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Four years after "Mission Accomplished," 28 Weeks Later reminds us that the mission, whatever the hell it was to begin with, is now officially, apocalyptically fucked. The story thus far: Seven months have gone by since the Rage virus passed from chimp fang to British bloodstream in an animal-rights intervention gone awry, unleashing a horde of the frenetic undead in the direction of Cillian Murphy's cheekbones. England since quarantined, her citizenry gobbled up, the zombie menace has starved to death, and an America-led NATO force now proceeds with the reconstruction. A man named Don (Robert Carlyle) oversees the infrastructure of a heavily fortified "green zone" established for preliminary resettlement. You can guess how that turns out. (The script does not specify whether Don's last name is Rumsfeld.)
Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, whose resumé is limited to the deft if wildly precocious thriller Intacto, bluntly raids the zeitgeist in his sequel to Danny Boyle's new-school zombie smash 28 Days Later. That's forgivable because a) 28 Weeks Later kicks ass; b) etiquette forbids Nancy Pelosi from discussing the occupation in terms of gore-drenched cannibalistic anarchy; and c) topical dissent is as intrinsic to the zombie genre as topical skin problems. From the social breakdown of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) to the undead blowback of Joe Dante's Homecoming (2005), the standard zombie diet has consisted of two delicacies: human flesh -- preferably brains and viscera -- and subtext, traditionally seasoned with sociopolitical flavor. You are what you eat, and if you happen to eat people, there's bound to be some anthropological gristle to chew.
On the one hand, 28 Weeks Later is a fable of the reconstruction; it might have been called Nation Building of the Damned. On the other hand, so what? As an exercise in pop politics, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake cut deeper by replacing the crypto-socialist survival impulse of Romero's original with a total capitulation to cynical, self-serving individualism. That's far more trenchant than Fresnadillo's foreign-policy attack, in part because Snyder, a political dunce (cf. 300), wasn't reflecting on ideology from the outside so much as illustrating it from within. Where 28 Weeks Later is allegorical, Snyder's Dawn was frightfully symptomatic.
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In any case, Fresnadillo's political disgust is less compelling, and ultimately less emphasized, than his detonation of nuclear family values. In 28 Weeks Later, the war abroad implodes the horror at home. A pre-credit sequence establishes a wrenching betrayal that will ripple throughout the coming storm: Cached in a rural farmhouse under zombie assault, Don abandons his wife in a panic of self-preservation. Later, in London, once he's reunited with his daughters Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and Tammy (Imogen Poots), this will come back to bite him -- though not, as might be expected, in the literal sense.
Mum's the word on the source of the invisible zombie infiltration, a neat structural gotcha! that propels an adventure outside the green zone. Mention must be made, though, of the superb escalation of tension as the strategy for zombie containment proves inadequate. From a controlled fury of sniper fire to the indiscriminate slaughter of anything that moves, the next step is a doozy: extermination via citywide firebombing and the deployment of chemical weapons. Zombies are the least of it; the prime terror of 28 Weeks Later is a horror of the protocol.
Fresnadillo has a fine sense of scale, shifting from a God's-eye perspective of mushrooming chaos to subjective, street-level reportage and an uncompromising commitment to unrelenting dread. The sequel trumps its predecessor for sustained doomsday gloom and suggests that this might be the man to adapt Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road. Dark beyond darkness has settled on Fresnadillo's London as it does on McCarthy's unnamed hell, "like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world."
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Christopher, he's Chris Hemworth's brother. That was why it came to mind. I know Peter's age was explicitly mentioned in Sarek, but it's been too long since I read it and I don't have access to my collection at the moment. I could've sworn the book said he was 28 either at the time or when he joined the Academy, but that would've only made him about 2 in "Operation: Annihilate!" so that doesn't make any sense...
Yes, I guessed that even before I looked him up. If you propose someone named Hemsworth to play a relative of George Kirk, it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out why. (And I thought I'd never heard of him, but then I saw he was Gale in The Hunger Games, which I have seen.) It says he was 7 when he lost his parents and is 32 at the time of the book. A bit of a retcon, but I guess O:A never really specified how old Peter was supposed to be. I based my estimate of Peter's age on the actor's age at the time.
...sigh... Sometimes I forget your unrelenting penchant for exactitude. In any event, he was also in The Expendables 2, in a significant but relatively minor role that was originally intended for first film but was cut. Okay, so yeah, 28 when he entered the Academy, then. I knew I remembered that age for a reason. I suppose it could be a simple enough retcon to make the character in Sarek one of Peter's brothers instead, but I think that would rob the story of some of its punch, at least.
Uhm, not me.Seems utterly antithetical to the character, actually. Unless nu-Trek April turns out to be radically different than previous interpretations of the character.
While I'm reading Section 31: Abyss for the first time, I can't stop picturing William Fichtner as Dr. Ethan Locken, with Cillian Murphy as an alternative.
I know this wont mean much to any of you, but there's a bloke drinks in the Unicorn in Eccles that would make a fantastic Elias Vaughan.
I've only recently got into reading the post-nemesis trek lit, after re-reading New Frontier at the start of the year. Trying to read them in order - halfway through A Singular Destiny at the moment, so I haven't met all of the characters mentioned in this thread... There are a few mental images i've had reading the books that I've not seen mentioned, so here they are... Mackenzie Calhoun - I had been picturing Joe Flannigan, like many others, but the voice was never right. On re-read, I've started picturing him as Gabriel Macht. Soleta - Illustrations vary, but the one that always stuck in my head was the cover of the Quiet Place. I was recently struck by the similarity between that image and Hayley Atwell. Now I picture Soleta as her. Si Cwan - I could never get a proper image of Cwan, until I saw the original "cast" image (from the covers of books 5 & 6) again - and now I'm seeing him as Titus Welliver. I can't be the only one who thinks there's a resemblance there, right? Gleau - not seen him mentioned anywhere. I visualized him as Craig Parker. Nan Bacco - probably because I read Articles of the Federation directly after watching some Borgen, I initially visualized her as Sidse Babett Knudsen. After a while I started seeing her as Cherry Jones. Now I kinda switch between the two. Christine Vale - I started out picturing her as Katee Sackhoff, but ever since watching In To Darkness, I've been picturing her as Alice Eve. T'Ryssa Chen - The first image that came to mind when i read about the character was Lian T'Su from The Arsenal Of Freedom (Julia Nickson). And the image kinda stuck.
I recently finished a re-read of Vanguard, and I came up with some new casting ideas for some of the characters I didn't previously have a model for. They include: Bridy Mac: Katie McGrath (Merlin's Morganna) Neera: Kelly Hu Isaiah Farber: David Harewood Mahmud al-Khaled: Oded Fehr Ambassador Lugok: Ed Asner (at least the voice) Ambassador D'Tran: Donald Sutherland (don't ask me why, it just randomly came out that way in my mind) For Haniff Jackson, I originally went with Chi McBride, but I eventually realized that the character being described was younger and more physically fit, so I couldn't think of a good replacement. For Jon Cooper, for lack of a better idea I ended up imagining him as Peter Lupus circa Mission: Impossible. And this time around I went with the suggestion made earlier in this thread of Amy Acker as T'Prynn, because I'm more familiar with and fond of her than I am of Bridget Moynihan, and I felt it worked pretty well. I also tried imagining Alice Eve as the young Carol Marcus, since that was easier for me to visualize than a young Bibi Besch. But I don't know what Eve would sound like with an American accent, so it was harder to imagine her performance than her appearance.
^Fixed. I don't know where I got "Wilson" from. Oh, I forgot one of my casting ideas: Sinbad's Estella Daniels as Akeylah Karumé.
I like this bit of casting. Like you, Moynihan never really fit in my imagination as T'Prynn. I still have a book and a half to go in my Vanguard reading; I think I'll plug Miss Acker in there and see how she works out. "Tonight, the role of T'Prynn will be played by..." And since I'm already in this thread, I may as well put forth some of my own inner casting. Mackenzie Calhoun: David Duchovny Shar: Tyler Posey Prynn: Keiko Agena I've been reading New Frontier since the beginning and the former Fox Mulder has always been my go-to portrayer of Calhoun, though I can definitely see why a lot of posters seem to opt for Flannigan. My reading of the DS9 relaunch started only last month so I certainly would have gone for another actor had I read these novels when they originally came out, but since I only began recently, I cast a "current" actor. On Teen Wolf, Mr. Posey has demonstrated a calm reserve for most situations and bursts of sudden action when called for, much like Shar in the stories that I've read so far. Prynn's dual attitude (one for Vaughn, another for the rest of the crew) reminds me of Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls and her own dual attitudes with friends and then her mother...so I picture Agena.
I like Posey as Shar. I usually go with Vincent Kartheiser from Mad Men, and Angel, but I think I actually might like Posey better.
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Summer vacation driving plans? Play it safe near large trucks
Summer is in full swing, and families across the nation have been hitting the road for vacations. Whether driving cross-country, or taking shorter weekend jaunts, American families will be logging the miles this July and August as they do every year.
But America's families won't be the only ones hitting the road this busy travel season; our nation's hardworking commercial truck drivers will be logging the miles, too! Only, they're doing it to deliver the goods that fuel our economy, stock the shelves at our local stores, and fill our pantries. The trucking industry impacts our daily lives in more ways than we can imagine.
Truck drivers are operating much larger, heavier vehicles than many of our own and have a very different degree of responsiveness.
In 2012, nearly 4,000 people died in crashes involving a large truck. Whether you're driving a small car or a large truck, we all have a role to play in increasing highway safety and helping bring that number down.
So, to make your summer vacation driving as safe and enjoyable as possible, we at DOT recommend these three simple road-sharing steps from Road Safe America to help protect your family and those around you. These simple steps are easy and can save lives.
- Never, EVER, cut in front of a truck.
You might be able to come to a screeching halt in your car but big rigs simply cannot stop on a dime. In fact, when traveling at a speed of 55 mph, it takes a fully-loaded tractor-trailer the length of a football field to come to a complete stop. - Don't tailgate a big rig.
Tucked in tight behind a trailer is a really dangerous place to be. Why, exactly? Because when the truck driver you are following hits the brakes for any number of reasons - debris in the road or a motorist cutting in front of the truck, for example - you won't be able to see the situation unraveling because you are following too closely and you may not have time to react. - Avoid the "No Zone"
Tractor-trailers create immense blind spots, and you don't want to be in one of them when the driver of an 80,000 pound vehicle needs to make a lane change. What should you do? Check the truck's side view mirrors. Can you see the driver's face? If not, the driver cannot see you, and that means you are traveling in a blind spot and should get out of it as soon as possible.
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Kate weds No3 - But doesn't tell parents: Hippy service in a barn and the groom is Branson's nephew (who changed his name to Ned Rocknroll)
Happy couple: Kate Winslet and Ned RocknRoll
The church of St Mary and St Gabriel in Harting, West Sussex, is a picture perfect slice of traditional English country life.
And on Christmas Day there was a famous face in the congregation – Kate Winslet – who had made the short journey from her nearby home to sing carols with the locals.
Onlookers said she looked 'radiantly happy', as well she might – for she had married her beau, Ned RocknRoll, three weeks earlier in upstate New York. Since then, they have been honeymooning in the UK at their new home.
And they must have been in a bubble of bliss indeed, for it seems neither set of parents knew what they had done until reports of the union emerged on Wednesday.
Winslet's father, Roger, said: 'What are you going on about?' when asked about the wedding.
RocknRoll's father, Robert, echoed: 'It's not something I know of – but nothing would surprise me with those two.'
Neither was willing to venture further comment yesterday, and Kate's sister, Anna, also had nothing to say about the happy news.
It's not, perhaps, the full-blooded endorsement which one might hope for from one's family, but then it turns out that, for whatever reason, this wedding has been kept very much low-key.
Friends say it was a 'really romantic, private ceremony' attended by only a handful of family and friends.
It is thought to have taken place at a resort in the Catskill mountains – in a heated barn with a rather hippyish country-chic vibe.
The ceremony is understood to have been brief and very simple, with the venue filled with wild flowers in jam jars and pretty coloured lanterns.
The bride was presented with a ring made by British jeweller Charles Goode, of Goode and Son, who is a friend of the couple and who designed Zara Phillips's engagement ring.
Ned's best man was his brother, Jack, a professional sailor. Other guests included Winslet's children Mia, 12, by her first husband Jim Threapleton and Joe, eight, by her second, film director Sam Mendes.
It was, in fact, the second time Mia had seen her mother marry, as she was also a flower girl when Kate married Mendes in the West Indies in 2003.
Rather oddly, given that Ned is one of four children and Kate one of three, and given that both are social people, there were only a dozen guests – although there were unconfirmed reports that Winslet's Titanic co-star and close friend, Leonardo DiCaprio, gave her away.
There were unconfirmed reports that Kate's Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, gave her away
A source said: 'Marriage has always been on the cards and they've been talking about doing it for the past couple of months. It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment thing, but they wanted to keep it secret.'
But why were both sets of parents apparently not included? Perhaps because Winslet, 37, was so determined to keep it private, mindful of jibes about her much-married status.
As she said in a recent interview about the end of her marriage to Sam Mendes – and both parties' subsequent new partners: 'There's no way I'm going to allow my children to be ****ed up because my marriages haven't worked out.
'I so wish that that wasn't the case, that that hadn't happened in my life, but it has. So I will make the best of it.'
In the wake of this third marriage, there have been mutterings from those who are usually very positive about Winslet about her being a 'loveaholic' who is endlessly excited by the drama of finding her soulmate.
Certainly, the fact that she has embarked upon another union without any kind of pre-nuptial agreement to protect her £12million fortune certainly marks her down as a romantic.
Yesterday, the the actress's spokesman said only: 'I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned RocknRoll in New York earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family. The couple had been engaged since the summer.'
She was seen in New York with Ned, who is 34 and is recently divorced himself, a few days before the ceremony, having a very jolly lunch at the Isola Trattoria and Crudo bar in the Mondrian SoHo hotel.
Fellow diners say that they spent several hours hugging and giggling, and working their way through two bottles of rose champagne.
That ought to silence those who think this quiet wedding may be the prelude to an announcement that she's pregnant.
However, it is widely said that she and Ned are hoping to add to the somewhat complex family unit with children of their own – and sooner rather than later.
'They are very much in love, and seem to be extremely happy together,' offers a friend of Ned's, who adds that from the beginning of their time together they were talking about marriage and children.
Kate dropped a heavy hint earlier this year that she wanted to go for marriage a third time when she told an interviewer: 'I still believe in the beauty of committing yourself to another person and in the idea of marriage as an expression of that commitment.'
Heiress Eliza Pearson and Ned on their wedding day. They divorced two years later
Her filming schedule is indeed suggestive of a break over the next few months. She has just finished making the movie, Labor Day, with Barbra Streisand's stepson Josh Brolin.
For now she is back in the manor house in rural Sussex which she and Ned bought this autumn for £2million.
The couple asked to erect wooden fencing and high oak gates, no doubt hoping to improve privacy and security. But some locals feel that the proposed measures are too 'suburban' in feel for the rural area.
The parish council registered its objections, calling the plans 'visually intrusive and incongruous'.
Several of the actress's neighbours attended a meeting in the village hall at which they expressed their concerns.
Those squabbles aside, Kate is committed to a move back to the UK. Her old apartment in New York, which she retained after splitting from Sam Mendes, is being rented out.
The thinking is that she and Ned will live together in the Home Counties, with him continuing to work for his uncle, Sir Richard Branson, on his Virgin Galactic space tourism programme.
They have offices in Leicester Square and Ned, whose expertise is in marketing, will continue his job.
The move will allow Kate's daughter, Mia, to see her father, film director Jim Threapleton, more easily. Threapleton had been in the habit of travelling to New York once a month to see his child.
And the move back to Britain will also allow Sam Mendes easier access to his son, Joe.
Winslet met Ned RocknRoll, who changed his name from the more prosaic surname Abel Smith, on Richard Branson's Necker Island in July 2011.
A likeable charmer who had gone to the island to get over the failure of his first marriage to Sussex landowner Viscount Cowdray's daughter Eliza, he seems to have snagged her hook, line and sinker.
They were said to be all but living together in New York not too long afterwards, even though when they met she had been on holiday with her then boyfriend, British model Louis Dowler.
By September, she was attending a memorial service for Branson's father, Ted, with Ned.
Dowler later complained: 'I don't think Kate behaved well and it is still very raw for me. I was in love with her, and you can't switch that off overnight.'
Is this the Winslet way? It seems she is in the habit of leaving less time than is entirely polite between ditching one man and taking up with another.
Neither of the couple's parents seemed to know about the pair marrying
Remember how she and first husband Jim Threapleton were perfect for each other, newly married and with a baby? She gave an interview about their bliss. But by the time it came out in 2001, she had dumped Jim and a little while after it turned out that she had moved on to Sam Mendes.
Of course, she's not the first serial monogamist in showbusiness, and it is wise to watch out for the double standards which are sometimes applied to women's behaviour – as opposed to men's – when it comes to dating.
But there are those who will wonder at her latest choice of husband. For it has to be said that La Winslet and Mr RocknRoll are the oddest of matches.
While Kate grew up in Reading the daughter of a jobbing actor, Ned is a bohemian whose uncle Richard is, as we know, one of the richest men in Britain.
Born Edward Lyulph Abel Smith in 1978, Ned is the son of Richard Branson's sister, Lindy.
His father is Robert Abel Smith, the deputy chairman of the Mesopotamia Petroleum Company. His marriage to Lindy broke up when Ned was only a toddler.
Ned is one of five boys raised in Parsons Green, South London, with his mother, an artist and sculptor, and stepfather Robin Brockway, a graphic design consultant.
Family life for Ned was fairly chaotic – particularly after the arrival of twin siblings.
Uncle Richard helped to ameliorate the family's crowded conditions by buying the house next door for them, allowing them to knock the two properties together.
Ned got to know his first wife Eliza Pearson through his mother, who is good friends with the Cowdray family.
Although there were ten years between Ned and Eliza, they started dating when she was 18 and announced their engagement when she was 20. They married in September 2009 at her family's 17,000-acre estate.
A druid called JJ Middleway led the open-air pagan ceremony, which was conducted near a meditation pyramid in the garden, under the shade of an avenue of giant wellingtonia trees.
But within 20 months they had separated.
Eliza went back to live with her parents and started planning to set herself up in business running 'green' workshops; Ned stayed in London on his own.
Now he is the husband of one of the most famous women in the world.
Winslet and RocknRoll made their first red carpet appearance together in January at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles, where the actress won for her role in TV series Mildred Pierce.
Ned did not attend the ceremony at Buckingham Palace last month when Kate was awarded a CBE, but has been at her side at numerous other engagements.
Though one chum of Ned says that he has 'buckets of the Branson charm' and is 'quite nice, but not what you would call short on self belief', Winslet says that in RocknRoll she has found a fun-loving free spirit who supports her unstintingly – and they do look a delightfully happy couple.
You can only hope that her happy ever after is happier the third time around.
WEDDING No1: BANGERS AND MASH IN A PUB
Kate Winslet's first marriage to producer Jim Threapleton in 1998 was a low-key affair with only two celebrities among the 150 guests.
A church service in Reading was followed by a wedding breakfast of bangers and mash in a local pub.
The couple kissed as they left the church and Kate beamed as she posed for pictures – but her nose was red from weeping throughout the ceremony.
She was so desperate to preserve her privacy that she turned down a six-figure sum from OK magazine which wanted to cover the wedding.
She said she felt 'like a princess' in her Alexander McQueen dress, an ivory creation with hand-sewn antique beads.
Her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio sent a 'best wishes' telegram. Kate and Jim were married for three years.
WEDDING No2: 4 GUESTS AND A PARADISE VILLA
Kate's second marriage to Oscar-winning producer Sam Mendes in 2003 had only four guests – her daughter Mia and three friends.
The couple, who had been dating for 21 months, married in the garden of a sun-kissed villa in the West Indies.
Kate's mother Sally said they were only told about the wedding once the couple had returned to London.
The wedding in idyllic Barnes Bay, on the south-western tip of the Caribbean island of Anguilla, was toasted with glasses of champagne.
It was so understated that even the Reverend John Gumbs, who officiated at the ceremony, had no idea who Kate Winslet was.
The churchman told how it was an orthodox Methodist ceremony, in which neither promised to obey the other.
Kate and Sam were married for seven years.
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Hello all. No one probably knows who I am, but that's okay b/c I'm one of those lurkers that Jargo used to be so freaked out about in the old boards. I've been around since before Ep I and I think the new boards look great. I'll be going back into the dark now, watching, listening and waiting.
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So who hasn't made it here yet? And what's going on with Mr. Tomasi? Did someone swipe his name?
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I hope he's improved from 2012.
When Locklear went down, they decided to go with David Diehl, playing on an injured MCL, rather than go with Brewer.
At 6-6 and 330, maybe it was an issue of getting his technique down.....maybe he was just not yet ready for the pro game as a rookie.
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"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones." - Bill Parcells
"Name the starting linebackers from 2007." - Jerry Reese
He'll get plenty of chances in preseason to win us over. And if he isn't up to snuff, he won't be on the roster come late August.
Do not feed the trolls.
At this point in his career, I think he is more likely to make the roster as a guard then a tackle. Last preseason he did look like he had serious balance issues. Who knows, maybe he will pull a Corey Webster and turn into a good player in his 3rd year.
I agree. He hasn't shown much promise, especially at tackle. I think they will take a look at him at guard and if they don't like what they see he will find himself unemployed soon. From what I saw he did not have the proper balance and footwork for tackle. 1 thing correctly stated in this article is there are roster spots. We have holes in our guard depth, as well as 2 guards who likely wont be with the team in a year or 2.
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Yes, I think that the G position will accomodate more of a straight ahead power player because you generally play in a tighter box than a T. I wonder what happens when you are pulling and someone shoves your pads and you fall down like a sack of potatos? That is what training camp is all about..........to sort this stuff out.
No one remembers who came in second.
The problem is that he isn't a power player. He isn't strong at all. You see it in his technique in that he uses his size to lean into his defender hoping to wall him off instead of actually trying to hold or push him back. I understand he was a project lineman, but his technique looks as if it had not improved since college.


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Rincon: Please feel free to grace the thread with your high post count, then. The BL suit I ordered should be in tomorrow ;-)
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TRIALnERROR: Looks good from what I can see; photos aren't very clear, though. Shortened sleeve/pant legs would be a good idea, like Kidmag said. I'm interested in seeing how the back of your jacket came out, also. Seems like an area that's commonly "messed up" in online MTM suits.
TrialNError: I would love to hear what you think of the suit fabric on your charcoal suit. Like I said, I'm considering it, but Herringbone tends to be a heavier fabric and I live in a warm climate.
Rincon: I'm new here because I very recently jumped into the MTM world. Google "Black Lapel suit review" or "Indochino suit review" and this forum is heavily represented in the top 20 hits. After receiving good info during my research from this forum, I just felt compelled to give back. And btw you can count on me having a low post count forever - I can't imagine posting over 200 times on clothing. :)
Kidmag: I'm very impressed with the quality and feel of the fabric. Keep in mind that I'm comparing it to lower quality JAB suits... You should order some swatches for free so you can get a feel for it.
Sorry for so many pics, but I would appreciate any and all feedback. I'm not a fan of the "slim pants" look. Is this something that can be fixed by my local tailor or is a remake required? The suit has not been pressed, but has been hand steamed. Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Also I know everyone is excited about the slim cut paints, but its a fad that will fade. Way I see it you'll want to wear your suit for at least 3 years, so watch out for fads - this one has been around for a while already. You can ask BL to make the paints more straight if you think its too shaped - just tell them how wide you want them at the bottom and they'll put note in your measurements file.
Geez. This is why people say, "LOL you have a low post count. Thread must be crap."
"Slim cut pants" are pants that FIT. The "fad that will fade" is the pleated, shapeless, baggy garbage we got from the 30s. Pleated and baggy pants are bad.
I think they should be taken in - they're too long. I'd ask your tailor to leave only a slight break. I don't think you can have them widened though, prob. not enough fabric - but once they're the right length you might find the taper works.
I think that suit fits great - looks like the right amount of break too, unless you want more of mod look.
Dude you're like 23, you've only lived in one fad. Youth has many advantages, perspective is not one of them.
Dude, I'm like 17, and I've lived in about a million. It's not like there's one fad going on at once.
Slim =/= skinny. Skinny pants are an atrocity to be avoided at all costs. Slim pants (for lean-athletic guys, at least) look good and are not a fad.
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I want to render a public service. I want to suggest that even if you were deeply moved by "Les Mis," you can still save your soul. I don't think you are damned forever. Salvation awaits. I realize that we are not supposed to argue about taste. De gustibus non est disputandum, as some Latin fellow said. But, in fact, critics do nothing but argue about taste. And I realize that emotion is even harder and riskier to argue about. But, as we have new experiences, emotions change. Therefore, in the interest of public health, I will try to bring cures to the troubled. But first, a few words about the movie version of "Les Misérables."
I had never seen the show or heard the score; I came to the material fresh, without preconception, and throughout the entire hundred and fifty-seven minutes I sat cowering in my seat, lost in shame and chagrin. This movie is not just bad ("bombast," as Anthony Lane characterized it in a wonderful review in the current issue of the magazine). It's terrible; it's dreadful. Overbearing, pretentious, madly repetitive. I was doubly embarrassed because all around me, in a very large theatre, people were sitting rapt, awed, absolutely silent, only to burst into applause after some of the numbers, and I couldn't help wondering what in the world had happened to the taste of my countrymen—the Americans (Americans!) who created and loved almost all the greatest musicals ever made.
Didn't any of my neighbors notice how absurdly gloomy and dolorous the story was? How the dominant blue-gray coloring was like a pall hanging over the material? How the absence of dancing concentrated all the audience's pleasure on the threadbare songs? How tiresome a reverse fashion show the movie provided in rags, carbuncles, gimpy legs, and bad teeth? How awkward the staging was? How strange to have actors singing right into the camera, a normally benign recording instrument, which seems, in scene after scene, bent on performing a tonsillectomy?
Hugh Jackman, as the aggrieved Jean Valjean, delivers his numbers in a quavering, quivering, stricken voice—Jackman doesn't sing, he brays. Russell Crowe as Javert, his implacable pursuer, stands on parapets overlooking all of Paris and dolefully sings of his duty to the law. Then he does it again. Everything is repeated, emphasized, doubled, as if to congratulate us on emotions we've already had. The young women, trembling like leaves in a storm, battered this way and that by men, never exercise much will or intelligence. Anne Hathaway, as Fantine, gets her teeth pulled, her hair chopped, and her body violated in a coffin box—a Joan of Arc who only suffers, a pure victim who never asserts herself. Hathaway, a total pro, gives everything to the role, exploiting those enormous eyes and wide mouth for its tragic-clown effect. Like almost everyone else, she sings through tears. Most of the performances are damp.
The music is juvenile stuff—tonic-dominant, without harmonic richness or surprise. Listen to any score by Richard Rodgers or Leonard Bernstein or Fritz Loewe if you want to hear genuine melodic invention. I was so upset by the banality of the music that I felt like hiring a hall and staging a nationalist rally. "My fellow-countrymen, we are the people of Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin! Cole Porter and George Gershwin, Frank Loesser and Burton Lane! We taught the world what popular melody was! What rhythmic inventiveness was! Let us unite to overthrow the banality of these French hacks!" (And the British hacks, too, for that matter.) Alas, the hall is filled with people weeping over "Les Mis."
Is it sacrilege to point out that the Victor Hugo novel, stripped of its social detail and reduced to its melodramatic elements, no longer makes much sense? That the story doesn't connect to our world (which may well be the reason for the show's popularity)? Jean Valjean becomes a convict slave for nineteen years after stealing some bread for his sister's child. He has done nothing wrong, yet he spends the rest of his life redeeming himself by committing one noble act after another, while Javert pursues him all over France. Wherever Valjean goes, Javert shows up; he's everywhere at once, like the Joker in "The Dark Knight," who was at least intended to be a fanciful creation.
Doesn't Javert have anything else to do with his life? He seems less a relentless avatar of the law than merely daft—and a melodramatic contrivance. He doesn't even have a streak of perversity—in his own stupid way, he's meant to be noble, a man of conscience. Dare I suggest that the mutual obsession of Valjean and Javert is actually boring and morally insignificant? The relationship never develops; the two men never push beyond the surface of each other's characters. And the implications of Jean Valjean's complete innocence are dismaying. Suppose he had actually committed some sort of crime as a young man. Are we to infer that he wouldn't be worth our tears if—like the rest of us—he were even slightly culpable? Saints do not make interesting heroes.
Every emotion in the movie is elemental. There's no normal range, no offhand or incidental moments—it's all injustice, love, heartbreak, cruelty, self-sacrifice, nobility, baseness. Which brings us to heart of the material's appeal. As everyone knows, the stage show was a killer for girls between the ages of eight and about fourteen. If they have seen "Les Mis" and responded to it as young women, they remain loyal to the show—and to the emotions it evoked—forever. At that age, the sense of victimization is very strong, and "Les Mis" is all about victimization. That the story has nothing to with our own time makes the emotions in it more—not less—accessible, because feeling is not sullied by real-world associations. But whom, may I ask, is everyone crying for? For Jean Valjean? For Fantine? Fantine is hardly on the screen before she is destroyed. Indeed, I've heard of people crying on the way into the movie theatre. It can't be the material itself that's producing those tears. "Les Mis" offers emotion… about emotion.
But, you say, what's wrong with a good cry? What harm does it do anyone? No harm. But I would like to point out that tears engineered this crudely are not emotions honestly earned, that the most cynical dictators, as Pauline Kael used to say, have manipulated emotions with the same kind of kitsch appeal to gut feelings. Sentimentality in art is corrosive because it rewards us for imprecise perceptions and meaningless hatreds. Revolution breaks out in "Les Mis." What revolution? Against whom? In favor of what? It's just revolution—the noble sacrifice of handsome, ardent boys taking on merciless power. The French military, those canaille, gun down the beautiful boys. It's all so generic. The vagueness is insulting.
And now, the real point: our great musicals were something miraculous. They were a blessed artifice devoted to pleasure, to ease and movement, exultation in the human body, jokes and happy times, the giddiness of high hopes. Even the serious musicals, like "Carousel" and "West Side Story," had their funny moments. (In fairness, there is comedy in "Les Mis," in the form of the larcenous innkeepers played by Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen, but they do the same damn pickpocket joke so many times that they hardly provide relief.) If you want emotion in a musical, please, if you've never seen it, catch the George Cukor version of "A Star is Born," in which Judy Garland (John Lahr agrees with me on this) produces the single greatest moment in film-musical history. Late at night in a club, when she thinks no one is listening (while James Mason lurks in the shadows), she sings the Harold Arlen torch song "The Man That Got Away." Overwhelming.
Here are my two cures for those suffering from absorption in "Les Mis." Both of them are obvious.
Cure No. 1: Download the Astaire-Rogers "Top Hat" from Amazon. Throw it on a big screen if you can. Or download "Singin' in the Rain," with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, or "The Band Wagon," with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, or "An American in Paris," with Kelly again. I will tell you right now that these movies will not make you cry. But if you've never seen them before, they may open an entirely new path to pleasure. See them twice, and you will put aside the maudlin nonsense of "Les Mis" forever.
Cure No, 2. "Les Mis," as everyone knows, is sung all the way through, like an opera. It's an opera, however, with music not worth listening to. But if you enjoy the convention of an entirely sung play, I suggest listening to another successful piece of musical theatre based on a work by Victor Hugo—Verdi's "Rigoletto," which has been running continuously more or less everywhere since 1851. "Rigoletto" is an adaptation of the Hugo play "Le Roi S'Amuse." Another cruel and melodramatic story: A hunchback in a royal court tries to save his daughter from the overwhelming attractions of a seductive and handsome duke. He fails, the daughter dies, and the hunchback is crushed by fate, by curses, by his own efforts to save her. The entire piece, which is almost an hour shorter than "Les Mis," exhibits a conciseness, power, and lyrical invention that remains devastating on the tenth hearing. No one would call "Rigoletto" sentimental. It is heartless and fragile, enraged and wounded, frivolous and tragic. Genuine emotions. The old Maria Callas performance, with Tito Gobbi as Rigoletto and Giuseppe di Stefano as the Duke, and with Tullio Serafin conducting the La Scala forces, is still the best version, and it can be had for exactly $11.99 from ArkivMusic. Walk gingerly into the dark, an act at a time. Therein lies salvation.


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Chicago Grey clears the final fence on his way to victory at Navan
PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)Chicago Grey provides 25-1 upset in Red Mills
Report: Navan, Tuesday
Navan: Red Mills Chase (Grade 2) 2m4f, 5yo+
CHICAGO GREY, without a victory since the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2011, sprang a 25-1 surprise when staying on strongly under Davy Condon for trainer Gordon Elliott.
The contest appeared a golden opportunity for Rubi Light to complete a hat-trick of victories in the race, with the switch from the usual venue at Gowran Park not expected to inconvenience the favourite. However, the odds-on shot quickly wilted rounding the final turn.
Chicago Grey's main aim this season is the John Smith's Grand National, with BetVictor and bet365 offering 20-1 (from 33) for the Aintree showpiece.
With only four runners, Andrew Lynch was straight into the lead on Rubi Light, and the pair appeared to set a steady pace, with Hidden Cyclone second and Foildubh third.
Condon was at pains to keep Chicago Grey away from the other runners, opting to head towards the stands' side on the home straight in the first circuit, with the other runners on the far side.
There was little change to the running order, with Lynch beginning to stretch things down the back straight, with a purposeful leap five out establishing a lead of several lengths.
However, that gap quickly disappeared as Foildubh and Hidden Cyclone swamped the leader rounding the turn, and relegated Rubi Light to third.
Hidden Cyclone also had little more to give with his challenge soon flattening, while Condon had stealthily moved to make a winning challenge on the far side.
Coming down the home straight Foildubh and Chicago Grey were separated by the width of the track, but it was Condon's mount who travelled better, and the pair stayed on to win with Foildubh second at 5-1. Rubi Light was a well beaten third.
Following the race, Elliott cited a wind op as the reason for the improved performance. He said: "We thought he would run well. He's had a wind operation this year and that seems to have made a big difference and the soft ground played into his hands. He'll go straight to the Grand National now."


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Guy gets scared when a dog talks to him. not much else to say really...
For better quality please watch it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=isAwulX6nNY&feature =plcp&context=C48c1ed6VDv jVQa1PpcFOlweB-LbtHjhGpPz uFa2LpP-Ak9GhcqnA=
Rated 3 / 5 stars
In the animation category, this was simplistic. Not a complaint, since I really don't see the point or value of making extremely beautiful detailed animation for something of this esque.
I'd have to disagree with TCKnight about the length, since I believe there is a different reason this didn't establish the joke very well. The title is an intriguing one, and while there are many other movies centered around the concept of dogs talking, each one of them has their own individual take.
In fact, that concept alone has endless possibilities to be explored. It could mean something big and innovative. It could also be comedically disappointing since all they'd say would be "Feed me." though this wasn't executed well. I can barely understand what he said and I went to the YouTube link for higher quality as you suggested
at the end with the guy's "scared" face, jokes like that are overdone, especially when he looks right at the camera when he does that. "WUT?" slapped onto the screen doesn't really help that much either.
a subtle portrayal probably would've suited this best.
not leaving this review to be mean, but only to help, and 3/5 for potential.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
It's ok. Too short to really establish the joke and make it hit home. But the sound effects were pretty well time and selected.
Rated 0 / 5 stars
you cant even tell what the dogs saying and whats the point of this its not even funny
look at it on youtube its much better quality, link is in desc. :-)


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By mason slater
September 19, 2011
"How have you been recently?"
"Oh, I'm not too bad. I'm taking a few classes, working two jobs, volunteering at church and on the side I'm writing a novel. I hardly sleep and practically live on coffee, but it's great. What have you been up to?"
"Me? Just work I guess."
"That must be nice." [thinks: slacker]
Have you ever had that conversation? I have many times, and over the years I have found myself playing both roles.
We take this sort of talk for granted, but if we step back and get a bit of perspective, it is a fascinating social construct with massive—and frightening—implications.
Those short conversations give us a glimpse of the way people view the world, because it is often the little day to day practices that reveal our deepest values.
You can see it play out every Monday at the office, and every Sunday in church lobbies around the world. People who have not seen each other in a few days or weeks start to catch up, and the talk quickly turns toward comparing notes on how terribly busy we all are. Volunteer positions, family commitments and work loads are listed, as each of us demonstrates just how much we are trying to juggle.
The sad thing is, we are quite proud of it.
And not very secretly proud either.
Oh sure, we complain about how we have not had a real day off in weeks, or how much work it all is. But somehow all our complaining sounds rather like bragging. It's just backhanded bragging, like complaining that you didn't expect learning Spanish to be so much work after you had such high scores in French, German and fifth-century Latin.
You can hear it in the voices of those recounting their busy schedules, and the guilt with which many of us have learned to speak of having free time. We've bought into the gospel of busyness. We've accepted the narrative we are constantly sold by our society—that our value rests in what we can produce, that we are loved for what we can accomplish. Full calendars become a badge of honor.
Lee, a pastor I knew quite well, was a perfect example. The only pastor at a small rural church, he worked constantly. In his mind, the success or failure of the church was on his shoulders, completely dependent on his level of activity. Between studying, hospital visits, preaching and leading worship on Sunday, teaching a few additional times each week and being constantly on call for everyone in his church, he hardly had a free moment all week. And you could tell. He was chronically tired and often dealt with long periods of discouragement. But he loved his church, he wanted to do right by them and the only way he could see to be a "successful" pastor was to work even harder despite his declining physical and emotional health. Because to Lee, like so many of us, work had become the way he measured his value.
So we push ourselves harder and harder. We sleep less, we work more and we do indeed accomplish a great deal.
But in the process we begin to forget how to sit,
and think,
and breathe,
and pray,
and read for pleasure,
and have a real conversation with a friend, or family member or spouse
and savor a drink for its flavors and complexities, not its ability to chemically induce either wakefulness or sleep.
Here's the dirty little secret of the gospel of busyness: It promises us a full and satisfying life, but, in the end, it makes our lives emptier. It uses us for what we can contribute, and in the process we live less, feel less, even love less.
Instead of a life filled with the satisfaction of endless accomplishments, we've gotten ourselves a generation of chronic exhaustion, absent workaholic parents and kids who have been not-so-subtly taught that the only way to earn the attention and love of others is with grades, paychecks or championships.
But your value is not determined by what you produce. Your loveliness is not based on what you accomplish or how full your calendar is.
Work is good—it's part of the way God designed His image-bearers—but it is not the only thing we were made for. He created us to have a balance in life, going so far as to incorporate a cycle of work and rest into the very fabric of the created order. There is a time for work in that cycle, but there is also a time for rest and community and quiet contemplation.
A life of constant overcommitment is not a sign of success, or something to be bragged about. It is a sign of imbalance, a sign we have put our faith in the gospel of busyness instead of in a God who dares us to trust Him and be willing to rest.
There is hope for the overcommitted, though; we don't have to live this way. We can balance good hard work with rest and play; in fact we were created to live in that balance. And the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can all stop playing the game of bragging that we are so very busy.
So the next time you catch up with a friend, refrain from contributing to the cycle. Refuse to brag about busyness as if it were a virtue, refuse to act like making time to rest is a mark of shame. If the very God who designed us thought that balancing work with rest was worthwhile, perhaps we should give it a try.
Mason Slater is a seminary student at GRTS, a publishing consultant and a freelance writer in Grand Rapids, MI. You can find his blog at masonslater.com. This article was expanded from one that originally appeared on deeperstory.com.
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I heard recently that when we make balance our goal we will never achieve it because our focus is wrong. Likewise, it helps to learn what a 'balanced' life looks like by going in and out of it. That being said, I agree that having time to rest and be is invaluable to our health (holistically speaking). If we take the time to do so, we might actually answer the question that was asked--"How are you doing?" (Not "What have you been doing?")
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Hi, I am one of those people who is overly busy, but it is not out of pride and God is actually using this season to teach me NOT to just become less busy, but rather, to learn how to shift my focus from one thing to another as He directs, and to trust Him to bring the result that He desires in each arena. So, on my list, is working full-time, teaching part-time at a Christian college, teaching two music lessons a week to junior high kids, mentoring a couple of otherkids, volunteering in a church ministry, taking Chinese and helping a friend start a ministry. I still find time for walks in the park and spending time with friends, as well as reading and devotional time (which is rich). I personally do not like this schedule and the variety of activities, because I love to havetime free to spend as I please, and because I happen to justenjoy diving deeply into an activity,but I also feel I'm doing what I'm supposed to right now and learning some big things in the process.
I think this post bothered me a bit because it makes an assumption that those who are involved in many things are simply prideful.
I am loving this. I preach this so much because I really do believe in this. I sound like a broken record when I tell my friends to slow down. No wonder their bodies are breaking down and all sorts of things are happening to it. Your body is telling you something....
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This is such a good point! There are also studies that show that 6 weeks of vacation per year is optimal for the highest productivity rates... again something Europe understands and has built into their culture but America can't quite get a grip on. My company starts every new employee with 6 weeks of vacation time for this exact reason. They say it is self-serving because they want us all to be performing our best and as motivated as possible while we are at work and that makes a lot of sense to me. I don't know why more companies don't do this!
I heard recently that when we make balance our goal we will never achieve it because our focus is wrong. Likewise, it helps to learn what a 'balanced' life looks like by going in and out of it. That being said, I agree that having time to rest and be is invaluable to our health (holistically speaking). If we take the time to do so, we might actually answer the question that was asked--"How are you doing?" (Not "What have you been doing?")


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Date: 10/11/2012 6:20:00 PM
I think your entries are better than those of most other people on this site.
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Date: 10/10/2012 12:13:00 PM
Life is filled with many cups of disappointment. No worries Catie, cups are easy to empty. All of our emotions bounce off of the reflections of who we are. Look at some of the poets on here. They say they are their worst critique~HUMM??? Well I try not to feel and be disappointed. It leads to other emotions. In my most disappointing moments, I TOO VENT a lot. But, I try to get to the root of what is "disappointing me" ,and to me, my poetry is a reflection of me, if I think it is trash, and it is not my best than you know what...It is what it is.. a big disappointment. Anyways, it is normal to feel like this. You are a bright women, you will come out of it. always~ PD
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Date: 10/10/2012 11:42:00 AM
Dear Catie the reason why I didn't join yet in your contest(rewrite my poem) because all your free verse poem are all fantastic(^_^)...!! I can write simple poems but yours are deep and all your feelings are present just like some of the great poets here on PS....You are all my inspirations!!!I've learned a lot from all of you!so don't get disappointed..for me you are an excellent poet and writer!! hugs!!!!(^_^)
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Date: 10/10/2012 9:17:00 AM
To me free verse is every poem I despise thus idea of forms. Who has the right to say what poetry is? I believe what ever we write upon a piece of paper that can extract something fron another human being us what I call poetry. It's always the reader who will interpret whether they deem it good or bad. This is okay because this in turn will interpet the person. So again to me forms of poetry do nothing more than constrain the writer. I know others may disagree but this is the opinion of one happy go lucky guy.
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Date: 10/10/2012 9:01:00 AM
My philosophy is the more you write the better you will become.
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Date: 10/10/2012 8:59:00 AM
You can put your emotions in poems but who says that you have to post them to the world. keep to yourself for your private therapy.
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Date: 10/9/2012 9:40:00 PM
Write what you enjoy and not to please others. You'll be happier. Mine are meant to be funny story poems... Definately not classy but they are fun and make people happy. See some of my Troll poems or "You just cant win". I'll never win contests with them, but they make me happy.
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Date: 10/9/2012 7:46:00 PM
Catie, I do not write free verse well but I keep practicing. I write a poem then tear it apart and always strive to improve. I don't follow Chris' rules well but I try. I find poetry cathartic and if I do not wish to share, I don't post a poem. I think it's an individual's choice. Write what you want and post what you want. You know you could write about a tree and the way you describe it may produce an emotion in the reader. So it doesn't have to be personal emotion shared, its just how you write it. Keep writing, and the same holds true with poetry, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Take care, Lee
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Date: 10/9/2012 3:51:00 PM
Catie...I think Chris nailed it on the head with his comments and I agree with him!...I CONSTANTLY question myself and my abilities as a poet...writers question EVERYTHING including themselves...that's why they write!...As far as free verse goes, I don't understand it and probably never will and SURE don't know how to write it...I love to read others though as long as it's not too complicated... (I HATE complicated poetry!)...So hang in there!...You are not alone....
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Date: 10/9/2012 2:18:00 PM
Catie you do fantastic free verse REALLY! As to putting yourself out there for everyone to see, I hear you BUT that shows you are BRAVE, you are a survivor. Readers do get tired of reading about unicorns, ghosts, butterflies, .... Do you want a COACH??? Should I read you daily and critique :)
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Date: 10/9/2012 1:52:00 PM
Here is another thing. For me, writing rarely comes free and natural.More than half what I write is invented. It is like doing an exercise but trying to do it in my best possible way. (why I tend to call myself a wordsmith rather than an "inspired poet.") I take great pains to write nearly every poem I do, going over and over every line until I feel it is perfected. that is not the "free verse" way. I think it "flows" for many free verse poets, even for many rhymers. but we are all so individual in our styles. Everyone of us has something great to offer. I am not an emotional person and never have been. So the personal "sad" tanka for PD, I can't even do it. I tried 2 hrs and gave up! dang!
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Date: 10/9/2012 1:45:00 PM
Catie, when I read your poetry, I am always a bit jealous of your free verse because this is how I WISH I could write. I am always up front with my friends, and I tell them I do not write free verse for the simple reason, I am a "form poet" and I am a "wordsmith" I just like the challenge of putting words together in the best possible way. My mind does not have the ability to "think outside the box" with different and unusual images. I like descriptive writing and metaphors, but I could never write, for example, in the exotic style of Nette, Charlotte or Cyndi when they are at their "free verse best". there is another thing that makes it difficult for me... continued.
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Date: 10/9/2012 1:20:00 PM
First, I agree with what the others have said. i guess we poets are more alike than we pretend. Second, practice haiku. It is all about nature. leaving 'I' out completely. It is not easy for most, and. it is a discipline to do correctly. I may write 100 to get one I consider 'good'. I post very few now. Don't worry about the syllable count, just try to write one idea, with a little twist at the end. the apple tee/ sitting below/sunset.
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Date: 10/9/2012 12:24:00 PM
Catie I hear you. Well...I love free verse but I can barely rhyme. Disappointment is not a bad thing - it means you have the capacity to grow. Contentment equals stagnation. And you don't have to use your own emotions to write a poem, try borrowing a persona and write from their point of view. Who knows?
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Date: 10/9/2012 12:13:00 PM
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic." --Oscar Wilde. I have been variously told that "when you are older...." to "it is not easy to recall when you were young"... BECOME the subject and leave your ego (that other "bad bit") at the door. Like all good painters will tell you: The secret of a good painting lies in recognizing when to leave it alone. That is how I feel about some of my poems. It was a statement at the time, and does not reflect my current mood/take on matters. A disclaimer in a way.... :-)
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Date: 10/9/2012 12:00:00 PM
P.S. -- only good writers self-evaluate their writing. Only good writers have moments such as the one you are having now. The irony is, those people who are satisfied with their writing, who boast how good they are, etc....well, 99% of the time, they are terrible writers!
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Chris D.
Date: 10/9/2012 11:56:00 AM
Catie, I am my own worst critic. This drives me to keep trying and trying, not to settle into complacency. I can understand your: "Frankly, I am tired of putting my emotions out there for the world to consume." I am not publicly posting a lot of my recent poems(I mean, new poems that haven't been posted ANYWHERE). I cannot stop myself from putting my emotions into poems(just not for me to do!), but I don't have to publicly post them. Hey, putting up a blog like this, reinforces how you don't want to be a mediocre writer churning out a bunch of blah, and how you want to continue pushing yourself beyond complacency with regards to your writing.
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Date: 10/9/2012 11:50:00 AM
That's why im not writing! LOL! Lately, im not happy with any line I write. Welcome to the "reading interval" : )
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