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Can snake bite give virus that lurks in the old age ?
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Snake bite, victim's complexion seems to be changing. Appropriate treatment?
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daughter was playing outside and came in with two pimple looking bites on her arm. swelling, pain and very slightly warm to touch. ant bite?
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Does snake bite cause pain and swelling at the injury site?
Is XXXXXXX posinous snake produces pain and swelling at site of bite within in an hour??pain and swelling is seen or not at site of bite of posinous snake And bite produces punctured wound its true or not?punctured wound means that opening of skin?
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My husband thinks he was biten by a snake while playing golf in Myrtle Beach last Saturday. He was retrieving his ball from a grassy area and thought he was cut by a spike or reed. His arm swelled up and became red/bruised shortly after....
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Age: 37 Height: 169cm Weight: 95kg I went for a bush walk came home for a shower notice two incision marks on my leg with blood that had clotted in the area. That was about 2 months ago anyway i am still itching this area. Do you think it was a...
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10 days ago I was struck twice on my shin by a black snake in my yard at Caloundra, I wasgiven antiflamatories, the site is still tender, no inflamation. However tingling and burning still in entire leg, the hospital said not dead, you will be...
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head and eye are becomming heavy. how should I conclude what byted me. Is there any chance of
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my father was bitten by a copperhead snake thursday. he spent from late thursday night until about 3 pm sunday in the hospital being monitored. No antivenin was administered due to the fact he only has one kidney and a previous heart attack . was...
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this ? is for my friend at work he was bitten by a snake two days ago on his arm he does not know what kind it was but today he was using a torch and the smoke rolling up his arm was pulling a yellow fog like substance out of the pores of his arm...
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Lovetheschoes 6 years
Love her schoes, where can you buy them?What brand is it?????
Lovetheschoes 6 years
Love her schoes, where can you buy them? What brand is it?????
jaan_black 6 years
I have a thing about dudes in flip flops depending on where we are, that's all lol...I do love Cali and I wear them when I fly out...maybe it's his glasses with the flip flops - something screams eeeewwwwwww but he's hot no doubt
daisyblink 6 years
in California, flip flops are a way of life... especially in college, college age, high school, etc, its the way how we Cali kids like it, not that I'm still a kid anymore
Juiceee 6 years
he said in an interview once that the paps might catch him ogling on some sexy half-time dancers. probably why he's wearing glasses HAHAHAHAHA
notatotalfan 6 years
Whyyyyyy is he wearing sunglasses? Does he think he's Jack Nicholson? ZAC. Not Jack.
cupcakers 6 years
they are pretty cute, i must admit
colson915 6 years
My husband and I were lucky enough to get seats to that game on the floor. Thought it was annoying that he never took off his glasses, but Kanye was just 5 people to the right of him and he never took off his either. Was pretty funny that he ended up next to Harvey from TMZ.
CherryPop- 6 years
they are really cute together :)
spicyaroma 6 years
Her shoes are...um kinda wack!
anya_t 6 years
Oh yes Loren...I was referring to the flip flops. I do see how on first glance I could be misunderstood!! Thanks for pointing that out. I do mean flip flops and flip flops only :-)...
kty 6 years
they look so cute together...
kty 6 years
they look so cute together...
La-Tua-Cantante 6 years
He needs to lose the shades. How can he see what's really going on? I agree with Mondaymoos - they're way too young a couple for it to bother Vanessa that he doesn't want to get married soon. I'd be thankful!
Loren02 6 years
oh i'm sorry w/ the FLIP FLOPS being white...okay now I got it. My bad!!!!!!
Loren02 6 years
anya....did I miss read your post "i do have an issue with them being white..." are you serious???
Loren02 6 years
anya....did I miss read your post"i do have an issue with them being white..." are you serious???
BOBCAT 6 years
hmm, i was going to say take the glasses off......
Briandiesel 6 years
Seriously, I hate nothing more than sunglasses inside. Take them off.
anya_t 6 years
eh...i wear flip flops EVERYWHERE so i have no issue with that. i do have an issue with them being white...lame and really did he just have lasix or something cause if not, the glasses need to go...vanessa looks cute here though...
anya_t 6 years
eh...i wear flip flops EVERYWHERE so i have no issue with that. i do have an issue with them being white...lame and really did he just have lasix or something cause if not, the glasses need to go... vanessa looks cute here though...
jaan_black 6 years
ill, he's wearing flip flops to a basketball game...besides that, they're cute
PensaGrey 6 years
Awww... the gladiator and the angel.... shoot that's cute :)


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In a previous discussion on astrology I presented W.H. Auden as a convincing though in the end inauthentic Aquarius, whose exact birth date falls not under the sign of the Water Bearer, but that of the Fish, Pisces. Therefore I propose that we butterfly stroke out of these murky waters and try something different.
Let's undergo astrological rebirth! And what better place to do so than in Aries, the first sign of the zodiac cycle, harbinger of new beginnings. This time around, I would like to consider the Arian qualities of a character or two from literature and the books that begot them. That's right – I'm asserting in a very Arian way that not only does a literary character possess an astrological sign but that a book does too. I would like to inaugurate this study with a profile of four Arians in literature: Sam Spade, his prototype, Odysseus, and the two books that birthed them, The Maltese Falcon and Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey.
Sam Spade, for those of you who don't know noir, is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon, published in 1929. From the first page of the book, on which Hammett describes Spade as looking "rather pleasantly like a blond satan," we know that Spade is a tough, no-nonsense guy with a penchant for trouble, but willing to go to any length to solve a crime, or, in this case, get his hands on the coveted black bird. Odysseus, as you, kind reader, already know, is the great warrior and wanderer who spends much of his adult life overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles. I am profiling these characters in tandem because when I read The Maltese Falcon, I couldn't help recalling Odysseus every time that Sam Spade outsmarts an adversary with his cunning and physical strength. It appears that one has begotten the other.
What makes these characters a pair of Aries? A fire sign, the Arian archetype is the Ram. Those born under the sign of the Ram, according to Steven Forrest, astrologer, "come forth into the world armed with intelligence, vitality, and an instinct for survival." The Arian is a warrior, a daredevil: courageous, assertive, energetic, competitive and often impulsive. Sam Spade is nothing but courageous, daring, and, as his primary love interest Brigid O'Shaughnessy says time and time again, "altogether unpredictable." When Joel Cairo, also known as "The Levantine," first visits Spade to solicit his services in recuperating what Cairo calls "an ornament……that has been mislaid," a "black figure of a bird," he holds Spade at gunpoint. Spade barely flinches at the threat: "Spade did not look at the pistol. He raised his arms and, leaning back in his chair, intertwined the fingers of his two hands behind his head." During the crisis Spade, to all appearances, is perfectly at ease. When Cairo pats Spade down to make sure he is not armed, Spade gets the better of the man, striking him in the face with his elbow and rendering him unconscious.
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I was reading an article about a messaging test recently completed in Northern Wales with torches in old Iron Age forts, and it made me think about why whales sing when they migrate, and also, about the transitional fossil find that links whales to wolves, The Blessing of the Animals at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the recent conclusion that Mayan civilization collapsed because of human destruction. This may not be a natural progression to you, but in writing, I like to find connections among things seemingly without correspondence to prove that we can be close and dear, and we can learn something we already learned before.
Last Saturday, 200 volunteers stood at the summits of 10 hillforts on the Clwydian Range in Cheshire, Flintshire and Wirral, Wales, and successfully signaled each other with torches as if in warning to the community. The longest range was 15.5 miles between Burton Point on the Wirral and Maiden Castle, at Bickerton Hill, Cheshire.
I read once--and used in a series of poems--that male humpback whales sing a song that they pass along to each other, phrase by gradually shifting phrase, using repetition and rhyme, until the song ends sounding completely different from when it began, and then they don't sing it again. The marine biologists who had collected this fascinating information not only did not know where the song originated in the whale's anatomy, they also did not know why the males sang it. Blue whales sing while they migrate because the booming song acts likes a sonar mapping device, throwing back into their brains a picture of the ocean floor.
A few transitional fossils link wolves to hippos, camels, deer, whales and dolphins, and while it took 15 million years for the fish eating, whale eared Pakicetus to lose its hind legs and be whale 35 million years ago, the marine ancestor had already hit the water and held its breath. The limbs left because an embryonic gene called the Sonic Hedgehog, which had been miniaturizing the legs perfectly, stopped working. I remember thinking that the dogs that started barking at the recordings of singing humpbacks while jammed into pews at The Cathedral of St John the Divine back in 1992 were undone by such foreign language. Now, I wonder if they were not just becoming chorus to the larger pack?
Dr. Richard D. Hansen, an archaeologist with the Idaho State University has just completed a 30-year study of a pre-classic Mayan civilization on both sides of the Mexico-Guatamala border and concludes that it collapsed because of deforestation and damage to an overburdened agricultural system. I think we can take note of this. I don't want to collapse. Leave the forests. Let the forest leave.
Maybe the whales are not just mapping the ocean floor when they swim, but admiring the familiar view as they go back to the summer waters, the winter mating grounds, thoughtful of their days and nights. Maybe, there were a whole set of signals the Welsh devised to communicate more than warning. Even now, we can't keep to one subject---especially me--so how could the ancients do it?
I leave you with a song by the band, Whales and Wolves, called "What is Wrong".
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Last week in London I met with Mark Ford and concurred enthusiastically when he said that a cable TV station dedicated to the New York School would be a good idea. Jenny Quilter would serve as anchor at NYS headquarters and would moderate "Breakfast with James Schuyler" among other shows.
Some programs immediately come to mind as ideal for their time slots. "Lunch Walk" with Frank O'Hara (theme music from Poulenc's "Perpetual Motion"), "Happy Hour" with John Ashbery (theme music from Elliott Carter), and the aforementioned "Breakfast with James Schuyler" with Guests such as Barbara brought to you by Tiptree Gooseberry Preserve. Lewis Saul will compose music specially for the opening and closing credits weaving in fragments from JS's poem "June 30, 1974." Also, we plan to air "Gardening with Jimmy," at 3:30, hosted by Susan Baran and Marc Cohen with visits by C. North, E. Myles, et al, "Morning Prayer" with Anne Porter daily at 7 in lush interiors depicted by her husband, and "Fairfield's Opinions," Sundays at 11 AM, in which, against a backdrop of incredible seascapes, the painter airs his views on subjects ranging from cancer cures to risk-averse investment strategies. Maureen Owen will host "Telephone," with each show devoted to a phone call of note. Bonus feature: the poets' answering machine announcements and selected messages.
The "Harry Mathews Wine Hour," "Looking at Lookiing" with Jane Freilicher, and "Looking at the Dance with Edwin Denby" (hosted by Anne Waldman) are in the works. I have not yet consulted with Ron Padgett to determine whether he will produce and star in "The Tennis Court Coach" in the pilot of which Ron explicates Ashbery's The Tennis Court Oath in relation to the historical events preceding the actual tennis court oath in Paris in 1789.
For "Koch and his Circle," Kenneth Koch and friends will collaborate on poems and act in Koch's plays and skits such as "Keats and His Circle" set in Hampstead Heath in 1819. Harvard and Columbia students will receive course credit for regular viewing.
Larry Rivers and the Climax Band will play sets on weekend evenings at 9:30, 11, and 1 AM. We have been encouraging David Shapiro to bring his violin, Charles North his clarinet, and Larry Fagin his expertise on great girl singers of the Big Band Era, such as Louanne Hogan.
Vincent Katz will host a weekly "Studio Visit" featuring such painters, artists, and collage makers as Trevor Winkfield, Joe Brainard, Alex Katz, Joan Mitchell, the late Nell Blaine, the late George Schneeman, Jim Dine, Darragh Park. New work will be displayed by Star Black, David Shapiro, Susan Wheeler, Marjorie Welish, many others.
James Cummins will executive-produce and serve as chief writer on a brand new series of "PerryMason" courtroom dramas where everyone speaks only in sestinas.
Special consultant: Paul Violi (see his poem "Triptych"). Bureau chiefs: John Tranter in Sydney, Pyotr Sommer in Warsaw, Amy Gerstler in Los Angeles, David Trinidad in Chicago, Alice Notley in Paris, Terence Winch in DC, James Cummins in Cincinnati, Paul Hoover in San Francisco. Denise Duhamel wil report from Miami, Karin Roffman from West Point, Tony Towle from the taxi, and Nin Andrews from the AWP Conference. David Shapiro will be himself. These are just preliminary thoughts. More to come. This is as they say in French a "work in progress." (Like Finnegans Wake.) Suggestions welcome. -- DL
Posted by The Best American Poetry on March 22, 2011 at 12:15 PM in Adventures of Lehman, Announcements, Jim Cummins - Mid West Correspondent, Television | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
It is highly debatable whether graffiti falls under the definition of today's Wordsmith word "usufruct" but I took this picture this morning and afterwards, saw my word-a-day email. Close enough. From the Latin usus et fructus, use and enjoyment, the definition is "the right to use and enjoy another person's property without destroying it." I like the expression of satisfaction on this face, freshly sprayed on the side of an empty warehouse for sale nearby. I think of drawings I've seen by Ben Shahn, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso with just a few strokes of pen or brush. Last weekend, I saw a team of guys let out of a truck with brooms and rags and watched them fan out and clean, and it could be that the building is now sold, or about to be shown to the first interested buyer in years. I like the face of welcome on the loading dock, although I may be the only appreciative one.
It's hard to imagine the usufruct possibilities. I do think about the houseboats on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, whose owners do not have docking rights but are renting the spaces in front of properties belonging to others. Citizens of New York are not supposed to be living on their houseboats on the Gowanus, just using them for their enjoyment, and yet, I do think there is a resident ornithologist on one. As long as he or she doesn't fish the canal for supper like the beautiful egret I have seen, or like each year's mallard family, the cormorant, and the occasional swans bored with Prospect Park, I say stay where you are. You help make a polluted canal attractive.
Posted by Amy Holman on March 21, 2011 at 02:42 PM in Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
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Owsley Stanley's dead.
No, no, no, no, he's Aussi-side, looking in.
Owsley Stanley's dead.
No, no, no, no, he's Aussi-side, looking in.
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KGB Monday Night Poetry is pleased to present... ourselves!
Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez + Michael Quattrone
We are having a reading to celebrate Laura winning the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize <http://www.perseabooks.com/poetryprize.php> from Persea Press & to give Michael a proper send-off. He is hosting his final season after 4 years of curating the series & graciously hosting more than 100 poets at KGB Bar. And did we mention its our birthday month?
Monday, March 21
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
www.KgbBar.com <http://www.kgbbar.com/>
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 10003 * Phone: 212-505-3360
Laura Cronk's first book of poems won the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and will be published by Persea Press in 2012. Poems have appeared in journals and websites such as Barrow Street, Conduit, Ecotone, RealPoetik, and Washington Square Quarterly and in the anthologies Best American Poetry (2006, 2008), Best American Erotic Poems, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. She is an Associate Director of the Writing Program at The New School, where she coordinates the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy. She co-curates the Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB Bar, founded by David Lehman and Star Black.
Read some of her work in No Tell Motel <http://www.notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=85_0_1_0> .
Megin Jimenez's poems have appeared in Barrow Street, La Petite Zine, LIT, Sentence and other journals. A graduate of the New School Writing Program, she co-hosts the Monday Night Poetry series at KGB Bar. She works as a translator at the United Nations and lives in Brooklyn.
Read some of her work at La Petite Zine <http://www.lapetitezine.org/issue_24/megin_jimenez_brought_to_you_by.htm> .
Michael Quattrone is the author of the chapbook Rhinoceroses. His work has appeared in Octopus Magazine, Barrow Street and Jacket, and in the anthologies Best American Erotic Poems and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor. He is a co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry reading series.
Read some of his poems in Octopus Magazine <http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue06/html/poets/michael_quattrone.html> .
Wish you could have made it last week? Get a taste of the doings here. <http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/03/elizabeth-fodaski-edward-hirsch-at-kgb-bar-by-megin-jimenez.html>
Upcoming, Spring 2011...
March 28 Matthew Yeager + David Lehman
April 4 Brian Teare + Jean Valentine
April 11 Matthew Zapruder + Eileen Myles
April 18 Saskia Hamilton + Karl Kirchwey
April 25 Gabrielle Calvocoressi + TK
May 2 Dorothea Lasky, Star Black + David Yezzi
May 9 Angie Estes + Mitch Sisskind
May 16 Dan Chiasson + Deborah Landau
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Here are the kaleidoscope windows of The Ethical Society of St. Louis in yesterday's early afternoon light in the midst of a celebration of the late George Hitchcock, editor of an influential literary journal, Kayak, that ran 64 issues from 1964 to 1984. I had many wonderful conversations and eavesdrops at "Kayak at the Confluence" and a funny coincidence in a workshop I taught. My friend, Liz Hughes Wiley, a former student of George's, put together this festival and brought in past contributors, ex-students, friends, an archivist, local actors, and his long-time love to share their experiences, perform his play, revel in the work, and give context to the surrealist editor's singular sensibility and influence on American poetry.
It was also at a festival that welcomed new poets into the fold, and I was there to teach a 16 year old girl and three poets reviving their interests in poetry how to find publishers for their work, and also to sit on a panel of publishers talking about community and individualism in literary magazines. It was funny, then, to be reading a prose poem, "Murder Mystery" by Nick Admussen, to the participants in my class to illustrate the interests of the editors at Epiphany Magazine, and have one of them, Susie Morice, remark that she taught a Nick Admussen in high school maybe 10 years ago who was brilliant and wildly imaginative. I read his contributor's note, which included graduate school at Princeton and current residency in Beijing. That sounds like him, she said, and later, with the help of someone's iPad, brought up a picture that confirmed it. When I choose poems from magazines to read aloud, I am both encapsulating the style interests and inviting poets to discover new voices. This connection was a joy to discover especially in light of Susie's own late blooming as a poet, and one who has a clear command of her own voice.
Posted by Amy Holman on March 20, 2011 at 03:11 PM in Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
This week we welcome Amy Holman as our guest blogger. Amy is the author of Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window (Somondoco Press, 2010) and Wait For Me, I'm Gone, which won the 2004 Dream Horse Press annual chapbook prize. She is also the author of An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing Programs (Prentice Hall Press, 2006), a book on colonies, graduate writing programs, and grants. She has written essays on her Brooklyn neighborhood, dogs, subways and knitting, published in tl Connotation Press, and the anthologies, The Subway Chronicles and Knitting Through It: Inspiring Stories for Times of Trouble, and was a columnist for Poets & Writers Magazine. Robert Bly selected her poem Man Script for the Best American Poetry 1999. Amy is a literary consultant who assists writers in finding success in publishing through private tutorials and consultations, and she lectures at conferences, universities and literary centers. You can follow Amy's blog Lending Whale here and her contributions to the blog Whe Who Are About To Die here.
Welcome, Amy
-- sdh
Posted by The Best American Poetry on March 19, 2011 at 08:18 PM in Announcements, Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
March 14, 2011. Elizabeth Fodaski dips a toe and then takes a nervy leap into work with a personal edge. Nervy for her, I think, because her poems would not be classified as "lyric," but are rather the sort that test out words to see what they could possibly do beside each other. (As in much of her new book, Document: "A palimpsest of fruity horizons harangues the interloper"). She starts with an elegy to her father ("reader, I married him to my memory"), followed by poems from Document. She then reads a kind of minuet on the couple, with the recurring image of a husband's face at the dining room table (place of family meals, sex, arguments, apologies), taking Dickinson's line "I like a look of agony" as its point of departure. The kind of poem, she confesses, that is difficult to return to once written. Language frissons: "shaky custard," "a glass of noise," "your designated tough-guy novel moment."
Edward Hirsch comes with a collection of new and selected, The Living Fire, which spans seven previous books and a life lived in the company of poetry. In contrast, Hirsch's work could serve as the definition of "lyric" (as a category). He, too, begins with an elegy to his father ("Special Orders") and offers a poem that takes a line from Petrarch as its point of departure: "The times my sad heart knew a little sweetness." He describes the summer of being a young poet in New York and writing the first breakthrough poems, ones he knew would stick around, and shares one ("Song"). There's a nervy poem, too, involving breast milk and "a mirrored room off Highway 59" (called "Milk"... that's all I'll say!). And "Green Couch", a kind of ode to the object, a repository of "difficult reading," and the silent witness to the end of a marriage. It ends with the wonderfully simple stanza:
I go back and forth to work.
I walk in the botanical gardens on weekends
and take a narrow green path to the clearing.
Join us next week, March 21, when we co-hosts (Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez and Michael Quattrone) take over for our own reading. To see the complete Spring 2011 series, click here.
Posted by Megin Jimenez on March 17, 2011 at 01:30 PM in Guest Bloggers, KGB Reading Series, Poems, Portraits of Poets | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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From left to right, back row first: David Lehman, Stuart Bird, Todd Swift, Alison Gibb, Mariel Coen, Amie Caddy; middle row: Robin Thomas, Gillian Petrie, Tiffany Anne Tondut, Kwaku Amaning; front row: Mike Loveday; Kathryn Maris; Beppe Bartoli; Frankie Jones. Photo by Amy Evans.
David and I are in London this week while David spends time with students and faculty at Kingston University. On Monday evening, David and Kingston colleagues Kathryn Maris and host and organizer Todd Swift joined several of their MA/MFA students in a poetry reading before a standing room only crowd at the OXFAM bookstore in London's Marylebone neighborhood. The quality and variety of the poetry was astonishing, with readings of sestinas, centos, poems inspired by facebook updates, poems responding to other poems, and poems of invented forms. Even though there was a full card, the time flew by. As David remarked later, we'll be hearing a lot from these Kingston poets. When the reading concluded, we repaired to the Marylebone pub where H.D. scholar Amy Evans,Kathryn Maris and I had a lively discussion about how the poetry scene in England differs from ours in the U.S. (I'm not saying) and whether H.D. (for whom I share Evans's admiration) is on the verge of a comeback. Watch this space for work from the poets we're getting to know.
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March 14
Hosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez and Michael Quattrone
Reading starts at 7:30pm
Admission is FREE
85 East 4th Street * New York, NY 10003 * Phone: <tel:212-505-3360> 212-505-3360 <tel:212-505-3360>
Elizabeth Fodaski is the author of Fracas (Krupskaya, 1999) and Document (Roof Books, 2010). Recent work has appeared in Jacket, The Brooklyn Rail, and Fence. She teaches English at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn. Read her work in The Brooklyn Rail
Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has recently published The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, which brings together thirty-five years of poetry from seven previous collections, including For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), and Special Orders (2008). He has also written four prose books, including How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national bestseller, and Poet's Choice (2006). He edits the series "The Writer's World" (Trinity University Press). He has also edited Theodore Roethke's Selected Poems (2005) and co-edited The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology (2008). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years and now serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read his poems at the Poetry Foundation
Upcoming, Spring 2011...
March 21 Hosts take over!: Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez + Michael Quattrone
March 28 Matthew Yeager + David Lehman
April 4 Brian Teare + Jean Valentine
April 11 Matthew Zapruder + Eileen Myles
April 18 Saskia Hamilton + Karl Kirchwey
April 25 Gabrielle Calvocoressi + TK
May 2 Dorothea Lasky, Star Black + David Yezzi
May 9 Angie Estes + Mitch Sisskind
May 16 Dan Chiasson + Deborah Landau
Posted by Michael Quattrone on March 13, 2011 at 09:51 PM in KGB Reading Series | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I wasn't going to succumb to the temptation to editorialize when I accepted David's kind invitation to blog for Best American Poetry this week. The opposite of poetry isn't abstract thought but it is editorializing, and the opinions of poets are dubious mostly because, consciously or unconsciously, they've trained their minds in an antithetical direction. Unfortunately, I can't resist. A lot of people, including many of the demonstrators themselves and sympathizers such as me, were amazed that the sit-ins in Madison were likened, however fugitively, to what happened in Egypt. I recently heard of a perfectly ordinary academic dispute between faculty and administration at a college that, in turn, was being likened to what happened in Madison. And I woke up yesterday to the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka seriously invoking the condition of working families devastated by the current economy to express solidarity with the NFL's players union (which is why I'm writing this). The larger issue of union-busting aside, is this recourse to similitude, to metaphoric thinking, to hyperbole (a trope poets are particularly partial to), to all those poetic devices that bridge the real and the imaginary politically useful? Or can poetry be politically useful when it is used to create identities where none exist? I'd say no, and I wish there was more rhetorical discipline in the public discourse, for no other reason than to lessen my aesthetic aggravation. And, besides, for metaphors to be useful politically, they have to be too simple to be safe. About his tyrant, Auden says, "and the poetry he invented was easy to understand."
Posted by Seshadri213 on March 13, 2011 at 05:46 PM in Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Vijay Seshadri is the author of three books of poetry, Wild Kingdom (Graywolf), The Long Meadow (Graywolf), and The Disappearances (Harper-Collins India), and many essays and reviews. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Welcome, Vijay.
-- sdh
Posted by The Best American Poetry on March 13, 2011 at 03:28 PM in Announcements, Guest Bloggers | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Drilled through the kishkes in '44
He subsequently worked for
The old Central Electric Company
On Washington Boulevard until
Mr. Achtboim died in 1956.
Then came what Leo and Ruth Manasin
Always called the cow magnet years.
Cow magnets: bits of iron swallowed
By cows to which adhered any
Gum wrappers, bailing wire, nails,
Or what have you that a grazing cow
Might ingest, thereby creating a mass
Of sufficient bulk to travel through
The digestive system of the cow.
It was the brain child of Jim Porter,
A Wisconsin veterinarian who said,
'I got tired of tramping barnyards
'On cold mornings to vaccinate hogs
'At five dollars a shot so I dreamed up
'The cow magnet. They said I was crazy
'But with a hundred million cows
'In America the dairy and beef industries
'Would pay two bucks per magnet to keep
'A herd of cows from coming down
'With the so-called Hardware Disease.'
Not long after Mr. Achtboim passed away,
Steve Drago introduced Jim Porter
To Leo Manasin at Nippersink Manor.
At that time a sort of black cloud seemed
To hover over Leo Manasin's head.
Although Mr. Achtboim was no saint,
He was the pater familias that Leo Manasin
Needed in the post-war years when lingering
Effects of his wounds imbued every moment
With a vague unconscious sense of dread.
Now this man Jim Porter entered the picture.
Here was a new pater familias, possibly
An improved version of Mr. Achtboim,
Who offered Leo Manasin the position
Of cow magnet sales rep for the Wisconsin,
Illinois, and Indiana territories in which
Resided tens of thousands of cows.
But Leo Manasin hesitated. He ruminated.
He looked skeptically at a future in which
He would call on dairy farmers with
A satchel of cow magnets in his lap while
Over a blue propane flame water boiled
For instant coffee in farmhouse kitchens
Of stained linoleum and peeling wallpaper.
He was a city boy after all, a Jewish fella
Whose occasional exposure to anti-Semitism
Made him leery of many (not all) goyim.
Jim Porter seemed like an honest goy,
And now Jim Porter allayed Leo Manasin's
Fears about the future with some simple
Truths about the cow magnet business.
As the veterinarian explained, most magnets
Were bought in bulk by feed company
Executives over lunch in the grill room of
The Cliff Dwellers Club where past members
Included Cyrus McCormick, George Armour,
And Rufus C. Dawes, and not bought by farmers
With a load of manure out in the dump truck.
This mollified Leo Manasin and he was soon
Turning heads in the cow magnet industry.
Sales of a hundred or two hundred gross
Were run of the mill for Leo Manasin
In the grill room of the Cliff Dwellers Club
And it was there that he met Chester Schultz,
The heir to a milking machine fortune.
Chester Shultz shrewdly took the measure
Of this family man named Leo Manasin,
This war veteran who sold cow magnets
For a living and -- liking what he saw --
Chester Schultz took Leo Manasin under
His wing and began making discreet
Overtures to Leo Manasin about a job.
These discreet overtures, these coy hints,
The innuendoes, the asides, the ingratiating
Small confidences, the verbal nosegays,
The divertimenti – they also had a deeper
Purpose, a much more sober intention.
The discreet overtures were the foundation
For the hiring of Leo Manasin by Chester Schultz.
It was a very nice employment package that
Chester Schultz offered with substantially
Larger revenues to Leo Manasin in exchange
For less work -- because once milking machines
Were leased out there was nothing to do
Except deposit the checks which would represent
Leo Manasin's salary plus a generous commission.
And since milking machine leases were always
Rolled over, Leo Manasin could be set for life!
A home in Lincolnwood on a double lot,
A Buick, an Olds, or even a Cadillac convertible
In the garage; a country club membership;
And a summer house in Sauganash, Michigan;
All this was possible with Chester Schultz!
Only one small matter remained: Jim Porter
Must be told of Leo Manasin's decision to forsake
His pater familias and cleave to this wealthier
Man named Chester Schultz, this man whom
Leo Manasin met at the very Cliff Dwellers Club
Where Jim Porter was footing the bill for
Leo Mansain's lunches of broiled whitefish.
But then occurred one of the eerie
Turning points that we encounter in life,
One of the head-scratching moments
In which our decisions seem to be made
By some external agency and we can only
Look back on the decisions as they fade
In the rearview mirror of our years
Like a roadside restaurant where we ate
Something but what exactly did we eat?
This eerie turning point in Leo Manasin's life
Occurred at the bar mitzvah of his son Mickey
At Temple B'nai Zion on Pratt Avenue
Where Leo Manasin had naches – that is, pride
In his child –as he made small talk with Jim Porter.
This was in the hospitality room where,
After the ceremony, cold cuts were being served.
There Leo Manasin felt an unexpected surge
Of emotion, a cresting wave of affection
For the man named Jim Porter, and all at once
It seemed unimaginable to Leo Manasin that
He could ever disassociate himself from Jim Porter.
What caused the unexpected surge of emotion?
First, it was Jim Porter attending the bar mitzvah
And also the sight of Jim Porter wearing a kippah,
A yarmulke. In fact, the sight of Jim Porter wearing
A kippah was a great honor to the Manasin family
As a whole: to Leo, Ruth, Mickey, and Melissa,
Who was also known as Missy or Lissie.
The remarkable thing was how comfortable,
How relaxed Jim Porter looked, as if he'd
Worn a kippah all his life. Whereupon
It occurred to Leo Manasin that perhaps
The veterinarian could convert to Judaism.
There could be bar mitzvah for Jim Porter
And if necessary he could be circumcised..
What a mitzvah it would be for Leo Manasin
To bring about the conversion of Jim Porter
To Judaism! The thought of Jim Porter reciting
The sh'ma almost brought tears to the eyes
Of Leo Manasin -- and Jim Porter also seemed
Sensitive to the moment. He spoke not a word
But put his hand on Leo Manasin's shoulder
And guided Leo Manasin toward a quiet
Corner of the B'nai Zion hospitality room.
There in a voice charged with feeling,
Jim Porter said to Leo Manasin, 'Leo,
'I want you to know that come what may
'In the cow magnet business, regardless of
'What happens in the cow magnet business,
'No matter what may or may not occur
'In the cow magnet business, good or bad,
'You and your family will be taken care of
'Forever because of the hard work and
'Loyalty you've given to the organization
'Since that day at Nippersink Manor when
'We were introduced by Steve Drago.'
Late that night, after the gala celebration
In the Hyatt at 4500 West Touhy Avenue,
After all the singing and all the dancing
And the many clever toasts, Leo Manasin
Lay awake as a voluptuous sense of relief
Washed over him, subsuming even his
Naches about Mickey Manasin's bar mitzvah.
The phrase 'dodged a bullet' occurred
To this man who'd been drilled through
The kishkes in '44. He saw that a personal
And professional catastrophe had nearly
Happened when he came so close
To deserting Jim Porter, that mensch,
By going to work for Chester Schultz.
What a mess that would have made.
What a train wreck it would have been.
It would have been like a twelve car pileup
On the interstate during the rush hour.
It shouldn't happen to a dog, and fortunately
It didn't happen. Willy-nilly, Leo Manasin
Had made the right decision in the end.
So the cow magnet years continued and
To his credit Chester Schultz took no
Offense at what for him was the very
Unaccustomed experience of a rejected
Job offer. Leo Manasin and Chester Schultz
Even took steam together occasionally
In the Cliff Dwellers Club steam room.
And Jim Porter's conversion to Judaism?
Leo Manasin now saw it as a hare-brained
Scheme, heart-felt and well-intentioned,
But brought on by the emotional turmoil
In which Leo Manasin found himself that day
Amid the bar mitzvah's hugger-mugger and
The hurly-burly of the Chester Schultz affair.
No, Leo Manasin was not leading the most
Exciting life but as long as there were
Cows there would be cow magnets
And for that he had Jim Porter to thank.
'Leo, come what may,' Jim Porter had said,
'You will be taken care of -- you and Ruth
'And Mickey and little Melissa Manasin.'
But 'always' is such a long time
About which to make promises --
And must not 'always' always end?
One day Leo Manasin arrived
At the modest downtown office
Maintained by Jim Porter and
Found two men waiting at the door.
Since Leo Manasin had come downtown
To meet a couple of buyers from the
William M. Glass Company, he asked,
'Are you the guys from William M. Glass?'
They said, 'No, we are the guys from
'The Internal Revenue Service but
'You may call it the IRS if you prefer.'
Thus concluded the cow magnet years
And thus did 'always' come to an end.
It was not for lack of effort on
Jim Porter's part but understanding
The digestive system of a cow is not like
Running a business where the damn
Complexities can make your head spin.
It did not happen all at once. For weeks,
Months, almost a year the cow magnet
Business stayed more or less afloat but
What with judgments and liens and even
The possibility of a criminal case against
Jim Porter brewing, Leo Manasin saw
That the party was over once and for all.
Nights Leo Manasin lay awake kicking
Himself, asking himself why, why, why?
The image of Chester Shultz appeared
Like a ghost in the darkness, mocking him,
Making faces at him and tossing money
Into the air or feeding it to some obnoxious
Animal – a cow? – that he'd brought along.
Mornings Leo Manasin was agitated,
Irritable, he couldn't sit still to read
The newspaper, yet at the same time
He was exhausted and often fell asleep
In front of the television set. He snapped
At people for no reason but he also wept
Uncontrollably in the laundry room
Where, pathetically, the washing machine
Drowned out his sobs. This was a far blacker
Cloud than the cloud that hovered over
Leo Manasin's head when Mr. Achtboim died.
This cloud rapidly descended and engulfed
Leo Manasin until he became invisible
To his own family in his own home.
Meanwhile Mickey Manasin became obsessed
With motorcycles, literalizing his desire
To escape the Manasin family's dismal
Twenty-eight hundred square foot home
In favor of the open horizons celebrated
In the Bob Seger anthem 'Against the Wind'
Which he kept blaring in the garage all day.
Melissa Manasin was now called Mel.
Missy? Lissie? Are you kidding me?
At seventeen Mel radiated a hard,
Wised-up sexuality that scared away
The high school boys, so she blew off school
And worked downtown at the Furniture Mart
Where at least a few guys knew how to fuck.
As for Ruth Manasin, she mourned her life's
Reduced circumstances, a life now sustained by
Social security and the savings accounts which,
Thank God, she had insisted on opening during
The cow magnet years. As Ruth mourned,
She saw too how Leo Manasin was suffering,
Was deteriorating, was no longer the same man.
Money alone could not account for his misery,
Ruth Manasin concluded. The black cloud that
Now engulfed Leo Manasin seemed like it had
Always been there and always would be there.
Cow magnets, aging, even disappointment
In the children could not begin to explain what
Ruth Manasin observed each day in Leo Manasin.
He lay on the sofa, defeated and deflated,
In boxer shorts and undershirt. By the way,
He'd lost a leg to diabetes. His snoring briefly
Seemed louder as Ruth Manasin turned off
The television set, but then came a diminuendo
In the snoring until there was only the low
Rumble of the refrigerator motor in the kitchen.
Perhaps we haven't really gotten to know
Ruth -- but a favorite expression of hers was
'I have news for you' and another was
'Let's call a spade a spade.' In that spirit
(Though it broke her heart) she now saw
Leo Manasin as a lovable schmuck,
A putz, a wounded veteran whose wounds
Never really had a chance to heal before he went
To work for the old Central Electric Company
And found a pater familias in Elmer Achtboim
And then another pater familias in Jim Porter.
But essentially he was a tearful little boy
Desperately looking for someone to protect him
Which caused him to make a really terrible
Business decision about Chester Schultz.
Though he had been a good provider in the
Cow magnet years, she felt that Leo Manasin
Had let his heart get in the way of his head
About Jim Porter. Then it went all belly up.
She loved Leo Manasin but she mainly felt sorry
For him like on All My Children or One Life to Live.
As Leo Manasin opened his eyes Ruth loomed
Above him, upside down from his viewpoint
But an angelic vision of a benevolent old woman.
Could this be his grandmother, whom he had
Called the Buba? Then came a cresting wave
Of emotion like that other cresting wave
At the bar mitzvah when Jim Porter had said,
'Leo, you will always be taken care of.'
How loved he had felt then and also now,
With the TV off, the thankless children gone.
As is our destiny at the moment of death
He was changed into a great tzaddik
Who reveals himself at last, and at last
Is to himself revealed. 'Sh'ma Yisrael…'
With his final breath he proclaimed the sh'ma!
No mitzvah is greater than this one! Thus did
Rav Shimon bar Yochai depart this life
And thus did Leo Manasin also depart it!
'Sh'ma Yis'ra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad!'
His soul swept past the Heavenly Tribunal
And was received at once in the Upper Worlds!
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For my final post as Guest Blogger (thanks again for having me, Stacey! & thanks for reading, friends), I wanted to say a few words about the crew that I'm so unbelievably fortunate to work with on Agriculture Reader / X-ing Books-related matters. My eternal gratitude goes out to each of them for all of their unique talents so industriously applied to things I care so deeply about.
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| Betswyn chapter 92 . 11/19
| AZSeaOtter chapter 122 . 8/12
Love this story! The inner dialogues were absolutely hysterical! You can really see and understand how and why everything played out. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, LMAO, that I read several excerpts to even my husband and had him, LHAO. Talk about your tongue-in-cheek story...with pun intended, lol...it was witty and very entertaining. All the characters from the stories, now in their new roles, were great and very well played...still laughing.
| Guest chapter 33 . 6/25
Does sookie end up pregnant? Loving this story. Can't wait the see what sookie calls ginger now. Also is Eric's dad godric?
| Guest chapter 122 . 3/8
You had me laughing to down right weepy. Really enjoyed this!
| Guest chapter 35 . 2/12
Eric, get it together already!
| Guest chapter 33 . 2/11
The L word, if only in his head...
| Guest chapter 32 . 2/11
Loving this story!
| tanseynz chapter 64 . 2/4
This cliffie always leaves me gasping, no matter how often I read it. Still one of THE great S&E fanfictions!
| Guest chapter 84 . 1/11
I love your stories somuch this is the fourth time reading it & each time i appricciate all the time & effort you put in it thank you for writing this amazing stories
| Guest chapter 122 . 12/16/2014
For 9k reviews, that was disappointing. But really those first couple chapters were great. And more specifically the opening paragraphs were extremely well written and decidedly funny. You had me hooked right there. Too bad this story seemed to lose its way and crawl forward at an agonizingly so pace. You write well and have talent. Thanks for sharing this story.
| Guest chapter 23 . 12/15/2014
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| tricelander chapter 122 . 10/13/2014
I abso-f***ing-lutely love this story. As I probably wrote previously, I very rarely read human-Eric stories, but this one is a winner. Your attention to detail is evident. You still have the characters true to their vampiristic ways ... the analogies made me laugh. Even reading your author notes for each chapter brings me back to the moment in time when it was posted. Some sentiments are timeless ... such as, the first 30m [I, included, rewinding-to-rewatch time] of Battleship was brilliant.
This will be a keeper for rereading on lonely nights ... as lonely as I can pretend it to be to justify reading ;-)
| tricelander chapter 27 . 10/10/2014
I'm not even finished with this chapter, but I don't have anybody to chew the cud with ... so I'm stopping to tell you ... Your amazing. I get a kick & snicker out of the Sookie-verse/true blood references you allude to with their human characters:
- Eric looking like he wanted to take a bite out of ...
- Sookie wishing she had telepathy to figure out what Eric was thinking
- Bill talking like he is not of this era
Truly amazing. Okay I have work and 100.5 chapters to get through. I love completed stories! Instant gratification ... well almost :-)
| tricelander chapter 4 . 10/10/2014
I normally don't read human versions of my favorite characters ... because I can't help loving a norse, sarcastic, amusing vamp hotness. Nevertheless, I have had a silly smile on my face since starting this story and I can't stop smiling. I'm off to the finish line... well maybe a few days away, since life - kids, spouse, work and house will obviously fanfic-block me having a reading good time.
| Eric Is All Mine chapter 122 . 8/23/2014
Aww - What a wonderful HEA. I have binge read this series over three days and sleepless nights and it was well worth it. Consider me a fan - and I'm looking forward to the next outtake!


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Happy Saturday all!
Saturday is my favorite day of the week, no contest. It's the day I load up my fridge with fresh organic produce and take a Bikram class or two, followed by an afternoon of down time. <3
Today I'll be sharing what I've been eating the last two days to give an impression of an all-raw vegan diet. Please realize there is no one clear-cut raw (nor vegan..) diet, just like there is no one 'cooked' diet! Par l'example, some raw foodists choose to eat very simple and clean, hardly touching stuff like raw cacao and not eating too much (if any) dehydrated foods. They would eat mostly fruit, veg, greens, maybe some sprouted seeds and thrown into the mix. In my experience, these are the people having been raw for a long time. Then there's people who eat a lot of gourmet raw dishes; raw lasagnas and pizzas, fancy rich desserts, dehydrated breads, wraps, cookies, etc. Usually, these are the people who are still in a transition phase. And of course, then there's everything in between! For me it differs from day to day, or even from meal to meal. At the moment my breakfasts and snacks are very simple, but instead of mostly salads, my lunches and dinners are a bit more elaborate these days. I still consider myself transitioning, and I am having too much fun with my dehydrator and new gourmet recipes not too. And I love that when I don't feel like putting together an actual meal, I can make fast-food in under 5 minutes (salads, sushi, zucchini pasta) and still be it far healthier than any ready-made processed food :D. So, with all of that in mind, here's one example of what a raw vegan diet could look like:
Snack: small apple (addicted to apples at the moment!)
Zucchini Linguini w/ homemade sunflower tomato spread , sundried tomatoes & pine nuts (+ some cherries)
Pre-Bikram snack: cherries & grapes
Post-Bikram Snack: nectarine
Small bowl of marinated & dehydrated veggies (or: "stirfried veggies" :p) with sesame seeds. Dessert: lots of cherries (+ a lovely tummy ache for terrible food combining…)
Fruit Cobbler
Carrot/Romaine juice (6 carrots + half a head of Romaine). I needed carrot pulp but I don't like straight up carrot juice. This was great, though!
Kale/Superfood smoothie
Raw sushi; 2 raw nori wrappers, sprouted quinoa, homemade sunflower/tomato spread (love this stuff!), cucumber, avocado, sesame seeds
BIG handful almonds + chocolate/kale smoothie on the go
Raw wrap (the raw chef recipe) with falafel (inspired by choosingraw ). I love how it looks like this meal almost contain no veggies (just sprouts) while in actuality the wrap is almost all veg (zucchini) and so are the falafel (carrot pulp!).
Strawberries with cashew/coconut whipped cream
Stirfried Veggies
* 1.5 cups thinly sliced vegetables (I used red bell pepper, portabello mushroom, zucchini, red onion)
* 1 T sesame oil
* 2 T soy sauce (I use liquid aminos)
* 1 T agave
* 1 T lemon juice
* optional: 1 t smoke powder
* sesame seeds
Combine all ingredients except veggies and sesame in a small owl and whisk. Put the veggies in a plastic baggie and pour the marinade over. Close the bag and shake well. Let marinade for ~30 minutes.
Raw option: lay out on a nonstick dehydrator sheet, sprinkle with sesame seeds and dehydrate at 105F for ~ 3-4 hours.
Cooked option: you could also stirfry or grill these in the oven! In the oven, they probably need only 10-15 minutes.
I really liked the raw version, that didn't taste raw at all actually, but more like strifried or even grilled vegetables. They would make for a great side dish to a meal or to bring to a party!
Fruit Cobbler
Serves one
* One small apple
* One small peach
* handful pecans
* 1.5 T agave
* 1-2 t cinnamon
Mix all ingredients well in a bowl. I marinated these on 105F for 3 hours, you could also place them in the oven just to warm them up a bit (or eat as is!). I bet this is also going to be a favorite for me during the winter, as the cinnamon is nice & warming and straight out of the dehydrator they are nice and warm :).
PS: 9 smoothies, one large batch of chips and 3 salads later: I did it! I finished all of my 3lbs (nearly 1.5kg) of dinosaur kale in one week! Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to get another load.


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fanservice - Chelle x G by FukariWatch
©2013-2015 Fukari
drew just for fun because some people seem to like to ship them together.
but generally they never kissed in real XD
but generally they never kissed in real XD
kolorujesz to mangowymi pisakami?
I love these two together so much holy crap, it's insane. I need this in print!!!!! :''''''(
the hair looks a little like elsas hair o.o (frozen)
may i reference off of this? i never reference but i suck at humans and wanna draw something like this..
nice drawing!
huh !
lovely !
lovely !
Love it! Check out my artwork too! ^^
I lurv them
This is almost like incest
It's great fun, I got the giggles.
C'est un 'crayon' vraiment fantastique!
these are your own characters ?
I've just started admiring your art, I still don't know all of them
(and bye the way, yeah, I admit they're pretty cool together *u* )
I've just started admiring your art, I still don't know all of them
(and bye the way, yeah, I admit they're pretty cool together *u* )
This is cute.<3(: and amazing.
I do ship them pretty hard.~<3
Illumineti is comin
You should totally sell this as a print, I'd love to buy it
If I could draw like you, I'd never do anything else. Seriously. Just so you know, you are my favorite artist, ever.
Carry on.
Carry on.
What kind of flower is her tattoo?
(Totally not planning on getting that tattoo'd on myself or anything........)
(Totally not planning on getting that tattoo'd on myself or anything........)
I'm pretty sure that is a sunflower.
!!!Coś cudownego!!! ♡
them. <3
Super cute. ; - ;
awsomesauce they look so cute
Hard shippin' <3
Just pure awesome
I know you say they're just friends.... Buuut I want them to be more than that XD
Awwww i love this... but why is George hair black again wasn't it lavender ?
they r sooooooooo cute together they r cute kissing
I love Chelle's hair, so pretty!
anyone else notice the deathly hallows tattoo?
ya I was just staring at that
Scarification actually :3 yes, that and the deathly hallows plug.
Do you draw these on paper? Or..a tablet, PC, etc? Cause all of your drawings are like...perfect
love her hair!!! actually i love the entire thing but... HER HAIR!
They would make a cute couple. I will start to ship this
I like their relationship as it is now ... but I would still love to see the together though
I feel how lonely i am now...
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Port Clinton Middle School will host its annual Band and Orchestra Recruitment Night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the middle school commons area.
Parents and students entering sixth grade are invited to attend. Local venders will have instruments on display and information on purchasing or renting an instrument. Port Clinton City School District music faculty will be in attendance to answer questions or help with instrument selection.
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Drug Safety:
Some basic drugs are used but nothing too serious from what I've seen. It's a dry campus though.
It's always fun to watch the games and cheer for the Temple Owl's.
I don't think that there is much to discuss, people are different. No person is the same as the other. And it is very accepted here. I don't think I've ever witnessed any challenges with acceptance. Most people are pretty open minded
Greek Life:
It honestly depends on what fraternity or sorority you join. Each one is very different. I feel like most non-Greeks have the wrong interpretation or idea of Greeks and what it means to be a Greek. Yes, they throw parties but each sorority and fraternity take part in many community service and fund raising activities. And they also share a bond that goes beyond friendship ant dips into an extended family unit. Once you're in you're in and you will always be brothers and sisters with the members from your chapter.
Overall Experience:
I honestly love the campus, the diversity you find, as well as, the professors. It was a great experience living in the dorms, it's taught me alot about myself and how to live with others.
I don't own a car, but my I hear a mixture of complaints from friends, so I would say it's moderate.
Local Area:
Here at Temple University we are at the heart of Philadelphia, there are many easy and cheap forms of transportation. We have Temple police surrounding every corner to ensure safety. You can easily walk or take the sub to shops and restaurants. There's also a nearby supermarket if you prefer to cook. Movie theatre and entertainment is very easy to find. Also, we have two gyms and tracks for excersing. I personally like to go to the track at night to do a few laps.
There were no problems getting into my major. There were plenty of spots.
The program is very large, and some of the class sizes are too big, but it is not a huge problem.
There is a large student parking lot to use.
Off-Campus Housing:
The area surrounding Temple is not so safe, but there are plenty of other places to live in Philadelphia that are fine.
Overall Experience:
Temple satisfies all of my academic needs.
Party Scene:
There are a few good bars in the area.
Greek Life:
Greek life does not seem to interfere or affect my experience at Temple University at all. I know very little about the Greek life scene.
Campus Housing:
Campus housing is great. There are large rooms and although some buildings are better (but more expensive) than others, even the worst ones are still great.
I do hate have to take the general education classes but Temple has a great Criminal Justice Program. The workload consists of many papers and court briefings but the opportunity for internships is great and temple works with students to help them find a suitable job.
I picked Temple because they have a great Criminal Justice program! The homework does get a little tough sometimes with work but it isn't anything crazy. There are teachers that have a better teaching skill than others but overall temple is great for studying, especially the study abroad campuses.
I do receive financial aid but it is very low. It usually changes throughout the year because my father works in the winter and not the summer. So it decreases last minute and leaves me struggling for money. It is not enough and a majority of my tuition is covered with loans. I am only a sophomore and I am way farther in debt than I would like to be.
Off-Campus Dining:
There are many fast food places such as Mcdonalds if you are in a hurry but there are many places that you can get food from. On South street, there are italian, french, vegan, vegetarian, 50's diners, and chinese as well. There is great diversity and you can find somewhere for just about anything you want!
Local Area:
There are many places to go shopping or even to eat a great meal. The subway can take you anywhere and there is a stop right on campus. It can take you to see city hall or even the criminal justice center. You can go sightseeing at Love Park or go to see the Liberty bell. The options are endless.
I don't like when it snows on campus because the streets become slippery. Also, if I forget an umbrella and it rains. It is great when the weather is nice because there are many places to sit outside! When the weather is bad, there are also many places you can go inside!
Overall Experience:
I love Temple University! The tech center has to be my favorite place to be. I love the city vibe that it has and how you can get coffee almost everywhere. Each building is within 10 minutes of each other from the center of campus so it is very convenient if you are in a rush! There is diversity among people and the food trucks!!
Health & Safety:
There is a little bit of crime in the surrounding area around Temple University but is usually unrelated to temple. There are many officers, philadelphia and temple officers, walking or riding their bikes around and there are the 911 call posts all around campus. You need an ID card to enter most buildings and all of the exits that aren't the main exit have security.
Off-Campus Housing:
The off-campus housing depending on where it is can be very expensive and definitely not worth it unless you want to live with a lot of people. I commute from home because that is where my job is but if it was cheaper in the city, I would love to get a house or apartment.
Party Scene:
The transportation is not that bad. I take the bus, train and subway often. There are many parties but I tend not to attend them as I am busy after school with work and then homework. It is very easy to take the subway into the city to go to clubs but as I am not 21, I do not go to clubs. Many people occupy the library and tech center, especially when midterms and finals roll in.
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Overall, Temple has its ups and downs, but students seem to love it all the same. On the downside, there can be some head-butts with tyrannical teachers, unfriendly cafeteria workers, and the always-frustrating financial aid office. Housing can cause an enormous hassle, and those commuting have to battle with parking or public transportation. Some people don't feel as though they are prepared for the real world once they leave campus, but others say it's been an incredible learning experience. Those students that love their experience at Temple all have their own reasons. Some love the atmosphere and found it to be a lot of fun. Others found it to be a great place to grow up and discover themselves. Lots of students take away more from living in a big city than they do from the University. But one thing it seems most students agree on is that the people at Temple University are what really make it a worthwhile experience.
In general, students coming to Temple have big expectations, from both the school and the city. Those that graduate either feel that Temple met their expectations, or if it didn't, then it was their own fault for not pursuing more opportunities while they were there. Most students feel that Temple provides them with the opportunities that make their college experiences excellent—as long as they are willing to make use of them.
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Lemmy Koopa by YoshiGo99Watch
©2012-2015 YoshiGo99
So well I got some Lemmy Artwork from NSMBU. I decided to edit it for Super Mario World U artwork. Lemmy's battle is a lot like his SMW battle and NSMBU battle. He will come out of random Pipes and throw bombs at you. This time there is no dummies and it takes four hits to defeat him. Also enemies will come out of pipes such as Piranha Plants. This artwork is for SMWU.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: "If you'd like to hear it // I can sing it for you" is a zine on aging based in Berkeley. We are now accepting submissions for issue #002. We are accepting writings, photos, artwork centered around the theme "The things we've created." All submissions should be formatted for b&w printing.
Please include: contact information you would like included in the zine, websites where interested readers can see more of your work, and an "about me" page with some fun info about you~
Our theme for this issue centers around social fabrications: the things we've created to help us hide from the things we haven't - ie: colorblind notions of frailty, long-term care facilities, modern burial practices, Medicare coverage, culturally-specific understandings of an aging-body, etc. We are particularly interested in experiences of aging *outside* of fabricated normative structures- including senior homelessness, sexuality in older age, poverty, and addiction in older age.
Deadline is JULY 25, 2015. Can't wait to see and include your work.
Noodle Mania Zine Workshop at Megapolis Festival~!~~!
Day: Saturday June 6, 2015
Time: 10:30 AM
Length: 90min
Location: Rock Paper Scissors (2278 Telegraph Ave, Oakland)
Admission with a Festival Pass or with a small suggested donation to RPS
Make a zine, share a true story, and eat noodles! Participants will listen to sound-rich, non-narrated audio pieces and draw, craft, doodle and collage their interpretations of the stories they hear. The images we create will accompany the stories in a special Megapolis edition of the print zine, Noodle Mania. People who don't consider themselves "artists" are especially invited to participate in this collaboration. Noodle Mania is a collection of true stories: bring yours!
Festival info here: http://megapolisfestival.org/
Hi, all- if you're in the East Bay/Berkeley/Oakland areas, our zine "If you'd like to hear it// I can sing it for you" is now available for purchase at Pegasus Books Downtown in Downtown Berkeley (bottom right of this picture!). Pay our friends a visit, pick up a copy of our zine, and scope out the other great DIY publications available! Happy Friday~
Anyone doing anything fun in the east bay lately? Each time I hit up the Long Haul I think of turning the space into a one day zine meetup to trade zines/hang out and eat vegan snacks for the day...
Hi, all- the first press of Issue #001 of our zine "If you'd like to hear it // I can sing it for you" is done! Our zine is focused on the negotiation of an aging body and a "forgetful" self in an unaccommodating world, as well as accounts of chronic illness and the end-of-life experiences of an aging self. Based in Berkeley, CA, and handmade from start-to-finish.
You can check out our Tumblr and Facebook. Our zines are available on our webstore, where they are selling for $1.00 + postage. Thank you for your support, and I am looking forward to sharing our work with you all. Cheers!
Hello zinesters! I am 20 years old, live in San Francisco and publish a music magazine called TEENAGE NEWS. I would love to trade, sell or give you fine folks a copy.
Issue #2 proves that TEENAGE NEWS always hits you full force. Back with educating and entertaining interviews, prepare to lose yourself in this teenage paradise.
Features: Cherie Currie (Runaways), Gary Powell (Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things), Jennifer Clavin (Bleached), Klaus Nomi, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Cherry Vanilla's Pop Tart Compositions, Joey Pinter, Bobby Jameson, Tommy James (the Shondells), Desert Island Discs by the STARS, The Mutants, Vinnie Kircher (Jaill), album reviews.


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August 9, 2012
Joe Capozza, age 13, won first place in the state with his watercolor painting of a blue winged teal.
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Local siblings finish first and second in Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest
The walls of the Capozza house in Skaneateles are covered in framed artwork from the five children that live there. While the siblings, ranging in ages from 13 to 6, create their art for pleasure, they also recently won four awards in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest put on by the U.S. Fish & Game Service.
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text: FILE - In this July 29, 1941 file photo, Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk smiles at an unknown location. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo)