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Just thought I would share some if my lace that I use to decorate my cubicle wall. I used to change it out, but these pieces have been hanging for quite a while.
The large black tatted butterfly was copied from a piece my mom picked up in an antique store. The small white swan is bobbin lace. The pattern is Schneeberger and I got it from Lisa Baumeister many years ago. The tatted penguin is my own design. The other tatted animals are from Jane Eborall's website. I especially love the flamingo and the giraffe.
November 11, 2013
Lace was made by all
Got home yesterday afternoon and am enjoying a snowy Veterans' Day at home while I put all my stuff away, smile over my finished objects, and wind more bobbins.
I finished 3 Christmas ornaments: one large red bauble and two small white bells. The red one was started back in August at the last guild meeting I attended and I didn't touch it again until the retreat. But it's finished, I love it, and I just wound bobbins to make it again. This time I'm going to change a few elements.
I love the little bells, I'm going to sew on a bead or two for the clappers since I wasn't in the mood to make a tally. These turned out to be great teaching lessons for my friend Colleen and she turned out 3 of them (2 white and 1 red) during the weekend! What an accomplishment!
The red bauble took 30 pairs of Guterman size 50 sewing thread and a mystery gold metallic for the workers in the fans. The white bells were made with 4 pairs of Bockens 36/2 linen.
Here's one of the bells in progress on my pillow:
The Shalom Center in Dubuque is a great place. The rooms are comfortable, the food is excellent, and the conference room is spacious with lots of light. There were 14 of us at the retreat. Most were working on ornaments. It's always fun to get together with people that speak the same lace language! It's something I look forward to every year.
November 8, 2013
Retreat weekend is here!
I'm Retreating with the Doris Southard Lace Guild this weekend in Dubuque. It starts tonight but I decided to take the day off so I could get packed and decide what I'm going to work on. Good thing, because here I am at 8 a.m. and I have no idea what I'm going to do! Last year I had the big scarf project planned, but this year I'm just dithering. Nothing on my pillows but an ornament, so I think I'm going to finish that and try to make a few more. I'm getting excited; finished sewing the lace on my nametag this morning. The nametag is very old (1995 or 1996?) and the lace is very well-traveled. It's a piece of Ipswich lace that I made and it went to Japan for the OIDFA conference a few years ago as a part of the American lace display. It just happened to fit around my nametag. I love the nametag because it has both a bobbin lace pillow and a tatting shuttle on it to show both my passions. Hopefully I will have some finished lace to show after the weekend!
January 6, 2013
Christmas gifting-knitting and bobbin lace
I tried to keep my Christmas gifting to a manageable level and was able to finish everything in plenty of time for the holiday.
I made fingerless mitts for my nieces and nephew.
A bobbin lace scarf for my mom. I need to get a photo of her wearing it.
Close up of the lace. It's a 's Gravenmoerse pattern. It ended up about 60″ long and took me 60 hours to complete. Now for the first time in forever I don't have any bobbin lace projects on pillows. I'm going to have to fix that really soon. I loved working on this scarf so much that I think I'm going to make one for myself also.
Also, two TARDIS hats (for son and nephew), lacy green Orenburg cuffs for my mother-in-law, and socks for Grandma. Yes, the socks were done in time for Christmas, but I took the photo early because I had to get the other gifts wrapped. I also knit a handful of Orenburg lace-style dish cloths. None of them ended up as gifts, yet, but I like to have them on hand. And they were great practice for my next project, an Orenburg lace stole, that I started on New Year's.
November 6, 2012
Retreat update
Had a wonderful time at the Doris Southard Lace Guild retreat that was held in Dubuque last weekend. Started a new project, a 's Gravenmoerse bobbin lace scarf. Fourteen members were there and we got a lot of lacemaking done. I'll do a more in-depth report on the retreat later.
November 2, 2012
Lacemaking retreat tonight!
So excited! Going to the Doris Southard Lace Guild retreat in Dubuque tonight and lasting through Sunday. I have a mountain of stuff packed and can't wait to put some quality time in on my projects.
September 16, 2012
Guild meeting today
The Doris Southard Lace Guild meeting was in Galena today and I did a short presentation for the group about my Princess lace machine. We had a nice mix of people, with the local members all there, members from Moline and Cedar Rapids, and some visitors from Galena, Dubuque and Rockford that made the drive to see us. Some of us met for lunch before the meeting which was held in the Desoto House Hotel. The room was great, with good light. I think we did a lot of chatting and sharing, but some lace was made.
June 12, 2012
I am making progress on my Romanian Point lace doily; just 4 more sets of bars and centers. I'm getting tired of making these wrapped bars; I think next time I will mix it up a little and not leave them all for the end!
I've been making cord for my next project, which will be a design of my very own! Exciting…
Also, I FINALLY finished the lace for my fan. This lace was started at the 2010 Doris Southard Lace Guild retreat. Even though I estimated it takes about an hour to do one repeat of the pattern, and there are 38 repeats, there's no excuse that this took a year and a half to finish. Regardless, it looks great, I love 's Gravenmoerse lace, and now I just have to mount it on the fan. The lace was designed to fit this fan and it looks like it will be a perfect fit. I'm going to stitch it to the ribbon at the top of the fan sticks. The only thing wrong with that is the white stitches that will show on the back. I have an idea about how to hide that, do you have an idea for me to consider?
May 30, 2012
Recent projects
I haven't been doing much stitching lately; too many good books to read. But I have a square Romanian Point lace doily that is very close to finished, some knitted face cloths that just need the ends woven in, a finished bobbin lace bookmark that is going in the mail to my exchange partner, and a pair of knitted socks that have just gotten interesting. I guess that's a fair bit, but it still seems like low numbers to me.
Here are the face cloths that I've been knitting. The Spa yarn is bamboo and acrylic and it has a really nice, soft drape and hand, even when wet.
I also finished a bobbin lace bookmark that is going to be sent to my exchange partner in England. I hope she likes it. This is one of my favorite patterns, designed by Susan Wenzel.
March 10, 2012
Knitting Pipeline Retreat
Audrey and I had a wonderful time at the Knitting Pipeline Retreat in Washington, IL last weekend. We left Rockford Friday morning and wound our way down there, visiting 4 yarn shops in the process! I didn't buy much, but found some sock yarn (of course) for Ted and a pattern booklet for me. The shops were all sweet, and best of all we ran into retreaters at each one. Even in the restaurant for lunch we were identifying the Knitters as they came through the door.
I didn't get much knitting done; I was too busy talking, watching the break-out sessions, and scoping out what everyone else was doing. I did take my portable lace pillow and gave a quick demonstration to some people around me. It surprises me every time I hear that someone has never seen or heard of bobbin lace before!
I even won two door prizes, lucky me. Here is my loot from the weekend.
We came back to Galena Saturday night and Audrey finished two of her projects by the end of the weekend. We met great people and had the best time! Can't wait to do it again next year.


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Date: July 4, 2009
by: Robin Roy | City Editor
City of Sarasota homeowners are seeing the values of their homes fall even further, but compared to the rest of Sarasota County, they're in better shape than most.
The Sarasota County Property Appraiser has released its preliminary taxable values, and they show a drop from $9,217,262,974 last year to $8,175,000,941 this year. That's a difference of 11.31%. That's on top of the 10.8% decline from 2007 to 2008.
Here's how the rest of the county fared this year:
Longboat Key -10.03%
Sarasota County -12.44%
City of Venice -13.13%
City of North Port -22.34%
Market values to a sharper fall.
Longboat Key -11.71%
City of Sarasota -12.28%
City of Venice -14.35%
Sarasota County -14.82%
City of North Port -20.22%
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After falling for the first time this past Saturday at Maryland, the Virginia men's lacrosse team looks to rebound against another ACC foe. The Cavaliers travel to North Carolina, hoping to grab win number ten on the season.
Virginia enters with a 9-1 record, and ranked fourth in the country. Their loss at Maryland snapped a nine game winning streak, and dethroned them from the nation's number one ranking. The Tar Heels, meanwhile, enter as the sixth ranked team in the country, and topped defending national champion Johns Hopkins last Saturday. UNC is 7-2 on the season. Last year, Virginia grabbed a 10-9 win at Klockner Stadium.
The ACC is proving to be the nation's toughest conference. Of the top six schools in the Inside Lacrosse national poll, four of them hail from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke is second, Maryland is third, Virginia is fourth, and North Carolina is sixth. The high level of play should make for an action packed ACC Tournament, which begins April 25th in Charlottesville.
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Officially launch the holiday season with a Parade of Lights! Marching bands and lighted floats weave their way through the streets of Downtown Champaign with Santa making his grand appearance just in time to light the City Christmas Tree.
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Kojima Haruna becomes a cute and sexy Sailor Moon for 'Peach John'
The second line of Sailor Moon and PEACH JOHN's collaboration items have been revealed through the online shopping website 'Premium Bandai'. The pictures for these items feature AKB48 member Kojima Haruna as the model. Kojima is known to be a big fan of Sailor Moon. In the pictures, you can see her fully equipped with the new items, portraying a cute and sexy Sailor Moon. Orders for the new products will be accepted beginning September 19 at
V6 to release their 44th single 'Sky's The Limit' in October
V6 will release their 44th single "Sky's The Limit" on October 22.The title track is the theme song for Tokai TV / Fuji TV's noontime drama 'Hottokenai Majotachi' starring member Miyake Ken. It's described as a dance number that shows the group's true value. The single will be available for purchase in 5 different versions: Limited Edition A, Limited Edition B, CD Regular Edition, CD+DVD Regular Edition, and Mus
Mizuki Nana unveils jacket cover & coupling track details for 'Kindan no Resistance'
Mizuki Nana has unveiled the jacket cover and coupling track details for her new single "Kindan no Resistance", which will be released on October 15. "Kindan no Resistance" has been picked up as the opening theme for the tv anime 'Cross Ange Tenshi to Ryuu no Ondo' which will begin in October. As such, the jacket cover is closely linked to the worldview of the anime. It features two images of Mizuki; one that gives off the image of
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Watanabe Miyuki crowned AKB48's new Janken queen
On September 17, AKB48 held their annual event 'AKB48 Group Janken Tournament 2014 ~Kobushi de Kachitore! 1/300 Solo Debut Competition~' at Nippon Budokan. This year, Watanabe Miyuki (NMB48 Team BII, SKE48 Team S) was crowned the winner. Unlike the past janken tournaments, the winner of this year's tournament was promised a solo debut. Watanabe, who defeated Kojima Haruna (AKB48 Team A) during the final round, expressed, "I feel that I am&nb
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An Iraqi state television station is now airing a nationally televised parody series that directly mocks Islamic State militants and acts as an anti-ISIS propaganda tool, hoping to prevent more people from joining the jihadist movement.
The first episode of the 30-part comedy series "State of Myths" aired last weekend on the Iraqi owned al-Iraqiya television station. Set in a fictional Iraqi town that has been seized by ISIS, the show makes fun of the militants and their followers and symbolizes the Islamic State as if it had spawned from the devil.
The show's chief supervisor, Thayer Jiyad, said that the show's aim is to alleviate the widespread fear surrounding the group. more >>
A Muslim NFL player was penalized after dropping to his knees and praying following a touchdown on Monday night, leading to a discussion of whether his prayer should have gotten him a penalty.
Husain Abdullah of the Kansas City Chiefs returned an interception during a game against the New England Patriots. He ran the ball into the endzone for a touchdown before dropping to his knees, putting his forehead to the ground and praying. Abdullah received a penalty of unsportsmanlike conduct, angering fans and Muslims alike.
"Abdullah should not have been penalized," Michael Signora, NFL Vice President of Football Communications, posted on Twitter the following morning. "Officiating mechanic is not to flag player who goes to ground for religious reasons." more >>
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations about their struggle with Hamas.
Netanyahu noted that some of the countries that didn't support Israel in fighting Hamas were quick to support President Obama's actions against ISIS. Netanyahu said, "Hamas and ISIS are branches of the same poisonous tree." Both ISIS and Hamas present a very dangerous threat, as both have the ultimate goal of global domination.
Hamas, like ISIS, seeks to establish a caliphate, yet there has been very little support for Israel. Hamas placed rockets where Palestinian children live and play, showing their true colors by using civilians as human shields. Israel defended itself against these war crimes, and the actions of Hamas have yet to be denounced. more >>
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nation's (U.N.) General Assembly, giving Israel a chance to refute comments made last Friday by Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas. During his speech, Abbas characterized Israel's self-defense against Hamas, a terrorist organization, as "war crimes." Fatah and Hamas, two main Palestinian political factions, united in April and recently reaffirmed their unity government in the Gaza Strip. In June the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to investigate Israel on war crimes. The only country to reject this resolution was the United States.
Such allegations, against a country whose first priority is to protect the safety of their citizens, are appalling. Unfortunately, President Obama's choice words for our ally during his remarks at the U.N. did not help. Obama referred to the summer's conflict as one between "Palestinians and Israelis." He stated, "... the violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let's be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable. We cannot afford to turn away from this effort - not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis, or the lives of so many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza."
Where is the outrage over a terrorist organization fighting from civilian areas, Mr. President? Let's be clear, the conflict in Gaza was not a war among peaceful Palestinians. Instead, it was a war waged by a group of Palestinians, one that is internationally categorized as a terrorist organization. Hamas put innocent lives in Gaza at risk by choosing conflict over diplomacy while using civilian populated areas to their advantage. more >>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday before the United Nations in New York that those who support the fight against ISIS but not Palestinian group Hamas don't understand how similar the two Islamic militant groups really are. He also said that Iran and its nuclear capabilities are even more dangerous than ISIS.
"Last week, many of the countries represented here rightly applauded President Obama for leading the effort to confront ISIS, and yet weeks before, some of these same countries, the same countries that now support confronting ISIS, opposed Israel for confronting Hamas. They evidently don't understand that ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree," Netanyahu asserted.
The Israeli PM talked about his country's recent war with Hamas over the Gaza strip, which left over 2,000 people dead. more >>
Blogger Pamela Geller is pulling ads she was to run in New York City's transit system featuring James Foley with the masked militant who killed him due to objections made by the slain journalist's family, religious leaders and officials.
The ad, paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative and which shows Foley before his beheading by ISIS militants, are being pulled after criticism by the journalist's parents, religious leaders from different faiths and city officials, The Associated Press reported.
Geller's attorney said that Foley's family has been notified about the pulling of the ads, and it has been communicated that "Geller understands and feels intimately the pain" they are suffering. more >>


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Cognitive task effects on gait stability following concussion
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The purpose of this study was to determine how two different types of concurrent tasks affect gait stability in patients with concussion and how balance is maintained. Fourteen individuals suffering from a grade II concussion and 14 matched controls performed a single task of level walking and two types of concurrent tasks during level walking: a discrete reaction time task and a continuous sequential question and answer task. Common gait spatial/temporal measurements, whole-body center of mass motion, and the center of pressure trajectory were recorded. Concussed individuals demonstrated differences in gait while performing single-task level walking and while being challenged with a more difficult secondary task compared to normal controls. Concussed individuals adopted a slower, more conservative gait strategy to maintain stability, but still exhibited signs of instability with center of mass deviations in the coronal plane increasing by 13% during the question and answer dual-task and 26% more than control subjects. Trends of attentional deficits were present with the question and answer task, while the reaction time task seemed to help concussed individuals be more alert to their gait and stability. Recommendations for a sensitive testing protocol of deficits following concussion are explained.
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- Title
- Cognitive task effects on gait stability following concussion
- Journal
Experimental Brain Research
Volume 176, Issue 1 , pp 23-31
- Cover Date
- 2007-01-01
- 10.1007/s00221-006-0596-2
- Print ISSN
- 0014-4819
- Online ISSN
- 1432-1106
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Concussion
- Cognition
- Dual-task
- Attention
- Gait
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Robert D. Catena (1)
- Paul van Donkelaar (2)
- Li-Shan Chou (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Motion Analysis Laboratory, Department of Human Physiology, 1240 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
- 2. Eye Hand Laboratory, Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA


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The Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Cleveland Browns 20-14 Sunday and below are my first half notes from the game with the second half notes to follow soon. The Browns open with an explosive play to Josh Gordon on an underneath shallow crossing route. It was against the Steelers zone defense and caught them off guard a bit. It would, however, be their only explosive play of the game. Ike Taylor and Ryan Clark collide making the stop, but both wound up being alright. Clark did have to leave the game momentarily though. On the second down pass that would follow, Brandon Weeden severely under Read more [...]
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So many things that I enjoy cause me anxiety. I want to read more of Simon Ings' Wolves, but I'm anxious about what's going to happen. I want to play more of Alien: Isolation, but I'm terrified about playing a game where all my expected game agency is stripped away and I'm left mostly helpless inside an industrial hell. Last year, I was anxious about reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, with it's harrowing final act. But for these things, that's the point. They are meant to provoke discomfort, as without that feeling they'd toothless. The question that I face as I look at the closed paperback or hover the cursor over Steam's 'play game' icon is, why should I feel like shit when reading a novel or playing a game?
With Wolves, as with Perdido Street Station, it's the writing that makes me want to feel that way. With Alien: Isolation, it's not the game play, or even a very strong attachment to the source material, but the quality of visual design that triumphs over ill-feeling. Do you know what I want in Alien: Isolation? A tourist mode. A way of turning off the demonic xenomorph and the pesky humanoids. I want to walk and crawl around the Sevastopol and soak in the atmosphere without distraction.
This can't be done with prose or films. You can't just remove arbitrary elements from a book and expect to still have something that's mostly the same. Everything there is too tightly coupled. It's not something that I can easily do with a game that I've bought off the internet and don't have access to the source code for it. But more than just not being able to do it for technical reasons. The anxiety effect is cumulative in every sentence, paragraph, texture and sound effect that the thing has. If, somehow, the distressing elements were removed then the thing itself would be pointless. The writing wouldn't be as interesting and the visual design would become sterile.
It's a problem because I'm terrible at overcoming the initial starting discomfort and that stops me from getting into the things that I enjoy. I need to be braver.
Since I last wrote anything for this site I've started a new job with a longer title than my last and with an incredibly diverse job description, gotten further involved in Leicester's Hackspace (and now mostly wish I'd not), and failed to write a short story for an anthology with an extended deadline of today. I've spent a lot of time concentrating on work rather than writing. There have been a lot of long, stressful weeks where my lack of knowledge has been made apparent. And as a consequence, I've spent a large amount of my free-time diving hard and deep into the world of DevOps and managing baroque LAMP stacks.
It feels to me that since January a feeling of almost constant failure or near failure has bitten at my heels. The Hackspace isn't the space I'd like it to be (Metalab) even though I've tried steering it that way. I found the sixty-five hour Hell Week was both a valuable & knackering learning experience. Of course that's contributed to a general mood.
But being overloaded with work sometimes is vital and important for my future career. It is also a position I enjoy. Where else would I get to learn about NoSQL database administration and teach Python programming in the same week? But of course I've spent time at home studying to catch-up and my working week still isn't easy. At the end of the week I'm usually exhausted and all that I feel about to do is sit in front my computer shooting Nazis.
And then there's the failed story. It was intended to be submitted to an anthology of what I'd describe loosely as Venus-themed science fiction. I had a concept: Document the lives of people slightly off-camera in a Venus fly-by mission that could have happened in 1974. Look at their wives and families and how the mission would have affected them. I had a plan of execution. And even though I also had the two things mentioned above to juggle, I had enough time. However, my inclination towards procrastination and the troll sitting at the back of my brain shouting that, 'You can't write for shit,' caught me out.
It really annoys me that I've failed to submit a story to this anthology. It's a great idea for a collection and the brief was sufficiently wide enough that I hoped there was a chance of sneaking some quirky kitchen-sink stuff past the editor. There's most of a story written in first draft, but it isn't yet good enough, and it's already gone through three iterations. Oh well. We learn from our failures, don't we?
I hope so.
Tomorrow I'm at a comic creator's meet-up. I intend to go to bed tonight thinking of ideas and throw them at other creators there. Hopefully something will stick and someone will throw an idea back to mutate my concept in an interesting way.
Peace & Love & Coffee,
My current no thinking game1 is the PC version of Brutal Legend. I played most of the X-Box 360 version when it was released and mostly enjoyed it. It's a Tim Schafer not-adventure game so I expected terrible controls, but the odd thing is that in Brutal Legend they do become more tolerable the longer I've played. For instance, the guitar solo magic tricks felt laggy at first, even on a joypad, but after a couple of hours play today I can perform most of them without too many missed notes. Am I getting used to how bad the controls are or do the controls, somehow, get better the further I play into the game?
I don't know. The buggy you get given to drive around in still handles about as well as the very similar looking buggy you get given in Grim Fandango, which given this game is ten years younger is offensively stupid. Also the camera controls still remain in the way of uncritical enjoyment. Bah.
Is this replay changing my opinion of Brutal Legend? Not really. The idea of Brutal Legend is better than the execution. Now Brutal Legend does have some of my favourite visual design I've seen in a game, and I really love the soundtrack, etc. But the controls are still crap.
If only they'd fixed them.
1 Some games I want to think about, others I don't. I'm also playing Fez and Dark Souls (which has its own issues on the PC) when I want to engage my grey matter. Brutal Legend is just stupid fun.
Please sit on the other side of the confessional screen and listen to my sin: I've only finished reading five novels this year. I'm sorry, but I just haven't had the time naturally occur. And because of this it feels that for most of the year something important has been absent from my life.
I have however not finished a bad novel this year. All of the books that I've forced myself through have been in their own way examples of excellence. I started the year with The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson and then moved onto the first Martin Beck novel Roseanna, by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, for something easier to digest. It was after this I started reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I only finished the crawl through it's ~800 pages the other week, but it probably isn't to blame for the limited number of novels, since I rattled through the last twenty-five percent in the space of a week. While reading Perdido I took a day trip to read Joanna Russ's short novel We Who Are About To after hearing it being evangelised at Eastercon in Bradford. The most recent and last novel I've finished was The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, the second Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö. Again, something easier to digest after the heavy meal of Perdido.
The reason I'm sharing this dismal fact is not because I'm proud of it. And although I'm not sure if I'm utterly ashamed of this poor record, as it just happened, I don't remember what I spent the time not spent reading doing. Yes, I've spent hours trying to write short fiction. And I've played video games and watched films and TV series, but not all the time. I don't know where this year has gone. It has evaporated over the course of five novels.
Now I suppose that this is the point where I'm meant to share a solution to the current situation or raise a question from the audience/priest to find help, but that's not what I'm interested in doing here. No, all I want to do is record my sin against literature that in the eleven months that have passed this year I have only read five novels.
It isn't the worst crime, but I wish to remember it so that I will perform my penance of reading more next year.
Magnus, a friend of mine from back in the day, runs a weekly audiobook podcast called Telling of Tales. This week he's recorded a version of one of my stories, Leicester Forest East. It was written at the start of this year after reflecting on Paul Kincaid's review "The Widening Gyre: 2012 Best of the Year Anthologies" for several months. Leicester Forest East , then, is one of my attempts to write a science fiction that's more quotidian than what's generally out there and explores our shared common failures.
Please do tell us what you think of the story and podcast by leaving us a comment. I have also been told to share the fact that Telling of Tales is starting a short break so do send your stories to him if you enjoyed his efforts here.
Anna & Isaac dress up as Vikings. Anna & Isaac go on a quest. Anna & Isaac do the washing up. Anna & Isaac have an argument. Anna & Isaac goto outer space. Anna & Isaac take drugs. Anna & Isaac go to inner space.
Anna & Isaac kerb stomp Karl Jung. Anna & Isaac have sex. Anna & Isaac become Maoist revolutionaries. Anna & Isaac get married. Anna & Isaac form a suicide pact. Anna & Isaac trip the light fantastic. Anna & Isaac
get a kitten. Anna & Isaac start a family. Anna & Isaac get divorced. Anna & Isaac grow old together. Isaac dies of cancer. Anna goes to a home.
I visited my local independent (and favourite) cinema, Phoenix Square, yesterday to see the recent Ben Wheatley film 'A Field in England'. It is superb. The film critic Danny Leigh praised the film concisely by describing it as, "A head-spinning trip into the far corners of the English psyche." As you can see from the poster above it also receives publicity worthy quotes from the director Nicolas Roeg ('Walkabout', 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'). Which is appropriate as one of the films A Field in England reminded me of in its style and attitude was Roeg's 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'.
'A Field in England' is as funny as it is weird and as horrific as it is beautiful. In the UK — and I suspect elsewhere — the film is available via all legitimate distribution channels, and almost certainly the less legitimate ones too. There are no excuses to miss seeing 'A Field in England' apart from your own apathy.
Script by Will Ellwood (www.will-ellwood.com). Art, layout, hard work by Calliope den Ouden (http://www.inktspatten.nl/).
Last Wednesday, my partner, Jenny, had her graduation ceremony to formally receive her PhD. There was a party held at her parent's house at the weekend to celebrate her frankly astonishing achievement with her parents and family friends. This was the cake commissioned for Jenny by her parent's, Bob and Fran, to mark the occasion. It's vegan. Also, the TARDIS is made from marzipan and the blue food colouring dyes tongues blue.
Yesterday, we both recovered from our hangovers by sitting in her father's beautiful garden, reading, and drinking soft drinks until the sun set and the fire pit came out. I have had a lovely and restive weekend. Tomorrow I'm back at work.
It won't be anywhere near as pleasant.


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NEW SCOTLAND — On Oct. 1, Louise A. Basa, of the Schenectady County Community College Archaeology Program, will present recent discoveries in the Schenectady Stockade.
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I've always loved bird watching but it wasn't often that they would treat me to the entertainment I've enjoyed this summer.
Intrigued by history, John Boyd Thacher Park aficionados weathered Saturday's rain to celebrate the state park's centennial.
Charles Giglio teaches life when he teaches Latin.
"I try to link the present and the past," he said; that includes "philosophy, theology, medicine, law, art, and architecture."
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ALBANY — Art is on the walls and on the tables at a new restaurant a block away from the buzzing Capitol building and the Fort Orange Club, opened last month in downtown Albany.
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