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Ginny Bergeron stood in front of the cafe's plate-glass window and stared into the swamp. The setting sun cast an orange glow on the cobblestone street in front of the cafe and the thick range of cypress trees that littered the swamp beyond the edge of the small town. It was the same view she'd had every day for sixteen years, yet today, it felt different. As if something wasn't right.
"You gonna finish cleaning that coffeepot or just stare out the window all day?"
The booming voice of the heavyset woman behind her made Ginny jump, and she spun around to face Madelaine, the woman who was, for all practical purposes, her mother.
"Sorry," Ginny said. "I guess I wandered there for a minute."
Madelaine gave her an understanding smile and glanced out the window. "It's a beautiful sunset. I finished up in the back, so as soon as those coffeepots are washed, we can leave." She grabbed one of the pots off the warmer behind the counter. "Since you're up here lollygagging, I'll help."
Ginny smiled at Madelaine's teasing, more because she knew her mother expected it than because she felt like smiling. The beautiful sunset wasn't what had caught Ginny's attention. In fact, Ginny couldn't put her finger on exactly why she'd been staring out the window, or what she expected to see. But she could feel itsomething out there didn't belong.
Ginny grabbed the half-empty coffeepot off the table where she'd placed it a couple of minutes earlier and headed behind the counter. Madelaine already had hot water running in the huge stainless steel sink, so Ginny poured out the old coffee and stuck the pot under the stream of water. Some of the steamy water splashed onto her bare hands and she flinched. Her mother glanced over at her bare hands and shook her head, her expression one of long-standing exasperation worn by parents who'd told a child something over and over again in vain.
"I have a pot roast in my Crock-Pot," Madelaine said. "Why don't you come over for dinner and a movie?"
"Great minds think alike. I put a roast in my Crock-Pot this morning."
Madelaine wiped the coffeepot with a clean rag and set it on the counter. "Well, if you're sure."
"I'm sure," Ginny said and placed her clean coffeepot on the counter next to her mother's.
"I guess we'll both be eating pot roast for a week then." Madelaine stared at her for a moment, the uncertainty clear on her face, but finally, being a parent won out. "I worry about you spending so much time alone. You sure you're all right? You've seemed on edge lately."
"I'm fine, and I'm perfectly happy alone. I have a good library of books." She smiled. "You ought to know, since you gave me most of them."
Madelaine didn't look convinced. "A book isn't the same as having someone else around. Like a man. Then maybe I wouldn't worry as much."
"Really? I haven't noticed that being a problem for you. In fact, in my years with you, I've never known you to even date."
Madelaine waved a hand in dismissal. "That's not the point. I made my choices long ago, and I'm happy with them. I had my run at that hill in my earlier years. Enough to know it wasn't for me. But you haven't so much as taken a step toward it."
Ginny shook her head. "You know good and well that the only single men in Johnson's Bayou are under ten or over sixty. Which would you prefer I take up with?"
"Ain't no one saying you got to remain here the rest of your life. That university in New Orleans wanted to give you a scholarship before. I bet you could get one again."
"And do what?"
"Leave. Leave all this behind and start a new life. A good life."
Ginny placed a hand on Madelaine's arm. "I have a good life. Maybe someday I'll want something different, something else, but for now, this is what's right for me."
Madelaine sighed and kissed Ginny's forehead. "All right then. I'll see you tomorrow morning. Ought to be a busy one with everyone in town preparing for the Fall Festival."
Ginny nodded then followed Madelaine to the front door of the cafe and locked it behind her. Ginny gave the cafe a final glance to make sure everything was in order, then hurried up the staircase at the back of the cafe kitchen to her apartment.
The apartment consisted of a small living area, an even smaller bedroom and a tiny kitchenette and bathroom. Madelaine had provided her with a worn couch that Ginny had recovered in coarse fabric with light blue and white stripes. An old nineteen-inch television sat across from the couch on a stand with peeling paint that Ginny had bought at a garage sale but hadn't had time to refinish.
She'd taken her bedroom set with her when she'd moved out of her mother's house, and the bed, dresser and nightstand left only a small walking area in the narrow bedroom. The kitchen had room in the corner for a tiny table and two chairs, but nothing else. Some people probably wouldn't consider it much, but for Ginny, it was perfect.
What some would see as sparse, Ginny saw as uncomplicated.
Her life in Johnson's Bayou certainly hadn't started out that way, but Ginny had been determined to make it that way. She'd always found comfort in knowing that today was the same as yesterday and would be the same as tomorrow. But lately, complicated thoughts had roamed her mind, unbidden. Despite her attempts to ignore them or change her mode of thinking, the thoughts kept popping back up, unwanted and uncomfortable.
She laid her keys on the breakfast table and opened the blinds on the window behind the table. The sun had almost disappeared behind the swamp, but she could still see the roofline of the old mansion just above the top of the cypress trees. The LeBlanc School for Girls. Or at least it had been.
What had happened there sixteen years ago? And had she been a part of it? Is that why the house seemed to call to her in the night? All these years, she'd had no inkling of her past, as if her mind had been scrubbed clean of the first six years of her life. She had no answers to the bizarre questions that surrounded her arrival in Johnson's Bayou, despite a significant amount of effort by the local police into searching for those answers.
Ginny had never searched for answers.
Sometimes she thought it was because she was afraid of what she'd find. Other days, she thought it was because nothing she found would change who she was today, and that's all that mattered. Curiosity had never compelled Ginny to visit the LeBlanc School. The police said the fire had completely destroyed the room the resident records were housed in, so no answers were contained there now, even if they had been before.
But lately, she felt anxious drawn to this window where she could see the top of the house, tucked away in the bayou. Drawn to seek answers to questions she'd never asked out loud. It was as if a giant weight was pressing on her, but for no particular reason that she could determine. Why now, after all these years?
She reached for a shipping box on her table and opened it up. She'd told Madelaine it was supplies for her beadwork. With the festival coming up, Madelaine hadn't even blinked at her explanation of the heavy box. Ginny's jewelry had become quite popular in
Johnson's Bayou, and she'd even had sales to some New Orleans shops. But the item that lay inside wasn't the beads or wire or tools she'd claimed.
She pulled the spotlight out of the box and glanced once more at the woods that lay just beyond her apartment. Every night for a week, she'd taken the spotlight out of the box, determined to walk into the woods, even if only a couple of feet. Determined to prove that nothing was there. That her overactive imagination was playing tricks on her. And every night, she'd placed the spotlight back in the box, closed the blinds and drawn the curtains, trying to eliminate the feeling that she was being watched.
But tonight was going to be different.
She still wore her jeans and T-shirt with the cafe logo but didn't bother changing. In the time it took to change clothes, she could come up with a million different reasons to delay her trip another night. Before she could change her mind, she hurried out of the apartment and slipped out the back door of the cafe.
She stood at the edge of the swamp, her strength wavering as she studied the wall of cypress trees and the dense growth beneath them. Dusk had settled over the town behind her, and not even a dim ray of light shone in the swamp.
That's why you have the spotlight.
She took one step into the swamp and studied the brush in front of her, looking for any sign of a path. This was foolish. She should abandon this folly and come back in the daylight.
But in the daylight someone might see and question.
It had taken years for the whispering about her to stop. Years for the residents of Johnson's Bayou to feel comfortable in the same room as her. The last thing she wanted to do was spook a group of already superstitious people by fueling their original fears about herabout what she was.
The brush was less dense to the right, and when she directed her spotlight that way she could make out an open area about twenty feet away. She pointed her spotlight toward the clearing and stepped deeper into the swamp. The brush closed in around her, eliminating what was left of the natural light. The sharp branches scratched her bare arms, but she pushed forward until she reached the clearing.
It was small, maybe five feet square, and someone had taken the time to remove all the brush from the area. The ground was solid, dark dirt beneath her feet, not a sign of grass or weeds in sight. Kids, maybe? Although she couldn't imagine kids wanting to play in this area of the swamp, nor their parents allowing it. On the backside of the clearing, a tiny path stretched into the dense brush. Ginny directed her spotlight to the path and pushed through the brush for several minutes until she reached another clearing.
This one was bigger than the last and circular, with charred wood in the center. Ginny frowned. Surely no one was camping out here. Even if one didn't believe the old tales about spooks and haunts, the swamp was filled with plenty of dangers, many of them deadly. Those who'd lived near the swamp their entire lives still preferred to spend the night hours surrounded by four walls.
She studied the wood for a moment and realized it was completely rotted. A piece of it broke off easily in her hand. It had been a long time since someone placed it there and burned it, but that still didn't explain why the brush had not taken the clearing back over. Why the dirt stood barren.
Her spine stiffened suddenly and she stood motionless in the clearing. Her hair stood up on the back of her neck, but she had no idea what had set her off. She listened for the sounds of a night creature on the prowl, but it was almost as if the swamp had gone silent. There wasn't a breath of air, and even the bugs had stopped making noise. She could hear her heart beating in her chest and the sound of her breath as she raggedly drew it in and out.
Then the sound of a child's scream ripped through the night air.
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Movement is a crucial factor in our time. The multiplication of paths, contacts, exchanges on a global scale is having a significant impact on literary production worldwide and, consequently, on the ways researchers and scholars observe, read and classify it. Over the last decades, as a consequence of the multiplication of migration writings and market extension, an increasing need for transnational views on literature has emerged. Whilst the notion of 'national' literature has been significantly problematized and discussed, numerous theoretical approaches entailing comprehensive and newest perspectives have arisen. A crucial and fascinating concept, which has been introduced over the last decade, is that of 'world literature', which has been developed especially in Francophone and Anglo-Saxon contexts.
On the one side, revisiting and adapting a concept in use even before the early theorization of Goethian Weltliteratur, a group of scholars including David Damrosh, Franco Moretti, Emily Apter, Pascale Casanova, contributed to the theoretical foundation of the discipline, basednot only on the circulation and diffusion of literary works,but also on aesthetic and formal features that have progressively emerged or are still emerging.
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A letter from Ruth Brown in Congo
May 31, 2012
Muoyo webe!
Early one morning this month a local health volunteer and I found three children huddled together, sitting outside their house. The 4-year-old was holding his 1½-year-old twin brothers in his lap. All three were intently watching the other side of the road, where their 11-year-old brother was playing with friends. This older brother explained that their three older siblings had already left that morning for school. He said that none of them had eaten that morning and that they did not expect any food until after their mother returned from work. We learned that their mother, the only one earning money for the family, leaves the house at 6 a.m. every day of the week to go to the market and does not return home until after 6 p.m.
This was our second visit to the house. On the first visit, three volunteer health outreach workers and I found the twins to be severely malnourished by measurement of their arm circumferences. The outreach workers counseled the only adult at the house, the children's aunt, about feeding practices that would be helpful for the children. During the visit the following was noted: (1) the children were fed only one daily meal (Congo's staple, a pasty "bread" made from corn and cassava flour and a sauce made with manioc leaves); (2) the adult care provider did not know about the benefits of moringa or how to mix it with the children's food; (3) the home and yard had no garden or fruit trees; and (4) the home had no visible latrine. (Note: Of the 18 homes the outreach workers visited on this day, #1 and #2 above were the same for all 18. Of the 20 children whose arms were measured by the team I accompanied, 5 of the 20 were found to be malnourished, and 2 of these were severely malnourished.)
On the evening of the second visit, an outreach worker returned to the home and reviewed the children's malnourished condition with the mother. They discussed the foods she could make available to give a balanced diet to her children at least three times daily, and they gave her a two-day supply of moringa powder, explaining how to mix it with the children's food. Additionally, the outreach worker explained to the mother how she and her children could access the nutrition center at Good Shepherd Hospital for $1 per child and that this fee alone would be sufficient to enable the twins, her 4-year-old, and herself to stay at the center for one or two months or as long as it would take for her children to get better. (Note that $1 is one day's wage here in Congo…or for many, like perhaps this mother, more than one day's wage.)
In another effort to support the mother, the worker asked if he could carry a letter to her pastor to inform him about the serious nutritional needs of her twins. To the letter the mother agreed. Many churches here try to offer some small assistance to the neediest in their congregations. Hopefully, this year representatives from neighborhood churches will begin to meet together to plan what can be done to help the community address its high prevalence of malnutrition. Members of the health outreach team that identified the family will be trying to implement such ongoing planning by church groups.
The outreach workers are members of ASADECO (Association for Health and Community Development, an organization that uses the CHE model [Christian Health Evangelism] of beginning community planning with Bible study and implementing programs led and directed by the community members themselves). ASADECO is one organization within the Development Program of the Presbyterian Community of Congo (CPC) that is helping residents identify and address their greatest concerns. ASADECO is currently operating well in two of Kananga's five large community sectors or "communes." The organization's health promotion efforts include nutrition education and encouraging water purification and the use of latrines. The CPC's Community Development Program (the program to which I have been assigned) will be assisting the volunteers of ASADECO to create more structure for their follow-up visits to families of malnourished children, to obtain/maintain funding for volunteer training, and to obtain/maintain a source of moringa seed and teaching materials. Other skills for program planning, evaluation and reporting will also be reviewed with ASADECO members.
By the end of this year we hope that another organization will also be supporting families of malnourished children here in Kananga. Last week the CPC's Development Program gave official support to PRODEK (Program for Development in Kasai) to open an office here in Kananga to better serve West Kasai. Since the 1980s this agricultural development program has been operating in East Kasai, where it has formed 100 associations (community-led committees) that are holding regular meetings to plan and evaluate their own needs for growing diverse crops, effective marketing, and seed storage. PRODEK is also actively involved with crop diversification, rotation, composting, appropriate agriculture (using locally grown plants as cover crops and to fertilize the soil), and conservation. (PRODEK is actively planting a variety of trees and educating association members on conservation issues.)
PRODEK's aim is for the associations to become completely self-run and self-ruled. In East Kasai one union is formed to support every 20 well-functioning associations, with union members being elected from each association. Each of the three unions in East Kasai has established a savings-and-loan bank as well as a store where association members may sell grain and seed and purchase farm equipment such as twine and shovels. Each union is audited twice annually by a team of members elected by association members.
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Is my workout awesome?
I live by two mottos: One is, if in doubt, squat and run hills. So you walk into the gym and don't know what to do? Then squat and run hills. Have a shitty day at work and want to break someone's neck but aren't sure who's? Then squat and run hills.
The other motto is: Is what I'm doing awesome? If I ask myself that and the answer is no, then I don't do it.
So with conditioning, when faced with something like jogging on the treadmill, ask yourself first: is this awesome? When you see someone in the gym on a treadmill, do you go, "My God, that is so awesome!" No, you go, look at that poor dumb bastard, he probably just had a triple bypass or something. But hill sprinting? To me, that's awesome.
Of course, geeks like to bust my chops with questions like, "How do I even know if something is awesome or not?" My answer is, if you're so freaking unsure that you have to ask someone else for his or her opinion then the answer is it's probably not the least bit awesome.
Date Tate on How to Gain Weight
There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn't gain weight to save my fucking life.
There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like fucking magic. He'd go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.
I finally asked him one day how he did it.
"You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I'll fill you in."
Now remember, we're at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious shit if we have to go outside, I thought.
So we get outside and he starts talking.
"For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don't care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that shit down and eat. That's your breakfast."
At this point I'm thinking this guy is nuts. But he's completely serious.
"For lunch you're gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don't want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG bullshit. I don't care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can't let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter."
"For dinner you're gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don't like sardines, don't put 'em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that fucker up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that shit over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the shit out of it."
"Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that fucker. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals.
This guy is in a zen-like state when he's talking about this.
"Now you're on the clock," he continues. "After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you're full. Don't listen to that shit. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I'm telling you now, you're going to get three or four pieces in and you're gonna want to quit. You fucking can't quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.
And if you can't finish it, don't you ever come back to me and tell me you can't gain weight. 'Cause I'm gonna tell you that you don't give a fuck about getting bigger and you don't care how much you lift!"
Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn't get much fatter. One of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, though.
Why Take Art Classes?
Recorded on July 2nd, 2010
I've been asked this a lot recently, I'm going to get all serious and philosophical to explain it :)
The short version – I have found that as you develop new skills and knowledge, your perception of the world around you changes and improves. And that's what I'm striving for – an increased perception of the world around me – I want to see more and better, I don't want to be blind.
The long version…
As a software engineer, when I use an application I can infer how it was built and how it works, what limits the designers and engineers had to work around, and the influence from other applications. I can appreciate the work that went into good applications, or the lack of work that went into bad. If I didn't know how applications were created then I wouldn't have such insight – I'd just know whether I liked it or not. But it's not limited to just appreciation, but also the skill to be able to do it yourself…to know how you would start, how you would finish, and how to get from the start to the finish.
This same increased perception applies to everything – sports, dance, music, art, literature, engineering, etc. For me, I've always been interested in technical subjects, and I've tried my hand at many sports. I've read many books (but I've yet to write one), and I've tried playing an instrument. But my last attempts at art were a very long time ago, and I wanted to have that experience again as an adult. Figure drawing is just the start…other classes offered include portrait drawing, still life, and abstract drawing (capturing the essence of the subject).
That's why I'm taking art classes – I want to learn to see how an artist sees. To be able to look at something and know how to capture the tones and shapes and life of the subject on paper, as well as understand the works of others.
This also means eventually I'll have to tackle my lack of musical and dance abilities…but that's for another time!
An Annoyingly Efficient Relevancy Engine
Recorded on July 1st, 2010
From Rands in Repose, the classic article The Nerd Handbook says:
Your nerd's insatiable quest for information and The High has tweaked his brain in an interesting way. For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the incoming information fits into the system of things your nerd currently cares about.
I find myself doing this a lot. The distinction between nerds and normals can be striking, and to me this is the most painful difference in communication. Normals will include so much irrelevant information in their conversation it becomes mind-numbing. I know that they think they're including relevant information, and to them these are important details, but when reduced to actionable items and related facts it is just static.
I've found this challenge goes in both directions too – when asked "How was your day?" or "Did you have a good at work?" they expect a detailed, blow-by-blow replay of everything that happened that day. Maybe I'm missing some gene, or my brain is wired differently, or I just don't care that much, but do I really need to replay my daily life to you as a soap opera?
How do you compromise? Is there a polite way to say "get to the point" in a conversation? Is there a minimum response to "How was your day?" that's more than saying "just another day at the office"? Perhaps there's a way of explaining I just want the facts, please, and it's not you but it's me that's different.


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The leaders of Seminar 1: Women and Science in Performance have offered to extend the deadline for submissions to participate in this CATR conference seminar. The new deadline for submissions is December 15th. Details are appended below and in the pdf attachment.
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Seminar 1: Women and Science in Performance
Lourdes Arciniega (University of Calgary) and James Lange (University of Calgary)
Over the years countless plays have used science to rationalize patriarchal ideologies and the staging of women as 'naturally' compassionate, nurturing, emotional, weak, and subordinate. Because of this, feminists have traditionally been suspicious of any recourse to the question of science, particularly the biological and medical sciences. However, recent feminist theorists, such as Elizabeth Grosz and Donna Haraway, have called for a reevaluation of the ways that science has been, is being, and can be deployed to critique conventional "relations of domination and subordination between races and sexes" (Grosz 33). Responding to this challenge, theatre scholars have begun to look back to historical plays and performances to develop a more nuanced understanding of the ways that science has been molded to align with the ever-changing roles of women in society. Likewise, contemporary playwrights and performers have deployed science in their own work explicitly to critique traditional patriarchal ideologies and redefine gender identity.
For this seminar we welcome papers concerning the general topic of women and science in performance. We are particularly interested in papers that examine how science is deployed by twentieth-century playwrights and performers in their representations of women, femininity, mothers and motherhood, women's "nature," fertility, reproduction, and relations between men and women. We also welcome papers that expand on current Feminist Science Studies, including the challenges of multi-disciplinary research. Keeping in mind the conference theme of "Interconnected knowledge," we are interested in ways that plays or performances participate in the dissemination and debate of scientific theories that explicitly concern women and "women's issues."
1. To what ends have feminist playwrights and performers deployed science in their work?
2. How have theories of evolution been used in the representations of women?
3. How have plays or performances either questioned or supported traditional scientific thinking about "women's nature"?
4. How do artificial reproduction technologies impact the performance of the female in contemporary drama?
5. How is the perception of "motherhood" affected by new reproductive technologies?
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Blair Oaks rolls to 55-13 victory
Saturday, September 7, 2013
WARDSVILLE, Mo. — This one was over early.
The Blair Oaks Falcons scored seven times in the first quarter — including two defensive touchdowns in the first minute and a half — and steamrolled the Owensville Dutchmen 55-13 on Friday night.
Starts don't get much better than the one the Falcons had.
After two plays for the Dutchmen went nowhere, Mikel Drehle intercepted a pass and took it back 40 yards for a touchdown.
Owensville got the ball back and on the first play, Blair Oaks stripped the ball and Caleb Bischoff scooped it up and raced 20 yards for a touchdown.
After just 84 seconds of game time, the Falcons had a 14-0 lead.
"We started fast," Blair Oaks coach Brad Drehle said. "That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to come out there and get after them. Owensville is a team that's improved, but they're still struggling and we didn't want to give them any life."
On Owensville's second play of its third possession, the Dutchmen threw another interception. Mikel Drehle was the culprit again, as he leapt high into the air to come down with his second pick.
The Blair Oaks offense finally got a chance to get involved and four plays later, Jordan Hair hit Haydn Lock with a 13-yard touchdown pass.
After another defensive stop, Blair Oaks got a 4-yard touchdown run by Bischoff and it was 26-0 with 6:02 left in the first quarter.
Hair got two more touchdown passes on the Falcons' next two possessions — a 42-yarder to Lock and a 49-yarder to C.J. Closser.
The Falcons' final points of the first quarter — which made it a staggering 42-0 — came when Owensville snapped the ball over the head of its punter and out of the end zone for a safety.
"Our kids were able to come out and get something going quick," Brad Drehle said.
Blair Oaks added two scores in the second quarter, a 30-yard touchdown pass from Hair to Mikel Drehle and a 69-yard pass from Jake VanRonzelen to Adam Schell.
That made it 55-0 at halftime, as the Falcons' defense dominated the Dutchmen. Owensville ran 33 offensive plays for a minus-19 yards. Included in that were 28 rushes and five passes that failed to find an Owensville player.
"I thought we did a lot better job getting penetration, getting in the gaps, and I thought we tackled a lot better (than last week's opener)," Brad Drehle said. "We're better than we were last week and hopefully next week we can be a little bit better."
Blair Oaks (1-1) travels Friday to Hallsville.
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Looking Premiere Watch: 6 Ways The Series Is Not A Gay 'Girls'
By Alicia Lutes 2 years ago comments
Right from the start, HBOs Looking was up against unfair categorization. Oh, its just the gay version of Girls, they said. They being that mythical group of Internetters looking for a pithy logline to grab onto for opinion formulation purposes; but from second one of the series premiere, the comparisons rang hollow. If HBO was looking for a gay version of the Lena Dunham series, this was not it. And thank goodness for that.
Listen: Im a fan of Dunham, and of Girls. But Im an even bigger fan of HBOs drive to create programming thats different, nuanced, and not simply pre-fab versions of the things they (and other networks) have already done or attempted to emulate. They tell stories. Interesting ones that often rub up against peoples comfort zones. But to delineate something as a gay show is insipidly one-dimensional and a disservice to the actors, writers, directors, and everyone else involved.
Think about it: wouldnt it piss you right the fuck off if someone tried to distill something you created through hard work and with a thoughtful vision with a hackneyed, lazy categorization? Of course you would. So dont be that way. Be informed by making your own opinion (Not even everyone on this site feels the same about this series.) To get you started, here are a few ways in which the series premiere episode, Looking For Now, proved itself to be anything but a gay version of that Greenpoint world.
Patrick is No Hannah
Jonathan Groffs Patrick is quite naïve a trait he shares with Hannah but the two of them handle their naïveté very differently. Hannah, essentially, tries to monetize it, throwing herself into situations in the name of sourcing material for her book in hopes that shell make herself seem and feel more interesting. Patrick may be rash in his decision-making, but he tows a much more straight-and-narrow line. Theres a reason his roommate Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez) called him a sweet boy, with all that ho-hummy knowing in his voice. I doubt if Agustín and Hannah were to meet, hed say the same about her. Hannah wants a story, Patrick just wants to feel.
Its Subtle
Like I said before, I really do enjoy Girls, but no one would ever accuse the show of being all that subtle in its execution. Nuanced? Sure, at times. Looking approaches scenarios with a gentle touch, a warm smile accompanies most of the laughs involved even the more audacious ones. Andrew Haigh, the series director (who also directed the film Weekend) has a far quieter point of view, one that works especially well in the series quieter moments, quick glances, and emotional touch points, matched wonderfully by Michael Lannans words.
Its Not Looking for Laughs
The show is definitely funny. From the quippy beats while Patrick and his coworker debate emoji usage to Dom (Murray Bartlett)s hilariously frank and hard-worn opinions on sex and relations, the show fires on all cylinders but doesnt go hunting for laughs just for the sake of it. In fact, the series opening moments, where we see Patrick getting a handy-j in the park like hes living out a George Michael fever dream, is an emotionally evocative jumble upon first encounter. The viewer is made to feel the myriad of emotions that Patrick exhibits in his face as he apprehensively clamors into the bush to get his rocks off.
Its Way More Unrealistic
One thing that may be considered a negative is the fact that theres hardly anything realistic about the highly attractive and perma-hard bodied world that Looking inhabits. This is a series that is far more, well, fancy and the show is conscious of that fact. You wont find a glossier-looking bunch of boys on TV.
Its Older
At 29 years old, Patrick is the baby of the bunch, which puts him and his series compatriots in entirely different life stages than the girls on Dunhams show. People that are between 30 and 40 are not dealing with the same shit that 23 year olds are: thats just science.
Its About Relationships, Not People
Listen if youre one of those types of people that needs to relate to the characters on screen in order to enjoy something, allow me to let you in on a little secret: gay or not, these three men are all searching for the same things as the rest of us: Love, happiness, a sense of self, security. Sure, it is an entirely different world for gay folks than it is for us straighties out there they are, after all, have only really started to get the respect the rest of us have been afforded for eons simply because were interested in the opposite sex. And wherein the focus on Girls is slightly more millenialy bent, Looking focuses more on the subject matter than the kooky tropes and outlandish character beats of Dunhams series. Love, relationships, social and personal interactions are all highlighted here. That lost feeling we all experience as we muddle, grope, and fondle our way towards some sort of collective sameness or sense of compatibility in another person. And that is something thats both incredibly heartwarming and universal.
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Apple's iWeb is no longer in development, so iWeb users may eventually need to look for another design option. Adobe's new "Muse" program may be the answer.
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Christian Contino
BA Econ, MSc QuantFin
PhD Candidate
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Christian has been working in industry for the past 7 years; 4 years in commercial property finance in the London, UK, and 3 years as a bond trader and portfolio manager for the United Nations in Rome, Italy. He brings with him a wealth of industry working knowledge, which will be of great use for solving practical issues in his thesis.
Thesis Topic:
Estimation, Inference and Forecasting for Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk using Bayesian GARCH Methods and High Frequency Intra-Day Data
Thesis Description:
Financial institutions are constantly looking for better ways to both manage and quantify risk following the regulatory disclosure of Value-at-Risk (VaR). An incorrect estimation could jeopardize the returns or risk profile of an institution, leading to loss of confidence from stakeholders. The proposed model introduces high frequency intra-day data into a traditionally daily GARCH specification via mixed data sampling, MIDAS. The goal is to increase accuracy, especially for short term forecasts of both VaR and Conditional VaR. Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) methods will be employed within a Bayesian framework for inference and parameter estimation. The resulting models should provide application in risk management, derivative pricing and portfolio optimization.
Supervisor: Professor Richard Gerlach.