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2017 sees the release of the It movie remake — or 'reboot' as seems to be the trendy term — and we'll have a new It movie clown in the shape of young Bill Skarsgard. We've seen his look for Pennywise, which looks good enough to persuade even die-hard fans of the great Tim Curry that this It movie remake may be worth looking into.
However, Pennywise is only one of It's forms, and the creature that no mortal can look upon in its true form has many terrifying abilities. Put it this way, if you were playing a computer game made up of fights with Stephen King villains (can someone please make that?!) It would be the final boss. Take a look at It's many powers and think about which would be the coolest to see on screen in 2017.
Pull Shapes
It can transform into pretty much any form he likes, from a dead body to a bug to Pennywise the clown. It's his ability to change and deceive that makes It such a threat: how can you protect yourself against something that could come to you as anything, even in the shape of someone you love?
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It can produce illusions at whim, which is a filmmaker's dream in terms of creating astonishing visual effects. It conjures an eyeball in the Loser's Club's fortune cookies, and that's probably the nicest thing It ever does to them... The possibilities for an amazing ability like this are endless, especially as It can target its illusions, making them visible (or audible) only to certain people. Unless the 2017 It movie is shot in Smell-O-vision (which I would love!) It's ability to conjure smells such as rotting flesh or cotton candy will not be tickling our noses any time soon.
Now You See It...
The kids believe that It is only visible to certain people, like Der Kindestod in Buffy. The Loser's Club and other children in Derry believe in It, so he manifests to them, mostly as Pennywise the clown. It can use this to his own ends, choosing to be visible or invisible at will.
Healing Skills
Nope, sorry, It is a selfish prick and only heals himself, using his Wolverine-like powers of regeneration to restore himself after injury. Bill manages to shoot It (in its werewolf form) in the head and It still manages to pursue him effortlessly. Still, seeing as how It's true form is supposedly beyond the physical, it's likely that many of his corporeal bodies are of no real importance.
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I Like The Way You Move
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The Great Outdoors
It seems to affect the weather around Derry, with some powerful pathetic fallacy occurring when the Loser's Club are faced with their nemesis. The destruction of downtown Derry caused by flood water is implied to be the direct cause of It's evil abilities. It can also kill great swathes of plants with just a touch, although this occurs when It is in its Leper form (to be played by Javier Botet in the 2017 movie).
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned it's proceedings on the stay of execution motion filed by the 'ousted' Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikeazu pending the determination of the appeal filed at the Appeal Court.
Governor Ikpeazu had filed an application for a stay of action on the judgement that removed him as the state governor.
Ikpeazu, through his lead counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), had filed an application praying the court not to effect the judgment.
Justice Okon Abang said in its ruling that based on the submission of Alex Iziyon, counsel to Uche Ogah, his court lacked jurisdiction to take the application for stay of execution, saying that he would not enter the fray of legal dispute by making a pronouncement.
"Based on Iziyon's application I hereby adjourned the proceedings pending the appeal at the appeal court," Abang held.
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Abang said that Ikpeazu ran to the appeal court for "stay of execution" of an order removing him as governor instead of coming to him to decide on the matter.
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Iziyon asked the judge to make a pronouncement setting aside the order of an Abia high court, restraining the chief judge from swearing in Ogah as the state governor.
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Well what can I say I was totally disgusted with the treatment my best friend received for such a well know hospital. She was near the end stages of breast cancer and was admmitted with sevre swollen legs and mrsa, admiited on a sunday she was put on ward 12 in a side room because of the mrsa. she was left in the room with her legs dripping through the dressings ,we used blankets to wipe the floor clean as no one would come and sort out her legs when I took the blanket out I asked the nurse where could I put it ,beside the reception station i was told, about 20 mins later she came and asked why the blanket was so wet we told her why and was horrified when she releasied what was on the blanket. things just got worse in that room she was left sit in her wheel chair all night. we were the ones who made the bed and put her in it No dr came to see her even when we asked for something for the pain she was in evenatully on the third day we were informed by nursing staff that she was on the wrong ward but there was no beds available. On the thursday the family took the decsion to take her home she passed away a week later. No staff came in to help her it was all left to the family even complaining to the matron did nothing Why wasnt she put on the right ward where they are looked after in their finally days I will never forget her crying in pain the look on her face We had no clue what was happening as no one came to talk to us we didnt see a dr apart when she was admitted on the saturday night. We knew she was dyeing but what a way to watch someone go in so much pain, her pain control was not sorted out until she got home and district nurse and gp did it for her . when she passed away she was pai n free and you could seeit in her face I will never forget how she was treated in the new super hospital.
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Windows "Scan and Fix Dialog Box" and ".CHK Files"
Hey Friends,
I guess its not only me having this, is it? Many of us have it right? so whats the thing which brings up this dialog box > Scan and Fix /or/ Continue without scanning > when you connect an external device to your computer?
i had some time some bad day of mine when i clicked on the Scan and Fix and the result was the windows converted a very large number of my files into .CHK files hidden in the HDD!! and i still cannot find a way to recover those most most important files of mine (they are text files). I did recover a large bundle of files, but not the ones i actually needed more than anything! those text files. i have gone through literally 30,000 files and recovered almost everything > videos, movies, images, and messed up bits of large installation files of softwares like AE broken down to many many small pieces... but that doesnt matter! that stuff can be recovered (softwares and movies and songs) but the text files are still among those .CHK files i have which are still more than 10,000.
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Sounds like checkdisk is running and finding a problem with a hard drive and attempting a repair
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Friend, i dont really think that is something even near a repair! that is what i think a mess, it literally took all the files from my HDD and converted them to .CHK files hidden in the HDD and as a result it showed it had finished with errors...
when i checked to the given location all those folders and files were only icons of 32KB and nothing more!!!
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They are generally recoverable but if you altered them already they may not be, check this out
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The flow of my life since becoming an indie author has been clean, clear, and exhilarating.
Consequently, my heels are digging in.
Their current attempt to slow my momentum is not as enthusiastic as previous episodes have been. Those older ones used to throw me right over the guardrail and into the bushes.
I've been working for a year to create a wide base from which my publishing house, Goddess Kindled Universe, can continue to grow. Though, it would not be a lie to say I've been building up a store of knowledge with which to achieve it, my whole life.
Has it really only been one year?
Spring is around the corner, crocuses are spearing into the world, and ancient oak trees are swelling with new buds. They never wonder if it's time to move through the cycle, or what's holding them back from taking the next step.
Here is a selection of the old soundtracks that have sparked up in my mind this week:
"Worthwhile things don't come this easily."
"You don't earn enough money."
"Your work's not as good as you think it is."
"You need to learn more about that before you can write about it."
All of these ties keep looping over my psyche, feels like my body, too, trying to stop me from going too far. All the old ways that I've kept myself safe from potential failure. But, who knows if I would have failed, or not. Maybe. My heart is thumping at the thought of failure, but there is curiosity and excitement inside the beats, now.
I'm forty-four; maybe I've lived enough life to do the scary things, regardless.
Some of the scary things:
The last few chapters of my first novel's first draft are staring at me.
I'm sitting on the advisory board of an editing company I truly admire.
I'm moderating the Studio space of The Creativist Club with Orna Ross, and about to go through the entire process of creativism with her, live recorded for her podcast, The Go Creative! Show.
That last one is terrifying, because it will plunge me into the middle of all the concepts I have around "financial". Raw and vulnerable teaching moments? Tick!
I asked my girlfriend why I keep hesitating, even though I'm exactly where I wanted to be (and more quickly than I imagined was possible). Her answer?
"You think you don't know enough."
And, as simple as that — with soft words, spoken kindly. I started breathing, again.


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ITEM/TOY CONDITION:Up for grabs is a set of 4x Universal Monsters Action Figures as seen in the scan.You are offerding on the FULL SET of 4x .These are simply awesome renditions of the classics.These figures are roughly about 6-7 inches tall on average.Each item will be new in the box.Each item is 100% FACTORY SEALED & has NEVER been opened or removed from its package.Each item is overall in very good to excellent,C8 condition,showing normal expected wear from being in storage.This is part of a MASSIVE Inventory being saleed off,from over a 10,000 piece Collection just purchased.
Take a few minutes & be sure to check out my store & sale Listings for a WIDE VARIETY of these related Action Figures,Toys & Collectibles ! I have literally THOUSANDS of items to choose from & one of the Best Selections on when it comes to Toys & Collectibles.I also offer very reasonable COMBINED shipping rates on Multiple item purchases and *LARGER* orders.
QUICK FAQ's...quick Tips,Facts,etc.
- 1)Do you combine shipping? Yes,Yes,Yes.I ALWAYS combine shipping & STRONGLY recommend it.Some restrictions apply ,such as LARGE items or odd-sized items.
- 2)How much are combined shipping rates ? This is SO varied & all depends on *WHAT* items are purchased,as adding a 5 POUND item to your package,is VERY different from adding a 14 ounce item.Shipping rates are based on weight & EVERY item has a different weight class.No matter what is purchased ,the combined rate will be very reasonable if applicable.If you want a quote,please send ALL ITEM NUMBERS to me,so I can get a COMBINED quote for you.If the items are similiar *size*,it is usually only a couple bucks more per item on average.
- 3)When will my order ship ? 95% of the time,I ship orders within 72 hours once payment is received,and you will receive an email with Tracking Information thereafter.We ship 5x days a week.
- 4)Do you ship out of the USA ? Yes,absolutely.I am happy to ship Overseas & Internationally , but can only ship via PRIORITY MAIL on orders over $24.99.
- 5)How do you ship your items ? 99% of the time,I will ship via USPS,with great care in packaging.Most orders under 4 pounds usually ship Priority Mail & orders over 4 pounds ship via Parcel Post.Any large packages will ship Parcel Post.All orders over $100 will ship WITH Insurance.
- 6) Does FREE SHIPPING apply to *everywhere* ? NO.If we offer FREE SHIPPING,this ONLY applies to the lower 48 USA STATES.Alaska,Hawaii,Guam,Puerto Rice,Virgin Islands,International or Overseas DOES NOT APPLY.
- 7) I am International/Overseas...do I have to pay taxes/duties ? Most likely,yes.You,the Buyer are solely responsible for your Country's Customs/Duties Charges...we are not.It is strictly up to your particular Country as to what they will charge.
- 8) I am International/Overseas...will you ship as a GIFT with a LOW VALUE ? Unfortunately,no,we can no longer do this.Any Transaction made THRU has to ship with Full Amount of Purchase Price in order to be covered if something happens to the package.
- 9) I asked a question to you & did not get a response ? Why ? That is because it is listed/answered somewhere already within the sale.We took the time & great effort to pretty much address ANY concern a Buyer may have already & cannot give repeat answers. OK,now for the SUPER nitty gritty...here are more than a few simple steps that I MUST now implement due to the rash of NON PAYING buyers and/or NEW/UNKNOWLEDGEABLE persons/buyers who just do not take the time to read all the info provided & just some overall *knowledge* & common sense to make the whole transaction as pleasant as seemingly possible.WHEW.These simple steps FAQ's will help you & I during the whole transaction process,from start to finish & ultimately in the end,make for a better transaction.I MUST address all of these issues,due to the simple fact that some Buyers just do not understand the whole process & just do not take the brief amount of time to read the sale Description...as simple as it seems to most,there are still a few that just do not get it.
- 1) Do NOT use Checkout on MULTIPLE ITEM PURCHASES,please. More often than not,you will be OVER-paying if using 's Checkout System on Multiple Item purchases.I will send YOU an Invoice,with ALL combined items & with the COMBINED shipping costs.If payment is made prior to this then their is nothing I can do post-payment.
- 2) YES,I ALWAYS COMBINE SHIPPING... whenever possible & feasible.I cannot stress this enough.This benefits both you & I in the long run & in most cases ,I can ship MULTIPLE ITEMS of the *same/similiar* size for just a few bucks more than a single item.I offer a large Inventory & wide range of items for sale in my store to satisfy any Collector.I STRONGLY suggest that if you are shopping for numerous items at once to complete your Collection,that you look into purchasing MULTIPLE items for one order,to take advantage of my very reasonable COMBINED SHIPPING rates.By taking advantage of MULTIPLE ITEM PURCHASES , this will save you quite a bit on Shipping Costs in the long run by ordering piece by piece.I will hold any purchased items for up to 4 DAYS in order to combine you shipping costs & to be paid at ONE TIME after you are finished shopping.We pack all of our orders with great care & expertise,as if they were being shipped to us.
- 3)We are switching over a number of our sales to IMMEDIATE PAYMENTS,usually for items over $50, due to NON PAYING buyers.Should you decide to purchase MULTIPLE Items along WITH IMMEDIATE PAYMENTS , rest assured,you will be credited a percentage of overage for the shipping costs.We WILL combine shipping costs for you ! We have been doing this for 13 YEARS & have a SOLID reputation.
- 4)Most orders that weigh over 4 pounds will ship PARCEL POST .By shipping this way,it saves YOU,the Buyer shipping costs,due to the Post Office's increase in PRIORITY MAIL size costs & surcharges. If you need an order shipped other than Parcel Post,or upgraded,please contact me & I will give you the rate for Priority Mail.Keep in mind,when shipping Parcel Post,this may take a bit longer to reach you,especially to Zones 6 & 7,which are the farthest & most costly Zones to ship to.All orders $100 or more,will ship with Insurance.
- 5)Do not email me asking for a Tracking Number or Delivery Confirmation or IF your sale has shipped.All Orders are generally shipped within 72 hours of receipt of payment & on a RARE occasion a few days longer,as *Life* takes precedence over a shipment of a package.We strive to get orders shipped asap & go to the Post Office at least 4 times a week,so rest assured,your order WILL ship out.The last thing I WANT are these items sitting here ,after we took the time to list them.After the item is packed & accepted by the shipping company,you will receive an email notification via PayPal's automatic shipping notification system,which will contain the DATE & the Delivery Confirmation Number/Tracking Number for your order.DO NOT EMAIL me for this information.This same info can be viewed on the PayPal Transactions Details Page or the actual sale Page under ORDER DETAILS.I receive over 300-400 emails daily & cannot do this anymore due to time constraints.
- 6) INTERNATIONAL/OVERSEAS Buyers : Do NOT send PayPal payments on ANY PURCHASE or MULTIPLE ITEM PURCHASES until you receive an Invoice from me,with the COMBINED/AND/OR SHIPPING COSTS.Too many INTERNATIONAL/OVERSEAS Buyers are just *making up* there own shipping costs & sending payments.This just creates headaches & ultimately slows down the entire processing of your order by DAYS.You will have an Invoice within 48 hours of your purchase.The shipping costs stated in the sale are for DOMESTIC/USA rates...these are NOT the same for International/Overseas.
- 7) Now that requires all Buyers to pay via PayPal,all payments are to be made within 4 DAYS ...not 10 days,not 2 weeks,not a month.... 4 DAYS...there is NO exception to this.If you are not going to pay,please do not offer.It is not a game.It has become a tiresome task *waiting* on payments for extensive amounts of time,especially with NEW Buyers.You take the opportunity away from a legitimate buyer & wastes precious time & money for myself.On the 5th day of NON PAYMENT ,a NON PAYING buyer ALERT will be filed with & there is ABSOLUTELY NO exception to this.After doing this for over 10 years,I have heard EVERY excuse in the book & am growing very tired.
- 8) DO NOT ask me to ship to a DIFFERENT ADDRESS,other than the one SENT/CONTAINED with the PAYPAL PAYMENT on the Details Transaction Page.This will no longer be done.I will ONLY ship to the PayPal Address that comes thru with the PayPal Payment & given within the PayPal Details...again,there is NO EXCEPTION to this.If you want an item/package shipped to a different address,YOU MUST MANUALLY REVISE THIS INFO BEFORE YOU SEND PAYMENT ! Once the payment is sent via PayPal,that IS the Address that will be printed on the Shipping Label.WE CANNOT CHANGE THIS ON OUR END.
- 9) The BEST OFFER FEATURE : This Feature was originally set up in my sales & intended for MULTIPLE Purchase Items/Bulk Transactions....not single items for someone who wants an item 50-75% off the listed price...it just isnt going to happen.We are not a Clearance Center Outlet.Our prices are VERY reasonable,when compared to other Dealers.If you can find the item cheaper...by all means,that is what makes America great...CHOICES ! If you make a Best Offer & do not receive a DECLINE or ACCEPTED response,after you made your *offer*... that simply means the offer was too low & cannot be accepted.I receive at least 100 *Best Offers* a day & the majority of these Offers I receive are simply ridiculous & due to time constraints,cannot be answered on a single basis.We are slowly disabling this feature,as it seems people just want Flea Market prices...again,this isnt going to happen.We are a BUSINESS,not some kid selling a couple things from his room.If you need help with a possible BULK or MULTIPLE ITEMS order,you can email me for any specials or sales going on.I will need the list of items you are interested in.We are contantly wholesaling out portions of our warehouse to make room for more stock.
- 10) OVERSEAS / INTERNATIONAL BUYERS concerning EMS MAIL (Express Mail) & PRIORITY MAIL SHIPPING : ALL OVERSEAS/INTERNATIONAL paid via PAYPAL MUST & WILL ship via EMS or PRIORITY MAIL for ANY order over $24.99 .There is NO exception to this.This is to protect me & my investment & ultimately is the safest & fastest way to ship International/Overseas.EMS requires a Signature upon receipt,is automatically Insured & has Online Tracking Number available to you & I.Keep this in mind,with the new rates from USPS...EMS & PRIORITY Rates START at $33 for a 14 once package.Just because an items costs $15,doesnt mean it will cost $10 to ship ! For Overseas/International Buyers,I STRONGLY suggest buying BULK or MULTIPLE ITEMS to take advantage of COMBINED SHIPPING COSTS/RATES,as I can ship MULTIPLE ITEMS for just a few $$$ more than what it costs to ship ONE item.For instance,a ONE POUND box costs $33 to ship,as opposed to a 4 POUND package which costs $42,so you get more bang for your buck if purchasing multiple items.If you want to know shipping costs for BULK items,please send me the list of ALL the items you are interested in.Any orders OVER $250 WILL HAVE TO SHIP via EXPRESS MAIL.Again,this is to protect my Investment & product & in the event of lose,I am covered.Just like YOU the Buyer,you want to be protected under ,correct? Well,so do we.Please view the USPS website for International Rates.If you think the shipping costs are expensive....well,YES,they are ! Because you are THOUSANDS of MILES AWAY !
- 11) We cannot & will not ship via FIRST CLASS MAIL for any order over $24.99. Please,do not email me to ship 1st Class Mail or Economy Class...as I cannot & will no longer ship this way .Too many International/Overseas Buyers cry & complain when we ship 1st Class Mail,asking "WHERE IS MY ITEM" ?! , "WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG"! , "MY PACKAGE NEVER GOT HERE" ! "WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK !". Because of this,we will NO LONGER ship 1st Class Mail.It is slow,it is slow,it is slow & 1/2 the time,the packages mysteriously *never* makes it.You cannot have it shipped both CHEAP & FAST ,with Insurance & Tracking...you simply cant have it both ways.Just like YOU the Buyer,you want to be protected under ,correct? Well,so do we.
- 12) INTERNATIONAL / OVERSEAS ANY items purchased THRU will be declared for the FULL PURCHASE AMOUNT on the Customs Slip. You ,the Buyer,will be SOLELY responsible for any & all, & will assume all duties/taxes from your Country's Custom Office.This is not our fault,nor our responsibility.Any purchase made THRU ,can no longer ship as a GIFT,with a LOWER VALUE & will have to declare the FULL amount ,should the package come up *missing* in transit.Each Overseas/International package will be insured as well.
- 13) response will ONLY be left AFTER you,the Buyer, has left it for me.We leave response about 3x times a week in bulk & is just easier this way.
- 14) In the RARE occasion,that I forget to include an item from your order,EMAIL ME .I cannot fix any issue or problem if I do not know about it beforehand.Unfortunately,I do not have ESP,so I need you to contact me like a Human Being in hopes of getting any issue resolved.I will do my best to make it right for you.I am only human & do make errors & mistakes,even though these times are indeed scarce.If you are demanding,belligerent or rude...you will be treated as such.We are professionals & have been in the business for over 22 years & will treat you as we are treated.
- 15) In the RARE occasion,that I am SOLD OUT of an item from your order,you will be notified by email & again,will do my best to rectify this situation for you.Between doing over 25+ Toy Conventions a year,running a 5,000 sq ft Warrehouse,Selling a well-stocked Store on ,stock & collections coming & going and selling to repeat Customers by the day....things will get misplaced, lost ,mis-inventoried ,mis-listed,or even damaged.Again,this is human error & although these instances are VERY rare,they do happen & I will make every effort to rectify this situation.
- 16) NO warranties are given on ANYTHING electronic,especially VINTAGE items(pre-1985).I wish I had the time to test & re-test each & every electronic item I have in stock,but again,simply not enough time in the day to do so.99% of the time they just need new batteries,which is a simple fix.Do not *assume* anything.
- 17) With nit-picky buyers & buyers who examine their Figures under a magnifying glass,or want to display them in a Museum Exhibition...please read my descriptions.If you put ANYTHING under a microscope....ANY flaw can be found.NOTHING is gem-mint.So if you are looking for AFA 90,95 or 100 carded figures or toys,please do not offer.I offer a quaility product as always & if not,will be said within the items description.Grading of condition is a VERY subjective issue,so please view the pics provided or ask questions prior to offerding.A C7 0r C8 items is NOT MINT ! And can have small *defects* such as light edge wear or a small bend or crease.
- 18) As an ADDED Bonus to *BULK* Buyers...I always include FREEBIES on all purchases over $250 on regular priced items(not including shipping charges)...whenever possible.I am always looking to expand to more REPEAT Bulk Buyers.On RARE occasions,this is not possible,only due to box size or the size of larger items.As an additional bonus,any purchase made over $250+,gets a 10% discount towards their next purchase .
- 19) Every sale does have a small *handling* fee factored in.This small amount covers many costs associated with running a business,but not limited too... storage fees,packing materials(peanuts,bubble wrap,padded Convention Costs & laboring man-hours involved in processing your order.Again,we are a BUSINESS...not one guy selling 10 things for *fun* out of his Garage.
- 20) SHIPPING COSTS : Look,shipping is what it is . I dont like it either,but I have to pay it,warehouses have to pay it,Grocery Stores have to pay it,Retail Outlets have to pay it,EVERYONE has to pay it...just the way the *System* works.If you want something to arrive at your door,you have to pay for this convenience.Simple as that.Any dealer who offers "FREE SHIPPING" ??? ,Well,there is NO SUCH THING AS FREE SHIPPING !!! No way,no how ! That costs is factored into the item price. If our shipping costs look *high*,well,they are not.We just dont throw an item into a bag or box & send it on out.We have a FULL TIME employee(s),dedicated to safely packing & securing your item(s) for transit.Our response says it all when it comes to this.Personally,I would rather pay a couple extra bucks extra,knowing that my package will be packed correctly & with care.
- 21) REFUNDS/EXCHANGES : We can ONLY refund or exchange an item if it is RETURNED to us in the ORIGINAL CONDITION as it was sent out.If you OPEN a sealed toy or Collectible,we CANNOT return for the FULL purchase amount,as this is NOT how we sent it out.If you open it and/or you or your kids PLAY with an item & break it,we are NOT responsible for your mishandling of an item.We are not responsible for any Factory Defect on a Toy or Collectible.
- 22) has made yet another revision to list items as either USED or NEW . Unfortunately,this is not as cut and dry as would like to think,as there are a slew of issues they do not factor in . For instance,if you buy an *new* item off a store shelf WITH a dent,is it now *new* or *used* ? If we purchase a collection of loose items,that were NOT played with & in impeccable condition,are these *NEW* or *USED* ? If you have an item that is 4 months old,12 months old,20 years old,but still sealed in the box,is it *NEW* or *USED* ? So,this is why EACH & EVERYONE of our sales has a detailed item description contained ... please read this description .
- 23)All items are from a SMOKE & PET FREE Environment.
- 24) Now that /PAYPAL reports all sales/transactions to the IRS/US Government we must now implement Online Sales Tax,just like ANY OTHER Online Business such as Wal-Mart,ToysRus,Target,etc).We are a Business & do report our sales . It is becoming harder & harder to make money on small dollar items,sometimes our profit margin is less than 20%.Everybody wants more,when their is no more to give.Eventually,like anything else,these added costs trickle down to the Consumer.Its sad,but true.
- I do apologize up front for this extensive list,but it seems the time has come where it just NEEDS to be done & anyone who has sold on for a number of years can feel this *pain*.This is probably THE most simplest thing to do as a Buyer...BUY,PAY & RECEIVE...yet some make it SO crazy difficult.The Non Paying buyers & unknowledgeable Buyers are just becoming too much nowadays & takes away the *fun* from Selling...especially after 13+ years.The whole sale Process is very simple...you buy,you pay,you receive you item.Over the years,it only takes a handful of poor,unknowledgeable Buyers to ruin it for the VAST MAJORITY of the great,honest Customers that are out there & for them,I applaud you & wish *everyone* could be as such.I strive to make a transaction a positive one & hopefully,overall,these simple,yet lengthy, steps should make life a bit easier for all of us.I think I have pretty much said everything possible to answer ANY question within these Guidelines.
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Discussion in 'Campus Life' started by wxman1, Nov 4, 2013.
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Dan Tracy @dtracy89 1m Scene at Iowa State. Damn. RT @DeanBG Cop cars chased truck onto central campus. Bystanders said 3 gun shots. pic.twitter.com/vXOLHMcnMq
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Alleged shots fired on Iowa State campus. RT @DeanBG: Truck slammed into tree. Cops taping the area off. pic.twitter.com/o8h21xV8IG
In the QB thread, someone showed two of the guys posting "wow" on Twitter. I'm going to assume it's related to this, and be glad that my daughter and I are hanging at home right now.
I heard like 10 police cars with sirens on zoom by on Lincoln Way. Knew something serious must have happened.
I haven't even gotten an ISU alert...
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If there's ever a chase going down Lincoln Way in Ames, they HAVE TO put campus on lockdown. This *** hat could've killed someone driving through central campus.
ISU Alert fail...
Homecoming starting off with a BANG! I'll see myself out
Looks like all the police cars are by the library.
And thats the second time in a month.
The first was when they spotted a "bomb-like object" and instead of ALERTING THE STUDENTS, they tweeted out "hey stay away from this area."
C'mon, man.
I just got an ISU Alert Text
That's not how you do Guerrilla Marketing, Spring Green Lawn Care out of Boone
Posting from morril hall. Emergency vehicles all over central campus.
I hope everyone is ok......this is scary.
I'm a recent alum and I got a text lol.
Well, skipped my first two classes of the day, might as well skip my noon class too... you know, for my safety.
Not sure if anyone is listening to stream but a while ago they said we are heading to Mary Greeley to decide if we need to go straight to morgue.
Edit. Bypassing ER and heading straight to morgue. Haven't figured who they are taking. Assuming it's driver.


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Oh Betty, of course I remember you and I missed you. Your sense of humour comes through, even with all that crap.
Oban had allergies, he was on Atopica, not shots. Then he had horrible diarrhoea and was found to have a serious gut issue, Lymphangiectasia, and when we got that under control the itches stopped. Just like that, boom, no itching. A newish member here is a VEt who may come on and say allegies, intolerance, sensitivities that result in itching stem from the gut and for Oban it sure seems to be true.
WE thought Oban's itchy problem was seasonal environmental but I did the Nutriscan saliva test on him and it did show some foods, some he had never eaten. ONe food is turkey which was the novel protein he went on with our new Vet who immediately put him on one single novel protein and one single novel carb and that diet alone made a huge difference right away to the diarrhoea and the itching. And TCM which I know you use anyway. Good luck with the pooches, maybe try a novel diet?
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ok, i knew i 'd get responses from you guys even tho ive been missing and a turd
ok, confusing but i'll try to make it brief, gotta rush, nick working today and i cant tie my right sneaker, still.
eli, the frenchie, has had only one yeasty ear, which is not necessarily allergy according to my regular vet. he is the one who at 3.2 got pyoderma and off to the dermatologist at the hospital i like -not the one that misdiagnosed rex and said he had days to live.then i went on with my home cooked diet, chinese herbs and he lived 18 more months dying from something with his lungs and his liver levels were perfect wishing less than 3 months.
eli-the one they, the dermatologist is rushing me to give shots to-is on a pretty novel diet- raw goat and raw rabbit from haretoday, ground fine with bone and all the guts stuff. novel enough for me. he hardly scratches, masturbates like a human (no joke, my vet wants a video and i told him he's a perv) and sometimes sucks his toes, which only one toe came up with yeast. when the antibiotic was removed, cephalexin because the usual skin one did nada, in two days it looked like maybe he was getting prickly heat so back to the dermatologist where she said adamantly ALLERGIES and i felt rushed into the shot idea. spoke to both breeders, sire is a vet non practicing who breeds and shows and eli's dad is champion diego. yes, if there is a dog that shows allergies, immediately spayed , neutered and pet dog, non breeding . he was from kentucky and 3 grand. my fault, never investigated french bulldogs but i can not believe, since it's one of those dogs in fashion, that all those i see in NYC , with young folks, are on shots.
so, the last message i left was, dont do the serum, just get me the results of the blood tests and i did blood tests because i fear putting him out as flat faced dogs...ok you got that one.
vangie, guiding eyes dog, got 6 yrs ago at 2 and she was a puker from the start. tsunami puking. would get a shot of cerenia and be ok, for a bit and then start again.
I'm getting called into the shower so he can get moving but when i get back from the gym i will be back and fill in the rest.
thanks thanks thanks. i knew i could count on you guys.
gotta rush, promised the girls dunking donuts and coffee. should be cool balancing in the snow. wish me luck and i'll be back.
cant thank you guys enough for everything.
in a few hours i'll be here. keep thinking. i so appreciate it.
and a bit of good news. dr ding, the ortho, thinks i am phenomenal. and the pain dr made a mistake again, only giving me enough for 20 days which becomes a disaster with cvs. another long stupid story.
i'll be back, as arnold who i never liked , but now for obvious reasons, like more......you know me, the politics creep back in . doreen?????? i cant.
Hey Betty, when you hadn't been around since January I thought that maybe you were camped out in a grassy knoll.
so vangie refused her id food for breakfast and then again for dinner. i probably caused this but i added warmed up half free chicken broth, she ate, smiled at me, and then puked up the entire mess. i called the internist and luckily he's in and will see us tomorrow afternoon. i asked the tech that called me back about how much a scope is.
$2300. i just cant but have to. i sure hope this is not anything very serious because i will flip out. completely.
so let's see. if she has the scope -$6300 in two months . i am beginning to think i cant afford these two. not funny. i mean, really?
i will be back and keep you guys in the loop and any info for either dog is greatly appreciated. I'm not a happy camper and nick turned pale and just looked at me like .....i dont know what.
I'm sad and scared. for both of them, now vangie more than eli.
Sending tons of our MOJO for your pups and you. Tough situation, but they are your family and whatever it takes to get them well is worth it.
to you.
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bett (03-18-2017)
no scope, no prednisone, no nothing. yes, he would have tried the no salt broth but if she doesnt eat for a day, no worries. my fear was it would be until he came back and i thought that was tues.
start feeding her regular, fromm, in with the id kibble. so far, so good. pray it stays. if she pukes every 6 weeks or so, ok, that's how her gut is, equivalent to people like me who have a rotten gut but i had ulcers and we aren't even discussing that now either. and as i walked happily out of his office, getting ready for the 175 dollar bill as he gave me about 6 cerenia which is the only thing that stops the puking i bump into the oncologist that i love (alan) but while i love her never want to use her. we chatted, i asked if her son was in college as she wasn't even pregnant when i first went to her but no, he's 14. then i fondly hugged , said my goodbyes and waited to be called to pay, while a woman started to chat with me and mentioned that she has spent 18 grand on her diabetic cat. i thought i would hyperventilate. i mean, 18 grand, but really, what do you do? oy vey. i cant even go there.
of course, i still have an appt with my regular vet as she is licking the hair off her feet and benedryl is doing nothing. hopefully, after i say no to prednisone, he has another idea because i am not doing shots for her either.
then i got a weird message from winthrop hospital dept of pathology and that is all they said-call back. pathology? well , i did take a urine test for the pain dr as they make sure the oxy shows up in your urine and I'm not selling the god damn pills on the corner tho last time he told me no xanex showed up so i told him his lab stinks cause i take it every day. so now I'm thinking ,after three calls to every office i can think off, that if cancer cells showed up in my urine (think I'm nuts, or it's jewish culture? or just plain nuts?) i remembered that 13 months ago i had to write some stupid letter to someone i think in pathology in order for me to get the metal they took out of my leg. and i went as far as saying jews have to be buried with the metal they took out which i think is true but I'm not that kind of jew but they told me the funeral home could pick it up and i told them I AM NOT READY , THANK YOU, FOR ANY FUNERAL HOME, JUST GIVE ME MY SCREWS AND PLATES PLEASE and then never heard from them. well, yes finally i get the manager and i say sweetly and sweatily "is this about the metal dr ding removed from my leg a year ago feb?" well well. yes it is. i make an appointment because i have to fill out 8thousand papers in order to retrieve the metal that i really wanted to show my grand kids, and she says "the entire office cant wait to me you and we all think you are so funny and should be on t-v".. yeah really, because I'm kind of nuts and already imagined all sorts of things but then got normal and didnt think if something showed up in my urine the dept of pathology would be the one calling me so now i cant wait till the secretaries get my messages because dr ding's secy already calls me "lucy" from i love lucy because after more than two years, she does know me, and my sense of humor has popped out and we do have more than a few good laughs but this one might make her think I'm cracked tho i blame it on my culture, telling her jews are usually wringing their hands and thinking the worst. god damn. anyway, my metal is coming and if wasn't such a dork i'd know how to photograph and share my metal with you all, if you had any interest which really, why would you?
ok, i have 3 kids here, god knows what the downstairs looks like, but i think the dogs are loose which probably means remi has dressed eli up as some kind of freak because she cant get over his monkey face and usually is climbing up me in fear . but a 70 lb (tho she isn't 70 now) lab does not frighten her .cole told me "vangie is really sweet and nice and i cant believe a prisoner trained her . i hope he wasn't mean or dangerous to her because she really is a nice dog. " 6 yrs old. cole. you know which one that is.
ok, gotta get the cake i baked alone for cory and dana's anniversary that i forgot cant be cut the same day (it s that chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, sour cream , chocolate chip cake that is so good you cant breathe but oh well, they can eat it tomorrow ) and then jack, the oldest said "and bubb, are you coming over to have some with us" and you dont think I'm going there with any answer so i looked a bit like i was ticking and i mumbled something that resembled "i dont know your parents plans" and ran away. remember, cory is my son and i dont speak, interfere ,ask questions, only answer when asked something and no one will notice that i cleaned the entire kitchen anyway so i won't be in trouble.
but i doubt i will eat the god damn cake and dont care anyway. it's snowing or raining or something and i am in pain so i dont give a rat's behind.
give me my oxy please and pray it works.
i hope I'm back now for good because really, i lead a very boring isolated life other than the gym with an 80 yr old lady that i think has a crush on me, and i dont mind but I'm not really into that. she already told me how beautiful my skin is, i didnt tell her i just had a tad bit of botox , and no thank you i dont want to come to your house, and then she had to compliment me while i was in that stupid cage how lovely and tight and nice my legs are. really, 80 and she's coming on to me. please please. at least if she were a hot 20 year old.
ok, gotta get an anniversary card going.
later guys
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Along with Cristiana Baik, Andy Fitch is assembling the Letter Machine Editions Book of Interviews, which also includes interviews conducted by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson. This talk will be published in that collection, due for late 2014 release.
Andy Fitch: Since your first two books so consistently foreground a cluster of constellated motifs, could we start with some? For instance, More Radiant Signal opens by announcing "a study of the secret life of the stick figure / whence the inland evolution of my imagination took place." It quickly offers "internal energy fluxes," camouflage, an "anonymous woman's untitled secret." I kept thinking of the Pavement song in which the listener gets chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation to the sequel of your life. Could you describe what you value in gestures of poetic deferral, diminution, performative self-displacement—perhaps in relation to preceding writers you admire, and/or to gender, to the subtleties of sound play in your poetics?
Juliana Leslie: Poetry, as I experience it, or writing poetry, more accurately, offers these chances to lose the self, or the self as a figure entitled to be the center of a poem, particularly when that inherited figure carries a language that effaces a range of possibilities, experiences, perceptions, energies. So maybe I write from the point of view of the secret, or the corner, or the keyhole. Or from a point of view that may not be human or even sentient. This latter idea was suggested to me by a friend who read More Radiant Signal. She thought maybe some of the speakers and figures in these poems weren't human, or perhaps they were undergoing metamorphosis. More accurately, the voices and figures, or the writing itself, is undergoing stylistic transformation—not committing to a particular mode or habit or behavior.
I think of H.D. when I think of writing as a form of self-effacement or self-displacement, and what that has to do with gender. In Notes on Thought and Vision she struggles to articulate and make room for her own "sign-posts," which are different from more official sources of influence. Her inner disposition (or style) struggles and fights against the external, historical world. These private parts belong to a different model of history or a different model of writing, in which space and time do not submit to ordinary perception. H.D. used her own writing to create a new tradition or to revive older secret traditions, in which she could be both a listener and an initiate. She was both reticent in the face of historical problems and prophetic at the same time. This practice interests me because H.D. chose not to follow a direct path or an obvious path and created the rules that would sanction her own choices. I know I'm not inventing a new tradition, but I also sense that it's easier to write in a lot of different forms and styles, or to try out different behaviors and perceptions from weird angles, when not doing so. I have told students not to commit to a particular style or get too attached to the sound of their voice doing one particular thing, because it will change and they will want it to change. In this way I approach writing as a deliberate, intentional way to change my voice, even if it's happening very slowly. It helps to write from a point of view that is not attached to one particular vista.
AF: Throughout this book, I'll sense much potential lurking in the subdued, the secret. I'll want to complete lines such as "If we let our minds work all night in the dark" with Ezra Pound's portentous phrase "…it troubles my sleep." Or I love how, in the Barbara Guest-inspired still-life reverie "Earth, Apple, Fly," we soon reach "the whole canopy of the heavens // had fallen and fell / in her lap." By what affective or sonic or intellectual processes do you sense the hermetic and the elided becoming the emergent and/or the expansive? And do you think of all language, all communication (as in "Much has been said / and much more placed / in an envelope"), as overloaded with potential energy?
JL: When trying to answer the previous question, I was thinking about a line written somewhere by Erik Satie, in which he suggests that he wants his music to be able to be heard from many different points in a room. Since I can't remember the whole quotation or context, I'm not sure if he meant that he wanted his music to create a benign atmosphere that didn't disturb ordinary behaviors, or if he meant the reverse—that if music has to be heard from all of these different places and zones simultaneously, then one has to disturb and decenter ordinary perceptions. If poems can have this kind of sculptural quality and take up space off the page, or if the sonic structures of a poem can defamiliarize the parts of a room or a territory differently, then I think secrets are just ordinary habits defamiliarized. That means reading poetry, regardless of form, style, mode, etc., dramatizes and draws our attention to how we ordinarily judge or perceive reality. Taking the long way around an object is a type of work and this work draws us closer to reality. It means our perceptions are political, because they train us to judge reality and to either permit or deny different types of experiences.
AF: Here for one minor repeated trope throughout this book, could we look at buttons? Buttons obviously have a poetic pedigree coming from Stein and others. And again, buttons can serve both as dainty, diminutive details and as transformative thresholds, or stabilizing gatekeepers. They open/close something, and perhaps could be said to do both simultaneously. Reading More Radiant Signal, I often thought of the famous opening to John Ashbery's Three Poems, in which the "I" contemplates taking it all out or leaving it all in. But, more specifically, could you speak of buttons?
JL: I'm glad of the reference to Ashbery's Three Poems, because it's one of my favorite books, and that line in particular evokes the difficulties of composing and making decisions. Exposure is difficult for me and my choices as a writer often have to do with how much I'm willing to expose, how loud I want to be, what kind of language I'm willing to use. There are poets who leave it all in and then those that do not, or who struggle with leaving some things in. Perhaps the diminutive status of the button represents this tension between another type of revelation and concealment. It may be just the sound of the word that I really like in combination with the idea—something small, domestic, feminine (sometimes), something handled and undone, something taken care of that has to be sewn on and sometimes repaired. Buttons on a shirt also look like a list, or a series, which is appealing to me. And a pile of buttons is a very satisfying thing to touch and explore. The texture of buttons in a row is one thing, or the promise of buttons ready to be used. Some buttons are likely to fall apart but also easy to fix. To unbutton something is to revise it, as your question implies. To take it all out. To button up is to leave it all in. But also to hide. Which is maybe not what Ashbery meant, if he meant to leave it all in is to trust writing and not edit, not self-efface, or not be diminutive.
AF: Well buttons and encyclopedias may not seem to go together. Yet when I read the poem "Encyclopedia," I recalled your poetic buttons. And in terms of how representation operates more broadly in your books, do you think of "Encyclopedia's" carefully culled/curated inventory of referents, objects, sensations and proper nouns as implying something greater—as gesturing toward some emergent totality in the way that an encyclopedia does? Do you see your micro-catalogue as simply an accumulation of precious objects? Does this Barthesian magic circle express "you" somehow? Do all of these phenomena occur simultaneously? What rhetorical or emotive or affective vectors can you draw here for the author, for the reader?
JL: There is something that seems very occasional or random about that poem, as if each thing in the list could be anything, and none of the objects mentioned have any significant or unalterable purpose of their own—especially one that would point back to me in a way that I could easily parse or identify. I imagine them musically, the objects behaving like notes or rhythmic pressures more than actual objects. Or maybe they are, more accurately, objects of exchange or partial attention that can be replaced by something else. In that sense, these referents only reflect a way of thinking about how the world is put together. I would not say they occur simultaneously. They reflect a mind trying to control or slow down disparate parts of an environment that is probably more empty than full, more fragmented than total, or that disappears and recedes as much as it tries to become an "emergent totality." If there is a figure for the author at the center trying to control this collection, she is probably stumbling around. There is nothing explicitly personal in the referents, and I'm aware of that being a sort of involuntary choice in More Radiant Signal. This is why I tried to write more "studied" poems in Green Is for World, or poems whose references I could remember and trace and be held accountable for. But perhaps poems are also places or environments that we try to control, and the curatorial process reveals the extent to which we can't control our environment, our surroundings, or what ends up in our immediate vicinity. In that sense, these objects should be precious but they are not. Or they should have a more significant semantic value that means something in tension with the objects around them.
AF: Just quickly to return to More Radiant Signal: I love how a poem like "Several Always Before the One" provides a study of paratactical phrasings, of disjointed adjacencies, and yet ultimately manages to reach an evocation of embodied experience, with its "arms and legs like a button / pressed under the sign / of someone else's skirt." The poem "3:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time," conversely, may seem to dilate on a particular moment, yet further emphasizes the disjunctive line break (also, perhaps, the segmenting and/or stitchery of lyric composition). Taken at a glance, "3:54's" sequence of stand-alone utterances reminds me of, let's say, a Donald Judd sculpture. Then "Two Ideas" invokes the diptych, and I picture Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls. Could you discuss the resonance, the poignancy, the erotics of things (words, sounds, people) placed side-by-side?
JL: I don't remember writing "3:54 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time," but I still try to write poems that explore this kind of repetition or serial phrasing, maybe because they are easier for me to write or because writing them gives me pleasure. I like reading serial poems because they offer a different kind of literacy and a more physical experience of writing as an art object, as physical material to be worked over. Readers or spectators can move forward and backward and sideways; they can experience their body from different angles, looking at a piece from several perspectives, without the familiar sequence of perceptions that involve clear beginnings and endings, or front/back, etc. Series help to rearrange space the way music or sculpture does. A diptych or triptych will ask for simultaneous readings, or for ways of reading that invite more play into the act of making meaning, as allegory does when it asks readers to shuttle between different levels of meaning without privileging any particular one over another. And I like writing in a way that will allow me to explore a particular phrase or series of phrases that extend a moment into something beyond the normal routine of everyday life. I enjoy the physical act of writing when it becomes an act of listening to sounds and putting pieces together in a non-hierarchical way. And when it approaches the speed of a different kind of thought or mode of attention that can make the language of ordinary experience and perception into something that has potential.
AF: Drawing comes up frequently in your work as well. When More Radiant Signal refers to a "cunning enticement of pen on paper," I think of the poetic line in relation to the drawn line. Drawing, especially in more recent decades, also seems to provide a realm for probing the propositional nature of pictorial representation. It will fuse the possible and the impossible, let's say. It may present, as in your poem "Prairie Sonnet," "a fork in the road and indeterminate weather. Even if the road doesn't exist." It can pursue such scenarios simultaneously. It also can ask "Who disappears when the sun / slips behind a pencil." Could you discuss how drawing has shaped your sense of poetic identity—especially "your" identity as a "windowpane in love / with a bright whirligig"?
JL: I think of drawing as something that writing can behave like, as something it can approximate or learn to accommodate. Other art forms can give permission to writing to work against its own procedures. Visual artists seem to spend quite a bit of time developing a vocabulary and working on technique or doing practice sketches in preparation for larger works. Working in a series can reflect this process or suggest that even disparate poems share a particular grammar or attitude. The painters I know have spent a long time developing their style and then changing it, by incorporating new materials or techniques into their work. They obsess over images and work them over again and again in different pieces. Or they perfect a technique to the point of destroying. This seems like a different mode of production than writing. But a poetic line also has a different relationship to time, because its semantic meaning suppresses its form, or puts pressure on its form. The drawn line or the painted line or the painted gesture can remind writing that language is also propositional and speculative. The whirligig is that moment when reality hasn't crystallized, when the line isn't yet finished.
AF: Since I still haven't cited enough lovely passages, which enfold their synesthesiac potential energy into intricacies of sound, could we focus for a second on yet another one, such as the end to "The Age of Parts," with its "ambit / of a lamp's arm / cracks"? Or likewise, could we address the sense of texture or touch implicit when "That Obscure Coincidence of Feeling" arrives at "Lumps in the reading / produce diplomacy as if / when the weather / is full of people / like powdered sugar"? Given the delicate fusion of sonic, syntactical and cognitive thrusts here, how could we ever parse the distinction that the poem "Margaret Fuller" passionately posits between "what is felt by itself / and what belongs to nervous feelings"?
JL: That's a good question. In "Margaret Fuller" I wanted to explore the historical sublime, or the way that the past inflects the present in imperceptible ways, shaping and facilitating our possibilities and giving us "nervous feelings" about what we can and can't do. I borrowed some diction from Emerson, from Poe and from Fuller's diaries—in the hopes of giving a sense of a different time period or at least a mood that was a little out of time. I wanted to bring a more fully-realized sense of history into the work. But history gives us distinctions and orders between things, so the end of the poem really just collapses into the boundary between those categories. The beginning of the poem has a figure at the center, and the end of the poem is more like other things that I write, so perhaps the piece is playing out that tension between different types of observation. But it's really about me fighting against my tendencies and wanting to say something more pointed and studied and not being able to. Perhaps it goes back to the question of influence and permission. I also think of what H.D. writes in Trilogy in The Walls Do Not Fall: "but if you do not understand what words say, / how can you expect to pass judgment / on what words conceal?" I'm not always sure what H.D. means here. I think she means that words have an effect and create a surface. They have a materiality and artificiality, but they also conceal and hide an occluded history of forces that runs beneath experience.
AF: And for art/poetry fusions, Rimbaud's "Voyelles" of course stands out. Your "The Little Sound in the Middle of Simone" appears to fuse Rimbaud's poem with a Gertrude Stein play (in which she plays and plays and plays). More broadly, a Rimbaudian sense of synesthesia comes across throughout the book as, for example, the colors in "White Polka Dots" blend with the sounds of birds and textures of trees. Can we discuss the synesthesiac as it plays out in More Radiant Signal? One possible point of reference: I know that your former teacher Peter Gizzi considers sound as a basis for poetry's three-dimensional, sculptural status. Does synesthesia, does kaleidoscopic affect, allow you to create a comparably sculptural process?
JL: That sounds like a really nice description of what happens, and I agree with Peter Gizzi that sound supplies the foundation and the structure for poetry—or maybe more specifically for lyric poetry. That seems to be the mode I work in and that makes sense to me. These structures create a world that we inhabit, even one that may not seem or even be real. Synesthesia blends and folds discrete perceptions or senses into an experience of reality that language makes possible, linking ideation with other senses to show that thinking creates a perceptible world. These movements provide syntax and the rhythm.
AF: Again, in Rimbaud's poem, E is for green, and now, for your subsequent title, Green Is for World. Can you parse this title in relation to "Voyelles"? Does your title, unlike Rimbaud's, release us from an aesthetic of symbolic correspondences—back into the world? Or is "the world" here yet another sign (I like how it echoes "whirligig")?
JL: At one point in its evolution, Green Is for World was called "My Name Is Helen," but that title didn't stick very well, because it didn't seem to capture the entire scope of what I was trying to do. Although it did capture some of the more personal aspects that show up in poems like "My Name Is Helen" and "Margaret Fuller." So then I temporarily titled it Green Is for World, not expecting to keep it. And then that stuck for obvious reasons. I hadn't thought of Rimbaud's poem as a point of reference, but the influence makes sense. The language of Rimbaud's poem is appealing to me, because it works with the building blocks of language, with basic sounds, with definitions, as if defining something were (and is) a kind of magic. It provokes apprehension rather than just comprehension. Terror and wonder often accompany apprehension, and that seems appropriate when thinking about writing and about trying to make sense of the world. For me the title works (now) because it captures the idea that writing is a mode of perception that produces correspondences in unlikely places, in thresholds, between things that don't belong together.
AF: Finally, the idiom of the atom creeps into Green Is for World, with frequent references to atomic components, such as electrons, "gamma forms," ages of "parts." Yet this book also asserts the mind's adaptability to "the integrity of the grid"—to a physical, poetic and emotional space parceled out by "elegant cubes." Do you see yourself embracing such omnivorous systems with more long poems and sequences in the future? Does the atomic, for you, again allow for the expansive, the amalgamous, as much as for the fragmentary, the miniature?
JL: The notion of the grid came to me from a Rosalind Krauss essay on Symbolism. She describes Symbolist poetry and its preoccupation with artifice in terms of a grid. Symbolist writing is the point when writing enters the grid, the window, and never leaves. Perspective becomes framed. I found that idea really interesting, because the writers I admire, like Guest, work to control the artifice of writing and the effect of artifice on a reader—such that the miniature world of the lyric poem or the still-life tries to capture a larger dynamic at work within the confined space of the grid or the frame. Looking out of windows also seems to be a feminine preoccupation, or a middle-class preoccupation. Many of Virginia Woolf's characters spend time arranging interior spaces, or grids, and looking out of windows, pulling the outside in. Characters share adjacent, almost symmetrical views and perspectives side-by-side, looking out at the world. This could work well as a metaphor for a long serial poem, a poem of parts arranged on a grid, with the parts offering similar but not quite identical perspectives of a shared view. The parts are overlapping, braided, intimate.
Xylor Jane, the artist who allowed me to use her work for the cover of More Radiant Signal, relies on the grid as a motif in a lot of her work. Her lines are arranged into these semi-organic, semi-artificial compositions that seem to knit together the objective with the subjective, if that makes any sense (the objective order of the world with the subjective apprehension or perception of it). The texture of the piece also behaves like water, like fabric, or like Morse code.
Anyway, I do see myself continuing to write longer sequences, and I would even like to write a book-length prose poem, but I truly have no idea how to start. I imagine writing a sentence a day or a paragraph a day, but I'm not sure I could sustain the right kind of tone or energy that a long prose poem requires, since my tendency is to go in the other direction, to hunt and peck. Right now it is just an idea more than anything, an aspiration, because I admire writers who breathlessly and effortlessly work in these large voluminous spaces. I have a hard time working that way, which is why the "grid" is appealing as a bridge between chaos and its fragments, or between the large and the small. Duncan's Ground Work is one type of long poem and Guest's Rocks on a Platter is another. I find myself writing sequences when I don't want to stop writing in a particular mode, or to stop exploring a particular type of language or vocabulary. That's where the direction or momentum comes from—not in following through on a train of thought, but giving full attention to something, an object or sensation, meditating on it, until it disappears.
Juliana Leslie is the author of More Radiant Signal and Green Is for World, which was a winner in the 2011 National Poetry Series Open Competition. With Andrea Quaid, she recently co-edited Acts + Encounters, a collection of essays written for and inspired by the 2012 UCSC Conference "Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing," which she also helped to organize. She currently lives in Santa Cruz.