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Heroic Aura is a mage spell from the Creation tree in Dragon Age: Origins.
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- Missile Deflection Bonus: +30. Duration: 20s.
- Range: 25m.
- Conjuration time: 1s.
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- Activation base is in mana and values vary with fatigue%.
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The Day I Experienced True AmbivalenceSaturday, August 13th, 2016
As a follow up to yesterday's post about my decision to write the book all coaches talked about writing. When coaches would get together, usually after a summer recruiting event or at the coaches' convention (held annually in conjunction with the Final Four), one thing that was certain was that there would always be a plethora of stories. Coaches are usually good story tellers and also "excel" at one-ups-man-ship. The stories would get better and better (many apocryphal) until it was time to call it a night. At that point, the one line that could always be heard was, "We ought to write a book."
As I explained yesterday, when I became director of basketball operations at Fresno State and had more family and personal time (because, by NCAA rules, that position is restricted to recruiting only on campus and by phone), I made the decision to write that book. I've been told on many occasions – by a numerous people – that I have the ability to tell stories. And I really enjoy writing – a love affair that occurred right after I graduated from college. Whatever the case, I began my quest to put together a bunch of funny stories that could possibly, just possibly, win me a Pulitzer.
After the two-and-a-half years of jotting down notes and coming up with 265 vignettes, I mentioned the pursuit of my goal to a father of one of our older (at the time, 12-year-old) son's soccer teammates. He was a doctor who said, not only that he would loan his dictaphone, but that he was certain his assistant would transcribe it for me (at the rate of $18/hour). Things were moving right along.
After having the contents of the book transcribed, I had to edit it. The doc's gal did a fantastic job but, being a California native, didn't quite understand my New Jersey version of English. Although this was a surefire all-time best seller (we'll never know because of the lack of ISBN number and bar code – see yesterday's blog), I knew I needed professional help to get this work published, so I called Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN's brilliant sports correspondent, who had been USC's basketball beat writer for the LA Times when I was an assistant coach there. Gene didn't only give me encouragement but told me of a former sports information director at the University of Illinois who had left the Illini to start a publishing company. The definition of a millisecond was the time it took me to make that call after ending the one I was on with Gene.
The guy was nice enough, told me they actually did publish books of amusing sports stories and said I should go by Barnes & Noble to peruse their works. One was called, Tales from the Dugout, obviously a baseball book. The others were a series of golf books. I can't recall the exact names but something like Then Arnie Told Jack, Then Jack told Gary, Then Gary told Chi Chi – you get the idea. After checking out some of the stories, my initial reaction was, "My stories are funnier than these." I called my new BFF and he suggested I send him 2-3 stories from each chapter of this masterpiece, which I decided to call Life's A Joke. I got off the phone, put them together and overnighted it to him. I mean, just in case your business is struggling – have no fear, help is on the way.
About two months later, I got my reply – in the form of a rejection letter! It said, besides some positive comments (let the poor guy down easy?) that my book was too "regional" – that their audience was broader. Could it have been the chapter entitled, Family, which was stories about me, my parents, my wife and our sons? While their stories might not have been as hilarious as mine, they were about Babe Ruth and Ben Hogan – whom, I had to admit, people had heard of, as opposed to the narrative of my five-year-old son screaming at his female teammate who had just kicked the ball into the wrong goal. It was the I had an epiphany. Stephen King got somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 such letters for his first literary attempt – and, no matter how colossal a hit my book was destined to be – Carrie was a heckuva lot better than what I'd written.
So, it was on to Plan B, i.e. visiting the young, talented girl in our (Fresno State's) sports information office, one of whose jobs was "formatting" – taking text and putting it into book form. I walked into her office on a Wednesday and asked her how much it would cost and when could she finish the project. She told me it would cost $500 and would take a week. Because everything I could do was finally completed, I was borderline frantic to see this project come to fruition. I countered with, "Can you get it done by Friday at noon if I pay you $1,000?" I knew she was recently married and could use the extra money. It was the perfect win-win. I wanted to expedite the project; she needed the dough. A deal was reached. By Friday afternoon, I delivered it to a friend of mine who owned a printing company. I ordered 3,000 copies to be printed. Of course, this was just the first printing. He told me he could deliver them in two weeks.
But I was in the role of the expectant father. I called on Monday. "Harry, is it done yet?" He was incredulous. Did I really think they would get it done over the weekend? But he understood my anxiety.
"Maybe next week," he said. So, of course, I called back Wednesday. Harry assured it was coming along and promised he'd call as soon as it was done. The next Monday, my cell phone went off. It was Harry. "Jack, I can have 500 copies for you by Friday, the remaining 2,500 by next Monday." This was perfect. At the time, I was in a member of the National Speakers Association and was speaking to a group on Saturday night. I was elated. Until the next day. Tuesday. September 11, 2001. Talk about bad timing.
As I watched the Twin Towers falling, the thought that went though my head was, "In three days I'm coming out with a book called, Life's A Joke." Believe me, I understood the real tragedy, but coming out with a book – with that title – at that time – it was like I wanted to . . . apologize. One thing that helped – a little – was an order I received, off my website, from a lady in New York City. She wrote:
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By taking Skype into the fold, Microsoft has guaranteed that every Windows PC that has the MSN software installed will be able to communicate (via Skype) with every client, from Mac to Linux to every flavor of smartphone. Just being able to untangle the mess that is consumer VoIP will become a tremendous win for Microsoft in both the short term and long term.
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Skip to comments.Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan is Ayn Rand and wants to screw the poor
Posted on 08/14/2012 10:12:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Behold, the self-deceiving power of unswerving progressivism on an ideological tear. Joe Scarborough's face, at least, seems to suggest that he's thinking somewhere along the lines of "Is this crackpot for real?," but Matthews really steals the show here.
You know what Ryan believes in? Getting rid of the cap-gains tax, period! So he's a radhe's not just a middle-of-the-road guy who wants to make the tough decisionshe's a guy who wants to help out the winners in society, and make it a little rough for people that are riding along, depending on the government. He doesn't like those people. Especially. No, no. I think he's Ayn Rand "
JOE SCARBOROUGH: You think that Paul Ryan doesn't like people that are struggling?
MATTHEWS: Let's slow down, for jumping on the way I said it. I don't think he's sitting there worried aboutI don't think he's Tip O'Neill, worried about the people on Pell Grants. I don't think he's worried about the working poor. I think he's looking for the winners. And that's who he wants to incentivize. And by the way, that's one of the weird things I notice about the conservative movement is. They believe that the way to get rich people to work harder is to give them more money. The way to get the poor people to work harder is to screw them a little bit.
Okay, let's just trace out this logic for a moment here. A little more than roughly forty percent of the voting public is currently planning on voting for the Romney/Ryan ticket, and approximately half of the American population self-identifies as conservative. Millionaires and billionaires do not comprise half of the population; ergo, most people in the conservative movement are not tremendously wealthy. And yet, the conservative movement has not been receptive to President Obama's fundamentally nonserious ploy to 'reduce the deficit' by getting everyone to "pay their fair share," a.k.a. by hiking taxes on the wealthy. How can this be? Are conservatives just self-defeating financial masochists who love to watch greedy fat cats get richer, or could there perhaps be an alternative theory? Could it be that conservatives are interested in helping the poor, but perhaps believe that the most effective, penetrating, righteous method to enhance the living standards and opportunities of the greatest number of people is to foster a prosperous, growing economy in which an intrusive and inefficient government doesn't wreck entrepreneurial incentives with redistribution and overregulation? Maybe?
Nah, that can't be it. You got me, Chris Matthews. We're just hateful and apathetic towards everyone who isn't wealthy, including ourselves. That's us in a nutshell!
And by the way, what is it all these liberals and media outlets trying to associate Paul Ryan as some sort of crazed, diehard Ayn Rand fan, and saying so as if it is an absolute and undeniable given that any interest whatsoever in Ayn Rand's ideas is a bad thing? I'm pretty sure that Atlas Shrugged is a historically long and well-selling book, and that sales have spiked in the past few years. Heaven forbid anybody walk away from reading her novels with any productive thoughts about the power of self-ownership and rugged individualism, or anything non-statist like that. Ew, gross.
I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged. I was moved to TEARS at her description of America under the Lyin' King's Boot. How DID she know this back in 1957? It's Amazing.
It's official. Prissy Matthews is too stupid to live.
It's official. Prissy Matthews is too stupid to live.
It's official. Prissy Matthews is too stupid to live.
Sorry for the triple post.
How many of his viewers know who Ayn is?
Can't be said enough.
$10 Says Chris Matthews have never read anything from Ayn Rand. Perhaps if he did read 'Atlas Shrugged' he would see life in Obamaville a lot differently.
Toss in another $10 if Chris Matthews doesn't know under what political system Ayn Rand grew up. She wrote from first hand experience living in a world Obama wants to 'fundamnetally transform' us into. Thank GOD we are less than 3 months from fundamentally transforming his ass back to private citizen status.
Ayn Rand must be mentioned whenever Obamamedia discuss Ryan. This might cause some Democrats to go beyond their approved reading list, and read Rand. The rest of the retards will be contented to think Rand was a travel agent.
"Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan is Ayn Rand and wants to screw the poor"
As compared to you, Matthews—a common c**ksucker.
I would prefer we transform his a$$ into federal prisoner status.
Is Chrissy still suffering from his idiotpathic (not to be confused with idiopathic) neuropathy?
Didn't Ben Franklin say something about not letting people in poverty get comfortable in their poverty. Sometimes to get someone back on track they need to get screwed a little bit. I didn't take my schooling seriously until I had a few bad years of grades and got into academic trouble. I then refocused, buckled down, and got my degree. Best decision I've ever made. And it's one that I attribute to being allowed to fail.
Quite a lot of them hear about Rand from condemnatory secondary sources, and for them that's good enough. Back when Publius and I were hammering the Atlas Shrugged threads we'd get an anti-Rand poster throwing a Bob The Angry Flower cartoon in, which mocked Rand's characters for not realizing that they needed to grow food to eat. In fact, she spent two chapters on that topic - the critic had never read the book he was mocking. Funny cartoon but not for the reasons intended.
Rand is one of those authors - Machiavelli is another - whose popular reputation is quite at odds with the actual body of their published works. There's plenty to criticize with respect to the novel, but dismissing it as intellectually barren is a mark of ignorance. Which brings us back to Chrissy Matthews...
There I was in 1978 in a Philosophy of Education class when we were put into groups and assigned to form the perfect society. This was following out reading Brave New World and Plato's Republic. The professor gets to me and sees I am wearing a tee shirt with the name of my rock band ANTHEM on it. She knew I was going to be trouble.
[ I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged. I was moved to TEARS at her description of America under the Lyin Kings Boot. How DID she know this back in 1957? Its Amazing. ]
My fault, I totally went back in time and brought her to the present day for a month so she could research for her book...
OH, so it was YOU, was it?
You must have used Reardon Metal and that Secret Power Source Generator to power your time machine! :-)
Ryan has already addressed this.
I, like millions of young people in America, read Rands novels when I was young. I enjoyed them, Ryan says. They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman, a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. But its a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.
I reject her philosophy, Ryan says firmly. Its an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a persons view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas, who believed that man needs divine help in the pursuit of knowledge. Dont give me Ayn Rand, he says.
She knew it, because she saw it first hand in communist Russia.
She wasn't writing about the future, she was writing about things that had already happened.
Atlas Shrugged because he didn't know the answer.
I wonder if Matthews understands that people without a job are generally poor. I wonder if it is possible for him to be honest, and admit whose administration the ranks of the unemployed, the welfare recipients, and the food stamp users swelled under. I wonder if he can grasp that men don't get rich in a vacuum. I wonder if he can also grasp that men who increase their monetary standing, must also increase the monetary standing of others. Employers make profits, and salaries are paid to those who work for them out of those profits. Men offer salaries, and other men are happy to accept and go to work. Things are created. People sell those things to other businesses, or to the workers that went to work for a salary.
Tell us Chris, how many people did Barack Obama put to work?
Explain to us why there are so many fewer people working today than when Obama came to office.
Then explain to us, why you're demagoguing a team that hopes to do better than he did, when it's painfully obvious he doesn't have a single clue.
In short Chris, how does it feel to know how big a fool your are now seen as, for pushing Obama on us in 2008?
Double down? Once an idiot...
That was fifty some years ago. Now the message from the Dems is that you can't make your way without gov. help. Lots of gov. help. That's how much we've gone downhill.
I spent my youth screwing the poor....they were the easiest ones to get !!
This was the first time I enjoyed a triple post.
Thank you.
I know for a fact Chrisssy never read the book, there are NO pictures in it!
My net worth says that Paul Ryan gives more to charity than Chris Matthews.
Another interesting article.
My husband and I just had a similar conversation. There is a large section of the population that will always do only the bare minimum they can do in order to avoid a consequence. Unfortunately, we keep lowering the bar for "bare minimum".
At this point, we're going to need a trencher to lower it anymore. "You have a pulse and maintain a regular breathing pattern? Hey, we have a government program for YOU!"
Yes. She had a perspective that was not shared in the USA of the 1950's.
Well, "spiritually" speaking, you are RIGHT! :-)
That was one thing lacking in Ayn's philosophy.
And the "Answer" has been there all the time.
She was reputedly sleeping with a Rockefeller and was privy to the plan, at least in part. From what I understand, they just can't help bragging about themselves and what they have planned for us.
The reality is that Obama is more like Ayn Rand in her hatred of the poor. Rand was direct about, but Obama and his cohorts act as if they are for the poor only to use them to start a class war to drive their agenda. Once they achieve their Marxist plan they will do everything to eliminate the poor by deeming them life unworthy of life because they will be thought of as useless to the state.
Personally, I am also troubled that Ryan mentioned that Rand had influence in his life because Rand was CERTAINLY demonically possessed.
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"Honouring Black Canadian women for their civic engagement has been long overdue," said Jennings, the MP for the Quebec riding of Notre–Dame–de–Grâce-Lachine and a founding BWCEN patron. "For far too long, our contributions in building the Canada of yesteryear, of today and of the future have been invisible. I applaud the BWCEN for its efforts to ensure that the contributions of our wonderful civic leaders are made visible."
BWCEN events co-ordinator, Denise Siele, said that International Women's Day provides an excellent opportunity to recognize those trailblazers and role models whose life's work has vastly contributed to the gains that women cherish today.
"This occasion is an overdue opportunity for sober reflection on what we, as stewards of this great country, must do to fulfill its defining creed, that of equal opportunity for women, regardless of colour, class, race, creed, religious belief, social background or political persuasion," she said. "Simply put, we've got to do better."
Augustine, who is also Ontario's first Fairness Commissioner, was presented with the Leadership award while Senior was recognized with the Champion award.
Grenadian-born Augustine served as a Toronto District School Board elementary school principal and Metro Toronto Housing Authority chair before entering politics and representing the Etobicoke-Lakeshore riding for four terms before resigning from federal politics four years ago to make way for current Liberal Party leader, Michael Ignatieff.
As the first Black woman appointed to Cabinet when she was named Secretary of State with responsibility for Multiculturalism and the Status of Women, Augustine also filled the roles of Minister of State, Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole and Special Adviser for Grenada. She was also Parliamentary Secretary to then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and she chaired the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Parliamentary Committee and served on the Parliamentary Sub-Committees on Human Rights, International Trade, Citizenship and Immigration.
Augustine was the founding chair of the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development and Chair of the National Liberal Women's Caucus.
Senior was appointed CEO of the YWCA three years ago after a career with the organization that began in 1992 when she occupied several positions, including director of housing. She also chaired the Malvern Family Resource Centre, served as executive director of the Yellow Brick House and has been a New Democratic Party candidate in municipal, provincial and federal elections.
Ignatieff, the Leader of the Official Opposition, and Minister of State with responsibility for the Status of Women, Helena Guergis, attended the event.
"Here in Canada, we have made remarkable progress in advancing the status of women overall," said Guergis. "Women have made great strides in education, employment and political participation. Women are leaders in political institutions and in corporate Canada.
"Today, we have come together to honour the women who continue to work for equality. While there is still progress to be made, our government recognizes this and we are committed to taking action."
The BWCEN is an Ottawa-based network of active professionals working to celebrate and create greater awareness about the contributions of women to Canadian civil society.


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The Askby Sam Lipsyte
A searing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel by a young American master
Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one/b>
A searing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel by a young American master
Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donora major "ask"who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo's sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the "give" won't come cheap.
Probing many themes or, perhaps, anxietiesincluding work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, Sam Lipsyte's The Ask is a burst of genius by an author who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the funniest ones.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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"If you've heard anything about Sam Lipsyte, you've probably heard that he's funny. Scabrously, deliriously, piss-yourself funny (his characters would no doubt find a dirtier, and funnier, way of putting it), drawing audible snorts even from the kind of people, such as the people in his novels, who are way too cool to laugh out loud . . . Lipsyte's prose arrows fly with gloriously weird spin, tracing punch-drunk curlicues before hitting their marks--or landing in some weird alternate." Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Review of Books
"Lipsyte shakes his comic cocktail of sarcasm and bitter impotence to eloquent effect: briefcases on wheels are ""luggage for people not going anywhere,"" and a Manhattan salad bar consists of ""go-goo for the regular folk, these lumpy lumpen lunches."" Milo is repulsive, hilarious, and devastatingly self-aware, but it is his country that is Lipsyte's real subject." The New Yorker
"So let's read Lipsyte and rejoice; let's celebrate the laugh-producing Milo Burkes who are all too rarely brought to us by brave and bitter men--let's celebrate the canny, well-educated yet perpetually failing furtive Internet onanists, the dark, half-crippled, doughnut-gobbling man-apes of the literary world, who cast their lumpen shadows across the rest of us. These are the kind of unlikeable, lovable protagonists we miss; these are the self-loathing, mediocre secret geniuses who can set our people free." Lydia Millet, The New York Times Book Review
"[The Ask] is a biting, bilious and often brilliant book . . . It started, for me, as a comic, bad-boy outing on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. It concludes somewhere much darker and richer than a theme park. 'Heavens to Betsy,' I murmured when I finished. 'What a book.'" Karen Long, The Plain Dealer
"Lipsyte's brand of absurdity is deeply rooted in the now. The recession, text messaging, reality TV--all are up for grabs. What's particularly effective is Lipsyte's acerbic yet subtle approach . . . But he's never simply bitter; one can always sense a yearning in this book, even at its most acidic moments . . . Precision and painstaking craft have granted Lipsyte complete authority in The Ask, his most acidic and empathetic work to date." Kimberly King Parsons, Time Out New York (five stars)
"Sardonic, brilliant . . . Lipsyte skewers everything from precious preschools to academia, displaying an effortless grace and style all his own." People (three-and-a-half stars)
"An off-kilter and hilarious novel about work, war, sex, class, children--and Benjamin Franklin." O, The Oprah Magazine
"The riffs on fatherhood, work, and sex in Sam Lipsyte's unsparingly comic novel The Ask explode like a string of firecrackers--so funny you might lose an eye." Vanity Fair
"It's customary for radically sardonic, corrosively funny writers to put in time as mere cult icons, but enough already: everybody should read Sam Lipsyte." TIME
"One of the greatest black-humorists alive, Lipsyte has gone unnoticed for far too long. With his third novel, about the painfully hilarious adventures of a failed painter in a dead-end job, he should finally get the acclaim he deserves." Details
"[The] gift is Lipsyte's writing: a chewy, corrosive, and syntactically dazzling prose style that doesn't so much run across the page as pick it up and throttle it. A-" Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"Acrid, hilarious, and hard to put down." The Must List, Entertainment Weekly
"It's not easy to write a really funny book about such anxiety-producing topics as love, death, failure and our currently terrifying economy, but that's exactly what Sam Lipsyte has accomplished with his terrific new novel, The Ask . . . This novel isn't afraid to show the darker side of life, but while The Ask can be a bone-chilling read, it somehow still makes you laugh out loud." The Observer's Very Short List
"If you're the sort of person who underlines amusing or thought-provoking lines in books, you best gird yourself, as Lipsyte is an inexhaustible fount of eloquent prurience, deftly mingling high- and low-mindedness." Rob Harvilla, Village Voice
"With this novel, Mr. Lipsyte has proven himself to be one of the most unapologetic voices of contemporary literature. He mines the sexual frustration of Philip Roth, combines it with the paranoia of Don DeLillo and fills the space in between with a cast of characters as absurd and enigmatic as anything in a Thomas Pynchon novel . . . The Ask is a hilarious book about failure; a scathing unhappy comedy obsessed with a culture that's obsessed with obsessions." Michael Miller, The New York Observer
"There's probably not a living American writer who has so comprehensively mined the comic possibilities of that particular anguished, hapless combination of the overeducated and the underachieving as Sam Lipsyte. Against all odds, his heroes refuse to succeed, and they and we are rewarded with the endlessly entertaining spectacle of their nonstop humiliation." Jim Shepard, Bookforum
"Another savage, hilarious black comedy from Lipsyte . . . Once again, Lipsyte creates a main character whose lacerating, hyper-eloquent wit is directed both outward at the world--sardonic commentary on parenthood, class privilege, sexuality, the working world, education, ideas of Americanness and much more--and inward; Milo spares himself no degradation, no self-loathing, nothing. As it goes on one can't help noticing, beneath the fevered playfulness, a deeply earnest moral vision akin to that of Joseph Heller or Stanley Elkin. The author's most ambitious work yet--a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Lipsyte's pitch-black comedy takes aim at marriage, work, parenting, abject failure (the author's signature soapbox) and a host of subjects you haven't figured out how to feel bad about yet. This latest slice of mucked-up life follows Milo Burke, a washed-up painter living in Astoria, Queens, with his wife and three-year-old son, as he's jerked in and out of employment at a mediocre university where Milo and his equally jaded cohorts solicit funding from the ""Asks,"" or those who financially support the art program. Milo's latest target is Purdy Stuart, a former classmate turned nouveau aristocrat to whom Milo quickly becomes indentured. Purdy, it turns out, needs Milo to deliver payments to Purdy's illegitimate son, a veteran of the Iraq War whose titanium legs are fodder for a disgruntlement that makes the chip on Milo's shoulder a mere speck of dust by comparison. Submission is the order of the day, but where Home Land had a working-class trajectory, this takes its tone of lucid lament to the devastated white-collar sector; in its merciless assault on the duel between privilege and expectation, it arrives at a rare articulation of empire in decline." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Lipsyte's third novel, a darkly humorous story of sons and fathers, is both his most realistic and convulsively hilarious to date . . . Lipsyte's razor-sharp eye filets dying America (a fractiously culty daycare; a reality cooking show set on death row; the scarified plaguescape of a lonely first generation social networking site), throwing off brilliant riffs and exhilaratingly steep dives from frontal lobe to perineum, sauced with yummy dollops of white liberal guilt . . . Yet for all his wit, Lipsyte's narrator is not above it all but deeply, messily down in it: the casual miracles of parenthood, the deepening thrum of mortality, the grim perdurance of a shaky marriage, 'warm with that feeling of wanting a feeling that maybe had already fled.' Seriously funny, Lipsyte sits alongside such illustrious Daves as Gates, Eggers, and Foster Wallace on the self-conscious shelf, but with a heartfelt brilliance all his own." David Wright, Booklist (starred review)
"Lipsyte endows his narrator with a sharpness of wit and dexterity of language arguably unmatched in contemporary fiction." Alice Gregory, More Intelligent Life
"[A] dark humorous satiric novel, a witty paean to white-collar loserdom." The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"The Ask is a novel deeply in tune with the asks and the gives of the current economy, and with a city whose boroughs are full of the walking wounded . . . It comes out in the author's supremely distinctive voice, particularly his knack for brutal curlicues of prose--extravagant linguistic flourishes that only make the lonely truths hidden inside more piercing." Dan Kois, New York Magazine
"The Ask eschews the shopworn conventions of modern fiction; it offers a rare and welcome departure from today's contrived, über-plotted novels written for the big screen. Here is a satire in its purest form . . . Lipsyte possesses the syntactical dexterity of a top brain surgeon . . . [and] manages, with breathtaking success, to render Milo's life so plausibly and with such sureness of hand and that the novel's wildest developments seem as inevitable as they are believable . . . You put down The Ask with that sinking feeling of loss that only the best reads can engender." Kirk Davis Swinehart, Chicago Tribune
"Sam Lipsyte's way with words is exceptional, his ability to turn a phrase dazzling . . . [The Ask] is powerful and certainly speaks to our times." Carlo Wolff, The Boston Globe
"A biting, bilious and often brilliant book." Karen R. Long, Cleveland.com
"This melancholy book about a failed college fund-raiser is surely one of the best novels of the year." Frank Bures, Star Tribune
"2010 will also be remembered as the year when, thanks to a single book, the literary merit of that somewhat neglected beast, the comic novel, could no longer be denied: Sam Lipsyte's relentlessly and hilariously brilliant The Ask." Geoff Dyer, The Guardian
"Sam Lipsyte wants you to shit your pants. By that I mean parts of The Ask are so sphincter-looseningly funny that you will want to invest in some adult undergarments before reading it. As the author of several previous novels, including the Believer Book Award–winning Home Land, Lipsyte has cultivated a well-earned reputation as our preeminent chronicler of the absurd. There isn't a funnier author working today. . . The carefully nuanced look at our own world, of our phobias and obsessions and stupidities, forces us to understand them all too clearly. The Ask is a hilarious book that poses serious questions and never, ever feels slight." Andrew Ervin, The Believer
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The Ask
By Sam Lipsyte
Farrar, Straus and GirouxCopyright © 2010 Sam Lipsyte
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Chapter OneAmerica, said Horace, the office temp, was a run-down and demented pimp. Our republic's whoremaster days were through. Whither that frost-nerved, diamond-fanged hustler who'd stormed Normandy, dick-smacked the Soviets, turned out such firm emerging market flesh? Now our nation slumped in the corner of the pool hall, some gummy coot with a pint of Mad Dog and soggy yellow eyes, just another mark for the juvenile wolves.
"We're the bitches of the First World," said Horace, his own eyes braziers of delight.
We all loved Horace, his clownish pronouncements. He was a white kid from Armonk who had learned to speak and feel from a half-dozen VHS tapes in his father's garage. Besides, here at our desks with our turkey wraps, I did not disagree.
But I let him have it. It was my duty. We were in what they call a university setting. A bastion of, et cetera. Little did I know this was my last normal day at said bastion, that my old friend Purdy was about to butt back into my world, mangle it. I just figured this was what my worst teachers used to call a teachable moment.
"Horace," I said. "That's a pretty sexist way to frame a discussion of America's decline, don't you think? Not to mention racist."
"I didn't mention anybody's race," said Horace.
"You didn't have to."
"P.C. robot."
"Fascist dupe."
"Did you get avocado on yours?"
"Fattening," I said.
"Don't worry, baby," said Horace. "I like big women."
"What about hairy ones?" I said, parted my shirt to air my nipple fuzz. Horace let me be a cretin with him. You could call him my infantilism provider, though you'd sound like an idiot. Otherwise, I was ostensibly upstanding, a bald husband, a slab-bellied father.
"Gentlemen," said our supervisor, Vargina, coming out from her command nook. "Did you send off those emails about the Belgian art exchange?"
Horace swiveled back to his monitor with the mock panic of a sitcom serf. Vargina took scant notice of our talk, tolerated foul banter for purposes of morale. But the fact remained, we had forgotten the afternoon's assignment. The gods of task flow did not easily forgive.
Where we worked was in the development office of a mediocre university in New York City. It was an expensive and strangely obscure institution, named for its syphilitic Whig founder, but we often called it, with what we considered a certain panache, the Mediocre University at New York City. By we, I mean Horace and I. By often, I mean once.
Our group raised funds and materials for the university's arts programs. People paid vast sums so their spawn could take hard drugs in suitable company, draw from life on their laptops, do radical things with video cameras and caulk. Still, the sums didn't quite do the trick. Not in the cutthroat world of arts education. Our job was to grovel for more money. We could always use more video cameras, more caulk, or a dance studio, or a gala for more groveling. The asks liked galas, openings, recitals, shows. They liked dinner with a famous filmmaker for them to fawn over or else dismiss as frivolous.
An ask could be a person, or what we wanted from that person. If they gave it to us, that was a give. The asks knew little about the student work they funded. Who could blame them? Some of the art these brats produced wouldn't stand up to the dreck my three-year-old demanded we tack to the kitchen wall. But I was biased, and not just because I often loved my son. Thing was, I'd been just like these wretches once. Now they stared through me, as though I were merely some drone in their sight line, a pathetic object momentarily obstructing their fabulous horizon. They were right. That's exactly what I was.
A solitudinous roil, my bitterness. Horace, after all, was their age. He had no health insurance, just hope. Our rainmaker, Llewellyn, seemed born to this job, keen for any chance to tickle the rectal bristles of the rich with his Tidewater tongue. He was almost never in the office, instead sealing the deal on a Gulfstream IV to Bucharest, or lying topside on a Corfu yacht, slathered in bronzer.
Llewellyn delivered endowed chairs, editing suites, sculpture gardens. My record was not so impressive. My last big ask, for example, had failed to yield a few plasma TVs from the father of a recent film graduate.
Mr. Ramadathan had mortgaged his electronics store so his son could craft affecting screenplays about an emotionally distant, workaholic immigrant's quest for the American dream. But the father's giddiness had begun to wear off. The boy was unemployable. Now Mr. Ramadathan was maybe not so eager to relinquish his showroom models.
I'd made the hot, khaki-moistening hike past all the car dealerships and muffler shops on Northern Boulevard in Queens, stood in the sleek, dingy cool of the store. Mr. Ramadathan sat near the register in a wicker chair. The plasmas were not on display. Sold or hidden, I had no idea. Mr. Ramadathan stared at me, at the sweat patches on my crotch. He pointed toward some old video game consoles, a used floor fan, dregs of the dream.
"Please," he said, "take those. So that others may learn."
Unlike the time Llewellyn secured a Foley stage for the film department, there was no celebration on the Mediocre patio. No sour chardonnay got guzzled in my honor, nor did any lithe director of communications flick her tongue in my ear, vow to put me on the splash page of Excellence, the university's public relations blog.
If not so ecstatic in her position as Llewellyn, Vargina seemed happy enough, or at least adopted a mode of wise, unruffled decency in the office. She'd been a crack baby, apparently due to her mother being a crackhead, one of the early ones, the baking soda vanguard. Vargina was a miracle, and that's maybe the only time I have used the word sincerely. Her mother had named her the word her name resembled. A sympathetic nurse added the "r."
"Milo," she said now. "How is the Teitelbaum ask going?"
Vargina had enormous breasts I liked to picture flopping out of a sheer burgundy bra. Sometimes they just burst out in slow motion. Sometimes she scooped them out with her slender hands, asked me to join her reading group.
"Making progress," I said. "Chipping away."
"Maybe you need a larger tool," said Vargina, appeared to shudder slightly, perhaps worried her innocent metaphor would be misconstrued as sexual. Her words, however, were not misconstrued at all. I had already begun to picture my cock in high quiver, sliding up the lubed swell of her chest. We were in a library of lacquered wood. Viola tones rose from a carved alcove. Baby oil beaded on rare folios.
"Well," said Vargina, tapped the plastic parapet of my cube wall. "Just stick with it."
"Will do."
Truth was, the Teitelbaum ask was going nowhere. I was barely hanging on here in development. I wasn't developing. I'd done some good work at a non-profit a few years ago, but the South Bronx Restoration Comedy Project never really took off. The university snapped me up at a bargain rate. I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgment.
But today some karmic adjustment seemed due. Just as Vargina slipped back behind the particleboard walls of her command nook, a painting major we knew a bit too well around here charged up to my desk, planted her bony fist on my Vorticist mouse pad. McKenzie was one of those girls who didn't eat enough, so that all one really noticed about her were the mole-specked rods of her arms, the lurid jut of her skull. Students had no reason to visit our office, but her father had paid for our crappy observatory upstate. She was in here a lot, to preen, complain. I guess it beat making her putrid art.
"Hello, McKenzie," I said.
"Hi, yeah, sorry, I can't remember your name."
"Sure, okay. Milo. Listen, Milo, we talked last week and you promised I'd be able to take the Impressionism to Regressionism seminar even though it was full."
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah, you know, you promised you'd talk to the painting department and sort it all out. I mean, if I told my father-" "Hold on."
"Hold on?"
"I made no such promise. We have nothing to do with academic decisions, with curriculum or enrollment."
"Okay, maybe it was that guy," said McKenzie, pointing.
"Horace?" I said.
"Yeah, Whore-Ass," said McKenzie.
Horace wore a pained grin at his terminal.
"Horace hasn't been well," I told McKenzie. "Now, as I mentioned, we have no jurisdiction over any of these issues, but maybe we can all get together with painting and figure this out."
"Meaning what?"
"Meaning we can figure this out."
McKenzie stared. How could she know I myself had once been a fraud, chockablock with self-regard, at an overpriced institution just like this one, still had the debt to prove it? How could she know she stared down at the wispy pate of a man who once believed he was painting's savior, back in a decade that truly needed one?
She spoke quietly now: "Listen, I don't mean to be rude, but you really are here to serve my needs. My father taught me that the consumer is always right. I am the consumer. You are actually the bitch of this particular exchange. But don't think I don't respect that you are just a guy, like, doing your shitty job."
"Thank you," I said.
"But maybe you aren't cut out to work with artists."
I guess what set me off was her effort to be polite. I should have just leaned on the painting department to make room on the roster for her, ruin the semester for some pimple-seared hump who shared his name with no stargazing facility. Nobody cared. I would be doing my shitty job. It was a good shitty job. I'd done it for a few years and it paid pretty well, enough to let Maura go part-time since the baby. There was a quality family plan, plus a quality theft plan, the paints and brushes I smuggled home for those weekends I tried to put something on canvas again, until the old agony would whelm me and I'd stop and briefly weep and then begin to drink and watch Maura cruise up and down the cable dial all night, never alighting on anything for more than a moment, her thumb poised like a hairless and tiny yet impressively predatory animal above the arrow button, Maura herself bent on peeking into every corner of the national hallucination before bedtime.
She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.
So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the name shufflers, done my duty.
I thought about that moment later on. Maybe I got extra-tuned to the concept of bitchhood once I became Purdy's, though I must confess I've always found such usage of the term for female dogs distasteful. My mother was a second-wave feminist. I wasn't comfortable saying "cunt" until I was twenty-three, at which point, admittedly, I couldn't hold back for a time.
Or maybe it's just that I've always despised phrases like "that fateful day," but as time went on I found it hard to deny that the afternoon Horace launched his E Pluribus Pimpus oratory and McKenzie tried to reify my servility and I pictured titboning Vargina in a rare books room was pretty damn fateful. Or was it, in fact, just another random day, and it was I who did the fool thing, forced my hand?
What I said to McKenzie, there is no point repeating. It's enough to report my words contained nothing an arrogant, talentless, daddy-damaged waif wants to hear about herself. When I was finished she did not speak. A thickish vein in her pale head fl uttered. The blue thing seemed to veer and switch direction. Then she took a few steps back and, still staring at me, phoned her damager. What was done to me was done in hours. My outburst was deemed hate speech, which called for immediate dismissal. I could hardly argue with them. I think it probably was hate speech. I really fucking hated that girl.
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Meet the Author
Sam Lipsyte was born in 1968. He is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and the novels The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
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Funny at first, but that stops and the protagonist becomes just plain annoying. Not a likeable character in the book.
Sometimes you read a book that got good reviews up the wazoo and you ask yourself why. This is one of those books. Certainly it is an entertaining tale and the author is talented. But this novel is overwritten. Some of it is downright difficult to understand. Quite a few times while reading it I had to go back and reread certain sentences that looped back around each other making you wonder in the end what was the subject and what was the predicate. But after I gave up trying to decipher the writer's personal code, I did manage to finish the book. I was not amused.
I don't see what all the fuss was about. The book has unlikable characters acting out a predictable plot while mouthing banalities. If the plot really is "secondary to the writing," then the book is just another writer's workshop exercise.
Excellent prose. A great story. Highly recommend. This sold me on lipsyte, i will definitely check out his other works.
If you love the clever, complex writing style found in books from other literary periods, you will enjoy this novel as I did. (Ironically, the book is full of 2010 pop culture references that will likely keep it from being understood into future decades.) I very much enjoyed the unconventional story, giving readers a glimpse into the perhaps never before fictionalized world of higher education fundraising (albeit far from reality). I found this to be one of those books that keeps you reading until you finish. The only reason "The Ask" didn't get five stars from me is its heavy use of profanity. In spite of its relevancy in character development, it's still a turn-off for me personally. Great book regardless!
If you get past the first three pages without laughing, this may not be for you. I loved it. The most cynical and brutally funny look at life for the Gen X now 40 crowd I've read. It was described to me as an update to the classic A Confederacy of Dunces, and lived up to those strong words, for me.


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decided: April 23, 1969.
MAPPv.PHILADELPHIA, APPELLANT
Appeal from order of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1967, No. 814, reversing order of Court of Common Pleas No. 2 of Philadelphia County, March T., 1964, No. 4990, in case of Ruby L. Mapp v. City of Philadelphia.
Matthew W. Bullock, Jr., Second Deputy City Solicitor, with him Frank J. Pfizenmayer, Assistant City Solicitor, and Edward G. Bauer, Jr., City Solicitor, for City of Philadelphia, appellant.
Carl M. Mazzocone, with him Sheer & Mazzocone, for appellee.
Bell, C. J., Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts and Pomeroy, JJ. Opinion by Mr. Justice Roberts.
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This case presents a narrow procedural question. Claimant appellee received a Workmen's Compensation award from the referee for emotional disturbances which he found resulted from her activities as policewoman. The Workmen's Compensation Board reversed, and this ruling was affirmed by the court of common pleas. The Superior Court reversed and reinstated the referee's decision, holding that appellant, City of Philadelphia, had failed to file a timely appeal with the board from the referee's decision. This Court granted allocatur.
The referee's decision was mailed to the city on October 17, 1961 and was received the next day. The city mailed its appeal on November 6, 1961, and it apparently was received on November 8. The Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, § 423, as amended, 77 P.S. § 853, provides that a party may "take an appeal" from a referee's decision within 20 days after notice of the referee's award. The act provides that notice is to be deemed served on the date when the referee's decision is mailed, here October 17, 77 P.S. § 717. The period
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in which an appeal must be filed starts to run on the next day, Act of May 28, 1937, P. L. 1019, as amended, 46 P.S. § 538 (Supp. 1967), here on October 18. November 6, the date on which the city mailed its appeal, is the 20th day from October 18. The Superior Court held that the appeal, to be perfected for these purposes, must be received, not merely mailed, by the 20th day, thus finding the city's appeal to be untimely.
The back of the notice of the referee's decision informs the parties of the requirements for taking an appeal. It explicitly states: "An appeal will be considered as filed within the prescribed time if it is mailed to the Board, properly stamped and addressed, on the twentieth day after such notice. Thus if a decision is mailed to the parties January 1, the appeal must be mailed to the Board not later than January 21." (Emphasis added.) The parties are thus told that the appeal must be mailed, not received within the 20 day period. By mailing its appeal on November 6, the city complied with this requirement.
The order of the Superior Court is vacated and the case is remanded to the Superior Court for a decision on the merits.
Order of Superior Court vacated and case remanded.
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The guided tour continues to the jail of Örebro Castle. This is also the spot where the exhibition about the history of Örebro is. It's not allowed to take pictures inside the castle, except for here at the jail, so this is the only picture of the interior that I have of Örebro castle. Not that I really minded in this case, as the interior wasn't so nice to see.
The guided tour was more about the stories of the castle and the people living here, than showing the interior. Living in this jail for example wasn't the most fun part of it. You would be chained around your ankles, hands and also you neck and locked up in the little cell. The drinking water you would get
would come straight out of the moat, and that wasn't the best water to drink. Like in a lot of castles, the moat was used like a sewer for the toilets.... arghhh... can't even imagine drinking water like that!
The huge parties that were held when other royals visited, sounded a better place to be.... although.... were they? Hahaha, hearing all the details, maybe it wasn't so very pleasant at all. The dinners would be huge, and in total the meal would have 37 dishes. And you had to eat from each and every dish! Of course that is almost impossible to do, so they had a solution to that. After a few courses of the meal, they would throw up, so they would make more room in the stomach for the next dish. They actually had a little feather next to their plate to put in the back in the throat to make the vomiting more easily. arghh.... not sure if I like that idea, bweh!
There were several stories like this about life in the castle and were fun to hear. Like the wedding night tradition of the king. But to hear about that one you have to go to the castle yourself and take the guided tour. Hahaha, VT would probably censor this tip when I write about that, lol :-)
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I Climb...
Once a month
In the UK & Europe
Favourite Climbs
New route on Liathach the other winter.
Jackson/Shea route on the Droite
Torro on the Ben
Most of the routes I have done on Etive Slabs
Latest Climbs
Fingers Ridge IV 4
Western Rib II/III
Little Teaser 6b+
Pebbledash 6b
Black Adder E1 5a
Fighting off the Vultures 6a+
The Old Man of Moy 6a+
Moy Bueno 6b
Pebbledash 6b
Corvus 5c
Magnifascent 6a+
The Fly 6a+
The Fly 6a+
Moy Bueno 6b
The Old Man of Moy 6a+
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Ticklists BETA
Inverness and Moray Rock 45%
The best the UK has to offer for beasts (apart from the lakes cos its always wet) 3%
Ultimate Scottish Rock 30%
Strathspey's Finest 15%
Classic Far Northwest 24%
Scottish 3 and 4 star multi-pitch routes 24%
Scottish Mid-Grade Multi-Pitch 33%
Best slab climbs of the UK 19%
The Great Mountain Crags of Scotland 9%
Cracks And Corners To Greatness 2%
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Climbs Wishlist
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