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Jul 1st 2011
Hey Ellis/all,
I write for Examiner.com as Monroe Pop Culture-mahoozitz where I cover Comics, movies, music, tv, etc. and have penned this article describing why I think the Authority should be made into a feature film. Quite frankly i'm astounded someone hasn't jumped onto this thing earlier. (But then, HBO wanted no parts of Ennis' opus, CW turned their collective noses up at GF and a thousand stars had to line up before Walking Dead got greenlit so no accounting for taste, eh?)
Comic book series that would make great TV shows or Films: The Authority
Those of you who know and love the Authority like me probably know all of this, it's written moreso for those people who don't even know this stuff exists. Still, I think it would be interesting to have this discussion, especially in light of the current onslaught of comic based films.
So thoughts, is there a chance of this actually becoming, y'know, a thing, or am I just pissing in the wind at this point? (I still maintain that the Series of Fuckeried Events that has been the handling of The Authority property of late have been a coordinated effort by TPTB to silence the popular new kids because they were starting to make those tired old men look bad.)
But yeah, thoughts forum?
Jul 1st 2011
Well, of course it would make an awesome movie... that goes without saying!
Still, I just don't see it happening. You have to appreciate the sheer amount of money that would have to go into making it in order for it to look good - and weigh that against the fact that there are very, very few people outside of comics fandom who know who the Avengers, or the JLA are, much less the Authority.
Look at what it's taken for Marvel to do the Avengers as a film. They had to do what, 5 or 6 movies to establish the main characters individually, because if they had to do that in one film, there wouldn't have been time for an actual plot. So to make an Authority film, you'd have to make 6 additional films just so the public could learn who the hell these people are. And no studio is going to bank that.
The only feasible thing I can think of would be an adult-oriented animated series, almost like what HBO did with Spawn back in the '90s. Even that is probably a pipe dream, but its probably the best way to get the characters some more mainstream exposure. I say animated because the budget would be probably be much more feasible than live-action.
Don't get me wrong. I love, love, love the Authority. Its just that its so big in scope, and sadly, not so widely known outside of comics, that its practically impossible to see any kind of movie getting done. I mean, unless it was one of those god-awful SyFy films where they just throw the original material out and used horrible CGI and C-list actors... and I don't think any of us want to see that!
Jul 1st 2011
"Nothing carries a film as well as it's characters and The Authority is full of interesting personalities."
Dude, "it's" is a contraction of "it is". APOSTROPHE FAIL
Michael Wayne
Jul 1st 2011
The difference is Disney purchased Marvel to make big budget films of its properties. DC purchased Wildstorm... basically to kill it.
Jul 1st 2011
Coop-- Agh, my mistake. An annoying habit of mine that I really have to work on. Corrected.
Also rdouek, you make a good point but do remember how very little we knew about these characters' personal lives during Ellis' initial run. The whole point of it all was that it was a nonstop action movie, very light on the introspective bits. Super-decompression, huge action scenes, kicks and 'splosions, all done at the hand of a master's brush, so you knew more about these people from implication than could ever be said through words and melodrama. As I mentioned sure, entire movies could be dedicated to any one of the main characters' backstories. That's the beauty of it, how so many mad ideas get halcyon collided against one another with no regard for propriety and no interest in toning it down. And it all works beautifully.
It wasn't until Millar opened the floodgates by making them the superhero version of Bono that we started down the road that would inevitably lead to the situation we have now. Things that were briefly mentioned during Ellis' run, the very things that worked so well as understatements got brought to the forefront and made main issues. Doctor went from a psychotropic drug user expanding his consciousness to a heroin addict on the cover of the Enquirer. Li-Min went from a badass warrior woman to a preachy ultrafeminist. Apollo and Midnighter went from two characters who'd sooner punch you in the mouth than stand around talking about "their feelings" to Jenny's big gay dads. The Authority went from a team operating on a global scale dedicated to the betterment of all mankind to a predominantly USA fixated group of political dissidents. I would have thought Ellis established their purpose was much larger than that. It was the comic equivalent of a writer taking over Charles Schulz's work and being proclaimed a genius for finally allowing Charlie Brown to kick the football. Sure, it's easy enough to get that brief pop of applause, but there's really nowhere else to go from there. Granted his execution of the premise was more skillful than most, but I had a snaking feeling what would come in the hands of lesser talents. And even before his own run was over those fill-in issues verified just what i'd been fearing. Four whole issues of "i'm not gay" pathos. In a book with doors to every known universe, a 50 mile wide carrier ship and the most eclectic cast of superpowered mad bastards i've ever seen. Why must I cry?
The real shame is the book didn't really come into it's own reader-wise until Millar's stories, so in most people's minds his is the run on the Authority that most defined who the characters are. And the fact that Ellis has vowed never to return to the title, to remind people just what made these characters so compelling in the first place. Damn him and his artistic integrity. Damn him I say!
Jul 1st 2011
Name recognition isn't what sells a film; brilliant, mad ideas do. And the Authority has these in spades. I do agree that if someone's going to short change it they might as well not bother. Still, if they treat this movie like the blockbuster it deserves to be I don't see how it could fail.
Remember movies such as Blade, and Men in Black, Hellboy, Kick-Ass, Wanted all based on lesser or little known comic series that went on to be huge hits. All for the most part stories that typically deviate from the traditional superhero books in one way or another. Also the upcoming Cowboys vs. Aliens, a movie that takes one basic, accessible premise and makes a go of it. I think that's what people don't realize about film. The same things that make popular comic book characters won't necessarily make the most popular comic book movies. I wouldn't be raiding the DC universe proper for my comic movies, i'd raid Vertigo. Y-The Last Man, Preacher, maybe Sandman, DMZ, Fables, etc.
Jul 1st 2011
So thoughts, is there a chance of this actually becoming, y'know, a thing, or am I just pissing in the wind at this point?
They don't even publish an Authority comic. Why would there be a film?
Jul 1st 2011
Yeah, tell me about it.
Don't even get me started on that one.
Jul 1st 2011
Watchmen is their yardstick for success. Done.
Jul 1st 2011
Watchmen is their yardstick for success. Done.
Errmm... right, ya. That is to say, brilliant mad ideas executed properly.
mister hex
Jul 2nd 2011
There will never be a film of the Authority and I can prove it with charts and graphs.
First, the superhero film is trending downward, in terms of box-office. Green Lantern didn't make enough money, Green Hornet didn't make enough money, Scott Pilgrim (while not a superhero but close enough) didn't make enough money and that's only to name three. No one is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on Gay Batman and friends. ("Does he have to be gay? Can they fight a giant mechanical spider? How about a wisecracking dog?")
Which is the second point : executives will fuck with it. Never mind two of the main characters being in a homosexual relationship, Jenny won't be allowed to chain-smoke, the Doctor won't be a drug addict, Jack and the Engineer won't be having casual sex ... and that's not even discussing the violence or "mad ideas". (How well do you think a huge, tent-pole picture about superheroes killing 'God' would do in Red-State America? Yeah, not even that well.)
Thirdly, the concept and the characters don't really lend themselves to a big-budget sfx extravaganza. Does it end with them taking over the world? With them realizing that "hey, we could be heroes, if just for one day"? With Jenny dying and being reborn? Yes, there were wide-screen set-pieces that worked ... in a comic book, read by comic fans, familiar with the tropes being subverted. A mainstream audience won't have that level of familiarity and so, it'll never get made. Sorry.
A low-budget film would fail, so don't even suggest it. Animated series? You'd never see Midnighter and Apollo kiss, or even shake hands. "Cartoons are for KIDS!" and one angry mother would get it banned and hands would be cut off and stuff like that.
Jul 2nd 2011
I was just thinking it could be animated. Largely because I keep overdosing on anime and there's plenty on Adult Swim that would shock Tipper Gore into a stupor.
*shrug* As with any good, solid project you'd have to find a producer with balls and who then knows people with nerve aplenty to do Ellis right.
It's fun and easy to sneer at Hollywood for being so protective of its (massive) bottom line. It's true, they suck. Christopher Nolan* is the pinnacle of risk-taking
but producers would rather clone him than try to find other bright minds
. But fuck, if we're spitballing something that's hardly likely to happen, why not dream up the circumstances that would allow it? Fox Animation Studios, after all, has reopened. (It's sad that I know way more Japanese animation companies than American ones...though that's quite possibly because there are more Japanese companies than American ones.)
From there maybe it's meeting the material with the right audience. We figure there should be one, right? We each love the shit out of
and know at least three other people who feel the same way. You'll find us at cons. We watch cartoons late at night; we play video** games (well, *I* don't, but most of you all do). That puts
in the same milieu as
Ghost in the Shell
. So that's (core) audience. The marketing that will push past the core depends on who they figure will cotton to the story and characters in
. Maybe that's not a lot of people. Chances are it would be most practical to assume that:
viewership is to
viewership as
comic book sales were to
comic book sales. So trying to assume that its commonality with X-Men will create similar buzz instantaneously is a mistake. So maybe not jumping up and assuming it can be a blockbuster movie right now...
I keep thinking, sure I went and saw
at the multiplex like everyone else. But I have never read a single
comic, I watched the cartoon as a kid. Same with
, though I did actually collect a few X titles
my animated Saturday morning introduction. If nothing else, keep in mind that the blockbusters are often characters pulling audiences from multiple generations and continuous iterations across a variety of media. At a dozen years old
was roundly considered fare fit only for young boys who would otherwise refuse to read at all and perhaps even spend their time as delinquents. Make a cartoon out of it? Assume any self-respecting adult would consume
media related to it? Hell no!
I don't figure if you just leave Authority on a shelf for 30 years it'll go from us faithful few to a great cultural force. I do figure there are other avenues it can go down while it builds cache. Or you can scale down from blockbuster movie to cable cartoon, DVD collection and/or video game. Don't underestimate how much money and attention is flying around in these arenas.
*We could argue all day on Nolan's true merits, but that's not the point. I mention him only because all eyes are on him, and all eyes are on him because he's the guy who's currently allowed to take chances. That's all.
**I know they're not video anymore and haven't been in a while. I use the term here as a catch-all for PC/Sony/PSP and god knows whatever else is out there.
Jul 2nd 2011
Give it to the Japanese. They love this kinda high-concept stuff, AND are perfectly okay with Ho Yay played with actual Ho. Turn it into a serialized Anime, just to see how the hey they'll do it. And to hear how Jenny Sparks (sorry, Jeni Supakusu) will sound in Japanese.
Jul 3rd 2011
"Jeni Supakusu." Someone's out for my internets.
Alright, here's all 9000. :)
Jul 3rd 2011
The Authority is way too far out there for mainstream audiences. There's just no way. I would have loved to see them killing "God" on the big screen, but alas, it was not meant to be...
Jul 3rd 2011
Might be worth considering Moore's take on
; to paraphrase and rework for this disucssion:
Authority was meant to be a comic. It was meant to do things that only comics can do, or that comics can do exceedingly well. It doesn't
to be a movie.
Movies don't have to be the final metamorphic stage of comic success. I'd rather see
Dark Knight,
as good as the latter is, because the former is trying to be it's own story.
(That said, I love Kubrick, and most of his work was adaptations from literature...)
Jul 3rd 2011
The Dark Knight is trying to be it's own story too, it just happens to involve a character from the comic books. A better comparison would be 300 to Sucker Punch, but really, no one wants to see Sucker Punch.
mister hex
Jul 4th 2011
Well, the whole thing's a bit of a moot point, as DC, in their infinite wisdom, have absorbed the Wildstorm Universe into the DCU proper. (And I wonder if Midnighter and Apollo will still be gay.)
As much as I would love to see an Authority film, I think Brubaker's SLEEPER would make a much better film. Or PLANETARY - which could be a trilogy, if you did it correctly. But now we're just playing the Wish Game, which Warren hates. (I hope Si has more tolerance for our monkey-shines.)
Jul 4th 2011
I believe that SLEEPER is in development... starring Ton Cruise.
Jul 4th 2011
How about The AuthorityXXX? I'm sure Mr. Ellis would get behind that adaptation. (ahem)
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Justin Vernia named All-State defensive MVP
June 18, 2013
Issaquah player almost missed the series, until luck called him up
YAKIMA — There was some interesting karma — or whatever you might want to call it — going on in the championship game of the All-State Baseball Series on June 9. Good manners translated into good deeds at the plate, and an unexpected turn of luck led to a stellar pitching display.
Odd things, big results.
Marysville-Pilchuck's Kyle Nobach and Issaquah's Justin Vernia swept the individual awards, and led Team Baker's stout pitching and defense to a 7-2 victory against Team Rainier in the title game of the annual senior all-star baseball weekend at Davis Field.
Boys' seasons come down to experience
March 12, 2013
The Issaquah High School Eagles' 2012 season saw a young squad win five in a row at the end to qualify for state.
Now, that squad is a year older and preparing for what coach Rob Reese said could be its breakout year.
"It's a pretty good mix," he said. "It's a really, really good junior class and a group we've been counting on to have good things from."
Ten players are coming back this season.
Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club earns third in American Legion World Series
August 28, 2012
The Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club only lost two games in the American Legion World Series in Shelby, N.C., both to the same pitcher. Genetically, that is.
Brooklawn's twin phenoms Casey and Cody Brown held Lakeside in check in the two games, limiting the Bellevue team to two runs in their first meeting Aug. 19, and only three runs in the Aug. 21 semifinal game. Both games were one-run affairs.
"We ran into a tough left-hander, and they got the big hit when they needed it with two outs," Lakeside head coach Rob Reese said. "We got our chances in the eighth inning and we only got one out of it. There's not much room for error when you get to that level. You have to take advantage of your opportunities and we had a couple shots, but we just didn't get it that day."
Lakeside Recovery pitcher Brandon Mahovlich gasses competition
July 17, 2012
Lakeside Recovery catcher Jim Sinatro squatted down behind the plate July 14 at Bannerwood Field. As pitcher Brandon Mahovlich peered in for the sign, Sinatro extended only his index finger.
Issaquah Indians eye repeat as league champs
July 3, 2012
There's only one thing harder than winning the Pony Baseball's Northwest Regional Championship. And that's doing it two years in a row.
Lakeside Recovery rides hot streak to postseason
July 3, 2012
When they're hot, they're hot. When they're not, they're not.
And after June 30's 13-1 routing of Prep Sportswear's ball club at Bothell High School, the Lakeside Recovery team proved just that.
Lakeside coach Rob Reese said that kind of winning margin — the team has scored at least seven runs in 10 of the team's 14 wins this season — is not uncommon for this year's team.
"Offensively, we're kind of contagious," he said. "We can be hit and miss offensively, though. When we do hit, everyone hits. When we don't hit well, nobody hits well."
Issaquah High School baseball falls in state playoffs, 3-1
May 22, 2012
It was an up-and-down year for Issaquah High School baseball in 2012, but a late-season surge vaulted the team into the state tournament for the first time since 2009.
Hoping to ride the hot hand of senior pitcher Brandon Mahovlich, Issaquah's offense came up short, and the team lost to Puyallup, 3-1, on May 19 at Everett Stadium.
"Puyallup's a great team," Issaquah head coach Rob Reese said. "We had our chances, just didn't get enough runs. They had six hits and two of them were bunts. They clutched up, they had a triple one time and another sac fly. When we got guys on it was always with two outs, it seemed like. We just couldn't get the run. We couldn't string enough together."
Mahovlich struggled early, but managed to give up only one run in the first inning and one run in the second.
Issaquah High School baseball team defeats Roosevelt, 9-0
April 17, 2012
It doesn't hurt when you score nine runs in the first two innings. It also never hurts when your starting pitcher throws a complete game shutout, and that's what Issaquah High School senior pitcher Brandon Mahovlich did April 13 as Issaquah defeated Roosevelt, 9-0.
"It makes it a lot easier," the winning pitcher said. "I can just go out there and throw strikes and not have to worry about it. They can score a couple runs and I can just pitch confidently with a lead."
And quite a lead it was. Issa-quah jumped straight out of the gates with a two-run homer from senior shortstop Jake Bakamus, and followed that with the next five batters all touching home plate.
New rule, bats expected to lower scores, reduce injuries
April 3, 2012
New, stricter bat regulations are forcing producers to make less powerful bats and will greatly affect gameplay on both the college and high school levels.
The regulations require BBCOR bats, short for Batted-Ball Coefficient of Restitution. Though the bats are still aluminum, they are less "springy" and will hit more like wood bats. Permissible bats will feature a BBCOR-certified sticker.
A major problem with the old BESR (ball-exit-speed-ratio) bats was that they would become too powerful once broken in. As fibers within the bats repeatedly came into contact with baseballs, they would break down, become more flexible and surpass levels deemed safe.
"Back in the early days, the best it was going to be was right when you took it out of the wrapper," Issaquah High School head baseball coach Rob Reese said. "Recently, bats would get more powerful after use."
Pitching, defense will be key to local baseball teams' success
March 13, 2012
As the clocks spring forward and the calendar flips to March, the Issaquah, Skyline and Liberty high school baseball programs will all have a common approach to this season: pitching and defense.
With the new bat regulations for the upcoming season, first-year Liberty Coach John Martin thinks the game is in for a change.

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Wednesday May 16 2012
Nisenan first settlers of Clover Valley
By: Gary Day, Special to the Placer Herald
Rocks, Rails and Ranches
Editor?s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on the history of Clover Valley. The northeastern Sacramento Valley and nearby Sierra foothills of the early 19th century were home to the Nisenan, a southern tribe of the Maidu culture. Many Nisenan moved seasonally between the valley floor and the foothills. Archeological evidence shows that Rocklin?s Clover Valley was probably one of the most densely populated areas at times. In the late 1820?s Euro-Americans established camps on Nisenan lands, bringing their diseases with them. In 1833 about 75 percent of the Nisenan perished from a plague, possibly malaria, brought by Hudson?s Bay Company trappers. Some of the Nisenan survivors fled into the hills. A few stayed behind and joined other tribes working at Sutter?s Fort in the late 1830?s, but the Nisenan were never missionized. The gold rush brought hoards of Euro-Americans to the Sierra foothills and the ensuing widespread destruction of Nisenan villages as well as persecution and killing of the Nisenan permanently disrupted their culture and depopulated Clover Valley. However, in the late 19th century, Joel Parker Whitney befriended and regularly had contact with a small band of Clover Valley Nisenan at his Spring Valley Ranch on the west side of Boulder Ridge. Whitney fed the Nisenan, observed and wrote about their customs, including their method of harvesting and drying grasshoppers and their mud bathing rituals. Sadly, the last vestiges of Nisenan lifestyle had disappeared from Clover Valley and elsewhere in the Rocklin area by 1904. Next time: Clover Valley in modern times.


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I just joined this group and wish to say greetings to everyone.
My experience about AMV is bit limited.
I first did 'Bad Boys' (Inner Circle) using footage from AD Police. I then decided it was amazingly bad and buried it for almost three years. I also tried to do 'Angel' (Massive Attack) with Evangelion material with my friend but the project came to nothing.
Then I edited one clip for my friend, whose ideas I didn't like in the first place but since I had made a promise I kept it.
Now I have returned to 'Bad Boys' and edited it again so it does not blow entirely (At least in my opinion, I actually like it quite much), but I think I will still edit a bit more so I get more story into it (It now has Sylvie from BGC but I think it requires a bit more).
hopefully I can get it to distribution soon.
Another projects I have planned to do are 'To the moon & back' (Savage Garden, though someone has already used the song) with Macross: Do you remember love and returning to 'Angel'.


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Jessica Craig-Martin
1963 Hanover, New Hampshire
1996-97 International Center of Photography, New York
1995-96 Parsons The New School for Design, New York
1982-84 New York University, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Answered Prayers, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2012 Standard Excess, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Privilege, Galerie 64bis, Paris, France
2007 American Summer, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Christian Dam Galleries, Copenhagen, Denmark; Oslo, Norway
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2001 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
Dorothée de Pauw Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Gallery Fiction Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Colette, Paris, France
1999 Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
White Columns, White Room, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Best Dressed/Undressed, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2011 Being American, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
The Art of Wit, Paddle8, New York, NY
Exhibition A, Colette, Paris, France
2010 Re-Dressing (Family & Friends), Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Secrets, Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
Younger Than I'll Be, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Pull My Daisy, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
Art, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
2009 Select Contemporary Photography from the Collection of Lucille and Richard Spagnuolo, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington DC, USA
Slough, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Weird Beauty, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
From The Archives: 40 Years/40 Projects – an exhibition celebrating the forty year history of White Columns and 112 Greene Street / 112 Workshop Inc., White Columns, New York, NY
Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Tate Modern, London, UK
2008 Watermill: A Photographic Survey of an Artistic Community, The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2006 In Praise of New York, President's Clubhouse for The US Open, Flushing, USA
Survivor, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Welcome to the Limelight, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2005 The Mom Show, Rivington Arms, New York, NY
Gorgeous Isn't Good Enough, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome; Milan, Italy
Summer Sessions, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MO
NYC BLING-BLING, Cinema a Luci Rosse, Modena, Italy
2004 Face-Off, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
PREMAculTURE, Hydra High School, Hydra, Greece
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Black & White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Super You, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Excess, Palm Beach Institute, Miami, FL
Voyeur, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Bootleg Identity, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Art Downtown: New Photography, Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
2001 In Progress, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Art Transplant, British Consulate General's Residence, New York, NY
I am a Camera, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The Privileged Eye, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
2000 Party Pictures: From Studio 54 to Cannes
2000, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg
Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
Superpredators, CRP Gallery, New York, NY
The City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Innuendo, Dee Glasoe, New York, NY
Sentimental Education, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London, UK
1997 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
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Sokol, Brett, "High-Heeled Hedonists at the Wolfsonian." Ocean Drive, January, 2008.
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Kerr, Sarah, "People Are Talking About This Side of Paradise." Vogue, USA, June 2004.
"Exit 5: ¡Esto es una fiesta! This is a party!" Olivares & Asociados S.L., Madrid, 2002,
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Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The New Museum, New York, NY
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Given her background as a press photographer for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and other publications, New York-based photographer Jessica Craig-Martin is granted access to an otherwise inaccessible world of socialites, models, actors, and other elite individuals. Piquing the viewer's voyeuristic tendencies, Craig-Martin presents skillfully cropped and angled photographs of glittering individuals shot at various society parties, charity fundraisers, art exhibitions, and other invite-only soirees. In contrast to all of the champagne, glamorous gowns, sequins, silk, designer duds, and opulent baubles on the individuals that inhabit her work, Craig-Martin's photographs present moments of flawed beauty and stark reality – a human vulnerability in the otherwise unapproachable privileged world. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the New Museum, the Progressive Corporation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.


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Any lover of Shakespeare or the Romantic poets can concede that poetry is pleasurable. But is it good for you? Can it teach you anything? These are questions that have beguiled and engaged eminent critics for millennia, and now you can develop your own answers and options with these 24 lectures.
The source of poetry's wellspring; the relationship between poetry and human progress; the possible truths (and lies) involved in the literary arts; the role of the author; these lectures tap into an enormous range of material to explore these and other provocative issues. You'll follow the strands of this "conversation" between philosophy and the literary arts down the millennia, profiting from in-depth analyses of works by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Foucault, Derrida, and more.
Throughout these lectures, you'll meet the poet in many guises. These include: the divine poet (a supernatural creator who transcends the laws of nature), the alchemical poet (the inspired individual who fuses humanity's divided nature into one), the common poet (the poet who roots himself or herself in the real world and speaks for the common individual), the playful poet (who champions sensitivity of feeling, contradictory truths, and uncertainties), and the prisoner poet (who's a product of, and a slave to, his or her own subconscious suppositions).
By concentrating on critical reflections about poetry - the oldest of the literary arts - you'll come away with lessons on how to understand literature, and all of the arts, more generally. More importantly, you'll be prepared to join in these critical conversations yourself.
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"Very good until it it gets to the 20th Century"
Professor Markos is a passionate teacher on the history of poetry. I was a little disappointed that he was only covering poetry when I started the course, but quickly got engrossed in his lectures because he has organized the course very well and so some of the more difficult concepts of that emerge in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries were very well explained.
However, when Prof. Markos gets to the 20th century, it becomes very clear just how disenchanted he is with even modernity, not to mention post-modernity. His derision is obvious and unhelpful. Primarily because, for instance, people like Derrida are some of the hardest philosophers to understand when it comes to literature. I could have used less derision and more information.
"Passionate Profesdor"
Unless you were an English Literature major, you probably never considered poetry or fictional prose in this way. Perhaps you've heard of critical theory but weren't sure what it was. Maybe you've encountered it in the context of philosophy, political science, or linguistics, but these contexts are spin-offs of the original, which is poetical literature.
Does poetry matter to society? Can a poetical work be sublime and timeless, or is it always a mere transient expression of a social niche? To what extent do poems reflect the author's original thinking rather than the social influences on the author? Do critics of poetical literature add value for readers?
The professor knows these are unfamiliar questions to anyone who did not major in literature, and he is excited to convey them to.a lay audience. His voice is always clear, animated, and easy to listen to.
"Be warned"
The title and description of this great course is misleading. There is very little at all regarding the role of the author. Also, much of the material was completely ruined for me by the professor's pre-occupation with his own Christian worldview. The lectures are less about the "essence of literature and the role of the author" than they are about his own (inaccurate) views of many philosophers and a lot of bizarre Christian apologetics. I wouldn't recommend this course to someone looking for a general history of literary theory.
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Matt and Jordan Lee visited the B.A.S.S. headquarters for a meet-and-greet and a Twitter chat. The brothers were treated to an Auburn University cake, and they signed autographs for staff members.
Matt and Jordan Lee visited the B.A.S.S. headquarters for a meet-and-greet and a Twitter chat. The brothers were treated to an Auburn University cake, and they signed autographs for staff members.
Matt and Jordan's father, Dr. Bruce Lee, talked to staff members about how much he appreciated the response his sons had received from their competition in the 2012 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Classic Bracket.
The Lee brothers swapped fish tales with B.A.S.S. tournament officials Trip and Hank Weldon.
The Lee brothers' parents, Leigh and Bruce, were also in attendance to meet the staff.
Jordan Lee spent time with B.A.S.S. co-owner Jerry McKinnis.
The two "Bruces" carried on a conversation -- B.A.S.S. CEO Bruce Akin and Lee brothers' dad, Dr. Bruce Lee.
Jordan signs an autograph for B.A.S.S. staffer and Auburn grad Jennifer Leonard.
Matt, left, and Jordan, right, posed with Auburn grad and B.A.S.S. co-owner Don Logan.
Auburn University graduates and B.A.S.S. staffers Jennifer Leonard, Laurie Tisdale and Helen Northcutt showed off their blue and orange for the camera with Matt and Jordan Lee.
Matt and Jordan spent plenty of time with B.A.S.S. co-owner Jerry McKinnis a couple of weeks ago during the 2012 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship in Arkansas, so they're practically old friends now.
The co-owners chat some more with the college anglers.
University of Alabama graduates got in on the fun, too. B.A.S.S. staffers April Phillips, Laura Rush and Dannette Jackson posed with Leigh Lee, despite their team preference.
Jordan Lee, left, tells the B.A.S.S. staff in a short speech that no one better could have won the Classic qualification, except for him.
Alabama fans got in on the fun with the Auburn anglers. From left are April Phillips, Jamie Broday, Bruce Akin, Laura Rush, Matt Lee, Jordan Lee and Grayson Davis.
The Lee brothers arrange a fishing trip with B.A.S.S. publications staff.
Matt and Jordan Lee already have plans to hit Lake Guntersville with Bassmaster editor James Hall.
Matt and Jordan with Bruce Akin.
During the Twitter chat, B.A.S.S. staff walked Matt and Jordan through the process while College Series manager Hank Weldon and Bruce and Leigh Lee looked on. Read the transcript of the chat here.
The Lee parents enjoyed watching their sons answer Twitter questions.
Everyone laughs as Jordan says that Matt sets the hook "like a girl," during the Twitter chat.
Matt Lee ponders the response to a fishing question on Twitter.
Jordan provides a thoughtful sign-off for the end of the Twitter chat.
Matt, Bruce, Leigh and Jordan Lee say farewell after their visit at the B.A.S.S. headquarters.


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Preheat the oven of love
With plenty of secrets and hugs
Mix in giggles and laughs
That make your sides split in half
Bake with the love and care
And all the things you both should share
Decorate with the frosting of trust
This is really a must
Enjoy the cake do not eat it fast
Just like your new friendship make it last.
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A great small poem to include at the beginning of a new friendship/relationship.
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The Cake Of Friendship
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Voting at the Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.
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St. James Baptist Church, 7:07 p.m.
Never in his 13 years as an inspector had Frank Wells, chief inspector of the polls at St. James Baptist Church, witnessed anything like this election day.
It was nearly 6 p.m., with nearly an hour to go. What a day. ...
"It was an unbelievable turnout," Wells said. "At 5 o'clock, nearly 4,600 people had voted here," Wells said of the location at the eastern edge of the city. "They were lined up, before 7 (a.m), all the way out the building here, and all the way out to the front parking lot. They've been pouring in here."


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Poems: comparing
In this reading worksheet, your child learns how to look at the language, meaning, structure, and mechanics in poetry by comparing two poems by the same author.
compare and contrast, Fluency, mechanics of poetry, Reading comprehension, sentence-level decoding, understanding poetry, vowel sounds (phonemes), Writing practice
This worksheet originally published in English Made Easy Key Stage 2 for ages 10 to 11 by © Dorling Kindersley Limited.
Common Core Standards: Grade 5 Reading: Literature, Grade 5 Reading: Foundational Skills, Grade 5 Writing
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.9, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.10, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.2


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Longhorns open as underdogs to Oklahoma State, quickly become favorites
Well, that was weird.
The Longhorns opened as 5 1/2-point underdogs to Oklahahoma State today — the two meet this weekend in Stillwater — and, about an hour later, were suddenly 1 1/2-point favorites after the line was bet so heavily on. A few hours later, Texas has moved 2 1/2-point favorites.
That Texas would even open as underdogs is surprising, despite Oklahoma State winning the last two contests. While the Longhorns have patched up their quarterback problems, the Cowboys might be without their starter, Wes Lunt, who suffered a knee injury two weeks ago. The undefeated Longhorns are No. 12 in the nation; the Cowboys (2-1) are not ranked and haven't been since they fell to Arizona a couple weeks ago. Those same Wildcats were blanked by Oregon on Saturday night, 49-0.


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Also explore the world of Black Ops 2, the new game in the popular shooter franchise from developer Treyarch.
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Also explore the world of Black Ops 2, the new game in the popular shooter franchise from developer Treyarch.
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- Super Joystiq Podcast 026: Wii U, Black Ops 2, New Super Mario Bros. U
This week Xav, Ludwig, JC, and Richard talk the good Black Ops 2 and not so good Declassified, along with reviews for New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land and GOTY contender Sing Party. There's also a new staff profile before Alex, Jess, and Jordan close the episode out with news. This week we're giving away Paper Mario: Sticker Star and The Walking Dead.
- Capturing the grandeur of the hunt in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Freelancer Kat Bailey explores the first high-def Monster Hunter game slated for North America and walks away impressed.
- Joystiq's Wii U Launch Guide
Read Joystiq's comprehensive coverage of Nintendo's new home console, the Wii U. Our launch guide is a one-stop hub for all of our reviews, features, screenshots, videos, and latest news on the new Nintendo system.
- Faceless: Slender Man stalks, blocks Greenlight's top game from Steam
Could legal issues on license ownership be the reason why Valve has yet to Greenlight Faceless, a game based on the internet-created Slender Man legend? The developer speaks to Joystiq about being passed by Valve's new service, despite being voted one of its top projects by the Steam community.
- How RPGs can avoid descending into early game hell
Columnist Kat Bailey explores the historical design direction of making RPGs extremely difficult in the beginning with things getting gradually easier over time and outlines how it could be better.
- The future of the Western role-playing game
Columnist Rowan Kaiser discusses what he thinks will and won't change in the next generation of western RPGs.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 review: War on Three Fronts by Xav de Matos
Treyarch delivers a stellar overall package with some good ideas. The single-player story has narrative issues, but does a good job of branching for multiple endings. Zombies is unforgiving, which makes it less inviting for new players. Multiplayer, however, is outstanding with intelligent tweaks to create-a-class and other great feature additions, like live streaming. Read our complete review and watch the video review for more.
- Wii U hardware review by JC Fletcher
We examine the ins and outs of Nintendo's new hardware. Is it something you should consider purchasing? Yeah, we'd never write "U" like that. We have keyboards.
- New Super Mario Bros. U review: A return to form by Richard Mitchell
Mario and his friends have returned in New Super Marios Bros. U, probably the biggest title for Nintendo's new console launch. Find out if the charm and wonderment from past games have returned, or if the game is more of the same (like the last 3DS game).
- Nintendo Land review: Controller coaster by JC Fletcher
The Wii U's answer to Wii Sports is Nintendo Land, a collection of minigames that showcases what the new console – and its tablet controller – can do. With multiple games inspired by Nintendo classics, Nintendo Land is a treat for Nintendo fans.
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Archive for Thursday, May 4, 2006
Liquor stores escape six-month hangover
Mike Fadden and Emma Jean Ellis can't be blamed for expressing a sigh of relief when Feb. 16 passed without making local headlines.
"It was just another day," Fadden said.
Although the date was uneventful and passed without popped champagne corks or wild celebration by the two liquor store owners, it marked the official end of an era for Eudora.
The date solidified a law adopted the previous November which changed Eudora from a "dry" to "wet" city.
"We should have done that years ago," Ellis said.
When Fadden opened Eudora Wines and Spirits in late November, and Ellis opened Main Street Wine and Spirits a few weeks later, the newly enacted law was subject to a protest petition for the next three months.
The period uncertainty made the new businesses a gamble.
It paid off. Six months after first appearing in town, the packaged liquor trade is running strong.
"When we first opened the store, we got a few double takes," Fadden said. "A lot of people would walk in and say 'hallelujah,' or just 'man!' There was a lot of excitement when we first opened."
Before the law went into effect, several local ministers spoke out to the Eudora City Council against letting liquor stores open in Eudora.
Despite earlier grumblings, both Fadden and Ellis said they had encoun
tered little complaint about the presence of their establishment.
In fact, Fadden said he hadn't heard a negative word directly.
"For the most part, people seem pretty happy," Fadden said.
Fadden's shop ---- located next to Durkin's Hardware at 218 West 20th Street ---- faces different challenges than Ellis' business at 728 Main Street.
"We're accepted by the business and it's gotten better every month," Ellis said. "I think most people are glad to have something else downtown."
For Fadden, part of the challenge is helping citizens get over the novelty of a local liquor store.
"Part of it is having people adjust to the fact we're here," Fadden said.
Fadden said he had one customer nearly make it to Kansas Highway 10 to drive to Lawrence to get alcohol and tools.
The customer turned around before the exit after he realized he could do that in town.
"I've made friends," Fadden said. "I like my customers."
Ellis said she could see the new liquor law continually helping Eudora.
"I'm hoping we'll get more restaurants here where we could serve alcohol by the drink," Ellis said.
Those restaurants could help Eudora from becoming solely a bedroom community, Ellis said.
Despite opening within weeks of each other, both Ellis and Fadden said there has been plenty of business to go around.
"Realistically you're never going to get 100 percent of the market," Fadden said.
When both stores opened, they cashed in on the holiday season rush, Fadden said.
Ellis' store opened days before Christmas.
"We were busy considering we opened two days before Christmas," Ellis said.
The strong business continued during the following months as both Fadden and Ellis have been expanding their inventories.
For Main Street, Ellis described the business flow in one word ---- "excellent."
Fadden looks at his shop's growth month by month.
"January and February are always the slowest months of the year, but it always picks up by April," Fadden said.
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College move-in day may have been only three months ago, but that's long enough for a freshman to get used to the freedom of college. That independence can cause a bit of a rift between parents and students who are home for the holidays.
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The attendance sheets account for Melanys Perez's presence.
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In this cartoon by Roger Harvell, now-dead Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gets a taste of the afterlife and sees Satan. 'You're not George Bush ...,' he tells the devil. (Gannett, Roger Harvell/ The Greenville (S.C.) News )
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Leave world alone
Your March 8 editorial on the passing of Hugo Chavez and the generally non-interventionist course followed by the United States while he was in power was thoughtful and on the mark.
This is not an ideological matter: One influential American on the right, who has propounded similar views, is Pat Buchanan; on the left is former House member Dennis Kucinich.
George W. Bush was the quintessential champion of meddling with other countries' internal affairs, often by force, in the cause of cramming democracy down everyone's throat whether it fits local circumstances or not.
The three broad approaches to dealing with dictators are (a) decisive intervention by force or sanction, (b) half-hearted use of force or sanction and (c) non-intervention.
The middle ground (b) is dangerous, and perhaps more so than the others. If we are going to impose sanctions they had better be effective because the middle ground risks an attack by some ambitious looney little would-be Adolf.
Colin Powell had it right. Avoid force when possible, as it was with Hugo Chavez, or go in if we must and clean house, which we haven't done since World War II. President Kennedy, who is justifiably honored by Americans, had it wrong in the case of Cuba; he took the middle route, and we wound up with a hostile Castro firmly ensconced in power.
Richard W. Metz, Sanibel
Lives wasted
How many more U.S. soldiers must die for a mistake? During the Vietnam War, 47,000 died; in Korea, the forgotten war, 33,000; in Iraq 3,500; and in Afghanistan, 1,400 (another forgotten war).
These soldiers died in vain, they didn't die defending anyone's freedoms; they didn't die protecting the United States; they didn't die to keep America safe from terrorists or to avenge 9/11. These soldiers were sincere, patriotic and altruistic; they fought bravely, heroically and passionately.
They may have died sacrificially, willingly and eager, but they died for our imperial presidency (Johnson, Bush, Obama.) The foreign policy of the United States "empire" (our military industrial complex selling arms to foreign countries for profit) is belligerent and reckless.
War is not just a simple mistake; there is intent to continue it and a campaign of lying to sustain it. It is not honorable for a United States soldier to die fighting some unnecessary, senseless, shameful war for a lie and in vain.
Real patriots don't want to see any more United States soldiers die. How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? I believe the American people are solidly against war.
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Rep. Troy Radel earned another "attaboy" on Feb. 28 for voting against the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which was sent to the president after passage. His constituents can be very proud of the "no" voting record he has compiled as their first-term representative.
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As a Minnesotan who winters in Florida for three months I must apologize for Rep. Michelle Bachmann's vote against the Violence Against Women Act. Michelle Bachmann might feel violence against women is acceptable but that is not the view of this Minnesotan.
And, again, I apologize for her supporting the view that violence against women is acceptable.
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You recently reported on the driving deaths in Lee County. I am a snowbird from semi-rural Illinois and experience a cultural shock from the driving habits in Southwest Florida, which I believe contribute to driving deaths.
Here are some issues that I observe from too many drivers: not using turn signals, driving through red lights, driving 10 mph or more over the speed limit, changing lanes in congested traffic for no good reason, switching two lanes to the left without looking and coming into traffic from the right allowing little or no room for oncoming traffic to accommodate the inserted vesicle.
The bottom line is that there are a lot of irresponsible drivers in Southwest Florida. In rural Illinois, reckless driving would be considered bad manners and would affect your social standing in the community. In Fort Myers, this is not the case because the community is too large to have a sense of community. So the irresponsible say, "who cares?"
To deal with driving in Florida leave a lot of space to the next car, slow down, observe driving laws and be wary of whatever crazy thing drivers may do at any time for no good reason. And avoid punk macho trucks and cars.
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The news tells us that North Korea is threatening the United States with a nuclear attack. Not to worry. Apparently former NBA player Dennis Rodman is now our acting foreign diplomat. He was recently seen having drinks with the head honcho in North Korea so we can probably all breathe easy. Maybe Rodman's ex-girlfriend Madonna could offer her advice. What a country.
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Just heard that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died after many treatments for cancer performed in Cuba. Cuba has socialized medicine.
The country with the highest cancer survival rate and best health care is the United States. The United States is home to free market medicine (or it used to be until Obamacare kicks in).
Let me say this: good medicine isn't cheap and cheap medicine isn't good. Health care is neither a right nor a privilege; it is a free market commodity.
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As I've shared before during our Christmas Choir Competition last December, I've been playing music since is was 4. Yep -- I was the one that couldn't go out to play until I did my 20 minutes of piano practice (which, as you can see to the left, didn't help my street cred). I fought with my parents over piano lessons; I threatened to quit more times than I can count, and it wasn't until I was in 8th or 9th grade that I realized I actually had learned something
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India is known to be growing by leaps and bounds and we, Indians, are becoming broad minded and open to newer ideas. However, in certain aspects, Indians, especially men are still hypocritical in their thought process. Indian men will go around with multiple girlfriends and also opt for live-in relationships.
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IRVING — Martellus Bennett walked gingerly out of the Cowboys headquarters, wearing a smile Monday.
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A FORMER engineer who worked on Spitfire engines during the Second World War has celebrated his 100th birthday.
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Staff decorated his room and organised a meal for Mr Morgan while his daughter, Angie Cole, her husband Peter and Mr Morgan's granddaughter Sarah Cole and her daughter Ellie Boulton had a private do with him.
Mr Cole, who lives in Stoke Fleming, said: "William is a very straight person. He would say the secret of his long life is never to have smoked nor drunk, to have always put his family first and to have worked hard."
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Responding to President Barack Obama and top Obama officials, House Democrats say they will keep the public option, the government-run health care system that will fund abortions and abortion coverage, in the health care bills. They also don't expect a vote on the House floor until September.
A House leadership official told Politico that the Obama administration's concession on the public option is "just for the Senate."
"There is no way it passes the House the first time around without a public option," the aide added. "The liberals (around 100+) won't allow it."
The House and Senate could wind up passing differing bills and the public option could be removed in a conference committee to come up with a final bill that fuses the two pieces of legislation together. The aide suggested House Democrats would likely vote for the bill if the Obama administration persuades them to do so.
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JONES PRAIRIE, TEXAS. Jones Prairie is on Farm Road 979 ten miles northeast of Cameron in northern Milam County. It was established in 1853 and named for Joseph Patterson Jones, who received a land grant in the area in 1834. The Little River Baptist Church began meeting near the Jones Prairie site in 1849, and a Masonic lodge was organized there in 1849 or 1850. A post office was established at Jones Prairie in 1876. Area farmers shipped cotton and corn. By 1884 the community had a gristmill, a cotton gin, a district school, three churches, and 150 residents. Jones Prairie was on the stage line between Calvert and Cameron but was bypassed when the railroads were built through Milam County in the 1880s and 1890s. A population of 100 was reported at Jones Prairie from the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s. The post office was discontinued in the 1950s. Jones Prairie had thirty-five residents in 1990. The population remained the same in 2000.
Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956). Cameron Herald, Centennial Edition, November 24, 1960. Joseph P. Jones (http://jamesdavidwalker.com/jones-list.htm), accessed May 6, 2015. Milam County Heritage and Preservation Society, Matchless Milam: History of Milam County (Dallas: Taylor, 1984).
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From menswear, to couture – via Lanvin, Thom Browne, Saint Laurent and Versace
Yesterday were the final menswear shows from Paris. I wrote about them as uniform. Alber Elbaz and Lucas Ossendrijver lifting from sportswear and utility, as well as the business-suit, for a Lanvin show that, while lacking a single definitive voice, offered a multitude of choice for their customers. It was commercially suave, but managed to avoid being boring to the press. That's a tough balancing act. The glittering metallics seemed a bit old-news, but the oversized layers looked interesting, the bubbly volume feeling new.
New isn't a word I'd use to describe Thom Browne's show. However, it was quite extraordinary: I wonder if we'll look back on these moments as defining seismic shifts in fashion's landscape. Browne played with proportions, and with the idea of military uniform as a kind of costume – a drag costume. So despite the bulging biceps branded with sailor tattoos and the frogged and braided military coats, Browne's corps marched out in court shoes with frilled ankle-socks, and a lick of red lipstick. The clothes were entirely irrelevant to the modern wardrobe, even more so than usual, with trousers eschewed for Erich von Stroheim-style jodhpurs and jackets generally flaring princess-line, with intricate corset-lacing up the back. It's striking that we've seen designers creeping towards femininity on other catwalks, but this felt like a frog-march. A terrifying one at that.
Hedi Slimane's Saint Laurent is terrifying for many. There's its terrifying focus on youth, on skinniness, on the indefinable, inestimable quality of coolness. That riles up many of the fashion press, honestly. Maybe because it's something they're not supposed to like. After all, there's very few of them under the age of twenty, the legions who adore Slimane's clothes and buy them religiously. I remember it being very much the same during his time at Dior Homme – somehow, those barely-twenty somethings have the cash (or credit) to shell out on Slimane's skinny, sequinned blazers and skinnier PVC jeans. Generally, if you try to buy something in Saint Laurent, it'll be sold out – the smallest sizes are the most scarce. That's enlightening as to who Slimane's customers are. The doubters seem to be coming round, too. The handbags are doing brisk trade. Retailers are happy.
It feels odd to talk about sales as we slide into couture though. As Naomi Campbell pounded the runway like a panther to both open and close the Atelier Versace show last night, she prowled through the halls of the Chambre de Commerce et d' industrie de Paris. I don't think anyone noticed though. Couture isn't about selling. Its power is in simply being. Especially on a supermodel in front of a baying pack of photographers.
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