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Gérald Ghislain, perfumer of Histoires de Parfum, has created a limited edition edition unisex perfume to support children foundations. While purchasing the perfume online, you can choose which foundation you would like to support with 50$. I am a supporter of this project: it is amazing to help the others throughout one of our biggest passions, perfume. Ghislain has created a unique perfume: an easy perfume that cuddles you. It smells clean, pure, and extremely lovely. The opening is citrusy and fruity, which becomes softer and milky.
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There are many ways to support children, and I have selected 5 particular causes, which in my eyes, will help to fulfill their needs and encourage their development: education, the arts, sports, technology and micro-credit. Each one of these causes on its own promotes and enriches children's growth and development. Together they to create a sense of balance and well-being.
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The notes feature orange, lemon, grapefruit, tangerine, bergamot, mango, pineapple, peach, freesia, lilac, cyclamen, white musk, vanilla, tonka bean and blond woods.


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The Green Mile (1999) (R)
After the huge success of "The Shawshank Redemption", Frank Darabont returned again to prison, to Stephen King, and to a boy's movie. The similarities in setting alone are striking between the two pictures and many would argue that "The Green Mile" is just a recycled version of "Shawshank" but I'll let you in on a little secret: I never liked "The Shawshank Redemption". *Gasp*
Yes, I know it's shocking to not appreciate what could be referred to as the most beloved film ever but it didn't do anything for me and my problems far outweighed any good I found in it. So imagine my surprise when "The Green Mile" turned out to be a spectacularly emotional and whimsical movie that never indulged its three hour-plus running time.
This movie concerns the guards more than the prisoners. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is a man in a nursing home who likes to take long walks, even though he's not allowed to. He only eats stale bread for breakfast and will walk, rain or shine. One day, when the fight for the television gets some channels changing, "Top Hat" comes on and Paul is sent spiraling back to his earlier years as a death-row prison guard. "The Green Mile" serves as one long flashback for Paul and it is one of the better frame narrative pieces of cinema (as compared to things like "Little Big Man".
Paul serves on Block E, nicknamed "the green mile" for the color of the floor. The first scene we witness in Block E is the arrival of a new prisoner. Very efficient and official, the guards work together like clockwork to bring in the new man, checking all the right boxes and making sure everything is in order. This new inmate is named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) and to say that he's a big man would be an understatement. Coffey towards head and shoulders above the rest of the men and he is approximately as broad as two of them. Paul and his cohorts are immediately intimidated by his sheer size, but they soon find out that this is a true gentle giant. He's scared of the dark and has a passion for all things small and cuddly.
For a few weeks, the only person that Paul has to worry about is a fellow guard named Percy (Doug Hutchinson). This boy has a lot of government connections and an attraction for the violent and sadistic. He's often seen making situations worse by spouting his mouth off and doing what he wants and not what's best.
The struggles between Percy and the rest of the guards are only worsened because of an intense bladder infection that Paul has that forces him to be incapacitated easily.
The situation comes to a head when a new inmate nicknamed "Wild Bill" (Sam Rockwell) comes in and does not seem suited for the calming environment that Paul has established.
Tempers flair, emotions rise, and John starts to display some unusual and almost magical properties.
"The Green Mile" reeks of Stephen King's affair with the supernatural and his quest to make a nice piece of drama. It's not scary like the horror King, but is probably the best adaptation of the dramatic King. It far surpasses "Stand By Me" and "The Shawshank Redemption" which are probably the two most lauded pieces of dramatic King's career.
Frank Darapont is seen in top form here, even if his screenplay could have used a little trimming. There is too much happening with Percy for us to care about other characters, minor guards are not given enough time, and soon we notice that all the inmates have disappeared but two. How does that happen unless all the others were already gone?
Tom Hanks is pretty awesome here, but it's Michael Clarke Duncan and Sam Rockwell who really shine in polar opposite roles. Duncan is childish and sweet while Rockwell is vile and twisted. Both are thankless roles and both are quite good.
"The Green Mile" serves as a meditation on life and death at its very core with the themes threaded through the film so often; but it doesn't quite fulfill every aspect of itself and maybe that's because it tries to hard in moments that it doesn't have to.
But all that being said, the movie is powerful and great.
Score: ★★★½
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Jonathan James:
ames gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes, "I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off."
James's major intrusions targeted high-profile organizations. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames and passwords.
James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, "The software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost. James explained that he downloaded the code to supplement his studies on C programming, but contended, "The code itself was crappy . . . certainly not worth $1.7 million like they claimed."
Adrian Lamo:
Lamo's claim to fame is his break-ins at major organizations like The New York Times and Microsoft. Dubbed the "homeless hacker," he used Internet connections at Kinko's, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. In a profile article, "He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night," Lamo reflects, "I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a change of clothes in D.C. It kind of redefines the term multi-jurisdictional."
Lamo's intrusions consisted mainly of penetration testing, in which he found flaws in security, exploited them and then informed companies of their shortcomings. His hits include Yahoo!, Bank of America, Citigroup and Cingular. When white hat hackers are hired by companies to do penetration testing, it's legal. What Lamo did is not.
When he broke into The New York Times' intranet, things got serious. He added himself to a list of experts and viewed personal information on contributors, including Social Security numbers. Lamo also hacked into The Times' LexisNexis account to research high-profile subject matter.
For his intrusion at The New York Times, Lamo was ordered to pay approximately $65,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of probation, which expired January 16, 2007. Lamo is currently working as an award-winning journalist and public speaker.
Kevin Mitnick:
A self-proclaimed "hacker poster boy," Mitnick went through a highly publicized pursuit by authorities. His mischief was hyped by the media but his actual offenses may be less notable than his notoriety suggests. The Department of Justice describes him as "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." His exploits were detailed in two movies: Freedom Downtime and Takedown.
Mitnick had a bit of hacking experience before committing the offenses that made him famous. He started out exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system to get free rides. Then, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, dabbled in phone phreaking. Although there were numerous offenses, Mitnick was ultimately convicted for breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software.
Mitnick's mischief got serious when he went on a two and a half year "coast-to-coast hacking spree." The CNN article, "Legendary computer hacker released from prison," explains that "he hacked into computers, stole corporate secrets, scrambled phone networks and broke into the national defense warning system." He then hacked into computer expert and fellow hacker Tsutomu Shimomura's home computer, which led to his undoing.
Today, Mitnick has been able to move past his role as a black hat hacker and become a productive member of society. He served five years, about 8 months of it in solitary confinement, and is now a computer security consultant, author and speaker.
Kevin Poulsen:
Also known as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained recognition for his hack of LA radio's KIIS-FM phone lines, which earned him a brand new Porsche, among other items. Law enforcement dubbed him "the Hannibal Lecter of computer crime."
Authorities began to pursue Poulsen after he hacked into a federal investigation database. During this pursuit, he further drew the ire of the FBI by hacking into federal computers for wiretap information.
His hacking specialty, however, revolved around telephones. Poulsen's most famous hack, KIIS-FM, was accomplished by taking over all of the station's phone lines. In a related feat, Poulsen also "reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance who then ran a virtual escort agency." Later, when his photo came up on the show Unsolved Mysteries, 1-800 phone lines for the program crashed. Ultimately, Poulsen was captured in a supermarket and served a sentence of five years.
Since serving time, Poulsen has worked as a journalist. He is now a senior editor for Wired News. His most prominent article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles.
Robert Tappan:
Morris: Morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris, is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of this crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.
Morris is currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He principally researches computer network architectures including distributed hash tables such as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.
Vladimir Levin:
Mass media claimed at the time he was a mathematician and had a degree in biochemistry from Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology.According to the coverage, in 1994 Levin accessed the accounts of several large corporate customers of Citibank via their dial-up wire transfer service (Financial Institutions Citibank Cash Manager) and transferred funds to accounts set up by accomplices in Finland, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel.In 2005 an alleged member of the former St. Petersburg hacker group, claiming to be one of the original Citibank penetrators, published under the name ArkanoiD a memorandum on popular Provider.net.ru website dedicated to telecom market. According to him, Levin was not actually a scientist (mathematician, biologist or the like) but a kind of ordinary system administrator who managed to get hands on the ready data about how to penetrate in Citibank machines and then exploit them.ArkanoiD emphasized all the communications were carried over X.25 network and the Internet was not involved. ArkanoiD's group in 1994 found out Citibank systems were unprotected and it spent several weeks examining the structure of the bank's USA-based networks remotely. Members of the group played around with systems' tools (e.g. were installing and running games) and were unnoticed by the bank's staff. Penetrators did not plan to conduct a robbery for their personal safety and stopped their activities at some time. Someone of them later handed over the crucial access data to Levin (reportedly for the stated $100).
David Smith:
David Smith, the author of the Melissa virus, was facing nearly 40 years in jail when he decided to cooperate with the FBI. Facing jail time, public wrath and a fortune in potential fines, the 30-year-old sender of the fast-spreading Melissa computer virus did what hundreds of criminals have done before. He agreed to go undercover. Federal court documents unsealed at the request of the Associated Press show that for almost two years, Smith – then out on bail – worked mostly full time cruising the dark recesses of the Internet while the FBI paid his tab.
What did the FBI get? A windfall of information about malicious code senders, leading directly to two major international arrests and pre-empting other attacks, according to federal prosecutors.
What did Smith get? Just 20 months in federal prison, which was about two years less than the minimum sentencing requirement, and about 38 years less than he faced when initially charged.
Sometimes it takes a thief to catch a thief, said former federal prosecutor Elliot Turrini, who handled Smith's case and agreed to the reduced sentence.
About 63,000 viruses have rolled through the Internet, causing an estimated $65 billion in damage, but Smith is the only person to go to federal prison in the United States for sending one.
Michael Calce:
The computer hacker known as "Mafiaboy," who crippled several major Internet sites including CNN, arrives in court Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001 in Montreal, Canada. He pleaded guilty on Thursday to 55 charges of mischief. The trial of the 16-year-old Montrealer, who can not be identified under Canadian law, was set to begin Thursday on 66 charges relating to attacks last year on several major Web sites, as well as security breaches of other sites at institutions such as Yale and Harvard.
Mark Abene:
Mark Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In 1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems.
Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, in debates and on television. Phiber Optik is an important figure in the 1995 non-fiction book Masters of Deception — The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace.
Stephen Wozniak:
"Woz" is famous for being the "other Steve" of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. He has been awarded with the National Medal of Technology as well as honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Woz was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.
Woz got his start in hacking making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger.
Wozniak dropped out of college and came up with the computer that eventually made him famous. Jobs had the bright idea to sell the computer as a fully assembled PC board. The Steves sold Wozniak's cherished scientific calculator and Jobs' VW van for capital and got to work assembling prototypes in Jobs' garage. Wozniak designed the hardware and most of the software. In the Letters section of http://woz.org/
Knowledge, Technology and Money..... Everything at your finger tip! Won't that be a great Idea? Beware everything mentioned in this blog is only for educational and knowledge purpose.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Hackers the true Heros
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dude...the info is astounding...great work :)
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Thoughts on working remotely
When working on a mobile platform, as many people are these days, a lot of the standard practices and conventions you might be used to using are sub-optimal. High latency connections, moving between hotspots (and IP addresses), and intermittent connectivity can wreck havoc with many people's normal approaches to working, particularly in technological fields.
I frequently travel, and oftentimes find my only internet connection to be my cell phone. Yes, I can tether, but this does nothing to solve the speed and latency problems, it just lets me do my work on my laptop. But I find that if you approach mobile carefully, you will not suffer any productivity hits. Here's my approach to it, hopefully it will be beneficial to you.
The problem with latency
There is a big push these days to have everything stored in the cloud. Everything seems to have an online, "*cloud*" based variant. IDEs, compilers, etc. Many developers scorn these applications, as they don't see them as reliable. These developers are right. However, many developers also seem blind to the fact that their own approaches to coding and developing are often subject to the same limitations.
One developer I knew did everything remotely. He had a beefy server collocated somewhere, and always logged into it using SSH. He would do his editing in vim, and stored almost nothing on his local computer. On a decent internet connection, this was not a problem. But he ran into a morass of latency when he tried to do any work on suboptimal internet connections.
When you do your work on a remote server, if you use SSH to interact with the server, you will have input lag. On fast connections, the lag is almost invisible; characters and input is reflected back to the client almost instantly. However, on a slow connection, it can take surprisingly long amounts of time for any input to appear on the client. I refer to this as input lag, for lack of a better name. Input lag completely halts your productivity. While you may be an accurate typist, sometimes characters get sent before other characters. This can lead to lines that read
ls --laa or are mangled in similar ways. While for short commands it isn't bad, for long commands, you would have to correct it, or retype the entire command. Moving your cursor, presumably using the arrow keys, requires input as well, and you'll often overshoot or undershoot your target. The end result is maddening.
Working client side
The solution to a good number of your problems is a simple one: work locally. Either copy the file to your local machine and work on it there (or use an editor that provides this functionality), or use some form of version control (this is the better idea).
You can use whatever editor you want locally, even vim, you just have to install it on your machine. If you switch between many machines, you can even sync your configs between them (this is beyond the scope of this article, but you might want to use git or rsync). I particularly like using SublimeText. To manage getting the files to your machine, assuming you aren't using something like git, you can take a number of approaches. A lot of FTP/SFTP/SCP clients will allow you to "edit" a file, in effect copying it to a local directory, opening it in the default editor, and watching the file for changes. I know that both WinSCP and Transmit support this.
Some editors, such as SublimeText 2, have plugins (FTP for ST2, $16 but worth it for convenience) that can do all this from in-editor. If you use a bulky IDE, it will probably have something similar. Some quick Googling should turn something up.
What to do when you absolutely have to connect to a server
Your app server just went down. You need to update because of a CVE. Whatever the reason, you may have to log into your server at any point. On a bad connection, you run right into the input lag problems, which can slow you down when you're doing mission critical applications, such as recovering from downtime.
Times like this, it pays to think ahead.
One of the tools I always install on remote servers is MoSH, the mobile shell. MoSH is basically SSH, but has provisions for dealing with slow connections. MoSH is over UDP, instead of TCP, so its a bit more resilient. Basically, MoSH opens an SSH connection, starts a server on the remote machine, connects to it, then closes the SSH connection. MoSH is encrypted, although the encryption remains untested. The benefits of using MoSH on a slow connection are almost immediately tangible. MoSH has local buffers and predictive echoing, so you don't get horrible input lag. It's probably one of my favorite tools


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Art Wynwood will feature paintings, photography, sculpture, art video and new media, conceptual art and urban street art by 500 artists from 13 countries. With representation from 100 cities from around the world, including 50 across the U.S., Art Wynwood will further distinguish the Wynwood Arts District as a leading cultural destination for acquiring contemporary art.
Capturing the essence of what the Wynwood Arts District and the Miami art scene have to offer, Wynwood pioneer Tony Goldman will exhibit what he describes as "the flying murals of Wynwood" in the fair's VIP Lounge. Under his guidance, six 8' x 24' murals by international artists, including a Retna work from the Janet and Tony Goldman Collection, an existing piece from How & Nosm, as well as new murals from DAZE, Aiko and Futura, are installed
Goldman has also commissioned a special exhibit by Ron English, who is one of the most prolific and recognizable artists of the day. English's Camo Deer series of four seasons-inspired murals and sculptures will be installed in six separate vignettes throughout the fair, adding his signature style to Art Wynwood's landscape.
Art Wynwood is showcasing a specially curated sculpture exhibit spanning several mediums. Displayed throughout the Pavilion, the exhibition will feature Anne Lindberg's Untitled, Cloud Series (2012) made of metal, wood, acrylic paint and graphite; Ramirez Villamizar's rusted steel Manto Emplumado No. 2 (1988), Abel Barroso's mixed media installation Double Identity, Adela Andea's Space Strings (2012) made of various plastics and neon power sources, as well as Carol Prusa's Whirl (2010) made of silver, graphite, titanium and acrylic.
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Everybody Wants Some!!HD
IMDb: 7.2
1h 57min
A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Blake Jenner, Juston Street, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, Glen Powell, Temple Baker, J. Quinton Johnson, Will Brittain, Courtney Tailor, Taylor Murphy, Christina Burdette, Zoey Deutch, Sophia Taylor Ali, Austin Amelio
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A multi-racial family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia and one biological child, find their bonds tested when ...
Actor: Tim Robbins, Holly Hunter, Daniel Zovatto, Jerrika Hinton, Raymond Lee, Sosie Bacon, Avynn Crowder-Jones, Joe Williamson, Marwan Salama, Necar Zadegan, Andy Bean, Niousha Noor, Madeline Bertani, Tanner Stine, Fernanda Andrade, Anthony Azizi, Lizze Broadway, Christina Burdette
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Genre: Comedy
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Your Baby, Week 47
Your baby is learning to solve simple problems through trial and error.
Your baby uses problem-solving skills when he asks you to get a toy he can't reach. Your baby is also learning that objects have particular functions by imitating what adults do with them. For instance, instead of banging your hairbrush on the floor, he may try to brush his own hair.
You may notice that your baby's development will temporarily stall in one area, like speech, while it takes off in another, such as learning to walk. When baby puts a lot of energy into a certain skill, others may lag, and that's OK.
Where has my mommy gone?
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*pokes head in*
Wow, hello, anyone that may be reading this! Long time no see! *tips hat*
I can't believe so long has gone by since I last blogged. My last post was totally book centered, since it was an end of year wrap up post. I honestly forgot I had a blog. Woops! Bad blogger. But today I'm back with one of my traditional blogs broken up into sections.
What order did these things go in again?
What I'm Reading
So I just started THE HANDMAID'S TALE since it's such an acclaimed and well-loved novel. I've wanted to read it for some time, so I'm finally doing it. Plus, I've heard from basically everyone with each day we're getting closer and closer to living in that reality. And Hulu's adaptation of it is coming out soon, but I don't actually have a Hulu subscription. Maybe if I love the book I'll have to get one. I read about 50 pages today, and the writing is beautiful, and I like the slow build up of the world building.
But some stuff I have read since I last saw you and loved include:
Firstly, STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor. Ohmygosh!!!! This is my favorite book of all time. It's so goddamn beautiful and painful and phenomenal. It's everything a book should be. And it's so good and I can't talk about it because it's too perfect. just, please everyone read this book! EVERYONE. I've since thrown it at three of my friends, and I'm trying to convince literally anyone I can. It's such a gorgeous important book.
I feel bad cause any book I talk about now just won't get the same level of swooning.
Two YA contemporaries that just came out I really loved were ALEX, APPROXIMATELY and UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED. They're both so wonderful. ALEX, APPROXIMATELY is so much fun and suuuuper swoony, while UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED is like, love in book form? I don't know, they're just amazing and magical. Please, please definitely read them!
An ARC I'm super excited I read was THE SONG OF THE CURRENT. It's basically a watery, piratey book I've been waiting for! I love Caroline, the MC, and the whole rich world building and mythology. Plus, there's a great romance, which is always a plus. And there's really cool parent/child dynamics, which made the novel even more interesting. You've gotta check it out when it comes out in June! It's a great fantasy.
Damn, Goodreads is down so I can't look at what else I've read over the last 4 months. Booooo 😦 I guess I just gotta rely on memory.
Okay, lightning round!
-The Summer Palace, the Captive Prince trilogy epilogue. Holy crap Damen and Laurent are so PURE. They make my heart happy.
-A Conjuring of Light. OH MY GOD. What a satisfying, amazing ending to the Shades of Magic trilogy. I had all the feels. Completely devoured it.
-The Hate U Give. Like the rest of the universe. Amazing voice, characters, world building! Must read for the entire universe.
-A Crown of Wishes. So beautiful! Read. Book. Good. Yes.
-What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy. Graphic memoir about a Japanese artist arrested for feminist pussy art. Morbidly funny and 99999% feminist.
-Done Dirt Cheap. Boundary pushing YA!
What I Will Be Reading Soon! 😉
holy crap my heart is ready and not ready and asdfghjkl
which ship makes it out alive?? what if no ship makes it out alive? But either way more Song sisters!!!
look Emery Lord is ahhhhmazing, and I love summer camp books, and EACH of her books have made me cry. so I'm looking for a 4-peat.
What I'm Doing
Was that even a section? I can't remember.
Besides the usual "omg CLASS and work" answer, I was recently at The Museum at FIT. I adore that place. They always have exciting exhibits, and they're free, so there's really no excuse for not popping over for a visit. I saw their exhibit Black Fashion Designers and Paris Refashioned, which was clothes from the 1950s and 1960s.
Black Fashion Designers [SWOOOOON]
Paris Refashioned 😀
I also saw the live action Beauty and the Beast last month. I loved it soooo much. I even saw it twice on opening day, one with bestie and second with my parents. I can't wait until it comes out on dvd and I can watch it over and over again. I thought they fleshed out the story really well. It made everything feel bigger.
I also saw Anastasia on Broadway. Oh my heart.
Concerts! I saw Twenty-One Pilots in January, and Bastille in March. So good. I just love them. They have such good music. And they put on great shows.
I turned 22 recently! That was weird.
Book events wise, I saw Angie Thomas when she was here on tour for THUG. That was such a great event, one of the best I've been to. It was so insightful, but also equal parts fun and serious. Anyone that has a chance to go listen to see her speak and get their book signed most definitely should
Bookish swag wise, omg I've become obsessed with candles. My favorites so far have been from The Melting Library. The Night Court candle and Fireheart candle just smell soooooo good, and I love the artwork on the jars too. I was lucky enough to order the ACOMAF sampler today, so I'm so excited to finally get the smell the Inner Circle 😀
Oh, I was also selected as a Pitch Wars 2017 YA mentor!!! 🙂 I'm so excited to do all the pitch wars things. ❤
What I'm Thinking About
Ummm… I mean… current events are pretty scary.
Also thinking about ACOWAR. Like, basically all the time I'm like "omg ACOWAR." We're finally under the two week mark, okay. Things are happening!
What I'm Netflixing ha new category going rogue over here
I have been watching PARENTHOOD in my bid to find something similar to Gilmore Girls. I'm on season 3 and it's not like Gilmore Girls lol. I just want another show about two women living their lives in a light hearted and entertaining way.
I do want to watch The Get Down. I just need to clear some time to start it.
Also, I still listen to the song It's the Count from the first episode of A Series of Unfortunate Events constantly. Like, all the time. That song just makes me offensively happy.
What I'm Writing
I recently unstuck myself from the hole I'd written myself into. This project is codenamed #ConcertBook. I'd been feeling really unhappy with where the MS was, and carting around this negative feeling for weeks. I was tired whenever I opened the doc and just didn't want to work on it. So the other day I was fed up and wanted to get to the bottom of the issue.
So the night my determination kicked in, I started thinking about what was giving me problems. It was my characters! So I started combing for writerly articles by authors I admire. I reread Maggie Stiefvater's post about characters and then found Susan Dennard's post about writing 3D characters.
The next morning I went to Starbucks, got some chai, and started thinking. I had a fresh notebook and started jotting down notes about my main character. And I was looking for a reason she wasn't doing something. Then I hit on one. I thought about not doing it for a nanosecond, and then remembered Susan saying not to be afraid to go to those emotional places. It felt right. It felt right and it added the emotional kick the manuscript had been lacking. So I ran with it, and I haven't looked back since. It's been mental. I wrote 13k in 2 days, and I'm in love with my book again. I see its potential.
So don't give up, guys! No matter where you are in the process, if you're struggling with something, you can push through and fix the problem. Your story needs you. Don't give up on it. Do the work. The 'I fixed my book' feeling is actually the best in the universe.
And on that note,
Take care of yourselves and be kind,
I'll try to write soon ;),
Mic ❤


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Love these patterns. Heck, I love all bold flowery prints lately. This Yoga Mat bag was inspired by an Amy Butler pattern.
It is lined with a lovely chocoate satin and has 3 pockets at the bottom that are 6″ wide x 10″ in length. Perfect for keys, wallet or other small things you tend to have on you at any given point that need a home while you are practicing.