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Cyber Monday — Here's what caught my eye…
The Girl with the Long Green Heart by Lawrence Block
Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
Save the Last Dance for Me by Ed Gorman
The Listening Eye by Patricia Wentworth
The Baby in the Icebox by James M. Cain
The Hot Spot by Charles Williams
The Spy and the Thief by Edward D. Hoch
The Swimming Pool by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Dog Who Bit a Policeman by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Shellshock by Richard S. Prather
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by Horace McCoy
Slipping Into Darkness by Peter Blauner
Long Live the Dead by Hugh B. Cave
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
Shockproof Sydney Skate by Marijane Meaker
The Magician's Girl by Doris Grumbach
Eye Contact by Michael Craft
Hold Tight by Christopher Bram
The Men from the Boys by William J. Mann
Where the Boys Are by William J. Mann
The Lord Won't Mind by Gordon Merrick
One for the Gods by Gordon Merrick
Forth Into the Light by Gordon Merrick
Perfect Freedom by Gordon Merrick
The Sound of Heaven by Joseph Olshan
Wolverine Cirque by Joseph Olshan
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Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon
Usher's Passing by Robert R. McCammon
The Compendium of Srem by F. Paul Wilson
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Lot Lizards by Ray Garton
The New Neighbor by Ray Garton
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Chthon by Piers Anthony
Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
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- Lawrence Block on the Pleasures of Rereading via @MysteryScene
- 12 Dead Writers You Should Follow on Twitter via @bookriot @OpenRoadMedia
- CIS: Black Mask Returns via @CriFiLover
- 100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime via @amazon
- How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read via @mental_floss
- How the Bikini Shocked the World — An Immodest History via @doyouremember
- The Dawn of a New Lizard via @weeklylizard
- Ten Famously Gruesome Murders via @mulhollandbooks
- Blackbird Releases The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart via @bbirdbooks
- Crime Fiction Academy — YouTube Playlist via @Center4Fiction
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Enchanted Evening…
STRANGER • Come along for a naughty romp in this collection of three short stories by erotica author, Jeff Funk.
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The Competition: A Rachel Knight Novel by MARCIA CLARK
Free Thrills & Chills
- The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
- The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
- The Works of Rudyard Kipling
- The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
- A Thin Ghost and Others by M. R. James
- Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
- The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
- The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
- The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
- Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
- Là-bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Flipboard enthusiasts, try thumbing through my Midnight Reader magazine for articles on pulp fiction, crime novels, erotica, creative writing, consciousness, sex & culture. Flip me! — JF
All I Want for Christmas is Bernie!
[Guest Post] My Life as a Lesbian by LAWRENCE BLOCK
Here's an email I received the other day:
"How very nice of you to send along what must be one of the first copies of The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons! I look forward to getting acquainted with Bernie. And I must say, the book itself is very handsome—love the cover illustration. I will take it with me on the plane when I make a brief dash to New York next month for my publisher's honors event at the Anti-Defamation League's annual dinner.
|Ann Bannon, author of Bebo Brinker
"Attached is a snapshot of me just before a panel discussion last night at the San Francisco Public Library. You should know that your name came up and elicited applause! The title of the panel was, 'The Fabulous World of Queer Pulp, Yesterday and Today.' We had a really excellent turnout, and people did seem to enjoy it. I always tell them that you and I and Marijane are the last three survivors of that era…"
The email's author—and the stunning woman in the photograph—is Ann Bannon, whose pioneering lesbian novels were an inspiration when I was writing my own, first as Lesley Evans and then as Jill Emerson. (Marijane Meaker was another role model; I was an avid reader of both her Vin Packer novels of psychological suspense and her Ann Aldrich lesbian nonfiction long before I knew one person wore both those hats.)
I met Marijane a couple of years ago at a film class of Kurt Brokaw's, and last year I got to know Ann at Gary Lovisi's annual Collectible Paperback show. I can't tell you how gratified I was when Ann embraced me as one of the last of the midcentury lesbian novelists. We renewed our acquaintance last month, again at Gary's show, and, accompanied by her daughter, ducked out for a very pleasant lunch afterward. But actually we'd met without meeting a few years earlier. Terry Gross devoted an NPR episode of Fresh Air to classic lesbian fiction, and both Ann and I were invited. Terry's guests almost invariably participate from a distance, although you'd swear she was talking to them face to face. I happened to be in Philly that day, and so arranged to show up in person. During a break, Terry said to me, "But Larry, you're not actually a lesbian." "Terry," I said, "that's only an accident of birth."
|LB writing as Jill Emerson
Kindle Matchbook
Torn between eBooks and print? Have both! —JFNow collectors can have perfect paperbacks and a well-thumbed Kindle. Introducing kindle matchbook. With the purchase of a paperback, you can get the Kindle Edition for $2.99 or less.
This is available for all of my books—and it's retroactive, so folks with good taste who've already acquired the paperback series can click for a discounted Kindle copy of Bad Boy, Curious, Rascal, Stranger and Midnight Reader. Pulp paperbacks. Retro and cool!
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[GUEST POST] On Writing Erotica & THE HARDEST THING by JAMES LEAR
What I actually find sexy is masculinity in all its forms – and that, to me, is synonymous with naturalness. The more groomed and tweaked you become, the less masculine you are. Dan Stagg, the hero of my new novel The Hardest Thing, is an ex-marine fighting machine, so obviously he is physically fit – but I made him bald on top and hairy everywhere else, just to buck the trend. His dick does the job, but I don't go on and on about how massive it is. The other main character in the book, Stirling, is exactly the sort of primped-up supermodel that I don't really fancy – he's got fabulous hair, no body fat and gym-perfect muscles. He uses moisturiser, and he shapes his eyebrows. Dan finds him kind of repellent at first, but the inevitable happens (this is porn, after all). From that point on, Dan and Stirling have to find some kind of common ground – and that means, at the very least, that Stirling has to grow out the hair dye and stop depilating.
As the plot progresses you'll meet older men, younger men, fit men, fat men, cocks of all sizes and shapes. This reflects something I think is true about sex – if you stop obsessing about rigid criteria and types, you can have a lot of good loving with a lot of different people. In erotic fiction, you need certain things to trigger a response in the reader, so dicks have to be hard, arses and mouths have to be open/wet/tight and so on – but that aside I try to make the men and the sex pretty real. Obviously there's more of it than there is in real life, just as there's more bloodsucking in a vampire novel than there is in real life. But apart from the frequency, I hope this is more than just another fantasy.
—JAMES LEAR is the nom de plume of a prolific and acclaimed novelist. As James Lear, he is the author of The Back Passage, The Secret Tunnel, Hot Valley, The Low Road, and The Palace of Varieties. He lives in London. Follow him on Facebook and WordPress.
[GUEST POST] Be True to Your School by Greg Herren
First published on Queer and Loathing in America
One Saturday night during my senior year, I was out with a bunch of friends and for some reason we stopped at a mini-mart on 6th Street in Emporia, Kansas. I don't remember what we stopped for; I didn't drink or smoke until after I graduated, and I distinctly remember it was during high school. I don't remember who I was with or anything else about that evening—all I do remember is that the mini-mart had a revolving metal rack of paperbacks standing next to a revolving rack of comic books, and when I stopped to look at the comic books and the books (I always did this, attracted as a moth is to a flame wherever I was), there was a book with a cheerleader waving her pom-pons, a football player, a boy holding a camera, and a rather unattractive girl clutching books to her chest. Impulsively I grabbed the book and bought it, and the next day, a Sunday, I read it in my bed.
The book was Yearbook, by David Marlow.
High school wasn't easy for me. Being a gay kid in the mid to late 1970's in rural, conservative, deeply Christian Kansas wasn't the ideal situation. I thought there was something wrong with me, and I didn't feel close to anyone. This book, set in a high school in a town on Long Island in the late 1950's, surprisingly resonated with me. It had four characters: Guy, an out of place, mocked and picked on sophomore who was smaller than everyone else and had no friends; Corky, the football star and golden boy that everyone admired, loved and wanted to be; Ro-Anne, his girlfriend, the beautiful and vivacious cheerleader absolutely certain of her place in the school pecking order; and unattractive Amy, smart, too tall, with frizzy hair and braces and a big nose and acne, also laughed at who uses her brains and her wit to withdraw into her own world where intelligence and brains are more valued than her looks.
Like me, Guy was a disappointment to his parents and his older siblings. I could so relate to him and his habit of losing himself into his hobbies to hide the loneliness. (For me, it was books and writing.) But Guy's skill with photography brings him to popular Corky's attention, and suddenly Guy is thrust into the popular circle, under Corky's wing. Corky wants to be all over the yearbook, you see, and what better way to do that than to become friends with the best photographer in the school, an outsider?
This plan of Corky's is what sets the story in motion, and for 244 pages I was completely riveted. Yearbook was completely unsentimental, and in the hands of a lesser writer the characters would have easily devolved into stereotypes. Marlow instead turned them into real people; beautiful Ro-Anne's meanness became understandable once you knew her back story, so instead of being the typical pretty cheerleader 'mean girl' we've seen all too often in fiction and in film her behavior becomes understandable. None of the characters are perfect; you can feel Amy's pain, Guy's desperate need for acceptance, and the incredible burden of parental expectation that almost crushes Corky.
It was also one of the first times I'd ever read about a teenager starting to evolve sexually the way Guy was, and having feelings—both sexual and emotional—for another boy and being horribly confused by those feelings and also understanding those feelings had to be kept secret. Guy was never really sure what he felt for Corky; was he attracted to him, or were his feelings based in gratitude for being rescued from obscurity, being pulled inside and accepted by the popular crowd? And since his body was changing and developing, was it that gratitude, acceptance and love he was feeling being mixed up with sexual feelings?
As I said, the book wasn't sentimental and there were no happy endings for any of the four. It was stunningly real, harsh and painful.
Guy Fowler arrived at the top of Edson hill at 8:45 and knew he was never going to live through the rest of the day. Monday, the twelfth of September, he made an entry in his mental diary: my last sunrise.
Those opening lines resonated with me; that was exactly how I felt on my first day of high school my freshman year. I also didn't think I would survive high school.
Down in the girls' locker room, beautiful and bouncy, giggling and gossiping, a voluptuous Ro-Anne Sommers zipped herself into her snug red and yellow outfit and looked at the ID bracelet she was wearing: CORKY.
Later in the first chapter, we meet Amy for the first time as she walks into the school assembly for new students, covering it for the school paper, remembering how the editor talked her into doing something she clearly didn't want to do, and this:
Leonard peered up at Amy through thick eyeglasses, wondering as he did everytime he saw her just how she had managed so well to miss out on nature's blessings—a girl whose hair was not just curly but kinky; a complexion not just troubled with acne, but riddled; teeth not just crooked but wired top to bottom, with marionette rubber bands which restricted movement as they were suspended from tiny hooks. Then there was the matter of that nose. A regular baked potato.
At the assembly, the reader finally meets Corky, as the principal introduces various student leaders to the new students:
Corky rose to his feet, waved and conquered. The girls wanted him. The boys wanted to be him. Tall and uncommonly handsome, charming, popular and powerfully built, Corky Henderson stood onstage, way up at the top of the totem pole, coolest of them all. Each short wave of his carefully parted dark hair was thicker than the next. His green eyes smiled at his appreciative audience and his dimples deepened with good reason: barely eighteen and already a legend.
And Guy's reaction:
Guy applauded, too. His stomach gurgled. Adrenaline shot every which way. In all his life he'd never seen anyone he'd so instantly admired. For whatever Guy Fowler wasn't, Corky Henderson most assuredly was. Guy calculated what it would take to be like the amazing fellow now center stage, soaking up all that limelight. Just another twelve inches off the ground; sixty additional pounds of sinewy muscle; the smile, the confidence, the right clothes, the rugged, casual, jocklike air and he'd have it all. Nothing to it.
He wanted to slash his wrists.
And, when his photography skills have been discovered, that moment at the Sugar Bowl (the town's teen hangout) when Corky and Ro-Anne recruit him to their inner circle, and Corky reveals his plan about the yearbook to the dazzled, lonely boy:
"I want to be all over that yearbook, kid. Cover to cover! I want my kids to look through it someday and see what a hot shot their old man was." Ro-Anne coughed into her buttermilk. "And what a beauty Ro-Anne was," Corky was quick to add.
It is that meeting that sets everything in motion to the inevitable tragedy.
I never forgot this book; I reread it I don't know how many times. My worn and battered copy was lost to the ages years ago.
I remembered it again recently, and did a google search. I was able to order an old, used copy. I discovered that David Marlow wrote a few other books, became a bodybuilder, and now lives in Palm Springs with his long time partner. My used copy arrived this week, and with some trepidation, I reread it this morning.
It still holds up, after all this time. It is just as painful to read and experience as it was that first time over thirty years ago, and it resonated just as strongly as it did back then. But in all my prior readings of it, I always had a sense that Guy's feelings for Corky were an anomaly, and after the events of this book he went on to marry and have kids and all of that.
But at the reunion, there is this exchange between him and Amy, that I either never caught (or understood) in any previous reading, as they dance at the reunion:
She giggled and looked at him. "And what about you, tall stranger? What's going on with your life?"
Guy shrugged. "Not much."
"No romantic interest?"
"Naw. I've got plenty of time for that once I sort out the rest of me."
She looked at him with affection. "Still confused?"
Trust Aunt Amy to get right to the bottom of things. Guy hugged her tighter. "Let's just dance, okay? I didn't come here to be analyzed."
"Right you are!"
"I can tell you one thing."
"What's that?"
"I do what I want nowadays."
"Smart boy."
"Yeah. I guess I have you to thank for making me stop living for the neighbors."
Absolutely amazing.
—Greg Herren is the author of numerous novels including the Scotty Bradley mysteries, the Chanse MacLeod mysteries and the smoking hot erotic novel, Every Frat Boy Wants It under the pseudonym, Todd Gregory. Follow him @ScottyNola and Facebook.
STEAM BATH edited by Shane Allison
Steam Bath edited by Shane Allison published by Cleis Press is in stores now—sweaty gay erotica—and the story I contributed is possibly the dirtiest I've ever written called "Easy Dick." Bon appétit!
Update & Repost · A Thumbnail History of Paperbacks By Alan Beatts
Tonight's guest in our parlor is Alan Beatts from Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Just so's ya know, I was at his table when he shouted the words, "You! Drop the ferret!" which still stands as one of the most infamous Overheard at the Con reports. Be sure to subscribe to their newsletter. They know & love books—and know quite a few authors personally. If you're in the market for fantasy, sf, horror or something rare give them a call or a click. They're nice people!
First published in Dispatches from the Border, The Newsletter of Borderlands Books, March, 2008
Something that I love about working in my field is being part of a history that goes back hundreds of years (actually, thousands of years — the first booksellers were in Egypt before the common era and their original stock was copies of The Book of The Dead). Bookselling in general has been around for a very long time and is full of some of the oddest traditions, characters and incidents. But more than that, the science fiction, fantasy and horror field has been around for quite a long time as well. And it has its own odd traditions, strange history and remarkable persons.
It would be a foolish game to try to spot when science fiction, fantasy or horror first started. One can make a solid argument that science fiction started with Jules Verne in the middle of the 19th century but there are other arguments to be made. However horror has been around much longer. Varney the Vampire also dates from around the same time as Verne's work but there were ghost stories, both written and oral, many, many years earlier. And, if you're willing to call mythology the father of the fantasy novel, you can easily go all the way back to the ancient Greeks (and yes, much of those stories were religious in nature but many of them were simply entertainment with only a hint of religion).
But, there is a point where I'm pretty comfortable saying that original SF and fantasy in novel form as we know it first sent down roots in the US. And there are some remarkable people who did it.
Before I go on there's one basic premise to mention — SF and fantasy at novel length in the US is a product of small size, softcover books; what you probably think of as "paperbacks" and what we in the book trade call "mass market paperbacks" (as distinguished from the larger "trade" paperback which is essentially a hardcover book without the hardcovers). SF, fantasy, and horror in the 20th century has always been light entertainment. That's not to say that there haven't been some important books written within those fields but the genres in general are entertainment. Much like television and movies before television, popular entertainment needs to be cheap and accessible. The flood of novels that started appearing in the 1950s and continue today were a function of the low price, easy distribution, and accessibility of mass market paperbacks. SF, fantasy and horror were not the only beneficiaries of mass market paperbacks — the growth of romance, westerns, crime, mystery . . . virtually all the forms of "genre" fiction can be traced to paperbacks.
The paperback as we know it was first tried by a German publisher, Albatross Books, in 1931 but it was not a success until the idea was picked up by Penguin Books in England. Allen Lane launched Penguin in 1935 and was shortly imitated by Robert de Graaf in the US in 1939. De Graaf's imprint, Pocket Books, was part of Simon & Schuster and was the first to include illustrations on the covers of their "pocket" books. His other innovation was to distribute the books to newsstands and other mass market outlets instead of only focusing on bookstores. Shortly thereafter other US publishers including Ace, Dell, Bantam and Avon started their own paperback lines.
But, paperbacks were always reprints. A work would be published as a hardcover and, if it seemed that there was a market for it, it could later come out in a cheap paperback edition either from the original publisher or from another publisher who had "bought the paperback rights" (i.e. paid the original publisher a lump sum or a commission for the opportunity to print the paperback). As a result, no book ended up in paperback if a publisher had not already decided that it was worth the financial risk to publish in hardcover and therefor the paperback market was merely a subset of the larger book market without any identity or character of its own.
It took a real character (with a desire to slip through a contract loophole) followed by two visionary publishers to change that.
If publishers like Lane and de Graaf came to paperbacks from the lofty castles of publishing, then Roscoe Fawcett come to them from the basement. Fawcett got his start in the business of words during World War I working on "The Stars and Stripes", the official newspaper of the US armed forces. After the war in 1919 he started publishing Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, a magazine of sorts filled with racy poetry, dirty jokes and tasteless puns.
It was hugely successful and by 1923 the magazine had a circulation that almost matched its profits, which were in excess of a half a million dollars. More magazines followed and as part of that, Fawcett moved into distribution and thereby crossed the path of the growing paperback boom. In 1949 Fawcett contracted with New American Library to distribute their paperback lines (Mentor and Signet) to newsstands. As part of the contract Fawcett was prohibited from competing by publishing his own paperbacks. However, Fawcett, seeing that there was money to be made in publishing paperbacks, wanted to get into the market. Though the contract clearly prohibited Fawcett from publishing paperback reprints, no one at New American Library had imagined that anyone would consider publishing original novels in paperback. Fawcett considered it, did it, and got away with it -- Gold Medal books was born and both opened the paperback market to original novels as well as adding even more inertia to that growing format.
The stage was set. Paperbacks had a huge presence in newsstands all over the country. You could find them in every train station, airport, drug store, department store -- they were everywhere (even in bookstores, which had originally resisted them fiercely since they weren't "real" books). Paperbacks were so popular that, in a six month period in 1952, Gold Medal alone sold 9,020,645 books.
Ian and Betty Ballantine had been involved with paperback publishing since 1939 when Ian started distributing Penguin Books in the US. In 1945 they started Bantam Books (with Walter Pitkin, Jr. and Sidney B. Kramer) but they made their most enduring mark in 1952 when they founded Ballantine Books. The original basis for Ballantine Books was to "offer trade publishers a plan for simultaneous publishing of original titles in two editions, a hardcover 'regular' edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, 'newsstand' size, low-priced edition for mass market sale." It was a radical idea and more importantly it allowed Ballantine to dodge the furor surrounding the "damage" that paperback originals could do (as an example, LeBaron R. Barker of Doubleday was quoted as saying that original paperbacks could "undermine the whole structure of publishing.").
Acting as a bridge between paperback and "traditional" publishing worked very well for the Ballantines. Their first book, Executive Suite by Cameron Hawley sold over 475,000 copies in paperback in less than a year as well as 20,500 copies in hardcover, proving that paperback sales gave a book more publicity and helped hardcover sales instead of hurting them (does anyone notice echos of the current debate about eBooks and their effect on physical book sales?).
And now we finally get to what this all has to do with SF and fantasy. Ballantine's 21st book was The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. In 1954 they started publishing Star Science Fiction Stories, which collected original short fiction by authors who would become some of the giants of the 20th century (for example, the third collection featured stories by Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury, del Rey, Dick, Matheson, Vance, and Williamson) and wrapped them in covers by the legendary Richard Powers. Throughout the 1950s Ballantine published editions (many of them original) of works by authors like Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Vance, John Wyndham, Fritz Leiber, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson and Manly Wade Wellman.
In the 60s, they continued to publish the best authors that the field had to offer as well as gaining quite a bit of attention due to their rivalry with Ace books for the right to reprint Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien in paperback (in both cases they prevailed, though in the case of Tolkien, Ace did print an edition which prompted a notice from Tolkien himself in the back of the Ballantine editions urging people to buy that edition and to boycott "unauthorized editions").
Then in 1969 they launched the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, edited by Lin Carter, which brought back into print a number of classic, pre-Tolkien works of fantasy including Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, and most importantly, H.P. Lovecraft (who had been almost forgotten at that point). And in 1977 they created one of the first dedicated science fiction and fantasy imprint edited by (and taking a name from) Lester del Rey and his wife, Judy-Lynn. Del Rey continues to be one of the major imprints in the field to this day.
History is, I believe, often just a combination of factors that interact and create a result. The actions of individuals may shift the outcome slightly but most of the time, individual action makes very little difference. But sometimes, especially in business and even more so in creative businesses, one person (or one couple) can have profound, long reaching and dramatic effects. They can shape a medium or a field for decades to come. The secondary and further effects of their presence can be incalculable and unimaginable. Ian Ballantine passed away in 1995. But it's been my great honor and pleasure to meet Betty Ballantine twice over the past few years. And I'm hoping that the next time I see her I'll be able to suppress my tongue-tied awe long enough to say one fraction of what I've said here.
[Paperbacks and eBooks] MIDNIGHT READER series by JEFF FUNK
MIDNIGHT READER (Twelve Erotic Tales) collection includes the first four books of the Midnight Reader series: Bad Boy, Curious, Rascal & Stranger. Twelve o'clock. Twelve erotic tales intended for mature readers.
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BAD BOY (Midnight Reader) by Jeff Funk
Bad boy—he's hot and knows it. In the first story, "Sex in the Streets," a twenty-something skateboarder punk encounters a forty-year-old shy guy who has a few tricks of his own to teach. Richard and Jim are workout buddies home on summer break, and tonight they're going to meet up with Jim's other buddy. Greg just got a new dorm roommate who's so handsome that Greg can't stop fantasizing about kissing this whiskery stud. Lose yourself in three erotic tales intended for your personal reader in the nightstand.
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CURIOUS (Midnight Reader) by Jeff Funk
Men have animal urges and sometimes they're looking for action, even if it's with another man. First a college boy with a fetish for sniffing jockstraps learns that he's not the only frat brother who's into dudes. A straight construction worker with a high sex drive gets seduced by Jake in "Leaving My Mark." A convention in Washington, D.C. brings together a pair of young businessmen who find pleasures at night in the city. Step into three erotic fantasies for your personal nighttime reading.
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RASCAL (Midnight Reader) by Jeff Funk
Some men are rascals and they're getting it on at every turn. At the leather bar, while the guys' shenanigans on stage are raising hell, an out-of-town stud winds up in some trouble of his own in "Den of Heathen Desires." It's blackout night at the bathhouse and passion awaits in room sixty-nine at the end of the hallway. Then the country boys are at it again at the Rusty Screw jeans and leather bar enjoying each other's hospitality. Explore three stories of rowdy and erotic adventures.
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STRANGER (Midnight Reader) by Jeff Funk
For men who desire men, nothing matches the heat of a quick encounter with a stranger. Eric finds lust in the airport terminal in Miami before meeting an exotic hunk in Nicaragua. On a camping trip, a male couple discovers that they're not alone—someone is watching from the woods. Ahoy! Set sail on a cruise where desires between men take hold on ship and shore. Come along for a naughty romp in this collection of three stories.
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Fractal Design launches new app with Augmented Reality features
Fractal Design has launched a new website and corresponding mobile app that is unlike any other hardware manufacturer's website that I have seen. The new website is clean and minimalistic, which obviously reflects the company's design ethics. The front page features a large slider that is very informative and quite pleasing to the eye, but the refresh really shines when you download the company's app for Android or iOS.
The app is laid out in such a way that users can quickly find information on the product of their choosing, while at the same time managing to provide a rich and minimal user interface. Things really take a turn towards awesome when you check out the Augmented Reality features that the app offerers. By simply downloading and printing out a "trigger"--a small image that helps the app place the AR image--users can use the app to visualize what a particular Fractal Design product may look like in their home, office, or anywhere the trigger is placed.
Until today, I have not put much stock into Augmented Reality, but the concept that Fractal Design has implemented here really gets me excited. I can see this technology being used for all sorts of things such as when buying wheels for your vehicle or even when shopping for a new water cooling system for your PC. This is definitely the future and I hope that we see more tech companies using this in their apps in the future.
Continue reading 'Fractal Design launches new app with Augmented Reality features' (full post)
Microsoft increases app-roaming limits, from 5 to 81 devices
A few weeks from the launch of its next iteration of its flagship OS, Microsoft has increased the number of Windows 8 and 8.1 devices that users can install Windows Store apps from 5 to 81 devices.
Microsoft's new app-roaming limit begins on October 9, and will involve all Windows Store/Metro Style apps that are associated with a single Microsoft account. The news comes directly from a new Microsoft "Windows App Builder" blog which was posted on September 27. The blog post reads: "Developers that decide to have the app enforce a constraint around the number of devices must disclose that constraint to Windows Store customers and set expectations appropriately."
Increasing it to 81 is a nice touch with Windows 8.1 coming in just a few weeks time.
Microsoft working on a single app store for its platforms
One thing that could make Microsoft's life much easier would be to have one, single apps tore. Well, according to unnamed sources of The Verge, the Redmond-based giant has been working on a single app store for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps.
This new app store would create a common platform for developers to sell their software. The company is hoping to launch the store with the release of Windows 8.1 on October 22 next month, and would have a special update to Windows 8.1 in the first half of next year. The Verge has said that "it's possible that Microsoft may take an approach that's similar to Apple's App Store, where tablet specific apps don't run on the phone, but phone apps scale to run on a tablet."
Speedtest.net app updated, radically revamped UI included
One of my most used apps would have to be Ookla's Speedtest.net application, which has finally been updated and includes a radically refreshed, modern user interface.
The new interface is nothing new to iOS users, but those of us on Android have been waiting for what feels like forever for the UI refresh. The updated application also performs better, with improved network accuracy and a few new features. The speed results can be more easily shared from the first page, as well as a deeper look into your results, where you can even see a point on the map where each speed test was performed.
Facebook for Android updated, finally lets you edit your posts
Social networking giant, Facebook, finally updated its Android application, which now lets you edit your posts. This is a feature that has been asked about for ages now, and we finally have it.
The post-editing feature has been available in the Facebook for Android beta, but now it has stepped over to the official, non-beta application. You can download Facebook for Android here from the Google Play Store, if your device hasn't already automatically updated it for you.
A flaw in Apple Maps sends people driving across airport runway
Apple's Maps app has been plagued with issues since its release, and has often been unfairly compared to Google Maps, which has a development head start of over a decade. Unfortunately, many of the errors Apple Maps has been experiencing are quite fundamental and not simply a misnamed road or missing imagery.
A recent error has popped up that involves the Fairbanks International Airport located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The airport has reported several incidents where iPhone users were using Apple Maps to navigate around the airport and wound up driving on a taxiway and then across an active runway.
"We asked them to disable the map for Fairbanks until they could correct it, thinking it would be better to have nothing show up than to take the chance that one more person would do this," said Melissa Osborn, chief of operations at the airport.
The airport has asked Apple to disable navigation leading to the airport until it has been fixed, and has even had to take the extreme measures of erecting barricades that prevent people from driving onto the runway. Apple said that the problem will be fixed by Wednesday. Just for fun, when you navigate to the airport using Google Maps, you are directed around the airport and to the correct driveway.
iMessage for Android arrives, kinda, but it redirects data to China
iMessage Chat for Android has arrived, but is it as good as what it sounds like? Well, yes and no. iMessage Chat allows Android users to chat between Android and iOS devices, but there should be caution used.
9to5Mac reports that iMessage Chat is definitely not an Apple app - which should be obvious - and was created by a third-party developed named Daniel Zweigart. iMessage Chat disguises the Android device you're using as a Mac mini, after which it pushes your messages to the Apple iMessage server. This means you'll require an Apple ID to gain access, but this isn't where the problems stop.
The creator of Cydia, Jay Freeman, noticed that iMessage Chat redirects to a server in China, before it forwards the information to Apple. This means that the server acts like a middle man, where it handles the transferring and processing of information between your smartphone and the iMessage server. The scary thing is, we don't know what the Chinese server is doing with your information - where it could be, and probably is storing your Apple IDs and chat logs.
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BlackBerry pumps the brakes on BBM rollout for Android and iOS
On top of BlackBerry having serious issues, and diving out of the consumer market and letting 4,500 people go, its BBM rollout for Android and iOS has now been put on hold. The Canadian phone maker has said that leaked versions people were using were having "issues" and that they are hard at work to getting it released.
Prior to launching BBM for Android, an unreleased version of the BBM for Android app was posted online. The interest and enthusiasm we have seen already - more than 1.1 million active users in the first 8 hours without even launching the official Android app - is incredible. Consequently, this unreleased version caused issues, which we have attempted to address throughout the day.
Our teams continue to work around the clock to bring BBM to Android and iPhone, but only when it's ready and we know it will live up to your expectations of BBM. We are pausing the global roll-out of BBM for Android and iPhone. Customers who have already downloaded BBM for iPhone will be able to continue to use BBM. The unreleased Android app will be disabled, and customers who downloaded it should visit http://www.BBM.com to register for updates on official BBM for Android availability.
As soon as we are able, we will begin a staggered country roll-out of BBM for Android and continue the roll-out of BBM for iPhone. Please follow @BBM on Twitter for the latest updates and go to http://www.BBM.com to sign-up for updates about BBM for Android and iPhone. These issues have not impacted BBM service for BlackBerry.
2013 is the year of the app, with over 102 billion downloads in total
How many apps do you have installed on your smartphone, tablet, and other Internet-connected devices? Well, add those up and times them by many hundred million and you'll be at a number so big it'll make your head spin.
According to research company Gartner, over 102 billion apps will be downloaded from mobile app stores this year alone, a number that has risen 40% from 2012. Total revenue from app downloads is expected to bust through $26 billion, which is up $8 billion from the $16 billion total of last year. Gartner's projections show that continuous growth is to happen until 2017, with the slow down taking place next year.
Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner, said: "We expect strong growth in downloads through 2014, but growth is forecast to slow down a bit in later years. The average downloads per device should be high in early years as users get new devices and discover the apps they like. Over time they accumulate a portfolio of apps they like and stick to, so there will be moderate numbers of downloads in the later years."
Google makes Quickoffice free for all iOS and Android users
Google acquired Quickoffice back in 2012, and has since been hammering away at the application over at Mountain View. The search giant has just announced that Quickoffice is now free for everyone on iOS and Android.
Quickoffice is optimized for both smartphones and tablets, allowing you to edit and view Microsoft Office documents that are stored on your device without compromising the format. The latest version of Quickoffice allows you to work on documents that have been saved to your Google Drive account as well, which is a huge help for anyone (like myself) who works with Microsoft Office documents, but stores them on their Drive account.
Google has done one better, offering 10GB of extra Google Drive storage for two years if you download Quickoffice from the Google Play Store before September 26 and link it up to your Google account. You know what? I'm going to do that right now - thanks, Google.

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Forecasters expect storms to continue to develop across central Illinois and move southeast toward Indiana this afternoon. The main concern is for damaging thunderstorm winds.
Thunderstorms may develop around Southern Indiana today, and a few of them may even be severe, according to the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky.
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So I had my first at 39 weeks via scheduled c-sec due to placenta previa DS did great he was released from the hospital at 24 hours and I think 39 weeks was a great time to take him. My new OB for this baby said we would most likely do a c-sec (the hospital that is close to me will not do VBACs) but he wants to do it at 37 or 38 weeks. We didn't talk much about it because it is a bit early but have any of you have a c-sec at 37 or 38 weeks and how was baby? do you wish we would have waited until 39 weeks? Any advice would be welcomed Thanks mamas!
C-Sec mamas at what week did you have your first via C-Sec?
Emily wife to Andrew mama to Braxton Earl (10.20.11) and Effie Marie (11.19.13) Foster mama to many.
37 weeks 6 days for my c-section.
38 weeks for my vaginal birth.
I had my DS via c-section (wasn't originally intending it to be that way but due to pre-eclampisa, and labor not progressing, I had to get a c-section) at 38 weeks. He ended up being in the special care unit over night because he was having issues with breathing, and was breathing faster then his heartbeat. Though I don't think it had anything to do with gestional age but rather the sideeffect of the magusium sulfate I had to take because of my pre-e. He was also on the small side, 5 pounds and 13 oz. Again the blood pressure I think had an effect on his weight.
Really I think the longer the baby can bake the better! The midwife that did a homebirth for my SIL believes in not inducing, so if a baby is 3, even 4 weeks late they will still go that long without inducing! She told my SIL that she has seen the most healthiest babies at 43-44 weeks, and believes in long gestional time if possible. So if you can go for 39 weeks, it would be better.
Grant-2/09/12 Baby #2- EDD 11/22/13
@ Barrelracingbaby I was so blessed not to have much bleed with my Placenta previa i'm so sorry you had a lot of bleeding. Not fun and so scary!
@Babybug 30 how long ago was your c-sec? can I ask why they did a classic cut? I thought they got away from doing those? with this one are they going to do a classic cut or the low cut? I know I'm asking a lot of personal question i'm sorry you can tell me to mind my own business :) I just find it interesting I"m sorry!!
Thank you everyone for you responses when we get closer I am going to talk to him more about it!
Emily wife to Andrew mama to Braxton Earl (10.20.11) and Effie Marie (11.19.13) Foster mama to many.


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Modern Basics :: Modern Mirrors
Modern Mirrors is from my first book – Modern Basics! I really love to encourage the new quilter to love quilting, and not be overwhelmed by the process!
Measures 82″ x 90″ with fabric and block requirements for a lap quilt included.
Modern Basics: Easy Quilts to Fit Your Budget, Space, and Style is available on Amazon!
Modern Basics :: 1, 2, 3!
1, 2, 3!
is from my first book – Modern Basics! I really want to encourage the new quilter to love quilting, and not be overwhelmed by the process!
Measures 72″ x 96″
Easily customized to suit any decor.
Modern Basics: Easy Quilts to Fit Your Budget, Space, and Style is available on Amazon!
One Thing, One Week Challenge :: Link Up 6
Are you ready!? 85 of you left comments telling me what you hoped to accomplish in the last week! I'm expecting some great progress from all of you this week!
Today we link up and show off what we got done. If you haven't already, go post about it on your blog (or flickr) and come back to link up with your permalink here –
Those of you that met your goal, will be entered to win a hexagon table runner kit:
I'll announce the winner tomorrow, and the linky will be open for just 24 hours. Don't forget to visit the links and cheer each other on!
My tablerunner is just finished and on our table!
I decided to get it done a few minutes faster by sewing the right sides together and leaving a space to … Read More »
It's a Hoot Baby!
Just popping in to let you know I am sharing a tutorial over at Moda Bake Shop today!
Check out more of this sweet quilt and leave a comment – please – over at Moda Bake Shop!
Doll Quilts
Hi there! To round out the dozen Christmas gifts I made this year, are three doll quilts! Nieces and my cousin's daughter were the happy recipients.
Sophia helped me with the pictures before Christmas –
Diamond in a square alternated with squares, in It's a Hoot fabrics, and quilted on a diagonal.
This one is random size strips of Freebird, and quilted with random diagonals.
Diamond in a square alternated with squares again, in Sweet Divinity, and quilted on the diagonals. I cut both of these on my Go! Cutter, and have been thinking I could cut kits if any of you are interested in making your own. They would be different fabrics some more scrappy like the first, and others more planned like the second. What do you think?
The girls all loved them, and were excited to … Read More »
More Christmas Presents!
Hi there! I have a bunch more table runners to share with you! Up first is one I made for my mom.
I used Dream On and my Go! Cutter to cut all the HST's. They sewed up in a hurry, just what I needed! I quilted with straight lines to compliment the geometrics.
This one I made for my Grandma –
The fabric is Botany, because my grandma loves to garden And I knew she would love the piecing details with the stars, so I took the extra time to piece all the flying geese.
My Aunt Karen has collected blue/white dishes for as long as I can remember –
Fabric is A Breath of Avignon, and the traditional stars suit the fabric perfectly, … Read More »
Teacher Gifts!
With our last day of school yesterday, I'm free to share some of the sewing I've been working on this last month! Teacher's are hero's in my eyes, and my girls' – they adore them. Last year with the book…we baked cookies and shared, but I had really wanted to give something quilty. So this year I've done it!
Freebird by Momo in simple strips, quilted with random diagonal lines.
Lollipop also in simple strips, quilted with random perpendicular lines.
Love in 4 1/2″ squares, quilted on diagonals.
My girls helped with cutting and layout of the pieces for each quilt, and Emmalie was particularly certain of which fabric group was for her teacher! (that was lollipop!)
There's more to come next week! Enjoy your celebrations ~
Lily & Will Commission Quilt – Complete!
These fabrics were begging for a traditional design, and so, I looked through traditional blocks to find the right combination for this quilt. In the end I decided on these:
It looks as though it is set on point, when in fact it is not! The blocks between the stars are four patches, with triangles in the corners to rotate. The blocks finished at 6″, and the quilt overall is 40″ square.
I just love the colors in this group!
I quilted tight, around a few of the stars. I really wanted it to be comfortable and not too quilted for the most part, but the straight lines were not enough between the blocks.
The borders also got special treatment. Swirls and loops to fill the space!
I am loving this quilt! I had so much … Read More »
Doll Quilt Finish
Much earlier in the year, as I was working on my Doll Quilt Swap, I made a bunch of disappearing 9-patch blocks. I was considering them for the background to the dresden plates, but decided on the plainer background, because the plates were lost on this busy background. I put it aside and didn't really even share it here. I wasn't sure how I wanted to finish it…but did begin collecting perle cottons for appliqué maybe, and hand quilting. I decided last week (inspired by the Festival) that hand quilting circles was my plan!
I used a variety of colors, from the colorful top, and a variety of circles from the kitchen. I learned how to properly hide knots, and really enjoyed the process!
Do you hand quilt at all? I'm curious to know if it's … Read More »
My Festival Quilt
The Festival continues to be amazing and well viewed! I hope you all are enjoying a bunch of traffic and comments on your posts. I finished my quilt I was hoping to share with you this week!
Spinning Pinwheels:
I had so much fun designing and making this quilt! It had been one of many designs in my arsenal waiting for just the right fabric, and when Sweet Divinity popped up – I jumped at the chance to make it!
I carefully cut and pieced triangles and strips for each block. I think my favorite part is that there are so many different places to look – each fabric offers a different focal point! Also, after nearly a year, I stippled this quilt! I had a block on free motion quilting, but this was just the right size to … Read More »
Boxed Charms Quilt
Hi there! Look what I pulled out of the dryer this morning – just in time to share over on Amy's blog! What I'm calling Boxed Charms Quilt in Amy Butler prints and Shot cottons. In an attempt to put some favorite prints in a quilt (novel idea – huh?) and an easy sewing project, I put this together.
It measures 40″x54″, perfect for a baby or toddler, and I lightly quilted it so that it's super snuggly!
The beauty of it being 40″ wide is the single piece of fabric needed to back it…I haven't made a quilt this size in a while! I am linking up to Amy's special Amy Butler Sew & Tell, and have listed it in my etsy shop.
You should check out all the Amy Butler … Read More »
Vintage Dreams Quilt
Hi Friends!
I have a new quilt tutorial to share over at Moda Bake Shop! To celebrate, it and my book, I've put my patterns on sale – this week only! Check out my shop for details.
Go check it out and leave me a little comment love – please!


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I have a arab mare that I got this spring. She wasn't particularly well cared for before I got her, and it sounds like she was from a trader before that.
She had shoes on when I got her(march), he said he just put them on, but she had at least 1-2 inches of extra hoof. I pulled them, dewormed her, put her on a good feed, and got her teeth done. Which leads to issue #1
You can bridle her where ever you want, no issue, but other wise she DETESTS having her mouth touched. She needed double the normal sedetive to get her docile enough to have her teeth floated, and the vet actually brought up that she may have been mishandled in some way. Even with more sedative than it took to knock out a draft horse, she still was trying to avoid being touched.
Issue #2 she has been trimmed a couple times no problem, picks up her feet without issue. I went to get a set of shoes on her yesterday, and she was the worst I've ever seen. She would stand stock still to be trimmed and rasped, but as soon as he picked up a shoe she went nuts. She devoted every ounce of her determination into avoiding getting shod. You could see the difference : put down the shoe = relax, pick up the shoe = fight . My farrier is incredible, and did a great job, but I felt terrible.
What makes it really bizarre is I can do anything with her other wise. No problem lunging, tacking up, riding through or over anything. Trusts me to touch her any where, and do anything with her, just with these two exceptions. Has anyone ever seen a horse with these issues?


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Stacey Dash, AKA Dionne of Clueless, is maybe losing her mind. No, screw maybe, her endorsement of Mitt Romney proved that she's well gone. It's not so much that she endorsed him, it was her bizarre reasoning. Continuing on her merry path of odd adventures, she's starring in her own web series titled, Stacey Dash Is Normal. I think they're going for that "Hey, she's 'just like us' she does weird stuff too!" with a touch of irony considering that in this episode, "The Dip", she is not completely normal. Totally get it. But it is sadly not very funny. She's a beautiful and talented woman. And this web series isn't doing her any favors.
Case in point, skip to 1:43 seconds in the video where she masturbates in front of her dog in what is supposed to be a comedic scene but is just awkward and weird. I get that's supposed to be the point, but there's Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm awkward and there's "What the eff am I watching?" awkward. However, most of the YouTube commenters disagree and think the show is "hilarious."
So tell me: what do you think? Am I wrong here?
We've all seen Toddlers and Tiaras, right? I mean, I feel like it's about three years too late to ask that question, seeing as how I started watching it after our very own Sasha called it her new favorite show back in 2009, but I reckon it's still valid. And even if you haven't seen it, I'm sure you can appreciate this hilarious clip anyway. Happy Saturday, you know?
On this delightful day, why don't you take a moment to share with us one of your favorite YouTube videos? Things are a little chill right now, a little relaxed, I think we can all take some time to add a little sprinkle of hilarity into our lives.
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Self-made celebrity Chris Crocker—that's right, the "Leave Britney Aloooone" guy—has been experimenting with a new, scruffy look. And it works? Like, it totally works. Not only does the kid look great, he's looking androgynous-male-model great.
Chris Crocker is evidently aware of his own ugly-duckling transformation story, and that's probably why he's been posting his own nude photos to his NSFW Tumblr. Today, Gawker announces that Chris Crocker is on his way to a feature-length porno, shooting (aaaaauuuuggghh) this summer.
So, um, I guess that's it, then: I'm about to fulfill my longstanding nightmare of posting a pile of Chris Crocker's dickshots to the Internet, just as Chris Crocker himself always intended. I… I'm sorry. I'll, uh, catch you on the flip-side. Good luck.
You know how the National Enquirer is always running headlines like, "Woman Sees Face of Jesus in a Dorito?" OK, well, I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot more headlines like that after watching this video on how to make a Grilled Cheesus. That's right: A grilled cheese sandwich with the face of our Lord and Savior. Fine, the face of the guy that my grandmother used to tell me was my Lord and Savior before I went to college and stopped believing in anything having to do with organized religion. Sorry, Katy Perry's mom.
This video teaches you in seven simple steps how to make a delicious grilled cheese sandwich that has God's son's face on it, and if y'all aren't busy this weekend, I would try it out and see if you can sell the pics to some sort of print rag for cold hard cash before everyone catches on to how easy this is.
Ugh. And now I want to go on a Kirstie Alley-style grilled cheese binge. Thanks, Internet.
Everybody's seen the Sassy Gay Friend videos, right? I can't tell because I was still in college when the first three came out, the Shakespeare ones, and all the nerdy theatre kids wouldn't stop quoting them for months, myself included. We used them for study tools (it's much more fun to analyze plays when you do it from the point of view of a Sassy Gay Friend), we quoted the clips at parties ("did you seriously just throw up in the bushes? You're a stupid bitch."), and we did Sassy Gay Friend versions of every play we did (and let me tell you, Greek tragedies really lend themselves to that sort of thing).
But lately, Sassy Gay Friend has been branching out from his Shakespeare roots, and finally he's made it to contemporary movies. And that means I can make you guys watch them. I think we've all grown from this.
Well, this video is kind of a must-watch…
From what I can tell, this teenager posted something to his Facebook wall that implied he's more rough and tumble than he actually is. After his uncle discovered the post, he called him down to the family webcam to get his lashings, as well as a lecture on not making the family seem like they're from something they're not.
It doesn't look like the kid's hurt (I mean, he's bigger than the dude delivering the beating), but it does look like he'll think twice before trying to give the illusion that he's a gangster again. That said, an angry, shirtless man beating his nephew with a belt over a Facebook wall post IS just about the most gangster thing I've ever seen, sooooo….
Let's take a quick break from the timely gossip to have a sniffly moment in front of our laptops, shall we?
A friend IMed me a link to this father and daughter (Jorge & Alexa Narvaez) doing an acoustic cover of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros' song "Home" last night and it's kind of a killer. Like, I'm already writing a movie about these two in my head and it's everything that Somewhere should have been. When Alexa turns to her dad halfway through and says, "One day I'm gonna whistle?", I think I died.
Get these two a record contract, a variety show, a made-for-TV movie and an Ellen appearance like YESTERDAY, Hollywood.


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Baltimore Orioles (45-38) @ Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (46-38)
Pitching Probables: BAL -- Jason Hammel (8-4, 3.93 ERA) LAA -- Jered Weaver (9-1, 2.13 ERA)
Game Info: 7:05 PM PT; TV - FSN; Radio - KLAA 830
Okay, so last night didn't go according to plan. It's amazing how a loss can change your whole perspective on a series. What once looked like a sure fire series win now has the Angels perilously close to falling out of the Wild Card Lead if they lose the next two. Since we have no clue who is pitching on Sunday, tonight is a "definite should win" type of game.
And who better to have on the hill than Jered Weaver. Weaver has been flat awesome all season and, if he hadn't gotten hurt, would probably be starting the All Star Game for the second straight season. The Orioles throw their "ace" as well so this might be low scoring affair. It would be a nice thing to go into the break with some momentum and a series split, while not exactly lighting the earth on fire, would be better than losing three of their last four at home. Feels like we have the right man for the job on the hill tonight.
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How to Do the Orthodox Jew Ponytail
The Orthodox Jew ponytail was created by the character "Fat Amy" in the movie Pitch Perfect. She describes it as "reserved at the front, but party at the back".
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2Divide your hair into 3 parts. Make sure that the back section holds the majority of your hair, and the two smaller sections that are on either side of your head are even.
3Using a hair tie, pull the back section of your hair up into a high ponytail. Make sure that you haven't accidentally pulled up the two smaller sections of hair.
4Curl the smaller sections of your hair. You can do this by using a curling wand or a straightener that will curl hair as well. Be careful not to over curl your hair, because it will end up in ringlets.
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The 40th Day demo takes place in Shanghai were some sort of military attack is happening to it. Their are certain key features introduced in this game that are actually pretty cool.
Morality System:
Their are several opportunities were you have the option of taking enemies hostage. One instance was the game allowing me to rescue civilians hostages by systematically attacking the enemy. Or you could just go in guns blazing and have the enemy kill off the hostages. Also there was a point that the game allowed me to choose to betray one of my comrades. I killed his ass for the money, but maybe if I didn't he would've stayed with us through the level making it easier? BUT this is where communication is key! Both players have a choice, but the game will go with whomever chooses first. So it emphasizes talking the choice over with your partner.
40th Day has a "where the fuck am I going" button reminiscent of Dead Space. Very handy, and it allows me to see exactly what my partner sees on the top right of my screen.
While it was present in the original game, the sequel makes the WoW-like system more imperative to survival. Most combat areas were designed to have one guy take the high ground while the other makes the enemies all sorts of pissed off on the low ground. Thus making it easier for the dude upstairs to snipe off distracted foes.
I totally recommend playing with a friend for the gameplay mechanics to shine. Otherwise, it's just a non-descript third person shooter with some cool weapon upgrades. So I guess your enjoyment on this game is dependent on you being able to find a friend to truck through the entire game with you. The only thing I'm kinda bummed out about is the game kind of taking itself too seriously. Of course it's only a demo, but I saw no fist-bumps or anything of that nature. Just a lot of Sam or Rios saying "Get behind me!"
If you guys need someone to get through the demo with, feel free to hit me up.
The 40th Day demo takes place in Shanghai were some sort of military attack is happening to it. Their are certain key features introduced in this game that are actually pretty cool.


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BLAKELY -- Gregory Eugene Wilkerson, 51, of 1359 Dickey Bypass, Edison, Ga., died Sunday afternoon at his residence. Funeral service will be held on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 4:00 PM at the New Light Freewill Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the New Light Cemetery. Rev. Jerry Hall officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday evening from 6-8 PM. Serving as pallbearers will be: Don Wilkerson, Blake Martin, Al Martin, James Kleckley, Jack Royal, Mike Varnum and Charles Varnum.
Mr. Wilkerson was born December 5, 1961 in Arlington, Ga. to Hughie Eugene Wilkerson and Lucy Lane Wilkerson of Edison, Ga. He was a Farmer and Attended New Light Freewill Baptist Church
He is survived by his wife: Kimra (Kim) Kleckley Wilkerson of Edison, 2 sons: Adam and wife Jessica Wilkerson of Edison and Brandon Wilkerson of Edison. 1 Brother; Donnie and wife Decarlo Wilkerson of Edison , 2 Sisters: Jeanie and husband Steve Martin of Edison and Jan and husband Mike Strickland of Edison. InLaws: Harold and Eleanor Kleckley.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Albany Community Hospice at 320 Foundation Lane, Albany, Ga. 31707.
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Marcia Kyle Helfer, 88, of Fort Smith, Ark., died Jan. 27, 2013, in Fort Smith. At the request of the deceased, there will be no services. Private inurnment will take place in the Memory Garden at Mountain View Cemetery in Walla Walla.
Mrs. Helfer was born on Dec. 21, 1924, to Ralph and Audrey Hodgen Kyle in Milton. She received her education in Milton (now Milton-Freewater) and graduated from McLoughlin Union High School in 1943. She was a bookkeeper for several years and held several positions with the Seattle First National Bank in Walla Walla before transferring to the Spokane & Eastern Branch, Spokane, in 1956.
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