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The boys basketball state tournament moves on to the Breslin Center in East Lansing with Division 3 and 4 state semifinal games Thursday, and Division 1 and 2 semifinals Friday, with championship games in all divisions set for Saturday.
Only four teams in the final Detroit News Super 20 are still alive, including No. 3 U-D Jesuit, which will play No. 18 Okemos in a Division 1 semifinal Friday, following the first semifinal between No. 17 Ypsilanti Lincoln and Howell.
U-D Jesuit is familiar to playing in the Final Four, losing to Bloomfield Hills in a Class A semifinal in 2014, then to Detroit Western in a semifinal in 2015 before winning the state title in 2016, led by Cassius Winston, who has gone on to make more special memories at Breslin while playing for Michigan State.
Lincoln won its first regional title in school history last week and Howell — which upset No. 10 Saginaw in a quarterfinal Tuesday — last played in a state championship game in 1927, when it lost to Grand Haven in the Class B final.
You get the picture — there's a lot of new faces at Breslin this weekend looking to make history.
Lincoln had a good team with an experienced guard trio of 6-foot-2 Tahj Chatman, 6-4 Amari Frye and 5-10 Jalen Fisher returning, but that good team turned great with the addition of 6-8 freshman phenom Emoni Bates.
"I've known this about our kids the whole time — don't think everybody else knew — but they play with a lot of heart and a lot of courage," said Lincoln coach Jesse Davis after Tuesday's 56-52 quarterfinal win over Detroit King before a near-capacity crowd at 8,000-seat Calihan Hall. "I scheduled them against a lot of Detroit teams, Saginaw, and we come down here during the summertime and make sure we feel this kind of pressure, this kind of grit in Detroit. I'm just proud of them. I knew what they were capable of. I just think that everybody else is surprised by it."
Added Lincoln senior guard Trevon Davis, who scored a key basket against King off a pass from Chatman for a 53-50 lead with 1:30 remaining: "We've been dreaming about this since our freshman year, talking about it (Final Four run). Emoni means a lot. He's a great player. I like his energy. He's going to be great when he's older, but he's already great right now."
Bates scored 26 in a 58-55 regional semifinal win over Ann Arbor Skyline, making 7-of-14 3-pointers, including one for the difference in the final seconds. He scored 36, including a tip as time expired for the difference in an 81-79 regional final win over Detroit Catholic Central. He then had a double-double (17 points, 10 rebounds) in the win over King despite going 7-of-24 from the floor.
Division 2 outlook
No. 4 River Rouge is the other ranked team still alive.
Defending Class B and top-ranked Benton Harbor was sent to the sidelines in last week's regionals. No. 2 New Haven and Mr. Basketball winner Romeo Weems were upset victims in Tuesday's Division 2 state quarterfinal when unbeaten Harper Woods Chandler Park earned a 53-51 victory on Tyland Tate's 15-footer with a second left.
Chandler Park (21-0) — which had never before won a regional title — will face River Rouge (22-2) Friday in a Division 2 semifinal, following the first semifinal between Ludington (14-10) and Hudsonville Unity Christian (24-2) which sent Benton Harbor home.
Lamonta Stone knows why he was brought back as head coach at River Rouge, pointing out that the only banners hanging in the school's gym are 14 state championship banners, the last two in 1998 and 1999 when he was guiding the team before moving on to become and assistant coach at Eastern Michigan, Ohio State and Bowling Green.
River Rouge lost in the state semifinals the last two years, then removed Mark White as head coach this fall. Stone said prior to the season that his team's path during the final week of the season would more than likely be going through No. 7 Williamston in the quarterfinals, No. 2 New Haven in the semifinals, then No. 1 Benton Harbor with the title on the line.
Now, River Rouge still has to get through Chandler Park.
"We just knew that we couldn't allow both guys to have big games — Romeo probably didn't have one of his better games and that gave us a chance," said Chandler Park third-year head coach James Scott. "Obviously, Ronald Jeffery (21 points) played well, but Romeo scored 12 and six of those came late in the game. We played different defenses against him, went man, then zone. Tyland Tate guarded Romeo. He (Tate) is 6-6, did a good job on him and he also scored 20, made the winning basket from the left elbow with a second left."
Chandler Park came back from a 12-point third quarter deficit to pull off the upset. Scott knows his team will be the underdog again against River Rouge, but he likes his team's balanced attack and mentally tough attitude.
"Obviously, they are a championship team," said Scott of River Rouge. "We have to continue to play Chandler Park basketball. We have to rebound and the biggest thing is we can't beat ourselves.
Tate is averaging 16 points and 11 rebounds. Point guard Derrick Bryant is averaging 12 points and 10 assists. Andre Bradford is the top scorer, averaging 17 points and five assists. Sophomore Jayland Randle is the sixth man and Scott thinks Randle will be a Mr. Basketball candidate in 2021.
Edison, Southfield Christian roll on
And then there's Detroit Edison and Southfield Christian.
Edison, the defending Class C state champion, upset No. 6 Flint Beecher and standout guard Jalen Terry 76-69 in a Division 3 quarterfinal. Beecher won Class C state titles in 2012 and 2013, and then three straight from 2015-17 and was considered the favorite to win again this year.
Edison's title run last year was not a surprise with the talented trio of point guard Pierre Mitchell (CMU), 6-5 Gary Solomon (LIU-Brooklyn) and 6-9 Deante Johnson (Cleveland State).
Edison is a much younger, inexperienced team this season, but still talented and has size in 6-5 senior Brian Taylor, 6-7, 230-pound junior Bryce George, 6-4 Raynard Williams, 6-6, 230-pound David Hughes and 6-6 Jadha Sheppard.
George put on a dominant performance against Beecher with 19 points and 17 rebounds while Williams also had a double-double (13 points, 14 rebounds). George set the tempo by scoring 13 first-half points, including nine during the second quarter to build a 32-19 lead at the intermission.
"We have 15 capable guys and we can match up with a lot of teams because of our size and the development of our young sophomore guards," Edison coach Bo Neely said. "Vincent Cooley is the lock-down guy. He gave Scooby (Benton Harbor's Carlos Johnson) a tough out, as well as Jaylen (Terry) and B. Artis (Mr. Basketball finalist B. Artis White of Canton)."
Edison (19-7) — which defeated Benton Harbor and No. 9 Canton during the regular season — will play unbeaten Iron Mountain (26-0) in a Division 3 semifinal Thursday.
Southfield Christian won three straight Class D state championships from 2012-14 and Josh Baker guided Christian to another last season.
Baker knows how to get the job done on the big stage, but this one was a complete surprise after losing four-star guard Harlond Beverly (Montverde, Fla.) and guard Caleb Hunter (U-D Jesuit) to transfers, along with Bryce Washington, who is starting his freshman year at Penn.
"This group has been one of the best groups I have coached," Baker said. "They all work hard and have great attitudes and are extremely coachable. I think they have a lot to prove and have a chip on their shoulder to show everyone how good and talented they are.
"Our guys play really hard. They guard well, share the ball well and we have shot the ball really well all year. This has been one of the best defensive teams I have coached. They have also put in incredible time before and after school and on weekends."
Southfield Christian (19-6) will face Dollar Bay (21-4) in a Division 4 state semifinal Thursday.
All semifinals and finals at Breslin Center, East Lansing
Division 1, Friday
►Howell (20-6) vs. Ypsilanti Lincoln (21-4), noon
►U-D Jesuit (24-2) vs. Okemos (23-2), 2 p.m.
►Final: 12:15 p.m. Saturday
Division 2, Friday
►Ludington (14-10) vs. Hudsonville Unity Christian (24-2), 5:30 p.m.
►River Rouge (22-2) vs. Harper Woods Chandler Park (21-0), 7:30 p.m.
►Final: 6:15 p.m. Saturday
Division 3, Thursday
►Iron Mountain (26-0) vs. Detroit Edison (19-7), noon
►Erie-Mason (23-2) vs. Pewamo-Westphalia (26-0), 2 p.m.
►Final: 4:30 p.m. Saturday
Division 4, Thursday
►Dollar Bay (21-4) vs. Southfield Christian (19-6), 5:30 p.m.
►Frankfort (20-5) vs. Wyoming Tri-unity Christian (22-3), 7:30 p.m.
►Final: 10 a.m. Saturday


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~ St. Pancras Station, London
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Train stations around the world are getting made over and are looking stunning. So why is CityRail being such a fat slob? Gladys, is there a schedule for Wynyard, Town Hall and/or Central to bring sexy back?
'Sydney's Cinderella'. I feel sorry for Wynyard. Wynyard is in rags, in the basement and very busy (but certainly not scrubbing). And I have no doubt that she is accompanied by many furry friends. Well, all I can say is that it's time Cinderella came to the ball. Cinderella needs to have a wash, put on some bling and get her hair did. And she better get her shit together real quick because Barangaroo is coming, & it ain't no pumpkin coach (truly, I wish it were, would frankly be better for everyone).
Thank goodness that Wynyard has her asian friend, Hunter Connection. Hunter Connection might not have the prospects of Cinders, but the support is there in the form of cheap asian food and good feng shui, letting the chi in.
Forty degrees, steamy, standing (because you can't ever sit), crouching, stretching. Now, I'm pretty sure that Town Hall in summer sounds like prime conditions for Bikram Yoga. Why doesn't Gladys Berejiklian do something useful for once and pay for an instructor on each platform? That, or like in Frankfurt Airport, just send in the clowns? Would go down a treat. Barry O'Farrell claims in media reports to have lost a few kilos in the summer heat of Town Hall. But then I guess he stopped catching the train …
Hot trains and sticky stations seem to have resulted in a global movement to wear fewer clothes when commuting. I urge anyone out there to 'sympathise' with the Sydney No Pants Subway Ride as soon as the carriages become a bit sultry (for whatever reason):
There are only two billion tunnels in and out of Town Hall and some of them may lead to an ambush of Town Hall steps 'folk' – goths, freaks in general or people on blind dates (and love, like violence, is blind). Follow someone normal like me and you should be fine. Trust me.
"Define 'rapid', sweetie-pie" ~ Gladys Berejiklian
Central, the station that connects to the light rail that no one wants to use … I'm guessing that Central was called so as a part of a tourism conspiracy to attract backpackers to the nether regions of the city. That or people from the country named it.
But I do appreciate that Central has staged a flash mob of Irish river dancers for Tourism Ireland (and probably because there were so many Irish backpackers available in the immediate vicinity). I can't think of anything better than a flash mob of river dancers at peak hour in one of Sydney's busiest stations (not that busy in the scheme of things). Why not? Why not airports too, on tarmacs, nation-wide? Let's plan a bright future for our children.


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Creating A Need – A Marketing Strategy
And can I say I'm sick and tired of it? Of companies creating a need, fulfilling it for free first, but then asking money for it. There's got to be a name for that strategy marketing but I couldn't find it.
My first encounter with it was Hallmark back in the 90's. When e-cards were at their beginnings, I would always turn to hallmark.com to send mine. I was a big fan of Hoops and Yoyo characters. The service was free, and I was a good Hallmark card paper card buyer either. But eventually, you'd have to create an account to send a card and nowadays, you have to pay an annual fee to access all the cards and only an estimated 10% of the card are free now. Needless to say I did not become a member (though 12$/year is a reasonable price, I'm just turned off) and regardless of the fact that I don't live in North America anymore, to me it's a turn off of buying Hallmark paper card as well. I'd probably go Carlton.
Now to the sewing. When I became a Burdastyle member in 2008, a lot of their patterns were free and they would offer a new, most of the time free pattern every Monday as well. The instructions were far from perfect but who cared? It was free! A couple of years ago, I don't know what happened internally at Burda, but overnight and without warning, you'd have to pay for most Burdastyle-generated patterns (at least member patterns remained free). Oh how happy I was that I had saved all their free patterns beforehand. Oh the protest and the wave of appall this sparked! Some of you might recall… Burdastyle, however, doesn't seem to have learned from it. A few months ago, they started making one of their non-free patterns free for 24 hours on Friday (Friday freebie). However, they stopped this feature just as suddenly a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately for them, no wave of protest this time…
Now on to the next. You might or might not remember the Petunia summer dress I'd made for DM. In the post, I refer to a tutorial on sewing with the spool thread published on Threads a couple of years ago. While working on the Coral Bamboo Shoot Peplum Top, I went back to look for it and what! You'd now have to be a "Threads Insider" (for 32,95$/year) to access it!
Let me be clear about it. I have no problem with Burda, Threads or others making people pay for patterns, tutorials or whatever product. I would understand them making readers pay for everything they produce from now or whenever other point in time on. But retrospectively?!?!
So tell me, what's this marketing strategy called? And what's your opinion about it?
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I could not agree with you more, both on greeting cards AND on once-free patterns. (In another field completely, the apparent multiplication of free-fanfiction-turned-paying-book à la 50 Shades of Gray annoys me for pretty much the same reasons, basically). The free offer was a bait, to get you to the site and now the same patterns are to be paid for? Sorry, not interested. Now, I only surf the US Burdastyle via the newsletter or bloggers/members linkage.


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1933 Gibson-made Kalamazoo KG-11 Flattop Guitar
A customer of mine traded this to me for a guit-box in my own collection, so I quickly set to work ironing-out the setup issues on this afterwards. The factory order number at the neckblock is obscured by old repair work and faded anyway, but I'm certain that this is a '33 or, at latest, an early '34. It has a small-sunburst finish that would've been black-to-orange-brown to begin with, but has faded wider and the whole thing has turned a dark, walnut-brown where it would've been black before.
Obviously, it's also been played a ton which is why the voice of the guitar is as sweet and warm as it is. The average Kalamazoo is pretty up-front and zippy when driven, but this one has just a bit more mwah. Your playing style will decide which suits you better!
There are a ton of old repairs to the guitar, including a neck reset and heel-crack (very minor one, at the foot) repair, crack repairs and cleats to the back and top, crack repairs to the sides, a shot of overspray just on the back, and it'd previously seen some wonky fret leveling and a light shave to the bridge's front edge.
My own repairs included a fret level/dress, modification of the saddle slot to a drop-in saddle configuration and some cleaning-up of the bridge, side dots, general cleaning, a new bone saddle, side dots, and a good setup with 50w-11 strings. The neck essentially straight via the fret level/dress and at tension only deflects ~1/64" -- very good, too, considering that the neck shape on this is a little rounder and slimmer than the average KG-11. It feels approximately like a period Gibson truss-rodded neck, instead.
Specs are: 24 3/4" scale, 1 11/16" nut width (yep -- they're usually 1 3/4"), 1 1/2" string spacing at the nut, 2 3/8" spacing at the bridge, 14 3/4" lower bout, 10" upper bout, and 4" depth at the endblock. Action is 3/32" EA and 1/16" DGBE at the 12th fret.
In case you missed previous blog memos about KG-11s, these guitars are ladder-braced, have solid spruce tops, solid mahogany back, sides, and necks, and rosewood fretboards and bridges.
The original ebony nut is still going strong.
The frets are the typical, low, smallish Gibson stuff.
I love that pickwear!
Originally, this bridge would've been sprayed-over with finish. Said finish was half-removed when it came in and it still had its original saddle slot, though it'd been mucked-with a bit. I filled the outside edges of the slot to make the slot drop-in for easier setup changes, cleaned-up some of the bridge muck, added light string-ramping behind the saddle, and cleaned-up the look somewhat.
As you can see, there's plenty of saddle height for action-height adjustments down the road.
The mahogany back is one piece and there are a couple of repaired hairline cracks in it.
The original tuners are a little fussy (as usual for this type), but do hold pitch once you get them dialed-in. I have a few sets of StewMac repro tuners on hand if the next owner wants to upgrade.
The very bottom of the heel has a tiny repaired hairline crack in it. The dovetail doesn't even go down that far, so it's a non-issue.
Here's a cluster of cracks on the side that was glued-up in the past.
On the other side, there's also this hairline crack that was glued-up before me.
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Serious and Rare Reactions to Valtrex
Serious Side EffectsSome Valtrex side effects should be reported immediately to your healthcare provider. These include but are not limited to:
- Decreased urination
- Vision changes, including blurred or double vision
- Unexplained skin rash
- Unexplained blisters or peeling of the skin
- Itching
- Hives
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- Wheezing
- Difficulty breathing or swallowing
- Unusual bleeding or bruising
- Unexplained fever
- Hallucinations
- Aggressive behavior
- Unsteady or shaky movements
- Confusion
- Speech problems
- Seizures
- Tremors.
Rare Side Effects With ValtrexRare side effects happen in very few patients taking the drug. Because these side effects are so rare, it is difficult to tell whether they are caused by the Valtrex or by something else.
Some of these rare side effects include but are not limited to:
- Low blood counts, including low white blood cells (neutropenia), low platelets (thrombocytopenia), or low red blood cells (anemia)
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Van Brunt Gallery and the Howland Cultural Center are hosting an event to launch the Clara Lou Gould Fund for the Arts. This fund, named for Beacon's previous Mayor of 18 years, Clara Lou Gould, under the auspices of the Community Fund of Dutchess County and BACA, will "fund Beacon projects not generally supported by other area arts organizations, including individual artist's projects, unique exhibitions, performance or public art projects, arts education programs, and community projects that promote area artists and arts activities and that draw attention to the valuable role of arts and culture in our community." Tickets for Friday's event are $100. For more information, and to order tickets online, click here.
Part of the events for the evening will include a preview of the Hudson Invitational exhibit at Van Brunt. The exhibit, which is being presented by Van Brunt Gallery in association with Curcio Projects, and which is co-curated by Jennifer Mackiewicz, relates to the Sitelines Art Fair program that was scheduled for last May but cancelled shortly before.
The art fair was/is intended to highlight contemporary art venues, both commercial and non profit, active throughout the Hudson Valley.
The panel discussion that is accompanying the Hudson Valley Invitational Exhibit is scheduled for Sept 14 at 3pm - at Van Brunt Gallery - and it will touch upon the topic of the present and future of the arts in the Hudson Valley.
The discussion will be moderated by Almanac Weekly Art Critic Paul Smart. Participating panelists include: Benjamin Krevolin, board president of the Dutchess County Council on the Arts, Norm Magnusson, known for his allegoric paintings, his faux historic roadside signs, and his Funism.com website, Tom Roe, founder of Wave Farm in Greene County and a leading proponent of the new Transmission Arts movement, currently on view at the SUNY Purchase's Neuberger Museum. Also on the panel are Sparrow, author/poet/critic, Robert The, Kingston-based conceptual and book artist with a background in philosophy, Christina Varga, Woodstock gallery owner and Brian Wallace, curator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY-New Paltz. The panel will be streamed live on free103point9 Transmission Art Radio via a link at www.free103point9.org, or tune in by pasting http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/vanbrunt.mp3.m3u into your media player. to have
I've written a bit in previous posts about how I though the art fair could potentially set certain conditions serve to feed and connect the region's artists and venues in a way that would bridge the distance between the HV art communities. By that I mean that the corollary events and projects that would pop up around a successful fair might create a gravitational force that would draw more people into a collaborative relationship. I'd heard of gripes about why this thing was happening in Beacon. Why not? Of course, there's no reason that it couldn't happen in Peekskill, Hudson or Kingston, it just never has. Of course it hasn't happened in Beacon yet either. A possible remedy to assuage this griping might be to organize the fair as a series of contemporaneous events that would be happening in a number of communities up an down the river. However, I think it would prove to be a poor strategy for it would simply disperse the energy of such an event over such a large footprint as to dilute the potential impact of a shared moment and place and it would reinforce the art community breach as exists now. If maximum impact, participation, and variety desired effects, I think a better solution would be to hold such an event in a different city every year. Logistically, this would be more difficult, but the potential for collaborative creativity, as well as dynamic, evolving presentation could create that cultural gravity and excite and equally dynamic of artists/venues to participate. To some extent, the concept would be that of an annual nomadic convention, or model of the Olympic Games.
In the spirit of cross community interaction, a panel talk was held last Saturday as part of the recently completed 2008 Windows on Main St. project. The talk, which looked at the aspects of artists working in the public sphere, covered WOMS in context with the Peekskill Project, represented by Michael Natiello, and the 10x10x10 project in Ellenville with the creator of that project Judy Sigunick . The talk was scantily attended, and virtually all in attendance were either on the panel, or in some way affiliated with the projects discussed, but what occured, was an excellent discussion about the artists' experiences of working among the public in traditionally non art locations. Basically was a sharing of the obstacles, the rewards and the discoveries common among the projects. It was also enlightening to learn about the artists' activities that so closely parallel one another, demonstrating some wonderful affinities.
The fact that Sunday's talk at Van Brunt will be streamed live on the internet (thanks to Free 103point9)alone is exciting. I'd like to see more talks/art events in the area streamed or otherwise shared more profusely online. It's hard to make it out to too much, and there's not a lot out there that represents the goings on in the various communities. I wish there was more.


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If you want to learn about the excellent wild trout fishing available on some of Maryland's lesser known streams then don't miss the Maryland Chapter Trout Unlimited general meeting on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM.
Maryland native Tom Starrs will share information on many of the lesser known streams that he has fished over the last 25 years. The meeting will be held next door to Set's Sport Shop.
Maryland Chapter Trout Unlimited Presentation - "Secret Streams of Maryland"
Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 PM
IOOF Hall, 511 York Road
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I must admit that I am a cardmaking challenge addict! I love all the various color, sketch, and technique challenges, as well as special challenges friends and fellow cardmakers post on their blogs. My card today is for the sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers and Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday challenge. Cindy's teapot is all white except for the brown handle. You can check it out on her blog at mothermark.blogspot.com.
I needed to make a masculine birthday card for my nephew, and I have to tell you that masculine cards are always my toughest challenge. The brown and white combo in the teapot seemed to lend themselves well to the masculine card I have to show you today. I just love this Cute and Curly stamp set that you can buy as a bundle with Stampin Up's curly label punch. The punched label is raised on dimensionals, and I outlined the curly shape with Close to Cocoa to create a faux matted look against the white distressed stripes embossed panel underneath.
I'm so glad you could stop by today, and, as always, I appreciate your comments!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Challenge Addict
Posted by Charlene Merrick (LilLuvsStampin) at 1:26 PM
Labels: Teapot Tuesday
8 comments:
- Stamp Talk with Tosh said...
This is gorgeous Charlene!! I love the texture of your white panel, and the brown/white combo is so pretty. Love this warm card!
- May 13, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- Cindy Haffner said...
Beautiful Charlene, I love your colors, and all the texture, super cool. Hugs Cindy
- May 13, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Betty Wright aka gbedwright said...
Terrific, Charlene!!! Love the colors and textures. Fantastic manly card!!! I am sure your nephew will love it!!!
- May 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
- Joanne (jojot) said...
this really is fabulous.....a great nautical and masculine card...you do fabulous masculine cards
- May 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM
- StampOwl said...
oh this is fantastic Charlene
- May 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM
- Denise (peanutbee) said...
Love love LOVE the brown and white combo. Pretty!
- May 13, 2009 at 7:13 PM
- Julia Aston said...
what a great masculine card Charlene! I love the sailboat and soft browns!
- May 14, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- Michell said...
Colors are amazing...
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As many know, Baillie's Picture Framing has sold the building on Crescent Street in Grand Bend and retirement was in the works for Glen and staff. However, many customers lamented the closing of the shop, so after much thought, Glen decided to open up a lighter version of our present operation. This new adventure leads us to beautiful River Road in Grand Bend. We have secured a lovely spot at 63 River Road, right on the river at Grand Bend, beside Purdy's Fish and Chips. This scenic spot is where will be taking orders for custom framing and custom printing. Same great service and quality, new location!
The new location should be set up sometime in April, and we hope you can attend our grand opening on May 3rd-5th. In the meantime, we are still clearing out inventory at our 22 81-Crescent St location. Framed artwork and photography are all on sale at a fraction of their original prices! There is still lots to choose from, so be sure to drop in Wednesdays to Saturdays to see what is available. We also have plenty of ready made frames in a variety of sizes, ready for your artwork and photos.


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Fairhaven Man Arrested in New Bedford on Fourth OUI Charge
NEW BEDFORD — A Fairhaven man with three drunk driving convictions was arrested again for operating under the influence.
Sunday morning at about 2:40 a.m., New Bedford Police observed a vehicle traveling south in a north-only section of Acushnet Avenue, in the area of Sawyer Street to Coggeshall Street. The vehicle then continued onto Route 18 near the 195 exit, before stopping for police.
Further investigation by police indicated that the driver, 61-year-old James D. Sikora of 22 Camel Street in Fairhaven, was under the influence of liquor. Sikora was arrested and charged with OUI liquor (fourth offense); operating with a suspended license; and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
Sikora was previously convicted of OUI liquor in 1990, 1991 and 2001, and his license was suspended.
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Gilead sued, accused of withholding a safer HIV treatment drug from the public, and is New Zealand Pride in danger after its police ban?
Tori Cooper, an activist from Atlanta working on behalf of transgender people and people living with HIV, is speaking at the GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles
Whether you have HIV or not, you should know the 5 biggest reasons to stick to daily treatment through medication. Some of the reasons will surprise you!
Nigeria's anti-gay laws, combined with institutional homophobia and misconceptions about HIV are keeping men from getting the help they need.
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Six years ago I was approached by a property owner in Los Altos, CA who had two large Lebanese cedar trees, one of which was not doing well. He had been advised by another tree expert to remove the sick cedar. This cedar has some sort of bleeding stem infection at the base and a fairly thin canopy. Rather than removing it, the owner called me to assess the problem. I told him frankly that I had no experience treating Lebanese cedars, but that it may be worth a trying the fire mimicry treatments I had been using to improve the health of oaks and other trees. He decided to proceed with the treatments. I applied a mineral poultice to the base of the sick cedar and amended the soils with an alkaline-rich blend of minerals and compost tea to both the sick cedar and the adjacent healthier cedar. I have repeated these treatments three times in the past 6 years. In just a few years there was noticeable improvement in the cedars. On Wednesday I checked on these trees again and found that both have continued to improve. Before-and-after photos of the two cedars are shown above and below.
There are many sick trees that some tree experts say there is no recourse other than to remove them. While this may be the only option is some cases, I'm now convinced that it is often not necessary to remove a sick tree. There are any number of techniques for saving trees that conventional tree experts are not using, such as soil fertilization, removal of mosses and lichens, poultice application to the trunks, and surgical removal of infections, and cauterization of wounds. Together, these techniques can make the difference between removing a tree and saving a tree!


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Apparently it was motherhood that permitted Sonia Kruger to make controversial comments on morning television yesterday.
The Today Extra host spoke about terrorism and immigration on The Today Show, calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the country.
"Personally, I would like to see (Muslim migration) stop now for Australia," she said.
"I want to feel safe, as all of our citizens do when they go out to celebrate Australia Day, and I'd like to see freedom of speech."
Her comments caused widespread debate online, with many criticising Sonia for her extreme stance.
However, instead of offering the response some were expecting (i.e. "Sorry to have offended so many..."), Sonia jumped on Twitter and defended her comments, as well as making a statement on Today Extra this morning.
"Following the atrocities of last week in Nice, where 10 children lost their lives, as a mother, I believe it's vital in a democratic society to be able to discuss these issues without automatically being labelled a racist," she wrote.
July 18, 2016
Is motherhood really a justification for her controversial outburst?
Social media certainly wasn't buying Sonia's use of motherhood as a defence, quickly jumping on board the "AsAMother" Twitter hashtag to have a dig at the TV personality.
Can we get an official list of what #asamother qualifies you for? It would be a big help.— Charlie Pickering (@charliepick) July 18, 2016
#asamother I need to teach my child about inclusion and acceptance.— Veronica Morgan (@veronicakmorgan) July 18, 2016
I welcome Muslim people into my community. I think diversity is good. I'm no intellectual but I am a mother #asamother— Hic (@hil_clix_pix) July 18, 2016
#asamother probably best not to use children as an excuse for ignorance or intolerance of adults— Sarah Hanson-Young (@sarahinthesen8) July 18, 2016
It's the middle of winter here and it's a perfect 24 degree day. This is not right, and this scares me #asamother— Leanne Donnelly (@Leanne_Donn) July 18, 2016
#Asamother I want a ban on Mothers who start sentences with: #Asamother oh and assuming an entire community are potential terrorists.— Em Rusciano (@EmRusciano) July 18, 2016
I know Australian racism is *mainly* caused by painkillers and motherhood, but surely vegemite must play a part as well? #asamother— Pauline Pantsdown (@PPantsdown) July 18, 2016
You think that our hearts do not feel sorrow? That we don't fear terrorism? That we don't grieve? #asamother https://t.co/uq58GNL68d— lydia_shelly (@lydia_shelly) July 18, 2016
#AsAMother I want my kids raised in a world based on facts and understanding rather then bigoted fear.— AmeliaDrawsThings (@Amelia_Draws) July 18, 2016
On Today Extra this morning, Sonia made another statement about her comments yesterday:
"I saw the image of a baby covered in a plastic sheet with a doll lying beside her and it rocked me to the very core," Sonia said of the recent attacks in Nice.
"I imagined what that must have been like for the people of Nice, for the friends and families of the lost and the thought that it could happen here terrifies me. This type of attack affects people from all walks of life and I want to make it very clear that I have complete respect for people of all races, and religions.
"I acknowledge my views yesterday may have been extreme. The reaction overnight in the papers, online and via social media demonstrates that there are a myriad of opinions in Australia which I actually appreciate. It is a hugely complex and sensitive issue. It's an issue with no simple answer. And it's an issue that cannot be fully discussed in a short televised segment.
"Is there a solution? I don't know. We elect politicians to make those calls. They analyse and then they decide and we hope they get it right."


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A Year in Reading: Max Porter
A combination of factors (leaving my editorial job, a new book out, traveling a lot, being sent a great many books, small children, existential crises, moral panics, a cold office, bad knees, a guilt complex) means the structure of my reading life has crumbled. I'm all over the place. Undisciplined. Books everywhere. Books about ecological disaster sitting next to old copies of Asterix. Mad panic that I might not have time to read Pantagruel again so I'm hiding in the toilet reading Pantagruel while I should be getting my kids ready for school. It feels strange to read books. But we are reliably informed that it always did.
Most of my reading these days is about animism, paganism, druidism, and trees. Treeism? Some of this is research, but mostly it's philosophical escapism. I'm searching for something. My second novel got a review from a right wing paper that said 'Porter goes full hippy" and I took it as permission to do just that. If not now, then when?
For a book I want to write, I've been researching medieval life, art, and medicine. Highlights include Towards a Global Middle Ages by Bryan C. Keene (especially Eyob Derillo's amazing work on Ethiopian amulet scrolls), Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell, and the British Library catalogue Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War.
I would have been lost this year (as any other) without poetry to cling to and travel with. If I had to choose a single book of the year it would be Jay Bernard's Surge. It is an extraordinary artistic and political achievement and one of the most important British books of the last decade.
Other highlights have been Rachael Allen's Kingdomland, Rebecca Tamás's Witch, Fiona Benson's Vertigo & Ghost, Jenny George's The Dream of Reason, and Anthony Anaxagorou's After the Formalities.
There is also a shockingly fresh, invigorating, boasty-bright new translation of the Welsh epic Taliesin, by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams. It bubbles, swoons, and swaggers as if Alice Oswald wrote it yesterday. I've kept it by my bed in the hope I dream of "Nettle flowers from the ninth wave's water…conjured by Math."
I have spent a lot of time rereading Julia Blackburn's Time Song, Richard Holloway's On Forgiveness, and Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye. These books have given me clarity and inspiration this year. I also reread Riddley Walker for discussion with the great Backlisted Podcast, and holy shit it's still the absolute best.
I read some classics including Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother, which cut through everything else around it like a very sharp knife. What a powerful book. This was also the year I first read Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass, After London by Richard Jeffries, The Golden Legend by Jacobus De Voragine, Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, and Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls.
The work in translation I'm most grateful to have discovered this year is the Tilted Axis series of pamphlets Translating Feminisms. Extraordinary Nepali, Vietnamese, Korean, and Tamil poetry, with introductory essays by the translators that make visible and examine the political machinations of translation. Radical, stylish, important, and invigorating publishing.
Three really, really good new American novels from my old pals at Granta Books knocked my socks off: Jenny Offill's Weather, Jesse Ball's The Divers' Game, and Ben Lerner's Topeka School. The disconnect between these visionary, elegant, sophisticated literary endeavors and the burger-vomit death-cabaret is…well I don't know what it is. It's simultaneously wildly bizarre and heartbreakingly mundane.
In British nonfiction I'm grateful to Nathan Filer's This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health (formerly titled The Heartland), because it did. Johny Pitts's Afropean and Mariam Khan's It's Not About the Burqua both do a lot to expand, revise, and interrogate the ideas we have of one another in the U.K., and counter some of the entrenched bigotry and pernicious ignorance that shapes so much of the discourse on our small racist island.
Samantha Harvey's forthcoming book on insomnia is incredibly good. As is Mark O'Connell's forthcoming book on the end of the world.
The graphic novel I am most excited about is Anders Nilsen's visionary work-in-progress Tongues. I read the first three parts this year and I eagerly await the next. It's just…staggering. Utterly fucking insane. So beautiful and so strange. He is a genius.
Lastly, John Burningham died this year. I grew up with his books. They've been a constant presence in my children's lives. They've been in our dreams and in our language. His clouds, his animals, his strange domestic spaces, his weird anguished faces and bruised mottled landscapes. I love his books very, very much.
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A Year in Reading: Donald Quist
I started 2018 homeless. I don't want that to sound more dramatic than it is. I had shelter—cycling between futons, backseats, guest beds, and floors—thanks to the kindness of friends and family. I also had work, eking by without health insurance as a college adjunct, getting paid $1,800 per course for the entire semester. Things are better now. I'm ending the year with my own space, less scarcity, and more books read. Over the last 12 months, I struggled to parse my obligations to writing when it so often felt ill-suited to help myself or anyone else. In the times when I'm stunned by financial challenges or tragedies both foreign and domestic, there is a moment of doubt; a fear that, at this point in my life, at this moment in our collective history, participating in literary discourse is pointless, even irresponsible.
I wrestle with the practicality of addressing disparities with stories. In 2018, I had reason to ask, What does art, what does writing, do? And what does one owe their craft? And how might pursuing a life of art fulfill, or complicate, what one owes others?
These questions led me through some of my favorite books this year. Accepting that art does not exist outside of context, independent of rhetorical situations, the narratives that affected me the most this year are the ones I could most easily tie to the framework of my own experience. The 12 books below helped me read myself in the midst of confusion. These texts provided answers to some of my doubt; they helped me. I selected quotes emblematic of each narrative and its role in my life this year. When I collected these passages together, I noticed a unifying theme joining them in conversation with one another. I hope to contribute to that conversation. In writing, I hope my voice carries to someone who might need it.
We Are Proud to Present A Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, between the Years 1884 – 1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Bloomsbury)
"…And tell us your version / of everything when it isn't even about you."
(Scene: "Process")
The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir by Anand Prahlad (University of Alaska Press)
"People don't know it, but they are forests and cities of sounds. Of colors and scents. And each forest and each city has its own patterns. […] These patterns are my time, like your time is clocks, hours, and minutes. Seconds and years, and decades and months. My time is the pattern the patterns make."
Pacha by Nick Hilbourn (Kattywompus Press)
"Like most people,
I've fallen down before a mirror
to worship the absence of things, to pray
to the images in my mind. Meaning, being the fragile compass,
I imagine lives somewhere else, in a well that seduces
with the promise of a rope and provides just enough water to survive."
(from "The Holy Maggots")
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (New Directions)
"And a world is not art."
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbe (New York Review Comics)
"At the moment I am a shadow. I come in the name of pain, to sharpen my song, the tongue that bleeds."
Humanity by Ai Weiwei, edited by Larry Warsh (Princeton University Press)
"The West does not want to accept its responsibility. There are going to be millions of Africans fleeing war. The population is growing, it's going to double, there will be more famine, more wars, and more refugees. This is not just about Syria. Are Western leaders hoping that the problem will just resolve itself?"
The Linden Tree by Cesar Aira, translated by Chris Andrews (New Directions)
"…turn back to the past. Not as nostalgia or history, but in a constructive, optimistic, spirit."
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed (Scribner)
"It occurred to me that I was borrowing from these systems: Religion, Philosophy, Music, Science, and Painting, and building 1 of my own composed of their elements. […] I had patched something together out of my procedure and the way I taught myself became my style, my art, my process."
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
"I lock your persona in a dream-inducing sleeper hold
While your better selves watch from the bleachers."
Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, edited and translated by Rosa Alcala (Ugly Duckling Press)
"One day I suggested to my desk mate that we change the world. 'How?' he asked. By talking, I told him. 'But how can a conversation change the world?'" (from "The Conversationalists")
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Riverhead)
"It's just, I'm stuck. I can see the story perfectly, but sometimes it's hard to move forward."
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire, translated by Theo Cuffe (Penguin)
"'All this is indispensable' […] While he was reasoning thus, the sky darkened, the winds blew from the four corners of the earth, and their ship was assailed by the most terrible storm…"
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A Year in Reading: Ling Ma
So I will now remember 2018 as the year I read Mrs Caliban for the first time. A 1982 novel by Rachel Ingalls, the premise reads like a fairy tale: a housewife stows away an escaped sea monster in her house. His name is Aquarius but being unable to pronounce this, he just goes by Larry. Upon their unexpected meeting, she observes, "Of course he had suffered, not being like other people." For a brief, magical spell, Larry lives in Dorothy's home undetected. She feeds him avocados and cucumbers. In the evenings, while her husband works late or pursues his affairs, they visit gardens and beaches, which remind Larry of his oceanic home. For a time, Dorothy is happy: "For so many years, there had been nothing. She had taken jobs to keep herself busy, but that was all they were. She had had no interests, no marriage to speak of, no children. Now, at last, she had something."
Like Ingalls's other novels, Mrs Caliban possesses an innate understanding of all the ways that women are trapped, and how they must numb themselves to this. But that's only one part of it. It's also about what happens when fantasy tears through the screen fabric of the everyday to wake us up, and how this painful process of waking up may also kill us. Which is to say that this novel slayed me dead (I'm transmitting from the afterlife, hi!). If the natural law of fantasy is that it's meant to serve as beacon or mirage, it also follows that fantasies are not meant to be inhabited. Once you attempt to inhabit such a thing, to make it a hospitable space in which to anchor your life, it will begin to disintegrate. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the arrangement between Dorothy and Larry cannot hold, is temporary at best. Yet, despite its brutal, mercenary qualities, the novel also holds such sweetness and humor, and such a strange, fervent joy at being alive. Larry, on living in the ocean: "When you move, the place you live in moves too."
Having read most of Mrs Caliban on a four-hour flight, this is also maybe a moment to apologize to my seatmate (sorry, Cale!), who politely pretended not to notice my intermittent weeping, particularly when I came to the beautiful, impossible ending. There is a phrase that Ingalls repeats irregularly throughout the final passages; like a ringing of a bell, each strike compounds the one that came before. At first, this phrase seems like a factual statement, but in its repeated iterations, it casts doubt, it points to a never-ending ache, it collapses everything that came before. Every time it is invoked, it reverberates just a bit deeper until it's finally unbearable. It's just perfect.
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Consider the Love of Monsters
After finishing Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban, which originally appeared in 1982 and was re-issued this past November by New Directions, you may wonder how the marvelous secret of this novel was kept from you for so long. At 111 pages, shorn of extensive subplots, and paced for an evening's read, Mrs. Caliban tells the droll story of love between an amphibious monster named Larry and a depressed housewife named Dorothy. It inspects what the love of a monster might mean when it doesn't involve kidnapping, as it usually does in stories of uncanny "romance." These tales are often anxious about a woman's sexual allure, or feature a stiff measure of racist dread—think of King Kong or The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Think also of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where Frankenstein's "monster of my creation" establishes the universal rule that any abominable creature of tremendous bad fortune must be in want of a wife. Larry and Dorothy's tryst, by contrast, eschews possession and is almost anxiety-free.
And, after 35 years of near-obscurity, Mrs. Caliban's time has come. Pop culture at large has caught up with Ingalls. Guillermo del Toro's latest fable, The Shape of Water, appeared in theaters last December. Both film and novel chronicle the trials of an aquatic monster subjected to study in a government laboratory. In Del Toro's film, a mute woman comes to the amphibious man's aid, and what follows has the cadence of a wish fulfillment. In Ingalls's novel, on a high wire above B-movie horror and second-wave feminism, "Aquarius the Monsterman" escapes his captors and walks through the kitchen door of Dorothy's house. There's little wishing, really. Dorothy is in the midst of improvising dinner for her husband, Fred, who has refused to say what he wanted to eat. Larry, with his incongruous frog's head, stares her down and growls.
Dorothy has already heard about the "Monsterman" on the radio. Ingalls suggests she has been having aural hallucinations, hearing ads aimed just at her. One announces, "Don't worry, Dorothy, you'll have another baby all right." She and Fred lost one child to a "drug sensitivity" during an appendectomy, and a second child was stillborn. Frozen out by her philandering husband, who no longer kisses her goodbye and seems less brutal than adrift, Dorothy lives in a world "too unhappy" for divorce. Or so she tells her friend Estelle. When she had been considering separation, Ingalls writes, "there were times when Dorothy would lean her head against the wall and seem to herself to be no longer living because no longer a part of any world in which love was possible." This predicament—dead in a world of impossible love—resembles, in fact, the dilemma of Frankenstein's monster. Living in a world that will never love him, he demands a companion from his creator. That's what being a monster is sometimes: abandoned with the injuries of a painful isolation.
But Dorothy's pain is different. She lives in a house she later implies is a "prison." Though initially flummoxed by "shock and terror" at the appearance of Larry, she reaches—it may be a mistake, Ingalls doesn't say—for a stalk of celery rather than a nearby knife. Brandishing it, she watches while Larry takes the gesture as an offer of food. She may have meant it that way. A world too unhappy for separation might not have the strongest borders to keep others out. When Larry eats the celery, he thanks Dorothy and asks for help. "They will kill me," he says. "I have suffered so much already." Dorothy thinks, "You need help and so do I." That Larry killed his captors and fled is a fact neither forgotten nor brooded over in Mrs. Caliban. Dorothy considers Larry's polite manners to be "scars" of the torture that made him behave while held in the lab, where he was tested and sexually assaulted. In her lonely mind, it's no stretch to regard civility as self-defense.
Larry is Fred's superior from the outset. For one thing, Larry actually tells Dorothy what he would like to eat. The irony of Dorothy's imprisoning marriage is that Fred treats her as if she were his warden and him the prisoner. So, when Larry makes a specific request, Dorothy happily prepares vegetables. He also proves to have a strong affection for avocadoes, which Dorothy acquires for him by the bagful. After his first meal, Dorothy stashes Larry in the guest room where Fred never goes, full as it is of things that once belonged to their dead son. Larry fits right where the breaches are.
The next morning, because Larry is "so different," Dorothy doesn't mind him seeing her in her bathrobe, an item of clothing Larry loves. He thinks it's a "garment of celebration." Yet Dorothy misunderstands when he expresses the desire to help her clean the house. Freed from the lab, he enjoys the idea of being able to do whatever he wants and helping her clean is like permission. When they end up back in the guest room, Larry starts to take off Dorothy's robe and nightgown, too. It's a strange scene, and Ingalls only just dispels its creepiness, which feels appropriate for alien intercourse. Though Dorothy says she's frightened and Larry asks what she wants, she wonders what it even means to feel "embarrassment" in the situation of sex with a six-foot-seven-inch aquatic monster-man. The upshot is: no shame. They spend the rest of the day having sex all over the house.
One of Ingalls's key moves is simply to imagine casual sex with a monster-man. It doesn't represent a journey beyond Dorothy's inhibitions. When Larry asks her if they're having too much sex, she answers:
It's just the right amount for me. It's perfect. People here are all different about it: some people like a lot, some only like a little, some change according to who they're with or what age they are or whether they're in a good mood, or even if the weather changes.
Ingalls doesn't stop there, either. She spends the rest of the novel thinking over the boundaries of Dorothy's desire.
Unlike Frankenstein's monster, Larry never understands a woman's company as the cure for pain. But, of course, his situation is entirely different. He has a species, something Frankenstein's monster can only, tragically, fantasize about. Larry's exile is his alone, and there's a limit to how much he can share it. Dorothy never expects him to anyway. Though she believes the two of them are "so alike I'm not sure if we should really be called separate species," she wants to help Larry return to his home in the Gulf of Mexico. If their romance is indeed a figment of Dorothy's imagination (the novel leaves open the possibility), then what she fantasizes is not torrid and tragic but gracious and warm. The fantasy is not the fish-human hybrid, but the idea that your ideal sex partner would simply open the door and walk into your house.
Larry may not see it this way, though. After Estelle tells Dorothy that desire is all about wanting things you don't need—an excess or indulgence—Larry claims the opposite:
When we [fish-men] want something, it's true. We don't want something we can't have and not like the thing we get instead. The thing you want is the thing you have, isn't it?
Dorothy argues with him. What we have depends on the prison we're in, especially, she thinks, for women and monsters. To Dorothy, what Larry describes sounds surprisingly like male prerogative among humans, except that it dismisses the fantasy of wanting what you don't have. Larry even explains that fish-women among his people are "jealous" and "wanting" in a way that fish-men, in their aloofness, are not. That's just the way it is, he says. When he claims that only humans are all "different" from each other, Dorothy insists that,
if that were really true, men would be more different from other men than women from other women, because men's jobs are very varied, while most women do the same things. But it isn't true—women differ from each other just as much as men do. Do you think we could trust some other people to help us… if they were other housewives like me?
Human beings may not be so reliably different as Larry supposes, and those differences don't guarantee any particular virtue. Perhaps fish-people are not all the same, either. Dorothy suspects that Larry hasn't seen beyond the neat divisions of the mating habits he describes. Anyone can avail themselves of such easy thinking, and even a monster can have questionable opinions. Despite the love between them, Dorothy doesn't regard Larry as a saint, god, or savior.
A good novel can't be spoiled. Only a plot can. But readers should experience the perfect melodrama of Mrs. Caliban for themselves. I won't give away its juicy conflicts. Taking its title from the half-fish monster of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ingalls's novel calls to mind another Shakespearean coinage, the "marriage of true minds" that alters not when it "alteration finds." Larry and Dorothy are undeniably in love. Where other monsters bring destruction, Larry arrives in a life already destroyed. Where other human beings might see something grotesque, Dorothy sees herself: lovable, compassionate, and, take note, dangerous.
A Year in Reading: Gabe Habash
Due to unremarkable, inevitable, and momentous circumstances, I didn't read as much this year as I would've liked. Many distractions were bad, but some were good. My wife published her first novel. Twin Peaks, the best television show of all time, came back and somehow got even better. I played a lot of Zelda and Super Nintendo. But, like every other year, the books I loved were great company. Here are some I'll remember from 2017.
Daniil Kharms's Today I Wrote Nothing is one of the funniest, most surprising, and consistently enjoyable books I've ever read. It's glitch fiction, composed of short notebook entries ("Today I wrote nothing. Doesn't matter. January 9"), poems, and stories that read like anti-parables. Written during life under Joseph Stalin, these pieces go by very quickly—they briefly spasm in a few directions, give you an unexpected punchline or no punchline at all, and then terminate (many conclude with just the word enough).
In one story, a man waits for another man, gradually growing angry. When the other man finally shows up carrying food from the store they argue about time, until one wallops the other over the head with "the biggest cucumber from his satchel," killing him. The final line of this story (which is only a few hundred words) is: "What big cucumbers they sell in stores nowadays!" Another story ends with Kharms confessing he actually can't write anymore: "Wow! I'd write some more but the inkwell's gone missing somewhere."
Recalling writers like Richard Brautigan, Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, Joy Williams, and Samuel Beckett, this is delightfully error-ridden writing that squirms and wriggles against the expected and logical, creating its own nonsensical logic in the process. A few of my friends have now read most of this book, just because I kept sending them pieces.
Morgan Parker wrote my favorite book of poetry that I read this year: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. Like Kharms, Parker is funny and surprising, but she writes with such fearlessness that it's impossible not to follow her. Deploying astonishing line after astonishing line, the book offers questions ("Is a mother still a self," "What does money cost"), subversions ("With champagne I try expired white ones/ I mean pills I mean men"), and wonderful writing ("Right now six people are in outer space,/ and you are growing smaller in my mind."). This book is a brilliant riot of consciousness: "So what if I have more regrets/ Than birthdays I am old/ For my age, I am made of water/ Why do you get up in the morning."
The Vanished by journalist Léna Mauger and photographer Stéphane Remael is an extraordinary investigation of the johatsu, the group of 100,000 Japanese who vanish without a trace every year.
Though many disappear because of shame, debt, and the societal pressure for success (one student disappears when he's faced with taking his exams), the book includes a range of voices, places, and stories, including: the companies that help those who wish to vanish to move in the middle of the night; Tojinbo cliffs, a popular suicide site, and the man who devotes his life to dissuading those considering suicide there; Sanya and Kamagasaki, neighborhoods in Tokyo and Osaka, respectively, that have been wiped off maps but are inhabited by people hoping to disappear, including day-laborers living in tiny rooms; and otakus, from the Japanese word meaning "home," referring to people who waste away and lose themselves in monomaniacal passions like doll and fanzine collecting or video games. Complete with amazing photographs, this is a fascinating and exceptional book.
Hernán Díaz wrote my favorite passage of the year. It occurs toward the end of his debut novel, In the Distance, so I'll avoid specifics, but not since László Krasznahorkai's Satantango have I read such an exhilarating narrative turn.
In the Distance is about a young Swedish immigrant, Håkan Söderström, who is separated from his brother on his way to America. What follows is one of the most compelling deconstructions of a genre convention I've ever read. This is an old-school Western turned on its head—Håkan hates guns and becomes an outlaw legend on accident. But maybe what makes it great is that it's also a memorable immigration story, not to mention a powerful depiction of loneliness, while being stuffed with some of the best landscape writing around ("Nothing interrupted the mineral silence of the desert. In its complete stillness, the world seemed solid, as if made of one single dry block."). And in addition to that narrative turn toward the end, there are countless other great moments: Håkan gets roped into a wacky naturalist's search in dried-out seabeds for a jellyfish-like organism that supposedly created mankind, and during one drug-induced passage, Håkan looks at his own brain.
The end seems to be the best place to start with Elvira Navarro's A Working Woman, which has my favorite ending of the year. Not just because of the twist in the last few pages (which are staggering), but because the novel sneaked up on me. It kept getting better and better and I couldn't really put my finger on why I was enjoying it so much. A Working Woman is set in Madrid, and is about struggling writer Elisa, and her roommate, the more headstrong Susana. Susana finds a sexual partner through a personal ad; Elisa wanders Madrid's ruins and edits a book she dislikes while contending with an unspecified psychiatric condition. Gradually, through their volatile proximity and an art project, the two become enmeshed in each other's madness, resulting in an elusive mindbender that mutates and resists any effort to box it in or categorize it. Somehow, the book reveals itself without yielding its secrets.
Other books I loved that I read this year: Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag; Winter in the Blood by James Welch; Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls; Large Animals by Jess Arndt; Close Range by Annie Proulx; The Correspondence by J.D. Daniels; Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy; I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy; Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra; The Plains by Gerald Murnane; See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt; Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin; What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah; The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson; McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh; Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall; The Bell by Iris Murdoch; Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue; Old Open by Alex Higley; Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsay Hunter; Daddy Issues by Alex McElroy; The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza; and Difficult Women by David Plante.
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Did you see it? Yeah, I saw it was an entry to Ludum Dare 16. The game was a very simple concept on the theme of exploration, following a youth who in an attempt to show off to his friends must search his garden and house for the 'uberbug.'
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I think that iTunes won't spin up a network drive if it's mapped to a windows drive letter. Not sure if Windoze is not recognising the access request or iTunes is timing out.
I do know that Windows likes to disconnect mapped network drive if there is no activity on that drive.
When you use the actual path as the library location (i.e. \servernamesharename) iTunes starts to behave itself.
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We have been in Santa Rosalia for a few days as we work our way south and it has been a busy few days. The boat was dirtier than I think it has ever been but after being away from a hose for 10 weeks it's par for the course. We can see through the dodger windows again, the stainless actually looks like stainless again and the laundry is all done including the once very salty cockpit cushions and pillows and all the blankets we used to save our upholstery from the salt and sweat of a Baja summer. The marina has no money to fill the propane tanks that power the hot water and the dryers so all the wash had to be line dried which left Island Bound looking a bit like a gypsy caravan but not having to do the wash in Home Depot buckets made it a treat instead of a chore.
Once back in civilization and back with access to the internet there was plenty of catch up to do. I had been stacking up blog posts, we had tons of pictures to go through, things that needed to be ordered and business matters to attend to. As fulltime cruisers we do just about all our banking and paperwork via the internet so if you leave the net things pileup. When we arrived in Santa Rosalia Bill began the process of officially retiring from Boeing. Surprise, surprise they need birth certificates, marriage certificates, papers notarized and no they won't take a Mexican notary. San Diego here we come! Yep tomorrow morning we head north by car to California and as is par for the course if you're a Russell once again it is one of those last minute arrangements.
Friends of ours on Sirina have their SUV here in Santa Rosalia and they are leaving for a five month trip with friends through Central America and to the Galapagos. They had hoped to leave their car back home in California but a course of events left them leaving it here in the parking lot at the marina. They generously offered to let us drive it home for them so it works out great for us and them. We get a road trip through country I have never seen by car plus we will be able to complete all the business we need too.
We will drop off their car and rent another then drive three hours and stay a few days with the kids in Santa Barbara. So as I type this Bill is feverously working the net trying to arrange car rental for California, auto insurance (we no longer own a car so we have no auto insurance) boat part shipments, replacement kindle delivery, bus routes back into Mexico, notaries and bank visits. We will spend just a few days but will work in a visit with family, a stop to see friends we met on our way down, a shopping excursion or two and the legal work that needs to be done. The logistics of our return are a little uncertain as we prepare to leave but the plan is to drive a rental to the border, walk across and then bus it back south with maybe an overnight in Ensenada. Always an adventure!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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It's Tuesday, which means that it's time for another HTC Hot Deal.
The HTC Hot Deal for this week includes a no-contract HTC One (M8) for just $299. HTC will only sell 200 units at this price, but the good news is that it'll have another 300 One (M8)s for sale for $499 once the cheaper model sells out. The HTC Hot Deal goes live at 9:00 am PST/12:00 pm EST.
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