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Guerlain Les Meteorites balls powder
280 reviews
74% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.6
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 3.6
Price: $$$$
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
This is a review for the Meteorites Rainbow Pearls.
After reading many, many reviews, I finally decided to take the plunge. I ordered the rainbow version simply because I loved the tin! I had managed to convince myself that this product would do supremely miraculous things, take 10 years off me and turn me into Kate Moss.
The tin is beautiful, the scent is amazing (parma violets), and the little balls are enchanting. As you can imagine then, I was pretty nonplussed initially when not a lot happened.
I had bought a special brush for application, because it's meteorites and iconic and deserves a special brush. I swirled the special brush around over the pearls and applied.
I asked my husband if he could see anything, he said no. I couldn't see much either, but when I went upstairs I passed the landing mirror, and I could see it! This stuff gives you a sheen, that's the best way to describe it. It's subtle, but it's there, and it's rather lovely.
So yes, I like it. It doesn't work miracles, but I've got over that now. I will repurchase when I run out, possibly in the permanent line Medium, probably in 5 years time when these have run out!
Age: 36-43
Skin: Oily, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Absolutely beautiful! Love this product and the lovely sheen it gives the skin. It never gets cakey. I use it as my setting powder, and since I am oily it eventually shifts to a nice glow in about 3 hours. I love the scent. Cant wait to purchase this in the compact form. Pricey, but worth every penny! I will repurchase in either form ( powder of balls) again!
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
I've been wanting to indulge in this purchase for a long time but kept putting it off, partly because of the price and partly because I've more than enough high end luminizing/highlighting powders from MAC, Hourglass, Dior and, yes, even Guerlain. BUT...Shoppers Drug Mart had a bonus redemption offer this weekend, which meant I could basically get Meteorites for "free", so I was out the door first thing this morning to hit the SDM near me that carries Guerlain and I came home with this in shade 02. I've only had this for a few hours butI waited so long and I was so excited to get it that I couldn't wait to post a review. I'm really happy with this (and I'll update if that changes). I sort of regret buying Hourglass Ethereal Light a few weeks back (during Sephora's VIB event) because I think I much prefer the Meteorites. Admittedly, Hourglass's pressed powder is much better for travel or tossing into your bag to touch up before heading from work to dinner, but I find the effect from the Meteorites is more noticeable, while still being subtle (we're not talking tinsel and glitter here!). I do wish that it was possible to purchase "refill balls" because it seems a shame to toss the packaging, which is very easily re-usable. It might be nice if they'd knock 10 or 20 bucks off the price for a more cheaply packaged "refill" of the product.
A more calm update: it's been about 2 weeks and I just love this stuff! It gives the prettiest finish to my face and brightens my whole look. Now I wish I hadn't splashed out on all the Hourglass Ambient Light powders I have because I much prefer Meteorites. I'm surprised, to be honest - I didn't think I would find this to be worth the price or the hype but I am really loving this.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I absolutely love this product. I have it in 02 Clair. It is very expensive, at $60 a pop, but it has 25g of product, while most other compact powders has only 10g. This means the meteorites will last you quite a while. I used to think this product is very gimmicky, but this year I finally made the decision to buy it because it's just so pretty. When you swatch it, it is very plain, kind of like a sheer white powder with a bit of shimmer. But once you put this one over your foundation, it kind of blurs everything away, and adds a hint of glow, which makes you look flawless. I tested this under sunlight as well, it is definitely not disco-ball action. Highly recommended. I have posted a video review, where I also compared it to the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Diffused Light. Feel free to check it out!
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I really debated about putting out the $60 for this. I used Guerlain Terracota for many years and thought it was well worth the hefty price tag. So after reading many (mostly positive) reviews of Les Meteorites, I took the plunge with the 02 Clair. As soon as I got home, I tried it...and I was disappointed. It was late evening, I'd had a long day, and I just couldn't see what difference it made. But when I put it on the next morning, it was everything I wanted it to be!
Let me explain this - I like to look very natural (as in "no makeup makeup"). And Les Meteorites is very, very subtle (at least the 02 Clair is). It gives my face a very soft glow and I don't why or how but it makes me look younger and fresher. The scent is luxurious and lasts for hours. And the packaging is absolutely beautiful. Once you've tried it, you really understand WHY it's so expensive.
While $60 is probably the most I'd ever spend on a single makeup product, I'd happily shell out the $60 over again for Les Meteorites.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
PROS: brightens complexion, matte and glowy look, soft focus finish, emphasizes natural beauty
CONS: may be difficult to notice the effect, cost
APPLICATION: Meteorites is best used as a finishing powder. I apply it with EcoTools's powder brush. I simply swirl the brush over the perles and apply all over the face.
APPEARANCE: When I first used this my skin had a very shimmery look after application- turns out that the perles on top were the white shimmery ones. Thus, make sure you have a good mix of all the perle colors at the top of the tin when applying. When applied properly, your skin should have a matte, yet glowy appearance (due to the shimmery perles...but the shimmer should not be obvious!) Meteorites have a brightening effect as well. The color I own, Teint Rose, favors cooler tones but because it is translucent warm skin tones can pull it off without looking ashy. Overall, the powder seems to blur imperfections on the skin, even making my dark undereye circles appear less harsh. Essentially creates a 'soft-focus' look, radiant and natural.
DIFFICULTY NOTICING EFFECT: It took me awhile to fully notice and realize the Meteorites effect on my face. The product gives such a natural look that it is hard to tell. Thus, if you have trouble seeing the product on your skin, you will have to note how it appears when you have *only* tinted moisturizer or foundation on, or versus a true mattifying powder, to be able to compare and contrast.
PERFORMANCE: I have combination skin, so whether my skin leans oily or dry is dependent on the weather. But my T-zone is the area that usually gets oily. After an 8-hour school or work day my skin is slightly shiny in the T-zone, cheeks, and chin but certainly nowhere near as much as there would be if no powder was applied. To avoid breakthrough shine, apply Meteorites over a setting powder.
SCENT: Scented with Guerlain's signature violet fragrance. I personally adore it, but it may not appeal to everyone. Recommend that you get a whiff before purchasing. However, the fragrance is not detectable once applied to the face.
PACKAGING: I own the version of Meteorites that was discontinued at the end of 2013, which has a different package design than the current version. I couldn't decide whether I wanted the newest formulation or the older one, but I chose the older because I loved the appearance of the packaging so much more. It is made of metal, with a floral design on the lid. Reminded me of vintage cosmetics. There is a sponge that sits on top of the perles to keep them situated in the tin. The lid can dent however, so be careful not to drop anything on it!
LONGEVITY OF PRODUCT: I have used Meteorites on a regular basis for the past several months but it looks as if it was barely touched! After buying Meteorites Voyage in Mythic compact (the pressed powder version of this product) I let my mom have some of the perles, because there is so much product that it will expire before I would be able to finish it! The cost is high (the newest formulation is now $60, with a reduced quantity of 0.88 oz), but it is worth the investment because it will last you for ages!
TIP: There will probably be crushed powder at the bottom of the tin. Every now and then, carefully turn the tin upside down (hold the lid against the tin of course to prevent the perles from tumbling out) and tap the bottom of tin. The crushed powder will reach the top of the tin as a result, leading to less effort when using your powder brush to pick up product.
OTHER COMMENTS: I still prefer Guerlain's Les Voilettes (because a velvety matte finish is my favorite type of finish) but Meteorites (both the perle and the pressed powder versions) are excellent for an everyday, 'my-skin-but-better' look. Perfect way to add a little luxury to your daily routine!
Highly recommended!
UPDATE 12/28/2014: I purchased the holiday 2014 Meteorites, Perles d'Etoiles. I have not noticed any difference between this new formula and previous one. If anything, perhaps it is slightly easier to pick up powder with your brush, that's it!
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
Seems to me that this product is a marketing gimmick. It's beautiful to look at in the packaging, but it didn't make any noticeable difference to my face. This product gave a very slight sparkle to the face that could only be seen up very close. Packaging is such that if you accidentally drop the container you can lose quite a bit of expensive product.
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
You are paying for packiaging here - and that can be cool to display on your makeup table - but the actual product is just OK. Physician's formula offers multi-toned highlighter powders for a fraction of the price.
Meanwhile - every true makeup junkie has succumbed at least once in her life and forked over the cash. (Try ebay for last season's design).
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool
Hair: Red, Straight, Other
Eyes: Brown
So I drank the koolaide and gave in and tried meteorites. And I wasn't a fan. And I think that finishing powders just aren't my thing-probably because I have combo to oily skin. I find that I'm oily enough that I have to use a mattifying powder. So I apply my foundation and use a setting powder. To then put a finishing powder on top doesn't really do anything for me. I'm pretty sure the finishing powder works better just on top of the foundation but I'm too oily to do that.
I had the teint rose shade. So one, the scent is overpowering, but I could have gotten over that. Two, it is lightly reflective/glowy but that is diminished when applied over my mattifying powder and if I apply just this I get oily very quickly. Three, the first ingredient is talc which when used as an all over face powder makes me crazy itchy.
So to me, this is like an average luminous powder that irritates my skin (and my nose), and I'm really not sure if I can see a difference. No thanks.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
I think the biggest selling point of this product is the luxe packaging and the fact that every year the company comes out with a newer, fancier design. Other than that, I cannot put stock into this product because I really do not think that it is as spectacular as everyone says. The first point of contention that I have is that the powder (from my generous sample which I received from Sephora) comes off as primarily green, making it look more like a redness camouflage powder. I should note that I have the shade Clair 2, which has a lot of green and purple balls. Secondly, the highlighting effect is okay, but I do not feel illuminated from within, as this product would have me believe. I also think the perfume scent is too pungent for a makeup product. Overall, this was just an okay highlighter, but I happen to think that ELF gives this product a run for its money with its highlighting compact, which for only three measly dollars really detracts from the allure of these meteorites.
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A former federal correctional officer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Monday to sexually assaulting a female inmate at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu.
Richard Seaman, 47, faces a maximum 15-year prison term at sentencing in April.
He pleaded guilty to one of five counts of sexual abuse of a ward. Seaman said he was working as the commissary supervisor on Dec. 8 last year when he had sex with the inmate.
Federal prosecutor William Shipley said Seaman had sex with the inmate in the commissary or a storage room behind a closed door. The woman saved DNA on her shirt from the encounter and turned the shirt over to investigators. Shipley said the DNA from the shirt matches Seaman's DNA.
In exchange for the guilty plea, the government promised to drop four other charges accusing Seaman of sexually assaulting the same inmate in September, October and November of 2011.
The woman, using the pseudonym Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit last month against Seaman and the government. She claims his supervisors knew that Seaman was previously investigated for sexually assaulting or sexually harassing female inmates yet permitted him to be alone with her on at least three occasions in areas of the detention center not monitored by cameras.

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Cape Town - Traffic officials checking school pupils' transport on Wednesday arrested a drunk driver carrying children to school.
Siphesihle Dube, spokesman for Transport MEC Robin Carlisle, who headed the operation, said: "The concentration of alcohol in his breath was 0.41 percent, the limit being 0.24 percent."
Traffic officials arrested another man for an outstanding warrant, impounded eight vehicles and opened 28 cases involving other offences.
Children who were forced to disembark from unroadworthy and impounded vehicles were given lifts to school by department officials.
The blitz took place on Keizersgracht, near the Holy Cross Primary School in Zonnebloem.
The route is regularly used by taxis in the early morning to take children from their homes on the Cape Flats to schools throughout the CBD.
Yet, the law enforcement line was spread thin when officials had to be diverted away from the main road block after some taxi drivers got wind of the operation and attempted to use alternative routes.
Carlisle said: "The situation with regard to scholar transport has seen some improvement since we began these operations a few years ago, but what we saw today remains unacceptable. Hundreds of young children are still being transported to and from school under very dangerous circumstances on a daily basis across the metro."
It remained a perpetual battle for the department to ensure that children got to school safely, driven by qualified drivers, Carlisle said. It was important for parents to be in a position to vet the credentials of taxis and drivers which transported their children.
The Scholar Transport Operation has been seen a number of successes over the past two years. During 2012 and 2013, a total of 30 drivers were arrested and their vehicles were impounded. There were 1467 cases cited for various offences, ranging from overloading to faulty tyres and unfit vehicles.
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Common Ground
The next "C" of "The Seven Cs of Soul Winning" is common ground. We need to endeavor to find common ground with people. In 1 Corinthians 9:19-24, Paul says,
For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
In this passage, Paul is talking about the way he ran—the method he used—to reach people for Christ. Verse 22 in The Living Bible puts it this way, Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone so that I might bring them to Christ.
Paul didn't run aimlessly. And like Paul, you have to find a point to relate to people so that you can build a bridge over which the gospel can come.
I encourage you today to find a common area of interest, a common ground, to relate to people in order to share Christ with them.
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A man wearing all black clothing and sunglasses walked into United Dairy Farmers store at U.S. 42 and Kemper roads about 5:20 a.m. Friday, police said. He bought a drink and left.
He returned a few minutes later, pointed a silver handgun at the clerk and demanded money. After getting cash from the registers, he insisted on the money in the safe. ...


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Young bird fans can flock together today at the Wilderness Station at Barifled Crescent Park for the first installment of the Audubon Adventures program.
The award-winning Audubon Society-certified program series will offer children ages 8-11 a wide overview of various birds through hands-on learning opportunities.
"They sent us the program because we are a nature center and education center. We also have a bird club and ... have a whole month (of teaching about) birds," said Bird Club leader Niki Jordan, program specialist with Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation. "It's really great." ...


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ASL/Deaf Studies Media Lab and Classroom (Sorenson Language and Communication Center 1103)
The Department of ASL and Deaf Studies is committed to provide undergraduate and graduate students with state-of-the-art equipment for coursework, field research and data analysis in our Multimedia Lab. Our Multimedia Lab offers SmartBoard, LCD projector mounted to the ceiling, TV/DV-Player/VCR, 15 iMacs with built-in iSight (webcams). Software on the iMacs include iPhoto, iMovie, Final Cut Express, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint. The ASL/DST Multimedia Studio also has 8 Canon GL-2 Videocameras, lighting kits, and tripods.
Gallaudet University Archives
Faculty members and students in our program often use the Gallaudet University Archives for research related projects. The Gallaudet University Archives boasts the world's largest collection of historical artifacts, documents and visual materials (including films, slides, and photographs) about deaf people.
Gallaudet University Video Library
The Gallaudet University Video Library has over 200 digitized films and videos online. Videos include series of old films produced by the National Association of the Deaf--the earliest being 1913--a 15-minute narration by Edward Miner Gallaudet titled, "The Lorna Doone Country." Other videos include Deaf Mosaic, videos related to Deaf sports, Deaf culture and history. Access to the Gallaudet Video Library is open to the public as well as faculty and students.
History Through Deaf Eyes
History Through Deaf Eyes - This is a Gallaudet University site on the "History Through Deaf Eyes" exhibition that toured to 12 cities and was seen by approximately 415,000 people. The site includes text and many of the photographs from the exhibition. It also has a Deaf history "Further Reading" list that will be helpful to researchers.
Through Deaf Eyes - This PBS site presents the Through Deaf Eyes documentary film. Significant excerpts from the film's companion book, "Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community" are included, along with biographical information about the filmmakers. The film "shorts" from 6 contributing Deaf filmmakers can be seen in full via the "About the Film" and "The Filmmakers" links.
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Purcell died of natural causes today in Florida. He had lived in Malverne, where he was once the mayor, and he served as Nassau's fifth county executive from 1977 to 1987.
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The Tomorrow Fund presents Battle of the Food Trucks
Presented by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee at Greer Stadium
October 14, 2012
The Tomorrow Fund presents BATTLE OF THE FOOD TRUCKS! Come sample food from a fleet of Nashville's finest food trucks at Nashville's Greer Stadium. Guests bringing five cans of food will receive an extra drink ticket upon entry. All canned food will be donated to Second Harvest of Middle Tennessee.
What fun it will be to cast your vote for the best food truck while helping to support The Tomorrow Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee!?!
Sponsors include: Main Course sponsor is Pilot Flying J, and the Second Course sponsor is Nissan North America. Additional sponsors include: Foothill Entertainment Group, Kroger, Lightning 100, Lipman Brothers, Local Taco, Nashville Scene, NowPlayingNashville.com, Sawtooth Printhouse, Yazoo Brewing Company, and Yelp.
Participating Food Trucks include: Beach Bums Juice Bar, Biscuit Love, The Cupcake Collection, Deg Thai, Hit and Miss, Hoss Loaded Burgers, The Hot Spot, Jonbaylaya, Retro Sno, Riff's, Smoke et al, Sugar Wagon, Waffle Boss, and Wrapper's Delight, with more participants anticipated.
This is a casual outdoor event so please bring your favorite lawn chair.
The Tomorrow Fund is dedicated to harnessing the energy, enthusiasm, and resources of young Nashville residents in an effort to serve the community. The Fund seeks to build community awareness, leadership and responsibility by establishing a pattern of community service and charitable giving.
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Now that Anne and I have become city dwellers, we have quicker access to the many interesting and entertaining programs offered at Ball State. Muncie is fortunate to have the availability of such varied activities so close to all its citizens.
We have had season tickets for football and men's and women's basketball games for many years. These seasons have highs and lows or what's referred to as down years.
The real purpose or this letter is to make you aware of several programs at BSU that do not have down years. The University Theatre is one example. This offspring of a community and college idea (Shoestring Theater) now offers nearly professional entertainment at reasonable prices.
Another outstanding example is the Music Department. Their programs are free or nominally priced and always furnish superb entertainment.
Last month, we joined The Adult Physical Fitness Program at the Fitness Center on campus. We were given a thorough physical examination. We now have a trained staff member who read and evaluated each of our tests and designed a fitness program for each of us . There is cost here; however, having a trained staff on hand and using state of the art equipment is well worth the membership fee.
These are just a few of the many events and opportunities available to all citizens at Ball State. Check out these and others at http://cms.bsu.edu/events and the website for the Adult Fitness Program is www.bsu.edu/adultfitness


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Pumping Midwest Dry
A vast Midwest groundwater reserve that lies beneath eight U.S. states is being drained so rapidly for agriculture and other activities that it could be mostly used up within 50 years, researchers warn. A team from Kansas State University found that a portion of the High Plains Aquifer, called the Ogallala Aquifer, will be nearly 70 percent drained by 2060 if current use and recent climate conditions prevail until then. Once depleted, the aquifer could take between 500 and 1,300 years to completely refill, given current rainfall patterns.
But the researchers say that if reducing water use becomes an immediate priority, it could still be possible to use the aquifer's resources and increase net agricultural production through the year 2110.
Sandy Shortfall
The Sunshine State's 633 miles of tourist-attracting beaches are beginning to suffer from a shortage of sand unlike anything ever seen before. For decades, constant erosion by tides, hurricanes and other forces has been replaced with offshore sand sucked up from the nearby ocean floor.
But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warns that even that source is running out in some spots. Miami-Dade County will use up its offshore resources by next February. And since the "Sun and Fun Capital of the World's" beaches are key to its tourist-driven economy, officials are considering trucking in sand from mines in central Florida. Neighboring Broward County is considering the use of crushed glass as a source of fake sand. But some worry it won't have the same sparkle or allure as the fine silica created by Mother Nature. Other states have used recycled glass, but mainly to cover small areas like sand traps on golf courses.
Howling Respect
Wolves howl because they care about pack mates who are away, Austrian scientists have discovered. When individual captive wolves were removed from their pack for long daily walks, researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna found that those left behind would individually call out more when they had a stronger relationship with the missing pack mate. This was especially true if the absent wolf had a higher social ranking.
The howling rate was found to be directly related to how much "quality time" the howler and the missing wolf had spent together. Since the amount of howling was found to not be related to the level of the stress hormone cortisol, researchers concluded that the vocalizations are used to "maintain contact and perhaps to aid in reuniting with allies."
Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Storm Fernand triggered landslides and flooding in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz that killed at least 13 people. Southern Baja California received heavy rain and strong winds from tropical storms Ivo and Juliette, which passed only a few days apart. Tropical Storm Kong-Rey drenched already-soaked parts of Taiwan and southern Japan.
The English seaside city of Blackpool was jolted by a rare quake, centered just offshore beneath the Irish Sea. The 3.3 magnitude tremor was felt as far away as Dublin and northern Wales. Earth movements were also felt in northeastern New York, northern Nevada, northern India and along China¹s Sichuan-Yunnan border.
Atacama Flurry
An area known as one of the driest places on Earth received a rare snowfall and flood-producing rains, which were reportedly the heaviest in three decades. Some parts of Chile's Atacama Desert have never recorded any rainfall, while the region's average annual precipitation is only about 0.6 inches. The desert is parched because nearly all the moisture blowing in from the Pacific is blocked by the Andes mountain range to the west.
The cold waters of the Humboldt Current offshore also produce a generally arid zone. But a bitterly cold Antarctic blast that chilled much of southern South America during late August also brought in enough moisture from the south to trigger the snow and brief downpours in the Atacama.
Roach Escape
At least 1.5 million cockroaches escaped a breeding facility in eastern China's Jiangsu province, infesting nearby farmland and homes. The province's board of health investigators are at a loss on how to rid the region of the pests.
Wang Pengsheng began raising the insects so their extracts could be sold as a traditional Chinese medicine treatment for cancer and inflammation, and to allegedly improve immunity. He had been raising the roaches on a diet of fruits and biscuits when something destroyed the plastic greenhouses he was using for the enterprise.
The Nanjing-based Modern Express reports that local villagers were worried that the escaped hexapods would damage their crops and bring diseases. Local authorities were working to calm those fears.


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Get organized with the 2015 Daily Planner! It may be too big to carry in a handbag, but it is big enough to add all your family, work and home details.
So, the first thing I do is to choose the best daily planner pages for my planner. (Free printables available at the bottom of the page)
In the Complete Household Planner - I have a page for each day of the year - Monday to Sunday in each month of the year with a small calendar box in the corner; Each page has space for daily notes with a checklist, a To Do List and a place for Notes;
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Add your own cover page.
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Bind your Daily Planner either with a spiral binding machine or hole punch the pages and add it to a 3 ring binder. A spiral bound planner is a neat and tidy book; The 3 ring binder option allows you to add and remove pages more easily. It also allows you to add tab dividers.
Adding a clear A4 cover is recommended when binding. It adds class and durability.
The right planner fitting your personal needs can help you organize your day. See more useful pages below or take a look at The Complete Household Planner to suit all your home organization needs for the entire family!
These 2015 free printable daily planner pages would fit between each of your monthly calendar dividers and you would print up 30-31 of each month.
Use this free printable daily planner address page to add all the details you need.
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What's the use of small tatty pieces of paper on which you scribble your great plans when most likely you will loose and misplace? Why not add a useful List of all your "To-Do's" into your Daily Planner.
I like to add To Do lists in between my monthly planning sheets.
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Perhaps there is a birthday in March and I want to plan a party or a special event, then I would add it as a Top Priority in February. I would also add information into my Birthday Party or Gifts Ideas Page. The complete set of Home Management and Family Pages are available in The Complete Household Notebook.
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[UPDATED] James Edward Norkin Is NOT John Belushi, According to Authorities Holding the Sex Offender
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Get this: At the time of the offense, the genius was wearing a GPS tracking device. The device and 50-year-old James Edward Norkin's parole officer easily linked him to the crime.
So Norkin really had no choice but to plead guilty to three felony counts of lewd acts on a child with sentencing allegations and enhancements for being convicted and sent to prison, to not remain free for a period of five years on each of the three separate convictions, and for being a stranger to his teen victim.
|Courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's Department
|The sheriff's department released this video screen grab of man suspected of touching girl on a bus.
We stand unconvinced. Not only would one imagine Belushi wearing a golf cap like that were he still alive, but also dude looks like he's about to shout, "FOOD FIGHT!"
No, no, swears the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD), that is James Edward Norkin, who has been convicted of sex crimes and was required to register as a sex offender.
He'd been picked up for violating his parole Wednesday and was already back snug as a bug in a rug in his cell at Chino State Prison when the OCSD simultaneously released the photo at left and video from an Orange County Transportation Authority bus.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, three girls described as being age 15 and younger boarded the Laguna Hills-bound bus from 375 Broadway in Laguna Beach and took a seat in the back row. The man shown in the video--wearing beige slacks, a white button-up shirt and a golf cap-boarded the bus and sat down next to the girls.
He touched one girl in a sexual way, but she was too scared to let out a peep. One of her friends saw what was going on and told the man to stop. He never said a word to the girls, and then got off the bus at the Laguna Hills Mall stop and walked toward the shopping center.
After the OCSD released the video and photo and they were splashed across television screens, a flood of tips came into the department. But the winner came from Norkin's parole officer, who caught the video on the news.
Norkin, who'd been busted multiple times for indecent exposure and failure to register as a sex offender, now faces new charges of child molestation.!--googleoff:>
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The conference room at Snoqualmie's Public Works building meeting room was packed to overflowing Monday as skateboard enthusiasts and dog lovers each converged on the city's Parks Board seeking facilities to allow them to indulge their particular forms of recreation.
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A 20-year-old man drowned Saturday afternoon in the Snoqualmie River near North Bend. Read more
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Surrounded by an audience of concerned community members, two Mount Si High School students did their best to answer a tough question: Why are Valley youth more susceptible to substance abuse than the average state student? Read more
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I shoot this barrel with all types and weights of ammo from 36 grain subsonic to 60 grain SSS. all runs good and the lighter rounds do not seem to be over stabilized at all. i however have not tried any of the fast hyper velocity types.. i normally do not shoot groups or targets but more informal plinking, accuracy is more than acceptable for what i do. This barrel is installed in a CH22 and is normally fired with a QUEST can attached
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The crown looks like someone did it with a dremel and the shorter length causes even slower flight from the bullet this barrel specializes in. If you guys made this in a 20" barrel that would be great. Even stock length would be good. I feel that the "tacti-cool" looks don't outweigh the cons of having a shorter barrel.
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The 16" barrel is a better looking profile than the longer stock barrels. I've shot a few different types of ammo through this including the Aquila SSS. The nice thing is that it does stabilize the bullet and I have yet to get a baffle strike. The SSS hits with authority when suppressed, so it's a very fun round to shoot. The down side is that I'm getting about 3" groups @ 50 yards benched, so I'm not overly impressed on the accuracy. I'd rate the barrel high on the fun scale (it is a .22 after all), but nothing that I'm going to be winning any matches with. If you buy one, make sure you pick up a urathene buffer as well to get rid of the bolt clank.
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Date: 12/03/2012
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Just a year ago, then-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed E. Hundt declared that AT&T's (T) rumored plan to buy a Baby Bell--SBC Communications Inc. (SBC).--was ''unthinkable.'' After all, Hundt railed, the 1996 Telecommunications Act was supposed to encourage long-distance carriers to compete with the Bells--not merge with them. The deal never jelled.
Now, the FCC's reaction to AT&T's proposed hookup with cable giant Tele-Communications Inc (TCOMA). is a lot friendlier-- one might say almost jubilant. ''This could be the breakthrough merger,'' says Hundt's successor, William E. Kennard. He calls the deal ''eminently thinkable.'' Hundt, now a telecom consultant at Charles Ross Partners, was ecstatic: ''Thank God Almighty, there could be competition at last.''
After all the false starts of telecom deregulation and years of unsuccessfully pounding the Baby Bells to share their lines with new rivals, AT&T and TCI have come up with the first deal that carries out the law's intent of bringing competition to local phone markets. For Kennard and his team--who have come under criticism as the wait for competition appeared to be endless--it was a moment to breathe a sigh of relief. They should savor it: From now on, they're going to be busy.
Why? The moment the AT&T-TCI deal was announced, the Bells leaped into action. Let's be frank: There is no deal less attractive from the Bells' perspective than AT&T-TCI. After all, AT&T had almost given up trying to penetrate the local market because of the Bells' vigilant guard-dogging.
BOLD BELLS. Now, the regional phone providers hope to use this merger and its promise of bringing competition to the local market to knock down barriers to the Bells' entry into long distance. The biggest of course: the Telecom Act, which requires the local market to be opened up before the Bells can enter long distance.
Given this deal, the Bells now expect to get theirs. ''I don't see how they can continue to approve deals with long-distance guys and still keep us out of the long-distance market,'' says Robert T. Blau, BellSouth Corp.'s vice-president for regulatory affairs. BellSouth won't oppose the deal but does plan filings with the FCC and Justice asking that the deal not be approved until all barriers to long distance are removed for the Bells.
First in line, no doubt, will be Bell Atlantic, which is waiting for approval from New York State regulators to offer long-distance in that lucrative market. If it gets the O.K., as expected, other Bells will follow in a new round of petitions to state regulators.
The boldest Bell--SBC--is likely to feel emboldened, too. The Texas-based Baby Bell has fought the hardest against the 1996 rules on its ravenous acquisition binge. Currently, SBC has pending deals to buy Ameritech Corp. (AIT) and Southern New England Telephone Co. (SNG) Neither consolidation is exactly what lawmakers envisioned when they cobbled the telecom act together, but both may be hard to stop now that the telecom landscape seems to be changing so dramatically. ''This verifies our vision of the future: Global telecom companies will compete for customers by offering local, long-distance, cellular, cable-TV, data, Internet, security, and related communications services,'' says Barry K. Allen, Ameritech's executive vice-president for regulatory and wholesale operations.
Do the Bells have a strong case? Well, they certainly have a point about AT&T-TCI. If it works, it will be a new model for local competition--a vertically integrated giant offering one-stop shopping for everything from local and long-distance service to cable and Net access.
But Kennard is not entirely convinced. He wants to make sure AT&T will prove its cable connection works first. So, for now, the FCC is likely to hold to the terms of the 1996 bill--and continue to demand proof of competition before allowing them into long distance. There's still good reason for that: Despite the latest deal, local phone companies remain virtual monopolies. But the FCC should also recognize that the technology that makes possible the AT&T-TCI deal they applaud also changes the conditions for other players. And sooner or later, that means that local phone companies will be entering the digital free-for-all. Regulators should be there to make sure they do so in pro-competitive ways.
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Egypt's Morsi flees palace as protesters battle copshttp://nbcnews.to/VkaGnA
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Egypt's Morsi flees palace as protesters battle copshttp://nbcnews.to/VkaGnA
Steve Cooper
So, the Revolution in Egypt that Leftists embraced has formed a 'Dictatorship'. Are you paying attention Democrats?
Mohammed Morsi:
"There are weevils eating away at the nation of Egypt," he said, pointing to old regime loyalists he accused of using money to fuel instability and to members of the judiciary who work under the "umbrella" of the courts to "harm the country."
Are these 'weevils' that Morsi speaks of really 'revolutionaries' that work for him to create a 'crisis' as an excuse to expand his powers? A 'manufactured' crisis and chaos is a great way to roll into a dictatorship. There are no such things as coincidences when you are dealing with 'revolutionaries'.
Islam is really a political system that uses Sharia Law like Communism to oppress Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Hindu's and Jews around the world.
Conservatives are worried that Obama is conspiring to incite revolution in the USA by exploding the debt and dividing the people by class and race. This is the path to an American Dictatorship. You Obama voters wanted 'change'? Well take a good look at what is happening in Egypt right now, because that could be the future that your child is facing.
I still stand by my theory that the shooting sprees within the USA over the summer of 2012 were perpetrated by Marxists. The goal was to spark 'pre-election', copy cat shooting sprees that would eventually create civil unrest and revolution. Notice that college students are mainly the perpetrators of mass shooting sprees? There is a reason for that…indoctrination to be Marxist revolutionaries.
I am the only blogger that has constantly said "THE LEFT were mad at Obama, because they wanted him to declare a dictatorship" as fast as Morsi formed his. This was the change that Leftists voted for in 2008.
Many of the Muslim terrorists plotting against the USA are well educated doctors and scientists. Liberal Academia has indoctrinated Muslims to be anti-Capitalist, Marxist revolutionaries on top of their radical Islamic beliefs. Their sole purpose is to attack the West, Israel and bring down Capitalism.
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The more they hate us; THE MORE WE GIVE. Muslims attack our Embassies and then we send them money to buy their friendship? Why don't the wealthy Arab Sheiks give financial aid to the terrorists? I mean, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Terrorism is being used to extort money from the USA. The answer is right in front of your noses, but the so called 'experts' on cable news lack the guts to say it.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist Muslim organization, but what else would you expect from Obama? Obama is an extremist as well. The current leader of Al Qaeda was Muslim Brotherhood, but the media seems to skip that information.
Go to the nytimes.com for more
Video of Ayman Zawahiri in jail after the Sadat assassination
Steve Cooper
It is very interesting that Ayman Zawahiri was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood that assassinated Sadat and now he is the leader of Al Qaeda. Sadat turned his back on the Soviet Union by talking peace with the USA and Israel; costing him his life.
The Soviets had strong influence over Islamic terrorist organizations such as Islamic Jihad and the PLO, but these organizations are always changing their names for the purposes of deception. Today, the Russians just use the Iranian state as the proxy for their terror so their fingerprints are not left on anything.
The Obama Administration supports the Muslim Brotherhood knowing that they have ties to Al Qaeda, but nobody dares to mention the link.
Wikipedia.org – Ayman al-Zawahir
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By Evan Brunell
Given the depth of the Giants' outfielders, Nate Schierholtz's job was in danger in spring training. The five-year veteran was able to hold onto a spot, though, and the defensive specialist quickly became relevant when injuries and poor play struck.
With Schierholtz's 3-for-6 night in the books Wednesday, it raised his overall season line to .274/.319/.453, which is above-average production for an outfielder and further evidence that his .676 OPS in 227 plate appearances last season was an aberration. As Aubrey Huff put it to the San Jose Mercury News, Schierholtz is blossoming into a major-leaguer.
The knock against Schierholtz has always been his production against right-handers, as his career .693 OPS against righties can attest to. He's always hit lefties in the minors and over his career in the majors (strange, given he's a left-hander), but he has never really received a chance to stick in the starting lineup against left-handers. And he hasn't done himself any favors by collecting just three hits against lefties in 17 plate appearances.
However, his offensive production against righties is making it hard to keep him out of the lineup on a full-time basis, and Pat Burrell's skid into irrelevancy has opened a door -- manager Bruce Bochy says Schierholtz will begin to receive more playing time. The Giants have hit a bit of a skid. They're a half-game behind the Diamondbacks entering Thursday, and they have to deal with losing Buster Posey for the season, so S.F. has to find a way to upgrade the lineup where it can. That upgrade could be Schierholtz.
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The Hottest Oscar Nominees
This year the 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be overflowing with major stars.
An outstanding year in cinema will be represented by ten Best Picture nominees and five of the hottest actors ever to step foot in front of one of Hollywood's cameras.
Get to know the nominees.
Fighting it out for best picture are Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, gay family friendly The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, and Winter's Bone.
But all eyes will be glued to the screen when these five gorgeous hunks go up against each other for the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hourse


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The Art of the Document
Multimedia Festival
November 26 - December 5, 2010
Warsaw / Poland
Grand Prix
Director: Violeta Ayala & Dan Fallshaw
Producer: Tom Zubricki
Production company: United Notions Film
Australia, 2007, 77'
Two Australian filmmakers, Ayala and Fallshaw, follow Fetim Sellami who lives in the refugee camp Sahrawi in the area of Western Sahara controlled by Morocco. They want to make a film about the UN programme to reunite separated families. However, they discover something they did not expect - slavery. The filmmakers decide to change their plans and to explore the problem.
1st Award of the Future of Media
Themerson & Themerson
Themerson & Themerson , France, Poland, United Kingdom, 2010, 72 min, 16 mm, Digi Beta, Arts and Culture, Creative, Portrait
The film is retracing the love story of an unusual and unique creative union. It is a well-hidden treasure in the culture and art of the 20th century. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost sixty years, first in Poland, then in France and eventually they settled in England. The only time when they were separated was the outbreak of WW2 but even then they remained connected. 52' version also available.
East European Forum 2008 / East Silver 2010 / East Silver Caravan / East Silver TV Focus
2nd Award of the Future of Media
Director: Małgorzata Łupina
Producer: Małgorzata Łupina
Production company: Studiom
Poland, 2010, 27'
A documentary story about a woman who earns a living by participating in staged wrestling shows. Using the fights, Carmen Rojas creates her own space of freedom and independence from the domination of men and the traditional Indian community. The extremely violent pictures of the fights are accompanied by numerous accounts of the main character. The picture takes place in the Bolivian slums, where wrestling is one of few forms of entertainment.
Special Mentions
The Baluty Ghetto
Ghetto jménem Baluty , Czech Republic, Poland, 2008, 87 min, Digi Beta, DV, DVD, Creative, History, IDF Video Library, Politics, Social Issues
I discovered the Baluty district three years ago, almost by chance. It looks much like in surviving wartime photographs. Today, the devastated houses are inhabited by a highly unusual social group which differs distinctly from the remaining population of Lodz... as if the borders of the ghetto still existed. Our film illustrates human misery and the horror of a landscape touched by horror through the survivors' wartime stories.
East European Forum 2007 / East Silver 2008
Aljoša , Estonia, 2008, 67 min, DV, Politics, Society
Monuments serve the purpose to establish memory and create identity. Most monuments erected during the Soviet regime were taken away after Estonia regained its independence in 1991. The Bronze Soldier Alyosha, located in the center of Tallinn, remained in its place. For Estonian nationalists this monument was the symbol for Soviet occupation and marked the beginning of Stalinist repressions. However, for many Russians the monument was one of the few remaning symbols that connected them to Russia and Russian identity. Alyosha brings us the people who gathered to the Bronze Soldier in 2005-2007 and whose behaviour created a new line in our cultural memory. What mattered were the rituals around the monument, not the monument itself.
East Silver 2008
Director: Ton van Zantvoort
Producer: Ton van Zantvoort
Production company: NEWTON film
Netherlands, 2009, 52'
A strong and courageous film about the culture of roses exported all over Europe. Our roses are grown through the slavery work of Kenyans. But that is not all. The wildlife and natural resources of Africa are also being destroyed. Exposing himself and the film crew to trouble, and risking the jobs of the main characters, the director relentlessly drills the subject, revealing increasingly horrifying information.
A Blooming Business also won the Audience Award.
For more details, please visit the festival website.


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For London <-|-> From Hell
November 12th, 2015
The following post was written as a response to The London Graphic Novel Network's discussion of From Hell.
Here's Graphic Novel Network/Kraken bod Joel's final flourish, just so you have some idea what I'm arguing against:
when I read [Moore's] stuff I get the feeling is that nothing has been lead to chance and everything is designed for very definite and exact reasons you know? If other comics are a little jelly and playful and "make your own mind up!" – Alan Moore in a labyrinth of cold hard steel: arranged in such a way that the only possible stance you'll allowed is that of a mouse – desperately trying to find its way to the piece of cheese at the end.
And here's my response:
Joel, the way you describe Alan Moore's work there makes it sound hugely unappealing. I don't think your account of how his art works is fundamentally untrue, mind, but it makes his work sound awful, tyrannical even – "Imagine being held in the iron grip of The World's Mightiest Beard… FOREVER!"
And yet… the sense of total control is undeniably part of Moore's appeal, always has been. It's there in the famous grids of repeating imagery in Watchmen, in From Hell's attempts to draw together an occult history of murder, in Promethea's attempt to overlay scientific theories on Judeo-Christian creation myths. It's even in the carefully synthesised pulp that fuels relatively Thrill Powered works like V for Vendetta and Halo Jones and (why not?!) Crossed 100.
It's also the aspect that can curdle his attempts at humour, the thing that sometimes makes his self-consciously light and playful comics feel like anything but, the… oh shit, is this why he always crams those bloody songs into his comics? Is it the final test of his mastery, the compunction to try and make you hear music in a comic? Will he manage it one day?
Maybe. Or maybe he just read too much Pynchon and smoked a little too much Tolkien before going to bed last night.
"Modern life is rubbish, here's an 8,000 page novel about my garden."
Brett Ewins RIP
February 19th, 2015
With the very sad recent news that Brett Ewins passed away at the too-young age of 59, gone to join Thrax, Mad Tommy and the rest of Bad.Co, the Mindless Ones would like to honour the man through his art.
I Am Not a Comics Critic #1: Shanzhai
February 16th, 2015
SARAH HORROCKS – BRUISE (self-published, 2014)
From the cool blue risotone colour to the grey static hiss of the prose, Bruise is heavy on the cyberpunk stylings:
The comic itself follows up on that initial promise, coming on almost like a young William Gibson who's got too lost in the poetry of his own thoughts to ever force them to fit a form as traditionally satisfying as a "novel". Actually, scrap that "almost" and focus on the real novelty here, achieved through jagged collage of familiar tropes. Include the squinting cool of the front cover and the miraculous map of the back (as you must) in the run time and you've got one hell of a joyride here:
PaxMan: An Experiment in Assisted Re-Viewing
December 10th, 2014
Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison and Nathan Fairbairn – Multiversity: Pax Americana #1
It's here that our story begins: in pieces. Many, many authors have shot at this target and missed, preferring not to recognize that in truth this is what we really know, and what we really believe, about the forces that create and shape our lives — preferring not to see that what science and philosophy describe is the branch from which our lives' dramas depend, and not just convenient intellectual set-dressing for them.
We should remember that murder mysteries are always just local expressions, of a grander philosophical struggle — someone is killing capes, and who's next? Well, after the scientists the answer is, we are: as the stunning profusion of interlinked symbols that fills Pax Americana's pages ceaselessly intimates to us the unavoidability of that final, bitter realization of entropy. War, and death, and chaos…
…Or, what is perhaps worse: not chaos, at all, but order.
An implacable order, that we can't resist. A pattern we're trapped in, that we can't see.
Crawling From the Wreckage: Spandex, Guts Power and Raygun Roads
December 4th, 2014
There comes a point in every Mindless gathering where the correct amount of alcohol has finally been consumed for the conversation to turn to Final Crisis, with a special focus on the hastily squandered horror of the fifth issue. Thankfully, we've started to bring friends along to help identify the reason for this boozy recurrence:
Yes, that's right – the crushing banality of the morning aftermath is rank rotten enough to haunt its own bacchanalian origins, and when it does so it wears Darkseid's face. Honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way.
The spirit of this wretched, queasy moment inevitably seeps into the comics I buy at Thought Bubble when I try to read them on the train home. This petty, remorse-tinged meanness tried to curdle my appreciation of the Decadence comics I brought home with me last year, but it struggled to find shelter in their sparsely populated mindscapes. The darkness found a more suitable hiding place in Spandex, Martin Eden's LGBT-friendly, Brighton based superhero strip.
Like his previous serial adventure The O-Men, Spandex mixes everyday drama and garish unreality with ease. Brother Bobsy mentioned Paul Grist as an obvious reference point when he discussed the collected Spandex on SILENCE! and there's definitely something to that: like Jack Staff or Mud Man, Spandex is humorous without ever seeming parodic, and it manages to generate a sense of low-budget romance from its seaside drama. The debt to the X-Men is also undeniable, both in Eden's commitment to chronicling the adventures of a group of emotionally combustible super-friends, and in his clean, brightly coloured artwork:
I've done a pretty decent job of burying my teenage X-Men fandom underneath piles of Eddie Campbell comics…
CINDY & BISCUIT Vol 1 – ON SALE NOW
November 25th, 2014
NEW IN STORE at MILK THE CAT!
CINDY & BISCUIT vol 1: WE LOVE TROUBLE
Collects CINDY & BISCUIT issues 1-4, and features 2 new stories 'Long Hot Summer' and 'Dinner For Three', plus the never re-printed full colour strip 'What We Did At The Weekend'.
184 pages, 16 full colour. Full colour cover, squarebound. First printing limited to 100 copies.
"Heartwarming. Like a flamethrower" according to Kieron Gillen
"I think I may be slightly in love with Cindy & Biscuit" said Si Spurrier
"Cindy & Biscuit is great stuff" is the opinion of Brandon Graham
So what are you waiting for? Get buying!
Click HERE to buy a copy.
NO BLUEBEARD: Reading Comics in Public, Grauniad Style!
May 30th, 2014
Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell – 'Thursdays, Six to Eight p.m.'
Back at the end of April the Guardian ran an experiment to see what would happen if real writers were involved with comics, and the results were pretty much what you'd expect, ranging as they did from the mediocre (Dave "David" Eggers' ponderous buffalo comic) to the merely gorgeous (Frazer Irving's whatever the hell it was that Frazer Irving drew) by way of the profoundly functional (Dave Gibbons and Gillian Flynn's clockwork deconstruction of vigilantism).
As a showcase for a variety of semi-respectable comics art styles it was a success, but as a pop culture moment it lacked a sense of novelty or excitement.
The exception was Thursdays, Six to Eight pm, a modern romance comic with a faint hint of the gothic to it. A man and woman are in love and they get married, but she can't stop worrying about why he wants two hours to himself every Thursday night. For his part, he keeps quiet about the details, so Ellen does what we all do unless we're sinister enough to work for the NSA already: she calls in some spies.
The result of a long-distance collaboration between Audrey Niffinegger (The Time Traveller's Wife) and Eddie Campbell (all the best comics), this strip stood out from the others by virtue of the fact that both of the involved parties contributed to the art. Well, according to the contents page Dave "Dave" Eggers was "collaborating with himself" but this does no damage to my argument: the lines on Eggers' pages were the work of only one artist, while the Campbell/Niffenegger strip bears the mark of two "primary" artists.
According to Niffeneger's write-up, she drew the Charles – the guy doing the proposal in the above panel – and the two spies his wife hires to investigate him, while Campbell drew Ellen, the suspicious wife and protagonist on the right hand side of the same frame.
Even though Campbell apparently modified Niffenegger's line work to make it look of a piece with his own, my eyes mostly confirms that these characters are not made out of the same materials. This plays into a classic romantic conceit, suggesting as it does that while these two characters may share their lives with each other they'll always be fundamentally distant. Charles' thin, defiantly two-dimensional features provide an impermeable barrier between the contents of his mind and the blown out, fuzzy world he lives in with Ellen – being an Eddie Campbell character, she is made out of the same fuzz and clutter as everything else.
The fact that Campbell was also responsible for the lettering and page layouts will be immediately obvious to anyone who is familiar with his autobiographical comics.
This comment from Niffenegger struck me so forcefully that it left me with a mental scar I'd now swear I was born with:
Eddie always begins with the lettering, so there was an early stage of panels and lettering but no images, which I found intriguing. He letters by hand, and already the pages looked like a true Eddie Campbell comic.
More than any other comics artist I can think of, Campbell makes a casual mockery of the idea that the manner in which comics combine words and pictures needs to be policed to maintain the purity of the form. While works such as Bacchus and From Hell shows that Campbell is perfectly comfortable telling a story visually, in a comic like Alec - how to be an artist the continuity of the narrative can be found in the prose, with the visuals reacting to and reiterating the words in exactly the way we're told they shouldn't.
More modern comics magic after the cut.
Cerebus Ten Years On
March 31st, 2014
"What do you think he'll do now, then?"
"Kill himself, I suppose".
Those were the words I heard, between the man behind the counter who was ignoring me, and the customer leaning on that counter, when I went to Forbidden Planet ten years ago to purchase my first Cerebus trade, High Society, after reading good things about it in Neil Gaiman's Adventures In The Dream Trade and… strange things about it on Andrew Rilstone's website. I didn't realise at the time, but they were talking about Dave Sim, the writer, artist, letterer, and publisher of the comic I was buying, who had just released the 300th and final issue of Cerebus, cover-dated March 2004.
That is the kind of coincidence upon which Sim, who is thankfully still alive and well, would build a whole cosmology. He's not a man who believes in coincidence. It may, in fact, be the only thing in which he doesn't believe.
There are only two opinions anyone holds about Sim's magnum opus. Either they think it's one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time, or they haven't read it.
This is literally true. But it's not as uncritical an endorsement as it may sound. Put simply, Cerebus is a work that does everything it can to put readers off, so the only people who've managed to get to the end of the story (which takes place over the whole three hundred issues) are those who are predisposed to like it.
There are many reasons for this. One is the sheer daunting size of the thing. It's six thousand pages of comics, all telling a single story. That's a *massive* work. That's Kirby and Lee's Fantastic Four, plus Sandman, plus Watchmen, plus Moore's run on Swamp Thing, plus From Hell, plus all the Alec comics. It's the length of every Judge Dredd strip in 2000AD up to about 1997. And it's all the work of two men — Dave Sim doing pencils, inks, writing, lettering and publishing, with, for the last 225 issues, background artist Gerhard (who draws possibly the most exquisitely detailed photorealistic line art in comics history).
On the other hand, it's less than six months' current output of DC superhero titles. So, you know, it's not that much more of a commitment than many comics fans are willing to make.
The second and third problems are really the same problem. It's a man's entire life's work (Sim has since done 26 issues of Glamourpuss, a short work of graphic non-fiction called Judenhaas, a couple of jam strips and some covers for IDW, but Cerebus is what he devoted his life to), but it's one story. Reading it is rather like being told one has to listen to all the Beatles' records in order, from the very first recording of John singing Puttin' On The Style at a village fete in 1957, through all the stuff on the Anthologies as well as the released records, through to Paul, George and Ringo recording I Me Mine in 1970. Fascinating, no doubt, but one would quickly want to just skip to Revolver and leave the recordings made in Paul's room for another day.
The first few issues of Cerebus are painfully amateurish — they look like the kind of stuff that kid in your class at school who was quite good at drawing and really liked Dungeons & Dragons would draw, because that is to all intents and purposes what Sim was at that stage. But they're part of the story and you're meant to have paid attention, because Sim is going to expect you to *remember* in issue 151 that in issue 4 Cerebus picked up a gem but later dropped it into a sewer. So there's a tendency to just bounce off before you get to the good stuff.
Then there's the fact that no two Cerebus storylines are anything alike. It contains parodies of Spawn and Preacher, a potted biography of the Three Stooges, potshots against The Comics Journal, fantasy sequences with Woody Allen appearing in Bergman films, and a close, line by line, reading of the first five books of the King James Version of the Bible. And that's all just in one of the sixteen books. If you like one aspect of Cerebus that's no guarantee you'll like the rest.
The way I recommend people approach Cerebus is one I got from Andrew Rilstone — start at the beginning, and keep reading until you hit two volumes in a row you don't like. Once you hit two you dislike, you'll probably not like any more. But if you just hit one, the next one might be different.
If you don't like the love-triangle domestic drama you might like the non-fiction account of the last days of Oscar Wilde's life. If you don't like the barbarian story with a funny animal protagonist you might like the Marx Brothers pastiche political satire. If you don't like the blokey comedy set in a bar where 60s pop icons mix with 90s indie comic characters, you might like the three-hander about the schizophrenic having religious visions. If you don't like the vicious parody of Sandman you might like the long diatribe about how women are evil leech-like creatures who exist only to sap all the creativity from men and leave them hollow husks…
Here we get to the third, and biggest, obstacle to people wanting to read Cerebus. Sim himself.
The usual one-word summary of Sim is "misogynist", but that's not strictly true. He *was* a misogynist, for a while, in the early 90s, but his views are now far, far stranger than that. Put simply, he believes that all women, all LGBT people, anyone who holds any post-Enlightenment views whatsoever, people like Wahabist Muslims who hold the wrong *pre*-Enlightenment views, his parents, his sister, the Canadian government and press, the comic industry, atheists, liberals, socialists, and all major Christian denominations, are all, mostly consciously, working for an evil trans* demiurge called YooHWHoo, who lives in the centre of the earth and who caused the 2004 tsunami because she was angry that Sim had revealed the truth about this in his comic.
He also believes that he, and he alone, can see the true message in the Bible and Koran, from which he has created his own syncretic religion, and that women were psychically spying on him when he masturbated.
He is, in short, quite obviously mentally ill, and while that illness initially seemed to fixate on women, it has widened to encompass everyone in the world who isn't named David Victor Sim.
(Oddly, Sim seems quite friendly with all these groups of people who he thinks are working for the most evil being in the universe. He's said that other people's immortal souls are their own business, and is quite happy to consort with the evil creativity-sucking infidels).
And this can definitely put people off from reading Cerebus — understandably so. Had I known about Sim's views before starting to read it, I probably wouldn't have bothered. But I did, and ten years later it's still one of those works that make up a large chunk of my mental architecture, whether in little ways like additions to my stock of phrases ("your other left, most holy", "you can get what you want and still not be happy", "Capostrophe! Calumnity! Catachresisclysm!", ""One less mouth to feed is one less mouth to feed", "Mind your manners, son! I've got a tall pointy hat! Status, boy! You can argue with me, but you can't argue with status!") or in larger ways (I can honestly say that reading Jaka's Story did more to make me something approaching an emotionally mature adult than any single other experience I've ever had).
So over the next few months, I'm going to look at each volume in turn, and try to persuade you of the opinion I hold, the one that everyone who's read the whole of Cerebus holds. On the way, we'll take a lot of digressions — we'll talk about comic creators' rights, the black and white boom of the 80s, 1930s comedians, an unfinished Beach Boys album, Warner Brothers cartoons, Philip K Dick and more.
Or at least, that's the plan. No plan survives contact with the enemy. After all, when Dave Sim got the plan for the 300-issue Cerebus story, he was a self-described atheist feminist. But then, as Suenteus Po said, "The more worthwhile the Road, the more seductive will be those paths divergent from it."
Fresh off the Loo, Here's Some Comics Reviews!
March 5th, 2014
Harvey Pekar's and Joseph Remnant – Cleveland
It's hard to think of this as anything other than epitaph, given its status as a posthumous release, but the question remains, is this a memorial for the man or the city he lived in? Neither, as it happens - Harvey Pekar's Cleveland is a book full of and about life, with both the city and its people being given ample space to breath on every page.
Pekar's Cleveland has traditionally been an overbearingly crowded place, with even the most casual walks around town populated with an abundance of word balloons, thought bubbles and interjecting faces that threatened to black out the sky. That abundance of words and opinions is still present in this book, but even when the text is at its densest it's always carefully contained at the top of the panel, leaving the environments depicted underneath gloriously un-squashed.
The city and denizens of Harvey Pekar's Cleveland are every bit as rich with opinion and story here as they ever were, but I can imagine some people finding the first half of the book a little bit plain, filled as it is with broad historical overview rather than the crooked, close quarters detail at which Pekar has always excelled. Pekar's generosity and his sense of interest manifest themselves differently in the first stretch of this narrative, where they are implicit in the amount of space city and artist are given to establish themselves in concert with each other.
Remnant – his name far too apt for the job - renders Cleveland with an adherence to architectural detail that echoes the work of Eddie Campbell and his assistants in From Hell:
Here, as in that great book, buildings have a life of their own on the page – part of the environment Pekar and co exist in, but rendered with a solidity that rises above mere background detail:
Let us think of these places as being real; perhaps they are! Remnant's background players have a similarly suggestive definition to them. Sometimes they add a lot to a simple scene – take the bit players in these panels for example:
The guy in the front of the first panel looks like he wants to cudgel himself to death rather than keep on contributing to Cleveland's economic well-being, while the guy behind the ballot box in the second frame doesn't look best pleased to feature in this particular historic moment.
Pekar's history of Cleveland takes up the first forty or so pages, and while it draws a generally progresses in a straight line it does jump back and forth a bit on its way to the present. This detailed tour through the city would be enough to make Cleveland a quiet pleasure, but things gets a lot louder when Pekar arrives on page 42, breaking the story in half as he does so.
From this point onward, the reader is in the more familiar position, walking and talking with Harvey as he makes his way through the city he lives in:
It's not all entirely straightforward though - certain details and anecdotes repeat themselves, sometimes with new details sometimes almost verbatim, forcing to reader to ponder whether these are stylistic choices or examples of wonky editing.
Take the story about how John T. Zubal's used bookstore used to be a Hostess Bakery for example. On page 51 we're told that "Even now, years after John acquired it, it's possible to eat the Twinkie filling safely. It was all chemicals and didn't deteriorate." This story recurs again 44 pages later, prompted by its appearence on a TV show hosted by Antony Bourdain. On this occasion we're told that the Twikie filling "had been there 10 or 15 years, but the the stuff was all chemicals and didn't rot after all that time. It was still edible, and Bourdain tasted it on the show."
Glitches like this make it clear that the history you're reading the by-product of a slightly dysfunctional, human memory. The title says it all, I guess – this is Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, and its most striking details and points of interest are therefore likely to be the ones that kept Harvey coming back after all those years.
Reading through the book again, I'm struck by the way that Pekar's trademark hunched stride seems to be shared by all of the denizens of his Cleveland. More than his particular outlook on life, with Remnant's help Pekar gives everyone in this book – even the baseball stars – something of his physical manner:
It's no wonder the people of this town stoop so much, given the amount of history that's piled up on them – history that is here present in almost every panel in the form of Pekar's narration. The buildings may stand un-bothered by the running commentary, but Remnant's human characters show evidence of this strange gravity in their every motion.
Sometimes it's as though the barely contained agitation of Robert Crumb's illustrations has been pushed downward into the characters' feet by the weight of Pekar's words:
Rather than adding up to a portrait of a defeated man or a defeated city, however, this adds to the sense of defiance that runs through the book. Pekar is plenty familiar with the many economic and social problems that have effected in the city, and he's careful to qualify his more optimistic impulses while filling the reader in on these issues, but that optimism is still there. It's not for nothing that the book open's with Pekar telling the reader that he's "had plenty of good days."
The book ends on a vision of a Cleveland free of people, free of Pekar, free of life:
The trick is to remember that they're not in here for a reason. They're out there, in the world, struggling against the weight of their own stories one footstep at a time.
Read more reviews of comics by Moogs Kewell, Marc-Antoine Mathieu and Ulli Lust after the cut!


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A Redesigned Zoo Where Humans Stay Hidden Could Be Better For Animals
Even the most zoo-friendly amongst us probably harbor mixed feelings about the undeniable psychological and physical toll that captivity takes on animals. The Danish architects at Bjarke Ingels Group think they've designed a better way. A Zootopia, if you will, where humans are usually hidden from animals by grass… »