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Kristina Marie Darling: I have always admired the way that your texts exist in spite of, beyond, and against traditional genre categories. Your work has the denseness and lyricism of poetry, with gorgeous and fractured narratives surfacing and resurfacing. In many ways, you question genre boundaries while appropriating the conventions of existing literary genres, a project that's wonderfully ironic and subversive. To what extent do you see genre categories as gendered? Are there larger power structures in the literary community, and in the academy, that dictate genre boundaries? Is writing against them and beyond them a feminist act? Molly Gaudry: I'm wrapping up my coursework now as a PhD candidate at the University of Utah, where I've been spending a lot of time interrogating everything I thought I knew about genre. Is it multi-genre or mixed genre? Are these different from hybrid texts? Or non-genre texts? Do generic boundaries even exist, and, if so, where do they most rigidly appear and why? Is a crossover an invasion, a breach, a misstep, a test? Is it always transgressive? Or is it an attempt to erase, blur, break down walls? To what extent can the common reader learn to accept and appreciate that these boundaries and borderlines are, and have always been, invisible? I am struggling to answer these questions for myself. I read something interesting recently in an anthropology essay about liminality. "Vermin" was used as a metaphor for boundary crossers. Rats and other critters that sneak into our homes, where they don't belong, have breached the social contract. They are pests that must be taken care of, must be returned to their place. I've been thinking about this a lot with regard to so many invisible boundaries socially constructed around us. The metaphor works for just about any marginalized individual, group, or social structure that attempts to move. I've only just begun to wonder about the broad-spectrum potential of what more play in literature might mean, what might come of more widespread generic boundary crossing, because if we can learn to be more willing to allow these shapes and forms to shift and mutate then perhaps we'll be less rigid in other areas of our lives, too. I'd like to continue to talk about "feminist acts." When did you first begin to recognize, in your own work, your feminist investments? KMD: I definitely agree that writing against genre embodies many forms of resistance, since it is often those in power who delineate genre categories. And it's frightening how these generic categories shape cultural production and the ways that we inhabit language. I first began to recognize my feminist investments as an M.A. candidate in continental philosophy at the University of Missouri. Many of my colleagues were working within the analytic tradition, and their work drew heavily from logic and the sciences. I was immediately struck by the strict genre conventions that bound their work, and as a result, their thinking, and what was possible within their writing. Research papers always... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
Julie Babcock's stunning first collection of poems, Autoplay, offers spare, carefully crafted lyrics that are as familiar as they are uncanny. By invoking the seemingly tame imagery of Midwestern cities, the poems in this striking collection lull the reader into a sense of complacency, only to skillfully undermine this expectation that they will encounter a familiar narrative. As the book unfolds, Babcock excavates violence, discontent, and enchantment from beneath an unremarkable exterior—marked by "the green hills of the gold course," "baby-sitters," and "breath against the mirror"—restoring a sense of both danger and wonder to everyday life. In doing so, Babock offers the reader a perfect matching of form and content, particularly as her stylistic dexterity illuminates and complicates the content of the work itself. With that in mind, Babcock's use of received literary forms to deliver unexpected content is particularly impressive. She draws a parallel between inherited modes of writing (of which couplets, tercets, and quatrains are only a few examples) and the Midwestern cultural landscape, suggesting that both have been made to seem inhospitable to creative endeavors, but can give rise to stunning imaginative work if we allow them to. She writes in "Ohio Apologia," A twin can never divide her wealth. I planned to go where I'd never melt into a mold of virgin or slut. I wanted to love you to love myself. I crossed the rivers with my bag of stealth my story line revised and trussed, but a twin can never divide her wealth. Here Babcock simultaneously inhabits a traditional literary form and received ideas about femininity, suggesting that one can work within these bits of inherited culture to expand what is possible within them. In much the same way that the speaker herself is "twinned," her story line is "revised and trussed," suggesting the inherent instability of both literary traditions and narratives of identity. Autoplay is filled with beautifully crafted poems like this one, which offer a carefully constructed relationship between style and content. Along these lines, I found Babcock's use of domestic imagery compelling and provocative, especially as she suggest the violence inherent in being confined to a given place. She creates a wonderful tension between the confines of formal poetry and the volatility of the images contained within these formally pristine edifices, suggesting the inevitable discontent with one's origins. Consider "Autoplay," I am the baby-sitter. She is snuggled so close we might be one. We hear a noise and flee the house. "We're safe," I say, as we jump on the outdoor trampoline. Double somersaults of fear... For Babcock, a particular place entails not just mere surroundings, but specific gender roles, modes of communication, and narratives of identity. In much the same way that the speakers' voices are contained within neatly presented tercets, couplets, and pantoums, the violence inherent in narratives of place is also subsumed within these orderly forms. What's fascinating about this tension between style and content is the way that Babcock subtly suggests that conflict, and contradiction, can reside... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
KMD: I've truly enjoyed reading all three of your books, and was intrigued by the dream-like quality of the poems in Arco Iris. They seem at once ethereal and carefully grounded in concrete imagery, rendering everyday things (like coffee, used electronics, and the sky above) suddenly and wonderfully strange. Along these lines, many of the poems take place in an unnamed tropical location, which for the reader, is both anywhere and nowhere, a tangible place place and a psychological one. With that in mind, I'd love to hear your thoughts about the relationship between travel, the literary arts, and the human psyche. What does travel make possible within your writing practice? And within conscious experience? SV: That's interesting. I don't think of Arco Iris as dreamlike or unspecific. It's actually named a few times as South America-- many regions in South America-- a continent my partner and I traveled for a few months about nine years ago. The book is, in my experience of it and my intentions for it, a kind of anti travel-poetry. Or a rejection of the trope of travel (especially of the white traveler going to a brown place to have a "writing experience" or to buy themselves an authentic transformational experience or etc.). It is a book in which I can't write or think myself out of a scenario in which my movement in the world (as a white American, especially) is not complicit with neoliberal violence and/or globalism and its many layers and types and shades of (economic, racial, political, physical...) violences. I wonder if the ethereal experience you had of it was what I felt to be the spellcasting of capitalism--you try to say something against capitalism, it is immediately appropriated as a product of capitalism (and neutralized?), ad infinitum. But along those lines, after having read your Music for another life and Vow-- I'd love to ask--what do the ethereal, the dreamlike, the bride, and the book mean for you in those collections? And perhaps related, do you understand or do you think through your work on a book-by-book level, or a poem-by-poem level, or as a group of books together, or...? KMD: That's a great question. I've always thought of reading as a kind of travel, in which one is carried from consciousness as we know it into a kind of dream state. For me, the physical object of the book facilitates this transformation, this dreaming as much as the work itself. As much as I hate to admit it, it all begins (for me at least) with the book's cover, as well as its size, texture, the way it feels in the hand. It is for this reason that I love to be very involved in the design of my books. When Max Avi Kaplan and I co-wrote Music for another life, we actually typeset the entire book, designed the cover, and selected the cover image from within the collaboration, presenting it to the publisher as a finished, fully-realized product.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
John Gallaher's finely crafted poetry collection, In a Landscape, reads as an exercise in blurring boundaries, an effort to challenge the received models of writing, reading, and authorship that we have become accustomed to. Presented as a book-length sequence of linked lyric pieces, which appear in long, Whitman-esque lines, the work in this stunning new book asks the reader to consider the myriad ways that poetry overlaps and intersects with memoir writing, particularly as Gallaher strives to eliminate any distance between the speaker of the poems and the author. In many ways, Gallaher's work gestures at the artifice inherent in the lyric "I," offering instead poems that allow the reader to observe the inner workings of memory and consciousness experience. Gallaher's work is perhaps most impressive in moments when he creates an expectation on the part of the reader that the work will read like prose, then proceeds to undermine that readerly expectation. For instance, the work is presented in long lines that look, at first glance, like prose, leading the reader to expect a linear narrative, filled with exposition, that creates an orderly progression from one event to the next. As the poems unfold, one is surprised and delighted to discover the poems' elliptical and associative logic. By creating this provocative relationship between form and content, Gallaher suggests the artifice of the narratives we create to lend a sense of order to the world around us. He writes, I just forgot how to count Roman numerals, and had to look it up. I used to be good at them, and would always wait for the end of T.V. shows, where I'd get to count the date. The game was: figure out the date before it blinked away... Here Gallaher presents us with lines that look like prose on the page, but remind us that consciousness and memory are inevitably fragmentary, no matter what narratives we construct around them. In many ways, Gallaher prompts the reader to see the beauty inherent in fragmentation, suggesting that these brief episodic narratives and associative leaps remain closer to the truth than the clear linear progression that one finds so often in prose. In a Landscape is filled with poems like this one, which remind the reader of the artifice inherent in the creation of narrative, which offers only an illusion of wholeness and coherence. Along these lines, Gallaher's associative and elliptical narratives suggest that consciousness itself is fragmentary, and memory represents only our efforts to lend a sense of continuity to our experience of the world around us. The poems in this carefully crafted collection frequently use the style of the work to make this ambitious philosophical argument, offering the reader a perfect matching of form and content. Consider this passage, The other night we drove downtown and something was on fire somewhere. We could smell it and see smoke, but we couldn't tell exactly where it was. A little to the east and south of the parking lot, I think? What's most... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
Formal Innovation & Textual Rupture: A Conversation Between Kristina Marie Darling & Tony Trigilio [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Kristina Marie Darling: Your new book, The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 1, offers readers an extended engagement with 1960s mass culture, exploring the myriad ways that television and radio shape the individual consciousness. This idea that culture determines what is possible within thought, and within the human mind, is gracefully enacted in the content of the poems, which appear as pristine couplets. I'm intrigued, though, by moments when the form is broken, and the poems deviate from the pattern that has been established. As the writer, how do you know when a form should be broken? What does breaking form make possible within the content of your work? Tony Trigilio: Thanks so much for your detailed reading of the book. My hope is that, as you mentioned, readers can identify with the ways mass media and individual consciousness shape each other in the book. As I get deeper into Vol. 2 of the Dark Shadows project (about half-finished with the second volume now), I gain a deeper appreciation of mass media's roots in the verb "to mediate." I realize the connection is obvious: but it's one thing to experience media/mediation intellectually, and an entirely different thing to experience it psychically and viscerally. Like all of us, the development of my own psyche was mediated by electronic communication—for me, it was television and radio, and for folks growing up now, it's digital media. It just so happens that the mediating force for me was a kitschy vampire and all the nightmares he caused me (though I was way too young to understand he was kitschy). As scary as the continual nightmares were, they did introduce me to the power of dream and to the idea that dream-reality is as vital and real as waking-reality. I appreciate your remarks on the symmetry of the couplets, and, perhaps more important, your remarks about those moments when I break the couplets. For me, the breaking of the couplets creates an asymmetry that speaks back to the formal boundaries I've deliberately imposed on the project. The accumulating couplets lead, for me, to a weirdly discontinuous feeling of finality in each segment of stanzas. By "discontinuous," I mean that each segment of couplets sustains itself until eventually reaching a resolution (the one-line stanzas that break the couplets) that is really not a resolution at all, because, ideally, it resists the expectation for continuously symmetrical couplets. It resists the desire for resolution. My hope is that the one-line stanzas lead the reader to the next segment of couplets as part of an ongoing chain of formal buildup and formal collapse. This dance between structure and collapse offers, for me, an ongoing chain of speech (form) and silence (collapse) always mediated by the white space of the page and the horizontal lines that break up each segment of the book. I'm working with the same couplet structure in Book 2, but I'm also starting to feel like I need to break into a different formal... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2015 at The Best American Poetry
Sam Taylor is the author of two books of poems, Body of the World (Ausable/Copper Canyon Press) and Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry Series, forthcoming), and the recipient of the 2014-2015 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. He is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Wichita State University. Q: Tell me about your forthcoming book, Nude Descending an Empire. A: It develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet engaged with politics, history, and the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological urgency. I wanted to find a poetic voice that could speak into history, speak publically, imaginatively, and nakedly into being alive right now. Living amid global information—and interconnection, and perpetual crisis—I felt it was important to allow "political" concerns into the work in a way that reflected the extent to which they seemed an integral, even an existential, part of one's consciousness in being alive now. Q: The title is fascinating, especially because it situates the poems in relation to the artistic revolutions associated with cubism and literary modernism. Do you see the book as an extension (or revision) of the work of modernist poets like Pound, Eliot, etc.? A: No, that's not really what the title is about for me, although I do love the modernists (and cubism, and surrealism). In some way, in fact, I find contemporary poetry deluded when it considers itself beyond the modernist age. Compared to the monumental originality of Eliot, Apollinaire, W.C. Williams, and Gertrude Stein, the inventions that have happened since seem paltry. The Apollinaire of Calligrammes or the Williams of Spring and All still read as more innovative and fresh today than most contemporary avant-garde work, and so much work seems to recycle what these and other modernists already did a hundred years ago. But, the book is titled Nude Descending an Empire for other reasons, at least as much as "reasons" are what determine any title. Titles usually come to me out of the collective ether, and I say yay or nay, or maybe. My first book had no good title until I did a five-day hermitage in the mountains with that as the express purpose, and on the third day the title came to me (yes, on stone tablets), and I knew it was right—and then for the last two days I just ate almond butter and walked among the elk. Nude Descending an Empire came to me much the same way, although while shuffling through the rooms of my house in Wichita, and it felt right because it seemed to connect all the aspects of the book: the poems of political engagement and empire; the poems of hyper-modernity; the poems of wilderness and ecological crisis; the poems of sexuality and naked intimacy of self. What the allusion does invoke for me, however, is the international character of the book's sensibility. I have probably been influenced by international poetry as much as by U.S. poetry. Poets like Yehuda Amichai, Garcia Lorca, Yannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2014 at The Best American Poetry
Guest edited by Denise Duhamel, The Best American Poetry 2013 represents a diverse array of literary styles. Indeed, the poems included in the volume range from numbered lists, couplets, and prose blocks to lyric verse. What's impressive about this volume is the variety of not only poetic forms that are represented, but also the assortment of publications and poets that are included. By culling pieces from web-based publications (The Awl and Plume, for example) as well as from both emerging and established poets, Duhamel has thoroughly contemporized this classic anthology, rendering The Best American Poetry compatible with twenty-first century values and aesthetics. With that in mind, the anthology is at its best when inherited literary forms (couplets, the lyric, etc.) are brought into new syntactic and thematic contexts. Frequently, the work in this anthology places received forms of discourse in dialogue with "circus elephants," "snipers' bullets," and "DVDs." Consider Mark Jarman's piece, "George W. Bush," How much is anyone whose heart speaks for him responsible for what his heart has told him? The occupation of the heart is pumping blood, but for some it is to offer counsel, especially if it has been so changed all that it ways must finally be trusted. What's fascinating about this poem is that Jarman invokes a received form (the lyric) to discuss the contemporary shift from religiosity to scientific inquiry. In many ways, Jarman positions the poet as an observer of these cultural shifts and schisms, suggesting that he or she holds a mirror to culture. I'm intrigued by Jarman's re-envisioning of the lyric "I" as communal, and so the lyric is no longer rooted in individual subjectivity, but rather, it becomes a collective form of address. The Best American Poetry 2013 is filled with poems like this one, which re-envision what is possible within inherited literary forms. Along these lines, the work included in this fine anthology often conflates antiquity with modernity, portraying even the most commonplace experiences as historically sedimented. For many of the poets included, we bear the weight of history with us, even as we traverse a contemporary landscape. Consider Traci Brimhall's "Dear Thanatos," I found the wedding dress unharmed, my baby teeth sewn to the cuff. There's a deer in the woman, a moth in the chimney, a mote in God's one good eye. I'm fascinated by Brimhall's presentation of the wedding dress, which appears as cultural artifact, a tangible vestige of a complex and difficult past. In much the same way that the bride bears her "baby teeth" with her on the "cuff" of her dress, Brimhall suggests that we carry myth, ritual, and history with us in even the most commonplace endeavors. The anthology is filled with poems like this one, which prove as thought-provoking as they are finely crafted. With that in mind, The Best American Poetry 2013 is an engaging, carefully orchestrated, and balanced snapshot of the contemporary literary landscape. Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2014 at The Best American Poetry
Emma Bolden is the author of Maleficae, a book-length series of poems about the witch trials in early modern Europe (GenPop Books, 2013), and medi(t)ations, forthcoming from Noctuary Press. She's also the author of four chapbooks of poetry -- How to Recognize a Lady (part of Edge by Edge, Toadlily Press); The Mariner's Wife, (Finishing Line Press);The Sad Epistles (Dancing Girl Press);This Is Our Hollywood (in The Chapbook) – and one nonfiction chapbook – Georgraphy V, forthcoming from Winged City Press. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Conduit, the Indiana Review, the Greensboro Review, Redivider, Verse, Feminist Studies, The Journal, Guernica, and Copper Nickel. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily's Web Weekly feature. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University. You can find her online at A Century of Nerve. Earlier this week, I had a chance to ask Emma a few questions about her forthcoming book. Q: Tell me about your new book, medi(t)ations, which is forthcoming from Noctuary Press. How is it different from your first book, Maleficae? How is it similar? Formally, there are a lot of similarities between medi(t)ations and Maleficae. Both are book-length projects: in Maleficae, the poems link together to form a narrative about a woman was both worshipped and persecuted for being a witch; though not exactly narrative, the poems in medi(t)ations also build an arc that follows the out-of-body-like experience of severe illness. I see Maleficae more as a poetic sequence, while I see medi(t)ations more as a book-length poem composed of fragments that can also be read individually. The experience of writing both books felt very similar as well – in both cases, the process of writing felt, for lack of a better word, oracular. It felt as though the language just arrived, in these small little fragmented gifts, which was, I suppose, because the material had been living inside of me for so long. I crafted both books in pieces, allowing the fragments to live in draft formation until other fragments accreted around them. In both cases, it took me a long time to figure out how the poems should inhabit the printed page. I've always been a very couplets-and-structured-stanzas-with-no-funny-business-please kind of writer, so I felt very surprised when I found that in order for the poems to work, I had to allow more white space into the poems. I had to allow the white space around and inside the poem, as well as the non-couplets-and-structured-stanzas-funny-business-all-the-way placement of the words, to speak as loudly as the words themselves. At the center of both books lies the idea of silence: the silence of fear and the silencing of women in Maleficae, and the silence of illness, of an inability to articulate the ultimately inarticulable relationship between the bodies we inhabit and the selves that inhabit our bodies, in medi(t)ations. Q: I find it fascinating that the title of the collection, medi(t)ations, lends itself to many... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2014 at The Best American Poetry
In Leah Umansky's beautifully written and poignant first book, Domestic Uncertainties, readers will find failed courtships, nineteenth century novels left in ruins, and the "nomenclature for what is left." Presented as an extended sequence of hybrid genre vignettes, which use elements of poetry, flash fiction, and lyric essay, Umansky's finely crafted collection presents a provocative matching of form and content. Frequently invoking Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and other nineteenth century fictions by women, Umansky gracefully situates these female writers within the context of twenty-first century post-genre writing, a thought-provoking gesture that proves at turns reverent and destructive. I find it fascinating that these hybrid genre pieces simultaneously inhabit and revise literary tradition. The work of nineteenth century women writers is no longer forced into male forms of discourse, but rather, Umanksy forges new possibilities for representing and depicting women's lived experience. For instance, Emily Bronte's famed characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, appear in fragmented, elliptical, and thoroughly postmodern prose. These stylistic choices suggest that as Adrienne Rich once argued, women should not write in literary forms that are hostile to them, but rather, should seek out new possibilities for representing their experiences. Consider "What Literature Teaches Us About Love," And after death there is no heart. And after death there is no unknowing for what could've been there is only what is. And there is only what has. And Love. Always Love. I'm intrigued by Umansky's treatment of the poem as a space in which intervention into literary tradition becomes possible. Just as she re-imagines Wuthering Heights from a fragmented, postmodern stylistic standpoint, Umansky presents each poem as a theoretical act, an active engagement with the work that came before her own. Domestic Uncertainties is filled with poems like this one, which read as both conversation with and revision of received wisdom. Along these lines, Umansky's appropriation of received forms of discourse for novel purposes proves to be innovative and engaging as the book unfolds. By presenting the reader with mislaid dictionary definitions, multiple choice questions, and fill in the blanks, Umansky calls upon the reader to assume a more active role, allowing them to participate in the process of creating meaning alongside the poet. In many ways, this also constitutes a radical and thought-provoking revision of the nineteenth century tradition that she has inherited. Umansky writes, Larger than life; epically grand. Just give me the extra mile! If you call it a _________________, it's a __________________. You define what is familiar. Don't the homophones all sound like "you?" Make me: everything. Here Umansky's innovative use of form leaves space for the reader's imagination, allowing them to situate their own experience within the narrative that's being presented. I find it fascinating that Umansky has revised not only the nineteenth century novels she references, but the relationship between artist and audience that these texts embodied. Here the reader appears as collaborator, an idea that not only destabilizes meaning within the text, but affords a wide range of possible interpretations, each one as... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2014 at The Best American Poetry
Richard Siken's poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review and Forklift, Ohio, as well as in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2000 and Legitimate Dangers. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, a Lannan Foundation residency, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His second book, War of the Foxes, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2015. Q: Tell me about your forthcoming book, War of the Foxes. RS: The poems in War of the Foxes address the problems of representation in three arenas: painting, fable, and math. All three attempt to make languages out of symbols, representations used to describe the world. And all three succeed and fail in different ways. I wanted to explore the Socratic Method of question and answer, the Scientific Method of hypothesis and measurement, and the Poetic Method of association and analogy. Q: Your first book, Crush, was published in 2005, and readers have been eagerly awaiting your second collection. Why was it important to take a long breath between the two books? What does time make possible for the artistic process? RS: For months after I finished Crush, I felt like I had nothing left to say. Or even a way of saying it. I had talked myself out completely. I began painting again, not vey well, but since my paintings were never very good, and there was no hope of making them good, I was liberated from the pressure of an audience. I became silent. I squeezed the tubes and pushed the colors around. I did have more to say, I just couldn't -- at the time -- say it with words. This was a crystallizing moment, and led to the lines: Blackbird, he says. So be it, indexed and normative. But it isn't a bird, it's a man in a bird suit, blue shoulders instead of feathers, because he isn't looking at a bird, real bird, as he paints, he is looking at his heart, which is impossible. Unless his heart is a metaphor for his heart, as everything is a metaphor for itself, so that looking at the paint is like looking at a bird that isn't there, with a song in its throat that you don't want to hear but you paint anyway. The hand is a voice that can sing what the voice will not, and the hand wants to do something useful. As for time making things possible, and the long breath between books, I can't say anything useful. Writing and publishing are different. I write when I want to, I share when I want to. They rarely match up and they have -- for me -- very little relationship to calendar time. I wish I had a better... Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2014 at The Best American Poetry


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New South WalesAnnie was a Bayesian....
As many previous posts attest to, I am a massive fan of kickstarter.com as a funding vehicle for various different private projects, but most notably comics and board games in my case!Recommend
I kicked off my kickstarter backing with Alien Frontiers and have not looked back since!
The most recent addition to my backing collection was Mirror, Mirror, which I personally think was a little under-rated, it only just made its funding goal yet it is an awesome game.
This is the point of this little geeklist - there are now so many game projects on the site, one can miss some gems that are on the list but aren't:
* Re-releases of major games
* Re-releases from a previously successful publisher
* Have a hook like Cthulu or something similar
These types of projects usually smash their targets e.g. Miskatonic School for Girls, but smaller projects find it a bit trickier.
Herewith three games that are a bit slower on the uptake but in my opinion look awesome!
I also include one game on this list that isn't a Kickstarter project, but really deserves to get funded.
Look forward to comments and adds from others
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Natural Print – Constance Jablonski spends a day grocery shopping for the February cover shoot of Vogue Latin America, shot by Jean-François Campos. Wearing a wardrobe of eclectic prints from the likes of Dolce & Gabbana, Prabal Gurung and Jason Wu selected by fashion editor Sarah Gore Reeves, Constance makes the task of buying fruit and veggies look glamorous. Hair by Dennis Devoy and makeup by Brigitte Reis Anderson bring a ladylike touch to the blonde's colorful ensembles. / Art Direction by John Paul Tran @ Bridges Artists, Production by Rachel Stein Campos @ Group 64 for Brydges Mackinney
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Also models have to do their shopping!
Grocery shopping gone fashionable, Constance wows me.
Vraiment très mauvais, cet édito fait peur ! On prend une mannequin, on l'emmène faire des courses, on lui passe un pot de confiture et Hop c est dans Vogue, une belle performance artistique ! Chapeau l artiste.
I like the contrast the styling made against the bright colours in the supermarket. It also strikes sense of irony, since most people in the background are dress down and are actually "normal."
absolutely stunning. best story i've seen in vogue latin america
I actually really like this story. It's cute and ironic. Not sure how I feel about the post-processing, but the styling is nice and Constance looks great.
Gorgeous! Love the fluorescents and the pastels and yes, the irony…
Looks like Barbie getting her groceries
Just had to say, I really like the shoes on the little old lady!
Love the colour, the lights, the makeup and the clothes!! Good photography also
heinous makeup
Everything is great except for the overdone retouching. Mannequin.
This spread is all over the internet and I just cannot seem to get enough of it! It's gorgeous!
you must be kidding. this is scarry. it is really a very bad editorial.
I love this! Love the styling and her posing! everything matched so well!
Ah ah…what about the original ?? : http://homepage.newschool.edu/~quigleyt/vcs/sontag_db/pages/adelman-1964-warhol.html


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As we talk about security and Microsoft Azure, traditional antimalware is still a topic of discussion and something that is still needed. If you've created a Virtual Machine in Azure through the gallery, you've probably seen that you now have the ability to add security extensions to your virtual machines.
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As organizations struggle to provide users with meaningful solutions to improve daily work, user adoption has become a big area of focus. In many cases, the adoption issue has little or nothing to do with the technology and really comes down to the culture, the people and the end goal.
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By taking the time to incorporate some of the small items below into your solutions you will help your users to easily navigate, integrate and utilize your solutions. Often times as people build solutions they forget or overlook the smallest things -- which can have a large impact.
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- Summary: Set on a remote lake in South Korea, this is the story of a damaged cop and a mute innkeeper.
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Next month on June 11th 2008 I'm presenting at this public event on the Microsoft campus. Come along if you want to get an overview of SharePoint development.
I will be giving two talks there. One is a full on demo session going over different things you can build with the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services. The second one will be on Page Branding of SharePoint Sites using Visual Studio.
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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations - Tags - 2013_federal_budget The official blog of the IBM Middleware team, sharing expert opinions on the important role that middleware plays in your digital transformation. 1 2016-01-15T23:33:13-05:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-f062e3b9-8769-4e54-9d5c-7dd85077ee3f How do governments provide greater, more personalized services? Shaku Selvakumar firstname.lastname@example.com 060001XT47 active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2012-03-19T16:01:21-04:00 2012-03-19T16:01:21-04:00 Contributed by Christopher Schmitt, WebSphere Marketing Manager - Government

The release of President Obama's 2013 Federal Budget has confirmed the suspected trend of relative stagnation, with an increase of only 0.2% up to $3.8 trillion. Information technology (IT) spending is expected to be at $78.9 billion, a reduction of $586 million or 0.7% of the overall budget. And while the U.S. Federal budget is only a portion of national government spending worldwide, we believe it is an indicator of what we can expect to see across all levels of government globally. So even as the economy slowly recovers, governments will work to control and reduce their spending in order to repay the debts that many have accumulated over the past several years.

But even as the total of government spending has flat lined, except in specific cases such as Greece, the amount of services and benefits provided to constituents will not be reduced. Citizens expect to receive at least the same if not greater levels of services from their governments that do not have the resources to grow accordingly – at least not by continuing to do business as usual. The time is right to start looking at innovative technologies that will enable service growth without raising the overall level of financial commitment from agencies, states and even cities. The question, then, is this: How do governments provide greater, more personalized services to a growing number of citizens with little or no expense increase?

To determine the answer, one must look not just at what is being delivered but also at how it is being delivered, in order to provide the best value – both internally to the responsible government agency and externally to the citizens and other constituents that it serves. The "e-government" revolution was the first step toward delivering new services more quickly and easily, but progress can't stop there. Now there must be a drive to evaluate internal processes, optimize the time and cost for delivering services, and truly to embrace continuous process improvement. IBM advocates a holistic and automated approach to process reengineering, and it offers a business process and operational decision management solution that choreographs the interaction between people and IT to deliver complete, accurate and timely results consistently.

IBM Business Process Manager™ (BPM), enabled by Smart Service Oriented Architecture (Smart SOA™) and interoperating with WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WODM) ™, is helping governments to deliver citizen-centered experiences, enable agility and accountability as required by new laws and regulations, automatically sense and respond to change, take rules-based action based on this situational awareness, facilitate environmentally responsible operations, and enable interoperability across previously siloed systems. Governments are expected to deliver results and value through secure, personalized services that are available anywhere and at any time to businesses, citizens, employees, other governments, suppliers and various other constituencies. Traditional government processes must adapt quickly and easily to policy and regulatory changes or risk becoming irrelevant. IBM BPM and WODM can help government organizations like yours optimize administrative operations, improve citizen services, and streamline governmental civilian and defense services in a manner that is consistent with reduced budgets and cost control mandates. With IBM BPM and WODM, your agency subject matter experts can automate crucial business processes and integrate key systems cost-effectively with minimal IT staff intervention.

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As the Republican presidential race heads to a crucial contest in Michigan, supporters of Mitt Romney have accused Rick Santorum of being too aligned win organized labor to win widespread support in a Republican primary. Other than social issues, Santorum is "a member of the liberal wing of the Republican party," former Sen. Jim Talent told reporters on a conference call this week, adding that Santorum supported union-friendly bills that "intrude on employer rights."
Critics point to Santorum's Senate votes against a National Right to Work Act, in favor of Davis-Bacon wage rates, and in favor of raising the minimum wage to show that Santorum was overtly pro-union. But in his speech to the Detroit Economic Club Thursday afternoon, Santorum had an answer ready when asked how he would handle organized labor as president.
"I've been attacked as the 'big union' Republican in this race," Santorum said. "I went back to look at my AFL-CIO scorecard, and I had a 13 percent rating. If that's 'big union' in the Republican party, I guess we've narrowed the field quite a bit, haven't we?"
A look at the AFL-CIO's ratings shows that Santorum is correct about his record. The union group's website has posted ratings for senators going back to 1996, Santorum's second year in office. And for most years his rating was indeed quite low, indicating that big labor did not particularly like the way he voted. In some cases, Santorum's rating was lower than some conservative stalwart lawmakers, and even Jim Talent himself.
Santorum's highest rating came in 1996, when the AFL-CIO gave him a score of 21. (In comparison, Santorum's liberal Republican colleague from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, earned a rating of 65.) These are Santorum's ratings for the rest of his time in office: 1997, 19; 1998, 15; 1999, 17; 2000, 14; 2001, 14; 2002, 14; 2003, 12; 2004, 12; 2005, 11; 2006, 13.
For some comparisons, in 2004, 2005, and 2006, Sen. Talent's ratings were 16, 15, and 22 -- all higher than Santorum's. (In 2006, Talent was in a tough, and ultimately losing, re-election battle.) To make one more comparison, in 2005, Santorum's AFL-CIO rating of 11 was lower than Sen. Jim DeMint's rating of 14. In 2006, Santorum's 13 rating was lower than DeMint's rating of 17.
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What would an Oracle, as the Oracle of Delphi, a Seer, or the wisest man in the world say about these things that are presented to society today and that are happening in our world?
This makes sure that the rights of the people are protected by the Constitution of America. This is for all natural born people in the United States, that we have this right.
All citizens of the United States of America should have an equal voice in the political process.
No person or artificial entity (such as a corporation or secrt society that controls the majority of the entire Senate by means of bribes and black mail and other methods of mind control, which leads to illegal closed door sessions of Congress and the careless rudeness to let nuclear power plants be left leaking to posion the people because they have no heart, as with the environment, showing their true colors of their evil nature. Note that there is also another global sized secrt society on the commism asia side of equal power. If no secrt societies existed in the world, the world would be a better place for all people and for all life, and the Earth would be allowed to HEAL) should gain an undue influence over the government as a result of financial resources.
Money should not be allowed to control and run the government, nor should secrt societies, on either side of the globe, for capitalism or commism, be allowed to pull the strings of all people and countries and governments, and to run the world. Secrt societies were not LEGALLY elected by the people, for the people, and "because" of the people; as in the Declaration of Independence where what we want is our independence from this secrt society. Secrt societies were first formed in 500 BC, during the time of the Greeks.
Ever since, whether they claim that it is a democracy -- when that is a lie because it is really an oligarchy -- the secrt societies have been running the government. If the secrt societies were just and righteous, they would heal the Earth, not poison the people, blatantly turning their backs, and corrupting the heads of all the good orgranizations that have the potential to bring good to this earth and to protect it, life, the animals, and its people, the children of the Creator; and they should not "lie" about a fake democracy, when it never has been since 500 BC, where all poltical decisions can be manipulated or changed to their decisions instead of the votes of the people, by one means or another, but through the vessel of people to act as the vessels of evil because of their money and mind control corruption that has psychologically altered their minds.
This is to address the Declaration of Independence whereby all men are created equal. This addresses the human inequality of society today, and of previous civilizations 2,500 years ago -- and all those inbetween.
Where it should be the people's government. Answerable to the people. But if it is answerable to the rich and WE THE PEOPLE are no longer the government, then do not call it a democracy, but instead call it what it is -- a Monarchy, controled by the royal family, whereby the oligarchy is composed of the members of the royal family. And that if the only means by which to make the final political decisions are made for a country are bound only by those humans who have royal blood, then this is still carrying on the tradition of a Monarchy based system, and that all men are NOT created equal, but are born so by royal lineage.
With government subsidies and tax breaks, the corporations pay less taxes than a common person. If the corporations paid their fair share, as they should be doing, like the WE THE PEOPLE citizens of the United States do, even though 70% of Americas are in debt and still pay higher taxes than the corporations (does that make sense, or seem, in ANY way, logical to you? That the poor should pay more taxes (percentage of income wise) than the rich? The more money that we allow these rich people to swindle us with, the stronger that this secrt society will become, politically, economically, and in every way until all of our rights and freedoms will be slowly squeezed from us just like the pennies that they take from us, one penny at a time, so that it is virtually unnoticeable, but that, over a period of hundreds of years, can produce profound effects, such as the enslavement of all humans on the earth, like endentured slaves who owed to much) then the national deficit would be paid off, and the nation's infrastructure and falling bridges could be repaired. And, at this point we could start rebuilding society and healing the land and the Earth as our Creator had intended for it to be before Man ever walked this Earth.
Federal, state, and local governments shall be fully empowered to regulate all political contributions and expenditures to meet this goal. All political contributions and expenditures shall be publicly disclosed in a full and timely manner, which doesn't make sense why we even have to vote for this, because of the Freedom of Information Act, that allows for the government to spy on all citizens of its country and to compile files about every phone call and email that you have ever made, among other things, but that WE THE PEOPLE have to "vote" to be allowed to have access to this Freedom of Information Act for how the money is spent? The rich were able to use the Freedom of Information Act even when there hadn't been the Freedom of Information Act that was passed, but the poor common people like you and me, or anyone who has less than 1 billion dollars who are not members, have to vote to be "able" to use the Freedom of Information Act? Are these people evil or what? Oh, I see, they are paid off -- it is hushed up and quieted. But don't worry, people only "disappear" rarely to assure that their power is maintained (JFK); usually other methods are used instead to make it seem legal, like digging up dirt on someone -- a fallacy, Red Herring, distraction from the issue at hand and a blatant error in logic, but a successful ploy nonetheless.
Why do we need this Constitution of America? Why is it importaint? And what happens when, through money or otherwise, it is changed to allow for the rich to have more power over us, and not how it was originally intended by our forefathers, the founders of our nation, the United States of America, such as allowing corporations to be treated like "people". That would be as absurb as calling a million dollar bill (a peice of paper, which is the printed money of a nation, like the 1 dollar bill) a person, by the amended rights of the Constitution of America. That a 1 dollar bill has the rights of a person, as a citizen of this country, or of any life form that still yet lives on this Earth. What this does, is to make it so that dead money, or dead trees in this case, have more power than even citizens of your own country; where life in this world that is a world that is ruled by money, life and death can be bought just as a common commodity at the store or marketplace. And that when the 1 dollar bill has more rights and freedoms than even the people of its nation, then the results can be globally harmful, and will lead to higher and higher levels of poison that the rich force us to drink and to ingest; that when the world is not ruled by love instead, harmful things happen to the Earth and it people, to the children of the Creator, and to all living things on this Earth. This leads to more trees being cut down, greater pollution, and higher levels of extinction, until the entire food chain is effected. And huimans are on this food chain. So, as you can see, this addresses our unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But corporations are not citizens and should not be treated like one, with the legal rights of a person. A corporation is not a person, nor is a corporation a legal citizen. By allowing corporations to have the rights of a person, they are legally able to gain certain rights, and then when it is convenient, they can also call a corporation not a single entity for blame (so they are not responsible. So then if he (the corporation) does harm to society that is illegal, who do you blame? -- you can't, says legality, because a corportation is not a person); and, as the corporation is not a person, so again, it is able to legally slip through several loopholes.
If you are wondering why we need this, then I will tell you. In the case of the Citizens United, our Supreme Court decided that those with money have a CONSTITUTIONAL right to "spend" <unlimited> and *anonymous* dollars to influence elections. It also influences legislation through the use of independent committees, organizations, and superPACs. This has had severe consequences that threaten our democratic republic.
By allowing for unlimited money to be in elections, this means that our representatives (some of them being members of the secrt society, while others are only just paid off, black mailed, or otherwise mind controlled)
spend most of their time fundraising (there would be no need for fundraising, as the political representatives would not get paid {or their wages would be that of a common person at minimum wage for $10.50 per hour} -- so that they did it because of their heart and not the wad of money in their pocket -- in a world that was ruled by love, where society was a Utopia, a perfect society: this is one where the strength of our Maker could be felt by every person in our society, in every way, for the mind, body, and spirit; for life that allows for opportunities to bring to you, for many people to care about you, and for bridges to not collapse on you (this is a scary experience for people, this loss of love, or lack thereof, when their car starts sliding into the river), nor to have a foul poison taste in your mouth from the poison apple of nuclear waste or pollution when you eat or drink something) instead of working on real solutions to real problems, and not allowing for the 95% rich people's owned media of television and newspapers to talk instead about, to distract us with trivial insignificant issues when importaint things are at hand, or are at stake, as the case may be. This type of tactic in logic, is better known as the Red Herring strategy, and it is a method that Socrates could tell you well about, for it is an error in logic. And Plato would frown, for he would know that it is not logical, to side step, or to scapegoat the issue. These importaint issues need to be addressed.
Inorder to keep the campaign coffers filled, the time they do spend on legislation tends to serve the needs of their major donors (the very very rich, the corporations, the secrt society) -- instead of the needs of WE THE PEOPLE. Nor does this serve the well-being of our country. Most independent spending (70-80%) buys negative advertising. So why is negative advertising even allowed? In a Utopia, a world that is ruled by love, where God's heart is our champion, WE THE PEOPLE would own the media and rich people would not be allowed to own more than 5% of the media (which they could use as a 24/7, day and night, 7 days a week channel for endless advertising for consumer products to subliminally or otherwise convince us to buy, and so that it allows for the rest of television to be 100% commercial free, to erase the subliminal mind control brain washing effects that this media influences pychologically upon us, and to gain our freedom from being locked into the system, a system by which the rich/government hate and try to eliminate any and all those who are not shackled into the system, like for example, those on land that they do not pay taxes, or do not drive a car and buy gas, etc -- or for those environmentalists who get in the way of the big corporations making money because they care about the earth and it being destroyed; or for those genuis level people who are inventors and create the most marvelous things that could dramatically help society and reduce the costs of the standard of living and for everyday household items and products that we use by making these people conveniently disappear, with a wad of cash in an envelop to the significant other to quite them up; and then send the men in black suits to harass, threaten, and intimidate the rest). In a perfect society, no political advertising -- negative or otherwise -- would be allowed. In a perfect society, there would be no "representatives" representing WE THE PEOPLE, because "the people" would be the representatives instead, and could vote on "every" issue that there is in "the people's government", instead of how it is now, where WE THE PEOPLE are only "able" to vote for about 5% of the issues and the "representatives" vote for the rest.
Why is this importaint? Because negative advertising works!! -- just like any other form of subliminal brain washing mind control technique. So when WE THE PEOPLE only own 5% of the media, WE THE PEOPLE get voted out of political office by the very very rich members. Have you ever wondered why only millionaires and billionaires are the ones who ever hold political office? -- especially for the higher titles of office? It is not just coincidence, it is by design. Even without the power that the secrt society has when it pulls strings like a marriotte from ALL levels of society, with members from economically low to high and in all positions of society, money itself, used in advertising contributes to why they are elected over someone else, which says to me, that in this system of government/secrt society, or in a world that is ruled by money, a poor person will NEVER be elected as president or to "any" political office, meaning then, that all of our supposed "representatives" are not true representatives, as they represent the rich since they ARE the rich. In that, the only "true" way to truly represent the people, as in WE THE PEOPLE, where the majority of the United States are common people like you and me, would be to have ALL "representatives" that are in political office be commoners (poor people who have less than $5,000 dollars to their name, or even less, such as being in debt). Until then, this government of the people, by the people, and for the people will never be a democratic republic by WE THE PEOPLE, nor will be a free people. And until then, as long as these secrt societies rule the Earth, the Earth will be devistated and then slowly destroyed, with all life squeezed from it like the pennies from your pocket, instead of the Earth being healed.
Money represents death, decay, poison, and corruption; and world domination, Absolute Power, no rights and freedoms, an oligarchy, and the extreme debt that forces people into indentured slavery. And a democratic republic by WE THE PEOPLE represents life, hope, healing; and of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Trust me, ever since 500 BC, the secrt societies have been researching how to control and enslave the masses, and have studied the human mind and how it works and how it can be corrupted and manipulated. Ever heard of the "acid tests" or waterboarding? Allowing unlimited "dark" money in elections greatly increases negative advertising.
We are not opposed to corporations: as these are government-defined legal structures for doing business. What we are opposed to is preventing genuises from being able to release new technology to the public and to society so that it can be mass produced to help the environment with these environmental friendly products. And to encourage the rich people/corporations, as corporations are currently a person, as in the rights that they have, then WE THE PEOPLE "are the governemment" make him (the corporation), pay more taxes if they do not produce all, or a majority of their products at first, so that they are producing environmentally friendly products. And that, by meeting the environmental standards for the rating categories of: 1> the type energy that is used to produce the consumer product, 2> the biodegradability or recyclable ability of the product, 3> the amount of waste for energy or material that is made in the manufacture of this product or in the use by the consumer -- the corporations will then pay the same percentage in taxes as the common person, like you and me; otherwise, they will have to pay a higher percentage of taxes and be subject to other forms of prejudice by WE THE PEOPLE, and a it will be well documented to the public what they have done or are still doing.
Corporations should NOT be treated as equals to natural-born people, as the Supreme Court has interpreted. When unlimited political power is given to unchecked economic power -- the result is the development of a
secrt society. And is defined by this result, which is plutocracy: this is a government by the wealthy versus the government by the people. We must clarify the difference between corporations and natural born people in the Constitution of America in order for US to reclaim our "democracy" <shhh, oligarchy>.
We are volunteers, caretakers of the Earth, who care about the Earth and the lives of its people in society and for the life on the face of the Earth. We are concerned about the monumental increase in the role of big money in determining WHO "represents" US politically. We are CONCERNED about the decisions that the dollar bill makes. They used to circulate the $10,000 dollar bill in our currency. How many people do you know use this kind of currency?
Get BIG MONEY OUT of politics!
"We the People" means PEOPLE, not corporations.
1. To use nuclear power as a nation's energy source.
[As, it is not worth the risk of a death causing pollution that lasts for 2 million years, especially since it only contributes to 10% of our nation's energy that our nation uses]
2. To build a nuclear power plant next to a river or ocean (like in Japan where it spilled into the ocean).
[never mind the danger of this poisonous pollution seeping into the water table itself! God forbid, that would just be plain inconsiderate]
3. To turn your back upon the people, living creatures, and the Earth -- your people and the citizens of your nation when pollution is spilled and nuclear waste is leaking out into the earth and into the river; by the Hand of God, as the vessel of God's spirit, for the Works of God here on this Earth, and blatantly refuse to clean it up, even when it is presented as a legal matter?
[You'd have to be evil to intentionally poison your people]
4. When other forms of environmentally sound energy are available, to use nuclear power instead.
5. To cause the people of this Earth to become mutant creatures because of this nuclear contamination, and then have a good excuse because of this to wipe out all the common people, or the "peasants" as they call us behind closed doors.
6. Allow for the secrt societies to grind the Earth into environmental oblivion, destroying the food chain, and all life on Earth.
7. To allow for the secrt society to control our mind, our actions, our thoughts -- to control our rights and freedoms to the point where we will eventually have none; and to prevent the voice of the people, or for the people to even be allowed to talk, or to think. This is called Absolute Power.
[Just as obedient slaves, they prefer us to not think or question, to not talk, but to only mindlessly obey. That is what they prefer]
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16 Nov 2012
IN A WEEK dominated by the Public Accounts Committee hearing, it would be easy to for other developments to fly under the radar.
Of course, that could be either a blessing or a curse, depending on how you look at the issues in question.
In the case of ICAS's report on Scotland's tax future in the light of its incoming devolved powers, establishment of its own tax authority and potential independence, it is more a curse.
It is an area which needs addressing promptly, given the relatively short timescale on which these developments are operating and the incredible complexity of drawing up a tax code.
Holyrood expects Revenue Scotland will be in place by 2015, and independence will be voted on in 2014, while devolved powers on income tax, stamp duty land tax and landfill tax, and the creation of new taxes are already in place.
There are still issues around the sharing of data between Revenue Scotland and HM Revenue & Customs, which in turn could lead to Scotland being treated in much the same manner as Jersey.
How legitimate those concerns are is uncertain, but without appropriate preparation and systems and agreements in place, the window of opportunity is there for those willing to exploit it.
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