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Thursday, December 28, 2006
this will be a week of incredible slothfulness
Therefore I will be watching movies.
I saw Apocalypto. I liked the running part. You know, when they ran.
Speaking of Mel Gibson, Lethal Weapon was on Cinemax last night. I had forgotten what an awesome and awesomely brutal movie it was. Really the ultimate eighties action film.* [update: No, you know what, I saw it again and decided it sucks except for any scenes in the last twenty minutes involving Gary Busey.]
And Point Break** was on, too. Another of the maybe seven or eight great modern action films. [update: I saw Point Break again, too, and it only gets better. What a delightful movie.]
(A list which also includes: Die Hard With a Vengeance, Raiders of the Lost Ark [more an "adventure" than an "action" film, but still], maybe Speed, definitely Terminator 2 and Aliens...)
Also, Vizzini is trapped in Prague and becoming a danger to himself again.
* I love how they're called "action" films. I mean, they are, after all, "moving pictures."
** Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break is the most underrated action film. It contains not only what I consider the single most pleasing chase scene ever filmed (Keanu Reeves in pursuit of a tuxedoed bank robber in a Reagan mask), but also a climactic confrontation between skydivers (one with a parachute, one without) that is uniquely ingenious, at least in my viewing of action movies.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
christmas movies
Home Land
*Fuck Greyhound. A 3.5 hour bus ride turned into 7 hours. First the police had to come on board to take away some horrible woman who refused to get off the bus after blatantly cutting in line. Our surly, trembling-with-rage driver could have handled this a lot better. Beside me a loudmouth obese lady was reading a paperback titled Soulful Strut. Later, we had to get a wheelchair-bound woman on board at another stop, and they couldn't figure out how to operate the lift, so we sat there for an hour or so...until she stood up from her wheelchair and just walked on board. And a great murmur arose as every passenger said to his or her seatmate, "She can walk?"
Saturday, December 23, 2006
moth smoke, bus, sea urchin
A while back I wrote about a mysterious sushi bar I had heard about--the "best sushi in the city"--that was up some stairs and had no sign, etc., and I couldn't locate it...well, I found that place. It's by no means hidden or secret, just... unobtrusive. I had the location wrong. I was two doors off.
On Thursday I went there and had astonishing sushi. Sea urchin--"uni"--and toro so exquisite the brain salivates in recollection. (That toro was the best food I've ever eaten. No use to try description.) Have you ever seen sea urchin, naked and raw, prepared for you to eat it? It looks exactly like a bright, orange human tongue. In many restaurants it is gross but in this one it was incredible. With regard to taste and texture--if chilled--it might best be imagined as sort of creamy foie gras ice cream.
Doesn't that sound delicious? If you doubt me, I'll have sushi with you there anytime. You pay.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
kgb blog entry
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
a short story
Sunday, December 17, 2006
kgb last night [updated with pictures & dog]
The whole thing was videotaped and is being edited. Eventually (soon, I hope) video will be available.
It's fortunate that Suzanne hosted because otherwise there might simply have been too much young maleness. Ned read an extended, graphic, wry sex scene. Noah Cicero, as promised, appeared to have a breakdown/freakout on the dais, slamming the lectern so hard it sounded like something cracked--either a bone in his hand or the wood below. Noah, who I met in person for the first time last night, is very fucking cool. I read two short sections of Fires. Tao went last and read a handful of his poems, including several of my favorites, like this great one.
To the people who couldn't come to the reading but emailed me to buy one of the commemorative proofs: thank you, and I will mail them on Monday. They should arrive very quickly.
Fires is now available to pre-order on Amazon.com.
Here are some pictures [some people are having trouble seeing the pictures but when I click the links it looks fine to me...hm, sorry, well they'll be on the KGB website in a couple days anyway]:
The four readers.
Me reading.
Readers and friends.
Poets Tao Lin and Ellen Kennedy.
A random moment from my company's holiday party.
Have a relaxing Sunday.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
emails with my mom
On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:53 PM, Nick Antosca wrote:are you fucking with me? there was a galley on ebay?
On 12/13/06, Mom wrote: Dear, do NOT use that language with me please!!! Love you, Mom No, I was not _________ with you. P.S. You got 6 letters from the IRS! Ouch. One a week or so ago, that i accidently opened thinking it was for me, 5 more yesterday. Do you want me to forward them or open them and tell you what they say? I only skimmed the first, then realized it wasn't mine. Sorry. Let me know what you want me to do.
On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Nick Antosca wrote: Oh sorry, I was just excited and tired. Six letters, what the [expletive deleted]? [expletive deleted] yes, open them please. Is one of them my [expletive deleted] federal tax return???? Or am I being audited? How did you see there was a copy on eBay???
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
soy milk, which i love
Fires has an official release date of December 31. It is at the printer right now.
However, there will be some copies on sale at the December 16th reading at KGB.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
New Orleans to New York
On Friday night we drove around for a while and ended up in the French Quarter. For a time we were on Bourbon Street and for a time we were on other, darker streets. Bourbon Street at night is a surreal place now, more surreal than before. The street itself is bright and noisy and relatively populous, but when you are there you can feel the darkness surrounding you on all sides. One street over in any direction it is dark and empty. I thought of images from The Martian Chronicles when we were there--the towns of human settlers with their noise and carnival lights surrounded by the huge sad darkness of the dead civilization. The "ancient bone-chess cities...the old canals."
Later that night and for the entirety of the night before, we hung out with the cast of Last Resort in Covington (about forty minutes outside of New Orleans, across Lake Pontchartrain). The guy at whose invitation we were there, Danny Franzese, is not only an excellent and hilarious actor but a genuinely nice person. I'm talking above and beyond: the guy is just really fucking cool.
It was (quite characteristically) generous of my godfather Jon to put Ned and I up for two nights, and it was great to see him after so many years. We spent some time with him on Thursday after we arrived, then on Friday he had to go to Florida. Ideally I'll go back to Louisiana in a couple months and we'll meet up again.
Last night I spent five hours on a plane back. I enjoy flying at night. When you descend and are close enough to see not just the streetlights but the soft pools of glow below them, it looks like the earth is leaking eerie green from its center. I slept a bit but mostly I was awake.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Covington, Louisiana
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Diala in Rwanda
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
The Set
Sunday, December 03, 2006
In the afternoon, I finished the "final" revisions of something which I will now with great relief send to the patient recipient.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
last night & biblio
Also, oddly, here is Biblio with Fires already. Trevor emailed me to ask when it'll be available...don't worry, soon. The physical books haven't even been printed yet (so, clearly, they won't be by December 15th, although there will be 15 "commemorative" copies printed up specially for the Dec. 16th reading, so if you show up there you can get one). It'll be available online for pre-order in a bunch of other places soon, should be the major ones plus the Impetus website, and by spring it should be available in stores like Barnes & Noble, etc.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Richard Grayson reading; deranged vagrant at B&N
I saw Richard Grayson read last night. His story was excellent ("it's like a choice between hedonism and Hasidism" is one line) and I ate some crab and artichoke dip. You should read this collection by Grayson, and this one.
Afterward I was very far from the subway so I decided finally to walk over to KGB. There was a reading there but I didn't really like it. Then I went to Barnes and Noble to look for a book. As I walked in, two skinny girls about my age were in front of me. They weren't my type (their hair was deliberately grubby and they wore those spectacularly unflattering, supertight tapered hipster jeans that you used to see only on severely mentally disabled children) but they were young and cute enough that I noticed them. I also noticed them because a deranged vagrant was following them and hollering, "Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna follow you, yeah, yeah." His tone wasn't lascivious or mocking; he seemed to think they were friends. He was walking too close and they looked freaked out. This odd trio went up the stairs to the cafe (this was Astor Place B&N) and the girls tried to find seats where the vagrant couldn't sit by them, but he grabbed a chair and dragged it over, yelling, "Here, I got one for you, sit down, sit down." By now the whole cafe was was watching. The girls looked profoundly embarrassed. What I really wanted to do was grab the vagrant by the arm and exclaim, "Dad! I've been looking all over for you!"
Monday, November 27, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
saturday in DC, at the Phillips
A large part of Saturday was spent in Washington, D.C., wandering with parents and brother. The Phillips Collection is one of the better art collections I have ever visited. (It caused my mother to say what she says whenever we go to a gallery: "Huh, this makes me want to go do art.") We saw some memorable Paul Klee pieces like
The Witch with the Comb:
Figure from the Oriental Stage:
Another piece that made me happy was Fugue by Nicolas de Staël, but it is useless to post an image, which can't convey the pleasing texture.
Friday, November 24, 2006
less violent than thanksgiving football, technically
(Trivia: one of the guys standing around who breaks up the fight is Tony Hawk, and the cameraman is Bam Margera.) The clip is notorious for Vallely's apparently unflinching reaction to facing four aggressors and how quickly and brutally he knocks the grins off their faces. Now here's one of the "4 [j]ocks" on the news, years later. He has a lot of gel in his hair. Apparently he just heard about the video and decided to sue, claiming he and his friends never said anything to provoke Vallely. I don't know. Vallely seems like an unbelievable hothead. But I find the guy's claim hard to believe. As one of the Youtube commenters says, "What a crybaby. If Vallely had been the one who started the fight, those douchebags wouldn't have all been circled around him with dumb grins on their faces."
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Struggling to create decent jacket copy for Fires even as publication date approaches. So excruciating to summarize one's own novel. Must get it done so the motherfucker can be published, though. Fell asleep on the subway this morning.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Bob Dylan at Meadowlands + Jack White
*Thanks, EJ.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
reading, artemis
Memorable night. I'm taking off work today (mostly because I have a ton of stuff to do, including go to the doctor, go to Fed Ex, and pick out a scene to read tonight, but also because of my toxic-of-late work environment, where I am stuck in an office alone with an ex-girlfriend for eight hours a day) so I was able to stay out very late last night. Ned and I went to a party at the Hotel QT, which is a great place to go because unlike a normal bar, this one is adjoined by a swimming pool and sauna, so you can go swimming, then walk through crowds of elegantly-dressed people while barefoot and wearing nothing but dripping swim trunks (or in Ned's case, boxer shorts) and no one bats an eye. We had wandered into a birthday party for some short gay guy wearing a beret who knew lots of really tall women. We met a couple of particularly interesting people. One or two we may meet again. Early on in the evening I took a break from the party to talk via cell phone to Willy Blackmore of Impetus for a while about final design details.
After we left, we were sitting on the train when this guy beside me started yanking some of the subway advertisements out of their metal and plastic cases. After the second one, I said, "What are you planning to do with those?" and Ned said, "Yeah, are they valuable?" And the guy says, "Soon to be!" Then with a blue ballpoint pen he starts sketching us on the back of one of the posters. The whole time, he's talking about Picasso and how this is what Picasso use to do--scribble a lot of lines, and then the lines would come together. He also mentioned his admiration for "that hispanic guy"--it turned out he was talking about Basquiat. Oh, and his name was Artemis. Artemis finished his sketch just in time, as we reached Chambers Street, and then I offered to buy it from him, an idea which unsurprisingly he didn't reject, and we continued talking for a bit.
He said, "You know how it's like, you go to the airport to get on a plane, and you go to the desk, and they like, 'That's your flight that you got to get on,' and you like [whispers with skeptical face] 'That ain't the flight I was planning to get on.' [Eyebrows raised, voice low.] That's the plane to hell."
I'm the one on the left that looks like George W. Bush. Ned is on the right, bearded like young Santa Claus. Don't we look gentle? Not a bad sketch, considering that he did it in roughly eight minutes, sketching with one hand while gripping the paper in the air with the other and holding a rapid conversation the whole time.
Considering that control of the Senate has now come down to Virginia, I'm particularly glad I spent some time in the past week calling Virginia voters in support of Webb, who is ahead by about 8,000 votes right now. His Republican opponent, George Allen, is "a bigot and a bully," as Hendrik Hertzberg wrote in The New Yorker last week. Hertzberg also perfectly described Allen's selective use of violent or sexual passages from Webb's novels to smear him as "a tactic that combines prurience with philistinism."* Now let's hope the cabal of Republican lawyers that have surely already descended on Virginia will not manage to drag 8,001 elephants out of their hats.
* Hendrik Hertzberg. Bigot bully. Prurience philistinism. Did I stutter?
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Saturday, November 04, 2006
reading & release date
November 8 - New York, NY
Class of 2007 Reading Series @ Boxcar Lounge
w/Nick Antosca
Tyler Antrim
Jami Attenberg (Host)
Ellis Avery
Bob Powers
The other thing is that in the email I sent out, I got the release date of the novel wrong--it's not in two months, it's in like five or six weeks, so before Christmas. Like December 15. Cool.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
9/11 apocalypse dream, impetus blog, and other things
In that spirit, here's one I had last night.
I was back in high school, but it was in California and it was a boarding school that resembled Calhoun College. It was afternoon of graduation day and everyone was bustling around, waiting until we could go outside for some sort of barbecue event. Then news started trickling in--via other students, then parents who started arriving--that there'd been some kind of catastrophic plane-related disaster in the eastern United States. A plane had hit something on the ground and exploded, and the explosion was on a nuclear level. It wasn't like 3,000 people had been killed, it was like the Eastern Seaboard was razed. People couldn't quite believe it; we were going about our daily schedules saying, "What happened...does anybody really know what happened?" We kept preparing the graduation barbecue in the courtyard. My dad's car pulled up on the lawn and he jumped out and said, "This is serious. This is serious." But people ignored him. Then everyone saw that the sky was dark red outside the window. We went outside and saw a huge red-black cloud rolling in from the east. People were scared. They knew that cloud was going to kill us. Something spilled out of the cloud, an avalanche of skulls--thousands of human skulls arced forward into the courtyard and covered the grass. I picked one up. Because they were so ash-covered and smooth we hoped they might be old skulls, not from people who had just died (implying that we were about to), but then I turned one over and found a knot of fresh, squishy flesh still stuck to it*.
More news began to spread about the plane that crashed--its fuel had been replaced with some kind of accelerant that caused the massive explosion and red incinerating cloud. And now it was thought that this had been done to lots of other planes still in the sky. So at any moment there would be more explosions, and the red cloud would burn across America in every direction, and the whole country would just be covered in so many bones you couldn't see the grass. A plane came screaming across the sky, in flames, and landed somewhere outside the school, but there was no huge explosion. Someone said, "We got lucky with that one," and people started eating the barbecue. My dad took me aside and said, "We need to get out of here. The only way we're going get ahead of this cloud is if we fly to Japan. I've made arrangements for us [meaning our whole family]. We need to go now, so say goodbye to whoever you want to really, really fast." I said, "I don't want to say goodbye to anyone, let's just go." Then I woke up.
*remember when you were a kid and your baby teeth came out? and sometimes there would be a little wet knot of red flesh still attached to the root of the tooth? that's what this looked like.
Impetus Press has a blog now: theimpetusblog.blogspot.com.
Pleasing! Go read it. Will have info and regular updates.
I went to another Moveon.org thing on Sunday, but this one sucked. They wanted us to call callers, not voters, and get them to commit to calling at certain hours...I don't know. I didn't feel comfortable bothering people like that, so I got up and left. I'll call actual undecided voters again sometime, though.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
You would think MoveOn.org calling parties would mostly be staffed by energetic young people in black-framed glasses
In any case, the calling party was held in a volunteer's Manhattan duplex penthouse on 14th Street. This was one of the most stunning apartments I've seen in New York. Staggering view. He also had an entire wall full of old LPs and a huge turntable set-up for DJing. Forty people, roughly, showed up, and were sitting everywhere just calling on their cell phones. I'm pretty sure I was the youngest person there. Most of them were friendly, charming women in their fifties and sixties, and there was slightly lower but still significant attendance from the disheveled fifty-ish intellectual male contingent. Just about everyone was really nice and they ate a lot of grapes and drank soda. So we called Virginia voters nonstop for a couple hours and encouraged people to go vote for Webb in November. Now and then people would hang up on me, but a fair number of people were like, "I just hate George Allen," to which I would be like, "That's cool, just make sure you actually vote for the other guy."
I'm going to another such event today at the Moveon.org headquarters in midtown, if I can make it.
UPDATE: MoveOn.org asks bloggers to post the link or whatever to their Call for Change program. For the record, it's a good experience, it's really easy and user-friendly, and it isn't stressful.
On Friday, I saw Cocaine Cowboys, a mesmerizing documentary about the cocaine trade in Miami in the seventies and eighties. These random people just started making unimaginable amounts of money by importing tons upon tons of cocaine into south Miami when lots of people still didn't even know what the drug was. A hit man for the Columbian cartel is interviewed (as described in the link above). He's in jail for thirty murders and is suspected of many more. He talks about how his people got into a dispute with some New Yorkers, so they sent him up to New York for a day, and he killed eleven people in twenty-four hours. The thing about this guy, Rivi, is he doesn't seem scary--he has what you might call kind eyes. He really does. When a cop describes another killer as "Rivi without the class," you understand how he could say that. This Rivi person was responsible for extreme cruelty, but if you met him without knowing what he was, your instincts wouldn't tell you to be afraid.
Halloween. I told somebody not thirty-six hours ago that I never go out for Halloween or New Years parties, which was true until last night. Went to three or four, one in a beautiful, ramshackle apartment on Chrystie Street, where I met a Russian girl and was humbled by her ability to match and outdo me in a conversation about books. A guy I know from school has just returned from teaching in Korea for a year (something I might like to do) and he came with us. Teaching in Korea you get paid over $30,000, tax-free, and your housing is free. That's better than I do now. And you don't even have to speak Korean.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
a pleasing feeling
UPDATE: I keep showing the galley to people. This is also a pleasing feeling.
birds did it
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Time for bullet points.
- I was really sick, almost delirious.
- Galleys stuff is happening, slowly. This is exciting.
- I stopped seeing someone I was seeing for a long time.
- Revising the other novel is making tears of blood come from my eyes. But I like it.
- I got angry at someone in line for a movie and grabbed his neck and someone pulled me off.
- A chubby person took all the furniture from our living room. How bad is it that when I'm angry at a fat person for something unrelated to their fatness, I repeatedly point out their fatness?
- She wouldn't even be pretty if she were thin.
- I bought so many books and they're sitting beside the bed, looking at me, like dogs, expecting me to read them.
- It's hard not to grab people by the neck when they're pushy.
- I stare at the ceiling a lot and feel full of rage.
- I received an amount of money that seemed to me tremendous, and already it is gone and I have less money than I did before.
- I went to an event where there were some people I really needed to talk to about something, and for some reason I didn't talk to them, and they left, and now I have to wait two weeks to get it over with. Fuck.
- Somebody I trust keeps telling me I'm a horrible person. It's true.
- I worried that Fires isn't going to be in many bookstores. And that people will have to already know it exists to buy it.
- My roommate got hit in the head and her scalp was stapled and she seemed to be in a lot of pain.
- It's cold.
- I want to strangle almost everything I see, including intangible things, like good judgment. I'm going to lure good judgment into a back room with friendly talk, then strangle it slow.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
A pretty remarkable election season
dead prostitute
I had a dream the other night that someone found a dead prostitute in your room, and I was trying to convince everyone that you were really a great guy and that you'd probably befriended her and were in no way involved with her death. What do you suppose that means?
Probably nothing, don't worry about it.
Monday, October 23, 2006
October 2006, the Martian Canal
This actually lends a certain additional poignancy to the book, which is pretty haunting anyway.
I had lunch yesterday with my friend Alex, who I haven't seen in a long time, maybe a year. Dinner with another Alex. Wandered a bookstore. Saw Todd Solondz.
Except for that lunch and dinner, I didn't leave my apartment this weekend.
My roommate went to The Knitting Factory last night and one of the performers threw a bottle into the crowd. It hit my roommate and she had to get her scalp stapled. She came home covered in blood.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Galleys: exist
I like my publishers. They sent camera-phone pictures to my cell phone when the galleys arrived from the printer.
Monday, October 16, 2006
behind the green door
To the old woman there I said: "Odd question, sorry to bother you, but have you ever heard of this sushi restaurant around here...there's no sign, it's just a green door..."
Old Woman (heavy Israeli accent): "Uh, no idea, sorry..."
Young Woman Assistant, sidling over: "Best sushi in the city, right?"
Me: "Yeah, that's what I'm told."
YW: "I've actually heard about something like that, it's supposed to be right down there. No sign..."
So I go over in the direction she's pointing, and sure enough there's a blank storefront with a green door. Indeed, the whole front of this building is covered in this weird green metal pattern (the address is 15 W. 47th St., right by the Mercantile Library) and on the door there's a tiny piece of paper taped that says, "Call [number without area code] to be let in the door, thanks!" I try a bunch of area codes with the number, even though it should be 212 given the location, and none of the combinations connects me to anyone who has any idea what I'm talking about. I ask a woman from the Mercantile Library what the green place is, and she says, "Used to be a Japanese restaurant...I think they closed."
So I gave up for the afternoon, but I'm far from finished. Maybe I have the wrong storefront, or maybe I've been tricked.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
if I were a high school senior this might make me not want to go to Yale
Monday, October 09, 2006
sick again
Our living room looks bizarre. One wall remains hideous pink, and there are some folding chairs and a shitty beanbag chair filling in for whatever sofa or chairs we get to replace the Ikea stuff the roommate took. But in the middle sits a beast of a table that's so heavy it may one day crash through the floor. Who knew glass could weigh so much? The tabletop--the massive slab of glass--isn't attached to the base in any way, so it appears you could just lift it up, even if just a little. But put your hand under it and try to lift, and your mind will at first refuse to comprehend the level of resistance. "What is this?" your mind will say, "Nothing's holding it down...mere glass couldn't be this heavy...is this...is it...kryptonite?" You could jump on this thing and it wouldn't break.
My head is full of cotton and weeds lately. Can't even think remotely creative thoughts. Partly this has to do with being sick, I think, but also there are just, you know, cycles of wretchedness.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
muscles hurt
At midnight I saw the Borat movie at the New Yorker Festival. I enjoyed it, then returned to thinking about how good The Departed was.
Yesterday morning our vaguely bovine ex-roommate came (towing her vaguely, uh, glirine boyfriend, I think) to our apartment unannounced and took a bunch of furniture. That was a nasty thing to do. And yet, to paraphrase an insult dubiously attributed to Winston Churchill, in a week or two we'll have new furniture, but she'll still be fat, squealing, stupid, living with her parents in Jersey, and under the impression that hot pink is a really great color.
I think I might go see Departed again tonight. Or maybe go see Kelly Link at KGB Bar.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
This is just to say
Forgive me, I don't mean to overhype the thing, but EVERY MINUTE IS DELICIOUS. I was twitching with glee by the end.
Scorsese's last two movies have been mannered and interesting. Aviator was architecturally solid but never really, so to speak, lifted off the ground. A good movie but you could anticipate everywhere it was going and it was "good" in standard ways. The Departed is a nutty, digressive, ferociously colorful movie, though, and you'll know it right off--as soon as the first lines of Nicholson's philosophical narration turn into a racist rant, and when moments later we see him casually shoot a woman in the head and then chuckle, "She fell funny." This is, like, the first two or three minutes. Later on Nicholson just goes to crazytown and builds a condo there. It's not the land of Howard Hughes and Katherine Hepburn--and thank heaven. Scorsese's best since Goodfellas? Absolutely. (Incidentally, I also liked it much more than Infernal Affairs, of which it's a remake.) Maybe even his best since Raging Bull. And unquestionably his most purely entertaining movie ever. God, it's good.
Seriously, go see this thing. It kills.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Fires cover art, posted
Monday, October 02, 2006
Saw the BODIES exhibit, which was really informative and I learned a lot. I learned that the Chinese government has lots of dead people lying around, and that bodies are disgusting.
Saw Army of Shadows Sunday afternoon. Good movie, though it felt long. Not quite as pristine as Le Samurai, but more vital-feeling (as well as more conscious of death--hardly a coincidence). Ate delicious ravioli afterward.
Revisions on an intermediate novel formerly titled both Love Misery and The Graves are taking place right now. Excruciatingly slowly due to Fires and life in general. But to be completed in six weeks or less, I hope. Midnight Picnic is in stasis, simmering.
Last night I dreamed Fires came out and someone reviewed it--a former classmate, though a fictional one existing only for the purposes of the dream*--and wrote something like "His novel is all right, but his blog is better." Literally my worst nightmare in memory.
*I hated most of my Yale classmates but I could have kept it better hidden. Now they are all media interns or journalists.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
having strange dreams
Monday, September 25, 2006
Tao and I were roommates in New York for a while; now he lives in Florida and angers people with his blog.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Crowley news
The "Trade Edition" ($95, 1,800 copies, I ordered one) and "Numbered Edition" ($250, 300 copies) are not completely sold out and people can still order them at the first site linked to above. The "Lettered Edition" ($900, jesus christ, only 26 copies) is sold out.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Modern Times and The Greatest are my favorite albums of recent years, I think.
Internet denizens will often seize upon some offhand sentence in a "mainstream media" article and use it to both attack the author and to ostensibly demonstrate the breadth of their own intellects. Here's a particularly baffling example. Notice this guy's list of "experimental fiction"--which includes such formalistically radical books as The Corrections, Underworld, and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. His list serves as evidence against his own argument.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Sunday afternoon on Spring Street a woman took pictures of us with an antique camera and we bought two of them. Here's a glamorous-looking one. The photo is so fuzzy and softened that you can't even tell I'm wearing glasses.
Tonight, of course, I am reading with other Impetus authors at KGB. If you're reading this you probably got the email about it. Either way you're invited. Should be interesting.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
I forgive Brooklyn
Last night and this morning I went to Brooklyn Book Festival events.
The first one was a reception last night prior to the Festival. It was in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in a place called the Tobacco Warehouse. I have a preexisting contempt for this venue for reasons related to my day job that I won't go into here. It is a ruined old warehouse with no roof that sits under a bridge--a place only trolls should go, really. To get there I only had to go one or two stops into Brooklyn, but it still took me an hour because the area is not clearly described on maps (at least the ones I found on the internet) and pedestrians were giving me the wrong information. I walked around for maybe half an hour before I found it, which doesn't sound so awful, except that it was pouring rain and the wind was slashing around and beating up my frail little umbrella and I was wearing jeans that seemed to be made from sea sponges and the streets all had violent little ponds in them. And as I trudged around, looking at my increasingly sodden map but unwilling to give up because after all I had come to Brooklyn already (it is a great distance psychologically if not geographically), my mind was chanting, "I hate being in Brooklyn. I hate being in Brooklyn. I hate being in Brooklyn. "
Please understand that I am not insulting the people of Brooklyn or those who love it. It is simply a matter of taste, like hating Indian food (which I do). Brooklyn has always reminded me of the bland, low cities in Maryland near the place where I mostly grew up. Or even Bayonne, New Jersey. It looks to me like Nowhere In Particular. I don't like the skyline and the hipster infestation only reinforces my bias.
The event itself, location notwithstanding, was cool and I enjoyed myself. Lots of food, nice people to talk to, etc.
Then this morning I woke up and it was time to go to the festival itself, mostly because I wanted to talk to the good people of Impetus, who had a table there and were selling Hollywoodland and The Dream Sequence. After convincing myself to actually go, I stepped out of the train station at Borough Hall and the weather was beautiful. My destination was immediately in sight and there was no chance of getting lost. Everything was bright and warm and the area kind of actually looked like 14th St.-Union Square. I felt great. I immediately and ashamedly forgave Brooklyn for the previous night.
On a more general note, the MTA is a wretched and infuriating organization. I tried to get a downtown 6 train from 33rd St. today, only a few hours ago, and found myself waiting for almost thirty minutes. (Fucking unreliable bastards...you wouldn't see this shit happen in Seoul, dammit.) Finally I went back up to the street to try and get a cab. But there weren't any to be found. So I descended into the subway again just as the train was pulling in. I tried to swipe my card but for some reason (although it is unlimited ride) it wouldn't work. There was no time to fuck around or I'd be waiting another hour or something. So I jumped the turnstile. I heard a guy, presumably an MTA employee, yell behind me, but I was already jumping on the train just as the doors closed. Fucking assholes. If the MTA were a single person, I would want to kick him repeatedly in the throat and genitals.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
about to sleep, but
Monday, September 11, 2006
Cat Power good, Irving Plaza bad
Chan Marshall herself: all smiles. Backed up by the Memphis Blues Band. Her voice in terrific shape. On-stage freakouts of the kind about which I'd been warned in advance were not to be seen (no squirrel-chasing), and her childishly inept twitch-dancing was actually pretty sexy. Without the band, she played about four songs combined into one on piano, starting out on "I Found a Reason" and wandering into the others. Then the band returned and "Naked if I Wanted To" became "Nude as the News" and, later on, a seemingly spontaneous cover of "Satisfaction." Then the band started leaving and she began to sing "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley, which is a much, much better (and less annoying) song when sung by Cat Power.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
strange dream involving "water tigers" and my past
9/10/06: In the dream I was about 18 or 19. My family went to visit the home of some people we've been friends with for a long time (in "real life" they were our neighbors when I was very young). I'll call them Dave and June. In the dream they had a kid who was about my age (this kid was also someone I used to know outside of the dream, although he was not the son of our neighbors). The home where we went to visit them was out in the woods, newly built. It seemed to be just outside of Houston, Texas. We walked around in the forest with them outside their house. The other kid, whose name was Evan, was saying rather menacing things to me. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that I was in serious danger. There were three dogs around us, all of them large and brindled, like pit bull mixes, but bigger than pit bulls. Then the father, Dave, took out a massive gun--it was a gun the size of that huge rifle the villain uses at the end of Robocop. (This is based I think on an incident from my childhood where I went over to our neighbors' house--the same neighbors featured in the dream--and he showed me an unbelievable collection of weaponry. I was about seven, I think. He worked for the government and had a small arsenal in his home, including assault rifles that it would be unthinkable for a regular citizen to own.) He fired this massive rifle at a patch of ground some distance away. It blasted a little crater in the earth, and in the crater a sort of jellyish skin formed. It was a little bigger around than a manhole cover and it was slightly stiff, so that when I went to retrieve it and pick it up, it retained its shape. It was like a giant, thick contact lens.
I lifted it up to the sky and looked through it. It distorted colors and the sky was purple--it was like being in a swimming pool and looking up at the sky from underwater. Then something happened--I entered what seemed to be a dream within the dream. To the best of my knowledge this has never happened to me before. In the dream within the dream, I was still in the woods outside Houston Texas. But something very bad was going to happen. The sky was dark and when I looked into the distance there was a mountain covered in yellow grass and a dog or a man (I can't remember) was standing on the top of it, looking at me. Either the dog was very dark and brindled or the man was wearing a long dark fur coat. Whatever it was had glowing eyes that had no white, they were just pupils. I started to run. Whatever it was was chasing me. I ran toward a concrete compound that seemed to be in the desert, and it changed into a rock formation that was like a rock formation I remember climbing on with my dad as a little kid. Then I realized that I was being chased not through physical space but through a landscape of my own memories. This thing that was chasing me--it seemed at this point to be in the shape of a human being about my age--could leap very far. I could leap too, but not as far, so I had to try and outwit the thing. I ran across an open field but the thing was behind me and could go faster and was quickly closing the distance, so I ducked inside
a building that had many underground passageways. The building was the library I went to when I was young. I tricked the thing that was chasing me by doubling back many times, and when I emerged from the library I was in an idyllic field with a nice, shady tree. There was a naked, motionless woman, possibly a very realistic statue, holding a banner that said, "High School." That made me strangely relieved. I could feel that the thing was still chasing me, but it didn't know where I was.
Then I woke up from the dream within a dream. I was not awake in "reality" though, I was just in a shallower level of dreaming. In this part of the dream my family was in the news. Apparently while driving through Houston (in the dream, Houston was a coastal city, and driving through it you could look out your car window and see huge waves in the ocean) we had managed to kill something called a "water tiger" that lived in the ocean by booing at it. We didn't even know what a "water tiger" was. It turned out that it was a regular bulldog that had somehow become an aquatic creature. When we looked out on the ocean outside Houston, we could see bulldogs paddling around in the ten-story-tall waves. I wondered what they ate out there and then I saw a bored-looking one eat a floating kiwi fruit, and I wondered how many floating kiwi fruits there could really be in the ocean off the coast of Houston, Texas. It seemed that "water tigers" were very beloved to the people of Houston, and my little brother had booed at one, which somehow caused it to get covered in bloody scars and die, and then its carcass washed up on the beach, and the city of Houston was angry at our family.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Impetus interview at PopMatters
new Amis story
I keep trying to read it and somehow my eyes wander away and my brain goes numb after about five sentences.
Uh, somebody else read it and tell me if it's good.
I liked his story about the Saddam Hussein doubles , "In the Palace of the End," that came out a couple years ago.
Monday, September 04, 2006
The Shield is one of the best stories being told in the 21st Century
The Shield, an hour-long police drama airing on the FX Network and set to begin its sixth season in a few months, is one of the most complex and profound American stories being told right now. Most TV sucks but a few writers in the last fifteen years have taken advantage of the unique long-form storytelling possibilities available in the medium. I watched the first two Shield episodes again last night at a friend's house and was reminded of how skillfully and with what affecting results the show's creator, Shawn Ryan, and staff writers have followed Faulkner's edict that "the young man or woman writing today" ought to explore "the old verities and truths of the heart...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."
(And here I ought to note that crucial plot details lie ahead. Probably. This being blog-writing, it's off the top of my head.)
The Shield's protagonist, Vic Mackey, is both a cop and a cop-killer. The show's pilot episode ends as he and another cop pull off the calculated murder of their new teammate. (And disturbingly enough, Mackey is no outright villain, no Tony Soprano character. Let me digress here and note that while I enjoy and respect The Sopranos, I feel it is vastly overrated. The Shield has it by the balls in every way. As The Sopranos has slowly declined in quality over the years, The Shield has increased, building to epic levels of betrayal and tension in the fourth and fifth seasons. Even in terms of daring content, The Shield comes out on top despite the constraints of appearing on basic cable. Nothing in The Sopranos, even Tony sawing off Ralphie's head, can compare to the scene in The Shield's third season where the proud and politically ambitious police captain David Aceveda is raped at gunpoint by a gangster. Or Mackey holding the child-rapist Armadillo's face to red-hot oven coils in season two. Or Anthony Anderson's drug lord murdering a little girl in season four and forcing two cops to watch--in one of the most powerful episodes of any show I've ever seen air on television.) That cop-on-cop murder was a bold way to launch the series, and while the issue seemed to be resolved after Mackey managed to cover it up, it returned with a vengeance in later seasons--when the intricacy of the show's narrative truly started to show through.
Indeed, it didn't really become apparent until the fourth season what a profound show The Shield was. (Fortunately, I started watching while the fourth season was underway and caught up on all the earlier seasons after the fourth concluded but before the fifth started. I never watch shows in their first season. Who knows if they'll end up sucking?) The first three seasons are powerful and entertaining, but only in the fourth do the intricate and tragic character arcs begin to curve downward. You start to realize that all these people are going to be destroyed for the things they've done. The stakes for everyone have gotten progressively higher as they build families and make allegiances, and some of the people who've participated in ugly things are genuinely good people, but in the end they're going to suffer.
The fifth season, which ended this spring, eschewed the one-case-per-episode formula of cop shows and instead worked basically as a miniseries (it's only ten episodes) about the noose slowly tightening around the necks of Vic and his three partners. Forrest Whitaker's insane season five performance as the sweaty, obsessed Internal Affairs investigator trying to turn Vic's men against each other was truly sublime. (In the penultimate episode he screams about Mackey to his superiors: "He's pissin' all over us! Okay? Do you feel that? What does that taste like to you? Because to me it tastes like piss.") The only guest performance that has rivaled Whitaker's is Anthony Anderson's (yes, the guy from Kangaroo Jack and Agent Cody Banks) in season four. Anthony Anderson, believe it or not, is a genuinely great actor. In The Shield, he was a ferociously brutal drug lord who stood on the neck of a crooked cop, took his gun, and used it to shoot a little girl in front of him--then buried the girl and the gun in an unknown spot to ensure the cop's loyalty.
The betrayal that ends the final episode of season five is one of the great character deaths in television, and it set up what ought to be a gleefully intense sixth season. I plead with Shawn Ryan and the show's writers not to chicken out (by allowing these guys to escape their seemingly inevitable fates) or drag the series on for too long. The story, as it left off, is at a feverish level. I'd rather see the writers produce ten more episodes at or near the level of the spectacular fifth season than thirty more episodes with the intensity dialed down a notch. Let them not pull an X-Files. A story this gripping and complex ought to flare out, not fade away.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
reading later this month with impetus
Friday, September 01, 2006
Not doing much. Sluggish. Watched, with mounting incomprehension, Little Black Book on HBO or Showtime or something. Brittany Murphy is short.


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Some cutting-edge technology devices to know
Some cutting-edge technology devices to know
Savio D'Souza,TNN
Like every year, even in 2014, phones will get smarter, computers will get faster, cameras will capture more pixels, and screens will display those clearer. We will see newer versions of operating systems. There will be better iterations of devices, and you'll probably ditch your old faithful for a new shiny.
But this feature is not about mere upgrades. Not at all. It is about cutting-edge tech that's only been seen in research labs till now and some of these are still prototypes. Regardless, all of it is...
As small as a memory card
The Edison is Intel's latest experiment in miniaturisation. This Linux-based 'computer' - the size of an SD card - comprises a 400MHz dual- core processor, integrated Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0. The chipmaker even has an app store designed for the platform, making Edison a highly customisable miniature computer that can be put to myriad uses, including in wearable gadgets.
As a proof of concept, Intel outfitted baby clothing with Edison as well as sensors that could track temperature, breathing, and motion. They also kitted an LED coffee mug with Edison, and wirelessly connected both the micro computers. When the baby was happy, the sensors in its clothing conveyed the data via Edison to the coffee mug (in the parent's hand) to display a happy green smiling face, but when something went wrong, that face turned red...
Expect to hear and see more of Edison this year. Intel plans on getting it out into the market within the next few months. In fact, it has already announced a $1.3 million 'Make It Wearable' competition, including $500,000 that will be awarded to the most innovative developer.
Lots of 'Steam'
A few years ago, Valve, developers of best-selling titles such as Half Life, Counter Strike, and Team Fortress envisioned a future where games could be delivered via the Internet straight to computers. That was the beginning of Steam - an online distribution service that brought gamers and content together.
As part of the next step, Valve envisioned consoles - built by different vendors - that would replace PCs. These boxes would be equipped to handle all of Valve's offerings. And the concept of a Steam Box was born. These machines would not be a 'one size fits all'. Each hardware manufacturer could design its own configuration, and at different prices, so long as all those machines are optimised for Steam.
Well, recently, 13 vendors - including Alienware, Gigabyte, Zotac, Falcon Northwest and Digital Storm - unveiled their own versions of this console. And since Steam boasts of a catalogue of over 2,000 games, it is in a unique position to digitally distribute titles at a discount of up to 75% - and this can only mean good things for gamers.
So while Sony and Microsoft slug it out for console supremacy, they just might find Valve creeping up on them. As for us, we're glad Steam Box is no longer plain vapourware.
Dual-boot tablets
If you're out shopping for a tablet, you're forced to choose an operating system, whether Android, iOS or Windows. But guess what? A new set of slates - ready to hit the market as early as February - will support Android Jelly Bean as well as Windows 8. This means, you can (at boot-up ) choose which OS you want to run.
The first of these devices, interestingly, is Micromax's Lap Tab - a 10-inch slate that's powered by a dual-core 1.4GHz Intel Celeron processor, 2GB RAM and with 32GB storage.
Similarly, Asus has also announced the Transformer Book Duet TD300 - a hybrid laptop-tablet combo that boasts of some killer hardware under its hood, including a 13.3-inch Full HD IPS display, an Intel Core i7 processor, 4GB RAM, and a choice between a 128GB solid state drive (SSD) or a 1TB hard drive.
Now the only thing left to see is whether the strange bedfellows, Google and Microsoft, are okay with the arrangement.
All about the curves
A few years ago, manufacturers glibly convinced us that we really needed flat screen TVs. And we, gullibly, believed them. But now, once we've upgraded, the same chaps are telling us that curves are the new thing. Last year, Samsung unveiled a simple curved screen prototype. This year, they went a step further. The South Korean giant has built an 85-inch ultra high-definition (UHD) TV that looks like any other flat-panel television.
But press a button, and both its vertical edges start moving forward to reveal a bendable screen. The resulting concave display is - supposedly - engineered to recreate a theatrical effect; bringing the edges closer to make the viewing experience more immersive. And then there is Panasonic that can't quite decide whether screens should be concave or convex.
They've built a prototype that curves in as well as out. Well, we're not sure if bendable UHD screens are immersive or not. But yes, in the next couple of years, expect almost every TV maker to throw curved displays at you. And you can expect them to cost much more than the sedan in your parking lot!
Modular PCs
Putting together a computer is not everyone's cup of tea. You have to choose the right motherboard, microchip, graphic card and power unit. And that's only the beginning. Then, you have to work your way through all the cables; connecting the fans, hard drives, DVD writer and what not ...
Well, Razer - a company known for its gaming hardware - has been working on Project Christine that will make assembling a personal computer as easy as playing with Lego blocks.
Need a new machine? Simply pick up the modules you want: processor, graphic card, storage, system monitors with digital readout, collection of ports, and simply plug it into a grid. Project Christine uses PCI-Express architecture that automatically syncs the components.
Each of Christine's modules is self-contained, liquid cooled and uses noise cancellation to make for a silent, but flexible computing system. As of now, Razer hasn't fixed a price or disclosed a release date for this modular set-up, but we'd definitely like to see this one hit stores in the near future.
Super bowl
All of us have that place where we drop our keys and keep our mobile phones, Bluetooth headset, and MP3 players as soon we reach home. Well, Intel is working on a 'bowl' for this purpose that will not only be a repository for your electronics, but also charge the devices. Of course, your gadgets will also need to be compliant.
As of now, Intel's Smart Bowl prototype - measuring 10-inches in diameter and which uses magnetic resonance technology - only charges Intel's smart headset.
But the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) - with members from industries such as consumer electronics, mobile services, automotive, furniture, software - recently announced a global certification programme called Rezence for wireless charging, so this tech might make its way to your home sooner than you think.
Master chef
They've been making waves for quite a while now, but this year, 3D printers are vying for a spot in your kitchen! Yes, you read that right. US-based 3D Systems has invented the ChefJet that's capable of printing candies, cake icings and other edibles.
The printers, due out later this year, will be available in two variants. The basic model will deliver single colour prints, while the ChefJet Pro will deliver full colour confectionary.


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Grandy12 posted...jubjub360 posted...Grandy12 posted...jubjub360 posted...Stereotypes are NOT a form of racism. Racism is a hate for a specific race
I'm not really sure you know what nitpicking means.
"to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details."
"to criticize by focusing on inconsequential details."
Such as in the sentence "jubjub is nitpicking over the fact I quoted only part of his sentence, instead of coming up with a counter-argument"
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I'm not really sure you know what nitpicking means.
Or like this: "Grandy is nitpicking minor details in a post that destroys someone else's argument just so he can be a smart ass."
Again, if you can't quote the whole thing and discuss it as a whole, why should I give any sort of f*** if you are too lazy to discuss everything?
F*** yo' MLA! It's all about that APA!
calimann83 5 years ago#43
THE_PS1_PATRIOT posted...
XxD3ADLYXx posted...THE_PS1_PATRIOT posted...Kung Fu Chaos (Maybe the most racist game EVER)
Not necessarily.. we stereotype everything and everyone, its just the way humans are, but that doesn't always make you a racist.
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Crimson Skys 5 years ago#44
I can't believe no ones mentioned the Postal games.
"You spoony bard!" -- Tellah (Final Fantasy IV)
Stereotypes only exist because people who those stereotypes are attached to reinforce the very same stereotypes that offend them in the first place. Like the black guy with fried chicken and malt liquor... White guy who lives in a trailor park in the south and married his sister... The middle eastern who turns their shoes into explosives and tries to blow up a plane... You get the idea I'm sure. There are ofcourse many more stereotypes, but I don't have the time to look them all up. And honestly, there are reasons why they exist in the first place. Frankly speaking, it is the culture itself of all ethnic groups that often results in the creation of stereotypes, not intentionally... but it is true. Look at New York, New Yorkers are steroetyped as being uptight douche bags, but that isn't the case (I'm sure). They reinforce this stereotype.
Maybe if we talk to the television, and know everything there is to know about football, that our favorite team will make it to the super bowl...
jubjub360 posted...
Or like this: "Grandy is nitpicking minor details in a post that destroys someone else's argument just so he can be a smart ass."
I'm sorry, is the "racism = hate" sentence a "minor detail" on a post where you do nothing but try to prove racism equals hate?
Again, if you can't quote the whole thing and discuss it as a whole, why should I give any sort of f*** if you are too lazy to discuss everything?
Okay, fine, I'll do that.
Stereotypes are NOT a form of racism. Racism is a hate for a specific race while stereotypes are actions or things that make a race look good/bad.
No, racism is prejudice towards a race. Hate is just a facet of racism.
Example: Neo Nazis hate everyone that's not white. Racism
Black people like fried chicken. Stereotype. Not all black people like fried chicken.
Asians are good at math. Stereotype.
A white man killed a black man because he was black. Racism.
These are all examples related to the first sentence (the one I already answered but which you dismissed as being a "minor detail" despite being the main point of your post). I think it is easy to see my position on this part of the post if you read my first sentence, but since apparently not, I am of the opinion all these four examples are racism. The asian one is postive racism, but racism nonetheless.
Also when did I say all modern day Africans are primitive tribals? YOU said "About half way through with the tribals in loin cloths, straw and mud huts, white face paint, and bones in their face chucking spears." I searched African tribes and proved you wrong. Most tribes in Africa have rituals like what you said. Whether they are the same or not doesn't mean that I'm incorrect.
This part of the post does not pertain me, but I have to quote and write something here, because otherwise 'someone' will try and dismiss anything I write as "nitpicking".
Good job at making yourself look like a person who doesn't read and makes assumptions child.
See above.
Golly gee, it almost seems like it's the exact same thing I wrote before, only a whole lot less concise.
EDIT: Know what? Even if you're happy, I happen not to be. This conversation is making me mad (so if you were trolling on purpose, congratulations, you win), and all because I corrected you on something that you apparently found so minor yet big enough to make a fuss about instead of just correcting me and letting us go our merry ways. You want to win this internet discussion? Fine, you win, racism is exactly that what you meant it was, despite you not making a minimum effort to defend that point and going in a tangent on my posting mothod in the finest example of ad hominem.
I tire of this. So yeah, you win. Congratulations.
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Seksii_Girl_5 (Topic Creator)5 years ago#47
boredofyou posted...
Not true. I get called a troll alot even when i have normal topics.
If you have nothing to contribute then go away. how annoying you are.
Daniel Bryan is my future husband!
iPr0kkaFTW 5 years ago#48
Crimson Skys posted...
I can't believe no ones mentioned the Postal games.
Seriously this.
rodwipeisdead 5 years ago#49
Dead Island. Uses a derogatory term against indigenous Australians.
What are all these knobs for?
To put their hands in the air.
Why? Because **** you is why.
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Frank McCourt isn't selling. Not now and not anytime soon.
The Dodgers owner reacted strongly on Friday to former owner Peter O'Malley's public call for him to sell the franchise amid what's become an increasingly bitter divorce trial, saying he has no intention of ever selling the organization.
"I have a very, very strong instinct that I'm going to own this team for a long, long time and then someday, God willing, my boys will own the team," McCourt said, when asked about the growing public pressure on him to sell the storied franchise.
"It's probably going to happen until the [divorce] trial is over and that's just the way it is. When people ask, I'm going to say the same thing and that is, 'The team is not for sale, I'm not selling it. I'm going to own it for a long long time.'"
Asked whether he had any comment directly on O'Malley's statement, McCourt said: "I have no comment."
Asked whether he had any opinion on the normally reclusive O'Malley's call for him to sell the team, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "Of course I do. But I have no comment."
McCourt has made few public comments since his high-profile separation from his estranged with Jamie McCourt and their subsequent divorce proceedings began.
He chose to speak Friday at the news conference announcing that Don Mattingly would succeed Joe Torre as the Dodgers manager in 2011.
"Don's ready," McCourt said. "You can see it in his eyes and hear it in his voice. That's the one question I had for him, and he was very, very clear on that. Maybe a few years ago he wasn't. Could he have done it? Yeah. But maybe he wasn't quite as ready. Now he's really good to go."
McCourt said his divorce trial and the uncertainty surrounding the team were not affecting the Dodgers day-to-day operations in this disappointing season, and were not a factor in Torre's decision to step down.
"We have really done a great job, certainly as good a job as can be done, to separate that [the divorce proceedings] from what goes on here," McCourt said. "It really doesn't have the same day-to-day bearing in terms of what goes on on the field and in the clubhouse as you'd think. I know people talk about that, but it really doesn't.
"We approach things the same way. I'm proud of everybody here who has worked really hard and kept their head down.
"Of course, nobody wants to get past the personal situation more than me, but it really doesn't impact the team and certainly it had no impact on Joe's decision.
McCourt said he was committed to spending "whatever it takes" to field a championship contender next season.
"We're going to have plenty of financial flexibility," he said. "We're going to do what it takes, just as we have every offseason, to bring the talent in here to win."
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City open 2016/17 campaign at home to Sunderland
Fernandinho celebrates his goal against Chelsea
City will kick-off the 2016/17 Premier League campaign at home to Sunderland.
Sunderland haven't won away to City since 1998, with the Blues winning ten of the 12 home clashes since with the fixture producing plenty of goals.
In fact, the game averages 5 goals per game for the last seven meetings - 24 for City and 11 for the Wearsiders.
Another stat the Black Cats won't want to see is that the Blues will be looking for a sixth straight opening day victory - the last time City failed to win the first match of the campaign was a 0-0 draw away to Spurs in 2010.
The eagerly anticipated first Manchester derby is just four League games into the new season with the Blues travelling to Old Trafford on 10 September to face Jose Mourinho's men in what should be a fascinating tussle.
The return battle of Manchester is on 25 February – though if either side are in this season's League Cup Final, that date will have to be rescheduled.
Other high-profile clashes see Chelsea visit the Etihad Stadium on 3 December with a trip to face champions Leicester City a week later.
In what is a tricky-looking month, City will also face Arsenal at home on 17 December while New Year's Eve sees the Blues travel to Anfield to face Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool.
This year's Boxing Day fixture is at the KC Stadium against Steve Bruce's newly-promoted Hull City.
2017 begins with a 2 January home clash with another newly-promoted side as Sean Dyche's Burnley visit the Etihad.
The only new venue City will travel to in the 2016/17 Premier League season is the Olympic Stadium, the new home of West Ham United - that fixture is pencilled in for Tuesday evening, 31 January.
March will be another testing month for Guardiola's men with Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in successive games.
The current date of the Blues' final home game won't be lost on City fans with Leicester City due at the Etihad Stadium on 13 May – exactly five years to the day since Sergio Aguero's dramatic late winner secured a first top flight title for 44 years.
The campaign wraps up at Vicarage Road with a trip to Watford.
Of course, many of the published dates may well change for TV scheduling purposes and broadcasters have until 6 July to reveal which games will be covered in August and September.
Check out the full fixture list here...


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It is that time of the year again, Sinterklaas has arrived in the Netherlands. The tiny ginger nuts (in Dutch "kruidnoten"), make this Dutch traditional celebration complete. When supermarkets start selling these tiny cookies, I know winter has begun with all the fun festivities. I also have my birthday coming up in December, so it is a busy, but oh so fun month! I can imagine that for many of us it can be tricky to maintain a healthy lifestyle and still enjoy all the good food with family and friends. But it is by no means impossible. Sinterklaas is not complete without "kruidnoten"/ginger nuts. Yes, glutenfree ginger nuts, because these little treats are gluten free, dairy free and free of refined sugars.
This recipe does not contain too many ingredients, but on the other hand these little cookies take quite a bit of time to make. Maybe a nice thing to do with children. I was making this alone and it took me quite a long time. Also, it is not that easy to make them a bit crunchy if you go for the ultra-healthy version with the (home made) apple sauce. To create "kruidnoten" with the same size I would recommend to use a super tiny glass or glass straw to make them perfect round. But again, this takes quite a lot of time…
Speculaas spices also known as "speculaas kruiden" are really a must for me during the winter months. I sprinkle these mixed spices on everything, especially a nice cup of warm almond milk is delicious with a dash of this mixture. You can buy it in the shops ready made or make it yourself by mixing cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cardamom and white pepper.
- 200 gram almond flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 75 grams of coconut blossom sugar or; (the healthier option) 1 tablespoon of unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 big tablespoon of mixed spices
- pinch of Celtic sea salt
- 50 grams of coconut oil
- 3 tablespoons plantbased milk (I used almond milk)
- optional: extra teaspoon cinnamon
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees.
- Mix the almond flour, baking soda, coconut blossom sugar, spices and salt in a bowl. Mix half of the coconut oil through and add the milk little by little. Continue to mix and knead until you have a smooth dough. If the dough is not soft enough, add some extra coconut oil and when it is too wet add a little extra bit of flour.
- Line a baking dish or baking pan with parchment paper. Make small balls out of the dough and place on the parchment paper; or do what I did, line the dough flat on parchment paper and scoop out rounds with a tiny glass.
- Bake the ''kruidnoten'' for about 20 minutes until tender and allow them to cool before serving them.
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The so-called "Three Brothers" (Tris Brali), or Maza Pils numbers 17, 19, and 21, are the oldest stone houses still standing in Riga, and an excellent example of medieval architecture, perhaps matched only by the Golden Road of Prague. Built between the 15th century (White Brother) and the middle of the 18th century (Yellow Brother), the tiny houses really make you wonder if people were shorter back then, or if perhaps Tolkien's hobbits were once real. As an added bonus, the Latvian Museum of Architecture is housed in the White Brother, number 19.
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Having to travel on business for a week, the Hilton Arlington Va was the best location. The hotel is a little out dated, however, the service and staff are the best. The rooms are clean, and the location is so close to everything. Didn't like the fact I had to pay for public parking or internet. I was able to get upgraded to the executive access and Honor's floor which made my stay perfect. That then included free internet, especially it was necessary for my business trip. Nadine was wonderful, every evening I was greeted as a family. I forgot the wonder woman's name in the morning, she also was so accommodating. When I first arrived, I had a little problem with my room and location, however, a housekeeper was wonderful and contacted the correct person to help me relocate. That made my whole week stay perfect.
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Located in the heart of the hamlet of Westport, New York, the Westport Library Association has served the community and its visitors since 1884.
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Ahri Build Guide by AhriChan
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Ahri Classic Build
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Hi there everyone! Welcome to the very first build I play! Please keep in note that I haven't played ranked before. I'm just someone who found Ahri (아리) - The Fox in the Middle (still testing for S3) and made some changes in it. I enjoyed the changes I made and I decided to share it with you guys. Most of the stuff here, I credit the one who made the Ahri build but the changes, I credit me.
Ahri, the nine-tailed for is a strong, seductive, sneaky fox that can do anything with out you knowing. Ahri is an assassin mage but here, I'll be mainly focused on the mage part of Ahri. Ahri is quite sneaky which makes her an amazing ganker.
With this build, I really suggest going mid because the item build is very expensive and if you lane with a partner, it will take two hours to get the items. If it's not obvious yet, Ahri here will be build as a APC(Ability Power Carry) and not much as an assassin. . Please bare with me as I try to make this first build my best.
Pros / Cons
- Good Ganker
- Amazing Late Game Damage
- Spirit Rush can let her turrent dive
- Good mobility
- Needs tons of farm
- Mana Management in early game
- Very difficult to play
- Very squishy
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For this build, I chose Flash and Exhaust. These two make a very good combo. I'm also fine with Ignite and Teleport but I'll explain a bit more for you guys startinggg....... NOW!!


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King size bed 180x200, round benéo 3 place bath, mini-bar, Expresso, TV large flat screen with TNT.
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This continuation offers to you a panoramic view of the valley since the canopied located in the tower. You will appreciate the living room in the Napoleon III style.
It is a true invitation with pleasure... The retro bathroom separated by a glass wall, has two wash basins and an old-fashioned bath. The Suite also has a shower, hot towel dryer and separated toilet.
King size bed 180x200, television.
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This first floor room with its private balcony, has an ethnic decor. This elegant bathroom is equipped with a blanéo bath, double wash basins, a towel-dryer and separated toilet.
King size bed 180x200, mini-bar, television.
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Intimate ground-floor bedroom, with a private terrace, decorated with pastel colours. This elegant and spacious bathroom, is equipped with two wash basins, a large bath and separated toilet.
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Canon Powershot G12 Review
PowerShot G12 Digital Camera
Canon G12 10MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8 inch Vari-Angle LCD
The new Canon Powershot G12 is the latest in Canon's excellent G-series of cameras and replaces last years critically acclaimed Powershot G11 as the company's flagship model in their popular PowerShot line of compact cameras.
This "Prosumer" or "Bridge" digital camera is loaded with some of the same effective technologies and features that have made the G11 so popular. Canon built the G12 around the successes of the G11 and added some welcome refinements.
Physically, the Canon G12 is nearly identical to the G11 with a few ergonomics improvements. The Canon G12's grip is the same as the G11's. A small thumb grip has been added to the back panel. The speaker grill has been redesigned, and a new front-control dial.
The Best Features of the Canon G11 in the Canon G12
Instead of chasing ever higher mega-pixels, Canon retains the same excellent 10.0 mega-pixel CCD sensor used in the G11. The sensor is paired with Canon's DIGIC 4 Image Processor that is now branded as Canon's HS System. The combination results in a camera that produces brilliant, sharp images even at the higher ISO settings without the use of on board flash.
The Canon PowerShot G12 also retains the same quality Canon lens offering a 5x Optical Zoom lens with a 35mm-equivalent focal lengths of 28mm wide-angle to a 140mm telephoto, with Optical Image Stabilizer Technology (IS). The IS function allows for handheld shots to be taken at much slower shutter speeds or shooting with longer focal lengths and in lower light conditions without having to use a tripod or monopod to reduce the chance of blurry pictures due to camera shake.
And like the PowerShot G11, the G12 has an articulated 2.8-inch Vari-angle PureColor II LCD display screen, with 461,000 dot resolution, and provides 100% coverage. The displaycan swing through 177 degrees and rotate along its long axis through 270 degrees. The monitor has 5 brightness adjustments. The ability to swivel the LCD display can be helpful in bright outdoor light, where the monitor can sometimes be difficult to see for image composition, and also allows for greater control over the creativity of your shots.
The G12 also has the optical view finder that was on the G11 that offers about 77% coverage at wide-angle, and about 79% coverage at telephoto and is useful when the LCD is too difficult to see for image composition or to conserve battery life.
Other G-12 features that are carryovers from the G-11 include automatic and full manual controls along with the traditional G-series cameras' ability to shoot and save still image in RAW or JPEG formats. A high-definition HDMI video output connector that is Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI-CEC) compatibility.
Enhanced Features to the Canon G12
There are numerous improvements and features to be noticed on the Canon G12 digital camera. The two most important enhancements to the Canon G12 over the G11 are the video function and higher ISO settings. The G12 now has 720p HD video recording with stereo sound, compared to the G11's 640 x 480 VGA video and mono audio. ISO has been increase up to 12,800 with 1/3EV intervals.
There are also several additional scene modes, including a HDR (high dynamic range) function, which works by combining three different shots of the same scene to bring out more detail and better lighting.
Other new features to the G12 include an electronic level, smile detection, more aspect ratios, a front control dial and SDXC memory card compatibility, and a revamped image stabilization system called the New Hybrid IS system that corrects for both lateral and angular shifts for better image quality at higher ISOs. ISO has been increase up to around 3200 with stops in one-third increments.
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What Canon G12 Owners Say About Their Camera
Most G12 owners where happy with their camera and liked the camera's image quality, built quality, HD video and articulated LCD. Many owners up grades to the G12 from older G-series cameras and appreciate the manual controls and the ergonomics of other controls provided by the G12.
A few owners, while agreeing that the G12 produces excellent image quality, were not happy with the camera's inability to zoom during video recording, the slow lens, "gimmicky" features, size and weight, and a lack of a printed user manual. Some owners were disappointed that the feature upgrades were not more drastic over the G11 model.
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- No optical zoom during video recording
- Expensive
The G12 is a remarkable point and shoot camera. It combines some of the best point and shoot camera image quality with plenty of preset shooting modes for the enthusiast and offers full manual control to satisfy the more demanding experienced used.
The Canon Powershot G12 may not be the smallest camera on the market. There are even cameras that offer greater zoom ranges in smaller, less expensive packages. However, there is no other camera to match the G12's balance between size, user control and image quality.
Canon PowerShot G12 Review Video
The Canon G12 is Available at Amazon
From the Manufacturer
Feast your eyes on an updated G Series digital camera: The G12. It's ready to impress the advanced amateurs who have always celebrated the G Series. The G12 is still loaded with powerful technologies that has made the G Series cameras so renowned, like the Canon HS SYSTEM, 2.8-inch Vari-angle PureColor System LCD, and RAW + JPEG image modes. Now, this flagship camera paves the way with these new upgrades like 720p HD Video with stereo sound...more
Canon G12 Optional Accessories
The PowerShot G12 can be used with a wide range of
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Perfect for expanding your creative options on compact cameras and entry level EOS DSLRs, Canon's new Speedlite 270EX adds power and flexibility for enhanced flash photography anywhere. Light, compact and small enough to fit in your pocket, the Speedlite 270EX features 2-step coverage for 28mm and 50mm focal lengths, plus a highly useful bounce-flash function for amazingly easy, polished results. Powered by 2 AA batteries, Speedlite 270EX...more
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Worthy successor to the venerable Canon 270EX II Speedlite, the new, ultra-lightweight Canon 270EX II Speedlite is a compact, high-performance flash unit designed for the evolving EOS enthusiast. Developed for fun and easy flash shooting, when used with select Canon EOS DSLR cameras that have a master function, the Speedlite 270EX II can be used as a versatile wireless slave flash...more
Bringing a new level of versatility and capability to flash photography, the Speedlite 430EX II features a powerful flash (guide number of 141 ft./43m at ISO 100) with a fast recycling time in a compact, durable body. A one-touch quick-lock mechanism makes it easy to attach or detach the 430EX II from the camera and a metal foot has been added for strength and durability. Flash controls can now be set through the camera's LCD screen...more
Manufacturer Description
Further development of Canon's flagship Speedlite has led to the production of the 580 EX II. This is the premier Speedlite for all photographers, including professionals. Newly designed to match with the EOS-1D Mark III in terms of improved dust- and water-resistance, body strength, and the ability to control flash functions and settings from the camera menu (EOS-1D Mark III only)...more
Amazon.com Product Description
Canon's Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX for close-up and macro shooting comes equipped with many features and capabilities. Utilizing E-TTL (enhanced through- the-lens mode) technology, it takes full advantage of the flash performance of the Canon EOS-1V, EOS-3, and other E-TTL cameras, and also supports E-TTL wireless auto flash, when used with at least one Canon 550EX Speedlite flash...more
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Add another dimension to your Canon Powershot G10. The BTK-DC1 allows you to add a flash or Ring Lite to your camera...more
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The Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 is compatible with Type A EOS cameras (E-TTL, auto flash) and Type B EOS cameras (manual flash). The ST-E2 is designed to control slaved Canon 550 EX flashes, enabling simultaneous flash use in professional settings. The wireless controller has a flash ratio control, allowing for several different A:B ratios, 1:8 to 8:1 in half-step increments, as well as slave confirmation...more
Amazon.com Product Description
The Canon RS60 E3 replicates the functions of the shutter release button. The remote switch, on a 2-foot cable, is quite compact, and is compatible with the Canon EOS Rebel 2000, EOS Rebel X/XS, EOS Rebel G, EOS Elan II, EOS Elan IIe, and EOS IX...more
Amazon.com Product Description
Take a closer look at your subject with the Canon TC-DC58D telephoto converter lens. Made specifically for the Canon G10 digital camera, the unit converts the focal distance of your lens by a factor of 1.4x when attached to the camera, making it ideal for wildlife photography and other long-distance applications. The unit--which requires the LA-DC58K conversion lens adapter--carries a one-year warranty...more
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