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4/5 rDev +5.8%
11-17-2012 22:20:48 | More by lillieja
3.25/5 rDev -14%
11-17-2012 15:50:56 | More by doucmehu
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
11-12-2012 02:16:24 | More by casapy
4.1/5 rDev +8.5%
Very good beer! Poured at a good temperature with a nice, fluffy, foamy, tan head that slowly settled down and some lace. Color is a clear garnet. Aroma is hop, malt, roast, fruit. Flavor's like nose; fairly dry, bitter and carbonic tang up front, with the bit of malt/fruity sweet in back. Body and carbonation good, although there's a little astringency in the finish. Also the finish is quite long, boozy, and resinous.
11-05-2012 04:40:51 | More by drpimento
4.4/5 rDev +16.4%
Appearance: black body with a two finger tan and creamy looking head that leave some massive lacing on the glass.
Aroma: nice hoppy presence that reminds me of soft pine; roasted grains in the mix, a touch of semi-sweet chocolate
Flavors: the hoppy notes come through with a tasty mix of pine and citrus rind; the toasted malts are present with roasted grains, bitter chocolate bite, toasted … slightly burnt caramel, I think you can even throw in coffee … medium roast coffee
Mouthfeel: low carbonation, nice bitter style (it does have a 65 IBU), the malts are doing their job for some balance, lingering roasted notes on the aftertaste, a touch of 99% dark chocolate bitterness, not heavy like a stout – closer to a porter in mouthfeel
To the Point: to me it is a tasty dark ale and perfect on this cold fall day here in Michigan.
10-28-2012 19:20:57 | More by hackmann
New York
3.4/5 rDev -10.1%
Pours out black and smells of slight roasted malt.
The taste is nice and clean with a sharp malt taste up front. A little bitter at the end but not much of a hop punch that you may find in a black ipa. A much more mellow finish.
If you enjoy dark ales it's worth a try.
10-19-2012 05:22:12 | More by beerloserLI
4.75/5 rDev +25.7%
10-05-2012 22:42:33 | More by adkieffer
3.5/5 rDev -7.4%
10-05-2012 22:18:18 | More by bsuedekum
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
10-04-2012 00:02:04 | More by OBeerMeGreatOne
3.25/5 rDev -14%
09-18-2012 03:46:27 | More by JMBSH
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
09-17-2012 02:36:11 | More by MarkyMOD
5/5 rDev +32.3%
09-11-2012 21:32:45 | More by Mikel772
4.23/5 rDev +11.9%
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in March 2012. Pours a fairly pitch black color with a nice 2 finger dense khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Some good spotty lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of grapefruit, pine, roasted malt, biscuit, nuttiness, cocoa, orange, herbal, and floral. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity. Taste of grapefruit, roasted malt, pine, orange zest, herbal, floral, biscuit, char, grass, nuttiness, and cocoa. Good amount of piney bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, roasted malt, pine, biscuit, char, herbal, and grass on the finish for a good bit. Great balance and complexity of all flavors; with very balanced roasted/hop flavors which I really like. No cloying flavors at all after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a creamy, slick, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is very nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with almost zero warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is an very excellent Black IPA. Great balance and complexity of flavors; very good malt balance and very smooth to sip on. Highly enjoyable offering.
09-11-2012 04:15:59 | More by superspak
3.6/5 rDev -4.8%
Appearance is almost black with a big tan head leaving heavy lace.
Smell is softly hoppy, pine and citrus.
Taste is pretty good, for a porter. I'm not getting as much hops as I like in this style. Sweet, soft malt, a coconut note here reminiscent of barrel aging. Bought from a cooler at Freddie's, it could certainly be not fresh. The hops are there in the pine resin category, but well integrated, not dominating or pungent.
Mouthfeel is soft, medium-heavy bodied, slicked by the oils, like graphite powder.
Drinkability is pretty good. A tasty beer. Would like to try it fresh to see if it's got more hop punch or as intended. I order CDAs when I want a lot of hops. If I had been in the mood for an American style porter, this would be a fine choice as is.
07-18-2012 01:29:03 | More by ccrida
New Jersey
4/5 rDev +5.8%
07-15-2012 01:11:19 | More by RoryOMoore
4.03/5 rDev +6.6%
I poured a bottle into a pint glass.
Appearance- Dark brown with a fingers worth of tan head. Nice amount of clinging lace.
Smell- Citrusy hop aroma with notes of chocolate and roasted malt.
Taste- Chocolate with a bit of roasted malt at first that is quickly overtaken by a bitter hop flavor. The hops blend in nicely and do not overpower the other flavors.
Mouthfeel- Medium bodied and crisp. Slightly creamy mouthfeel.
Overall- A nice example of the black IPA style. One of the better ones that I have tried.
07-13-2012 22:11:21 | More by scratch69
4.03/5 rDev +6.6%
Picked up a bomber from Total Wine at Arrowhead in mid May for $6.99. Bottled in March 2012.
Beer poured cola brown with a nice tan head that is leaving lacing behind.
Nose is true to CDA style, nice citrusy hops with some chocolate and slight roastiness.
Taste holds true to the nose, chocolate malts form a nice backbone, roastiness is slight. Citrus and resiny hops finish strong and become the dominant theme but not overwhelming and unbalanced.
Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied and pretty smooth.
Overall i like this brew. CDA's tend to present a lot of flavor and in some cases not blend well. But this brew is well crafted and something i would try again.
06-30-2012 01:29:33 | More by arizcards
4/5 rDev +5.8%
06-24-2012 05:16:13 | More by GRG1313
3.73/5 rDev -1.3%
Poured from a 22oz bottle into an imperial pint.
This beer pours out black with some ruby highlights. It's crested by two fingers of off-white head. The aroma is roasty and malty, with some grassy and floral hops on top. It really doesn't smell all that cohesive. The taste works better with a full amount of roastiness and coffee flavor working well with a balanced amount of floral and slightly citrusy hops. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and slick, and the drinakbility is good. Overall, it's a slightly above average black ale. It could use a little more aggressiveness in hop flavors and a more cohesive nose, but it's a good beer overall.
06-08-2012 04:31:26 | More by shand
3.7/5 rDev -2.1%
Reviewed from notes.
Dark stout-like appearance, two fingers of sand-colored large-bubbled frothy foam for a head. Medium levels of retention, no real lacing left behind on the glass surface. Smells of intense floral hopping most of all, with lesser amounts of herbals, citrus peel, and a roasted malt backbone with garnish levels of burnt brown sugar aroma... Amazing nose for a Black Ale, the only thing missing IMHO would be a slight boost to the pine-resin to ablate the small amount of booziness that is present.
The flavor starts out with that charred blackened malt character and pulls back gradually from bittered char into semi-roasted semi-sweetness accompanied by more floral tones and grapefruit pith. Sadly, the complexity of the nose does not quite exist in the flavor. There is a medium-light boozey heat on the finish of this brew. The texture is rather nicely creamy and smooth on the medium body.
This beer stands out in my memory for the amazing nose. If only the other parts of it were just as well-done....
05-29-2012 22:18:28 | More by WastingFreetime
Ontario (Canada)
3.9/5 rDev +3.2%
Bomber pours an almost opaque black, with reddish amber hues only when held up to light. An impressive coffee coloured head with reasonable lacing. Mouthfeel is oily yet crisp, while the lingering bitterness in the finish is thoroughly enjoyable but overwhelms other impressions.
A rather simplistic aroma of roasted dark malts does not do the fantastic hop bomb in the flavour the justice it deserves. Sweet tropical fruits meld with coffee and dark tones. Complex yet well balanced, with a delightful bitterness at the end.
Perhaps not typical for a "Cascadian Dark Ale", but definitely one I'll seek out to purchase again.
05-24-2012 23:57:39 | More by hopsolutely
District of Columbia
4/5 rDev +5.8%
I've never heard of this beer or this brewery, but I was at the store and thought I'd take the plunge.
Served in a Duck Rabbit snifter.
A: First of all, the webby lacing was ridiculous! Additionally, the brew was black, although it didn't look that way as it poured out of the glass, and the mocha, sawdust-looking head settled after a while. Nice!
S: Dark malt, with a fairly bright and hoppy citrus component poking through. This was somewhat understated, yet still present.
T: This was tasty. It was sort of a West Coast IPA/Porter Black & Tan. Lots of dark malt, but with an equal amount of citrus. There was nothing musty or syrupy here... just a nice example of the style.
M: Creamy, fresh, and not a sweet bone in this one's body (pun not intended). Like I stated before, the lacing was ridiculous.
O: I love surprised like this. I'm generally not a huge fan of this style, but I like to branch out every so often. I'm glad I did!
05-17-2012 21:10:59 | More by Chaney
4/5 rDev +5.8%
05-15-2012 16:21:15 | More by Eriktheipaman
3.63/5 rDev -4%
22 oz bomber pours a dark cola with nice head and lacing. Citrus and pine hops aroma with dark fruit and a hint of roasted pork. The flavors don't really "pop" with this one - pine, citrus, raisins, and chocolate are present, but are as someone else mentioned, "murkey". Mouthfeel is creamy smooth to the extreme - in fact I'll describe it as a bit flat. Overall a bit dissapointing, not offensive but pretty blah.
05-06-2012 18:08:26 | More by coldriver
3.63/5 rDev -4%
Poured from a bomber into my Deschutes tulip. Bottled in Feb 2012, opened in May 2012.
A - Pours alost black, but more of an extremely burnt cyan. A nice 1 finger of creamy mocha colored head that leaves some nice lacing as it slowly fades.
S - Piney citrus aroma. Very excited about the freshness this one is portraying. Some faint notes of nuttiness and chocolate. Maybe a slight peanut butter aroma?
T/M - The taste is not as aggressive as I would've imagined, but still good. Once again there's the peanut butter flavor I was smelling, with a dry/bitter finish. Smooth and creamy, medium mouthfeel.
O - Overall, this is not a bad cascadian dark ale. I've had better, but I've definately had worse. The taste just falls a little flat for me, but thats it.
05-03-2012 07:13:07 | More by Rizalini
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The Harrison County High School boys' golf team finished eighth with 14 teams participating in the Powell County Invitational at Beech Fork Country Club on Saturday.
Clay County won the tournament with a team score of 311, with Bath County finishing second with a 312.
Harrison County's team score of 338 was only four shots out of fourth place.
With their pre-season paces nearly completed, both the Harrison County Thorobreds and Fillies will open their soccer regular seasons next week. On Monday, the Fillies will host St. Patrick in a varsity-only contest at LeBus Field at 6, and the Thorobreds take on Dixie Heights on Tuesday, also at home, with the varsity game set to begin at 7:30.
The Fillies got in only one pre-season scrimmage and lost that one to Tates Creek on Monday, 2-0.
In spite of the loss, Fillies coach Kim Jenkins liked much of what she saw from her squad on Monday.
HCHS Girl's Golf practice underway
First-year Harrison County football coach Mark Carroll liked what he saw on Friday night as the Maroon Team and White Team battled to a 28-28 tie in the Maroon/White Game at Ingles Stadium.
"I'd say we are about where we should be at this time of year," said Carroll on Tuesday night. "A lot of guys saw action, it was exciting football to watch and there was a great crowd on hand for a scrimmage."
The Harrison County Fillies volleyball team got their 2009 season off to a good start on Tuesday night as they defeated visiting Fleming County in two of three varsity games on the Hilltop.
Harrison County came out of the gate fast in the first game, leading 18-4 before winning the first game 25-11.
"We played exceptionally well in that first game," said Fillies coach Bill Faulkner after the game. "The girls were focused, they played well at the net, served well, returned serve well…it was fun to watch."
Senior Polly Whalen notched her first career medalist title last week in the Rowan County Invitational Golf Tournament at Eagle Trace Golf Course in Morehead with 45 individuals competing.
Whalen carded an eighteen hole total of 78 to win individual honors by one stroke over Franklin County's Abby Smith.
Season ticket prices and game admission prices will remain unchanged for the 2009-10 school year, with one additional option available.
At the new stadium, there are 300 chair back seats in the middle section of the bleachers. Those seats will be offered as reserved seats for $50 per seat. If a family ,or group, purchases at least four seats, they will also receive a parking pass that will get them a reserved parking spot close to the stadium.
Football Alumni banquet is Aug. 8
The 2009 inductees into the Harrison County Football Alumni Association's Hall of Fame will be feted on Aug. 8 at the annual Hall of Fame Banquet that will be held at the Harrison County High School cafeteria. A reception in honor of the 2009 inductees will begin at 4 p.m., followed by the banquet at 5.
The Harrison County Fillies volleyball team will open its regular season Tuesday at home against Fleming County with all three HCHS teams playing.
The freshmen will begin play at about 5:30, followed by the junior varsity match, followed by the varsity match, at about 7.
The Fillies should be primed and ready for the regular season after hosting scrimmages against Williamstown and Bourbon County and also competing in the Bluegrass State Games last weekend.
The 2009 edition of the Harrison County Thorobreds football team will be unveiled tomorrow night at Ingles Stadium as the Breds will be divided up for an intrasquad scrimmage.
The Maroon and White Game will begin at 7 p.m. and will be an opportunity for this year's team to showcase its talents for new head coach Mark Carroll.
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*Business activity growth slows in China and Europe. LONDON/ BEIJING/ NEW YORK, Aug 21- Business growth in China and across Europe slowed this month, surveys showed on Thursday, but U.S. activity picked up speed, leaving a mixed picture of global economic growth.
NEW LONDON, Conn.— A New Jersey man has been banned from Connecticut's casinos after pleading guilty to using invisible ink to mark cards at one. Bruce Koloshi of Summit, New Jersey, was sentenced Wednesday to the 10 months he served since his arrest last September at Mohegan Sun.
PITTSBURGH— The National Park Service has banned drones from flying over the Appalachian Trail. The Park Service said Wednesday the interim rule prohibits launching, landing or operating unmanned aircraft from or on Appalachian National Scenic Trail lands.
Following a bevy of recent White House meetings, top officials have compiled specific recommendations from business groups and other advocates whose support could undercut GOP claims that Obama is exceeding his authority to help people who have already violated immigration laws.
WEBSTER, N.Y.— Xerox Corp. plans to lay off 121 people at its Webster plant in western New York. A statement from Norwalk, Connecticut- based Xerox says the affected employees work for the site and facilities services operations providing maintenance and cleaning for the Webster plant.
Aug 19- Kroger Co, the largest U.S. supermarket operator, is the latest high-profile company caught in the battle over gun rights and gun control in the United States.
FARMINGTON, Conn.— Two Connecticut lawmakers on Tuesday announced a drive in Congress to require child-proof bottles of liquid nicotine used for e-cigarettes. Richard Blumenthal, D- Conn., said at a news conference at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. Elizabeth Esty, D- Conn., said they are responding to a rising number of poisonings.
NEW YORK, Aug 19- The U.S. dollar hit nine-month highs against the euro and rose against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday after strong U.S. housing data bolstered expectations for an earlier-than-expected rate hike from the Federal Reserve.
*Ukraine, Middle East tensions ease. NEW YORK, Aug 18- U.S. Treasury debt prices fell on Monday after three days of gains as risk appetite returned following upbeat U.S. housing data and easing tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine.
*Losses in UK gilt market also a factor in U.S. bond market. Treasury debt prices fell on Monday after three days of gains, as risk appetite returned following upbeat U.S. housing data and easing tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine, two global sore spots.
BOSTON, Aug 18- Thomas Conheeney, who was president of Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors during the years the hedge fund was being investigated for insider trading, has stepped down from the position at successor organization Point72 Asset Management, Point72 said on Monday.
GROTON, Conn.— The top officer at the oldest U.S. submarine base, an admiral whose ties to Groton date back to his birth, may become the last flag officer to serve here as his submarine group is eliminated in a Navy streamlining.
HARTFORD, Conn.— Connecticut has launched a video to help Spanish-speaking residents navigate state tax forms. Kevin Sullivan, commissioner of the Department of Revenue Services, makes the introduction to the nearly 13- minute video in Spanish.
OMAHA, Neb.— In a story Aug. 14 about changes to Berkshire Hathaway's stock portfolio, The Associated Press reported erroneously the company had reduced its stake in engineering and construction firm Chicago Bridge& Iron Co. by 1.1 million shares. Berkshire Hathaway has increased its position in Chicago Bridge& Iron by 1.2 million shares.
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WETHERSFIELD, Conn.— Connecticut added jobs for a sixth straight month in July, dropping its unemployment rate to 6.6 percent, the state Department of Labor said Friday. It's the lowest unemployment rate recorded in Connecticut since December 2008 but still is higher than the U.S. rate of 6.2 percent.
OMAHA, Neb.— Billionaire Warren Buffett's company has revealed a new stake in Charter Communications Inc. and made several other tweaks to its $108 billion U.S. stock portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. filed an update on its portfolio with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A bill that generated spirited debate over the leverage corporations such as McDonald's and Subway can hold over their franchise owners narrowly passed the Assembly on Thursday. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D- Santa Barbara, was inspired by stories of small-business owners who say they had their livelihoods taken away.
NEW YORK, Aug 14- Crude oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel on both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday, sunk by weak economic data hinting at softening oil demand and by ample supplies. The U.S. crude contract retreated more than 50 cents in a minute as shares of the exchange-traded U.S. Oil Fund saw high-volume trading.
NEW YORK— General Electric confirmed that it is considering the sale of its historic appliance division, part of its effort to focus on selling more complex and profitable industrial equipment.


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Biting the Big AppleThursday, July 10th, 2014
The Lovely Anna and I are currently in New York City with Number One Son Thomas as part of his high school graduation present. When one of our kids graduate, they get a trip with just mom and dad to the destination of their choice (within reason). Tom chose NYC and we are seeing multiple shows, touring the sites and putting some miles on the shoes.
We'll be dropping by the MAD offices tomorrow. I was going to bring the last two pages of my latest job for them with me and hand them in like the old school guys did back when Bill Gaines was there (Al Jaffee still does this) but did not for three reasons:
1. Since my art is digital, it would be anticlimactic to just hand over a thumb drive
2. They stopped giving you a paycheck on the spot before Bill passed away
3. The issue goes to press tomorrow, and I'd have been strung up by my thumbs turning it in that late.
So, I'll just go in and harass editorial. That never gets old.
Finger Readin' GoodTuesday, July 8th, 2014
Some time ago I posted some of my thoughts on the long-time controversy surrounding the creation of Batman, specifically how much credit Bob Kane really deserves and how much credit writers and artists like Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson should be given. This is hardly a new topic. Kane was a bit of a polarizing figure, and his iron-clad grip on the credit as the creator of Batman has rankled many over the years who know that Bill Finger came up with much of the backstory, mythos and elements that make Batman the enduring character he is.
Writer extraordinaire Mark Evanier has recently written a couple of insightful posts on the topic that are well worth reading. Actually everything on Mark's blog is well worth reading, but if this issue interests you then these articles are especially worthwhile. Few in the world of comics can speak with the kind of knowledge and authority Mark can, and he has some interesting points concerning standard industry practices at the times that can make you understand why this situation happened… if not condone the rectifying of it today. Read that post here.
I never met Bob Kane or Bill Finger, but I have talked with many people who have met both. I've been painted many different pictures of Kane as a person, and not too many of them are very flattering. The common thread among them is that he had a lot more interest in being rich and famous than he did doing any actual creating. Hard to fault anyone for that I guess, but to then demand respect as a creator is a lot to ask. That's all second hand information, of course. I really don't know what kind of guy Kane was, but I have never heard anyone dispute that Bill Finger deserves a lot more credit for the creation of Batman than he got, including (according to Mark on his blog), Bob Kane.
Sunday Mailbag- Subjects for your Prints?Sunday, July 6th, 2014
Q: I've just come from noseying around your blog where I've been greatly enjoying your "The Game is Afoot!" Sherlock Holmes series. This sparked me off thinking: when creating something like this, is the subject matter primarily chosen by your own enthusiasm and tastes (I know you're a big Holmes fan), or are you keeping one eye on what might be a popular seller when it comes to limited edition prints?
Also, I was wondering whether you have all of your prints made in one go – or if you have a few smaller runs done periodically, to minimize the risk of being left out of pocket with boxes of unsold stock? I'm just curious to know your approach.
A: As to the first question—a little of both. So far I have not had too much trouble finding subject matter for a limited edition print that satisfies both my creative interest and that will appeal to an audience as well. I don't think I would ever do a print where only one of those factors is paramount. The Holmes print is probably as close to being one-sided in favor of my interest in the subject over its commercial potential as any I might do, but one can argue that between the Robert Downey Jr. movies, the Benedict Cumberbatch BBC series and the "Elementary" TV show here in the U.S., Holmes's popularity is at a high point right now. I figured this one would sell much slower than my others did, and I was right on that. It's selling well but not crazy well like the Bond and Doctor Who prints sold. In fact, I am thinking about doing another print for Comic Con in a few weeks that I'd sell alongside the Holmes print… one that will appeal to the comic book crowd a little more.
As for the printing, I get them all done in one single run and then delete the high res full sized file so a reprint, even if I would be so lame as do do one, is not possible. I keep a high res, reduced size (about 50%) file in case I want to include the art in a book or something someday, but the actual file used for the print is gone and the original art is sold. Limited edition means limited edition. The printing I do is not cheap but it's not ridiculously expensive like a giclee either, so I am not worried about being stuck with stock. 450 prints sounds like a lot but that stack is only about 8 inches high and the investment is not that gigantic. I actually order 500 prints, so I have some extra in case of any being damaged or my screwing up numbering or personalizing them. It might take a long time to sell them all, but eventually they will sell out.
Thanks to Mike Giblin for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I'll try and answer it here!
Until Further Notice…Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
Bunny Bash 2014Friday, June 27th, 2014
Ended up planning a last second visit to my theme park operation in Massachusetts this weekend, and took the opportunity to swing through New York to attend the annual "Bunny Bash". This is an unofficial NCS party hosted by the delightful Bunny Hoest Carpenter at her beautiful Long Island home. It's a wonderful time and you see some pretty famous cartoonists there:
Gerry Mooney and Bill Janocha chat with animator Bill Plympton
The Lovely Anna won an award for being an awesome NCS First Lady! Unfortunately she wasn't there, she was back home doing all my NCS work for me!
Some MAD folks… l to r: Me, Ellen, editor Charlie Kadau, art director Sam Viviano and Abrams Publishing editor Charlie Kochman.
Speaking of awards, Long Island Chapter (aka the Berndt Toast Gang) chairman Adrian Sinnott received the Tim Rosenthal Award for volunteerism from the NCS, and a wonderful caricature by Stan Goldberg signed but the cartoonists present. Wonderful guy… both of them!
Adrian chats with gag cartooning greats Mort Gerberg (green shirt), Sam Gross (dark hat) and George Booth (light hat)
The Changing World of Freelance IllustrationFriday, June 20th, 2014
This was a recent column of mine in a recent edition of the National Cartoonists Society publication "The Cartoon!st":
One of the things I love the most about the NCS is that our members cover the gamut of all facets of professional cartooning. Syndicated comics, comic books, animation, web comics, book illustration, gag cartoons, greeting cards… you name it and some of our members do it. I find it fascinating to hear and learn about the trials and tribulations of the different ways people make a living in this industry. I do mostly freelance illustration, which is an exercise in feast, famine, panic, and anxiety.
Like all aspects of popular media, the world of freelance illustration is changing. I used to do the vast majority of my work in magazines, but these days I am finding myself doing jobs for all sorts of different clients. Not that I wasn't always open to doing different kinds of work, but the need for traditional illustration to accompany articles in print is shrinking and it's become more important than ever to branch out into other outlets to stay busy. There are just fewer major magazines out there these days, and the budgets of the ones still around are less than they once were. There are still a lot of publications needing illustration, but most are niche magazines with mid to low circulations that cater to a very specific audience—publications for industries or specific hobbies like actuaries or snowmobiling, for example. These magazines still buy illustrations but they have smaller budgets and are harder to find and market to. Now more than ever it's important to not be afraid to get "outside the box" and find work in different parts of the industry. Fortunately humor is something that is universal, and any form of media can and does need cartoonists/humorous illustrators to create visuals that invoke a chuckle while conveying whatever message they client is looking to get across.
Just to give you an example of the kind of wild swing the sort of work a freelancer might do, here's a list of the types of projects I've done or am doing in the last 12 months: magazine illustrations, book illustrations, comic books, TV animation character design, product art for posters, T shirts and other merchandise, illustration for smartphone/tablet apps and assorted other jobs. In the past I've done character designs for CGI animation for films, concept drawings for toys and other products, storyboards for commercials and films, art for advertisements from prints to billboards, products labels, CD covers, art for computer games, movies posters, and many other diverse projects. As I write this I am working on, among other things, a 44 page comic book for an independent publisher and doing the art for a birthday party invitation. That last one may seem odd but "odd" is the name of the game these days. Actually it's no ordinary birthday party, it's for a big media mogul who has bands like AC/DC play his birthday party and hires MAD Magazine illustrators to do his invitations. That's a great example of the weirdness of making a living as a freelancer… if they pays you da money you does da drawrings.
Another avenue that is becoming an important part of being a freelancer is concept art. More and more jobs I do these days do not involve my finished art being the end result, but rather being part of a larger process. Doing concept drawings for products, commercials, and TV and movies has become a big part of many freelancer's source of income. I recently explored the possibility of getting an illustration "rep" and had a conversation with an agent from one of the biggest rep firms in the business, Gerald and Cullen Rapp. He told me that much of the work they get for their artists these days involves concepts and visual design rather than finished art. This issue's cover story (meaning The Cartoon!st) features a cartoonist whose bread and butter is that sort of work, Cedric Hohnstadt. His career trajectory is another excellent example of how traditional illustration is evolving into work that is part of a multimedia creative universe. Like most forms of creative work, freelance illustration is experiencing a tectonic shift right now, but also a renaissance. The demand for art and the people who create it isn't going away. If anything, it's increasing. What's changing in the way it's used, who wants it and how those people find the creators they are looking for.
The eternal bane of all freelancers is fear, mainly the fear that the job you are working on is the last one you'll get for a month or longer… or forever. This usually leads to an inability to say "no" to jobs that maybe don't pay as well as they should or that you shouldn't take on as the deadline is too tight or you have too much on the board as it is. No matter how busy I am, I experience a physical pang every time I turn down a job that is offered to me. A freelancer is always afraid that the phone is not going to ring again for a long time, and he or she can't say no to a job no matter how overworked they are.
That's one part of the business of freelancing that hasn't changed, and never will.
Bid On My Original "Usagi Yojimbo" Art to Benefit the SakaisMonday, June 16th, 2014
I've written here about the ongoing auction by the Cartoon Art Professionals Society to benefit the Sakai family. My contribution is now on the auction block (see above). It's an ink and watercolor piece the will be part of the Darkhorse Comics special book, "THE SAKAI PROJECT; Celebrating 30 Years of Usagi Yojimbo", Being release in July, 2014 (at San Diego Comic-Con) with all proceeds going to Stan & Sharon Sakai.
If you have any interest, please go and bid as the money is going to a good cause. Stan's wife Sharon is have serious health problems and any financial help they can be given is a major help. I don't think this little piece will go for very much, so you might be able to get a good deal. Plus, how often do you see Usagi and M.C. Hammer together? If you rightly are thinking "meh", go check out the other items up for auction by real artists!
Internet WoesFriday, June 13th, 2014
Yesterday the internet connection in the studio, and the Richmond household for that matter, abruptly went belly up. A technician visits later today to figure out the problem. In the meantime the blog may suffer. My apologies.
Special Guesting at Grand Rapids Comic-ConTuesday, June 10th, 2014
I've been invited to be a special guest at the Grand Rapids Comic-Con this fall. The event is taking place November 21-23rd at the Deltaplex on 2500 Turner Ave. NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Lovely Anna will be my booth babe, and I'll be hawking my prints, original pages of MAD art, books, and doing sketches and caricatures all weekend.
I'll also be doing a presentation at some point during the con, and it will be a combination caricature drawing lesson and how caricature and MAD Magazine fit together… so not my usual boring talk about my work. Should be fun! Hope to see some of you there!


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Mexican police finds 15 corpses in Sinaloa
By Jesus Caudillo, Monday, June 09, 2014
MEXICO CITY – Police in Mexico found 15 dead bodies believed to have been killed in two separate incidents related with organized crime.
The local police in San Ignacio in the state of Sinaloa found 12 bodies on Monday morning showing signs of torture, after receiving a report of an abandoned van in El Chaco neighborhood.
Separately, authorities in Sinaloa's Concordia municipality found three dead bodies killed by gunshots. The victims were aged 29, 37 and 66.
Sinaloa is the third most violent state in Mexico. From January to April 2014, 625 murders were registered by the National System of Public Security.
"We feel that the arrest of Joaquin Guzman, known as 'El Chapo,' has provoked a reorganization among the criminal groups," the local governor, Mario Lopez Valdez, said.
Joaquin Guzman was arrested on February 22 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa. He was the leader of Mexico's main drug cartel, the Cartel of Sinaloa.
The local police mentioned that the families reported on Sunday morning the kidnappings of the 12 victims found in San Ignacio. Most of them were from the municipality of El Guayabo.
On Monday morning, several Mexican media outlets claimed that Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, one of the main heads of the Cartel of Sinaloa, died. However, Mexican authorities hasn't confirmed or denied the claim.
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KERS/ EngineKERS is a kinetic energy recovery system. Drivers have the option of using this system during the race but only for a certain set time each lap. This system uses the kinetic energy that is normally wasted during races. This kinetic energy is generated by the cars braking process. This energy is save and stored in a mechanical fly wheel or an electric battery until the driver is ready to use it. This device is used as a boosting device. There is a button on the steering wheel that gives you a boost of eighty horse power that last just a little under seven seconds. This boost of online games may be used each lap but only once per lap. This device also has set amounts for each lap. This KERS is very useful to all engines in the formula one racing seasons. The only flaw to this excellent piece of machine is the weight of the device which will put on weight to the formula one car.
This can cause a little less good performance but in the long run it is still very popular and useful. These engines are beautiful pieces of work and very fast. Boosting reliability is a goal. All rev limits will be cut from nineteen thousand to eighteen thousand. A driver can have up to eight engines per season, how ever teams are allowed an extra four engines but only for testing. If for some reason a driver is to use up all of his eight engines, putting in a new one after qualifying will be a ten place grid penalty or be moved to the back of the grid. But this only applies for the one event that change to engine is made. You may equalize power outputs if necessary by making performance modifications though.


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LAWRENCE — The owner of the former Merrimac Paper mill has until Monday to revise his plan for demolishing the fire-ravaged ruins on the site after state environmental officials rejected his initial plan as "substantially inadequate."
Superior Court Judge Bonnie MacLeod ordered mill owner David Padellaro to redo the demolition plan he submitted under an earlier court order after the Department of Environmental Protection filed a string of objections to it.
Among them, the agency said, Padellaro's proposal to dispose of the asbestos that is pervasive in the buildings by burying it on the riverfront property would violate state law.
The agency also objected that the demolition plan "failed to include basic information" about the effort to locate the asbestos and failed to identify the demolition and air quality contractors he has hired.
The DEP also noted that the consultant Padellaro hired to develop the plan for removing asbestos has walked off the job because Padellaro stopped paying him.
Padellaro's lawyer, James Bowers, said he also has "not been fully retained" by Padellaro and refused to talk with the assistant attorney general representing the DEP, the assistant AG said in a letter to Judge MacLeod asking her to order Padellaro to rewrite the demolition plan.
Earlier cleanups the DEP ordered Padellaro to undertake at the mill complex after other fires in 2010 also went nowhere when Padellaro stopped paying those contractors or paid them with checks that bounced. Padellaro, a former city police officer who was fired for misconduct in 1998, was convicted of larceny in July after bouncing three checks to a contractor he hired to remove oil from tanks at the mill.
"It appears that the parties have reached a deadlock" Assistant Attorney General Tracy Triplett said in her letter to Judge MacLeod seeking the order for the new plan. "Of significant concern to the Commonwealth . . . is that the fire-damaged buildings are not safe and pose a risk of collapse, which would further release asbestos at the property."


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Hilltop Cottage
Cottage | 1 bedrooms | sleeps 2
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Hilltop Cottage is on one level with a double bedroom and spacious diner lounge. It is designed for two (there is also room for a small child to sleep in the spacious lounge) but can be taken alongside the adjacent Hilltop Barn to provide for a group of up to eight. Ideal for both your holidays or for longer stays. There is a spacious bathroom with shower over bath and a practical kitchen with fridge and freezer and all the accessories you would normally expect. It is fully centrally heated and is warm and cosy throughout the year. Undoubtedly its biggest attraction is the superb location overlooking the valley on the Lincoln Cliff Edge. It also overlooks a large garden which gives it a feel of having the space of a large country house rather than a small cottage. However, it does have its owns secluded and enclosed garden and orchard and a private off road parking area. Access to the adjacent large meadow and beyond into a wildlife conservation area is exclusive to you as a visitor (there is no public access)
|Sleeps up to 2, 1 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Skegness and all the Sandy beaches to the north up
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|Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)
|Car not necessary
|Nearest Amenities
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These three holiday cottages are beautifully located in the peaceful Axe Valley where Devon, Dorset and Somerset meet. They have been sympathetically converted retaining character and charm to give spacious, comfortable and well-equipped accommodation. All cottages are single storey with easy wheelchair access, The Byre (ref 16018) and The Shippen (ref 16019) are both semi-detached and The Barn (ref 25497) is detached. An abundance of opportunities exist for walking, cycling, (nearby cycle path which is being extended from time to time), golf as well as fishing on the Nature Reserve Reservoir at Chard. Many local places of interest including the pretty, historic, carpet towns of Axminster and Chard, both with indoor swimming pools, P.O. stores, traditional inns and restaurants all to hand along with several quaint villages. Honiton, Forde Abbey, Cricket St Thomas, Hornsbury Mill, several NT properties and the beaches and attractions of Lyme Regis and Charmouth - part of the superb World Heritage Jurassic coast line, all waiting to be explored. Other resorts include West Bay, with its harbour, and Seaton, which has its own tramway ride along the Axe Estuary, famous for its bird life, to Colyton. Sidmouth and Exmouth, Beer and Branscombe are all within easy reach. Shops and pubs 2½ miles. All on ground floor: Living/dining room/kitchen. Utility room. 2 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 twin. Bathroom with shower over bath and toilet. Oil CH, elec and bed linen inc. Towel hire. Freeview TV. Video. DVD. Stereo/CD. Elec cooker. M/wave. Washer/dryer. D/washer. F/freezer. Patio and furniture. Parking (2 cars). Wheelchair access.
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Complete Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Using Autologous Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation and Bone Marrow Stimulation with Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor: Phase I/II Clinical Trial
Article first published online: 26 APR 2007
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0807
Copyright © 2007 AlphaMed Press
Volume 25, Issue 8, pages 2066–2073, August 2007
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Yoon, S. H., Shim, Y. S., Park, Y. H., Chung, J. K., Nam, J. H., Kim, M. O., Park, H. C., Park, S. R., Min, B.-H., Kim, E. Y., Choi, B. H., Park, H. and Ha, Y. (2007), Complete Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Using Autologous Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation and Bone Marrow Stimulation with Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor: Phase I/II Clinical Trial. STEM CELLS, 25: 2066–2073. doi: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0807
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To assess the safety and therapeutic efficacy of autologous human bone marrow cell (BMC) transplantation and the administration of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a phase I/II open-label and nonrandomized study was conducted on 35 complete spinal cord injury patients. The BMCs were transplanted by injection into the surrounding area of the spinal cord injury site within 14 injury days (n = 17), between 14 days and 8 weeks (n = 6), and at more than 8 weeks (n = 12) after injury. In the control group, all patients (n = 13) were treated only with conventional decompression and fusion surgery without BMC transplantation. The patients underwent preoperative and follow-up neurological assessment using the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS), electrophysiological monitoring, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The mean follow-up period was 10.4 months after injury. At 4 months, the MRI analysis showed the enlargement of spinal cords and the small enhancement of the cell implantation sites, which were not any adverse lesions such as malignant transformation, hemorrhage, new cysts, or infections. Furthermore, the BMC transplantation and GM-CSF administration were not associated with any serious adverse clinical events increasing morbidities. The AIS grade increased in 30.4% of the acute and subacute treated patients (AIS A to B or C), whereas no significant improvement was observed in the chronic treatment group. Increasing neuropathic pain during the treatment and tumor formation at the site of transplantation are still remaining to be investigated. Long-term and large scale multicenter clinical study is required to determine its precise therapeutic effect.
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Montclair recognizes "Bad Parents"
Some people move to Hollywood to hobnob with celebrities, hoping for a break.
Filmmaker Caytha Jentis did not have to travel so far.
It's only 17 miles from Ridgewood to Montclair, where Jentis attended the opening of the Montclair Film Festival last spring to see the "The Oranges" starring Hugh Laurie.
As the writer/director/producer told The Times then, Jentis was in post-production for a film that was a suburban satire like "The Oranges."
Her film, "Bad Parents," had its world premiere presentation by the Montclair Film Festival last Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Bellevue Theatre at 260 Bellevue Ave.
Starring Janeane Garofalo, who is from Madison, the film tells the story of a woman who becomes drawn in to the world of intense sports parenting when her 7-year-old daughter Jenna is picked for the "A" team of Peerless United soccer club. Cast members Cheri Oteri, Christopher Titus, Ben Bailey, Michael Boatman and Kristen Johnston were also at the Bellevue Theatre screening.
"The stars were aligned to present this premiere," Bob Feinberg, MFF's founder and chairman told The Times. "Caytha will be all over the country as the festival circuit starts. Montclair had it first, thanks to the Montclair Film Festival."
Jentis will show the film at several film festivals in October before its national release in March on television and DVD. More information about the film is at www.badparentsmovie.com.
Feinberg thanked The Montclair Times for helping to connect MFF with Jentis.
The Festival will be holding several events before the Festival itself begins in May, Feinberg said.
On Wednesday, Nov. 14, there will be a networking event for people in the business. A fundraiser at the Wellmont with Stephen Colbert and a "special guest" will take place on Friday, Dec. 7. And on Dec. 8, an education day will be held at Montclair State University. Events will be listed at montclairfilmfest.org.
"We want to bring cinematic experiences and people together," said Feinberg.
Jentis based the film on her play "It's All About the Kids." As she told The Record, the story was inspired by her daughter's experience with the Ridgewood Maroons and Wyckoff Torpedoes soccer clubs.
"I'm sure no one in this audience will recognize any bad behavior in themselves, maybe in others," Festival Co-Director Thom Powers joked as he introduced the film.
At the talkback following the screening, audience members asked about the process of making the film, about the representation of New Jersey, and what Jentis will do next.
"I went to the library and did a lot of research," Jentis joked. She said that while the film was shot in New Jersey, "this type of uber-parenting is everywhere."
Jentis said she is working on a thriller and hoping to turn "Bad Parents" into a television series.
Funding the film was done through people who believed in her, Jentis said: "My approach is that the stock market's pretty volatile right now. A movie's a safe investment."
Some of her supporters and producers were at the screening. Jennifer and David Dungey left before an after-party because, said David Dungey, "We can't be bad parents."
The Dungeys' daughter Selah played Michael Boatman's daughter Sami in the film. Sami is supposed to be a bad player but Selah is so good, Jentis said, they had to ask her to kick the ball with her left foot.
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Billboard for ViiV Healthcare in Shinjuku Ni-chome (pre-censorship)
Artwork by Poko Murata (村田ポコ)
In December 2013, gay artist Poko Murata was hired to make artwork for a billboard promoting HIV awareness in Tokyo's gay neighborhood, Shinjuku Ni-chome (新宿二丁目). Now, the billboard has been censored by decree of the Shinjuku ward office, which asserted that Murata's artwork runs contrary to "public order and morality" (公序良俗). Murata made a revised version of the image, seen above, which was also rejected by the government office because it contained "visible underwear." Poko Murata rightly calls out the decision as gay discrimination on his blog, and one only needs to glimpse the motorized sex robot advertisements that float around Shinjuku to sense a double standard at play.
It was an event of no minor significance that Murata's artwork found its way onto a billboard to begin with. Male-male eroticism once played a significant role in Japanese culture— in the Edo period, a booming print industry allowed for erotic "shunga" woodblock prints, as well as an entire genre of literature about male-male sexuality, to flourish. In the wake of the Meiji Restoration, and throughout most of the 20th century, that history was swept under the rug of "old Japan" in the name of rapid Westernization. Gay artists sought refuge in the small-circulation "perverse magazines" of the post-war era, and their pieces were displayed not publically, in museums, but on the walls of gay establishments in neighborhoods like Shinjuku Ni-chome.
Gay artwork began edging out of the shadows in the the 1970s, when Barazoku (薔薇族) magazine became the first mass market gay publication in Japan. The early days of Barazoku weren't easy— frequent police interference resulted in writers, artists and the magazine's publisher being charged with crimes of obscenity by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's "public morals" office. Never defined explicitly by Japanese law, "obscenity" in practice often comes down to the visibility of genitals, which explains the various self-censoring techniques employed by the publishers of gay manga. Those thin black lines are there for a reason, namely police intimidation.
Since the '90s, Japanese gay artwork has started to surpass the boundaries of the gay press. The BDSM manga of Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎) and the comic essays of Kumada Poohsuke (熊田プウ助), among others, have reached a broader audience within mainstream Japanese culture. This doesn't mean the situation is any less dire for artists who dare to show just a little too much male skin. In April 2013, fashion photographer Leslie Kee was targeted in a sweeping censorship dragnet by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, after Kee published a series of nude photos of late porn star Koh Masaki. The police arrested Kee, his gallerist, his publisher, and even the 61-year-old manager of Lumiere (ルミエール), the famous gay bookstore in Shinjuku Ni-chome.
Amidst this climate of censorship, Poko Murata's artwork being featured on a billboard seems like a truly extraordinary thing. In a post about the billboard on his blog, artist Yuji Kato (加藤悠二) characterizes Murata's artwork as humorous, yet refined— charming, with a little sex appeal. Murata's pieces are generally upbeat, flirty, and heartwarming. He's contributed to sexual health awareness campaigns before, including two campaigns for Quality of Gay Life (QOGL), put on by the Japanese non-profit Tokyo Gay Friends for AIDS. Kato calls Murata's work for HIV awareness part of "a growing desire," on the part of gay artists, "to contribute in their own way to the gay community." You can see evidence of this encouraging trend in the efforts of artists like Gengoroh Tagame, Inu Yoshi and Jiraiya, who have all contributed artwork to causes promoting sexual health.
While the billboard in Shinjuku Ni-chome is ostensibly a public service announcement about HIV awareness, it's really an ad for ViiV, "a pharmaceutical manufacturer that specializes in the development and sale of HIV treatments," owned by GlaxoSmithKline. Late last year, ViiV announced Poko Murata as the winner of a contest to illustrate the billboard for the first six months of 2014, with an artist yet to be chosen to decorate the ad space in the second half of 2014.
Murata's resulting image is notable for including a variety of gay types: a gachimuchi (ガチムチ) central figure, a middle-aged "ossan" (おっさん), a chubbier "debu" (デブ) figure, even a couple of bishonen boys. Their arrangement is casual yet provocative. It seems to imply, without judgement, that these people could have sex in any number of non-heteronormative configurations. It's an ad about HIV that doesn't stigmatize sexuality or shame the gay community. Almost immediately after the billboard went up, the Shinjuku Ward Office targeted the advertisement, alleging complaints from local residents about the "unpleasant" artwork.
Poko Murata was not included in discussions between the ad agency and the government office. He's told they were given an ultimatum by the Shinjuku officials: "accept the guidance of public office in order to continue the project beyond two terms." After his revised version of the ad was once again rejected, the agency further covered up the central figure in Murata's drawing. "The final adjustments were not by my hand," he writes.
Murata sees this interference with his artwork as indicative of systemic prejudice and discrimination against gays, and reflective of the larger problem of excessive regulation in Japan today (see also: the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's excellent pieces about the increased censorship crackdown in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics). The incident has soured what should have been a positive experience, leaving Murata disappointed, full of anger and chagrin. He predicts the second term of ViiV's billboard project will be met with much more scrutiny and restraint by the ad agency.
Ultimately, the incident amounts to little more than a multinational pharmaceutical company bowing to the pressure of the Japanese government's homophobic politics, alienating the drug company's target audience along the way. Poko Murata was given an opportunity to spotlight gay artwork in a public space, and it was immediately was covered up by the very officials who are supposed to be representing the gayest ward in Tokyo.
We think we're immune to marketing and advertising but we're not. And yeah, eventually, everyone realizes this, but usually not until after we've sunk a fortune in suites of Apple products and sweat equity at Facebook. I would never suggest dismissing the art of sales, though. Without it, everything would look like Linux.
But that pesky "look like" element of delivery mechanisms is precisely where marketing and sales haunt my every move. These are just appearances. In a perfect world, I learn to love whatever "plain text mode" is, and depend no longer on the emotional response I await in consumer gratification. In the real world=eyes, feelings, taste.
Reading George Packer's New Yorker feature on Amazon was an experience in extreme self-reflection and cogitation, beyond what I'd expected in typical "I knew that already" disdain and "welcome to capitalism, y'all" pessimism. I heard dozens of past arguments ringing for attention during the bits about consumer advocacy (e.g. "I'll stop using amazon when you find me a cheaper place to get diapers"), and the bits about labor rights—I had no idea working in an amazon facility represented upwards of 10 miles of walking and that performance was quantified by fulfillments per… MINUTE. I was fully nauseated at discovery of each new detail on Jeff Bezos. He's a liberatarian. He doesn't like music.
I felt the strangest tug when Packer went into one of the major pitfalls of Big Publishing that led to its own demise: its inability to leave expensive Manhattan offices.
While I have always complained publishers were slow on the internet game (I'm talkin' "what is a blog?" seminars at BEA in as late as 2003-slow), I do admit the charms of our most bourgeois of arts—neither aristocratic nor proletariat by industry—lie so dearly in New York as its threshold. Because for as long as I can remember, almost every single book I read had one thing in common. On that stupid copyright page, right under the title and author name, without fail, was always the same two word phrase:
New York
This was when copyright pages were still the first thing in a book, of course. I'm looking at several paperbacks on my desk as I write this, with sclerotic covers revealing lists of endorsements where the excess pages of a signature would in the past be left blissfully blank. [There you go, another example of my ambivalence toward advertising.]
I feel my journey to New York has been inextricably linked to the copyright provenance of all those books I read. If every second page of every book I read said "Seattle," you'd be sure I'd be there now, and find even some forgiveness for Amazon because of it (though probably not grunge music… cf. Linux).
Now that I live here, I can't say I hadn't been advertised to; that this wasn't some long-game strategy by publishers to get their most ardent readers to consent to indentured work for the farm that fed them. But to the naysayers, I'll just say: I'll stop admiring New York when you find me a better place to wear diapers.
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Eugene picked me up in a limo. The dress I wore looked better when I tried it on at the store, where I nervously did the math between price tags and Mom's wallet. I felt like a trafficked child bride in it when he wrapped his arms around my shoulders to slow dance. It explains why I refused to kiss him even after having a crush on him the entire duration of the year leading up to the dance. I can't remember anymore at what point requiting a crush would stop feeling like the end of all of my affection for someone, but I do know it was a sign of immaturity that someone's reciprocation made me flee every time.
Gavin was my favorite prom date. I wore a ribbon around my throat and borrowed his best friend's dress. We talked about the independence of Hong Kong. I wonder what he's up to now. I broke his sunglasses when I plopped into his passenger seat.
Philip was an amazing artist. In a different universe we would've been soul mates. The theme of our prom was "Almost Paradise." How the 1984 ballad became the theme for a 1995 prom is beyond me. Though… I guess "Gangster's Paradise," while more timely, would've made for a significantly less charming prom theme.
I was Jason's beard. It was the closest I got to the Asian gangster clique, the source of my constant derision, their wannabe attempts to be "hard" all but parodic, but they were also just hilarious. At least three of them did end up in prison.
Brian brought me to his high school prom, where news cameras were waiting to capture "on the street reactions" of classmates to the school's first openly lesbian pair (the school refused, and then recanted their refusal to let them come). We all rearranged ourselves to appear in same sex pairs, and I held hands with a blonde girl I'd only just met seconds earlier.
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RDR | Investments
Adviser charging and Isas
HM Revenue & Customs has clarified the impact adviser charging will have on Isa subscriptions.
Final ruling: effective from 31 Dec 2012.
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RDR | Investments
Final ruling: effective from 31 Dec 2012.
Location: Bolton
Salary: To £25,000
Location: CENTRAL LONDON
Salary: £60,000
Location: Cardiff
Salary: Basic Salary of £30,000 - £40,000 plus benefits (OTE of £45k - £100k+)