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Leone was working at the museum and I had a phone call several days ago from a very giggly young woman. She said" George. B and I are going to get married, he just asked me and gave me a ring" B is our youngest and only unmarried grandkid. He and Suzi met each other perhaps 9 or 10 years ago when they were both showing sheep at the county fair. They are from farms about 40 miles apart and didn't know each other but were both in FFA and 4-H. Leone and I were there to see him show his sheep and we or nobody else can remember whose sheep decided it didn't want to be shown and was rearing up and making it impossible to handle, anyway, one of them came to the aid of the other and helped get the sheep shown and from the point they began a friendship which later became girl friend- boyfriend and they have been going together for at least 7 years. Now Suzi has graduated from the U. of N and B will graduate this Dec. Both of them want to continue to farm.
We are very pleased because we love Suzi dearly and will certainly welcome her into the family. Oh by the way, she is also very pretty, red hair and green eyes. She is rather short and B is is 6'7" so a little mismatched in size but certainly compatible otherwise.
What we are both chuckling over is that Suzi's dad who we have gotten to know very well called and Leone and he talked. He wanted to tell us that B had asked him to go out in a cornfield and he wanted to show him something. When they did, B made an effort to talk about some imagined disease on the corn and then said "what I really want is to ask you if you and Mary would consider letting Suzi marry me? He told him "we've been wondering when you would ask and are pleased that you did."
Leone later called Suzi and told her how happy we were for both of them and asked when the date would be and she told her not for a year but don't plan anything for labor day weekend next year.
Now we find out that B has already made a down payment on a vacant house that they both have admired and he didn't even tell her until after he asked her. It is near where his dad's farm is and near land B rents for farm land.
That will be the last one of the granchildren to be married and we are really pleased that those two wiil be.
They have promised to be here labor day weekend with us and the rest of the clan. Afraid we will have to rent a number of rooms at a motel because we only have 3 bedrooms and there will be at least 26 people here.
For some reason the clan has gathered here at our house every labor day weekend for years and we cherish the tradition.
Another tradition seems to be we have to prepare lots of pulled pork and BBQed beef. We will do most of that next week and freeze it for the occasion. Everone else brings side dishes. Seems that we eat and talk, talk and eat and the time flies by.
I was right, this did take forever hope I didn't bore everyone to death but can you tell we are very pleased about our grandson and...
George, I enjoyed your post and congrats on another grandson. I'm an immigrant to this country and dh and I have tried to build a family from scratch in this country. We're on our way to have an extended new family and I hope it will be like your family.
How I envy that all of you live within range of visiting each other regularly and stay in touch the way you do. You have a wonderful family and and I'm sure a lot of that is due to you and Leone. You always seem to "glow" when you are talking about them.
George, I think you and Leone with your solid marriage, your
love and your wisdom have been the best role
models your family could have.
Well done.
It is a good thing to see anyone chose the right life partner.
It is especially gratifying when our children and grandchildren get it right.
What a wonderful family you have developed. Such a family does not just spring from nothing. It's loved and nurtured into something so amazing. It's really great that you are so happy and excited that your grandson is marrying a fitting girl. I wish them much happiness in their lives together. You and Leone I wish a wonderful Labor Day. Smiles.
That just makes me want to tear up. It is good to see families continue traditions and farming. Not to steal your thunder but it is the same topic, DS got engaged this year and plans to get married next October. Not sure if they want to have a small wedding out west, or come home and have a big traditional wedding in the church his grandparents and dh and I were married in. I am going to have to talk to my future d-i-l because if it is here I will have to start making arrangements now. We also like her very much. They are another mismatch height wise, he is 6'3 and she is maybe 5'. DD has a new beau and we think he is going to be the ONE. Hope they can wait alittle while, she still has a few years of college. Lots of excetement anc changes.


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As the title says, what do you think of the timeskip going from season 1 to season 2?
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As the title says, what do you think of the timeskip going from season 1 to season 2?
I'm a little indifferent to it. Like someone else said it has its pros and cons, but there were so many loose ends left with the season finale of the first season and if they placed most of the information in the tie-in comics not many people will be able to get them and read what they want to know. I don't even live close to a bookstore/comic store anymore so I rarely get to go to one. But yeah, I wish they waited for a timeskip until they tied up loose ends as well as continued character development.
The strength of this show is establishing a huge universe, whilst focusing on a relatively small number of characters, so in that sence, the 5 year time-skip has benefited the show, by allowing a time to establish more characters in the universe. The 5 years thing, there isn't a lot the Justice league could do to investigate it, the only people to see the boom tube and remember would have been Clone Roy, Black Canary and Red Tornado, and I doubt any of them would recognise it. And we don't yet know what the League did on Rann, and whether it was important enough to reach the Guardian's ears. As for the light, their strength has always been in their patience, they plot carefully, and subtley, especially now they're known (or at least, 5 of them are), so the fact that they haven't done anything major in 5 years doesn't bother me either.
The only problems I have with the timeskip are the rather sudden disappearance of Wally, Kaldur and Artemis. And the fact that Rocket's been shifted into the league before any character development has occured
My perspective on Time-skips is that the show should wait at least two seasons to develop the characters enough to merit a time skip, that way, sudden changes won't seem like such a snowball to the face, like MM and Conner not being an item anymore, or Dick becoming Nightwing. Was this a choice by the creators to cater to everyone demanding Wonder Girl, Batgirl, Tim Drake and Beast Boy? And why so extreme a time skip? shouldn't the maximum be two years or something?
My problem with the time jump is that there was no time off between seasons 1 and 2, so it felt very jarring. The week before, everything was just as we expected and now everything's different. And, as with all time jumps between seasons, I get very frustrated when main characters from the previous season are absent and not mentioned at all. Kid Flash, Artemis, and Aqualad were all gone with no explanation. The MM and Superboy romance will be explained in time, but missing characters are not good in my book.
However, I do have to applaud them for doing this time jump very smoothly. The opening scene didn't seem different at all and the reveal was fun when we found out that Tim, not Dick, was Robin. And they covered their tracks by stating that the whole missing sixteen hours thing hadn't even been addressed during the previous five years and they were only now getting to the root of it. Guess the five years in the middle didn't have a lot going for them.
I do not the time skip will keep like at all. Why would they spend all this time trying to get us to fall in love with these characters just to ruin it? i think we will jump back to normal halfway into the 2nd season...MAYBE at the end, but think in the middel. They MUST know we are not ready to give up our fav characters yet. Shows don't do this crap in the 2nd season.
ALSO MM left SB after she NAMED him Conner so SHE could live out her lame fantasy?!!?
He's still stuck w that name lady!!!
from one stand point i under stand it. due to vandel savage planing . but their is way to m any plot holes dealing with the group of characters. from s1 that. i want to know where they went
The TS will stay since this season is called Invasion so it would this team and what they're dealing with right now. The aliens and if they do end up going back to the original team it would most likely be in season three.
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The TS will stay since this season is called Invasion so it would this team and what they're dealing with right now. The aliens and if they do end up going back to the original team it would most likely be in season three.
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And on top of that, it would be even more frustrating if there was a time jump back to the original team since we're going to spend the next season getting to know thesecharacters. Looks like we're stuck with this, like it or not. Once the missing team members are explained, I'll probably be a lot more comfortable with it anyway.
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And on top of that, it would be even more frustrating if there was a time jump back to the original team since we're going to spend the next season getting to know thesecharacters. Looks like we're stuck with this, like it or not. Once the missing team members are explained, I'll probably be a lot more comfortable with it anyway.
Yeah, I'm sure it won't be too long before we get to know what happened to the characters. We already have two things answered. Superboy's aging issue which wasn't that big and how he and MM broke up and we're about to find out what happened during the sixteen hours.
Still hatting the time skip!!!!
Also, Artemis & Wall 4EVER!!! It's cool they're both going to school!
ANd I wonder if Artemis @ all knows she's an aunt yet?
Doubt it since Roy just found out. I am not really liking that Superboy and MM are the only members on the team besides Nightwing. I felt they got a lot of screen time last season. It is sucks Wally, Artemis, Aqualad, Zatana, and Rocket have been downgraded to supporting roles. I would really liked to see Aqualad now and see just how far he has fallen. It as the first interesting storyline involving him.
Megan and Conner are cool, but you know we can down play them a little more to give the other characters some more spot light. In fairness Artemis did get a fair amount of screen time last season herself. Rocket feels especially pointless addition since she came in the last two episodes of the first season only to be gone already. Wiseman is great with storylines, but I am still not sure about this one.
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It's getting more and more clear that Jeffrey Rosen's TNR article about Sonia Sotomayor is nothing more than a hatchet job.
First we learned that Rosen wrote the piece before -- by his own admission -- he had read enough of her opinions or talked to enough people to get a "fully balanced picture of her strengths." Then we learned that Rosen misrepresented a statement by a colleague of Sotomayor in order to make her look bad. Now it turns out that Rosen also cropped a quote to omit praise of her intellect -- praise that would have been inconsistent with his premise that Sotomayor is intellectually inadequate for the Supreme Court.
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The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench," as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. "She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue." (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, "Will you please stop talking and let them talk?") The Second Circuit judge Jose Cabranes, who would later become her colleague, put this point more charitably in a 1995 interview with The New York Times: "She is not intimidated or overwhelmed by the eminence or power or prestige of any party, or indeed of the media."
But Cabranes wasn't making the point that Sotomayor was "not that smart," charitably or otherwise. In fact, he made precisely the opposite point. The New Yorker's Amy Davidson explains:
Actually, Cabranes was making a different point. Here's the part of his quote that Rosen-oddly enough-omits: "She's tough and tenacious as well as smart." That "smart" bit would have been helpful in a piece about whether she's smart. (One wonders, too, about Rosen's use of a quote that another judge "is said to have leaned over and said"-why the double said? If he couldn't get a transcript, then a citation, or some context, would be interesting; maybe she is a big bully. Or is this a line Rosen heard secondhand and couldn't nail down?)
So Rosen took a quote in which Cabranes called Sotomayor "smart," cropped out the bit about her being smart, and claimed that Cabranes was making the point that Sotomayor is "not that smart."
Wow. That's "No Exit"-level dishonest.
Maybe someday someone can explain to me why Stephen Glass gets (rightly) fired for making up quotes for The New Republic, but Jeffrey Rosen can crop a quote to make someone look like they said the opposite of what they really said -- and TNR doesn't even bother to correct the article.
Yesterday, I noted that Marc Ambinder suggested that Rep. Steve King thinks "sexuality shouldn't matter at all" - a description of King that is inconsistent with his opposition to gay rights. That followed a post on April 20 in which I questioned Ambinder's description of Republicans who wage anti-gay campaigns as "pro-gay."
After yesterday's post, Ambinder emailed a response, which I am posting below with his permission. Back in February, Ambinder wrote the following, under the headline "Get Out Of Your D$*#( Shells":
Here's a simple way to increase intellectual cross-pollination on the web: honest bloggers of the left and the right should try to interview at least one author/historian/politician from the other side of the aisle at least one a month. So -- Media Matters shouldn't just criticize Bernard Goldberg; they should interview him. Glenn Greenwald should, I don't know, see if Jack Goldsmith from Harvard would chat with him online. ... Righties interviewing righties has gotten so boring and repetitive; lefties fawning over lefties is lazy. Who's going to be brave enough to reach out to an ideological or intellectual opponent, promote their new book, or interview them?
In the spirit of the open dialogue between people who disagree that Ambinder advocated, I have interspersed responses to his email below.
A response:
"I excuse no one and nothing. I meant to mock Rep. Steve King for his inane and dangerous comments. My "generosity" was meant ironically, but I guess it doesn't come off that way in print.
It doesn't. Here's what Ambinder wrote of King: "You don't have to be Rep. Steve King -- who here implies that gay people wouldn't be bashed so long as they don't tell people about their sexual orientation -- to have a vague sense of that sexuality shouldn't matter at all, that sexual orientation should be irrelevant as a way of judging someone for any job, anywhere."
The construct "You don't have to be X to believe Y" clearly suggests that X does believe Y. I take Ambinder at his word that he did not mean to suggest that King thinks sexuality is irrelevant - but that's what he wrote.
As of 12:30 pm today, Ambinder's post still contains that language, with no clarification, despite the fact that he acknowledged yesterday that his comment about King "doesn't come off" the way he intended.
Ambinder, continuing directly:
You're writing about a report, incidentally, who regularly calls a significant portion of the GOP base "anti-gay" - not "anti-gay rights" or some circumlocution, but anti-gay. They oppose gay people, primarily, and as a consequence, oppose gay rights.
Many GOP strategists - most of the major names - and virtually all of the ones who work regularly in DC - are personally sympathetic to gay rights, although they often use the issue against gays, because that's how Republicans get elected in Republican areas. These strategists are cynical, yes, and they're not morally committed to the cause. They're more like alcoholics who failed rehab, they can't help themselves. That's what reporting suggests.
These two paragraphs seem to be a reference to my April 20 post. In that post, I took Ambinder to task for describing Republicans who participate in anti-gay political activity as "pro-gay." In his email above, Ambinder again stipulates that the Republicans in question "often use the issue [gay rights] against gays, because that's how Republicans get elected." This time Ambinder describes them as "personally sympathetic to gay rights" but "cynical" and "not morally committed to the cause" and "like alcoholics who failed rehab." Had he described them that way on April 17, I would not have criticized him. But he didn't describe them that way; he called them "pro-gay."
I stand by my contention that "pro-gay" is an absurd description for people who, by Ambinder's description, run anti-gay campaigns.
Ambinder, continuing directly:
Media Matters very often conflates "is" and "ought;" it takes observations and it turns them into prescriptions.
And reporters very often hide behind the contention that they are simply describing the world as it is. That defense often rings hollow, but rarely as hollow as it does here. Saying that Republicans who run anti-gay campaigns are really pro-gay isn't an "observation," it is a characterization. An obviously silly one. And neither of my posts have anything to do with what "ought" to be; they have to do with Ambinder's faulty descriptions of what is. Steve King is not someone who thinks sexuality doesn't matter. It is not the case that people who run campaigns attacking and opposing gay rights are pro-gay.
Further, Ambinder began his email by conceding that what he wrote about King did not convey his intended point. Now it seems he wants to be judged based on what he ought to have written.
Ambinder, continuing directly:
That's why we reporters ignore your criticisms most of the time. They're provocative, but often illogical.
My post went online at 3:25 yesterday afternoon. Ambinder's email response appeared in my inbox at 3:58 yesterday afternoon. Just sayin' ...
Ambinder, continuing directly:
Jamison's implication today is pretty audacious, and it's factually inaccurate, and easily correctable. Hence my response."
I don't know what Ambinder thinks I was implying, because he didn't say what he thinks I implied. But my point was quite clear: For the second time in recent weeks, Ambinder downplayed the extent of Republican anti-gay bigotry. That point is pretty well-supported by the facts, and I implied nothing beyond it.
For the record, I asked Ambinder what was factually inaccurate about my post, since he did not specify in his email. He declined the opportunity to identify any such inaccuracy. Should he or anyone else do so, I will correct my post.
In the meantime, I await a clarification to his post, explaining that he did not mean to suggest King does not think sexuality matters. As he has acknowledged privately, his intended point did not come through in print.
The A1 article is about Obama's proposed budget and the cuts the WH is proposing:
Obama's Budget Knife Yields Modest Trims
Right in the headline readers get the spin; Obama wants cuts, but they're not enough. (i.e. 17B? Puh-lease.)
But is that really the Post's job to make that claim that Obama's cuts fall short in a straight news story? By comparison here are some other news org headlines which treat the story in a much more straight forward manner:
-""W.H. on Budget: $3.55 Trillion...With $17 Billion in Cuts" [ABC]
-"Obama set to suggest $17B in cuts" (USA Today)
-"Obama Will Propose $17 Billion in Budget Cuts" [WSJ]
'"Obama Plans $17B In Cuts" [The Hill]
-"Obama Will Propose $17 Billion in Budget Cuts " [NYTimes]
Meanwhile, where did the WashPost get the idea that Obama's cuts were too "modest"? The GOP, of course:
The relatively short list of proposed program cuts quickly drew fire from Republicans who learned of them yesterday.
There are all kinds of suboptimal things that happen when you give Karl Rove a column. The most predictable consequence, of course, is that you regularly publish things that just aren't true, or are so misleading as to render the difference between "misleading" and "false" obsolete. Steve Benen catches one such example today.
But it isn't just the falsity of Rove's columns that sets him apart from your run-of-the-mill lying right-wing hacks. It's the audacity.
Consider, for example, Rove's column today, in which he criticizes "activist" judges and favorably quotes Antonin Scalia saying "It is simply not compatible with democratic theory that laws mean whatever they ought to mean, and that unelected judges decide what that is." Then he criticizes "judges who think of themselves as legislators" and says Republicans and the nation "favor[] judges who strictly apply the law"
And then consider that Karl Rove got his cozy West Wing office because Antonin Scalia and like-minded Justices handed down a decision that was so at odds with precedent, law, common sense and basic principles of democracy that they explicitly wrote that it should not be used as precedent in any future case.
Yesterday, as you may recall, Politico's Mike Allen copied-and-pasted nearly 1,000 words from a Frank Luntz memo advising Republicans on how to defeat health care reform. Allen didn't bother to include any fact-checking or opposing voices; he just passed on Luntz' GOP spin.
Well, today, Politico got its hands on another health care memo, by another famous political pollster. This one was by Democrat Celinda Lake, and it offers advice on language to use in support of health care reform. So, did Politico extensively quote this memo without providing a counterpoint?
This memo got a mere blog post, not full article placement. And that blog post only quoted 25 words from the memo. And the blog post included -- again! -- Luntz' advice on how to defeat health care.
Maybe Politico would take Celinda Lake's memo more seriously if she got herself reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, like Luntz? Nah, she'd probably have to oppose health care reform, too.
Here is today's daily Red Scare Index -- our search of CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and CNBC for uses of the following terms: Socialism, Socialist, Socialists, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communists, Communistic, Marxism, Marxist, Marxists, Marxistic, Fascism, Fascist, Fascists and Fascistic.
Here are the numbers for yesterday, Wednesday, May 6, 2009:
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 9
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 8
Marxism/Marxist: 2
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 6
By Network:
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 1
CNN Headline News: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 2
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
Fox News Channel: 6
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 5
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
Fox Business Network: 5
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 2
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 3
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 2
Marxism, Marxist/s: 2
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.
At this point the Times has so mangled the facts of the story I seriously doubt anyone at the paper even pretends they matter.
Here's today's installment of misinformation [emphasis added]:
House Republicans demanded Wednesday that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano detail how the controversial "right-wing extremism" report was compiled, using a rare legislative maneuver that ensures that the Democrats must take a public stand - one way or another.
The request asks Ms. Napolitano to release information on how the report was compiled. The report sparked a furor from conservatives included in the definition of "right-wing extremism" and prompted Ms. Napolitano to apologize to the nation's veterans.
False. In fact, it's the exact opposite: the report sparked a furor from conservatives who were specifically not included in the definition of "right-wing extremism." That's what made the who pseudo-controversy so odd. The DHS released a report that made passing reference to homegrown, right-wing domestic terrorist (think, skinheads), and mainstream conservatives who were not mentioned in the report jumped up and down and claimed it was about them.
Don't ask us why Republicans saw themselves in a report about violent terrorist groups, but they did. And now to cover up that comfortableness, and to stoke their beloved victimhood status, they claim the report was about picked-upon conservatives, even though it was not. And eagerly spreading the misinformation is the WashTimes.
Then again, isn't that pretty much its job description?
And his editor is proud of it.
The CJR headline pretty much captures what's going on in Murdochville:
Identity Crisis: The Wall Street Journal steers away from what made it great
But hey, at least the Journal's still publishing! And against that industry Armageddon backdrop, the fact that the Journal has gone from a great newspaper to an okay in quick order probably isn't that big a deal.
But what's really depressing is reading the new Journal editor (Robert Thomson, Murdoch's hand-picked Australian successor) brag about how dumb the paper has become. Indeed, Murdoch's team thinks the whole experiment of turning the Journal into the nation's black-and-white USA Today has been a roaring success.
"Certain U.S. newspapers," Thomson says, "have been designed for journalists rather than for readers." With a chuckle, he avoided saying whether he's talking about the Journal, but it was obvious that he was. Journalists, he says, too often choose "self-indulgence over readability. If a reader is used to the Web, he has developed a ruthless functionality in reading—just clicking on what he's interested in." Turning to a newspaper, Thomson says, that reader then "confronts this Neanderthal product. Taking four paragraphs to get to the point is too long. Where is the editorial empathy?"
Basically, Thomson and Murdoch want to the turn the newspaper into a wire service. Good luck with that.


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Chapter One
Five years hadn't altered much of Rowan Dietrich or New York City. The kid who had carried everything she owned in a backpack when she had left for Georgia still owned little more than the clothes on her back. She'd found friends, people who were as damaged and screwed up as she was, but the two most important had really been searching for each other, and now they were together and complete. They would have gladly gone on being her surrogate family, but she'd wanted more than that, more than they could ever give. Leaving them behind hurt, but Rowan knew she'd done the right thing.
If destiny did exist, she thought as she removed her helmet, being alone seemed to be hers.
November had iced the roads with slush and frozen puddles, and forced her to keep her speed minimal as she retreated to the alleys. A few hours earlier she might have smelled what passed as a festive fragrance here: roasted nuts hawked by sidewalk vendors too fat or too poor to care about standing out in the cold. After midnight, the vendors trudged home while the dampness of the river crept east. The unlovely, clammy fumes of the Hudson blended with the perennial sour reek of car exhaust, garbage, and decades of grime exuded by the streets. Not even Pittsburgh, one of the dirtiest cities Rowan had ever seen, stank like New York.
Something small with patchy fur and a long tail skittered across the road ahead of her. It might have been a very small, ratty-looking cat, or a very large, catty-looking rat.
This was a stupid idea.
Sometimes she'd smelled as vile as the streets, back when she'd been a homeless runaway. Living in the bowels of the greatest city on earth didn't include regular bathroom privileges or ample opportunities to keep up her personal hygiene. No matter how often she'd washed, she'd soaked up the acrid, sour odor of the city until she thought she'd never be clean again. Sometimes it had been so bad she'd wondered if every night the city lifted some giant invisible leg and pissed on her while she'd slept.
Really stupid.
As for the sights, the Big Apple appeared exactly as she remembered it, a soulless gray and black labyrinth of concrete and steel, as cold in electric light as in the wells of shadow, as indifferent to her as she'd be to an ant. As she hooked her helmet to the lock she'd installed at the back of her seat, she wondered why the passing years hadn't shrunk the city into something smaller and less intimidating. Surely any minute she'd start feeling at least a twinge of fond nostalgia for the place where she'd spent the worst times of her young life.
It wasn't happening. She'd come back home unwanted and alone, and the city still didn't care. Realizing nothing had changed didn't chill her; resentment boiled in her chest.
Screw the Apple.
Her life had been polluted long enough by rage and fear of the things that had happened to her in this place without her permission. She'd come here to free herself of the past and finally face her fear. She would not be beaten into the pavement again by it.
Well? What's it going to be?
She hadn't been thinking about doing this when she'd left the interstate. She'd taken the exit thinking she'd just drive to the river, stop there, and have a look at the city from one of the docks. She'd remind herself of all the excellent reasons why she had to stay on the Jersey side of the Hudson, and then she was driving through the Lincoln Tunnel and uptown into the theater district, her visor up, her eyes searching. For what, she didn't know. She'd left nothing behind but her innocence and two graves.
Three, she corrected herself as some cold part of her brain did the math. The sisters are dead, and the old man is, too. There's no one left who knows who or where or what I am.
In a few hours the Upper West Side would be choked with people and traffic, but in the predawn hours Rowan saw only a few cabs and patrol cars on the road, and some delivery trucks parked with their flashers on as they were being unloaded. Seeing the crates of produce and flowers being stacked on the hand trucks and wheeled into the groceries and restaurants made her stomach twist. When she'd been desperate, she'd stolen food off the back of some delivery trucks; seeing all that unguarded bounty still made her feel hungry—and ashamed.
Quickly she rode past a couple of pricey restaurants she didn't recognize. The leather bomber jacket that had kept her warm during the long, icy ride now felt smothering.
Welcome home, Rowan. Here, have a little panic attack to go along with your sniveling. A garbage truck passed her, splashing her left leg with gray slush. And fuck you.
At the next traffic light she stopped, braced her boots against the road, unzipped, and stripped. As she tied the jacket by the sleeves around her waist, she saw that sweat had soaked the two shirts she wore beneath it. A faint blue glow showed around the edges of her sleeves, and the skin of her inner arms crawled. If anyone had touched her in that moment, she wouldn't have been able to control herself.
Something was wrong, and the cause wasn't her ugly memories of the city. She scanned the surrounding area until she spotted a small group of Latino kids tagging a building under construction across the street. Stylized letters spelled out Neva B Tha Same in jailhouse jumpsuit orange and radiation-warning yellow. Other, equally artistic graffiti riddled the bare cinderblock walls around them.
On her side of the road there was no graffiti. Not a single tag, gang sign, or rap sentiment anywhere on the brick walls between the barred windows and grate-covered doors, all of which belonged to some upscale place. White letters on the dark brown canopy over the main entrance spelled out a single name in elegant script: D'Anges.
Angelic? For the angels? Rowan wasn't sure. Outside the terms used in gourmet cookbooks and magazines, her French sucked.
Red light turned to green, but she didn't ride on, and the sound of her engine finally drew the attention of the graffiti artists to her presence. The boys turned en masse to hoot, whistle, and call out sexual invitations while palming their crotches.
The ultimate thug accolade. Relaxing a little, Rowan studied them. She knew from experience that teenage boys were often the most dangerous predators walking the streets, but something told her this bunch were mostly gab and grab.
"Sí 'mana." The oldest boy, resplendent in his oversize football jersey and carpenter jeans, sauntered over. "I like your ride."
Rowan checked his hands, which were grimy and speckled across the knuckles with yellow back-spray, but otherwise empty. No knives, no guns, no bricks, no tricks. "Thanks."
"Muy melaza." His eyes ate up her bike before squinting at her. "You take me around the block?"
So he could dump her ass and deliver her machine to his cousin's chop shop? "Another time, maybe."
"Coño." He glanced back to smirk at the encouraging catcalls from his friends, and then shuffled closer. "So what you waiting here for? You need directions or something, mami?" She noticed he bypassed ogling her tits to check out her ignition. So that's the plan. "Do I look lost to you, hijo?"
"Mira." Beautiful white teeth flashed against his dark face. "Maybe I take you somewhere, huh?"
As he reached to snatch her keys, she caught his wrist and jerked him closer. He wasn't expecting that, but she needed his body to block her from his friends' view. The leather sleeves encasing her forearms rippled as she looked into his eyes and saw the tiny reflection of her own face blur and change.
Inside Rowan's belly, a burst of heat solidified and began to expand. At the same time a stream of images and words poured into her mind. Ruthlessly she searched through them until she found what she needed. "You're being a bad boy, Juanito."
"¡Alábalo que vive!" The boy's eyes flew wide, until she could see the whites all around the dark irises. "Rosamada? Es tu?"
"Sí." She didn't know enough Spanish to command him in that language, but now that all he saw was the face of the girl he loved, he probably wouldn't notice. "It's too late for you to be out, 'Nito. Say good-bye to your friends and go home now."
Juanito nodded, tugging something from his neck and dropping it into her lap. "For you. You wear it for me, Rosa."
Rowan had to root between her thighs until she felt the metal links and retrieved the heavy chain. A gleaming, solid-silver crucifix hung from it. "Why are you giving me your ice?"
He looked past her. "Enero." Without another word, he turned and trotted back to his friends.
Once upon a time Rowan had been a Catholic, so the cross didn't give her the creeps. Seeing Juanito and his friends make the sign of the cross and kiss their thumb knuckles before they scattered did. She looked over her shoulder, but didn't see anyone or anything but the dark windows of the restaurant.
What the hell had spooked them?
Rowan grabbed her helmet and pulled it back on. Enough was enough. In another day or two she'd reach Boston, where she'd been promised a good job and a cheap apartment. She'd never been there before, but she was ready to make a fresh start. If it didn't work out, she'd hit the road again and move on. There was always another place, another job, another chance.
All she had to do first was break a promise. The one she'd sworn she never would.
The threadbare, moth-eaten blanket of winter night, which covered little and protected nothing, had effectively emptied out the alleys. When temperatures dropped, the usual residents deserted their dismal crate and cardboard-box niches. Sleeping outside when the mercury dropped below twenty was an automatic sentence of death by hypothermia, so like the rats and strays, the homeless retreated to the relative safety of the subway tunnels, abandoned cars and condemned buildings, where the cold couldn't kill them.
Two minutes before she laid down her bike, Rowan felt better about her bizarre impulse to come home one last time. There was no one to see her, and nothing to get in her way. She'd cruise through her old haunts on the way to the cemetery, then ride up through the Bronx and head north before the sun rose.
She rounded a corner and turned down the alley behind it when something hit her from behind. Her bike lurched forward, and she looked back, expecting to see a car that had crowded too close.
The street behind her stood empty.
Rowan glanced down at her tank, which she'd just filled up in Pittsburgh. If she'd gotten some bad gas it would have acted up long before now. The bike wasn't at fault; she'd felt the impact. Something had hit her.
Cold sweat popped out on the back of her neck as she accelerated, the thrum of the engine muted by the pounding in her ears.
He knows I'm here, the terrified kid in her head whispered. The old man. He's coming after me.
Fear-blind as she was, Rowan never saw what blew out her front tire. One moment she was speeding through the shadows and the next she was clinging to the grips as the bike went into a wild skid. Dimly she heard something else blow as the bike tilted, and then she was sliding sideways, the world turning on its head and the front end of a car rushing at her face.
In the instant before the crash, Rowan remembered why she'd promised herself that she would never come back to the city. She'd always feared that if she ever returned to New York, she'd die here.
And now she would.
"So I do not salt the eggplant or the zucchini," Bernard said, "or cook in separate pots. Chef, this is America, not Nice. Everything here, it is quick. No one could tell a difference."
Jean-Marc Dansant turned away from his sous-chef, mainly to keep from throttling him. "I could tell."
"The fat woman no complain, or send it back. She no care." Bernard threw out his hands in his favorite gesture, a combination of frustration and helplessness. "It was fine. The best. . . ." He paused as he groped for the correct English, but failed. "The best courgettes à la niçoise I make."
"Naturellement." He removed his white jacket and tossed it in the laundry bin. "The problem, Bernard, is that she ordered ratatouille."
"Je m'en fiche." His sous-chef stalked out the back door. A few moments later the sound of squealing brakes and crashing metal came from the alley.
Dansant didn't feel alarmed by the noise. No doubt his sous-chef had knocked over the garbage bins with his car again. Bernard in a temper was nothing if not predictable. After inspecting the immaculate kitchen for the last time, Dansant shut off the light switches and went out into the alley to survey the mess.
He expected the smell of garbage, and the sight of it spread from one side of the alley to the other. He did not expect to see a motorcycle lying on the ground in front of Bernard's Volvo, or his sous-chef standing over a tall, skinny boy whose leather garments appeared badly scuffed. Then the biker removed his helmet, and under a mop of disheveled dark curls revealed the thin, furious face of a dark-eyed, pale young woman.
In profile she was all angular bone and creamy white skin; the stately line of her nose at odds with the decadent contours of her mouth and the stubborn set of her jaw.
"Bernard." He spoke sharply to cut off the sous-chef's stream of obscenities in their native language.
His voice drew the girl's attention for a moment, and he saw that her lashes were like her hair, black, thick and curly. They framed eyes that seemed too dark to be so bright. She stiffened as if bracing herself for more trouble, and then saw his face. Whatever she saw made her body change, and she shifted on her feet, moving as if she meant to come to him.
Dansant understood; the feelings rising inside him made nothing in that moment more important than going to her. "Did you knock her down?" he asked Bernard without looking at him.
"Non. She crash into my car." He stabbed a finger at the motorcycle. "Look at the bumper, the grille. They are ruin." He turned his finger on the girl. "You pay for this."
Bernard had to repeat his demand for payment twice more before the girl heard him and turned to face him. "The hell I will. You shouldn't be parked out here in the dark. It's illegal and dangerous."
Hearing her speak made Dansant's situation worse. The girl's low voice had a faint rasp to it, and brushed against his ears like silk cord. Silk, yes, that would suit her more than her boyish leather. He imagined wrapping her in yards of scarlet and gold, weaving it around the length of her torso, coiling it along her long limbs, knotting it so that her hands were bound to his, and everywhere he touched her she would feel twice, on her body and against her slim fingers. . . .
Never had he thought such things about a woman, Dansant thought, appalled. Not even with those he planned to seduce.
How could she do this to him, this girl? She'd barely glanced at him, and he was ready to grab her and drag her inside and lay her out on the closest flat surface.
He breathed in deeply, hoping the stench of the alley would clear his head, but smelled a familiar, coppery scent. At last he saw more than her eyes, her face. Her gloves were in shreds, and both of her knees showed, scratched and bloodied, through tears in her trousers.
Here she was hurt, in pain, and all he'd thought of was having her for his pleasure. He was no better than the idiot berating her.
"I work here," Bernard was telling her. "I park here every night. Bah." He pulled out his wallet and offered her an insurance card. "You give me yours."
"I'm not responsible. Someone hit me from behind." The girl ignored the card, hobbled slowly to where the motorcycle lay beside the car and crouched down. She ran her hand over one misshapen tire, then the other. "Damn it, they're both blown."
"Miss. Miss." When she didn't respond, Bernard stalked over to her. "We call the insurance; let them say who pay."
She bent over to look under the car. "I don't have any."
His sous-chef did the same. "What do you say?"
"Insurance." She stood, bracing one hand against the hood of the Volvo to steady herself. "I don't carry any on my bike."
"So now I must pay for everything. Such convenience for you." Bernard straightened and took out his mobile. "I call police now."
"Wait a minute." She gave Bernard her full attention. "There's no need to get the police involved. We can work this out between the two of us."
She tried to sound more amicable, but for the first time Dansant caught a glimpse of fear in her eyes, and moved quickly over to stand beside her.
"I am French," Bernard informed her before Dansant could say a word. "No stupid. I know your game. You crash into my car on purpose, force me give you money."
"No, Bernard," Dansant told him. "Clearly it was an accident." And if the man didn't soon shut up, Dansant was almost certain he was going to beat him senseless.
His sous-chef folded his arms. "She is scumming me."
"Scamming," she corrected. "And no, I'm not doing that. Look, this was an accident, that's all. Why don't we just call it even and walk away?"
"You ruin my car. You have no insurance. You are no walking away." Bernard began to dial.
"Écrase." Dansant took out his wallet, eyed the car, and removed a handful of hundreds, which he put in the sous-chef's soft hand. "This will pay for the damages, plus two weeks' pay."
"Chef." Bernard frowned at the money. "I do not need my pay tonight."
"Yes, you do. You're fired. Adieu, Bernard." Dansant turned to the girl, who stared at him with visible disbelief. Over Bernard's sputtering, he said, "You are hurt, but I can help you. Come with me."
"I'll be fine, thanks." She seemed genuinely unconcerned about her injuries. "Who are you?"
"Jean-Marc Dansant. I own this restaurant. Come, mademoiselle." He took her arm, and when she pulled back he gestured at her knees. "Look, there, you are bleeding. I have a first-aid kit inside."
"My name is Rowan." She turned her head. "My bike—"
"It cannot be taken, not as it is now," he assured her.
Rowan stared at the hand on her arm and then into his eyes. "Why are you doing this? You don't know me."
She is afraid—of me?
"Oui." He didn't have the words to tell her, not yet. Not when he didn't understand what was pulling him to her. Whatever it was, he could not let it vanish into the night. He released her as he tried to think of something to say. "It is the kindness of a stranger, yes?"
"Not something I usually depend on." Rowan looked down at herself and sighed. "But I do need to clean up."
He clenched his teeth as images of his hands undressing her and washing her filled his mind. "Then come inside with me, please." He offered her his hand this time, and after a long, silent moment, she took it.
"Jamais dans ma vie," Bernard called after them as Dansant guided her through the kitchen door and into the restaurant. "You be sorry you fire me. I am best sous-chef in—"
Fortunately the heavy steel door cut off the rest of what he shouted.
"Wait, please." Dansant left her by the long prep table and retrieved the first-aid kit from the dry storage room. When he returned she had stripped off her jacket and the shreds of her gloves, and was washing her hands at the rinsing sink beside the industrial dishwasher. Under a black T-shirt she wore a long-sleeved white thermal shirt, the cuffs of which were stained red with blood.
For the first time he realized how very tall she was—only an inch or two shorter than he was—and how perfectly her long body would fit to his. He'd never made love to a woman who matched him physically. Nor would he if he left her standing and bleeding in his kitchen while he indulged in such fantasies.
"Let me see," he said as he put the kit on the sideboard.
"They're not too bad. My gloves took the worst of it." She showed him her grazed, reddened palms before looking down. "My knees are a mess, though."
Dansant pulled an empty crate over by the table. "Sit here."
She didn't move. "Thanks, but I think I can do this by myself."
Dansant removed some gauze pads and a small bottle of peroxide from the kit. "You are still shaken, ma mûre."
She limped over to the crate and perched on it. "So are you usually this kind to strangers?" Before he could answer, she added, "I'm not going to sue, if that's what you're worried about."
That she thought of herself as a stranger to him was perplexing. From the moment he'd seen her face, he'd known her. Not who she was, or why she had come to him now, but everything that mattered between a man and a woman. All he had to do was be patient, and wait for her to give herself over to him. Then he would show her what they were meant to be together.
Doesn't she feel it?
"I do not worry about this." He knelt before her to inspect the damage to her knees. "There is debris in the wounds. From the ground." He would need scissors to cut away her trouser legs. "I must remove it."
As soon as he put his hand on her leg, Rowan stiffened. "I don't think so."
He glanced up. "You do not like to be touched."
"Oh, sometimes I like it fine." She stared at his mouth before lifting her eyes to his, and he saw a glimmer of heat and longing. "It's the stranger part I have trouble with."
"So do I." More than he could ever tell her. "Perhaps just for tonight, we should think we are friends."
"Friends." She seemed amused by this, but leaned back on her elbows. "All right, Dansant. Do whatever you want."
Posted May 11, 2010
Lynn Viehl
Onyx, Jun 1 2010, $7.99
Rowan Dietrich left Georgia for a job in Boston because the man she loves has chosen a different mate. She stops in Manhattan to look at the place she ran from several years ago and senses the old man knows she is in town. After getting gangbangers to leave her alone, she goes on her bike to finish her trip, but something hits her from behind. She crashes into a car in the ally next to D'Anges Restaurant. The owner yells at Rowen, but the restaurant owner Jean-Marc Dansant fires him. He is attracted to Rowan and offers her a job, which she accepts though she is unsure why. He also gives her an apartment to use.
Taire is happy she caused the accident that led to Rowan staying. She seeks answers and believes Rowan has them as she saw what the woman did mentally to get rid of the gang, saw the tattoos on her arms just like she has, and recognizes the smell. Taire sleeps in an abandoned hotel; fearing Father who expects perfection and might kill her for her failure.
Sean Meridan is irate that Jean-Marc allowed someone to move in next door. Gerald King calls him demanding he find his missing daughter Alana. Sean refuses, but Gerald arranges to kill a man standing next to Sean and threatens others. He has three weeks to find Alana or die as Gerald is also dying. Rowan and Sean meet, but he coldly warns "Cupcake" to stay away from him. Jean-Marc feels guilty about kissing Rowan, but makes her forget he did it. The players converge in ways that none could have imagined.
The Kyndred story line is fast-paced throughout as the action never stops. Yet the cast is strong as is the romantic triangle containing a delightful unexpected late twist as does the Taire-Rowan-Gerald connection. Although the villain does not live up to his early toughness, readers will enjoy this strong urban fantasy thriller. This urban fantasy is pure magic.
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I was excited when I first got this book and couldn't wait for some quiet, relaxing time to sit down and read it. When I finally did I actually wished I hadn't and I'd been so irritated because my reading time is my ONLY relax time @ home with my crazy household. So to say you really should keep walking down the isle when you see this book is putting it mild. I just didnt get it!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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This book would be great if I wanted to learn more about French cooking. This series is really good, but this installment was beyond disappointing. To much time was spent on the ins and outs of the kitchen and not enough on the charaters and thier relationships with each other. I beleive in this series and plan to continue reading the books that Ms.Viehl puts out, but I'm glad I finally finished wading through this.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Unlikely. I've never seen a used keg (filled with soda syrup) ever look that bad. My guess is they were used for something a bit nastier than soda.
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We have exposed a ceiling in a project house that is over 150 years old. It was painted with Lime WhiteWash, and of course it is cracking & flaking off now.
I started scraping and was planning on painting it all while, but after scraping the majority of the paint off, I love the look of the bottoms of the floor boards as is. I was thinking of coating them with poly to keep them from flaking anymore, but then I found out about Peel Stop Clear, which sounds better because it could be painted later if I change my mind.
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I have not been able to find any peel stop locally, so I went by my local SW and got some of their Prime RX Peel Bonding Primer.
I have a small section of the ceiling that will be hidden behind a wall, so I tested on two boards. One has very little paint and the other still has some.
It goes on thick, kind of the consistency of pudding, and yes it is white in the can and when you paint it on. But I could see it clearing up as it was drying. I'll be back up to the house this afternoon and will be anxious to see how it looks.
I stopped by the house yesterday and standing there looking up at it I couldn't tell which two boards I painted.
If I rubbed my fingers on an unpainted section it felt rouch and chalky residue fell. Rubbing my fingers on the painted section it felt smoother and nothing fell in my hair.
Now I need to finish scraping so I can get painting!
Update: I have finished painting the ceiling, and am happy with results. The RXBond did exactly what I wanted. It did darken the wood a little, but it's ok. No more peeling paint or chakly residue falling from the ceiling.
If it lasts a couple years, I will be happy.
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