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This "must-have" tote is lightweight, foldable and packable. Ideal for shopping trips, bringing home souvenirs or transferring heavier items from your checked luggage to meet airline weight restrictions. Comes in its own zip pouch. This item is also available in the new Jonathan Adler Travels with Tumi Collection. Reflecting a playful, irreverent and glamorous spirit, this colorful travel collection was created in collaboration with American potter, designer, and author Jonathan Adler. Known for his use of geometric patterns and bold colors, Adler brings his iconic prints and cheeky sayings to Tumi's best-selling styles from the Voyageur and Vapor collections.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Rawk and Roll!
I love my dehydrator, but actually wish I had purchased the 9 tray. 4 trays is great, but nine is better... especially since you can freeze the tortillas and breads so well. I have an experiment going right now.. spinach tortillas. I got the idea from I Am Grateful, which is an awesome raw book. The spinach was just processed with some Braggs, lemon juice, flax meal, onion powder, garlic powder, nutritional yeast and crushed red pepper flakes. I'll be VERY suprised if they actually hold together.
Oh how I love spiralized zukes and other veggies! Since pasta is my all time favorite comfort food, it's nice to have such a healthy alternative. The thin spiralized veggies really do remind of me angel hair pasta!
Here is another experiment. Sesame Carob Milk. I used my vita mix and pureed the hell out of the seeds and added vanilla, carob, cinnamon and stevia. I strained it through a nut milk bag. I liked it and sesame seeds are MUCH cheaper than almonds. (plus I have a 5lb bag of them in my freezer, so I'm using them!)
Here are some zucchini and daikon noodles I made using my OXO peeler. I much prefer the spiralized noodles, but these are better for stronger sauces I think. I made a quick sesame-braggs sauce with tons of fresh ginger and garlic and used some of the cauliflower basil sesame spread from earlier. I added a bunch of Siracha to my bowl before eating.
I've been thinking of the Raw Challenge and I should probably call it a High Raw challenge. I am not going to get totally obsessed... I will be eating things such as miso, olives and certain condiments and maybe even a bit of toasted sesame oil here and there. I will also have to taste some food.. but I'm hoping my coworkers will help me out with the majority of tasting.
Also, I am not giving up siracha! At least not yet! lol.. so that's my plan and in having a bit more leeway, I'm sure it will be easier.
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I am ALWAYS awestruck by your raw dishes - so vibrant, fresh, and beautiful.ReplyDelete
THat first photo is incredibly beautiful. Seriously, I would buy a cookbook if I picked it up and saw that on the cover. You totally rawk! Glad to hear an update on the raw challenge.ReplyDelete
Oh that photo is amazing! You make it sound so easy! And thanks for that link you left me. I have been making my own "oil" make-up remover and I have been loving it!ReplyDelete
Fantastic! My girlfriend who is a raw vegan and has been for about 5 years, just turned me onto sesame seed milk. She adds a banana and strawberries to hers for an awesome morning smoothie. Glad you like it. I am in love with your raw food and wish I lived closer. I just go the 9 tray dehydrator. Now I just need to figure out what to make. I am so totally new to raw, but am also very willing. I hope your spinach dish turns out.ReplyDelete
your roll reminds me of a colorful caterpillar! (in a good way) it's so awesome looking and sounds delicious. i would order it at a restaurant!ReplyDelete
Another person bitten by the Raw bug! I'm sorry I haven't visited your blog for a while - as you know (and thanks for your sympathy on my blog) I've been rather caught up with matters at home. But here I was thinking that no one could appreciate raw food on a blog and I find I am absolutely rapt with yours! Of course, your talent with food, recipes, photography and no doubt a few other things doesn't hurt a bit LOL Great stuff.ReplyDelete
That zucchini roll - yes, definitely something to have a go at. Of course, you wouldn't recognize it if I made it, but it is an inspiration. I'll be back often now - I need inspiration bigtime!!!!! Thanks hugely. Love and hugs.
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Hi there ... so do you have any stellar hints/tips/tricks to creating the veggie angel hair shreds? It just seems that my attempts with the standard veggie peeler never produce such lovely and consistent results - appreciate your advice! Pls kindly advise to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Melody, what do you use to get such thin angel hair spiral veggies? Whatever gizmo it is, I think I need it!ReplyDelete
LOVE the title of this post! And those spiralized veggies look beautiful. Your photos are so clear and vibrant. I'll be getting my spiralizer in the mail any day now - can't wait! :-DReplyDelete
I like the name cannelloni of sorts! It sounds like you are eating many things at the same time. I like exotic food and this marinated dish is very appealing to me. ThanksReplyDelete
I was traveling around the world and some day I went to a restaurant and had the opportunity of eating a similar dish so the food in the photos look so similar and may be it will be so good.ReplyDelete


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It was the middle of May when 64-year-old Lottie Copeland stood in her doorway and waved goodbye as her loved ones left her Highland Park home.All of a sudden, she says, "I started back in the house. He snatched the door out of my hand and came in behind me, and he hit me on both sides of my head with some object, and I ran to the kitchen to get a knife, and before I could get it, he rammed into the wall and just started beating me.""He had me by one arm and he was brutally just striking me."The man who Copeland says let her have it is the handyman who happens to be a relative of her landlord. Recently that man has been barging in, she claims, without permission or an appointment.Copeland says the last visit ended with "eight stitches in my mouth" and a concussion. According to documents from the DMC, the doctor says the head injury did some damage to her skull, too."I couldn't fight back, and when the guy did get him off me next door, I called the police," Copeland says.Soon after, the prosecuting attorney called Copeland asking if she wanted to press charges."I called back down there and asked what would they charge him with, and they said a misdemeanor, assault and battery," Copeland says. "I feel like they should charge him for coming in here, home invasion, and for assault and battery, the felony not a misdemeanor.""I was real angry. I said, 'What do you mean assault and battery. Do you mean to tell me he can just come into the neighborhood and jump on elderly people like this for no reason and get away with it with a misdemeanor?' And he [said], 'This is what the detective gave the prosecutor, the report, and this is what we determined that it's going to be.'"In a statement, the Wayne County Prosecutor Office says, "Unfortunately, the victim did not agree with our charging decision. We can only charge based upon the evidence and what we believe can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court."Copeland is from Muskegon, and she says the way justice works in metro Detroit makes her want to move."There's so much crime here because people like him is getting away with it," she says.If not a felony, then why not eye for an eye, sarcastically suggests Copeland."I should get him back," she says. "Let me beat him like he did me.""Vengeance is mine saith the Lord. He'll get his. He got his own day coming."Copeland believes he did this because she said do not come to my home unannounced. He did not like what she had to say and started swinging.She knows telling her story may not change anything at all, but she thought metro Detroiters should know.
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(RNN) - At a time of year when people are considering dietary changes, one school's change seems to have reaped dividends for students.
Principal Bob Groff said since Active Learning Elementary School, or P.S. 244, in Flushing, NY, started serving vegetarian fare for breakfast and lunch earlier this year, student health has shown an all-around improvement.
The percentage of students classified as obese and overweight dropped by 2 percent in one semester, it was reported in WNYC.
Goff also said the students' focus is improved and their energy levels are more balanced, without the after-lunch crash common before the dietary change.
The school is one of the first in the nation to go veggie-only.
The shift to an all-vegetarian lunch menu took place gradually with the help of the New York Coalition for Healthy School and the NYC Office of SchoolFood, according to CNN.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has recognized the school's nutritional achievement with its Golden Carrot award.
The school, which includes grades pre-kindergarten through third, supplements its vegetarian diet with a weekly health and nutrition class, food tastings, yoga after school and assistance for families to create healthier meals at home.
According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, "Vegetarian children often eat more fruits, vegetables and fiber, and less fat and cholesterol. This may reduce risk of chronic disease and weight-related illness."
When schools adopt healthful nutrition policies and practices, children's overall diets improve. That's according to new research led by Michigan State University and published in Childhood Obesity.
"When healthful food options are offered, students will select them, eat them and improve their diet," said Katherine Alaimo, MSU associate professor of food, science and human nutrition. "Our study shows that schools can make the kinds of changes required by the forthcoming USDA guidelines, and these changes can have a positive impact on children's nutrition."
Schools nationwide are working to provide their students with better food - like Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA. According to foodtank.org, its menu is loaded with fresh vegetables produced in the student-cultivated garden. The students involved in caring for the garden are not only providing healthier lunch options for their classmates, but they are also conserving energy.
Those who want to embrace a vegetarian lifestyle for themselves and their children have a number of online resources at their disposal, including those available at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine website.
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Now that the Detroit Tigers will not be playing in the World Series I can talk about what moves will be made in the offseason.
1.) The Tigers will not re-sign Jhonny Peralta.
I know it is hard to think this because he had such a good bat this past season and he came back after his suspension and did well in the postseason, but he is not an everyday left fielder. Plus, if you have him start at shortstop, you take away the defensive play of Jose Iglesias. So there are two options here trade Iglesias which is out of the question because he can be the everyday shortstop for quite a long time and is a good defensive player, has speed, and is a good small ball hitter. The other is letting Peralta go which seems to be the only option because there is just no place to squeeze him into this team and you can't have him ride the bench or put him at DH because of Victor Martinez. So in my opinion Peralta is gone and Nick Castellanos will take over left field along with Andy Dirks and Don Kelly
2.) Who should be brought into the bullpen and let go?
So this year the bullpen struggled and did not have a true closer this season. That is one issue that GM Dave Dombrowski needs to address in the off-season. We can't have a platoon of closers next year. A couple of good closers going on the market are Joe Nathan and Grant Balfour. Nathan had 43 saves last season with a 1.39 ERA and I believe he would work well in Detroit. Balfour I don't believe would because of his recent outburst with Victor Martinez during their ALDS series and that could cause some friction within the Tigers. So if they get a closer they could re-sign Benoit and use him as the set-up man like the Tigers wanted.
Now for the rest of the bullpen: Drew Smyly and Al Albuquerque should be brought back as well. Smyly has been a consistent arm out of the pen and Albuquerque was better near the end of the year and is rounding back into form. Also Jose Veras should be given a full season evaluation. A couple of their youngsters also deserve another chance and that is Jose Alvarez and Bruce Rondon. They have time to improve, but if they don't show any they should be let go. Phil Coke is definitely gone and most likely Jeremy Bonderman is as well. The Tigers should go sign a couple of more arms for their bullpen.
3.) What the starting line-up and starting pitching rotation might look like for 2014 opening.
First I will start with the starting pitcher rotation since this should be a lock unless they trade away Max Scherzer, which is being rumored.
1. Justin Verlander
2. Max Scherzer
3. Anibal Sanchez
4. Doug Fister
5. Rick Porcello
Some people are thinking the Tigers might have to trade a starting pitcher to get a closer and Scherzer has been rumored would seem to be the choice and then Drew Smyly can be moved into the starting rotation. However as I stated above they could sign a closer from free agency.
Here is what I believe the starting lineup should be and I shook it up a little bit.
1. Omar Infante 2B
2. Torii Hunter RF
3. Miguel Cabrera 3B
4. Victor Martinez DH
5. Prince Fielder 1B
6. Nick Castellanos LF
7. Austin Jackson CF
8. Alex Avila C
9. Jose Iglesias SS
Like I said I shook the lineup a bit. I believe Infante would make a good lead off hitter. He did bat over .300 this past season and was a consistent hitter. Fielder needs to be moved down the lineup for him to wake up so he start hitting like Austin Jackson did when he got moved down during the ALCS. I inserted Castellanos in the lineup because I think he will win the starting job in LF in spring training otherwise Dirks could fill the #6 spot. I also kept Austin Jackson down in the lineup because he seems to hit better when buried in the lineup and he said it takes the pressure off of him.
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As an adult, you may remember a time when snow was fun, like making snow angels. Now that you're grown up with a job to get to and a home to tend to, snow usually means shoveling out streets, driveways, and your own car.
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If your favorite marshmallow shape is the green clover, you're a happy-go-lucky type in bed. You don't take anything too seriously in the bedroom or elsewhere and always manage to have a good time, even if you're with someone else. You don't have any patience with depressed people and tend to sit on them until they cheer up.
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If your favorite marshmallow type is the blue diamond, your thoughts in bed are always about what you'll get later.
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If your favorite shape is the orange star, you expect to be the center of attention in bed. You expect your partner to spend most of the time pleasing you and when you do something for them, you expect enthusiastic moaning if not applause. People who like orange stars often have mirrors over their beds, not because they are turned on by watching what is being done, but because they want to be able to watch themselves having a good time. They often moan out their own names during lovemaking.
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Since it's Spring Break, I thought we should revisit this post as many of you are stuck in long car rides this week. As a kid, I remember driving all over the place for family vacations and we did not have iPads, iPods or DVD players. However, the thought of taking my two boys across the country without electronics makes my stomach turn.
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A strong commitment to conserve and sustainably manage the ocean, including areas beyond national jurisdiction, was among the outcomes of the 3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress, whose ministerial segment closed yesterday in Ajaccio, Corsica. …
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Halfway through the 3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress taking in Marseille, we asked Carl Gustaf Lundin, Director of IUCN's Global Marine and Polar Programme to tell us about the most important issues discussed so far. …
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There is hope for the ocean
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Marseille, France, 21 October 2013 – Effective management and more funding for marine protected areas are urgently needed to secure a longer life for our oceans and the vital services they provide, urges IUCN at the 3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC3), which opens today in Marseille, France. …
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(RNN) - Communities were reeling in the wake of Sunday's deadly storms that brought death and destruction in Illinois and widespread damage and power outages across the upper Midwest.
At least six died as a result of a severe weather system that brought tornadoes to eight states. The National Weather Service stated there were 81 preliminary reports of tornadoes Sunday.
Three deaths have been confirmed in Massac County in extreme southern Illinois, across the Ohio River from Paducah, KY, KFVS reported Sunday.
Jonathon Monken, the director of the Illinois EMA, said Sunday that 37 more were injured, several critically.
AP reported that two of the dead were an elderly man and his sister, whose farmhouse in Minden, IL, was hit by a powerful EF-4 tornado, with winds of 166 to 200 mph.
"I don't know if they made it to the basement or not," an emotional Minden Mayor Candi Cross said of the two who died.
Seventy homes in Washington, IL, have been destroyed, hundreds more have been damaged and rescue operations are underway, Monken said. One person died in this town of 10,000, which is located near Peoria in central Illinois.
"It was complete destruction," said Washington, IL, resident Anthony Khoury, an iReporter for CNN. "There are people in the streets crying."
Jim Ardis, the mayor of nearby Peoria, said the tornado hit a "densely populated" area in Washington, and his city is helping recovery efforts.
Pekin, IL, about 30 miles from Washington, IL, took a less severe hit, with roofs blown off houses and downed power lines and trees.
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Destruction and power outages were also reported in southeastern Missouri. Homes were wrecked in Scott County, MO, according to KFVS.
Widespread power outages were reported throughout the region, including 390,000 in Michigan, according to CNN.
Paducah, KY, suffered damage to houses and a church, but no injuries were reported Sunday night. The Associated Press reported that a possible tornado touched down at a uranium plant there, but plant officials said no hazardous materials were released.
A mall, a fire station, a car dealership, a bank and multiple homes in Kokomo, IN, were damaged by an apparent tornado, said Larry Smith, an Indiana EMA official. The mall was evacuated before the storm hit, and only minor injuries were reported, he said. The city declared a state of emergency following the tornado hits.
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Severe weather damaged a shopping plaza in Newport, KY, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, WXIX reported.
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Several other cities in Ohio suffered damage from the severe storms, WTOL in Toledo reported, including Perrysburg Township, Oregon and the village of Cloverdale, where a Catholic church received heavy damage.
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In an interview on Michigan's Big Show starring Michal Patrick Shiels, Dr. John McDougall explains what he has concluded to be the fastest way to healthy weight loss on an easy diet.
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What makes a great villain?
That's probably because while I feel comfortable expounding on how to create and structure a story, I am not so clear about how to explain how to create character. To be perfectly honest, it's not a very explicable process, for me. I think what I do is create a space for them – a situation, a theme, the beginnings of a story - and pray that the characters will show up to inhabit it. Which, thank God, they always do. And then from there they do most of the work.
In other words, it's magic – or possibly my friend Dusty Rhoades is right, it's mental illness - and I don't know how to explain magic OR mental illness. Quite possibly I don't WANT to know.
But I think – I'm pretty sure - most writers have characters in their heads from a very early age. Maybe ALL people do – because that's what fantasy is, and we all daydream being other people, or superfantastic versions of ourselves. So in a way we're all creating character all the time.
I do think there are things that are teachable about creating character. My best advice is always – take an acting class. Take a lot of them. Read books on acting and creating character – Michael Shurtleff's AUDITION, Stanislavski's acting series, Michael Chekov. Learn how to develop and play characters yourself, and it will translate to writing.
All that being disclaimed, I want to start talking about character, and I'll start today with great villains and how one might – MIGHT – go about creating them.
Sometimes, if you're lucky, a villain will just come to you whole, right? I've dreamed a few. I love that, when your subconscious does the work for you.
Sometimes you have a real, heinous person in mind, either a criminal you've read about who sparks such an outrage in your soul that you have to create him on paper just to destroy him the way he needs to be destroyed. Sometimes it's a heinous person you really know – in the novella I recently finished I took great pleasure in detailing all the banal viciousness of a producer I know and then bashing his brainless head in.
But other villains I've written have been more conscious creations, have grown out of the specific situation of a story. So, while allowing for the pure magic of it - it's not purely magic, is it?
I'd like to suggest that you can develop a great villain – or any other character you create – through the same process that I've been advocating for creating the structure of your story.
Make a list.
Who or what are your top ten villains? And I don't mean make a list for the ages, or for popular consumption – I mean FOR YOU. What is it about these particular characters that makes them so delicious, or terrifying, or both? What turns YOU on in a villain? What particular qualities are you responding to?
You don't have to think too hard about it, either, when you're listing. It might be more useful to do it fast and see what comes up, because that non-thinking list will be more relevant to your present project, or a brewing project. These lists are never written in stone, either – you can make a whole different list tomorrow.
Breaking it down, analyzing the specifics, is like doing scales on the piano, or doing dance technique exercises at the barre. It gives you the foundation and the strength and mental coordination for the magic of art to happen.
My favorite villains, off the top of my head.
Hannibal Lecter.
Atia of the Julii in the HBO series ROME.
Mary in Lillian Hellman's THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Tony Perkins in PSYCHO.
"Julian" in Brad Anderson's SESSION 9.
Bob Sugar in JERRY MAGUIRE
Stringer Bell in THE WIRE.
Al Swearengen in DEADWOOD.
Now, I can look at that list and already identify a lot of patterns going on. I like my villains sexy, perverted, bizarre, insane, diabolical, and preferably a combination of the above.
But now it's time to go deeper. What is it about each of those villains that really works for me?
Rumpelstiltskin. The twisted dwarf is an archetype I particularly respond to. In Jungian psychology, the dwarf, or perverted little old man, is a strong recurring archetypal figure for women who have been sexually abused or have sexual trauma issues. I haven't been, but with all my near-misses with predators, I can relate to that analysis. And studying Jungian and other world archetypes is great fodder for brainstorming interesting villains.
Dracula. The sex thing, obviously. Vampires are supposedly about addiction issues. I can relate to that, too. Marion Woodman has some hugely intriguing books about these archetypes.
Hannibal Lecter. The devil archetype, my absolute favorite. Thomas Harris created a monster for the ages by turning a serial killer into a mythic archetype (although for my money he should have stopped with SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). But what really does me about Lecter is the magician/mentor aspect of him. Here's this evil, psychotic genius – who sees something in Clarice that makes at least part of him want to mentor her, even protect her. More than that, he UNDERSTANDS her – better than any other living soul. That to me is the ultimate seductiveness of the devil – that he GETS you - right down to your very soul. There's no greater intimacy – and that's a lot of what I was exploring when I wrote THE PRICE.
Atia of the Julii in the HBO series ROME. Gorgeous, sensual, ruthless schemer, played by one of my favorite British actresses, Polly Walker. Her relationships with her son and daughter are completely perverted and I love it. I understand her, because living in such a patriarchal society would twist any intelligent woman, and I love seeing her WIN.
Mary in Lillian Hellman's THE CHILDREN'S HOUR - one of the most chilling portraits of a sociopathic child that I've ever seen. The final scene with the grandmother taking responsibility for her is particularly haunting. I love stories about evil children. I have to admit, I find small children frightening. They are ruthless, narcissistic and irrational; they operate according to some inexplicable set of rules that they are constantly making up as they go along. And they wield enormous power, totally out of proportion to their actual physical strength and stature. Is that not the definition of a villain?
Norman Bates in PSYCHO. The concept of multiple personality fascinates me even though it's been done so badly so many times that I'm not sure I would ever attempt such a character myself. But you feel such poignant sympathy for Norman even as you fear "Mother" – it's a terrible portrait of an imprisoned soul.
"Julian" in Brad Anderson's SESSION 9. Is he a demon? A fragment of personality in a multiple personality patient which has assumed autonomy? It's, well, mindblowing to try to wrap your brain around. And the slippery inexplicableness of evil is a theme that draws me again and again.
Bob Sugar in JERRY MAGUIRE - the blond, blandly sociopathic agent. Not hard to see why I respond to that! But I love Sugar as an example of an effective comedic villain. He's pitch-perfect – there are hundreds just like him in Hollywood, soulless, narcissistic, casually malevolent. But he also makes a perfect foil for Jerry because he is a mirror image of Jerry – this is what Jerry is on his way to becoming before his attack of conscience in the opening scenes – Sugar is the thing we don't want him to become. A villain's story function is often to be the dark mirror of the protagonist, and Sugar is a stellar example.
Stringer Bell in THE WIRE. Oh, all right, that's pure sex. No, also I love the reversal that Stringer is trying to get out of the drug lord business – that he's taking business school classes, investing in real estate – and it's the far greater sociopathy of the politicians and city developers that destroys him in the end. As with Atia, this is a man who has been forced toward villainy by the ruthless inequities of society.
Al Swearengen in DEADWOOD. Also pure sex – I've had a crush in Ian McShane forever. But there again, the devil archetype – a powerful, brilliant, sexual, violent man who has his own occasional staggering moments of morality and transcendence – the kind of man that draws women like moths to the flame. As with Lecter and Clarice, there's a Beauty and the Beast undercurrent here - the monster that we just might be able to tame. I will never forgive creator David Milch for ending that series before Swearengen could have his way with Mrs. Garret – and she with him.
You see how that starts to work? I truly believe that taking the time to analyze what you love and respond to in a villain in the stories you love will get your subconscious working on crafting that perfect villain for YOUR story. So much of creativity is the DESIRE to get it right. Make your wishes specific, and the magic will start to happen.
Next post I'd like to talk more about villains and get into not just the story functions of single villains, but the idea of forces of antagonism, and non-human villains, since the opponent in a story can be multiple, animal, environmental, historical or societal, as well as just the classic single bad guy.
But for today – you don't have to give me all ten, but who are some of the villains that really do it for you, and why?
- Alex
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Elements of Act One
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Visual Storytelling Part 1
Visual Storytelling Part 2
Creating Suspense
Fairy Tale Structure and the List
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- Gayle Carline said...
I think my favorite villains are the sociopaths, the characters who have emotional blinders to everyone's needs except theirs. Two of my favorites are Rhoda of The Bad Seed, and Vida, Mildred Pierce's daughter. It's not even that they're willing to ruin other people's lives to get what they want - it's that they don't even consider the other people in their quest. Their lies, manipulations, schemes fascinate me.
Watched a movie the other day, Harriet Craig. Joan Crawford stars as a woman who appears to be making a beautiful home for her husband and his sister, being a wonderful wife and friend. But what we eventually see is that she has lied and manipulated in order to keep everything the way SHE wants it. Her husband thinks she can't have children because she doesn't want any. His boss thinks he's loyal but unable to handle money because she doesn't want him to travel for business. She even breaks up her sister-in-law's romance because she doesn't want her to leave. Great study of evil disguised as beauty.
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Gayle, it sounds like you like your villains not just sociopathic, but feminine!
Rhoda and Vida are great examples - I thought of both of them myself when I was throwing down my own list. I think Mary in THE CHILDREN'S HOUR is a more convincing young sociopath than Rhoda (but I love the camp of THE BAD SEED).
And having worked with opera singers, I love the concept of a sociopathic coloratura, though perhaps that's redundant. (JUST KIDDING).
I've never even heard of HARRIET CRAIG but I'll be checking that one out for sure, thanks!
- R.J. Mangahas said...
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- R.J. Mangahas said...
Okay, off the Top of my Head:
* Iago from MACBETH (He's just so straight forward and makes no apologies)
* Hannibal Lecter (Have you ever seena more polite villian?)
* Stringer Bell and D'Angelo
Barksdale from THE WIRE (The fact that they were both conflicted about their current plots in life)
* Darth Vader
* General Hummel from THE ROCK (He believed he was doing what was right and fair)
* Dracula
* John Shooter from SECRET WINDOW,
SECRET GARDEN (See Genreal Hummel)
"---and it's the far greater sociopathy of the politicians and city developers that destroys him in the end."
Well that, and the shots from Omar and Brother Mouzone.
- Maria Lima said...
Atia is a brilliant villain!
Some of mine:
Caprica 6 - Battlestar Galactica
D'Anna (#3) - Battlestar Galactica
Lex Luthor - Smallville
Severus Snape - not a true villain, but we think he is for a long time. And Snape as portrayed by Alan Rickman
Professor Moriarty
-- I'm with you on the sexy, twisty, SMART, mysterious - someone who is worthy of being an opponent.
- Gayle Carline said...
So I've been thinking all day about why my favorite villains are sociopathic FEMALES. It might make an interesting subject for a paper, or a seminar, or a blog. Altho I do like a good strong male villain, I'm fascinated by evil women because they are so unrecognizably dangerous. Sweet little girls, confident women, who'd guess they could turn on you like a rabid pitbull? Let's face it, you know Hannibal Lector will be up to no good; he has that "bad boy" gleam in his eye.
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Oy, Maria! That is one hell of a list!
Let me just say - Alan Rickman as anything. But he does the evil sexy thing so very, very well.
DIE HARD, for example...
You know, I still haven't everr seen BATTLESTAR. Don't hurt me!
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
But Gayle, I think that's fabulous. I love seeing a ruthless female villain, and you don't see it half often enough. Go for it and corner the market, is what I say. I will be the first in line.
- Ace Antonio Hall said...
Perhaps, I have never been so disturbed as I was by Cary Grant as Johnnie Aysgarth in Alfred Hictchcock's Suspicion and Kevin Spacey as the dark and elusive Keyser Söze/Verbal Kint are probably my favorite villians.
Although I shamefully loved Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil in Disney's 1996 live-action remake of the animated film, 101 Dalmatians.
And I hated Hannibal Lecter, the Wicked Witch of the West played by Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz and Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest.
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Ace, Aysgarth is a wonderful villain, just mesmerizing - great example!
Kivt/Soze is a classic - your entire list is great.
Do you write about master manipulators, then?
- Kelli Stanley said...
What a wonderful list, Alex!! I was particularly glad to see Mary Tilford on it--when I was thirteen, I played Mary in a local theater company production. I still remember the line that gave me her character: "my father killed himself, but Grandma won't admit it--I can manage her, all right."
Ironically, I played Christine (the long-suffering mother in The Bad Seed)in high school. I agree--I think Mary is a much more naturalistic character, more fully developed. Rhoda is almost too simplistic to be believable.
Perhaps my favorite female villain of all time: Lady Macbeth. Medea's a great role, too.
I love your blog!!!
How come I can't get the link to Elements of Act Three - Part 2 to work?
Never mind! I got it.
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Oh, man, Kelli, I would have KILLED to see you play Mary! And that line really sums it up - now I'm going to have to reread the play to see where that comes as a revelation. Totally chilling. I am obsessed with Lillian Hellman.
Have we even had the theater conversation before? Sounds like you did as much acting as I did back then.
Totally agree about Medea and Lady M. - you don't get better villains than that. Have never played either but have done Lady M. monologues...
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Thanks, Tory! Probably just a case of too many people accessing at the same time - we got a lot of hits yesterday.
Let me know if you have any more problems.
- Holly Y said...
Wow Alex, I just realized I don't think a lot about villains. My list:
Darth Vader
Jaba the Hut
Fairy Queen who steals people, as in Thomas the Rhymer
Hitler, Pol Pot, Ceausescu
Atia of the Julii
Hm. Powerful political people who terrorize others?
I must think about this some more. Thanks!
- ccallicotte said...
Lots of great food for thought, Alex. Thank you! You've picked some great villains here. Gotta love hating sociopaths. My favorite villains often end up being those who hover on the edge of a choice - one that could send them down the path to good or to evil. Thus humanizing them but ultimately bringing on their descent into villainous behavior. I suppose Darth Vader can fit in here. I'm blanking on other specific examples.
I'm so bummed you won't be at SCWC this year! We'll miss you. Your classes are always some of the best. I guess I'll have to settle for reading your blog for now.
Have always been particularly fascinated by villains such as:
Detxer morgan's blood brother, hannibal, adolf hitler, the joker (very entertaining at times), recent interpretation of the riddler (he has class), darth vader and hades from disneys hercules
- Stephen D. Rogers said...
Stringer Bell is a villain? :)
- jnantz said...
I know this post has long been passed over, but here I go anyway. Always liked:
The Joker (has fun with maniacal)
Vader (of course)
Verbal Kint/Keyser Soze
I also love Iago (from OTHELLO)
The Coffin Dancer (Deaver)
The Terminator (unstoppable, thus gratifying when he's finally stopped)
Bin Laden, J. Mengele (just because you want to know they will suffer at the hands of some kind of justice in the end)
Hannibal Lecter (also of course)
The Dragon from Gardner's GRENDEL
and James Spader's hitman character in TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY
But I think my most intriguing of all-time has to be Jigsaw. Something about a guy who believes he's teaching the wicked of the world a lesson (in a very permanent way) gets me. That idea (not him, just that premise) is what my next protagonist is based on.
ok, here goes.
General Woundwort, _Watership Down_
Wicked Witch of the West
Flagg, _The Stand_
The Big Bad Wolf
Tyler Durden, _Fight Club_
Agent Smith, _The Matrix_
Captain Hook
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Jake, classic list, great to read! I've been doing my hero list and villains are so much easier.
James Spader makes a great villain, always. Love that guy.
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Anon, embarrassingly enough, I've never read WATERSHIP DOWN. Now I'm intrigued.
Agent Smith is a unique villain - great example!
Hmm, Randall Flagg and Tyler Durden have come up a lot on men's lists. I don't think of those two immediately but I see the appeal. Interesting.
- Gene said...
One of my favorites to "recoil with" is the mother, played by Mary Tyler Moore, in ORDINARY PEOPLE. Wow, she was scary - I think mainly because she hid her true feelings.
But, you just knew...
Also Alan Richman, in DIE HARD. "..Clay. Bill Clay.."
(Cringe and...Shudder).
- Anne Lyle said...
I know this is an old post, but I can't resist adding my all-time favourite villian:
Londo Mollari, from "Babylon 5" - he makes a "deal with the Devil" in an attempt to resurrect his people's fortunes, and has to live with the terrible consequences
I'm definitely drawn to ambiguous, untrustworthy characters - Snape, Jayne Cobb from "Firefly", Lord Gro in E.R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" - traitors and maybe-traitors rather than out-and-out Bad Guys. Not sure what that says about me... :)
- Bradley Stevens said...
Hi Alexandra- I've just read your book 'screen-writing tricks for authors' and I've realised that my WIP might have a dilemma with the antagonist.. there is no single 'entity' that makes the antagonist. It's not a person, nor a monster, nor a mystery. Essentially it's a story about a man who loses everything and ends up alone and on the streets, fending for himself. It's a 'hero vs the system' story and more than anything, his greatest opposition is that he won't let himself get the help he needs. His biggest enemy is inside himself; his own pride.
I'm concerned that keeping the antagonistic forces indiscernable will disrupt the clarity of the hero's fight, but if I create a create a character to personify that fight, I run the risk of losing the feel of isolation I've been working so hard to create.
Can you share any insight? Am I making this too hard for myself, or can I whittle my way through to a satisfying resolution with just antagonistic forces?
- Alexandra Sokoloff said...
Bradley, I love stories in which the antagonist isn't personified and it's all about the protagonist's inner conflict and inexorable societal forces. You don't HAVE to personify the antagonist. Think of THE GRAPES OF WRATH. A faceless antagonist is the scariest, sometimes.
Novels and movies about dystopian societies often have those faceless antagonists. And inner conflict can be an even worse antagonist!
- Daniel Phelan said...
My list (at the moment - it tends to be transient):
*Voldemort - he's scarier than most middle-grade/YA villains, who tend to be mean and unpleasant but not necessarily a danger to the masses. I appreciate Rowling's not trying to tone him down, and his motives are well-crafted, i.e. the extreme fear of death, cowardice, and lust for power. In the films, Mr. Fiennes's portrayal was chilling as well.
*Darth Vader - a tragic figure: once a Jedi but corrupted by lies and, like Voldy, greed for power. And it complicates things when he is revealed to be Luke's father - it'd be hard for me to face my own dad to the death, evil or not, because he's responsible for my existence. Also, his Force powers are awesome.
*Gollum - like Lord Vader, Smeagol was corrupted, though he had less of a choice in the matter. I dreaded and pitied him simultaneously, which is a powerful conflict, and he was unpredictable. Crazy characters, ones you'd never want to hang around, can be quite frightening (like the Joker, which I'll get to momentarily), yet Frodo and Sam needed him to reach Mordor. Tough thing.
*Frankenstein's monster - Mary Shelley's novel, my all-time favorite read, gave me more sympathy for the creature than for its creator. He went sour because he was misunderstood, not out of inner malice. You can probably tell by now I like to have conflicting feelings about baddies, eh? But I also like them to be very despicable. I just had to add this one, though I sympathized with him.
- Daniel Phelan said...
*Napoleon (pig from ANIMAL FARM) - based on Josef Stalin if I am not mistaken. A greedy pig (figuratively and literally) whose love of dominance and control knows no bounds. He climbed the farm's political ladder using lies and trickery, molding the other animals' minds to agree with his every move. Even if it was not based on real history, it's a scary message regarding people's mental and emotional malleability.
*The Joker (specifically Heath Ledger's interpretation) - what can I say? Sadly I have never read the comics - not yet - but in THE DARK KNIGHT (2008 film), he scared the daylights out of me. Mr. Ledger was a great actor, and it's a shame we lost him so soon. Anyway, the character has no plan, and his only motive is a primal desire to "watch the world burn": he is literally insane, with no loyalties, and just being around him (even as an audience member) makes one's insides churn. Again, he is unpredictable. Ugh.
*The Terminator (the original Arnold one) - "He can't be bargained or reasoned with; he knows only destruction." Kyle Reese says something along those lines, if not verbatim. Half-machine, he has no emotions, and wishes to annihilate anyone who gets in his (its) way. Arnold's portrayal was good, though Robert Patrick in the second one was scarier in the one regard of not being as intimidating (what I mean by that is that you wouldn't suspect someone so subtle). But as for the first film, the very concept of apathetic computers and robots taking over is an eerie concept. Very original, too, though it has been copied since then. One other thing I loved was the near impossibility of destroying one of those things: it keeps getting up again after seeming to die, and almost nothing can harm it. I like it when villains are difficult to defeat: it adds tension.
*Count Dracula: OK, you probably see his name a lot. But what more to add? He's the most famous vampire (not counting [no pun intended] Edward Cullen and his ilk; I mean the demonic kind of bloodsucker). He can also control humans with his willpower and gaze.
- Daniel Phelan said...
*Hannibal Lecter: I know Dr. Lecter is disgusting and creepy, but I like him. He has a certain morbid charm, not to mention being a psychotic genius. The best way to stay alive, I think, is not strength of body but intellect: just think of that trick with the guard's face and the elevator shaft! (Ew!)
*Iago from OTHELLO - It's been a while, so I don't recall his exact motives and details, but what I do remember is a passionate loathing for the man and sincere hopes he would die slowly. He was just rotten. Perhaps a rereading is in order!
I hope all that fits in a comment box: it was a bit verbose, but I feel that justifying my reasons for choosing them enhances them, to myself and perhaps to others as well. I didn't have room for more than ten, but I also like (despise) King Claudius, Randall Flagg, Macbeth, Annie Wilkes, Saruman the White, Grendel, and even mythical figures such as Satan and some Greek monsters.


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Familiarity is a comfortable thing. For an Autistic, it helps relieve anxiety.
Alex and I have a routine. On Tuesdays, I drive to his house and take him to eat, his swimming lesson and another place that he chooses to go.
We always eat at McDonald's. 95% of the time, he gets a double cheeseburger, fries and apple juice. We eat in silence, for the most part. I do work on asking him questions about his day and if he's looking forward to swimming. For the most part, he's silent and nods his head about looking forward to swimming.
We leave and head for the YMCA to go to his lesson. The Y knows us, so we check in and always get a friendly greeting from the people at the desk. He gets ready and has his 30 minute lesson in the large pool that has a large blue water slide.
These are the things he's used to doing, to kick of our evening together. Two weeks ago, we had to deal with a change in the routine.
Dinner went as usual and we had a good time eating and occasionally giggling at silly things.
The swimming lesson, on the other hand, sent our evening off the rails.
The Y has a yearly pool inspection and repair cycle. The huge pool is drained and repairs are made. No water in the big pool means the lesson has to be done in the smaller training pool. I had been made aware of this, before he and I had started our evening routine. I had been thinking of different strategies I could use to help him cope, depending on his level of anxiety. He was giggly and in a good mood which made me think that he would be pretty easy going about the whole thing.
Sometimes, he's like that. Change comes, he looks me in the eye, I reassure him and we move on like everything is as it was.
I talked to him about the change. The big pool was closed of repairs and that we'd be using the smaller pool. He nodded that he understood and we moved along with our evening.
We got ready and walked to the swimming area. This area has big double doors to the huge swimming pool. Just to the left is the ramp to the training pool, which is through a door and up a long, straight, ramp. "Alex, we need to go this way, to the swimming pool." Alex look positively forlorn as he saw the pool was drained of water. Large industrial fans were idly sitting around it as if they were used to help dry it out. There were small concrete patches that were drying around the viewing area and walkways.
He turned his head to look at me. This was the part where I reassure him and everything is cool.
"Buddy, we need to go this way. The big pool is being fixed." He slouched just a bit and shook his head no. Oh boy.
A minute of convincing got Alex to come with me to his temporary lesson place. He begrudgingly made the trek up the ramp and would occasionally look up at me and say "no". We walked through the single door and entered the training pool area. This pool had 3 swimming lanes and the equivalent of 2, that were set aside for open swimming. His instructor was patiently waiting for us. I gave him a quick heads up on the situation and let him know this may be rough. His instructor got in the pool and waited for me to perform my magic.
This is a delicate thing. I can't be forceful with Alex because that may only scare him and raise his anxiety levels to an unmanageable level. That said, his swim instructor is on a clock. Alex needs to try new things and get into safely supervised situations so that he can be comfortable in different settings. I have to look around the place and find the common things you would find in the big pool that are here.
To be honest, I don't remember exactly what I said. The focus on the surroundings and the quick thinking involved to sell my son on the idea that this is a safe setting are all I could do. Assuring him that there are only minor differences between this smaller pool and the huge one he is used to is all that there is, at that moment in time.
There are times when I have to juggle between multiple people and calm everyone down. It's a story I may tell some day. A true test of shifting focus between multiple people, figuring out what makes a perfect stranger tick, based on body language and facial expressions and get them to not worry about my child, who is starting to freak out.
Thankfully, I only had to focus on Alex. Over the course of 5 minutes of me talking, Alex got in the pool. He wasn't too happy about it but was a trooper. Even though the water wasn't deep, he stood on his tiptoes. He swam for a bit and went to the deep end of the pool, with his instructor. He did 20 minutes out of his 30 minute lesson. He did as much as he could handle, despite his anxiety. He got back to the ladder he has used to get into the water, climbed up, walked to be and said, "All finish". I looked at his instructor, who had swam up to us and informed him that our lesson would need to end early. He was cool with it. Have I mentioned how cool Alex's instructor is? He's amazing.
We left and I told Alex how proud I was of him for doing his lesson anyway. He nodded that he understood.
He had to pause, when we got to the double doors of the large pool, to look sadly at it once more. "Next week, buddy. It will be ready next week." He seemed satisfied with that answer and we headed to the locker room and got ready to leave.
Thinking back on it, it took a bit of courage on his part to deal with his anxiety and get through the lesson. It also shows me how much he loves and trusts me.
He may not be able to say it, that's one of the ways he reaffirms it.


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