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Keepin' It Regal with Decorative Crowns
Royal fever may have died down quite a bit, however a love for all things regal certainly has not. We couldn't help but notice a prevalence of crown motifs prevailing over the average home décor.
• Looking to make a big impact in a small (or not so small) space, look no further than this coroneted wallpaper from British company Graham and Brown. The graphic black-and-white combo is definitely an attention-getter, and you can even purchase little rhinestones to bejewel the crowns as you please, adding an unexpected spark to otherwise plebian walls.
• Who doesn't want to feel like royalty upon waking up each morning? This corona canopy is far from little-girl-princess-y, and is a great way to add some Romantic Era glamour to the bedroom. Pair it with some muslin or other light, natural-woven fabric to bring the look down to earth and away from an overdone or gaudy look. Via Sarah Klassen/Haute Design
• A more understated (yet no less noteworthy) approach to adding some regality to a room is with crown-adorned artwork and accessories. The subdued tones of these pieces not only compliment the overall color scheme of the room, but they also subtly allude to entering a royal inner sanctum every time you head to bed. Via Morph Design
• Another look we can't get enough of are crown-centric vignettes in great spaces such as offices or living rooms. We've spotted royal-worthy headgear at thrift stores, flea markets, and even some discount retail stores that are anything but your daughter's dress-up tiaras. The varying patinas on these from Ally at From The Right Bank exude old world charm with a bit of mystery, and are certainly an intriguing conversation piece for any space.
• If formal hardware isn't your thing or you're looking for an afternoon craft for on a rainy day, consider these fun kronas from Paper Source. Just add some ribbon, rhinestone stickers, glitter glue or puffy paint and create original works of art in bright fun colors. The site suggests layering crowns for a truly unique royal look, making these great for letting kids create and add some regal accents to their own spaces.
~ Tabatha
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We—the royal we—are not amused.
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I'm sure some of you probably are thinking the same thing...but everytime I see a crown, all I can think of is the tacky air fresheners that some people put in their cars.
But I suppose that in small amounts, unlike the wallpaper, it could be classy.
I think the wallpaper could be great in a guest WC with royal purple towels, etc. Why not help to make your guests feel like royalty?
I think the crown motif would fit perfectly in an older historical home. I particularly like the wallpaper. It could an extra pop of detail in a room or help break up a continuous space on a statement wall. The paper crowns would be a great idea for a birthday party favor or craft for a baby shower.
I really like the small metal crowns for our formal dining room. They would look great lined up next to my tea cups in the china cabinet. I'll have to try this idea.
I live in a historical home and I'd never deign to place a crown in any American historical home.
Either way, no thanks. Seems the authors taste is in her mouth.
I love the artwork above the bed. It's how I envision my neice's room will look when she matures.
Seeing the crown blown up over the bed really puts it out of context and makes it an architectural piece. I love how unexpected it is. Also love the idea for vignettes. I'm not bored at all with this.
I totally love this! As someone who is currently redecorating, I am always struggling to create spaces that are less "vanilla" without being over the top. I have never considered crowns as a way to jazz up my space. The wallpaper would add interest without being too loud. Also, my daughter would die for the crown canopy. I am gonna have to put the hubs to work on these ideas asap. Thanks for the great ideas!
Wow... I'd pay obscene dollars to have that crown above my little's princesses bed! Thanks for the great ideas, I like each one so awesomely much :)
This reads very Toddlers and Tiaras to me.
I've been planning a room makeover for my daughters and I love the crown paintings. Something like that would be perfect for their "grown up" girl room. Thanks for the idea!
I have an antique crown plaque on the guest bath door, it just makes it easier for guests to find the room without asking!
With a daughter & son who love everything kings, princes, and princesses - they would LOVE this! I love the paper crown craft idea too - puts the crowns my mom has made for my kids to shame! ;)
I'm not really sure about all that.
It's just so...obvious.
For scrapbooking, yes. For my wall, no.


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Newly-minted American Idol judge Nicki Minaj says that despite reports of tension between her and fellow judge Mariah Carey, things are fine between them. She blames their much-publicized on-set spat on "passion."
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This was a big week of "Huh?" Twice.
"Never volunteer for execution," Donald Trump proclaimed during episode six Sunday night.
Tionne "T Boz" Watkins volunteered to be in the boardroom to support Melissa Rivers, who was likely to get fired. But instead, Trump fired T Boz because she placed herself before the firing squad. It's odd logic but to Trump, volunteering is plain stupid and he had fired a contestant many moons ago (some dude named Bradford) for that same reason.
"I lived my whole career on the edge and that speaks within itself," said a befuddled T Boz in her farewell. Basically, T Boz didn't do anything badly at all during her entire run. She was well liked and worked hard. She even won her challenge for the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia last week, winning the group $20,000. But she did absolutely nothing interesting from a TV viewer's perspective.
"I want to see my daughter grow old and be a grandma," T Boz said earlier, after giving the $20,000 check to the foundation. She has battled Sickle Cell all her life.
Then Trump went completely off task to fire Khloe Kardashian, too, because she had to take time off for a DUI the previous week. He's not a fan of DUIs. (Who is?) He contributed $20,000 to her charity, related to drug and alcohol abuse awareness. Then he canned her. This despite the fact Clint Black had completely botched the challenge. In other words, Trump got rid of Khloe for a reason that had zero to do with the task at hand.
Wow. This show just gets stranger and stranger.
At the top of the show, we hear the show is trying to help Dennis Rodman, who was eliminated last week and clearly has a drinking problem. Since this was taped months ago, it's unclear whether Trump's "intervention" led to anything. I can't find anything online that this is the case.
The teams got mixed up. On KOTU, UGA alum Herschel Walker joined Joan Rivers, Clint Black, Khloe Kardashian, and Natalie Gulbis On Athena, T-Boz joined Melissa Rivers, Jesse James, Annie Duke and Brande Roderick. (Brian McKnight had a previous engagement and had a bye but will join the Athena team)
The challenge: do a viral video for All detergent. Both sides struggled to toe the line between "edgy and outrageous" and acceptable to All detergent execs and the target demographic of women 25-49 who are tech savvy. Both ideas came up with "little people" ideas to tie in the "small and mighty" concept.
Clint Black had this idea of a joke which turned "doing laundry" into a euphemism for sex. A "little person" was supposed to do it, but the actor was awful. Black took over. The three women on the team were flabbergasted and tried to stop him but as project manager, Black ignored them. Joan Rivers goes ballistic. She felt like she was blocked out of the process while Black played dictator. "I thought it was dirty. I thought it was stupid. i don't think handled the product in any way," Rivers said. She later said, "I hope I never see him again."
"I wouldn't send it to anyone," said Herschel Walker, who thought it was silly.
"I was offended by it," said Annie Duke.
The Athena team's Jesse James video with the three little people was actually pretty funny. "Hilarious," said rival Joan Rivers.
"Best team experience I've had on the show," James said.
The result: The square-ish All execs didn't like either video. The Jesse James video had cursing bleeped out (Perez Hilton liked the video) and the other bordered on porn. So nobody won.
I'll post the videos as soon as they pop up on YouTube.
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[...] Celebrity Apprentice recap: Atlanta's Tionne "T Boz" Watkins cut 4/5: Celebrity Apprentice recap: Atlanta's Tionne "T Boz" Watkins cut 11:08 pm April 5, 2009, by Rodney [...]
April 6th, 2009
10:03 am
Where was Brian McKnight?
April 6th, 2009
10:15 am
Trump is an ssshole! First off these people are playing the game to win money for charities not an actual job for his organization! Tionne in no way deserved to be fired. Secondly it was really pathetic that in the name of ratings he decides to air out Chloes dirty laundry on the air like that, that was totally uncalled for and wrong! I lost all respect for Trump after last nights show, no matter how rich he is or grows to be in the future, he's a loser.
April 6th, 2009
10:19 am
I think Khloe and T-Boz were fired for being boring, plain and simple. Neither received much air time because they didn't mug up properly to the cameras or the audience. I love this show and usually agree with the Don's pick each week, but he based his decision yesterday on everything but the success of the project. Clint Black should absolutely have been told "You're Fired!" last night.
April 6th, 2009
10:31 am
I hope Joan Rivers wins the whole thing!
April 6th, 2009
10:58 am
Some dude named Bradford? To apprentice fans he is greatest what if of all the apprentices…The guy was great a born leader, firm, decisive, intelligent and got the job done….Trump said it best "he was and is a brilliant guy"…..I don't remember him saying that about any of teh past apprentice winners let alone contestants.
April 6th, 2009
11:18 am
I mean really, who cares?
They need to get a porn star on this show. A hot one too.
April 6th, 2009
11:35 am
Trump is a chump…
April 6th, 2009
11:48 am
After last night I won't be watching the show anymore. I've always thought Trump was full of himself. He talks to people like he is so right, even to the point of putting them down.
April 6th, 2009
11:55 am
Clint Black is a dumba$$!!!!
April 6th, 2009
11:57 am
It was just wrong that Donald T. fired T-Boz and Khloe. It's especially bad since T-Boz won her challenge as the Project Manager last week. Khloe has not been doing that much on the show and I don't think she has ever been a Project manager. I don't know what Clint Black was think about. The commercial was supposed to appeal to moms that do laundry not dudes that are not getting any. For a moment I thought the Donald was going to fire Joan Rivers and her daughter, but they bring a lot of drama to the show and that makes it interesting. Hey Rodney Ho, how about a part-time job? I love writing and blogging on your topics. I love entertainment news. Do you need an assistant?
April 6th, 2009
12:03 pm
I applaud Trump for firing Khloe for getting a DUI. It is our business when someone puts other peoples' lives at stake by doing something illegal. And on top of that, these people are celebrities that kids look up to. They should not be driving drunk, they should be setting good examples.
April 6th, 2009
12:08 pm
I guess because he has money and its his show Trump can go beyond common sense and decency. Khole made a mistake she got caught and is correcting that mistake. Enough throwing stones. T. Boz just got suckered in by Melissa whom was going to stand up as the responsible party, just like Clint, who did nothing to "volunteer" his explusion inspite of basically stating he was going to own up.
April 6th, 2009
12:13 pm
Trump is from a world where back sabbing is common and loyalty is disregarded or regarded as being weak. T-Boz seems to be too decent for that show. It's a shame we seem not to like decent but low down holds our interest.
April 6th, 2009
12:22 pm
Melissa was hatched from the same ruthhless egg that Trump came from. T-Boz, learn from this, Melissa would drop you off the side of a twenty story building in a New York minute, if it meant she gets to play another day.
April 6th, 2009
12:25 pm
MLH….I strongly disagree with celebrities being role models for our children. A role model should be a person your child can identify themselves too….such as: Mom, Dad, teachers..etc…celebrities work extremely hard their entire life portraying characters unlike themselves. We are responsible for our kids, not celebrities…..
April 6th, 2009
12:45 pm
T-Boz got fired for being loyal. Khloe was fired for no reason. Donald Trump was so cruel. I lost all respect for Clint Black when he didn't choose Joan Rivers to go in the boardroom with him. Melissa and Clint should have been fired! Herschel Walker is a hoot!
April 6th, 2009
12:54 pm
I agree with you Hero. I'm not saying they should be role models, but the fact of the matter is, young kids do look up to these people. For better or worse that is just the society we live in.
April 6th, 2009
1:42 pm
The Hair must've been stressed out over the real estate slump when last night's show was taped. He was way out of left field with this one. The only reason he fired Tionne and Khloe was because they weren't controversial or confrontational enough for his stupid "reality" show. And the reason he gave for firing Tionne was bull. I mean, he went on and on about how the other guy, Bradford, was such a success and all, but he still fired him. To make a point? Well, sounds like a dumb move for any boss to fire someone that they know will be successful and who did a great job. Who wins in that deal? Not Trump, that's for sure. Clint Black should've been the one to be fired. He wasn't acting like a project manager or a team player. He disregarded everything his team members said and wouldn't even include them in the process. I used to be a fan of Clint Black, but after seeing how he is really an egotistical, self-important snob with a superiority complex, I am no longer a fan. When I saw he treated Jesse James on the 1st or 2nd episode, I lost all respect for him. What a disappointment. I hope Jesse James wins in the end.
April 6th, 2009
2:10 pm
I think the whole challenge was kind of weird. They asked for a particular audience right? Older moms don't really watch viral videos as much as younger teens and people in their 20s. Also, I agree it isn't for an experience for business, so Trump shouldn't have fired T-boz. In the other case with that dude, it was for a business position so he had to understand that the business world can be harsh. The Celebrity Apprentice is for charity so the people are just trying to do the tasks correctly to support these people. This week he made irrational decisions: HE WANTS MORE RATINGS.
April 6th, 2009
3:51 pm
Last night was just wrong. I have been a fan of Celebrity Apprentice all these years and last night, Mr. Trump just lost me. Clint Black should have gone….he was conceited and ego-maniacle….sad, sad how the show ended last night. Kardashien should have not been sent away. She seems to be really trying and facing up to her mistake. He just hit her twice. Bad, bad….
April 6th, 2009
4:23 pm
Joan & Melissa are Hollywood's finest for being demonic, low-life, backstabbing creatures. Joan is not funny and Melissa is not an award-winning producer. Unfortunately, we have to bear witness, not only to their horrific physical looks, but their condescending and self-serving attitudes. Each time these monsters enter the board room, I believe a butcher knife is lying across their lap, to challenge each constructive criticism toward them. At any given moment, the blood begans to seep from the side of their mouths and the silicon monsters begans to emerge. Their disdain for intelligence, knowledge and beauty negates the sole purpose for not only being a team player, but their presence on the show. Their total display of theatrics and mockery is utterly unbecoming…..Admittedly so, I at least give them credit for stabbing you in the chest instead of the back as you shockingly leave the boardroom……..feature film to be released in Summer '09 'Trumped Faces of Crooked Rivers'
April 6th, 2009
4:48 pm
At what point do you stop paying for things in your past? Khole has owned up to her mistakes and is paying the high cost of them. Donald is wrong – if he had done background checks he would of known about Khole's past – she has never tried to hide it!
Sometimes you need to "stand by" a friend – that is what T-Boze did, nothing more nothing less.
Maybe Donald has not paid for his hpast wrong doings or has never stood by a friend…. Either way he was wrong!
April 6th, 2009
4:58 pm
I wasn't impressed with either video, but Joan was hoping for Clint to fail and that he would be fired, that is why she pushed for him to be project manager. She said in an earlier show when they were watching the "firing" that Clint was a snake, she doesn't like him and wanted him gone. I thought his move was smart, he knew that she wouldn't be fired, he thought he was a goner and didn't want to listen to her mouth.
April 7th, 2009
9:19 am
I think that Trump needs to go back to the original version where he actucally hired someone worthwhile not using people who already have fame and fortune maybe the ratings will go back up. Just an FYI to the DONALD……..
April 7th, 2009
2:06 pm
Clint Black AND Melissa Rivers should have been fired.
The only reason Clint Black stayed is cuz Trump saw the drama potential between him & Joan Rivers. I couldn't blame him for not bring Joan and her big ole plastic mouth in the Board Room, all she would've down was shout him down and he would've been fired. The other 2 were passive enough that Clint had half a chance in hell of staying and it worked!
Melissa Rivers said earlier in the show that the rest of her team did so well she would step up to be fired if they lost. If that's the case why'd she need ANY backup in the Board Room? Can't stand her or her mama, they both need to be FIRED but somehow I think at least Joan will shout everyone down til the bitter end and win it all.
I didn't like how Tionne went, it was a cop out for Donald because she wasn't interesting enough for TV? Khloe while I understand what some of ya'll are saying I was glad to see her go. All she did was B&M every episode & hardly did anything, at least Tionne worked.
April 8th, 2009
4:49 pm
I teach a DUI class in the metro. Most people who go thur DUI class realize they made a bad mistake and they don't make that mistake again. The only reason Donald hasn't had a DUI is he has a driver. But watch, it would not surprize me if one of his kids (Donald's kids) made that mistake one day. Being in this business I've seen loud mouths like Trump brag on themselves and down people about their short comings, but before you know it a Trump will be sitting in class with me.
April 8th, 2009
4:57 pm
If you enter a boardroom and see Trump, Joan, Melissa, and Clint, start hollaring sharks and snakes, back out fast no! no! no! run as fast as you can.
good luck! T-Boz feel blessed.


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NewPages Book Reviews
July 1, 2008
Best of the Web 2008 :: Knockemstiff :: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick :: Seal Woman :: Alluvium :: Little Brother :: Clear All the Rest of the Way :: Spilling the Moon :: Girl on the Fridge
Best of the Web 2008
Ed. Steve Almond, Nathan Leslie
Dzanc Books, July 2008
Paperback: 353pp; $18.00
Review by Ryan Call
At the heart of Dzanc Books' anthology Best of the Web 2008 sits a quiet essay titled "Thirst and the Writer's Sense of Consequence" by David Bottoms. In the essay, originally published in the Kennesaw Review, Bottoms takes for his starting point Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the language of which inspires him to explore "the whole question of artistic sensibility, more specifically, the sensibility that gives impulse to poetry and literary fiction." Although it is a change of pace from the poetry and prose of the surrounding pages, for example, Christina Kallery's poem "Swan Falls in Love with Swan-Shaped Boat" and R.T. Smith's story "What I Omitted from the Official Personnel Services Report," the essay gives the anthology a solid center from which the other pieces might develop.
The poet or the fiction writer who wants to touch readers on the deepest level is constantly seeking out those dots and trying to connect them, acting against desperate odds on the impulse of yearning to know. In this way, literature becomes a record of the ways the world moves us toward a sense of significance.
Here Bottoms likens the creation of art to the act of solving a connect-the-dots puzzle, perhaps not the cleanest of metaphors, but one that places great importance on connection. It is this idea that leads me to expand Bottoms's cast of literary types to include Dzanc publishers Steven Gillis and Dan Wickett, Best of the Web series editor Nathan Leslie, and guest editor Steve Almond. Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2008 is the result of their efforts to connect the Internet's writing scene into a single, significant record of online literary writing.
What makes this particular anthology so exciting is the fact that it seeks both to improve upon previous anthologies and to begin what Dzanc hopes will become one of the most important and longest lasting series of online writing anthologies ever published. Leslie is especially clear about this goal. After politely nodding to other anthologies, such as the past efforts of Carve Magazine and the ongoing Million Writers Award run by Jason Sanford, editor of StorySouth, Leslie writes:
This is a wide-ranging anthology, eclectic, various and sundry. This anthology is built to, we hope, stand the test of time year in and year out. After all, this is the point of an annual anthology. It should be an eagerly awaited arrival, something to look forward to.
And Leslie is right. The anthology is expansive in its scope. In its three hundred or so pages, you will find poetry, fiction, and essays, all of which represent many different sensibilities and online journals, ranging from the widely popular Blackbird and failbetter.com to lesser known publications, such as the Danforth Review and The King's English. Add to that Leslie's introduction, a rather odd introduction by Steve Almond, four short author interviews, a list of notable pieces, contributors' notes, and an index of online journals, and you have an ambitious overview of online literary writing.
A few of my favorite pieces include David Willems's short short "A Girl Made of Glass," Ron Tanner's story "My Small Murders," Justin Taylor's short short "The Jealousy of Angels," Garth Risk Hallberg's essay on James Wood's misreading of Don DeLillo, and Andrea Cohen's poem "Still Life with Childhood." These pieces deserve mention because they embody what I really like about online writing: its defiant and reckless energy in the face of what Leslie calls the "sometimes prissy, stuffy [. . .] print world."
I was surprised by a few of the selections (and omissions) on the part of the editors. I recall reading several fantastic online stories this past year that did not make the anthology. The work of Kim Chinquee comes to mind. Equally surprising was the absence of a few journals. For example, despite receiving three nods in the Notables section, elimae did not have a piece in the main pages and the writing in DIAGRAM went completely unmentioned.
Despite my minor complaints, Best of the Web 2008 successfully does all that its publishers and editors could have hoped for. The book both recognizes a wide range of quality online writing, and gives its readers a comprehensive look at the field from which its contents come – two characteristics of a good anthology. As for the fate of the series, I do not doubt that it will continue to appear each year, given the tremendous success that Dzanc has had since its founding in 2006. Such a development could not have come at a better time for online literary publishing.
Stories by Donald Ray Pollock
Doubleday, March 2008
Hardcover: 224pp; $22.95
Review by Matt Bell
There's no way I could start this review with a sentence better than any of the first lines in Knockemstiff, the debut collection by Donald Ray Pollock. Perhaps this one from the collection's opening story, "Real Life," which starts, "My father showed me how to hurt a man one August night at the Torch Drive-in when I was seven years old." Another, "Bactine," opens with "I've been staying out around Massieville with my crippled uncle because I was broke and unwanted everywhere else, and I spent most of my days changing his slop bucket and sticking fresh cigarettes in his smoke hole."
If that's not enough to get you reading, consider the first paragraph of the story "Holler":
I woke up thinking I'd pissed the bed again, but it was just a sticky spot from where Sandy and me fucked the night before. Those kind of things happen when you drink like I do – you shit your pants in the Wal-Mart, you end up living off some crackhead and her poor parents. I raised the blankets just a tad, traced my finger over the blue KNOCKEMSTIFF, OHIO tattoo that Sandy had etched in her skinny ass like a road sign. Why some people need ink to remember where they come from will always be a mystery to me.
If the narrator is really that confused, perhaps he should ask his creator, because Donald Ray Pollock has spilled a hell of a lot of ink in pursuit of his own real life hometown of Knockemstiff. The characters in these stories are mostly rural, poorly educated, and addicted to everything from cigarettes to hard liquor, from fish sticks to stolen pharmaceuticals. Like the reclusive narrator of "Dynamite Hole," who lives in the canyon beyond the town, these are characters whose desires are formed by watching their neighbors, by coveting their cars and their jobs and their women until something crucial snaps, thrusting them from inaction into whatever comes next.
In "Real Life," Bobby tells the story of how, when he was seven years old, his father took him and his mother to see Godzilla at the Torch Drive-In. Bobby is a disappointment to his father, who complains to a friend, "I shit you not . . . this boy's scared of his own goddamn shadow. A fuckin' bug's got more balls." When Bobby and his father take a break from the movie to go to the bathroom, it ends with the father getting in a fistfight with another man, followed by their sons fighting too. Bobby hits the other boy as his father screams encouragement, until "bright red blood sprayed out of his nose." His reward is the only bit of encouragement he will ever get from his father:
I scooted across the seat and sat behind my father as we raced home. Every time he passed a car, he took another pull from the bottle. Wind rushed through his open window and dried our sweat. The Impala felt like it was floating above the highway. You did good, I kept saying to myself, over and over. It was the only goddamn thing my old man ever said to me that I didn't try to forget.
Other highlights include "Hair's Fate," about a boy named Daniel who hitchhikes his way into trouble, ending up in a trucker's trailer that "smelled like a closet full of bad times," and "Fish Sticks," where the narrator details the advantages and disadvantages of dating a mentally handicapped woman: "Even though she was probably the best woman Del Murray had ever been with – gobs of bare-knuckle sex, the latest psychotropic drugs, a government check – he was still embarrassed to be seen with her in public."
If it's not obvious by now, it's worth pointing out that most of these characters are so far from redemption that whatever hope there is for them lies beyond the scope of these very short stories. There are bad people in Donald Ray Pollock's fictional version of the town Knockemstiff, and to expect them to come out the other side of their trials either saved or punished is to be disappointed.
In the end, this isn't the kind of the book that's going to save anyone's soul, or show the redemptive possibilities of even the roughest characters. Instead, Donald Ray Pollock offers us nothing more and nothing less than the truth, even when that truth is ugly and twisted and drunk on cheap liquor or high on oxycotin. Better that than another story about people getting healed, another book about a community coming together after generations of failure and misery. Knockemstiff is too good of a book for any of that. It's a great debut, and without a doubt one of the best books published so far this year.
Makes the
Heart Grow Sick:
A Book of Postcards
Graphics by Cristy C. Road
Microcosm Publishing, September 2007
Paperback: 90 postcards; $15.00
Review by Sean Lovelace
As the name implies, the DIY (Do It Yourself) movement is all about self-sufficiency. The punk branch of this larger concept pushes the ideology even further, basically shouting to all: "If your activities (aka consumer services or items) exploit planet Earth or creatures of, then f—k off! We'll do it ourselves!" This model is essentially economic, finding new (and theoretically purer) paths around consumer culture, from music production (David Ferguson, Michelle Branch, etc.) to advertising (the very successful Sticker Junkie, among others) to the local farmer's market or garage sale (or dare I say eBay?). DIY innately lends itself to the sensibilities of art and the internet: blogs, zines, forums, the arteries and chambers of the underground, of buzz, immediacy and verve – the hiss and crackle of punk.
Author, illustrator, self-publisher, advocate for society's underdogs, Cristy C. Road has been on the stiletto's edge of self-authenticity and anti-authority for years, slicing and slashing her way forward. She is prolific (for a sampling I strongly suggest you visit her eclectic website of prose and drawings, CROADCORE). She is also consistent with angst as her subject. Road's examination of alienation and anxiety goes beyond the simple teenage variety, the self pity that drives a young person to view the greater world and write about themselves. Instead, Road tackles edgier issues: sex and sexuality, mental illness, race, class, identity in the good ol' (and often not so good ol') U.S. of A. Clearly, Road maintains a larger view, a bit of Patti Smith, a touch of Banksy (before he sold out, right?), maybe even a shard of Valerie Solonas: grittier, more vividly political, and certainly more serious than any tear-stained diary.
Her new collection is an offering of 90 postcards. Actual postcards, perforated for easy removal and mailing: I should know – I've currently sent out 14 of them to friends and enemies. And what is a postcard to an artist? A formula of juxtaposition: A (an image) plus B (words) equaling C (the new and greater meaning of the two combined). Think of Rauschenberg's infamous goat-and-tire installation; or this spring's Dave Eggers art show (he was curator of the event), a collection of text and images together (more than 100, including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Cohen, R. Crumb, and Kurt Vonnegut). Apparently, Eggers didn't ask Cristy C. Road to submit for the showing. Not that she would have agreed to, this reviewer would hope. Her art belongs elsewhere, in the alley outside the gallery, or possibly in the storm drain, alongside an empty bottle of codeine cough syrup.
Images of the underbelly, city dwellers clutching beer bottles, pills, and hand-rolled marijuana cigarettes, all hunched below an ashy urban sky. Of biker women. Glam rock men. Of one woman proudly walking the street while wearing a strap-on dildo (I sent this one to my grandmother but haven't heard back yet). Of youth, droopy-eyed, sullen, in hoodies and mascara, thick belts and jangling chains, as they leap concertina wire, make out in public, lug their perfectly beaten guitars from street corner to warehouse to dive bar. Does some of this seem stock? From the stage of Rent, the hipster hangouts of East Village? Possibly, but Road frequently takes things further, to the new and often startling, and this is where the art rises from the page.
One card depicts a woman standing below a towering skyscraper. Ravens spiral down from a pearly sky, and peck at her open skull, the gray matter of her brain. She reads the newspaper, apparently oblivious to her exposed cranium, the "open mind" as carrion. We glimpse only the front and back page of the newspaper. The headline announces JUST SAY NO. The back is a full-page advertisement for vodka. Now this is an America I recognize. This is an image that makes me question.
Another card is a young woman in a jaundice yellow bathtub. She has taken the long metal tubing of the shower coil and appears to sexually service herself with the showerhead. Her legs are spread wide. Her expression one of orgasmic self-satisfaction. But most fascinating is the setting. Below the sink a pile of dirty laundry (metaphor anyone?). The bathroom rug resembles a tangle of steel wool. And, captured in silhouette against the window glass of the door, a man, his face buried in his hands, grieving. Him. Her. Their closeness. Their distance. The pale wash of the grimy wall mirror. There is truth enough here about relationships to fill several novels.
Several other images in this book contain such compressed honesty. Such exposure. Such a lot, on a relatively small canvas. And isn't this the purpose of postcards? Finally, Road's work surpasses the cliché, and the postcard embraces its form and function: to fly, to transfer – to communicate. A message sent, for all to view along its passage. And then received. To grant a voice. To speak: This is the art and life of Cristy C. Road.
Seal Woman
Novel by Solveig Eggerz
Ghost Road Press, May 2008
Paperback: 284pp; $19.95
Review by Cynthia Reeser
In Seal Woman, a historical novel by native Icelander Solveig Eggerz, Charlotte is a German wife and mother fleeing war-torn Berlin and the ghosts of her memory. One of more than 300 people responding to an ad for "strong women who can cook and do farm work" in Iceland, Charlotte hopes to live in a land without war memories – one she hopes will prove a refuge from the difficult recollections of her missing Jewish husband and their daughter.
With wit, precision, the ring of authenticity and an arsenal of emotional truths, Eggerz weaves her native lore into the fabric of the novel. Seal woman derives from Icelandic legends revolving around a seal, or selkie, who transforms herself into human form. While human, the seal woman falls in love, marries and has human children, but in time she must return to her aquatic form to rejoin her pups in the ocean. It is not an easy decision for her to make, and she may feel torn for the rest of her life.
For Charlotte, the seal woman holds special significance. Her strong-willed artist husband, the son of a prominent department store family, is not exempt from the hatred propagated under Hitler's regime. After he responds to a letter summoning him to a concentration camp, the decision Charlotte makes to protect her daughter will be one that roils within her across oceans and decades. She has to remind herself: "The hillside was better, better than the Germany she'd left after the war was finally over – no work, nothing to eat, the best people dead or gone."
Missing her native, pre-WWII Berlin is a constant for Charlotte. Not knowing what has become of her daughter while attempting to learn the strange language and customs of Iceland weighs on her always. But there are unexpected gifts in the strange tundra.
The family she starts with, the farmer of Dark Castle, becomes her reluctant future. Like the seal woman, Charlotte is torn between her past and present. The sea is a means of transport, escape or certain death. As such, its transformative potential is as great as the conductive powers of water.
Transformation is not always a process people go through willingly; sometimes it happens because it has to. Even before the war, Charlotte and Max, both painters, know this through the practice of their craft. With the needless devastation of cultures, ideas, futures and families happening all around them to an unprecedented degree, they struggle with how to respond to a body politic that forces itself on its people.
There is a time when Charlotte and Max are painting, literally, in direct response to what is happening outside their door: "On the Kudamm they passed broken windows of Jewish stores, places where Jews had been beaten up. After that, Charlotte set up her easel in Max's studio. In yellow, red and blue, she painted the police chasing the demonstrators over the square and the dead woman." It is an unfortunate fact that uncountable lives, minds and works of art and creation were smothered in eternal silence by the megalomaniac hatred of Hitler's deteriorated mind, and Eggerz paints the picture of this devastation and its far-reaching effects vividly. She later writes of the creative process, a way in which the artist can concretize and transfer emotional unrest: "She was learning that a painter did not absorb pain directly but broke it down into parts, integrating it gradually into his soul, often blending it with his own pain, then giving it back – in oil – transformed."
Eggerz's choice of subject matter is still very much in the worldwide social conscience. She masterfully weaves the complex historical themes into a novel about one woman's struggle with change, identity, family and acceptance so that it speaks to the experiences of many, bringing home what it must have been like for them. The ending, while not what the reader wants or expects, is one that does justice to the unfortunate reality of the many lives impacted by the Holocaust. Charlotte is served many unwanted decisions that will linger much longer than the time it takes to fill a cattle car.
Poetry by Erin M. Bertram
dancing girl press, 2007
Chapbook: 31pp; $6.00
Review by Karyna McGlynn
I picked up Erin M. Bertram's Alluvium less on the reputation of its writer, whom I knew little about, than that of its publisher. Kristy Bowen's dancing girl press is an enviable little operation that publishes handmade chapbooks by a veritable who's who list of emerging women poets, and I was curious to check out one of its latest offerings.
Alluvium is an aptly chosen title for a collection that, indeed, feels sedimentary and made up of a variety of materials: prose, litany, Q&A, epistle, quiz, inventory, travelogue, incantation, etc. The diversity of forms, however, feels a bit heady for 30 pages of poetry, and I often found myself awash in a river of words, grasping for any life-rafts or bits of rope I could find – a state of affairs Bertram almost seems to predict in her dedication: "for those fumbling through & those who make it to the other side."
Alluvium's launch is a tricky one to navigate. Bertram presents a post-dedication onslaught of potential obstacles for the jaded or impatient reader: quotes by Jeanette Winterson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, a first line invocation of Keats ("Darkling, listen."), a potent one-two punch of antiquated diction and alliteration ("In torpor I tarried"), followed by something that sounds suspiciously like an adolescent eating disorder ("stretched hunger's jaws wide"), and a litany of aimless self-definitions and redefinitions ("am coalesce, racked & eager. Am surfeit, black & rising"). There are birds, trees, hands and rivers. "There is a story trapped inside your body."
There is also the realization that all her titles utilize what I've come to call "hipster brackets," a trend which originated with D.A. Powell, who uses bracketed titles traditionally, in that his "titles" are actually his first lines standing in as titles (e.g. Powell's poem "[You'd want to go to the reunion: see]" which begins with the line "you'd want to go to the reunion: see"). It's ingenious really. But it's not completely consistent; in a few poems he employs a bracketed title that isn't repeated in the first line of the poem (e.g. "[12-line poem, seemingly out of place]" which begins "then the vehicular manslaughter took place: a tornado"). The fad this practice gave rise to, however, has gotten completely out of hand with titles bracketed willy-nilly, regardless of whether the title is the first line or resembles any other sort of information which might conceivably belong in brackets. The result – and I say this lovingly, as someone who has been guilty of hipster bracketing – is that we have pointless hipster parentheses cropping up within pointless hipster brackets in titles like Bertram's "[Travelogue (Breviary)]" and I think it's high time someone called for an armistice.
But I'm horribly unfair. In torpor I tarry on Bertram's first poem, when, in fact, I know that the first poem in a book is one of the worst places to judge its worth. The fact is that by and large Bertram's poetry is darkly sparkling, adroit, well crafted, painterly, vital and sonically rapturous:
God has nothing to do with it. Do the math.
The sacral, the diurnal, the sacred, the dead
. . .
You'd wake the next morning in sweat, taste mint & mineral.
I had wanted to make clear to you the velvet within.
The black smoke, the contour of fire. To describe.
to you a world, the world, to you. Is what I mean.
It's easy to fall under the sway of Alluvium's verb-heavy fragments and repetitions: "am adrift. Drifting," "The snaps, like so, adjust. / They adjust," "The form thrown, / cast. The figures cast out." And Bertram's flair for interlocking images and verbal play feels natural and highly potent: "Gazelle still, no commentary in British tongue, / Just the faint sense of choking back / What otherwise might spread like groundcover.
The ways in which Alluvium can occasionally flounder are by no means terminal. At worst the poems sometimes stray into awkward self-awareness, overindulgence, and a tendency to thesaurusize – not because Bertram uses particularly big words, but because the words she chooses often feel unnecessary, anachronistic, or striving. Does "truth" for instance need to be "burnished" and "hewn?" Isn't "mantra a splicing of incredulity with sequined allure" gilding the lily a bit? Yes, but I want to stress that I hope Bertram never forces a muzzle over these inclinations. Better to have an overabundance – which will, I'm convinced, learn to temper and regulate itself over time – than to try to coerce poetry out of some imaginative void. I look forward to seeing what Bertram does in a full collection, given more legroom and less rope.
[*Editor's Note: Erin Bertram has contributed literary magazine reviews to NewPages in the past. However, reviews are not assigned, and this book was selected voluntarily by the review writer.]
Little Brother
Novel by Cory Doctorow
Tor, April 2008
Hardcover: 384pp; $17.95
Review by Matt Bell
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is his first young adult book, but don't let that put you off reading it. This is perhaps the first essential book I've read this year, the first novel that feels important enough to recommend it to every single person I discuss books with. While it will resonate best with teens, who will identify closely with its protagonist and his friends, the issues covered over the course of the story are important enough to matter to every American reader.
Little Brother is narrated by Marcus Yallow, a seventeen-year-old student and amateur hacker who goes by the internet handle "win5t0n." He and his friends find themselves apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security following a terrorist attack on San Francisco. Guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus is eventually released and returned home. He's shaken by what has happened, but also committed to defeating the Department of Homeland Security and the privacy-hating police state that's replaced the San Francisco Marcus loves.
Without giving away any more plot points, it is worth noting that Little Brother is always engaging – moving quickly from chapter to chapter while also explaining the complexities of modern surveillance, terrorist "prevention," and, in one of the novel's most chilling chapters, torture techniques such as waterboarding used by the American government against its so-called "enemy combatants." Doctorow manages to make discussions of internet security, RFID tags, and cryptography not only interesting and understandable but also organic parts of the book's plot. Even better, he makes them part of Marcus's life and the lives of his friends and family. As Marcus defeats one surveillance method after another, he learns that with each victory come consequences that affect not only himself but also everyone around him, giving Marcus's struggle an urgency that propels the reader forward.
Marcus narrates the story with the wisdom of a hyper-intelligent teenager, explaining his theories and concerns in a friendly, articulate voice, as in this section taken from the chapter where his privacy is first invaded by the DHS:
There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There's nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them. But what if I decreed that from now on, every time you went to evacuate some solid waste, you'd have to do it in a glass room perched in the middle of Times Square, and you'd be buck naked?
Even if you've got nothing wrong or weird with your body – and how many of us can say that? – you'd have to be pretty strange to like that idea. Most of us would run screaming. Most of us would hold it in until we exploded.
It's not about doing something shameful. It's about doing something private. It's about your life belonging to you.
Marcus provides similar arguments against teachers, DHS officers, and his father, all of whom ask variations of the same question: "Would you rather have privacy or terrorists?" Arguments like these have become a familiar part of our cultural conversation, along with the idea that "if you don't have anything to hide, then you have nothing to worry about" when it comes to invasive searches or government data-mining programs. Doctorow manages to show that the argument is false, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that these programs just don't work very well at catching terrorists, no matter how many guarantees their proponents make.
The arguments and information in Little Brother are what make the book important, but it's the story that will keep you turning the pages. Despite the occasional plot hole or unrealistic rendering, probably caused by the young adult target audience (like the DHS officers and police who never fire a bullet or seriously hurt any of the teenagers during several riot scenes), the overall story is quite believable. Written like a teenager's version of 1984, Doctorow's Little Brother is a smart tale for all ages, and his version of teenage life comes across as a realistic blend of insecurity, idealism, hormones and experimentation. These are real people putting themselves in harm's way for the greater good, and it is impossible not to be drawn into their lives.
As entertaining as it is informative, readers will find themselves cheering enthusiastically for Marcus and his friends while subconsciously soaking up how-to lessons on detecting secret cameras, defeating gait sensors and thwarting internet surveillance programs. If you only have time to read one more book before the revolution comes, Little Brother should probably be the one you pick.
Clear All the Rest of the Way
Poetry by Warren Woessner
Backwaters Press, March 2008
Paperback: 96pp; $16.00
Review by Roy Wang
The Midwestern voice has been with us long enough now that sometimes we forget that, like all innovations, it once required inventing. The Chinese capacity for understatement is something that I have also taken for granted, not remembering that such stances would be considered a departure from our American ancestors of Whitman and Dickenson. Warren Woessner recently reminded me of this unexpected connection between the Minnesota miller and Tang aristocrat in a brief interview below his Minneapolis law office, eloquently providing his own juxtaposition.
Modesty, he notes, is a key descriptor of the similarities between these disparate traditions. This allows for a rich density of meaning in simple, conversational lines as irony and implication render the line heavy. In the poem that opens the first section of the book, "The Men Who Fish," Woessner describes employees who have suffered nerve damage at the dye factory and are allowed to fish instead of work to avoid lawsuits:
Good dye, it stuck
to skin. In the showers
we scrubbed with permanganate
to burn it out, then bleached
purple skin with Clorox
to get white again. Clean
as the river, as the fish
they caught, threw back,
caught again.
Woessner uses his chemistry background to good advantage, accenting the bleakness of industrial ruin with matter-of-fact use of jargon while continuing traditions generally associated with Midwestern voices: epistles and elegies, factoids, and a sleepy-hazy dreaminess carrying over into low-flying fantasy.
Along the way, we encounter our fair share of wry humor and mystery. Based on real impressions, the scenes he paints serve as guideposts to remind us of the arduous journey we each make through this land and life, squinting for meaning just out of reach. Sometimes Woessner may reach too far, falling prey to the common pitfall of forcing meaning into every breath and scene, as in "January 1st," "Then an eagle is overhead, / almost too high to see. / But they see it and are up / all at once, beating upstream. / Silence. Six degrees / below zero. Time / to move on." When not overdone, we have some great effects, as in "Hidden Beach":
By noon, pickups
and junkers crowd
the lot. No fee
less beach –
Around the bend of inlet
dozens of Horseshoe Crabs
mating frothing
the clear water
with milky sperm
Oblivious to the taker.
I backtrack
fast to bright beach
where, like birds, crabs
or kids, I can see
what's coming
a long way off.
The humor Woessner uses can be ironic at the "expense" of city folk, and has its fun moments, such as "You were all warm / and curled up to me / like an otter I said / Otter you said / that's some kinda rodent / isn't it? / Yes I guess / I meant to say / mink / City girl / doesn't mind / mink"
The rhythms of these poems are deliberate and generally well conceived, but can feel unpolished. This can work well in tandem with the irony or humor, but Woessner sometimes overdoes it, as in "High Summer," "Cattails surround the pond. / Ducks and turtles loaf on logs. / Songs slow in the woods. / Herons stand still." The lines successively lose a syllable, but when combined with the surrounding text, provides at least one slow line too many. For an example of better control, "The Loon" starts with a few strongly rhyming lines and then degenerates, changing the tenor of the incantation:
The loon's three-note cry
cleaves the water from the sky,
stills the night on the lake,
and turns my dreams around.
Years ago, on the Sound,
the foghorn on Eaton's Neck
unerringly found me,
shivering in Grandpa's cold bed.
Then I imagined schooners
ripped apart on the reef.
The loon song is better news
for the North – clean water,
enough food and room –
all clear for now.
The collection starts with some sensual, jazzy notes set in New York City, which, when combined with a Midwestern presence, produces a picture of a complex, wandering soul carrying his words around to whomever would hear. This is amplified by the many moments that unabashedly call up Leonard Cohen, such as these lines from "Letter to Hilton from Madison": "I'm not sure if I'm lonely, / But I'm going to stick around and find out." More of these unbalancing modulations would have been welcome, but instead Woessner entrenches himself ever more solidly in his clean, northern landscapes, finally coming around to a solid, if expected, conclusion.
Spilling the Moon
Poetry by Matt Schumacher
Wordcraft of Oregon, March 2008
Paperback: 104pp; $12.00
Review by Micah Zevin
Matt Schumacher's first collection of poetry is an otherworldly journey of linguistic inventiveness that keeps you directly on this earth while simultaneously transporting you to locations that at first glance appear strange or surreal but become familiar once you peer into their profound insides. These poems make up a cosmic parade where you will meet cowboys from Venus, pizzas that fly and ghosts who haunt spaceships. Ultimately, these poems are about the redemption of humanity in spite of the obstacles you have to overcome and the distances you must travel to arrive at familiar, yet alien, destinations. The poem "Old West Town Discovered on Venus" takes the reader on a journey to one of these planets:
No moon. Not even one saloon.
Poison sunrise in the west.
Pressure hissing like a rattler underfoot.
Better wear your hat brim low,
Because the sun alone will kill you.
It's a town better kept
At the far end of the telescope,
Left to a ruffled sheriff who'd given up long ago,
Who'd be the first to mutter lawless hellhole,
But here you are, chasing tumbleweeds
And imagining sage amidst these dried-up seas,
Dreaming of rodeos
In "The Ghost Ship Chronicles," Schumacher delivers an epic narrative poem, set on a ship of the dead where the crew does not seem entirely aware of their predicament. Are they alive or dead or in some kind of limbo where souls are forced to roam endlessly? In part IV of the poem, the ghosts revisit the paradox of the ocean as they first viewed it:
Today the ship's deck parted like a cloud
And the world appeared crystalline again
As it was in the beginning:
The ocean, a deepening mystery,
The sky, tranquil and cerulean,
The bright and forthright invitation of the sun
The ship rushing forward aboard sparkling waves
For the horizon, a mosaic of auspicious fire
Painted by great angels blowing in our sails.
Each face expressed a serene, fearless bliss.
This moment I hold frozen in mind
For that instant I most dread,
The time my very eyes must disappear.
Poems like this show just some of Schumacher's many capabilities in this daring and absurdly serious collection, which has its many subjects ensconced in singularly human mythologies that are not merely tales but adventures of transcendence and redemption. The main point of these narratives is to make the reader or the character within its confines see what has been seen before in a different way and be better for the experience. Mathew Schumacher's poetry challenges the reader to imagine a rich, dreamy world where the improbable is never impossible, and the impossible is brought to life by the author, a puppet master with convincing zeal for all that is alien about being human.
The Girl on the Fridge
Stories by Etgar Keret
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2008
Paperback: 192pp; $12.00
Review by Matt Bell
For many American readers, Etgar Keret's 2006 collection The Nimrod Flipout was the book that first introduced them to this excellent Israeli writer. With his short, fable-like stories combining a fantastical whimsy with the political and social realities of the Middle East, Keret's stories felt like they burst onto the scene from nowhere, while in reality it was his second American book taken from the five collections already published in Israel. Like its predecessors, The Girl on the Fridge contains a wealth of Keret's short stories, including some that will truly amaze the reader at how much power he can pack into a two- or three-page story, or, even more impressively, into a one-paragraph story, like the opener "Asthma Attack," quoted here in its entirety:
When you have an asthma attack, you can't breathe. When you can't breathe, you can hardly talk. To make a sentence all you get is the air in your lungs. Which isn't much. Three to six words, if that. You learn the value of words. You rummage through the jumble in your head. Choose the crucial ones – those cost you, too. Let healthy people toss out whatever comes to mind, the way you throw out the garbage. When an asthmatic says "I love you," and when an asthmatic says "I love you madly," there's a difference. The difference of a word. A word's a lot. It could be stop, or inhaler. It could be ambulance.
Like all of his best stories, "Asthma Attack" shows off Keret's ability to make every word count and to employ simple phrases to often grand effect. The story also reads like a manifesto when placed at the beginning of a collection of stories, an argument for the concise brevity of the work contained within The Girl on the Fridge. Unfortunately, readers already familiar with Keret through The Nimrod Flipout and The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God will likely be disappointed by the bulk of this collection, culled as it is from the last remaining stories of his early Hebrew collections, which have already been raided for the two volumes already available in English. Many of these stories display Keret at a seemingly earlier stage, one where he is more clever than profound, more cynical than satirical. His powers as a writer have grown immensely since the bulk of these stories were written, and so, despite their many merits, they are simply not as strong as the stories already familiar to his American readers.
Comparisons aside, there are still a number of strong stories collected here, and the best will be welcome additions to the collections of readers who have already devoured Keret's earlier books. Highlights include "Hat Trick," about a magician who reaches into his hat at a children's party to pull out his rabbit Kazam only to come up with just the head, and the relationship story "Crazy Glue," narrated by a man whose girlfriend glues herself to the ceiling of their apartment as a way to solve their problems. Overall, there are more successes than failures, and even the duds will still offer the occasional laugh or witty insight. The core of what makes Keret a great writer is always there, even when the packaging isn't quite up to snuff.
Now that his back catalog has been more or less exhausted, readers can look forward to whatever comes next from Keret. Six years have passed since his last Hebrew collection, Anihu, was published, and we can only hope that a new volume is coming soon, followed in short order by an English translation. For fans ready for the next phase of Keret's career, that truer sequel to his early works can't come soon enough.


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Gov. Pat McCrory urged North Carolinians to be prepared for hurricanes as the state faces the 2013 Atlantic season.
Saturday marks the start of the hurricane season, which continues through Nov. 30.
"We all hope for a slow season but we never know," McCrory said. "It's always best to be fully prepared."
McCrory urged North Carolinians to contribute to those in need in Oklahoma after the tornadoes hit, and said what happened in that state is a reminder that disasters "can happen at a moment's notice. The better we are prepared the better job we will do."
Watch WNCN's special on Hurricane Season 2013 this Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Federal forecasters are calling for 13 to 20 named Atlantic storms, seven to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and three to six that become major hurricanes. A normal year has 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major storms with winds over 110 mph.
McCrory said he had put money in his proposed budget to make sure the state has what it needs to handle a storm.
"That was one of my first priorities," he said. "I did not think we had enough in the reserve and I'll fight to keep that money in the budget.:
Kieran Shanahan, the secretary of the N.C. Department of Public Safety, said that North Carolinians should:
* Assemble an emergency kit
* Have five to seven days worth of any medicines needed
* Know how to get to higher ground
* Stay informed about potential storms
Last year, Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, although it wasn't a hurricane when it made landfall in New Jersey in October. Sandy caused damage in North Carolina, including closing N.C. Highway 12 along Hatteras Island.
The road reopened in December.
The first official government report shows 3.8 million fewer people are uninsured after Obamacare kicks in.
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Reminded me of a #Dalek. Need to cut back on the #DoctorWho episodes (Taken with instagram)
#irl things that look like daleks #should be a thing
The first thing I thought was that it's a Dalek. I should calm down.
And so Doctor Who Tumblr said, and so it shall be. LOOKS LIKE A DALEK - now accepting submissions!!!
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With the new season's rising temperatures on the way, it's time to spring-clean winter's heavy foundations from your makeup baga routine Emma Stone knows well, as demonstrated by her flawless complexion at the New York City premiere of The Croods. The star's makeup artist Rachel Goodwin used Revlon products to create her effortless look, and we love how her skin held an almost-airbrushed effect without appearing too heavy. "To prep her skin, I focused on the perimeter of her face, dabbing moisturizer directly onto her cheekbones, temples, jaw line, and neck," Goodwin said. "Then, I applied foundation to the center of her face, fanning it out toward the edges with a makeup sponge." When recreating a similar effect, placement is key in avoiding a caked-on appearance. Concentrate the foundation over areas that may need extra coverage first, then work your way outward, blending with a makeup sponge or brush. That way, you'll have a matte, even tone, but your natural complexion will still show through.
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I have decided to keep this helmet and sell am MTK helmet i have instead. Its just too hard to let this one go!
I have a RS props ABS Helmet built by me, in ESB style im lookin to sell. For those not in the know, RS helmets are a 1st generation cast off of a screen used helmet from ANH. ANH and ESB helmets were the same casts with slightly different paint schemes (black frown and decals rather than hand painted details. $550 plus shipping
Ignore the date on the pics, my camera date isnt set correctly since i changed the batteries. The pics were taken yesterday. Besides, RS props didnt even exist in 2008 lol


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Freya Sports Bra - Underwired
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Freya Sports Bra – Underwired
A good sports bra is as crucial to sports performance as a good pair of trainers – and this Freya sports bra is an excellent option.
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Panache Clara Full Cup Bra
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Panache Clara Full Cup Bra - Black/Gold
From their elegant Clara collection, this full cup bra by Panache is a stunning addition to your lingerie collection and perfect for special occasions.
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Panache Underwired Padded Sports Bra
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Panache Sports Bra – Underwired
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Curvy Kate Princess Balcony Bra
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Curvy Kate Princess Balcony Bra
With a soft raised polka dot and fun floral embroidery, this gorgeous Curvy Kate balcony bra is a detailed piece that's packed with personality.
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- Available in sizes D to FF
- Semi-sheer fabric to cups; raised dots
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- Adjustable straps; underwired design
Panache Tango 11 Balconette Bra - Black, Nude, White
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Panache Tango ll Balconette Bra
This Tango ll balconette bra is a best selling Panache bra from the brand that's been flattering shapely figures for ten years now! With an underwired design this bra promises excellent support and a stunning shape.
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- Available in sizes C-J, 32-44
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Pour Moi Underwired Embroidered Bra
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Details for Hull, Aston Villa and Spurs.
Welcome to Tuesday's ticket bulletin.
The bulletin will explain which games are on sale and to which groups of fans.
The information will be straightforward and simple to digest, making it easier for you to know when to buy for that all important upcoming fixture.
To find out more about corporate hospitality for these fixtures or to buy online, please click here.
Hull City (H), 19 October, 3pm
Now on general sale.
Call 0871 663 1878*
|Aston Villa (A), 26 October, 3pm
On sale to STH with six-plus away Premier League credits from the 2012/13 season on Thursday 10 October at 8am.
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Visit the Park End Box Office or buy online here.
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|Tickets on sale to FOREVERTON members from Friday, 11 October.
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