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Kia pulled a surprise move today and released the first official images of the redesigned Picanto (Morning in the Korean market) hatchback today. The all-new minicar is set to go on sale in its home market of South Korea later this month, ahead of its European debut at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March.
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Abdul Rahim, Raha and Hooi, Wei Yeng and Nor Shamsudin, Mariana and Radu, Son and Sankara Varma, Nadimpalli Raw and Yusoff, Khatijah (2006) DNA sequence analysis of a small cryptic plasmid from Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis M14. Plasmid, 56 (1). pp. 53-61. ISSN 0147-619X
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A small plasmid designated pAR141 was isolated from Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis M14 and its complete 1594 base pair nucleotide sequence was determined. Analysis of the sequence indicated that this plasmid does not carry any industrially important determinants besides the elements involved in plasmid replication and control. The transcriptional repressor CopG and replication initiation protein RepB appeared as a single operon. A small countertranscribed RNA (ctRNA) coding region was found between the copG and repB genes. The double strand origin (dso) and single strand origin (sso) of rolling circle replicating (RCR) plasmids were also identified in pAR141, suggesting that this plasmid replicates by rolling circle (RC) mode. This observation was supported by S1 nuclease and Southern hybridization analyses.
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In an interview Monday with Sports Illustrated, TractManager founder and CEO Tom Rizk, a 55-year-old New Jersey entrepreneur who holds Enfield in exceptionally high regard both personally and professionally, explained that both of those pieces of information are inaccurate. Rizk said that discussions about the formation of TractManager began in the fall of 1999, and that the company was formally launched in the spring of 2000. "Andy was not involved in those early discussions,'' says Rizk. "He wasn't involved in the initial financing of the business -- that was all me. Andy decided to join TractManager in November of 2000, and was one of the very early employees of the company, probably the seventh or eighth employee. He was not a co-founder. He was involved in the early stages of building all the little building blocks of the company. He invested a modest amount of his own money. He owned a small percentage of the company and the company grew into something significant.'' Tract Manager is privately held company, so the size of that significance is uncertain. Many publications, includingSI.com, have written in recent days that TractManager was valued at $100 million, either currently or at the time of Enfield's departure in the spring of 2006, when he became an assistant basketball coach at Florida State. Rizk said Monday that the company is worth much more than $100 million. "The numbers that are quoted, frankly, are very low,'' said Rizk. "Honestly the company is much more valuable. Since 2006, TractManager has quadrupled in value. It's four times the size that it was when Andy left in 2006.'' In January, Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York private equity investment firm, bought a majority stake in TractManager, underscoring its growth. (As a part owner, Enfield would benefit financially from this growth). Enfield spoke twice privately to SI.com during the four days of FGCU's exhilarating run through the weekend's sub-regional in Philadelphia and did not directly characterize himself as a co-founder of the company.In a background interview last Thursday, Enfield walked through the steps of his career -- assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics, and then the owner of a basketball skills development company -- and added, "I also helped about four partners start a company outside basketball.'' One night later, in a private interview after FGCU's upset win over Georgetown, Enfield was asked to clarify his role in TractManager and said, "I have an equity investment. My partner, Tom Rizk, is the CEO and he's a genius. We all built it together. It was his vision to take a company and build it from the ground floor through a technology that I really didn't know anything about.''One day later, in a formal press conference between FGCU's wins over Georgetown and San Diego State (as the Eagles became the first No. 15 seed in history to reach the Sweet 16), Enfield was asked to describe his professional career. On the issue of TractManager, he said: "I had a good friend in New York, New York/New Jersey, named Tom Rizk, who was previously a CEO of a publicly traded company that was semi-retired, and through Tom and his partnership I joined his partnership, and we created a company around a technology called TractManager, which is a contract management service in the health care industry, which I didn't know much about.''Enfield has not confirmed any valuation figures on TractManager and Rizk said that those numbers are not publicly available.Confusion aside, it is clear that Enfield's involvement with Rizk and TractManager represented a significant interaction in both men's lives. They were first introduced in 1997. Enfield had been part of Mike Dunleavy's coaching staff with the Milwaukee Bucks, but was jobless after Dunleavy was fired in 1996. He began consulting in player skills development and also in the summer of that year worked a camp in his hometown of Shippensburg, Pa. A close friend of Rizk's was a cardiologist in Shippensburg and he recommended that Rizk send his then-10-year-old son, Geoff, to Enfield's clinic. Rizk and Enfield met at a restaurant in Shippensburg and, according to both men, became friends.Rizk had previously started a real estate investment trust called Cali Realty which he says he took public and grew to $4 billion at the time of his retirement in the late 1990s. Upon meeting Enfield, says Rizk, "I was extraordinarily attracted to his personality and his talent.'' Enfield subsequently worked from 1998-2000 for the Boston Celtics (Rick Pitino was the head coach) and became close friends with Rizk and his son (who, Rizk says, became an avid Celtics' fan, and is now the 25-year-old president of TractManager International). After Rizk founded TractManager, he contacted Enfield, "I wanted to get him to join the business,'' says Rizk. "We had a lengthy discussion about it before Andy joined.''Enfield, who graduated from Johns Hopkins as an Academic All-America in basketball (he scored 2,025 points in his career), worked briefly after graduation at Arthur Anderson, but according to his mother, Barbara, a sixth-grade teacher in Shippensburg, "he hated it,'' and rushed back to basketball. Yet Rizk sold him on TractManager. Enfield started as the vice president of a very small company and, says Rizk, "he then helped build the sales effort and then when the company got bigger, went back to finance. He mentored a lot of young people in those six years and it was very cool to see the impact he could have on them.''Now Rizk watches Enfield coach the most unlikely Sweet 16 team in the history of the NCAA tournament, a collection of talented , but unwanted players who attend classes at a 16-year-old college that's often confused with a community college several hours away. 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At check in you'll receive your welcome bag, name tag, as well as a complete schedule for Orientation. You'll also be able to sign up for excursions around the Big Island, get a campus tour, and even a tour of Hilo if you're not from the area.
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Travel Arrangements
As you're making your travel arrangements, be sure to check out our Travel Info page. You could be eligible for a discounted flight.
Airport Shuttle to campus
On Wednesday, January 7th we will have shuttles available to pick you up from the airport and bring you to campus. This service is free and is a way for us to welcome you to Hilo and into our ʻohana (family).
International Students, please click here for information about arriving on January 6th.
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What others have said
We always like to assess the programs that we offer so that we can continue to improve the way in which we support the success of our students. Here are a couple of things our students told us last year about their Orientation experience:
- 97% said "Orientation helped me feel welcomed to UH Hilo"
- 93% said "Through Orientation I learned about resources and offices on campus"
- 99% said "Orientation helped me feel better prepared to start my first semester at UH Hilo"
- 92% said "I would recommend this orientation program to other new students"
One student said:
"I am a non-traditional transfer student and, even though I am not freshman age or a new student, I really got a lot out of attending orientation. I didn't feel singled out because of my age or where I'm from. In fact, I felt right at home because of the incredible diversity in age and ethnicity on campus. I'm glad I am attending UH Hilo and I would highly recommend attending it to my friends and family."
Another student said:
"It was very helpful in my transition into college, I recommend this program to new upcoming freshmen."
The complete Fall 2013 New Student Orientation Assessment Report


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Landmark Gateway
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Landmark Gateway is a planned mixed-use development in the West End of Alexandria at the northeast corner of S. Pickett and S. Van Dorn Streets. Green City Development has partnered with Mill Creek Residential Trust to develop a 3-building apartment community with 15,000 sq. ft. of street level retail. Originally the site was approved by Alexandria with 431 residential units and 35,000 sq. ft. of retail. However, due to changes in the marketplace the developer plans to increase the number of residential units, reduce the required number of garage parking spaces, and reduce the amount of retail space. Architects Collaborative is designing the project.
Project type:Rental apartments
No. of units:492
Amenities:Pool, Fitness Center
Website:No website available.
Last updated:June 20th, 2012
Address:S. Pickett & S. Van Dorn St.
Alexandria, VA 22304
First move-ins:2014+
Lease-up begins:TBD


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I have the body spray of this and I think it smells pretty good. To be honest, the smell reminds me of a blue jolly rancher more than anything. Not sure if anyone has said that already but that's my take on it. Victoria's Secret body sprays smell good for the most part but since they're a body spray they tend to not last long and some of their sprays and lotion smell overly sweet. However I will use this up but I put I won't repurchase because I would like to try out their other scents that smell better. The body spray is a pretty decent size but if you spray this continuously I can see going through this fast.
Oh god, I hate this scent so much. I really don't get how people can like this but that's just me. It just smells messed up to me. I think that I don't like this because of the orchid (I love kiwi, so I know that's not the case).
My friends tell me I smell like candy and sweets when I wear this. I confess, it is the sweetest fragrance I have ever come across, yet I love it all the same.
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This is just okay. Judging from the notes, I thought it would smell like a tropical paradise, which it does for a few seconds after the alcohol part evaporates. However, the mist fades away within ten minutes, at least the passion fruit and orchid, leaving this spicy, musky scent behind; and I am conflicted when it comes to musk. This one just bothers me, so I am using the mist as a room spray for now. Oh well. I am still on the search for a compelling tropical scent.
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This is my favorite scent from Victoria's Secret. It's smells sweet and amazing! Love it so much!
Smells good
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I absolutely love this!!
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I love, love, love this scent- It's absolutely divine smelling. If I could have all my products scented with one scent- this would be it. Very lovely feminine scent.
This is one of my new favorite smells from Victoria's Secret. It's SUPER fruity, and it almost has a warmth to it...but seriously, when I wear this my boyfriend can't keep his hands off me.
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Notes: Passionfruit, Brazilian Orchid and Musk
On first Spray, this is very fruity and sweet, almost candy like. But it somehow has a slight spicey note to it, which Im assuming must be the Orchid, I know Orchids are not supposse to smell spicey but to me they kinda do. That note quickly faints and the Scent gets powdery and musky on drydown. It does smell very summery and even a bit beachy, so I wore this during spring. Its an OK fragrance but nothing special to me. Overall fruity and musky, with only a slight hint of floral. Wouldnt repurchase, dont really use this anymore.


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Four Ways Steven Spielberg TV Shows Feel Like Bad Spielberg Knockoffs
Steven Spielberg is known for revisiting similar themes in his films (families divided and reunited, small bands against giant threats, etc.), but his big-screen work usually transcends the vaguely sanitized, family friendly clichés many associate with his brand. Even when you look at his earliest films, you see that they're much more complicated than the stereotypes imply: E.T. is a lot darker than you remember; Close Encounters of the Third Kind is mysteriously open-ended; and even Raiders of the Lost Ark, while willfully old-fashioned, could still give the best horror movie a run for its money in the gore and shock department. And yet, when it comes to his TV fantasy-action series — Seaquest DSV, Falling Skies, and now Terra Nova — the filmmaker's tropes can conform to the worst generalizations of his work. You feel like you're watching the result of an executive yelling at some TV journeyman, "Gimme something that feels like Spielberg!" except that the executive in this case is Spielberg himself.
Here are four major Spielberg go-to themes, and an examination of how nuanced they are in his films, as compared to the two-dimensional TV variations.
Keeping the Family Together
This is, of course, the Great Spielberg Theme, and as presented in his films (for the most part), it's quite compelling. There's E.T.'s iconic, weighty vision of a suburban single-mom-and-three-kids family that sticks together. You really do hope that this family will make it, and the way that E.T. helps make their lives whole again has a power that still resonates to this day. But Spielberg can also complicate this vision of family. Think of how one family (Melinda Dillon's) tries desperately to reunite itself in Close Encounters, while another one (Richard Dreyfuss's) is split apart. Or the way that the robot boy David in A.I. becomes attached to his family even as they begin to consider discarding him. Or consider the looming figure of John Adams, who haunts the epic final speech given by John Quincy Adams in Amistad.
And now, look at the TV shows. Terra Nova is just two episodes old, and we can already see how this is going to go. The Shannons are the Family That Must Not Be Separated, no matter what, and the only reason they were separated in the first place was because they ran afoul of evil futuristic population control laws by having a third child — in other words, they had too much family! Their survival as a family already feels like a given; we're rooting for them not because we particularly like them, but rather because we have to. In Seaquest DSV, Roy Scheider's Captain Bridger actually lost his family years ago, and as a result wound up forging a familial bond with the crew, particularly with young Lucas Wolenczak (Jonathan Brandis) and Dr. Kristin Westphalen (Stephanie Beacham), and later Dr. Wendy Smith (Rosalind Allen). It was like a big underwater Christmas card. And Falling Skies is all about Tom Mason's (Noah Wyle) dedication to keeping his family together at the expense of pretty much everything else. It makes us think: If Close Encounters were a Spielberg TV show, Richard Dreyfuss would basically see those UFOs flying over him and say, "Huh, interesting. Some single guy should probably investigate that, I've gotta get home for the barbecue!"
The Search for the Lost Child
This variation on the keeping-the-family-together theme gains thematic resonance all its own in Spielberg's films. Consider the chilling moment near the end of A.I. when William Hurt's Professor Hobby is revealed to have created the robot David in his own dead son's image. Even the disappearance of the children in Hook (one of Spielberg's least-liked films) is given a terrifying dramatic urgency just by virtue of the way it's shot: The camera and the parents follow a deep groove torn into the wall by the Captain's hook, leading up the stairs to the children's empty bedroom — as if a terrifying fairy tale has suddenly become all too real. The entire dramatic arc of Saving Private Ryan — with its mission to save the last surviving Ryan brother — is basically just an entire nation/family trying to redeem its last innocent.
In the TV shows, the search for the lost child loses most of its depth. In Falling Skies, Tom Mason's attempts to retrieve his son Ben from his alien captors and reintegrate him into human society are just a hook to keep us watching; plotwise, he could just as well be searching for an antidote or an anti-alien ray gun or some E.T.-B-GONE spray. And when an authority figure has a lost child on these shows it rarely feels real, because they eventually turn up just about every time. We're told Seaquest's Bridger lost a son in combat but he's later revealed to be alive. Falling Skies' Captain Dan Weaver (Will Patton) lost his family during the alien invasion; it is later revealed that they may be alive. Terra Nova's Nathan Taylor (Stephen Lang) lost a son in an earlier settlement, and all indications at the end of episode one are that he is still alive. Boy, the parents of Rosie Larsen on The Killing probably wish their show had been produced by Spielberg.
Science vs. Authority
Spielberg's films are often full of heroic scientists and doctors who have to contend with military and/or police and/or other types of authoritarian figures. But it's never so simple. For example, the scientist in Close Encounters, even though he's played by Francois Truffaut, is kind of an ambivalent figure. (You'd think Spielberg would have cast the auteur as a hero, right?) The scientists and G-men in E.T. are working in cahoots — and as such are ambivalent and unfeeling toward our characters. Meanwhile, the scientists in Minority Report turn out to be far more evil than the cops, who are just the unthinking arms of a police state founded on science.
The TV shows, however, stick to the formula that scientists are the forces for good while the cops or military leaders are the stubborn dopes who need to be convinced not to just hit things with a stick or the firearm equivalent thereof. Dr. Westphalen and Dr. Smith in Seaquest were kind, pretty, and dutifully presented the scientific side in debates with the uptight Commander Ford (Don Franklin). In Falling Skies, Dr. Anne Glass (Moon Bloodgood) must make doe eyes at Tom Mason while dutifully presenting the civilian side in debates with the militaristic Captain Weaver. Terra Nova has it both ways: The scientist and her hero, tough-guy husband are on the side of good; however, there's also the gruff Commander (Stephen Lang) who seems to have a nefarious secret. Hit him with a test tube bottle!
Kids on Their Own
With broken families come children who have to fend for themselves. Sometimes they're just spiritual orphans: From the resourceful Jim (Christian Bale) in Empire of the Sun who has to survive the invasion of Shanghai and a Japanese internment camp during WWII, or Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) who flees home and strikes up a lucrative career as a con man (all in an effort to somehow reunite his broken family, of course). Sometimes they're orphan orphans: The Lost Boys in Hook, or the precog Agatha in Minority Report; in all these cases, though, there's a real sense of tragic incompleteness — which Spielberg uses to give his stories a kind of moral force.
On the TV shows, however, being an orphan, much like having "lost" a child, is used either as a simple plot contrivance or as instant, just-add-water character development. In Seaquest, there was a lame episode in which the crew encountered a ship full of orphans and had to well, not exactly do battle with them, but just kind of convince them not to resist too much. In Falling Skies, the teen orphans Karen Nadler (Jessy Schram) and Lourdes (Seychelle Gabriel) gravitate to the Mason family: Friends 4-eva! And in Terra Nova, we can already sense that the beautiful teenage loner Skye (Allison Miller) is going to become a love interest to the brother and a big sister figure to the girls in the family. Will the show be able to do more with this character? We hope so, but if history has proven anything, it won't. And her parents will probably turn out to be alive, too.


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I'd like to think the design is a funky kind of floral. It's not too sweet and not too edgy, just the right kind of swedgy. (see what I did there?)
Kind reminded me of well, me. So I decided to do a (sort of) self-portrait. :D
In Tolkien's words, not all those who wander are lost.


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Psst. Travis. Usually the way this is done to avoid embarrassing situations where you name, say, four people in a row and start asking them questions only to have them bow out, is PM them and ask them first.
Is this embarrassing for you? I'm not embarrassed.
Sean Penn Acid Test 2008 - Legendary
2008 , 2009, 2010, 2011 , 2012 wk1, 2013 wk2. 6 years running!
Hell or highwater, fire and brimstone, not even cancer is powerful enough to keep me from Coachella!
- you'll be seeing a short, boring midget with nothing to offer anyone.
- i'm biking to coachella. it's a good ride, and my friends challenged me to do it. i don't turn down challenges.
- i am extremely friendly and i know how to party. end.
- 5'2"
- no. being short is the best for concerts, because you can sneak to the front easiest.
- i will wear the hat for some of the time.
kitt katt,
how does it feel to have Monklish follow you everywhere you go telling you how stupid you are and that you need to shut up? are your feelings as hurt when he does it to you as mine are when he unleashes the internetz fury on me? who do you think Monklish pwns more often? you? me? BD? VD? himself? what? what!!??
seriously though randy, you make every thread on this board your own. you're literally killing the coachella vibe. no matter how coooool you think you are on the internet, i think you're pretty much the laughing stock of this board nowadays, especially if anyone looks at the login stats. thanks broski!
Its like the Infinite Monkey Theorem, if you put X amount of monkeys in a room with a typewriter and ask them to give you Shakespeare 99% of them will fling their shit at you while the other 1% will masturbate in the corner.
god, these last 5 posts are funny. it's a shame i have to bug out and miss out on the impending assault. carry on.
Would it be possible to update the first post of this thread with a brief summary of the current boardie drama and a guide to aliases? It would make it so much easier for so many of us.


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A charity headed by the son of Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi is planning to send an aid ship from Greece to Gaza Strip to break the Israeli siege, the organizers said on Friday. The cargo ship Hope will depart from Lavrio, some 60 kilometers southeast of the capital Athens, the Libyan embassy said, according to AFP.
The Tripoli-based Gadhafi International Charity and Development Association said it was sending a cargo ship "loaded with about 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid in the form of foodstuff and medications." The ship will also carry "a number of supporters who are keen on expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people in the plight amidst the siege imposed on Gaza," the organization added.


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NEW YORK (PIX11)—A grand jury indictment has been unsealed in Brooklyn against four Queens men and a North Carolina native for Monday's fatal shooting of Police Officer, Peter Figoski, during the home invasion of a pot dealer in Cypress Hills.
The five suspects were hauled into court together, including a heavily shackled Lamont Pride, the accused triggerman. He was wearing a bright orange jailhouse jumpsuit and surrounded at the defense table by a squad of court officers and supervisors. Pride, who had an outstanding arrest warrant from North Carolina for shooting someone there back in August, fidgeted in his place, as he stood with the others in a 2nd floor courtroom at 320 Jay Street.
The attorney representing accused getaway driver, Michael Velez, was enraged that a Daily News reporter got access to Velez in the Manhattan House of Detention.
Velez told the News he drove the group to 25 Pine Street for gas money about 2am Monday morning and that he was actually going out to get baby formula for his 9 month old daughter.
"Smoke and mirrors," said PBA union president, Patrick Lynch, outside the courtroom. "They should have put 'once upon a time' in front of the story."
Velez's defense lawyer, Marvin Weinroth, angrily demanded an investigation within the New York City Department of Corrections, since only Velez's father and lawyers were supposed to have contact with the 21 year old Queens man. Velez was the only one of the suspects who refused to make any statements to police or prosecutors, after he was taken into custody. Now the District Attorney could have fresh ammunition, placing Velez in the middle of the robbery plot, with the quotes featured in the Daily News. Velez's attorney thundered in court that the reporter had no pen or paper to take notes and "I am sure he had a nice cell phone stuffed in his jockey shorts, pressed to 'record'."
Velez had been accused of attempted murder two years ago, for slashing a Richmond Hill man in the face in a gang-related assault. The victim needed 300 stitches to close up his wounds but later refused to testify against Velez in court.
All of the suspects have criminal records, and 30 year old Kevin Santos had only been out of prison a couple of months, after serving time for robbery. Detectives say he concocted Monday's scheme to rob a pot dealer in Cypress Hills. Officer Peter Figoski arrived as back-up to help other cops responding to a 911 call, and the indictment said he shot the officer in the face, at close range, as he tried to flee .using an illegally-obtained, 9mm, semi-automatic Ruger.
Dozens of off-duty police officers, wearing black bands over their shields, packed the Brooklyn courtroom to stare down the defendants. Officer Figoski spent his entire, 22 year police career in East New York's gritty 75th Precinct.
He could have retired after twenty years but chose to keep working, to help put his four daughters through college.
The only positive news to emerge this week is information that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to a fund that will help with the education of Officer Figoski's four daughters. Two are already studying at schools upstate, and the other two daughters are still in high school.
Officer Peter Figoski's funeral will be held Monday out on Long Island.


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EE Customers To Get Free Wi-Fi Access on London Tubes From 2013 - TheTechN
UK network EE has let it slip that its customers will be able to access free WiFi on the London Underground from early next year.
EE's tweet, which was spotted by Pocket-lint before it was taken down, read: "Travel on the tube? From early 2013, EE customers will be able to get WiFi access on the London Underground at no extra cost. Details soon."
It seems likely that that the mobile operator has inked a deal with Virgin Media, which provides free WiFi access for London commuters at 72 London Underground stations, to bring free WiFi to EE, Orange and T-Mobile customers.
This would certainly make sense, as Virgin Media uses the T-Mobile network for its Virgin Mobile services, and the internet service provider (ISP) has announced that it will be offering free WiFi to its customers into 2013. The ISP hinted that a deal could be made back in October, telling us that its underground WiFi will be free "throughout 2012 and beyond". The speed at which the tweet was taken down probably means that any deal is not yet finalized, however I'm sure we'll find out the outcome pretty soon.
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We finally got a break from the cold. I'm thankful we aren't getting the Artic blast that the rest of the country is getting. When the sun finally pokes its cozy head out, the boating community comes to life. Recently we built a custom storage cover for a Carolina Skiff. The cover was custom fit around his T-top and zipped together to seal out the elements. We used black Stamoid which is waterproof and light. We also built a bright teal canvas cover for the t-top of a Contender center console. Bright canvas and sunshine makes me smile. Car-wise we finished up some leather inserts on a Ford pick-up. The seat has a special order Euro perforated leather that we matched. We had our project of the week when a great long time customer brought in an antique dentist chair that we reupholstered in bright red vinyl. I promise to get the pictures up soon.
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January 2011
My new year's resolution was to blog weekly about the projects in the shop and the daily fun we have here at the trim shop. Last year was incredible. It seems we had a ton of T-buckets come through from all over. We built custom convertible tops with frames and custom interiors that were rolled and pleated in several different colors for the T-buckets. The last one we finished was one of the coolest we've built. The customer,Dewey, had ghost skeleton heads in the paint. We took his idea and used those images for windows. It sewed out beautiful. He picked a tan stayfast material to go with his burnt orange paint. He has one rocking T-bucket….It was also the year of the Porsche. We built another Speedster that has not failed to turn any head that saw it. Between Christmas and New Years we restored the interior of a good friend of mine's 1963 356 Porsche. He chose a tan leather for the seats, panels and dash and a tan German weave carpet for the floors. We replaced the headliner with the original Ivory vinyl. Cool projects to wrap up the year. The boat business has been remarkable also. More and more customers are holding on to their boats and replacing the worn interiors for a brand new look at a fraction of the cost of replacing the boat. The leather seat market is steady. Most customers are realizing that the "cheap leather kits" that are out there do not hold up to the quality leather kits we offer. They save a little money to start and then realize that the "cheap kit" is mostly vinyl. This week we are restoring a VW Convertible Bug. Blue paint with a blue convertible top. The seats are a bright white and the carpet is a grey loop. Old VW Bugs bring back fun memories. We'll post some more pictures soon. We are also building two custom bimini tops. One in a teal green and the other in black Recacril. Recacril is an Acrylic that has a lower stretch than Sunbrella and has been great on biminis and full covers. Our Professional Bass Fishermen are in Florida this spring for 2 Elite Tournaments and we plan to custom build several custom travel covers for them as they pass through. We've been blessed to keep so many as friends and long time customers. They are a great bunch of guys. Time to sew, staple and stitch. Thanks for the kind words…


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Announcing our First Preservation Recognition Award.
Building Owners, Neighbors, and Architects, we invite you to nominate your favorite project. more information>
Our photograph collection is now available online
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The old Valley Green Inn in the Wissahickon
FOW volunteers renovating an old shed in Andorra.
Postcard of rustic bridge at Devil's Pool
Postcard of the falls near Old Livesey House
FOW volunteers remove picnic table from Creek
Livesey Mill on the Wissahickon, c. 1920
The "Hot Dog Crisis" of 1937; FOW opposed refreshment stands in the park
FOW volunteers planting trees
FOW volunteer replacing shed roof
View of Harper's Meadow
Stereoview of mill buildings, waterfall and bridge over the Wissahickon Creek
FOW volunteers replace guard rail at Valley Green (2000)
Hill, located in the northwestern corner of Philadelphia, is one
of the region's most beautiful and architecturally distinguished
communities. Flanked by the spectacular Wissahickon Gorge and Cresheim
Valley, Chestnut Hill is home to one of the best collections of
19th and early 20th-century residential buildings in the country.
every notable architect practicing in Philadelphia over the past
150+ years is represented in Chestnut Hill -- from the early Italianate
Victorian designs of Samuel Sloan, to the exuberant Queen Anne buildings
of the G.W. & W.D. Hewitt firm; from the ground-breaking, European
influenced work of Wilson Eyre to the exquisitely designed country
houses of Mellor Meigs and Howe; and from the ornate classical design
of Horace Trumbauer to the early modern works of Louis I. Kahn and
Robert Venturi.
Chestnut Hill Historical Society leads the effort to protect this
profound architectural heritage. Through lively programs, exhibits
and tours, through the establishment of an innovative easement program
and through direct intervention in the preservation of buildings,
CHHS helps to keep the past alive for future generations.
Chestnut Hill Historical Society is located in an 1870s Victorian
house at the "top of the Hill" along Germantown Avenue
in historic Chestnut Hill.
From a partner:
Please note: The parking lot behind our building is owned by the Chestnut Hill Seventh Day Adventist Church. Visitors will be ticketed or towed. Questions? Call the Church office at 215 247-7022. We apologize for the inconvenience.


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Samsung Omnia 7 loads games faster than HTC 7 Trophy [Video]
As these new WP7 devices are starting to become more available, differences are starting to become apparent. One of those differences appears to be load times for video games, with the Samsung clearly beating the HTC 7 Trophy.
Much speculation is the memory: the Omnia 7 uses Samsung's NAND chips while HTC uses internal memory with expandable microSD, causing slower performance.
So this could be the future trade off : expandable memory vs. faster speeds.
Which do you prefer?
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Experience a whole new way of interaction with the Creative Senz3D™ depth and gesture camera for PCs. Use hand gestures to play games, give voice commands for applications and more! It's also a 720p HD webcam with a dual-array microphone for your video recording and chatting needs.
The Senz3D camera detects hand gestures and head movement, opening new possibilities for fun interactive games and interesting ways to interact with your computer.
The camera can also capture right down to the contours of your face, creating many new app and game development opportunities for professional and amateur developers alike!
Get started right away, with several bundled games that specifically work with the Senz3D camera, utilizing its advanced gesture recognition technology.
Using 3D face sensing and face recognition technology, FastAccess 3D works as a futuristic enhancement as you may have seen in movies! Log in to your PC, favorite social media sites, email client or other password-protected accounts and websites without having to remember long passwords. Coupled with the Senz3D's depth sensor, it provides added protection with enhanced anti-spoofing during authentication.
Chat in stunning 720p HD quality on Skype with your loved ones. You can also record videos in HD, presenting the perfect showcase platform for video blogging enthusiasts or aspiring YouTube stars! Express yourself in vivid detail like never before.
The beamforming dual-array microphone with noise-reduction and echo-cancellation technology ensures your speech and voice input will be crystal clear and accurately captured.
This included handy speech recognition and 'intelligent personal assistant' application is able to recognize your voice commands and respond to them. Use your voice for various scenarios and applications such as posting to social media sites, searching on the web or even email dictation.
Using the included Personify software, you can digitally remove and replace unwanted backgrounds during video chats or recordings, thanks to the Senz3D's depth sensor. From eliminating distracting backgrounds during Skype video chats to superimposing useful information for futuristic interaction, the possibilities are endless!
The Senz3D also comes with Creative's Live! Central 3 software suite that allows for full control of the camera's settings. Use it to add additional effects to footage, share photos or presentation slides easily via video chat. You can also upload videos to social media websites such as Facebook and YouTube with ease.
The Senz3D includes drivers that are compatible with Windows 7 and 8 to ensure you get the best experience with your camera.
The Senz3D comes bundled with four free games with gesture controls to get you started straightaway! The fate of Kung Pow Kevin's world and this ancient secret art is in your hands! Train with Kevin to become a Klap-Chi Master. Enjoy full gesture support for realistic and intuitive interaction!
A humorous, cartoony action game that requires you to smash, slice, aim and block an endless horde of colorful creeps!
Gradually conquer the world by guiding your people against others – all with your hands!
Use the free motion of your own hands to solve 3D puzzles and rebuild a broken planet.
The Portal 2 Perceptual Pack created by Sixense™, which reacts to hand gestures, hand movements and voice commands, will be available as a free download for customers who purchase the Creative Senz3D. The Portal 2 Perceptual Pack takes advantage of the gesture capabilities delivered by Creative Senz3D and Intel Perceptual Computing SDK. It represents the type of new gaming experience enabled by depth sensing technology, allowing users to solve 3D puzzles in new and entertaining ways. It now includes 10 additional levels, making it 15 in total!
The Perceptual Apps Site serves as a great location for you to download more apps and games to be used with Senz3D. Check it out regularly for updates!
Keen to develop exciting applications that deliver a new user experience? Download the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK today!


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I'm generally meeting or exceeding my goal of $800 a month so far, (aiming towards a house downpayment) mainly because I take the money out immediately from each paycheck on payday. But I know I could do it better. Since I started saving money, it's been a lot harder to keep my VISA bill paid off or low, and I've been hitting the overdraft much more often just before the next payday. My budget should leave me quite enough spending money to be happy, but frankly my spending habits are terrible!I know what I need to cut down on –
- eating out, especially from work and especially out of laziness
- impulse purchases, especially clothes and gadgety stuff
But it's so hard to change the patterns of a lifetime.
I need to change something – either my spending habits or the amount I'm putting into savings, because the interest I'm earning on the savings is not going to equal that growing on the credit card. If nothing shows up on the house market that I want soon, I'll go ahead and skip a savings payment or two and pay off the visa. I also need to stop carrying it with me!
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Lynda Barry visited Toronto recently to speak at a book festival, and to teach her class on creative writing, "Writing the Unthinkable." In her lively festival talks — which felt more like happenings than your typical button-down, staid author's reading — she presented excerpts from her latest book, What It Is, asked the audience to shout their first phone numbers out loud, and sang "You Are My Sunshine" with her mouth closed. She also bemoaned her sometime status as a publishing industry "gateway chick" — she says she's like the last girl guys go out with before they realise they're gay, only in her case it's publishers realising they want to "date" something completely different than Lynda Barry books.
That's changing now that she's settled with Drawn and Quarterly, who plan to collect all of Barry's longrunning, seminal alternative comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek, and who recently published What It Is to tremendous acclaim. A memoir-cum-workbook, What It Is incorporates collage, cartooning, and longhand writing in an effort to explain and disseminate the author's creative process—which, loosely, focuses on one word, image, or memory to begin with, then spirals out from there. Lynda Barry was gracious enough to browse through a copy of What It Is with me, all the while speaking about her craft, about the creative state of mind, and about the collage material she used from her neighbour's mother, Doris Mitchell—as well as a little bit about Family Circus. This is the first part of that conversation.
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What It Is goes back to all the different modes you've worked in, in terms of the different techniques like pen and ink and watercolour and so on, but to me it feels connected to One Hundred Demons.
Oh, it absolutely is. It's the sister book.
There's that autobiographical aspect, and in the prologue to that book you actually talk about the process of putting those demons to paper.
The method that I used to write One Hundred Demons was to put a bunch of nouns and -ing words, gerunds, in a paper bag and pull them out. It was all based on that method I learned from my teacher, Marilyn Frasca. Right after One Hundred Demons came out my next plan was to do this book, but the publisher came out and admitted he was gay and he didn't want to do another book with me [laughs]. But my plan all along was to do this, to try to do an instruction book, because it really is like following a donut recipe, and it was really fun. In What It Is I have a word list that I encourage people to just xerox and cut up. So that's how I did One Hundred Demons. It wasn't anything that I sat around and went, "I should think about smell, and come up with a story about smell." No, I happened to pull that word out. Sometimes you pull a word out and you'll just go, Nooooo! but I really stuck to my vow that I would do it no matter what.
The one that sticks in my mind from One Hundred Demons is "Resilience."
It's a heavy strip. And you know what's interesting about that strip is, I went to speak at a high school in Washington DC, this inner city school, and these students had done their own One Hundred Demons, they had done their own books, so when I walked in I saw their books, and saw them, and started crying, and they hadn't ever had an author before so the last thing they expected was that she'd walk in and go wauuuuugh! So they were frightened [laughs]. But it turned out that they had all this stuff prepared, and they asked if I would read a strip and I said, "Which one would you like me to read?" and that was the one they picked. Blew my mind, because it's a weird thing for comics—not so much anymore, for comics to be sad or have so much trouble in them.
When you were publishing that, it was a webcomic at that point. Webcomics, or the ones that I know of anyway, don't really move into that territory very often.
Yeah, or the ones that do we probably don't even know about. It's so funny to me because it's like saying, we know music has the capacity to be incredibly sad and moving, and happy and all kinds of stuff, but it'd be like having music, something as big as that, stuck with only happy songs for a long time. I mean, happy songs are cool, but it's the sad ones we use and play over and over and over again while we're crying over somebody who broke our heart.
I found that What It Is kind of connects back to your very early work, also. You seem to be working with strict ideas, or what you're thinking about, rather than any kind of extended narrative. It makes me think of, say, Big Ideas. Do you think that you're returning to that, or is that something that's always been present in what you do?
You know, it's funny, because those early books of mine, I was a real know-it-all and I was in my twenties and I didn't know anything. But that's the beauty of being in your twenties and being a teenager, where you're just like, "Well, I have this shit figured out and I know why people don't get along." But actually, in What It Is, I tried for the longest time to find any way other than using myself as a narrator and making the memoir part of it. I tried to think of any way I could, but that one's my whole relationship with making things and writing. I tried really hard not to have to use myself as a narrator because One Hundred Demons really is the only close to real autobiography—and I say close to real, not quite real—but I couldn't find any other way to tell this story. I haven't thought on that at all, but I think you're absolutely right on. It's an instruction book and that's what I was way into. Matt Groening, the Simpsons guy, he and I have been friends since we were 19, and our comics strips kind of evolved together, and we would call each other up on the phone and give each other shit all the time while we were working. But we started calling each other, because he did a lot of instructive—do you know the early Life in Hell stuff?
I know a few of the chapbooks that were published.
That stuff's just amazing, like Work Is Hell and Love Is Hell. But there was some reggae guy called the Explainer, and that's what we called ourselves, The Explainers—but I couldn't write such things now. Well, no, take it back, I just did! "With my hand on my heart, I wouldn't do it, except for when I do."
But you think it's coming from a different place than it was in your twenties.
Well, yeah, I do, because I think what I'm really trying to do here is get people itchy to make something. That's my goal. And it's not so much about relationships or, I don't know—I mean, first of all, I never read my work. Like, people talk to me about the novel Cruddy, and I can't break it to them that—
You can't remember what happens.
No, I've never read it. I read it while I was writing it, but I've never read it. But Drawn and Quarterly's going to reissue everything, and as I'm gathering comics I'll see some of the stuff and I'll know how old I was when I wrote it and [laughs] it works just fine, but it's not my experience now. I'm definitely not the same kind of person that I was then.
I wanted to ask about the collage technique that you're using here. It kind of goes from these strips—
Yeah, so these are all on legal paper.
How did that come to be? I know you did the prologue to One Hundred Demons on yellow legal paper.
Well, part of it is that I have this real fear—I still have art paper that I bought when I was in my twenties and I still don't feel good enough to use yet. But I found that whenever I was around paper that was very inexpensive or already in the garbage I felt completely uninhibited to use it. I keep a journal like these back pages right here, so the way that I set up my desktop is, I'll have a comic strip on my left side, and I'll be working on it, and when the comic strip dries up—because it always does; everything you do, the wheels fall off a little bit—instead of sitting there and going, "Oh, what comes next," I would just move my pen over and start scribbling stuff. And while I was drawing sometimes I would hear a sentence in my head, like, "Take a ouija board attitude toward your brush." So there's January 11th, and most of these were done while I was doing What It Is. There was something about the legal paper—I felt freed by it. I also thought, if other people see it on legal paper, then they'll be like, "Legal paper is good enough! You don't have to go to the art supply store and buy some special paper!" So I liked it and I've been keeping a journal this way for years and years and years. I have thousands of those pages. In fact I sent a whole slew of them in to Drawn and Quarterly and just let [D&Q publisher] Chris Oliveros pick which ones he wanted.
To use them in the reprint series, or—
No, for this. There were so many, there were hundreds and hundreds, and I was too close to them. I couldn't pick, so he's the one that picked—and did a good job, I thought, editing those back pages. And there's my Little Women, [ which was turned down by Penguin because they thought it] wasn't Lynda Barry enough. These are really cute little dolls, though.
Well, you know what, Penguin didn't turn down Frank Miller when he turned in his Gravity's Rainbow cover [laughter].
I know—it's really a bummer. But you know, I think part of it is, the guy who was the art director hadn't seen One Hundred Demons and wasn't familiar with the newer collage stuff, so to him it really looked like a violent departure and he didn't want to be the petri dish for whatever I was trying to cook up [laughter].
But for these other collage pages, you move from this kind of narrative strip to these collages which are very singular and do connect to each other, but they're very much their own page and composed as a page.
Actually, the collages came first.
OK, that's what I was wondering.
And they came before I found Drawn and Quarterly. But until I found Drawn and Quarterly I just knew that nobody wanted to publish my work—it was over. And I just thought, "I still want to make this book that I've been wanting to make since Sasquatch dropped me," so I thought, "Just make it. Just start." And again I had that idea about doing this book about writing, but the idea of writing about writing, doing a book that was about writing with writing in it, was something that was so different than my class. I wanted to give some kind of visual equivalent to the class that I teach, so I just started messing around and making collages—and actually there are many, many more than are in this book. And while I would work I would just hear these little things, like, "What would be different if there were no monster stories? Anything?" And that's all I'd have to have and then I could start messing around. So once I had the collages and I knew I wanted to do a workbook, then I was thinking, "The collages and the workbook aren't quite enough. I need to map out the story of how we have this ability to have images, then all of us lose it—very few people don't, but almost all of us lose it—then the trick is to get it back again." Which is also the basic story of every fairy tale: the kingdom was once in good shape, and then it went to hell, then we have to figure out a way to get it back. So I think that's a pretty classic human experience.
That's what I was wondering about the collages, whether it was you going back and revisiting everything and making this article for meditation or something like that, or whether it was actually you thinking through your process.
My whole philosophy is just, make a mess and do it every day and then eventually you'll be able to figure out something from it. So the collages just sort of started. And also this lady in the back, Doris Mitchell, this is all her. This is from one of her students. You've probably seen all the little pieces—I was working on the collages and then, she passed.
I was wondering how you approached using these kids' artwork, because it seems like you're really sharing them.
All of them were in little pieces. There was hardly any whole sheet of paper, because all the paper that she had saved was just piled on top of each other, and had been wet and dried and had mice running through it, and so really sometimes there was only this much left. And then I would also just find like this. This kind of stuff where there's somebody who's doing math, doing math, and then all of a sudden it's, I love you I love I love you, Patsy Patsy Patsy. That stuff would just blow my mind because, to me, it illustrated what thinking's like. Here I'm trying to work on this problem and there's, Patsy Patsy Patsy.
The really shaky handwriting, is that—
That's Doris's.
That's amazing. Just the marks on the paper.
She also was somebody who kept every little thing and she liked to package certain things. For instance, I found this plastic bag that was full of twist-ties and around it, it had a twist-tie that had a tag on it that said, "twist-ties" [laughter]. I have that hanging on my wall. She was obsessive that way. And this is her shirt, she made this. I have not only her scraps, but I have all her clothes. I always say, it's the curse of one hoarder put on another hoarder. I can't throw away anything. She also kept all her school pictures, but they're all ones that had water on them. So sometimes you'll only be able to see somebody's eye, but on the back there'll be their names. So I've gotten to know all these people—it's really cool.
And the photos that you've covered over, are they from her collection as well?
No, a lot of them would have been from really old National Geographics, and then I just used gel pencil. I used every source that I could think of. Any piece of paper is fair game. Weirdly, I stopped sweeping my floor while I was doing this because as soon as I saw a scrap on the floor, I don't know why, that was much more likely to be used. So I realised, every time I swept the floor I was sweeping away possibilities. So I had the dirtiest floor for nine months, but I wouldn't sweep it.
It's like the ultimate hoarder mentality.
It is! They've done MRI stuff on hoarders—on people who have that thing where they can't throw away anything. They do these MRIs to see what part of the brain is getting blood flow, and they had this woman who had a really big hoarding problem. She had coupons that had expired ten years earlier and what they wanted to do was measure her blood flow as they put the coupon that had expired ten years earlier through a shredder. And it was the blood flow exactly as if she herself had been attacked. My husband is also a hoarder—we love garbage—and this wish to transform garbage into something valuable, it's sort of a feeling about yourself as well. The hoarding thing is really interesting. I do think it's a defence. Also, my mom was very neat, so I know as long as there's stuff on the floor she's nowhere around [laughs]. If things are a mess, that woman is not ever around. So I made my ring of trash to keep her away. And then I used a lot of glitter—it's hard to…
It does show up. At the beginning I was noticing it a bit more than when I actually got into the book.
The most ridiculous thing I did is, there's a whole bunch of glow-in-the-dark paint—not that anyone in this world could ever see it, but there was something really fun for me about doing it. And then turning off the lights to go back up to the house, and then the thing would go, Woooooooo!
I had one last thing that I wanted to ask you about the collages. It seems to me like it's a different kind of using your hands than the kind that you talk about in the rest of the book, than the doodling and the alphabet-writing. I'm just wondering if that's accessing the same thought process that goes into the image-making that you're talking about.
I think it's the exact same neighbourhood. All you're doing is practicing a physical activity with a state of mind—there was something about this way of working that allowed accidents to happen more than if I'm writing. That's the part that was so valuable about it. Chip Kidd talked about it today—when something would just fall when you set it down, when you went to answer the phone, and the way it was sitting was just right. That helped me a lot. And while I'm moving stuff around, that's when I hear in my head a sentence like this. None of this is written when I'm not actually working on it. For me that was a really important thing, because I feel like if something is occurring to you as you're doing it, it sounds kind of flaky, but it might transfer a little. Also I like that you can look at this and go, "I could do this." That's like, "Yes, you can! Mission accomplished!"
That's got to be your goal, teaching, too.
Oh, yeah. I really do think that the health of the world, the future of the world, depends on people connecting. The future of the world depends on people feeling mentally healthy and stable and having the will to live. This is one of the natural ways that human beings have always done it, is the arts. It's such a new word, compared to what it's describing, because people were making marks and singing and dancing and there were story arcs long before there was anybody to call it a story arc. I think it's also the best thing that you can have, is a feeling that life is worth living. You don't have to be happy—you just have to not want to kill yourself or others [laughter].
That's good—that's a bare minimum.
No, seriously! From there, you've got your vowels and you can throw in the consonants you want.
I wanted to talk a bit more about the doodling or the constant hand movement that you're talking about. I think you've read Ivan Brunetti's little book on cartooning…
That is the best book ever written, as far as I'm concerned. The Philosophy and Practice—that one? That is the best book I've ever read on cartooning, and it is so generous. It's like, anybody can do this. That book is so good.
Yeah, I think part of that is his business on the doodle as the basic form of cartooning. He promotes it as the ideal form of cartooning because it's simple and it's not thought-through—it's from your brain to the paper.
And the reason you do it is because it's giving you something. It's making you able to stand a bad meeting. It's making you able to stand hanging on line until the electric company comes back. That's what we do if we have a pen. I saw you do it a little bit on the back of that page, am I right?
Yeah, just circling.
I always spot them. I don't take those things for granted anymore. When I see them I'm just like, "It's alive!"
I wanted to ask if you think that the doodling, the constant hand movement, if that maybe makes cartooning closer to the unconscious than any other art form, just because that's the one that has the most maker's mark to it?
But if you think of movement—that's your hand on the page, but then if you think of a dancer, that's full-on movement. Or even a musician—the main thing for a musician to get to the end of the song is to stay in motion until the end of the song.
Right. So it's not necessarily the hand on the paper.
No, it's physical activity with a state of mind for a sustained, not necessarily too long, period of time. There was some guitarist who says that when things are going really well in his band he feels like he doesn't even know what's driving his fingers and there are times when he could just take his hand off and the guitar would keep playing itself. That's absolutely how it feels when you have characters. Once you have characters and you kind of know them it does feel like the strips write themselves—although you have to haul the thousand tons of brick with your pen.
So do Marlys and Fred Milton act on their own?
Beyond the valley of on their own. Fred Milton has gotten me fired from so many papers. He doesn't care. I've been fired from so many papers because of that dog. So, because I have characters and I'm used to having them now, I even do the bag thing with Marlys or Arna—Arna's been the narrator of the strip for the last year or so. But I try my best not to have a single idea when I sit down to do my strip, and then I'll pull that word out and do a list of ten things. If it's Marlys doing it, I know what her memories will be, and Arna. But it's not even like I'm thinking—it's like when you're a kid and you had a car. You didn't have to go, "I think what I'll do now is, I'll do this and then it will swerve and go off the cliff and I will feel anxiety and then I'll catch it and feel release—let's go!" There's some other thing that goes on that's very quick. It's like getting a joke: getting a joke is way past the thinking part of it. So what is that? How do we do that? I find it to be fascinating. Or why we can read a novel and not have to keep every little part in mind. After a certain point it just rolls. That means we have that power.
And we're just not using it, maybe.
Or we're shamed out of using it, for sure. I said that thing in my talk about finding out that What It Is made the science fiction list [on an online bookseller]. It does seem like there is some kind of science fiction plot to get everyone to stop doing all the stuff that would make us feel better and then instead start consuming. [Pause.] But that's fucking bullshit [laughter]. Well, it is, you know. I mean, frankly, it is. That's one thing about getting older: when you're younger you can come up with a concept and it kind of fits and you think, "Heeeeey." You don't even care if it's true or not—it just made somebody go, "Yeeeeeah!" Now, I know, I just made that up and it's bullshit. It does fit, but it's like drawing a key. Yeah, it looks like a key, but it's not going to start your car [laughter].
You were talking earlier about dancers and musicians. The whole book is about finding images and getting access to images. Do you think that they are accessing images in different ways, or is it the same kind of image with them as it is with your writing students?
I think the thing that Marilyn, my teacher, called an image, is an arbitrary word. "Image," for most people, in the beginning, makes them think of a visual image or a memory of something. But I feel like what she meant by it was that living part that's in the container of the song. So maybe "an experience" is more accurate. So in the container of the song, in the container of the dance, in the container of the good reciprocal conversation with a stranger which we have every once in a while and it's fucking miraculous—at a certain point in the conversation, that person's going to get off the train, or you are. There's something about that timeframe of, our train ride's going to last for 27 minutes and that's the container. I don't know how else to describe it except as this living thing that's activated either by reading it or watching it or making it, and it's contained in the thing we call the arts, or what kids call play. I just keep trying to figure out the exact metaphor for this other space that human beings have made and that we all can talk about. We can all talk about Batman or how Superman, no matter how strong he is, his outfit is sooooooooo baaaaaaaaad. No matter what he does—I don't care how he fixes his hair, I just can't get past his outfit. But I can talk to you about that. So where is Superman?
He's in a kind of space that we all share, yeah.
In computers they call it a virtual world. But this is an entirely other workspace or living space and even the word "imagination" doesn't capture it. It really is the place where most stuff happens, but I know that I haven't gotten my mind around it yet. I'm just missing about three feet of my mind to be able to get around the whole thing. I keep going back to one of the early Star Treks—when Whoopi Goldberg was on and they would play that three-dimensional chess. Do you remember that?
See, that's another thing! That's in the image world. What I'm talking about doesn't really exist. There was no actual game, but for me—terrestrially, we're here in the world, and then there's this other place where we're able to go. But I can tell I don't quite have the way to describe it yet. But I'm interested in it. All literature, all art takes place in that spot. Even Ronald McDonald is there! It's an equal opportunity spot.
Well, I guess anything that we see on TV is.
Advertisers really know how to take advantage of it. They really understand mixing images with words and music. I'm 52 and I love having stuff that I still chase after like I did when I was 22 trying to find the most obscure Ramones tune. That's what I like about being a writer or being whatever it is I am. When I was a kid, the main thing I wanted to be was Dr. Seuss. I didn't know what he was, but that's what I wanted to be. I like that this stuff is stuff you can do right to the end—to your last little gnarly wrinkled gasp. And Doris's little shaky handwriting.
Talking about these places that everybody goes to that aren't necessarily real, I wanted to ask you about Bil Keane.
My beloved.
Because that's what Family Circus is, to me, is being able to follow around that dotted line.
Now why is that so fascinating? I mean, it's so engaging. You want to do it when you see it—you don't just go, "Oh, pssh."
And it makes that space so much more real, just to have that little line going through it.
One of the things about Family Circus that I did in the intro to Best American Comics—Bil was so kind, Bil and Jeff, to give me permission to print them without the captions. To see them without that, it's powerful. And once you take the captions away, you realise: this is a world I've seen just through a porthole over and over. But I feel like I've moved through it. And then when Jeff's mom died—mommy died this year, Thelma—and when I found out I was like, ah! wauuuugh! And I don't know this woman—it's just lines on paper. So we have a capacity to make another world, and it had to have come along with all the other things like our thumbs and our brains, and then at what point did that become an elective? That's really interesting to me. I guess we just take it for granted. One of the writers I heard the other day said he didn't think there was any such thing as artistic genius, which is exactly how I feel. And I do feel that art is as integral to human experience as our autonomic nervous system. I think I said, it's like saying somebody has a talent for saliva production. You're a genius at producing saliva! Or man, can you grow hair! "He's brilliant!" But I do think the converse is true. I do think people can be talked out of it, or shocked out of it. It's amazing to me how frightened people are of making their own art. Terrified.
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Part two of this interview can be read here.
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