Brazilian media at the Tian Restaurant in Sao Paulo on April 24.
The TAT Governor also had a one-on-one meeting with Mr. Marco Ferraz, President of the Brazil Tour Operators Association (Braztoa) to share updates on the tourist market situation in Brazil as well as broker the possibility of Braztoa arranging for its annual general meeting to be held in Thailand.
The TAT Governor said, "Brazil shows great potential as a source of tourists, being one of the BRIC nations, (Brazil, Russia, India and China) – all seen as emerging markets where higher levels of disposable income mean that tourists are now seeking out more exotic destinations. Of course, there are other markets with potential in Latin America we can't overlook, and these include the nations of Chile and Colombia."
To create greater market awareness of Thailand's tourism offerings in Chile and Colombia, the TAT high-level delegation held an Amazing Thailand product presentation at the Radisson Plaza Santiago Hotel in Chile on April 28, attracting 29 delegates, and at the JW Marriott Bogotá Hotel in Colombia on May 2, drawing 25 delegates. All of the attendees are from the region's major tour operators, who specialize in promoting Asia and Thailand.


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Swimming classes are extremely beneficial for people of all types and ages. They serve great benefits, but the most essential among them is that it inculcates a healthy habit which is going to keep you fit and active throughout your life. Anything which makes you lead a healthy lifestyle must be picked up and these swim classes are definitely one of them.
Tips for selecting a good swim instructor
However, swim classes are of no use if the instructor is worthless. The efficiency of a swim class is directly proportional to the efficiency and knowledge of the trainer. Hence it is extremely important to select one with proper care and research.
- If you are an inhabitant of Singapore you will have to check out whether the instructor which you appoint is legit or not. Just like in every city, there are many swimming instructors in Singapore who fake about their legitimacy. But it is under them that some minor accidents take place. The reason being that they are not sure of what they doing as their training is not that efficient! So when you are looking for some swimming instructors in Singapore make sure you check their legitimacy and also inquire whether they have knowledge about this.
- Ask from your friends about a place where good swimming classes in Singapore as well as some trainers to appoint. This will give you a first-hand experience. You can also some local swimming lessons Singapore and find out yourself by interacting with the management staff as well as speaking personally with some of their existing trainers.
- When you have visited the local swimming lessons Singapore agency and have interacted with some of their trainers, the most important thing to do is ask questions straight. You should have no doubts in your mind and the trainer should be able to clear all your worries by their knowledge level and also their behavior. The instructor should be able to win you over with his knowledge about the matter rather than just words.
- Also, these instructors should not shy away from showing off their certificates and legitimacy. And if you find some hesitancy, then ask the swimming lessons Singapore agency. If the instructor still hesitates, then move over to the next one.
- One clear indication about an efficient trainer is that they will rarely have time to talk or discuss stuff with you. They will always be monitoring his students and the fact that they are so good is why they are so busy in the first place. If you find one such instructor, wait for the classes to finish and then approach them for a conversation.
- If you want to get hold of good instructors in Singapore, you will also have to ask the instructor about how long their sessions are going to be and also they should be able to estimate a ballpark about exactly how long it is going to take you to become a master.
Though there are plenty of swimming classes in Singapore, not all trainers are adept in their profession. So you will have to visit their swimming classes in Singapore in particular to find out.


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The declining status of the Southern Albacore Fishery has been well documented. Even in its more limited stance; the fishery in Fijian waters that is under a MSC certification, may not be able to pass the next certification (as well there are no way to pay for it, without the catches)
While the reasons are various, the main culprits are overcapacity, subsidies and the failure of the regimentation and controls in the high seas (a responsibility of the WCPFC)
Is quite sad, as it used to be a profitable fishery that employed mostly Fijians. Unfortunately the concessions and subsidies provided to the Chinese fleet throw the situation into the doldrums.
See below a press release by FTBOA (Fiji Tuna Boats Owners Association) quite self-explanatory


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I finally made time to rummage through my photos of the eclipse from last month!
I finally made time to rummage through my photos of the eclipse from last month!
April has become a month of travel. Spent a few days in the Texas Hill country and in Austin with Lisa. Was home for three days. Now we are off to Washington, D.C.! Lisa has a conference and I'm going to shoot covers for books. Then I'm heading back to Austin for the 2017 Smarter Artist Summit. So basically I won't be home again till May. Crazy month!
The photo above is Austin at night. I took it from the 1st street bridge and I'm super excited about heading back in a few weeks.
Last weekend when we were in Austin I got to see Mckinney Falls!
I had looked it up before, but never thought of going because I thought it was too far away, but our friends were like "No it's RIGHT HERE!" and it took us less then ten minutes to get there.
This photo is of the upper falls. It was so gorgeous. I have to make time to go back on an early weekday when there are smaller crowds so that I can get a wider photo or maybe even to swim.
McKinney Falls:
Coastal Texas has flowers year round, but some of the most vibrant show up in the spring in the Texas Hill Country. I shot this just outside of Fredericksburg, TX!
This is the Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana. We visited it last year on our way back from New Orleans.
It was gorgeous to see, but one of the first times I've ever visited a historical site and saw slave quarters. What was interesting though is that a slave who lived their in the mid 1860's was big into plant grafting and breeding. He invented a type of pecan tree called a "papershell."
The crazy thing is that we have a papershell tree in our back yard at our house in Texas! So our tree in some shape or form can trace it's origin back to the plantation. Very wierd.


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Break it a few levels down, slap a few engineers on it, add some interesting flairs, a lot of caffeine and ciggies, and make sure you don't run away from the original design. And make sure that it's good enough to slap a few of 'em Japanese makes around the dock. While at it, redo everything, but keep the originality.
So the Korean came out with the new Sonata YF.
Yes, you're looking at a Hyundai.
Hyundai may have been on the rear end of some sick motoring jokes for some time, but the jokes are now on the jokers as the new Hyundai Sonata YF performs and look better than we originally expected.
First impression is the key, and the Sonata excels on both lower and higher grounds. The metal that's wrapping the car seems to be liquid-like, with savvy lines and curvature movements that runs from fore to aft of the Sonata. It's so easy to like the lines and appreciate its exclusivity, with ridiculously muscular and in-your-face wrinkle that spells out 'delicate sensibility'. Although it did put some wrinkles on our foreheads when we thought about 'highway mishaps' and 'dents' considering the delicate mechanics it will need to get the car back into its original shape.
Driving the Sonata YF down windy roads towards Melaka was somewhat a pleasant experience. We did not quite understand why some people commented on the performance tyre being used and the rigidity of the drive because of these tyres, but that may be because of how much we are used to driving on stiff suspension settings, therefore the rigidity did not at all score any negativity in our book. In fact, we thought the suspension was very pleasant, if not a little on the soft side.
While being soft on our arses, the suspension managed to give us small chuckles as the Sonata wave through the roads with near zero effort, and we did take the car for some interesting session with the curves. But again, the setup installed for this car is not meant for any of the torments we took it through. Yes, it's soft for the road and stiff enough for the curves, but it's not meant to be used for Touges and track driving, so forgive us for being a little appreciative of its softness. It's a family oriented vehicle after all.
And being a family-oriented vehicle, the gearbox is designed to be maintenance-free if the Sonata YF is driven under a 'normal driving condition'.
But family-oriented vehicles shouldn't be boring. Quite the contrary, and the Daddies and Mamas quite often went bored while cruising down the highway with another 300+km to go. Shift the gear lever downward to the right, and let the Theta II dual-CVVT DOHC do its work as the engine pulls the car at 163 horses' power and 198Nm of torque. If numbers count for everything, then the Sonata came out as clear winner against 154hp of the Honda Accord and 148hp of Toyota Camry, and both the competitor's 189Nm of torque.
If you found yourself in one of those 'OMG' moments, the traction control (ESP) equipped for the high spec variant will definitely help to keep your arses on the road.
And the car does it in a comfortable way too.
Entertainment is provided by the MP3/Radio/CD player, complete with iPod connectivity and Auxiliary support. Everything is laid out in a very simple manner and fluidic arrangement. The dash is decorated with sophisticated lines that will make you feel exclusive driving the car and not with cheap plastic too. Air-condition vents is located throughout the car, including for the passengers at the back, which is quite welcomed.
Enjoy driving the Sonata while sitting on leather all the way and organ-type pedals that's sensitive on your joints, with panoramic sunroof giving you a spacious feel while driving the car. The panoramic sunroof is only available to the 2-liter hi-spec and the 2.4-liter variant.
Spaciousness is not really a problem, as the handbrake lever is exchanged for the foot-brake, thus allocating more space for your tags and toys. Legroom for the back is aplenty, even for, err, huge people like me.
All in all, the Sonata YF is a perfect competitor for the Japs, especially towards the Accord and the Camry. Sonata YF is on sale for RM135,888 for the 2-liter Auto Standard, RM143,888 for the 2-liter hi-spec and RM163,888 for the 2.4 Auto hi-spec. All prices are for OTR with insurance.
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My 11th birthday gift was a bright blue Schwinn Breeze. It was my first big-kid bike and as soon as I could talk my parents into it, the stock saddle was replaced with a sparkly red banana seat and sissy bars. I made it mine. I rode to and from every softball practice and all over the neighborhood with my friends—out cruising until the street lights came on. Dang it was fun.
That's at the heart of why we all ride, right? Because it's fun. That's exactly why we've created JoyRide magazine. More people are choosing to ride a bike more often and with more purpose, reclaiming those first tastes of fun and freedom in a very real and everyday way--a rolling manifesto. JoyRide is here to reflect that.
We'll share stories of why and how all kinds of people choose to ride, with an aim to inspire you to just get out there and enjoy yourself. You'll find profiles of the many passionate people who have worked to make this an internationally recognized place to get around on two wheels, and features exploring what our diverse cycling community means to Minnesota.
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Third House Books & Coffee presents Borrowed Mic Night with Mandisa and Musical Guest Maggie Clifford!
Borrowed Mic Night is an adaptation of an open mic. Instead of sharing your own work, this is a chance for any and every one to share someone else's work. A chance to share that poem, essay, or passage from a novel that you think everyone must hear.
What if you want to share something but you don't have anything picked out or can't decide? No problem! Here is how the evening will go.
7:00-8:00: While enjoying the sweet sounds of Maggie Clifford, browse the store's eclectic selection of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and find something that moves you that you just have to share with everyone else.
8:00-9:30: Borrow that mic! Share that poem, passage, or essay you've just read or you brought with you and help share amazing words with our community.
Readers get a drink token good for a free coffee or half-off a glass of house wine from Downtown Wine and Cheese, our neighbors down the hall!
Third House Books & Coffee presents Borrowed Mic Night with Mandisa and Musical Guest Maggie Clifford!


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What do women get to do in horror movies? Scream. Run for their lives. Try to keep their clothes on.
Occasionally, they fight back: Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween. That single surviving female caver in The Descent. The thing they don't do is direct. Which isn't a problem limited to horror, of course—women have directed only about 4 percent of Hollywood's top grossing movies between 2007 and 2015—but the genre seems an especially closed-off boy's club.
Women certainly go to horror movies, more than men, by some estimates. As if waking up to this fact, the category has seen some innovation as of late. The last few years have given us Ana Lily Amirpour's groundbreaking vampire film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Jennifer Kent's The Babadook, which is one of the most frightening movies about parenting in recent memory, and Karyn Kusama's nail-biting dinner-party-gone-wrong thriller The Invitation, to name a few.
Kusama happens to be one of the four women directors included in XX, a terrific new horror anthology opening this Friday, which teases unsettling and eerie images from quiet domestic settings—parents trying to feed their children, a mom throwing a birthday party for her daughter. That segment, The Birthday Party, cowritten and directed by Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) and starring Melanie Lynskey, is a horrific (and mordantly funny) view of suburban decadence. Kusama's contribution, Her Only Living Son, is another highlight: a slow burn about a mother tangling with her—possibly demonic—teenage son. When I spoke to Kusama, who began her career with the breakout indie Girlfight and also directed the 2009 Diablo Cody–written horror send-up Jennifer's Body, she told me her XX short was an imagined continuation of her favorite horror film of all time, Rosemary's Baby—which she considers "one of the most cogent feminist statements in cinema."
Yes! It's fascinating—and complicated, if one looks at its maker—but for me, Rosemary's Baby is essentially a domestic violence parable. The degree to which the audience is forced to empathize with Rosemary Woodhouse and come around to the terror she lives with I think is just so fascinating. I don't see that many films manage to evoke that sense of empathy.
And your short film in XX pushes that story forward?
I found it interesting to imagine a different outcome. To speculate about what it might have meant for that character to be believed and escape the person she's married to and the people he's surrounded her with—a coven of witches. It felt like a very interesting opportunity to imagine the sense of responsibility and dread and still having to face the music of daily life. I also thought about the idea of having an adult kid and what it meant if he is out of control. It became another domestic parable that I found interesting—but also potentially really scary.
What to you sets the four short films in XX apart?
First and foremost, there's not a lot of internal debate about watching female characters. That's just where the stories live. It's interesting to bypass that question and just show female characters being agents of change in the trajectory of their lives. The hope is that this allows for a different kind of storytelling to emerge.
In some ways XX is also a response and reaction to the way women are represented across all kinds of art forms—not just horror. I sort of feel there's something as dispiriting about watching a bunch of TV commercials and seeing how many women are holding a mop and giving their kid a snack and realizing that that is the tiny universe in which they live as seeing a woman running for her life from a masked killer.
Which is the typical role for women in horror, right? A scream queen . . .
Yes, but it's complicated. To me, this notion of horror movie scream queens . . . in one way it puts female identity in a box, but also it's an attempt—across some big unconscious divide, I realize—for men to feel vulnerable themselves, to attach to and witness vulnerability. I don't feel we watch Marion Crane in Psycho and relish the destruction of her life and body. I feel the same about slasher films where we see women being killed. I think the reason we return to these films is because men and women want to feel the terror of vulnerability.
Have you watched horror your whole life?
From a very early age, and the idea of social commentary within horror has always made a lot of sense to me. When we allow symbols to become real and metaphor to become real, our most primal fears and our most base instincts can be given a voice. My watershed moment was Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. At that moment I was studying Vietnam and Howard Zinn and I was thinking about the culture we lived in. Texas Chainsaw Massacre actually made horrible sense to me—the sense of being in a dream or a nightmare you can't escape from. To be honest, I feel on the precipice of that every waking day now. So I think that we go to horror not to be terrified, but in a way to be terrified in a familiar form that allows us just a little bit of control over our experience.
I loved The Invitation. Are you working on another feature?
Yes! It's called Destroyer and will shoot in fall. It has a really complicated, amazing female character I don't think we've seen before. A story about the difficulty and drama of taking responsibility for one's actions. I think we need more of those in the culture.
Is it scary?
It's scary. It's extremely tense.
This interview has been edited and condensed.


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Art Lotto returned this year to Harrisonburg after a year hiatus. Several things about Art Lotto hold true for me each year.
- The organizers outdo themselves every year with their organization, events leading up to and including the art opening, and general enthusiasm for the experience.
- I am overly ambitious, wait too long to start and somehow manage to pull it off in the nick of time, which only reinforces my instinct to procrastinate the next time.
At the Luck of the Draw event in March, I chose Zach Sensabaugh and he actually drew my name as well. With 50 artists participating, the odds of that happening were incredibly low. Being a fairly busy person, it was great having to only coordinate with one person to work on this project. Zach and I met at the Golden Pony to get to know each other and we discovered a shared love for all things outdoors, hiking, camping, etc. He told me a bear story that will keep me from sleeping alone on the ground without a tent for years to come. Zach had a list of questions for me to help him create a perfume as his portrait of me. A perfume! How cool is that? After doing some abstract embroidering for the 6x6x30 show in March, I had decided to do a solid embroidery portrait for Art Lotto. I photographed Zach that day and created a background of hemlocks for his portrait, his favorite tree. I purchased about 50 different colors of embroidery floss and got to work. Or at least that's what I should have done...as usual, I got all of my materials together and couldn't bring myself to start.
Luckily, this project was very transportable which allowed me to work on it during road trips to Ohio, back and forth to Red Wing Roots Festival, and anywhere I could get away with working on it in public.
Some process shots...
And the finished piece...
Zach gave me a tester sample of his perfume and he pretty much nailed it. It has a lot of natural, outdoorsy scents including cedar and citrus undertones. I told my mom it has a really strong scent when you first spray it and then after a bit of time it softens and is really nice. She said "that sounds about right." Hmmm....
At least this year I have a pretty legitimate reason for my procrastination as there were a few other things going on. Like marrying the love of my life. I'll leave you with a few shots from our wedding in June.
Coming up in November, a solo show at Blue Ridge Architects, created from their discarded samples. Then in December, a solo show at Pale Fire Brewing. In the meantime, back to school! I am beginning a masters program in Restorative Justice through EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding this fall and am looking forward to an enriching and challenging experience over the next few years.


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The reality, however, couldn't be farther from the truth: anybody can be successful.
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1. You don't need anyone's permission to be "real"
Artists figured out years ago that they don't have to be signed to be recognized.
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With blogs, Linkedin, websites and Twitter at our disposal, young professionals have the right equivalent resources available to us, too. And yet many of us are eons behind artists in our mindset.
Nobody needs to give you permission for you to exist, operate and succeed in your chosen field. Make yourself what you want to become.
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Just because you suspect there plenty of players in your space doesn't mean you can't be one, too. As long as you do something slightly better or slightly different, the market will find a slot for you.
If you sense/suspect/feel/know you can succeed in a particular field and feel confident you can fulfill the task of sufficiently differentiating yourself (regardless of how strong you fear your competitors may be), go for it.
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Nowadays, few people play favorites. We love a variety of market offerings and personalities, and even those who swear by Starbucks or Selena Gomez will surely stray from time to time. We love to play the field.
Just because your target audience loves your competitor doesn't mean they aren't (also) looking for someone like you.
Just like there's always room for more, there's almost always more love to go around.
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Artists have no qualms about working with others in the field, and we shouldn't either. After all, who hasn't been swept up in a good collaboration with two of our current favorite artists.
Collaborate with your competitors, especially those who are doing something similar and equally cool.
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Sports streaming service DAZN announced a nine-figure, multi-year rights deal with Bellator MMA on Tuesday. The agreement pairs with the OTT platform's previous foray into boxing to create a fight sports destination in advance of DAZN's U.S. launch this September.
The Perform Group-owned DAZN will carry 22 Bellator MMA events—seven exclusive to the service and 15 simulcast with Paramount Network—beginning on Sept. 29. That first fight card will be headlined by the fourth meeting between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Wanderlei Silva, a middleweight title fight between Gegard Mousasi and Rory MacDonald, and the beginning of the inaugural Welterweight World Grand Prix, an eight-fighter, single-elimination tournament.
"Bellator is a great franchise that has been developing over the past few years as a challenger to UFC, backed by Viacom," said Perform Group CEO Juan Delgado. "With us getting behind it, we're looking to supercharge Bellator in the sense of creating a set of exclusive fights on DAZN."
DAZN (pronounced "Da Zone") is a monthly subscription service already in operation in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, and Japan. The network announced its intentions to enter the U.S. market back in May with a headline-grabbing $1 billion investment that, with the help of Matchroom Boxing, aims to centralize the infrastructure of boxing in this country. That deal will lead to the creation of 16 U.S. fights nights per year (as well as 16 per year organized in the U.K.). DAZN subsequently added the second season of the World Boxing Super Series to its lineup.
Delgado said the aim of this new deal is to provide Bellator with the support to recruit top fighters and develop young talent to equip the franchise to compete head to head with UFC. Delgado called UFC "a great franchise," but added that "there are opportunities out there."
"Ultimately, it comes around to the exposure that you're getting as a fighter, obviously the payout you're getting as a fighter, and the tender love and care that you're getting as a fighter," he said, referring to the prospect of endorsement deals.
As for the company's broader plans for the U.S. market, DAZN CEO James Rushton has talked about the need to establish name recognition. "We've got to be famous at stuff," he said earlier this month. The broadcast rights of the major pro leagues are mostly locked up for several years in the U.S., so the company's plan is prove its infrastructure in other sports first.
"What we can do now is build a foothold in what we still see as interesting verticals—fight sports being one of them," Delgado said. "We want to be in a position where, if the NFL is considering an OTT partner for any of its packages, we are not starting from zero, we've got a customer base and can show them a path to growth. But it's so far out that we're worried about the immediate opportunity, which is still interesting."
DAZN already airs NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL content in other markets, including in Canada where the service debuted with the NFL Sunday Ticket. That particular launch was beset by some technical issues, with a number of irate football fans taking to social media. DAZN's director of product for new markets and strategic initiatives, Marcus Parnwell, addressed some of the particulars in an interview with Mobile Syrup. Delgado also acknowledged that there were issues but said they've been resolved.
"We've addressed the product issues, we've addressed the latency, we've addressed the quality issues when you put it up on a big-screen TV," Delgado said. "The U.S. consumer can be assured that that's not going to happen."
DAZN's market research has identified 49 million general boxing fans in the U.S. (and 10 million hardcore fans) as well as 51 million MMA fans. The crossover is about 35 million, which the service hopes to attract with its monthly payment plan and lack of long-term commitment. The plan's cost for consumers comes in at a much more affordable price point than expensive pay-per-view cards. (DAZN has not yet settled on a price point for its U.S. service, but for comparison's sake, its monthly cost in Canada is CA$20 (about $15) and €9.99 (about $12) in Germany.)
As for growth beyond fight sports in the U.S., Delgado said there are some interesting categories that pair well with fight sports. Boxing remains popular with Hispanic fans, for instance, and Delgado hinted that there is another complementary sport DAZN would pursue: soccer. "You know where I'm going with this, there's a big tournament going on right now in that sport," he said. (The biggest tournament taking place right now is the 2018 FIFA World Cup.)
"You can see how you can complement a very big subscriber acquisition strategy around fight sports with a component of other sports that either looks to keep those fight sports subscribers engaged in the platform and therefore recurring customers," Delgado said.


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The One-Click® Cleaner is an easy-to-use option for cleaning connectors on jumpers and in adapters. Simply insert the One-Click Cleaner into an adapter and push until an audible "click" is heard. The One-Click Cleaner uses the mechanical push action to advance an optical grade cleaning tape while the cleaning tip is rotated to ensure the fiber end-face is effectively, but gently cleaned. The One-Click Cleaner is a must-have for field technicians. Small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and a great addition to cleaning kits. Save your wrist – no more twist!
With the increasing demand of Outdoor Connector (ODC) plug and socket styles, the ODC One-Click Cleaner, which cleans the ferrules in ODC plug, socket and 1.25 mm ferrules, is an essential cleaning tool for WiMax Base Station, Fiber-to-the-Antenna, Broadcasting and Surveillance Video technicians.