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chemo sucks. i'm on a 16 week cycle. i do a 5 hour IV cocktail, then another 2 weeks later. then off for 3.5 months. usually i have recovered some before the second batch. not this time. sorry to whine. feel like death. on the bright side, losing some weight, haha.
Got news this morning that my girlfriend's brother died in a house fire last night... he was only 31.
Remember to tell your loved ones you love them before they go to bed. Life can be cruel, you never know when it's your time. It's quite eye opening when it starts happening close to home.
Stay close to friends and family while they're still around.
That sucks, I'm so sorry :-(
Got divorced today. That fuckin sucked.
One of our cats developed heart failure in the past couple of days and was put to sleep to relieve the continued suffering this evening. RIP lil Charlie.
Yesterday a large tree fell directly on both mine and gf's cars. The same tree took down a power line that caused a significant electrical fire inside of our duplex. All humans and cats are fine.. but now we are displaced from our home. Currently staying at my gf's sister's house, thirty-some miles from where I work & neither of us have a car anymore.. Cant wait until we can move into our new place in August. Lucky to be alive. Grateful to have friends & family to help.. hope none of you have to experience this. Love y'all
That sucks, man. Glad you're OK though.
I continue to be singled out, picked on and harassed at work. I'm such a nervous wreck I haven't been able to eat much the last few days (lost 2.5lbs in that time) because my stomach hurts so badly. My whole body hurts. It's been a hellish last 2 years there (and in general). It's become clear they want me gone and I haven't really done anything wrong. Honestly. It's all politics and vindictiveness.
I recently moved from my old problematic house into a nicer condo. Having neuropathy made it hard for me to keep up with my home and yard. The process of selling and buying was not a smooth one. I had to move twice in 3 weeks time.
I cant lose everything I went through hell to get. I can't. I don't think I'll be able to handle it.
Have you started looking for jobs? And if so, how seriously are you looking? I would say that the average job search today takes months, and this factors in applying for jobs, having companies get back to you, and even once you interview, that process sometimes takes weeks itself.
My advice to you would be to start looking seriously if you have not already. If you have, be sure you keep it up and be consistent. There is definitely a difference between passively searching and actively searching. Are you on LinkedIn? If so, be sure you are using it to your advantage. Network and reach out to people.
Other than that, just try to keep your head up. Are you seeing a counselor or therapist? It may be a good option so that you have an outlet for a lot of these feelings in order to make it a bit easier to make it through your days/weeks.
Just trying to help.
Thank you. Today I was very nervous all day but I was mostly left alone.
It just sucks. I'm good at my job; always got fantastic performance reviews for almost 9 years. I want to retire there. My reputation has been under attack for almost 2 years now. Anyone can say anything and then I get pulled into a room and interrogated like I'm already guilty. And I've done almost none of it and the shit I did do, EVERYONE there does.
dealing with a car dealer whilst still sick from chemo therapy. on the bright side it was first big step to retire on disability from corporate hell
almost drilled a hole through my left index finger today with a paddle/butterfly bit. i was drilling a hole through a single-gang outdoor plastic box (to house a volume control) and i absolutely should not have been holding the box the way i was. i 100% acknowledge that this was my own fault. when the bit came through, the box slipped in my hand, and one of the "wings" on the bit went right into my finger with my drill going full speed. inside the middle knuckle, ran into bone (but didn't chip), hit a nerve. i have not been able to feel anything on the inner side of my finger past that knuckle since it happened. really, really worried about my ability to play guitar moving forward. but it also could have been way worse and i could be missing a finger, so i'm thankful.
Geez, dude. Hope you heal up and are good to play.
holy shit dude, eek that could have been quite grisly
I am starting to hate cars. A lot. I literally just paid my car off last month. Been having fan/vent issues in the car, particularly with A/C. Okay, it's hotter than balls lately, so I better take it in to get looked at. Sure enough, a cooling fan has failed and needs to be replaced. Oh, but I also have a coolant leak! The hubby has mentioned smelling coolant for a while now, so that's not incredibly surprising. What is surprising is the oil leaks that I also apparently have. And my brake pads and rotors are "getting bad" - and I'm overdue for a transmission flush. Altogether that comes to $2400. I want to puke. I'm just going ahead with the cooling fan and coolant leak, because those seem like the most pressing (if not believable) issues to me, and that's still running me $1100.
Glad I'm working overtime all month.
My roommates put down one of their dogs today. They had to put down another one less than a year ago. Fuck cancer.
Broke my dominant arm in the wrist and elbow yesterday on a bike accident. Have a cast on and am pretty useless. Should be off work for a while. In incredible pain. my rib might be cracked too. Urgh. Hasn't been a very good year for me. Probably won't be posting here for a few weeks. Took a lot to write this with one hand on a cell.
I was eating dinner at a Wendy's restaurant when I got harassed by a really aggressive panhandler. He was very abusive and disrespectful, so I reported him to the authorities. I'm still feeling really shaken up by the experience. It's the 3rd time I've been panhandled at that place. Never going there again. It always happens at Wendy's, never McDonald's. What is it about that place???? I should just eat at home or order takeout to eat at home.
I once broke my dominate arm near the elbow doing a "Super-man" off the front of a bike (the front brake gripped a lot more than the rear break, it was a friends bike ...) and they couldn't cast it at all, just a sling. And then for good measure I re-broke a few weeks later when I tripped and put that arm in front of me to brace the fall. I'm a smart monkey...
My grandmother passed away last Friday after a pretty long and painful battle with Alzheimer's that she went through over the last two and a half years. It's been an utterly exhausting experience, emotionally and physically. All the caretaking work primarily fell upon my grandpa, me, and my aunt. She'd been on hospice for the last couple months. Towards the end she couldn't eat, couldn't hardly breathe without struggling. I was feeding her, changing her, trying to treat her bed sores. It was rough.
There's part of me that's honestly kind of relieved for her sake, because she really had nothing pleasurable or happy in her life at this point. But I feel so incredibly sorry for my grandpa. They got together back when they were young teenagers. Now he'll be turning 80 soon. I think for him this feels like the end of his entire world. Luckily, he just happened to be out at one of his own doctor appointments when she passed away. I was the one who was with her when she finally stopped breathing, and it was a really hard thing to experience because she struggled so much in her final moments. It was not an easy death. I know he's upset that he wasn't there when it actually happened, but I don't care, I'm glad he was out. I think it would have been traumatic for him to see that.
I lived with my grandparents for a couple years when I was a teenager because I was having a lot of trouble at home, so I've always been very close to them. My grandmother was a kind person who was always good to me, so it was really hard to watch her go through the waking nightmare of dementia. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Death is such a strange thing. It's so horrific and sad and yet strangely cathartic and life affirming in the same instance. All in all, this whole thing has been a life altering experience.
@Mantra , my sincerest condolences. Alzheimer's is awful; your being caregiver to your own grandma, then being there when she experienced a pretty difficult death: that's really hard. Ugh. But, I know exactly what you mean when you say her death is cathartic. She's at peace.
I hope your grandpa can find peace. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
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At supper time yesterday, Friday, my mom and I went to check on my brother since she had been trying to reach him for several hours ( they were talking several times every day). She had a key to his apartment and I went up alone. I found him dead, on the floor of his living room. Heart attack. He was 48.
We have a pretty severe family history of heart problems but he wasn't taking care of himself and he was a heavy smoker. Please take care of yourselves, everyone. He leaves behind two teenagers.


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Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife and two children. He used to work as a trader and is now studying for his PhD full-time. This Bleeding City is his first novel. Alex also writes a fortnightly column in the New Statesman and the lyrics of some of his brother's songs. He studied English under Tom Paulin at Hertford College, Oxford.
I spoke to the Faber Academy creative writing group in June. It was six weeks since I'd taken the decision to throw in the day job, and I was still glowing with the heady freedom of it all. To be able to spend every day writing was still an astonishing luxury. I was a full-time author. I could sit at a computer without the competing nag of PowerPoint presentations hovering threateningly behind the Word document that was my novel. I was able to head off down unexplored tangents in my book without worrying about wasting the little time I had to write. I looked out at the aspiring authors sitting in front of me and knew that this was their dream. To walk into the boss's office and thrust a copy of the Great British Novel into their hands. "I'm off. Stuff your job and your OCD timekeeping and your bitterness. I'm an author now."
I'm afraid I fed their dreams. I told them about how I'd said to myself that I'd chuck in my career as a banker if This Bleeding City earned back the advance. It wouldn't mean that I was in a position to support myself or my family purely through writing; very few authors can. But I'd take that first step. And when my agent told me that I'd hit that target, barely two months after publication, I made my leap. It wasn't as dramatic as I'd have liked. Much wrangling with work over notice periods and contracts ensued, but, a few days later, after spending more time with threatening lawyers than OJ Simpson ever did, I was free.
The Faber Academy students wanted to know what it felt like, to achieve that independence, to make the great existential statement. I answered them as honestly as possible. It felt very scary. But it felt like the right thing to do. Not only because I was ashamed of the mess my erstwhile profession had made of the world and my minor but undeniable role in that mess. But also because becoming a writer would mean more time with my kids, more time to read, more time for authentic experiences rather than the confected materialist fluffing that was part of the banker's life.
I have no doubt that many of the Faber Academy students will make similar leaps. And whether they give up careers as I did, or start working part time, or take sabbaticals to finish their masterpieces, they will all gain a sense of seriousness about their writing, the impression that the words they are putting down really matter now. I spoke to them as if there was no question that this leap was the rightful culmination of their efforts, as if I could read their dreams.
It's now four months later, and I'm not sure I'm quite so clear about it now. It's not that I miss the job; nor am I disillusioned with the writer's life – it has treated me well so far. But, like anything in life so swollen with existential ramifications as a change of career, there are many unforeseen consequences.
My job as a banker was full of tedium. The City pays bright people huge amounts of money to do repetitive, empty tasks. But it was a life with an intense sense of character about it. As I took taxis from Mayfair to Lombard Street, or stepped onto podiums at conferences in New York and Barcelona, I had a keen impression of the contours of my existence. And the bottles of champagne and sharp suits and burnished leather wallet were all part of that Stimmung. The writer's life is not so clearly defined.
The next novel will get a larger advance than the first. And This Bleeding City is still selling well, both in the UK and across the world from China to Italy to Greece. But I have had to take on various jobs to bridge the gap between what my writing brings in and what it costs for my family to eat. I have been lucky, getting regular slots reviewing books for newspapers, magazines and, most excitingly, on BBC2's The Review Show. When I finish my PhD, I imagine I will start doing some teaching. Creative writing courses seem to offer a relatively painless way for many writers to earn enough to get their teeth fixed/take long holidays, which they then write about in The Times/buy drugs.
I worry though, that this similarity of experience necessarily blunts the ability of the author to present a convincing world outside of that literary bubble. I have just finished Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and, whilst I thought it a quite brilliant novel, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was partly a metaphor for the world of writers and the writing life: clones on identical existential treadmills. And, whatever ghastliness there was about my time as a banker, it did give me some cracking subject matter. I remember racing across Taipei late at night with my boss in order to catch a flight to Tokyo, neon lights exploding in puddles as we splashed through, mountains rising up above us with red Swastikas marking out temples against the dark sky. "I'll put this in a book one day," I thought, as we pulled out to overtake an ox pulling a rickety cart up the hill. The farmer perched on the cart turned to me and waved.
So I don't think I'm saying that writers should stick to the day job. Just that for every T.S. Eliot who was desperate to leave his position at Lloyds Bank in order to become an editor (which is just a variation on teacher of creative writing in the experience stakes) there is a Wallace Stevens, who used his experiences at Hartford Life Insurance Company to instruct his work. Writing should feed off the life of the author. I feel sometimes that I have taken to my ivory tower too soon.


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The Mets suffered an historic meltdown to miss the postseason and their record against the online baseball betting spreads was absolutely atrocious. Nevertheless, the new season offers great promise to this club, which recently acquired ace Johan Santana, as it looks to forget last year's nightmarish online baseball betting season.
Online baseball betting on the Mets was disastrous because so many baseball betting enthusiasts expressed confidence in the team, but the Mets could not come close to living up to those online baseball betting expectations.
With much of the season complete, the team seemed like a lock to win the NL East and many online baseball betting experts were predicting they would represent the National League in the World Series.
However, the wheels fell off completely and the Phillies ended up beating the Mets for the divisional title and the Mets could not even earn a wildcard spot.
For online baseball betting fans the season was similarly catastrophic because the team finished the season with a dismal, 71-91 record against the baseball betting run lines.
Nevertheless, many online baseball betting experts are once again hailing the Mets as the team to beat in the National League this season. The online baseball betting experts have so much confidence because the team has a strong core of players returning and they will be joined by pitching sensation Johan Santana, who was acquired from the Twins in the offseason.
The Mets started three players in last year's All-Star game, David Wright, Jose Reyes, and Carlos Beltran, and Santana commands the respect of online baseball betting fans like almost no other player in the league. In other words, the team certainly has the tools it needs to make a run at the World Series.
However, online baseball betting on the Mets should still be handled cautiously, as last year's record attests. The Mets did in fact have a decent overall record last year, but their dreadful record against the online baseball betting spreads was a result of the team's inability to perform up to the expectations of the baseball betting lines.
In 2008 there is definitely a chance that the team will once again have a winning season without offering much online baseball betting value.


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Soccer is a game loved by people all across the world. It is perfect for players of all ages. It teaches cooperation and sportsmanship, and it is a great way to get in shape. If you are interested in learning more about soccer, the information that follows will help you get a better handle on the game.
Ask yourself what you can do to help your team. If you are one of the most skilled players on the field, take the lead and act as a play maker. If other players are more skilled and experienced than you, you can be a lot more useful by supporting them.
When teaching your kids how to play soccer, make sure they learn how to dribble. Many learn by simply kicking the ball ahead and chasing after it, but this doesn't provide any control and allow the opponent to steal it. Have them run slow and use different parts of their feet to maintain the ball in front of them. Teach them to stop it on one spot with a gentle tap down on the top of the ball when dribbling to set it up for a pass.
Wherever you are on the field, try to maintain perspective in regards to the entire field. Knowing where your teammates are will help you pass the ball quickly and keep your opponents confused. It is not necessary to follow the ball too closely to stay in the game. You are more likely to get a pass when you are in a relatively open space on the field.
Try using the element of surprise on your opponents. Try not to make your moves so obvious. For example, try putting the ball near the back of the previous defending line while your teammate runs to receive your assistance. Then, try changing your running rhythm, starting quick until your opponent comes at you, then stopping. They'll stop too, which gives you time to increase your pace again, so that they're left anchored.
It;s crucial that you develop a good sense of orientation in soccer. Being able to see the entire game and having good orientation while playing is tough. Know where your opponents and teammates are in order to gain a better perspective. This also helps you better plan your next move.
When kicking a long kick to a teammate, approach the ball at a 35 degree angle. This allows you to fully use your kicking leg at full force. Use your arms to help you keep your balance while placing your non kicking foot directly beside the ball. Keep the ball close to the ground for best results.
Learn to dribble effectively. To keep the ball in control at all times, keep the ball close to you and gently tap the ball using the inside and outside of your feet. Keep your eyes on the ball for best results and protect the ball by using your body to keep opponents away.
You must learn from the mistakes you make. Do you notice that every time you dribble the ball down the field it gets taken away? Carefully watch players who are able to dribble very well. Learn their actions and mimic them. Ask your coach for further advice.
Learn your passing skills well to succeed at soccer. Use the inside arch of your foot for the most accuracy. For short passes, keep the ball low by hitting it near the center of the ball. For longer passes, with more power, hit the ball lower and follow through fully.
Learn how to sprint. Sprinting is used when you are standing still and then begin running as fast as you can. To practice this technique, stand still for 15 seconds, then begin running as fast as you can for 15 seconds. Repeat the process for 30 minutes to help increase your sprinting takeoffs.
You must learn to stay focused as much as possible. Losing focus causes breaks for the other team, and one good break secured with a goal can change the pace of a game and put the other team on top. Fewer points are scored in soccer, and focus should always be a part of your strategy so you can help your team effort.
It is very important for you to stay well hydrated before and after you play a game. While most coaches provide water for the team, you should always bring some along. You don't want to take a chance on not getting any water and your body starts to become totally dehydrated.
When training for soccer, use interval training. This type of training uses short sets of repetitions. For example, with interval training you will start with doing a bench press for three minutes. When those three minutes are up, you will rest for one minute and then jump rope for three minutes. Then, you will continue around the gym doing a variety of exercises for three minutes with a one minute rest break between each exercise.
Kicking, passing and dribbling ought to be practiced every day by everyone on the team. Make sure all the players on your team understand why these drills are important. Help other players by showing them footage of great soccer players doing what they do best.
Stop hesitating when you play soccer. Hesitation will keep you from becoming a great player. It is difficult to be effective if you're having trouble deciding what your next move is. The more decisive you are, the more effective your game will be. Swift action will only improve your game.
Practice your striking on your own time. This can be done by simply picking out a target on a wall and kicking towards it. This can help improve your accuracy and increase your power. This is a basic skill that you should master before moving on to more complicated skills.
Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world for a reason. If you find yourself enamored with the game, hopefully the information included here gave you a better sense of what it is all about. Have fun with it in the future, whether your role is as a player, a coach or a spectator.


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With main characters who are former superheroes trying to pursue justice in the turbulent 1960s, The American Way: Those Above and Those Below is a comic book series about revolutions old and new. Fires start burning in the series' latest issue and writer John Ridley talks to io9 about what it all means.
I'll be talking to Ridley about the events of each issue of the new American Way series, set in a world where members of a defunct federal superhero program try to figure out how to change the world for the better. The American Way: Those Above and Those Below features art by Georges Jeanty, Danny Miki, and Nick Filardi. The interview that follows discusses events in issue #2.
The Story So Far
In the last issue of The American Way: Those Above and Those Below, Jason Fisher—who still uses the jetpack he wore as government super-symbol the New American—stopped Willie Betts from stealing weapons from an armory in Baltimore. Betts hid his lust for killing behind black nationalist rhetoric and died in a explosion during a confrontation with Jason. Meanwhile, Jason's former teammate Amber is part of a underground radical movement in Oakland, using her explosive powers to cause detonations in government buildings. Missy, another member of the Civil Defense Corps team, gets petitioned to run for public office by a Mississippi political operative but turns him down.
io9: The issue opens with a really powerful scene, where you're putting Jason in court for what is essentially a wrongful death case. On one hand, the killing is justifiable—at least in his view—but it's also reprehensible to the masses of people outside the courthouse. Why put Jason in the same spot where we see a lot of white police officers of late, in the real world?
John Ridley: Part of it is what's going on now, the courts and the system and people of color feeling as though there's no recourse within the courts themselves. Comic book stories, they end with the hero doing whatever they do. And you don't even see the judiciary involved. At some point, there has to be some kind of review of what they did or what happened. There must be some kind of oversight.
So the idea [is] that throughout that first issue, Jason is building toward something. Evan, his brother, is literally telling him, "you've got to be careful. Whatever you do, you've got to be able to live with that choice." He makes a choice. He knows he's going to have to live with that choice. And coming out of it, he knows that the court—there's no way he's going to be convicted—it's only going to make it worse. The idea that going through a process—having a process—is exactly where the discord reaches a point where people feel like, "that's the straw that breaks the camel's back." And he's sitting there in court going, "the outcome is never in doubt."
Once we learn a little more about this soldier [whose life he saved], it's apparent this guy is the most reprehensible kind of person that you can imagine. Him using the n-word, you get a pretty good idea. In that moment, Jason didn't know how bad this guy was. The circumstance is one guy willfully trying to take a life, and another dude who's maybe the worst person on the planet trying to stop him. So, Jason makes this choice, operating outside the law. The people in the community see that choice being validated in the courts—and yes, we see that in Ferguson, Baltimore, and so many places—where people say to the community, "you know, it was horrible, but let the courts decide." "That's what the courts are for." But, yeah, how many times do you see it where the decisions made in the courtroom oftentimes do not match what we see, in terms of evidence and what we believe? I think it was [author James] Baldwin who talked about the evidence of things unseen. You know? The things that are felt.
io9: And the courts can't account for that. Based on what you're saying, historical allusions were definitely intentional when you were writing that scene.
Ridley: Yeah, absolutely. And I sincerely do want to split the difference: we don't often see that bridge between what somebody did and some institution saying, "yes, what you did was in the letter of the law—you're a duly deputized person—so it's okay." Compounding that, the history of the real world, when that [kind of incident] happens with a person of color, you are a representation of the system. You are no longer therefore us, you are completely of the system. And that obviously has reverberations throughout this episode and the series, where people are like, "Okay—the courts will not hear us, but we will be heard in whatever manner we choose."
io9: "Sellout" is such a charged term. How much did you think about using it? To me, it would hurt me more to get called a sellout by another black person than it would be to get called the n-word by a white person…
Ridley: I agree with that.
io9: …especially for someone in Jason's position where he's trying to be a hero as in as best a way as he can, and for that to get hurled at him probably has to hurt.
Ridley: Yeah, I do think that's a fair point. I agree a thousand percent. For the majority of people of color, if some time in your life you've been hit with an insult from some other group, that's one thing. But when you get hit by your own group—especially when you strive to do certain things, like the integration that we're supposed to be striving for—and other people go, "100 percent, you're a sellout!" That is painful.
It is unpleasant when you get it from white folks. You know, some straight white male in power. I'll just say from my own experience, it's a whole different kind of pain. You go, "Wow, you're really misinterpreting things that I'm trying to do." And it's certainly more painful when it comes from folks that you're hoping to inspire or encourage or create pathways for, in areas where other people have already shut down. That's certainly what I want to express, and I think Jason is aware of it when it's this kid who's yelling at him and it's like, "they've found a way to hurt me that is completely different than white racists could ever do..."
io9: When I was writing these questions, the first thing I began to type for this scene was the word "riot." But then I told myself, "No, you know better." This is frustration. This is an eruption. This is rebellion. It's not a riot. I'm a strong believer in intention, and I think when that word is used to describe these protests historically, it's used in a negative connotation.
Ridley: I was watching the news [about Charlottesville] this weekend, and, only once did I hear literally one person use the word "riot." And that to me was stunning. I never want to get into a battle of semantics with people but why did we only hear that word once? It's a bunch of white supremacists, neo-Nazis... you know, clearly agitating and without real grievance. These are people, in my opinion, without any real particular grievance.
But, yes, in our comic book world, it gets to the point where they're outraged and distressed. The verdict that Jason receives is certainly going to play a particular way and that's the pushback. It will come into play. Language is charged, and I don't think as a writer I want to shy away from it. I know people are going to come with their agendas to say what's inappropriate, but, if we're mirroring the real world, I don't know how you can delve into the events that we're delving into and not use potent symbols, potent imagery in service of those thoughts, those beliefs. Judgments are often times applied with an agenda in place, or there are individuals in the prevailing culture who get to use them. Or get to use certain symbols, and get a pass.
io9: That scene with the unrest is obviously a consequence of the other one at the courthouse. But again, this weekend has been a perfect example of how people will take the logic of something horrible and use it to promote anti-black racism. How did you set up the scene while trying to avoid that pitfall?
Ridley: Well, one thing I wanted to make sure we did with our three principals was show how their good intentions lead to violent consequences. You have Jason's actions in last issue and Amber, this issue, she accidentally kills a police officer. And you have Missy. She certainly believes her intentions are good. In trying to say, "there is honor in our heritage," that is going to—not too much of a spoiler—it's going to lead to bad consequences.
So it's something for all these individuals to deal with. We saw it this weekend. What happened this weekend didn't come from nowhere. I'm over-explaining, but [it comes from] people giving a soft pass, or a wink-and-a-nod, or quite literally inviting people to the Oval Office who not only agree with but fully support the ideas of white supremacy.
I also wanted to touch on another side of what Dr. King and other people who stood up for peace and justice had to deal with. They were putting together marches and activism that was built around passive non-violent resistance. But people show up and they want to do damage and hurt people. Not everyone can embody those ideals all the time, especially in the face of violent attacks.
With all of the characters, they are all looking at the fact that what they're trying to accomplish is not as easy in the real world. They can't really accomplish the idealism and there are unintended consequences to their actions. So, to answer your question, people are going to come with their agendas in place, no matter what. But at this point, I hope and think anybody picking up The American Way have the capacity to see the larger ramifications and not just ignore the context of a scene where people of color spill out on the streets in anger and frustration.
What we're dealing with is a black man who is trying to be a community hero. A white girl who is trying to be a radical. And an older white woman who is trying to be a politician. And all three of them fail at it, and all three of their actions incite violence from followers or fellow travellers. You know, this is not just, "this is what black people do and that's all that's going to happen." Or this is what "white radicals are going to do and that's all that's going to happen." Or "this is all that Southern leaders are and every one of them is an intentional bigot," as opposed to blind to the invitations of bigotry. The challenge here—for me and the reader—is not drifting into tropes, stereotypes or things that have been so warmed over to the point they're no longer digestible. Hopefully, I'm building a narrative that is more reflective of the real world, by bringing in personalized perspective, as opposed to one idea in a very narrow focus. It doesn't always work out the way that you want it to.
io9: What are the tensions that Jason's struggling with as a result of his decision to enforce his own kind of racially neutral justice? How does his past as a member of the CDC weigh on his feelings about vigilantism now that he's gone independent? He was vetted by the government...
Ridley: In the last American Way series, Jason was the embodiment of a empowered black man, literally and figuratively. Now, he's gone against the system and carved his own path. There's a line in there where he dismisses both conservatism and liberalism, and says, "we're going to do it our way" and we see him flying off into the sunset as a hero should. But what's interesting to me, is the idea that movements get eclipsed by realities. In a very particular way, Jason is franchised by the government. He remains a person who wants to do the best he can for his community, but if you're trying to create the world in your own image, you're just a form of the establishment. You're not any better than that.
So, his past weighs on him, and the ghost of the past becomes—as the series goes on—a real lever for other individuals to use to get him to alter his trajectory for their concerns. People try to get Jason to make amends for things that have gone wrong. Part of what's going on with the series title, Those Above and Those Below, is that we're looking at those who feel that they are above the law. And those who operate outside the law, below the surface in an underground fashion. And, as this story continues to progress, I want to make people think about vigilantism, working outside the law, and who has the right to use their powers and abilities and what for and under what circumstances. How does that change when we agree or disagree with what they do? If I know your history and backstory, how does that change how you feel about the things that I do? What I try to accomplish? And that becomes a very big part of the story moving forward.
io9: One of the things I'm enjoying about the book is that if feels kind of grindhouse-y and slightly overheated. Is that a conscious, tonal decision on your part?
Ridley: Oh yeah. When I sat down with [editor] Jamie Rich, one of the things I said was that this is not going to be a big "people using a lot of powers" series. So it's a little pulpy in spaces because it is a departure from your typical hero books and we're playing with extremities. Amber, at this point, has used her power to basically make these fusion energy globes as bombs. Missy has not used them at all. Jason has used them very sparingly. So how do we make these people feel a little extraordinary, extreme? Willie Best, from issue #1, was this very hardcore urban guerrilla facing off against a guy who, when you aim a shotgun blast to the side of his face, it'd be like hitting him with a baseball bat, but that's about it. And Amber, this petite, blonde-haired, blue-eyed strung out junkie girl who's going around trying to blow stuff up. You've got Missy, who's based on Lurleen Wallace, George Wallace's wife. She got cancer and that fact was hidden from the news media. With Missy, she knows she's going to die and that just changes your mind. She feels like where we were is better than where we're going. And this is going to be my legacy. You can't talk somebody out of that. It's very hard to talk them out of it. And that certainly becomes a very, very indelible plot point as we move forward.


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a pictorial series by Veronica (age 5) in which Poison Ivy starts some shit and then Wonder Woman and Batgirl show up and I dunno what happens exactly but LOLhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/princessparkle/8727132456/http://www.flickr.com/photos/princessparkle/8727135186/http://www.flickr.com/photos/princessparkle/8727134168/
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:22 (seven years ago) link
haha, wow those are pretty impressive actually. here's my three year old's recent self portraithttps://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/488285_10200947270544499_479924352_n.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 17:37 (seven years ago) link
Ava's project on Un Lun Dun by China Mieville:
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:23 (seven years ago) link
beautiful! do you guys generally keep these things around or toss them at some point? i always think "we need to archive these" and then within two days we have piles and piles of junk around the house. i guess taking a pic and storing it digitally might just be the best solution...
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:09 (seven years ago) link
we toss a lot of stuff she brings home from day care because i assume the teachers did the bulk of the work on it anyways
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:04 (seven years ago) link
my wife diligently goes through anything my daughter draws and takes pictures of anything notable. even so, stuff piles up. this is what happens when your kid draws/colors for like 2 hrs every day lol
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:21 (seven years ago) link
yeah my mom saved probably like 1/20 of things i did in school and it is still tons of stuff. not sure if i really *need* it in my life...i just need the greatest hits, you know?
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:26 (seven years ago) link
"hey daddy."
"old balls."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:49 (seven years ago) link
― ḉrut (crüt), Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Alice, a self-portrait.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:04 (seven years ago) link
"there"? "babys"? Kid, go to your room.
(More homework fun with the 6yo).
― Michael Jones, Monday, 10 June 2013 14:13 (seven years ago) link
Oops. I meant "their?" Ok, kid, we all make mistakes.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 10 June 2013 14:14 (seven years ago) link
This is what they made me for Father's Day (Pam's iPhone snap, the irony):
― Michael Jones, Monday, 17 June 2013 11:13 (seven years ago) link
K has started to put together what sound like sentences but are semi-nonsensical, like she's just imitating the rhythm of talking, but using mostly real words. They're usually in Hebrew, but they roughly translate to things like "Mom this walking" "Dad this walking" "Stroller we eat this" etc.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 June 2013 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Beatrice has written and illustrated two books! I've been meaning to scan them so ill put one up sometime soon
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Thursday, 4 July 2013 04:30 (seven years ago) link
our little guy drew this one at 21 months, which he described as "mama holding you" (you meaning "me"). it almost makes me cry tbh.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 1 August 2013 19:40 (seven years ago) link
wow that's amazing
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:30 (seven years ago) link
aw that is great
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:32 (seven years ago) link
family portrait
she said "i'm a chip" so i don't know what that means. maybe that she accidentally drew her head as a misshapen oval instead of a circle.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 16:45 (seven years ago) link
lol hueg weiner
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 17:46 (seven years ago) link
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 19:03 (seven years ago) link
n/a did someone tell her shes a chip off the ol' block maybe?
:( i didn't see the hueg weiner until now and now i can't unsee it :(
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 20:13 (seven years ago) link
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 20:29 (seven years ago) link
some recent chalk art. https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1240311_10202078527185208_1831922185_n.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 September 2013 21:56 (six years ago) link
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 2 May 2014 20:30 (six years ago) link
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 May 2014 22:04 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:10 (six years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:53 (six years ago) link
A+ what are the MaMMIIs saying bottom left?
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 02:09 (six years ago) link
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called "bisnuts" (stevie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:34 (six years ago) link
the mummies are thinking "what if this happened?" I think the rest are diagrams of the mummification process
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:15 (six years ago) link
thats so great
― we've all been kids from time to time (sunny successor), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:30 (six years ago) link
Love this board!!!
― *tera, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:55 (six years ago) link
Thread I mean...
― *tera, Friday, 18 July 2014 10:24 (six years ago) link
good knowledge of madagascar, I like seeing geographical nous
― ogmor, Friday, 18 July 2014 11:00 (six years ago) link
Ok, ok, I helped her a bit...
― Michael Jones, Friday, 18 July 2014 13:56 (six years ago) link
It doesn't fit with the thread's brief of "self-expression" either. Except later when she just drew bunnies all over the newspaper.
Oooh, I've got one of these where Abba really surprised me recently by copying the design on my tshirt, but it doesn't turn up well in photographs because it's thin pink crayon on white paper. I'll have to remember to try and scan it in this weekend.
― how's life, Friday, 18 July 2014 14:03 (six years ago) link
little guy is taking some stabs at spelling ("squeak" and "violin"!) and he likes to draw things like bugs and pigs pouring milk into cups.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 21 July 2014 17:24 (six years ago) link
wow that is some awesomely neat lettering. great drawings too.
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:40 (six years ago) link
― *tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 15:48 (five years ago) link
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3899/15086039009_237fc5a748_o.jpgAugust's first watercolor by Terataurusrex
― *tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 15:49 (five years ago) link
Pretty! I'd frame that but I'm sappy.
― carl agatha, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:21 (five years ago) link
I did immediately! I'm super sappy :)
― *tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:50 (five years ago) link
that's great!
― example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:52 (five years ago) link
Thanks! It was a very "Hey I'm a Mommy!" moment for me.
― *tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:26 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:09 (five years ago) link
a couple years old but still
That's pretty dope.
― schwantz, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:12 (five years ago) link
Hahaha I used to draw almost exactly that way (rockstar/celeb chicks, fat textas) when I was about 10.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 06:22 (four years ago) link
Found this the other day, Veronica gettin some important work done in her room, apparently.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:10 (four years ago) link
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:21 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:26 (four years ago) link
it's the little details in my daughter's drawings, like, you know, the evil-looking taco with a monocle
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:27 (three years ago) link
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:59 (three years ago) link
― It's always (sunny successor), Saturday, 11 February 2017 01:21 (three years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:12 (three years ago) link
King Taco is not amused.
― DJI, Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:25 (three years ago) link
I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:27 (three years ago) link
Baron Von Tacoschmitt
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:40 (three years ago) link
It is really, really great when someone comes up to our kids and says "Can you sing me a song?" and they start singing Ode to Joy in almost-intelligible German.
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:34 (three years ago) link
also, I need to take a picture of the latest wall drawing that occurred before we confiscated all of the crayons because... it's kind of compelling
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:41 (three years ago) link
the other day Veronica had a school assignment to make a book about something so she made a book about ... books. The different parts of a book, what books are for, how to take care of books, different kinds of books, etc.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:33 (three years ago) link
lol @ DJP!!!!
Also "I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please" otm.
― the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:48 (three years ago) link
Veronica is so meta.
― DJI, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:13 (three years ago) link
a father's proudest day is when his daughter makes her first piece of Star Trek TOS fan art
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 March 2017 17:52 (three years ago) link
Really cool figure drawing!
― DJI, Monday, 20 March 2017 18:28 (three years ago) link
My two-and-three-quarter-year-old has begun punning and making up jokes. Sample quips:
[We pass some tulips]"I have tulips, daddy. [points to mouth] On my face!"
[Partner is telling her story of how, before we owned them, our cats were strays rescued from a nearby car park.]"No mummy - they were rescued in a cat park!"
[She's having toast for breakfast]Partner: "We need to go to the post office, to post these letters."Marin: "We could post them in the toast office!"
I mean, okay, that's not "genius", but.
― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:14 (three years ago) link
sounds pretty genius to me
― niels, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:53 (three years ago) link
MSM decided to make her own homework the other evening. Took a blank piece of paper, wrote out the instructions, wrote out some examples of how to do it, then did it, on the other side of the paper. I guess the assigned homework was unsatisfying, like Monday/Tuesday crossword puzzles
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:30 (three years ago) link
eat your heart out, cy twombly
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:02 (three years ago) link
to me this is a fairly obvious reworking of picasso's "las meninas" series of paintings, for example
which of course were in turn versions of the velasquez painting:
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 07:22 (three years ago) link
I believe your child is a genius
― niels, Monday, 12 June 2017 08:21 (three years ago) link
thank you
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 08:41 (three years ago) link
― It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:53 (three years ago) link
to be clear he did not paint the last two
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:56 (three years ago) link
oh hahaha I really though he did the second last one. Yay for my BFA.
― It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:05 (three years ago) link
it's an understandable mistake to make, because my child is a genius
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:11 (three years ago) link
there's been a bunch of stop motion movies and bread making and art at camp this summer but my favorite thing lately is this perfect band logo she wrote on our kitchen whiteboard
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 9 July 2017 02:42 (three years ago) link
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Friday, 14 July 2017 02:48 (three years ago) link
also look who's learned how to use powerpoint
― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:07 (three years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:08 (three years ago) link
Ben made a new track: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/unravel
― DJI, Friday, 17 November 2017 16:22 (two years ago) link
Ben made another one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-_C8RKf38
― DJI, Saturday, 27 October 2018 17:06 (one year ago) link
A couple more Circuit tracks from Ben:https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glidehttps://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glide-part-ii
― DJI, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:21 (nine months ago) link
This week Ben made this wild track in Ableton: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/voidThere's enough material in there for like 4-5 tracks!
― DJI, Sunday, 26 April 2020 04:11 (four months ago) link
And another. This one is really pretty.
― DJI, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:13 (four months ago) link
And another one. This is a little chillstep/ambient-ish:https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/dreamscape
― DJI, Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:13 (two months ago) link


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Need a reading, mandala or some jewelry? Check it out.
By Western Daily Press | Posted: April 20, 2016
By Tom Bevan
The former B&B Seafield House is available for £400,000 - the same price as a small London flat.
A twelve-bed house has gone up for sale but prospective buyers be warned - locals say it is HAUNTED.
The Victorian clifftop property has stunning views over the Atlantic but comes with one drawback - it is widely referred to as the "haunted house".
Neighbours claim they hear strange noises coming from the property at night, and an elderly lady has been spotted sitting at the window and waving.
The house, in Westward Ho! In Devon also needs "extensive refurbishment", and has huge cracks in the walls, with some rooms too dangerous to enter.
But the former B&B Seafield House is available for £400,000 - the same price as a small London flat.
It was originally built in the 1880s as a summer residence for London banker Brinsley De Courcey Nixon.
It was used by the Ministry of Defence during the Second World War as officers' quarters with Italian prisoners of war housed in nearby fields.
The property was then purchased in the 1950s and has been in the same family since then.
It became a bed and breakfast establishment for a number of years and then was used as a residential property.
Andrew Trump, manager of estate agency Seldons, which is organising its auction, said: "Nobody has been in here except the owner and a few people who cared for her for many years.
"It was completely choc-a-bloc with stuff.
"Some of the rooms still had the original bedsheets from when it was a bed and breakfast.
"We found ledgers from guests dating back to 1968," he said, adding that it took three months to clear the house for sale.
Three truckloads of Edwardian, Georgian and Victorian furniture from the house have already been sold at auction.
Before the sale in January, auctioneer Robert Pyle described it as looking like "something out of a horror movie from the outside".
While the residence is in need of extensive renovation and refurbishment, the accommodation is spacious and spread over three storeys with 12 bedrooms. It has been advertised as having great scope for development.
The sale is being handled by Seldons and the home will go under the hammer, unless sold prior to auction, at 3pm on Wednesday, May 25 at The Pier House, Westward Ho!.
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ICE teams across the regions took part in activities to encourage more women into the industry.
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) estimates that more than 230,000 new recruits will be needed between 2016 and 2020 to meet expected construction demand, without factoring in losses due to retirement. The long timescales involved in training new construction workers means the short to medium term outlook for the UK in meeting its skills need is bleak
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Monday, October 13, 2008
But it's also a day to remember a lost opportunity. For the first time, we had a president who liked to spend his free time mountain biking . But he didn't do a damned thing for us. Didn't lift a finger to further our cause. No funding for new trails. No defense of our rights to access of public lands. Nothin'. A big, fat zero. To be fair, I doubt he knows there are millions of other people who love mountain biking. I mean, he took up the sport after becoming president, and he lives in a high-security bubble. I'm pretty damned sure he's not going to learn about the rest of us by reading.
I once saw something from IMBA about how we need mountain bikers on municipal committees and in state legislatures, Congress, etc., to give us a louder voice and greater legitimacy in the public eye. To have a mountain biking president should be the ultimate way to advance our cause but, with Bush, it has only inspired frequent jabs from Maureen Dowd at the New York Times, who likes to point out that when this or that major event occurred, the president was "out riding his bike" instead of doing his job.
Considering how he wrecked everything else he touched, we should probably be glad he made no attempt to help mountain bikers. With his record, any effort to help would probably have been a nail in the sport's coffin.
But I've often found myself how different things would be today if Dubya hadn't become our first court-appointed president despite the majority of Americans voting for Al Gore in 2000. Or what if so many voters hadn't been in a coma four years ago, and we'd elected John Kerry, the guy who rode a custom Serotta Ottrott? Now there was a guy with brains and good taste in bikes.
I wouldn't expect any president to make bicycling a big priority when it comes to domestic policy, but a little effort to encourage bike commuting, or trail building, or something, would help.
After all the presidents we've had who liked golf, jogging, tennis, etc., it would have been nice if the first one to enjoy mountain biking could have enhanced the sport's image, instead of making it the butt of jokes.
Vote for Obama. And let's send him a bike.
3 comments:
- DT said...
Funny you should mention this - I just got an email from my old club, Mid-Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts (MORE). One of their members regular writes the pres and tells him he should ride one of the local trails (Rosaryville). Evidently, a group showed up recently to the park, just in time to catch the pres leaving. I think he normally hits some local trails that are usually closed to bikes...
- Jill Homer said...
Bush to help open national parks to mountain bikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration plans to make it easier for mountain bikers to gain access to national parks and other public lands before the president — an avid cyclist himself — leaves office.
The National Park Service confirmed Tuesday that it is preparing a rule that will allow decisions about some mountain bike trails to be made by park managers instead of federal regulators in Washington, a process that can take years.
A park service spokesman said the rule would be proposed no later than Nov. 15 so it could be final before Bush leaves office. If adopted, the proposal would likely result in more mountain biking opportunities on public lands.
Currently, the Park Service has to adopt a special regulation to open up trails to mountain bikes, which requires the public to be formally notified. The same process is required for all-terrain vehicles and other motorized recreation on park lands.
"We are trying to give superintendents a little bit of latitude especially for non-controversial proposals for bicycling in parks," said Jeffrey Olson, a spokesman for the service. "We are responding to public demand."
Environmental advocate Jeff Ruch called the rule a lame-duck gift for the mountain biking lobby from the "Mountain-Biker-in-Chief," referring to Bush.
- Tim said...
They announce this the day after my post. Coincidence?
Maybe his aides read my blog to him!


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