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James Tiptree Jr.
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|Alice B. Sheldon
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|Alice Hastings Bradley
August 24, 1915
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|May 19, 1987 (aged 71)
McLean, Virginia, U.S.
|Pen name
|James Tiptree Jr.
Raccoona Sheldon
|Artist, intelligence analyst, research psychologist, writer
|BA, American University
PhD, George Washington U.
|1968–1988 (new fiction)[1]
|Science fiction
|William Davey (1934–1941)
Huntington D. Sheldon (1945–1987, their deaths)
|Mary Hastings Bradley (mother)
Herbert Edwin Bradley (father)
Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. She was most notable for breaking down the barriers between writing perceived as inherently "male" or "female"—it was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1977 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon.
Tiptree was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.[2]
- 1 Early life
- 2 Education
- 3 Art career
- 4 Science fiction career
- 5 Gender performance and identity
- 6 Themes
- 7 Death
- 8 Quotes about James Tiptree Jr.
- 9 Bibliography
- 10 Awards and honors
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 External links
Early life
Bradley came from a family in the intellectual enclave of Hyde Park, a university neighborhood in Chicago.[3] Her father was Herbert Bradley, a lawyer and naturalist, and her mother was Mary Hastings Bradley, a prolific writer of fiction and travel books. From an early age Bradley traveled with her parents, and in 1921–22, the Bradleys made their first trip to central Africa, which later contributed to Sheldon's short story, "The Women Men Don't See". Later on, Bradley became a graphic artist, a painter, and—under the name "Alice Bradley Davey"[4]—an art critic for the Chicago Sun between 1941 and 1942. At age 19, she met and married William Davey, her first husband, under the compulsion that she felt it was her duty as a daughter, and they were married from 1934 until 1941.
In 1942 she joined the United States Army Air Forces and worked in the Army Air Forces photo-intelligence group. She later was promoted to major, a high rank for women at the time. In the army, she "felt she was among free women for the first time." In 1945 she married her second husband, Huntington D. Sheldon, at the close of the war on her assignment in Paris. She was discharged from the military in 1946, at which time she set up a small business in partnership with her husband. The same year her first story ("The Lucky Ones") was published in the November 16, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and credited to "Alice Bradley" in the magazine itself. In 1952 she and her husband were invited to join the CIA, which she accepted. However, she resigned her position in 1955 and returned to college.
She studied for her Bachelor of Arts degree at American University (1957–59), going on to achieve a doctorate at George Washington University in Experimental Psychology in 1967. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the responses of animals to novel stimuli in differing environments. During this time, she wrote and submitted a few science fiction stories under the name James Tiptree Jr., in order to protect her academic reputation.[5]
As for her personal life, Sheldon had a complex sexual orientation, and she described her sexuality in different terms over many years. This statement, for example, is how she would have explained it at some point; "I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up." [6][7]
The Bradley family returned to Chicago from Africa in March 1922, where, at the age of seven, Alice attended school for the first time.[1] After a second trip to Africa in 1924, the Bradleys returned to Chicago during the summer, and by fall that same year, "ten-year-old Alice was sent to the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. The Lab School was a private school for Hyde Park intellectuals, an experimental teaching workshop set up by the educator John Dewey. Classes were small and loosely structured, and children learned by doing. There, Alice studied geography by making maps, learned Latin in conversation, and did science by building thermometers or estimating the latitude of Chicago."[2]
In September 1929, when Alice was fourteen, she was sent to a finishing school called Les Fougeres in Lausanne, Switzerland. There, she learned how to ride horses, studied etiquette, and learned French.[3] Two years later, she enrolled in a much smaller boarding school called Andrebrook in Tarrytown, New York.[4] During her senior year, Alice and her mother Mary disagreed about the future of her own education. While Mary wanted her daughter to follow in her footsteps and attend Smith College, Alice wanted to experience a college education that incorporated more art and fewer academic subjects.
As a result of the disagreement between mother and daughter, they compromised on Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxvillve, New York. When Alice enrolled, in 1933, the school was a two-year college for women featuring "an arty, experimental program" and only allowed about three hundred students. Alice left Chicago in the fall to attend Sarah Lawrence and ended up excelling in her artwork and impressing her instructors and classmates.[5]
When Alice married Princeton University student William Davey in 1934, the young couples' parents agreed the two needed to finish college before settling down together. Unfortunately, neither Sarah Lawrence nor Princeton allow married students to attend. In January, Davey and Alice left Chicago and drove to California with plans to start the spring semester at University of California Berkeley immediately. Unfortunately, "they tried and failed to finish college," although Alice completed courses in art and introductory psychology in her second year.[6] After a dramatic and violent series of arguments, the Daveys left Berkeley for good in 1936.[7] They repeated this pattern again in New York City, enrolling in classes at New York University in spring 1937, only to drop out after another fight two months later.
Alice divorced Davey in 1941, returning home to live with her parents and sitting in on art classes at the Art Institute.[8] As the United States' entry into World War II became more likely, Alice decided to train as a pilot. She took flying lessons, despite the high cost of the training, but unfortunately had to leave flight school because her eyesight was unsatisfactory for flying planes.[9] In May 1942, Congress established the Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps, and after waiting several months to determine if it was "the real thing," Alice enlisted in August.[10] By November she had completed the month-long basic training program in Fort Des Moines, but promptly after completion of training and much to Alice's chagrin, the WAAC women were assigned to create Christmas cards. Soon after, she applied to Officer Candidate School. In late November, she began to study for her gold bars. In 1943, Alice graduated from Officer Candidate School and became a third officer.[11]
Alice continued to pursue educational opportunities throughout the war. After reading a newspaper article about the British Royal Air Forces' new military specialty of photointerpretation, Alice began volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Forces' photointerpretation department, getting formally transferred to Air Force Photointelligence in December.[12] However, the department decided that Alice needed formal training for her position. In February 1944, she reported to the Air Force Intelligence School at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in order to study photointerpretation, graduating in April.[13]
After the war ended, Alice and her new husband, Huntington Sheldon, set out on a very different career path, requiring different skills than the two had gained during the War. In October 1947, the couple decided to try their hand at chicken farming and registered for a course in poultry farming at Rutgers University. Alice graduated from Rutgers with the highest grade point average in her class and was cited for being the "best poultry-man."[14]
Some five years later, having determined that chicken farming was not the most promising career path, the Sheldons sold the hatchery and moved to Washington D.C., where they began work for the CIA.[15] During 1954, after mentioning her experiences in Africa to a superior, Alice was sent to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington for their "Summer Session on Contemporary Africa."[16]
Alice left the CIA, however, and in January 1957, after considering graduate school and a degree in psychology, Alice paid her "twenty-year-old tuition bill" at Berkeley in order to apply to American University in Washington D.C. where she enrolled in courses to complete her undergraduate degree.[17] Getting her degree took longer than she expected and she did not graduate from American University until June, though finally graduated in 1959 with the highest distinction. The very next fall, Alice moved to George Washington University, where the psychology department was more prestigious. Here, the Public Health Service granted her a fellowship—Pre-doctoral Research Grant number 10,907—to work on research for her project on visual perception.[18]
In spring 1963, Alice finished her coursework at George Washington University and began work on her dissertation, which focused on the topic of the problem of novelty, a concept that was important in perceptual research. Using rats, Alice studied "reaction to novelty as a function of context," despite her thesis adviser Dick Walk's disbelief and doubt in her thesis topic.[19]
Finally, in 1967, after four years of working on the study, she defended her disseration and earned her Ph.D."[20]
Art career
Sheldon began illustrating when she was nine years old, contributing to her mother's book, Alice in Elephantland, a children's book about the family's second trip to Africa. Sheldon appeared in it as herself.[8] One of the illustrations was a depiction of herself holding a gun, an image she drew after her father told her she could not have one on their expedition.[9] Sheldon later had an exhibit of her drawings of Africa at the Chicago Gallery, arranged by her parents.[10]
Although Sheldon illustrated several of her mother's books, she only sold one illustration during her lifetime. In 1931, during her first year at Andrebrook, a small New York boarding school, she sold an illustration to The New Yorker, with help from Harold Ober, a New York agent who worked with her mother. The illustration, of a horse rearing and throwing off its rider, sold for ten dollars.[11]
In 1936, Sheldon participated in a group show at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring new American work. She had connections to the art institute through her family, influential family friends from Chicago the McCormicks, and Randall Davey, her step father at the time and painter. This was considered an important step forward for her painting career. It was during this time that she also took private art lessons from John Sloan an old friend of Randall Davey. Sheldon disliked prudery in painting. While examining an anatomy book for an art class, she noticed that the genitals were blurred, so she restored the genitals of the figures with a pencil.[12]
In 1939, Sheldon's nude self-portrait titled Portrait in the Country was accepted for the "All-American" biennial show at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., where it was displayed for six weeks. While these two shows were considered big breaks, Alice disparaged these accomplishments, saying that "only second rate painters sold" and she preferred to keep her works at home.[13]
By 1940, Sheldon felt she had mastered all the techniques she needed and was ready to choose her subject matter. However, she began to doubt whether she should paint. She kept working at her painting techniques, fascinated with the questions of form and read books on aesthetics in order to know what scientifically made a painting "good."[14]
Sheldon stopped painting in 1941. In need of a way to support herself, her parents helped her find a job as an art critic for the Chicago Sun after it launched in 1941. Newly divorced, she started going by the name Alice Bradley Davey as a journalist, a job she held until she enlisted in the WAAC, later known as the WAC, in 1942.[15]
Science fiction career
Unsure what to do with her new degrees and her new/old careers, Sheldon began to write science fiction. She adopted the pseudonym of James Tiptree Jr. in 1967. The name "Tiptree" came from a branded jar of marmalade, and the "Jr." was her husband's idea. In an interview, she said: "A male name seemed like good camouflage. I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation."[16] Her first published short story was "Birth of a Salesman" in the March 1968 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction, edited by John W. Campbell. Three more followed that year in If and Fantastic.[1]
The pseudonym was successfully maintained until the late 1970s, partly because, although "Tiptree" was widely known to be a pseudonym, it was generally understood that its use was intended to protect the professional reputation of an intelligence community official. Readers, editors and correspondents were permitted to assume sex, and generally, but not invariably, they assumed "male". There was speculation, based partially on the themes in her stories, that Tiptree might be female.[by whom?]
"Tiptree" never made any public appearances, but she did correspond regularly with fans and other science fiction authors through the mail. When asked for biographical details, Tiptree/Sheldon was forthcoming in everything but her sex. Many of the details given above (the Air Force career, the Ph.D.) were mentioned in letters "Tiptree" wrote, and also appeared in official author biographies.[citation needed]
After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, "Tiptree" mentioned in a letter that "his" mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago—details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon; soon all was revealed. Several prominent science fiction writers suffered some embarrassment. Robert Silverberg had written an introduction to Warm Worlds and Otherwise arguing, from the evidence of stories in that collection, that Tiptree could not possibly be a woman. Harlan Ellison had introduced Tiptree's story in the anthology Again, Dangerous Visions with the opinion that "[Kate] Wilhelm is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man." Silverberg's article in particular, by taking one side, makes it clear that the sex of Tiptree was a topic of some debate.
Only then did she complete her first full-length novel, Up the Walls of the World (Berkley Books, 1978), which was a Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club selection.[1] Before that she worked on and built a reputation only in the field of short stories.
Gender performance and identity
Alice Sheldon's gender was female, but she performed as a male both through her professional and personal writings. Gender performance is how "people externally communicate their gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, haircut, voice, and other forms of presentation."[1] Gender displacement and the reversal of gender roles were common themes in Tiptree's stories; throughout her many professional careers, Sheldon used many names, "Tiptree" being the most well-known. Others included "Alice Hastings Bradley", "Major Alice Davey", "Alli B. Sheldon", "Dr. Alice B. Sheldon", "Raccona Sheldon", and "Alli". [2]
In the late 1960s, Sheldon began to write science fiction. Her first published short story was "Birth of a Salesman" in the March 1968 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction, edited by John W. Campbell. Three more followed that year in If and Fantastic.[1]
Sheldon adopted the pseudonym of James Tiptree Jr. in 1967. The name "Tiptree" came from a branded jar of marmalade. The "Jr." was her husband's idea. Biographer Julie Phillips observed that the "Tiptree" persona allowed her to write things that Alice Sheldon could not.[17] In an interview, Sheldon later noted, "A male name seemed like good camouflage. I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation."[8] The Tiptree pseudonym allowed Sheldon to write in a time when male authors could expect more success in the realm of science fiction. According to her biographer, Julie Phillips, "No one had ever seen or spoken to the owner of this voice. He wrote letters, warm, frank, funny letters, to other writers, editors, and science fiction fans."[4] In her letters to fellow writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joanna Russ, she would present herself as a feminist man; however, Sheldon did not present herself as male in person. Writing was a way to escape a male dominated society, themes Tiptree explored in the short stories later collected in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. One story in particular offers an excellent illustration of these themes. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" follows a group of astronauts who discover a future Earth whose male population has been wiped out; the remaining females have learned to get along just fine in their absence.
Sheldon successfully maintained this pseudonym until the late 1970s, partly because, although "Tiptree" was widely known to be a pen name, her critics, readers, and correspondents assumed that this pen name was intended to protect the professional reputation of an intelligence agent. For instance, SF author and editor Robert Silverberg wrote, "It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing."[18]
After the death of her mother in 1976, "Tiptree" mentioned in a letter that "his" mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon. Soon, all was revealed. Once the initial shock was over, Alli wrote to one of her closest friends, Ursula K. Le Guin, confessing her identity. Sheldon wrote, "I never wrote you anything but the exact truth, there was no calculation or intent to deceive, other than the signature which over 8 years became just another nickname; everything else is just plain me. The thing is, I am a 61-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon — nickname Alli – solitary by nature but married for 37 years to a very nice man considerably older, who doesn't read my stuff but is glad I like writing."[19]
Tiptree/Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of "hard" science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of "soft" SF, along with some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.
After writing several stories in more conventional modes, she produced her first work to draw widespread acclaim, "The Last Flight of Doctor Ain", in 1969. One of her shortest stories, "Ain" is a sympathetic portrait of a scientist whose concern for Earth's ecological suffering leads him to destroy the entire human race.
Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and/or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death. John Clute, noting Tiptree's "inconsolable complexities of vision", concluded that "It is very rarely that a James Tiptree story does not both deal directly with death and end with a death of the spirit, or of all hope, or of the race". Notable stories of this type include "Painwise", in which a space explorer has been altered to be immune to pain but finds such an existence intolerable, and "A Momentary Taste of Being", in which the true purpose of humanity, found on a distant planet, renders individual human life entirely pointless.
Another major theme in Tiptree/Sheldon's work is the tension between free will and biological determinism, or reason and sexual desire. "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death", one of the rare SF stories in which no humans appear, describes an alien creature's romantic rationalizations for the brutal instincts that drive its life cycle. "The Screwfly Solution" suggests that humans might similarly rationalize a plague of murderous sexual insanity. Sex in Tiptree's writing is frankly portrayed, a sometimes playful but more often threatening force.
Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male (see, e.g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer (for a male)—particularly for "The Women Men Don't See", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth. However, Sheldon's view of sexual politics could be ambiguous, as in the ending of "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", where a society of female clones must deal with three time-traveling male astronauts.
A constant theme, prevalent throughout most of Sheldon's work, is feminism. In "The Women Men Don't See" Sheldon gives the tale a unique feminist spin by making the narrator, Don Fenton, a male. Fenton judges the Parsons, the mother and daughter who are searching for alien life, based on their attractiveness and is agitated when they do not "fulfill stereotypical female roles", according to Anne Cranny-Francis.[20] In addition, Fenton's inability to understand both the plight of woman and Ruth Parson's feelings of alienation further illustrate the differences of men and women in society. The theme of feminism is emphasized by "the feminist ideology espoused by Ruth Parsons and the contrasting sexism of Fenton".[20] The title of the short story itself reflects the idea that women are invisible during Sheldon's time. As Francis states, "'The Women Men Don't See' is an outstanding example ... of the subversive use of genre fiction to produce an unconventional discursive position, the feminist subject".[20]
Sheldon's two novels, produced toward the end of her career, were not as critically well-received as her best-known stories but continued to explore similar themes. Some of her best-regarded work can be found in the collection Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, available in paperback through Tachyon Publications as of 2004.
Sheldon continued writing under the Tiptree pen name for another decade. The last years of her life were not happy ones, as her husband was a nearly blind invalid incapable of caring for himself, and she herself was suffering health issues caused by a lifetime of smoking. In 1976, then 60-year-old Sheldon wrote to a friend expressing her desire to end her own life while she was still able-bodied and active. But she was reluctant to carry out the deed, as Huntington would have no one to care for him, and she could not bring herself to kill him.
Eleven years later, on May 19, 1987, Sheldon finally carried through her threat—by shooting her husband in his sleep, followed by herself. They were found dead, hand-in-hand in bed, in their Virginia home. The couple had become steadily more reclusive in their final years as their health worsened. On the morning prior to carrying out the deed, Sheldon telephoned her attorney and informed him about what she was going to do.[21] According to biographer Julie Phillips, the suicide note Sheldon left was written years earlier and saved until needed. In an interview with Charles Platt in the early 1980s, Sheldon spoke of her emotional problems and previous suicide attempts which she had threatened for much of the previous 20 years.
The James Tiptree Jr. Award is given in her honor each year for a work of science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender. The award-winning science fiction authors Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy created the award in February 1991. Novels such as Half Life by Shelley Jackson and Light by M. John Harrison have received the award.
Quotes about James Tiptree Jr.
- "James Tiptree's surface was often airy and at times hilarious, and her control of genre conventions allowed her to convey the bleakness of her abiding insights in tales that remain seductively readable; but she was, in the end, incapable of dissimulation." — from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
- "Sheldon was simply one of the best short-story writers of our day. … She has already had an enormous impact on upcoming generations of SF writers. Her footprints are all over cyberpunk turf ..."—Gardner Dozois, in Locus magazine, 1987
- "Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female (even human-alien) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish." — Brian Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree
- "'Tip' was a crucial part of modern SF's maturing process ... 'He' ... wrote powerful fiction challenging readers' assumptions about everything, especially sex and gender." — Suzy McKee Charnas, The Women's Review of Books
- "[Tiptree's work is] proof of what she said, that men and women can and do speak both to and for one another, if they have bothered to learn how." — Ursula K. Le Guin, Khatru
- "It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing." — Robert Silverberg, "Who Is Tiptree, What Is He?"[22]
- "Alice Sheldon shall appeal to the masses in the year 2017." — Roberto Bolaño, Amulet
Short story collections
- Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)
- Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975)
- Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978)
- Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions (1981)
- Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories (1985)
- The Starry Rift (1986) (linked stories)
- Tales of the Quintana Roo (1986) (linked stories)
- Crown of Stars (1988) (linked stories)
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (omnibus collection) (1990)
The abbreviation(s) after each title indicate its appearance in one or more of the following collections:
|Collection title
|Year of publication
|Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
|Warm Worlds and Otherwise
|Star Songs of an Old Primate
|Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions
|Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories
|Tales of the Quintana Roo (linked stories)
|The Starry Rift (linked stories)
|Crown of Stars
|Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (omnibus collection)
|Meet Me at Infinity (fiction, essays & other non-fiction)
- 1968
- "The Mother Ship" (later retitled "Mamma Come Home") (novelette): LYFH
- "Pupa Knows Best" (later retitled "Help") (novelette): LYFH
- 'Birth of a Salesman' (short story): LYFH
- 'Fault' (short story): WWO
- 'Happiness is a Warm Spaceship' (short story): MM
- 'Please Don't Play With the Time Machine' (very short story): MM
- 'A Day Like Any Other' (very short story): MM
- 1969
- 'Beam Us Home' (short story): LYFH, BB
- 'The Last Flight of Doctor Ain' (short story): WWO, SRU
- 'Your Haploid Heart' (novelette): SSOP
- 'The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone' (novelette): LYFH
- 'Parimutuel Planet' (later retitled 'Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion') (novelette): LYFH
- 1970
- 'The Man Doors Said Hello To' (short story): LYFH
- 'I'm Too Big But I Love to Play' (novelette): LYFH
- 'The Nightblooming Saurian' (short story): WWO
- 'Last Night and Every Night' (short story): CS
- 1971
- 'The Peacefulness of Vivyan' (short story): LYFH, BB
- 'I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty' (short story): LYFH, BB
- 'And So On, And So On' (short story): SSOP, SRU
- 'Mother in the Sky with Diamonds' (novelette): LYFH
- 1972
- 'The Man Who Walked Home' (short story): LYFH, BB, SRU
- 'And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways' (novelette): WWO, SRU
- 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side' (short story): LYFH, SRU
- 'On the Last Afternoon' (novella): WWO, SRU
- 'Painwise' (novelette): LYFH
- 'Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket' (short story): LYFH
- 'Filomena & Greg & Rikki-Tikki & Barlow & the Alien' (later retitled 'All the Kinds of Yes') (novelette): WWO
- 'The Milk of Paradise' (short story): WWO
- 'Amberjack' (short story): WWO
- 'Through a Lass Darkly' (short story): WWO
- 'The Trouble Is Not In Your Set' (short story): MM (previously unpublished)
- 'Press Until the Bleeding Stops' (short story): MM
- 1973
- 'Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death' (short story): WWO, BB, SRU
- 'The Women Men Don't See' (novelette): WWO, SRU
- 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In' (novelette): WWO, SRU
- 1974
- 'Her Smoke Rose Up Forever' (novelette): SSOP, SRU
- 'Angel Fix' (novelette, under the name 'Raccoona Sheldon'): OE
- 1975
- 'A Momentary Taste of Being' (novella): SSOP, SRU
- 1976
- 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!' (short story, under the name Raccoona Sheldon): OE, BB, SRU
- 'Beaver Tears' (short story, under the name Raccoona Sheldon): OE
- 'She Waits for All Men Born' (short story): SSOP, SRU
- 'Houston, Houston, Do You Read?' (novella): SSOP, SRU (Hugo award winner)
- 'The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats' (novelette): SSOP
- 1977
- 'The Screwfly Solution' (novelette, under the name Raccoona Sheldon): OE, SRU
- 'Time-Sharing Angel' (short story): OE
- 1978
- 'We Who Stole the Dream' (novelette): OE, SRU
- 'Up the Walls of the World' (novel)
- 1980
- 'Slow Music' (novella): OE, SRU
- 'A Source of Innocent Merriment' (short story): OE
- 1981
- 'Excursion Fare' (novelette): BB
- 'Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo' (later retitled 'What Came Ashore at Lirios') (novelette): QR
- 'Out of the Everywhere' (novelette): OE
- 'With Delicate Mad Hands' (novella): OE, BB, SRU
- 1982
- 'The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever' (short story): QR
- 1983
- 'Beyond the Dead Reef' (novelette): QR
- 1985
- 'Morality Meat' (novelette, under the name Racoona Sheldon): CS
- 'The Only Neat Thing to Do' (novella): SR
- 'All This and Heaven Too' (novelette): CS
- 'Trey of Hearts' (short story): MM (previously unpublished)
- 1986
- 'Our Resident Djinn' (short story): CS
- 'In the Great Central Library of Deneb University' (short story): SR
- 'Good Night, Sweethearts' (novella): SR
- 'Collision' (novella): SR
- 'The Color of Neanderthal Eyes' (novella): MM
- 1987
- 'Second Going' (novelette): CS
- 'Yanqui Doodle' (novelette): CS
- 'In Midst of Life' (novelette): CS
- 1988
- 'Come Live with Me' (novelette): CS
- 'Backward, Turn Backward' (novella): CS
- 'The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew' (novellette): CS [written in 1973]
- Up the Walls of the World (1978)
- Brightness Falls from the Air (1985)
Other collections
- Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree Jr. (Tachyon Publications, 1996)
- Meet Me at Infinity (a collection of previously uncollected and unpublished fiction, essays and other non-fiction, with much biographical information, edited by Tiptree's friend Jeffrey D. Smith) (2000)
- "The Man Who Walked Home" (1977): comic book adaptation in Canadian underground comic Andromeda Vol. 2, No. 1; September; Silver Snail Comics, Ltd.; Toronto; pp. 6–28. Pencils by John Allison, inks by Tony Meers.
- "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1990): radio drama for the National Public Radio series Sci-Fi Radio. Originally aired as two half-hour shows, February 4 & 11.
- "Yanqui Doodle" (1990): half-hour radio drama for the National Public Radio series Sci-Fi Radio. Aired March 18.
- "Weird Romance" (1992): Off-Broadway musical by Alan Menken. Act 1 is based on "The Girl Who Was Plugged In".
- "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1998): television film: episode 5 of the series Welcome to Paradox
- "The Screwfly Solution" (2006): television film: season 2, episode 7 of the series Masters of Horror
- Xenophilia (2011) – based on the lives and works of Tiptree and Connie Converse; arranged and choreographed by Maia Ramnath; produced by the aerial dance and theater troupe Constellation Moving Company, performed at the Theater for the New City, presented November 10–13, 2011. Reviewer Jen Gunnels writes, "The performance juxtaposed some of Tiptree's short stories with Converse's songs, mixing in biographical elements of both women while kinesthetically exploring both through dance and aerial work on trapeze, lyra (an aerial ring), and silks (two lengths of fabric which the artist manipulates to perform aerial acrobatics). The result was elegant, eerie, and deeply moving."[23][24]
Awards and honors
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Tiptree in 2012.[2] She also won several annual awards for particular works of fiction (typically the preceding calendar year's best):[25]
- Hugo Awards: 1974 novella, "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"; 1977 novella, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"
- Nebula Awards: 1973 short story, "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death"; 1976 novella, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"; 1977 novelette, "The Screwfly Solution" (published as by Raccoona Sheldon)
- World Fantasy Award: 1987 collection, Tales of the Quintana Roo
- Locus Award: 1984 short story, "Beyond the Dead Reef"; 1986 novella, "The Only Neat Thing to Do"
- Science Fiction Chronicle Award: 1986 novella, "The Only Neat Thing to Do"
- Jupiter Award: 1977 novella, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"
Japanese-language translations of her fiction also won two Hayakawa Awards and three Seiun Awards as the year's best under changing designations (foreign, overseas, translated). The awards are voted by magazine readers and annual convention participants respectively:[25]
- Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award, short fiction: 1993, "With Delicate Mad Hands" (1981); 1997, "Come Live with Me" (1988)
- Seiun Award, short and long fiction: 1988, "The Only Neat Thing to Do" (1985); 2000, "Out of the Everywhere" (1981); 2008, Brightness Falls from the Air (1985)
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 James Tiptree Jr. at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-18. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Science Fiction Hall of Fame: EMP Museum Announces the 2012 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees" at the Wayback Machine (archived July 22, 2012). May/June 2012. EMP Museum (empmuseum.org). Archived 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
- ↑ Phillips 2006, pp. 11.
- ↑ Phillips 2006, pp. 104.
- ↑ Phillips, Julie. "Alice Bradley Sheldon, 1915–1987". James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. October 23, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
- ↑ Wolfe, Kathi (September 2, 2006). "She blinded me with science fiction". Houstonvoice.com. Houston Voice. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved 2011-03-24. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Shawl, Nisi (August 4, 2006). ""James Tiptree Jr.": The amazing lives of writer Alice B. Sheldon". seattletimes.nwsource.com. The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2011-03-24.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree Jr. the double life of Alice B. Sheldon. p. 38.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. p. 31. ISBN 0312203853.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Phillips, Julie (2006). James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. New York: St. Martin's press. p. 24. ISBN 0312203853.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. pp. 63–64.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. pp. 92–93.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. p. 98. ISBN 0312203853.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Profile in April 1983 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
- ↑ "The Secret Sci-Fi Life of Alice B. Sheldon". NPR.org. Retrieved 2015-12-08.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Secret Sci-Fi Life of Alice B. Sheldon". NPR.org. Retrieved 2015-12-12.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Phillips, Julie. "Dear Starbear: Letters Between Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr." The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2006).
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Cranny-Francis, Anne. Feminist Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1990. pp. 30, 33, 38.
- ↑ Osgood, N.J. (1992). Suicide in Later Life: Recognizing the Warning Signs. Lexington Books. p. 7. ISBN 9780669212143. Retrieved 2015-04-08.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. Excerpt from the Philips biography. Macmillan US.
- ↑ Gunnels, Jen (January 2012). "Xenophilia, based on the works of James Tiptree Jr. and Connie Converse". The New York Review of Science Fiction. Pleasantville, NY: Dragon Press. 24 (5): 1, 8–11.
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- ↑ Roberts, Lauren (November 1, 2011). "Aerial Dance Theater Show Features Draper's Maia Ramnath". Draper Program. Retrieved 2012-08-12.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Tiptree, James Jr.". The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- Citations
- Elms, A.C. "Painwise in space: The psychology of isolation in Cordwainer Smith and James Tiptree Jr." in G. Westfahl (Ed.), Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-30846-8.
- Fowler, Karen Joy with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D. Smith (eds.). The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, and Chocolate Chip Cookies. San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004. ISBN 978-1-892391-19-3.
- Fowler, Karen Joy with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D. Smith (eds.). The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2. San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2005. ISBN 978-1-892391-31-5.
- Fowler, Karen Joy with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D. Smith (eds.). The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender. San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-1-892391-41-4.
- Notkin, Debbie and The Secret Feminist Cabal (eds.). Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Covina, CA: Edgewood Press, 1998 (2nd edition Lulu.com, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9629066-8-8.
- Phillips, Julie. "Dear Starbear: Letters Between Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr." The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2006.
- Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. ISBN 0-312-20385-3. A thorough biography, with insight into Sheldon's life and work. Extensive quotation from her correspondence, journals, and other papers. Times Literary Supplement review [1]
- Phillips, Julie. "James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" (jamestiptreejr.com).: the biographer's website dedicated to Tiptree/Sheldon
- Cranny-Francis, Anne. Feminist Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
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- Biographical references
- James Tiptree Jr. at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Biography and resources at the James Tiptree Jr. World Wide Website
- Site for Julie Phillips's biography of Tiptree
- New York Times review of Jame Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon By Julie Phillips
- James Tiptree Jr. at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (archived 2013-05-10)
- James Tiptree Jr. at Library of Congress Authorities, with 15 catalog records (filed under 'Tiptree, James' simply, previous page of browse report)
- Alice Bradley Sheldon and Raccoona Sheldon at LC Authorities (no separately filed catalog records)
- Resources
- Aparta Krystian. Conventional Models of Time and Their Extensions in Science Fiction Master's thesis exploring conceptual blending in time travel, with case studies of four stories by James Tiptree Jr. ("Backward! Turn Backward!", "Fault", "Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket", and "The Man Who Walked Home") and the novel Brightness Falls.
- Ebihara Yutaka. Constructions of James Tiptree Jr.: A Note on His Life and Fiction, essay
- Lowry Pei. Poor Singletons: Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree Jr.
- Sparks, Elisa Kay, Dr. A detailed bibliography of works by and about Tiptree (not updated since 1997)
- Walton Jo, Yearning for the unattainable: James Tiptree Jr.'s short stories, review-essay
- Works by James Tiptree Jr. at Open Library
- Online fiction
- The Women Men don't See at the Wayback Machine (archived January 19, 2008) Text of the short story
- Painwise at the Wayback Machine (archived February 17, 2008) Text of the short story
- Beam Us Home at the Wayback Machine (archived February 8, 2008) Text of the short story
- The Screwfly Solution at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2008) Text of the short story
- Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death at the Wayback Machine (archived April 15, 2005) Text of the short story
- The Last Flight of Doctor Ain and The Screwfly Solution Pdf containing both short stories
- Online radio
- "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (Selection 17) from the NPR series Sci-Fi Radio (20 & 21), February 4 & 11, 1990 (55:32)
- "Yanqui Doodle" (Selection 21) from the NPR series Sci-Fi Radio (26), March 18, 1990 (27:49)
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A couple of days ago we had a bit of drama on twitter. Nothing too shocking or serious. someone complained about the state of OSS in the .NET ecosystem and the discussion has turned very quickly to other issues, namely what Microsoft is doing to encourage OSS and its MVP program. The main discussion turned around some of the more active and contributing members of the .NET OSS community and their frustration with what MS are trying to push and advocate for. They were suggesting that part of the problem with OSS in the .net world is the fact that Microsoft tend to favourite and nominate as MVPs developers with preferences to solutions created by Microsoft over open source and community driven solutions. It was very easy to understand and sympathise with the arguments that were made. These were developers who spent a lot of their own time to create solutions to problems many of us experience every day at work, some of them only to see their efforts reduced to nothing by the eventual rise of a Microsoft alternative. However at the same time it made me, personally, feel abandoned. Well, I say personally, but I suppose what I'm really talking about is the dark matter.
Now, at the time this took place on twitter, I was attending in the real world a talk about .net core and the future of asp.net, which was delivered by a Microsoft technical evangelist. The talk had a really impressive turnout in local terms and was a big success . It seems most attendees were really keen about where Microsoft are heading with .net core. The speaker being an evangelist, prompted in me the urge to pose a question on Microsoft engagement on bringing these ideas and technologies to everyone - including the more oldie worldie developers who swear by the older MS vision and stack, that of wcf, webforms, soap and so on. I made the point about the immense difference between what he showed us and the grim reality of the everyday of so many of us, living on the "technological outskirts" of our ecosystem, working under or with archaic decision makers, the dark matter. I argued that while the talk was inspiring, he was preaching to the choir, and wished to understand what he, as an evangelist, and Microsoft as a company were planning to do to get those archaic decision makers on board with the new. While I had the chance and the privilege to spend some years in London, working in highly innovative, enriching and cooperative environments with the latest technologies and open source solutions and truly enjoying myself, today I'm in a place where open source is rather frowned upon, synonymous with insecure, untrustworthy tools, simply because I am a .net developer. That lack of support for OSS felt by those highly talented community members is ten times more difficult for the average developer who wishes to actually use these tools. I suppose this is our modern take on a squash and a squeeze.
Needless to say, the answer I received was along the lines of officially we cannot push these technologies on every client, we're hoping to appeal to them with the performance gains and the higher security they will achieve by migrating their applications to .net core. I was thanked for the question and basically got brushed off. I know this was a naive question. I know I couldn't have expected a real answer. I mean, what did I expect, the poor guy was just an evangelist. And I was left thinking what I, just another dark matter developer, could do to try and change this situation or at least make it just a tad better in my local community. I suppose this blog post is a good start as any. We need to start somewhere.
The story however didn't end for me there on that night. It took a bit of a twist when I went out from that meetup and found myself in the underground bumping into another .net dev with whom I chatted a couple of months ago at another DNUG meetup. I remembered the last time he told me he was looking for a job and trying to figure out where should he go next. So I asked him where is he with his job hunting and did he find anything yet. Thinking back now, his answer was not all that surprising. Apparently he found a great team of highly enthusiastic senior developers, working for a company that puts a lot of focus on its technology, the quality and maintainability of its software, pushing its technical team to look for original and always better solutions to their problems, especially when they come from the open source world. Oh, and it's a Java shop. I was genuinely happy for him as he seemed truly happy and at the same time sad for our community, especially that I know for myself, from experience, that this exact setup can be easily achievable in the .net world.
Should I finish this post on such a note though? I really don't want to, to be honest. I believe things can and will change. I believe Microsoft are on the right path to making .net as exciting as it can and should be for ALL of us and it would probably take some time before we see any real change coming. However, at the same time, I'm using this platform to call those guys who work for MS and care about this stuff not to forget about us.
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Superstars looks like it has a chance to get back on track this week. With only three matches scheduled and wrestling's next big star main eventing (in the form of Dolph Ziggler) on the card, things are looking up. Plus, WWE does not need to compete with the NFL on this Thursday.
Before I begin the show report, I wanted to comment on Linda McMahon's announcement that she is running for a United States Senate seat. As best as I can tell, Linda is a very intelligent and accomplished woman. Her lack of political experience can actually be a positive. Hopefully the media does not ignore her because of biases against WWE. Now to Superstars…
Match #1 –Chris Masters vs. Santino Marella
Chris Masters is up first. I wonder if he is still peeved about Triple H making a comment about his hair plugs on Raw two weeks ago? It was a jerk move.
Santino has amazing comedic timing during his matches. He is really funny with his comments and facial expressions in this match, but it does not pay off in the ring, as the Masterpiece dominates him with an offense that includes powerslams, clotheslines, and a bearhug. Santino has a Hogan like comeback, but it does not provide Hulkster-like results. Masters wins with the Masterlock.
Winner via pinfall: Chris Masters
Ask the Divas. Alicia doesn't like paying the bill. Mickie went on a date with a married guy. Gail Kim is a good cook. For more exciting information, visit wwe.com.
They show a commercial for the new Best of Smackdown DVD. I recommend this DVD and Smackdown in general. Although some consider it the "B" show, Smackdown has had some great action without some of the pressure to get ratings that Raw has. The result is Smackdown often being the best wrestling show on television.
Match #2 -Christian vs. Paul Burchill
Zack Ryder joins the extreme broadcast team for the next match. The irony of the Christian-Ryder feud is that Ryder was an Edge Head, and Christian is Edge's "brother" in the WWE Universe.
Christian versus "the Ripper" tonight. Screw the match, Ryder is hilarious on comedy. He gives a shout out to his girlfriend and brags about tanning every day this week. The former pirate throws a chin lock on Christian and beats him into the corner. Christian turns it around and beats Burchill out of the ring. More hilarity from Ryder. Put this man on the broadcast team full time! Striker credits Christian for doing the Slop Drop. Yes, we have a Godwinns reference in 2009. Christian win the match with the Kill Switch.
Winner via pinfall: Christian
Todd Grisham and Jim Ross take over to call the main event. Better them than a certain someone with the initials M.C. Grisham interviews Randy Orton. Orton correctly points out that he made a business decision to preserve his body at Breaking Point. It is not an embarrassment to tap out. In MMA, a fighter taps out because they are in "checkmate" and there is no way out of the hold.
Tonight I noticed that the announcers appeared to be calling the matches from video streaming on laptop computers instead of monitors. I would be nervous about the computer freezing.
Match #3 –Dolph Ziggler vs. Finlay
The man comes out. Dolph faces Morrison at the Hell in a Cell PPV. That will be a hell of a match. As much as I respect Fit Finlay, I am not sure if he can keep up. Finlay starts out with some aggressive ground offense. Dolph's amateur background shows, as he shoots the leg. After Finlay takes back control of the match, Dolph takes a powder and they go to commercial.
After the break, Finlay hits a bodyslam and throws on a chinlock. Dolph turns it around and applies a headlock. When Ziggler applies a headlock, he does it with intensity. It is so much more effective than the wrestlers who just throw it on loosely for a rest. Finlay throws some elbows and clotheslines and collides with Ziggler. After both men recover, Dolph rakes Finlay's eyes, hits the Zig Zag and gets the pin.
Winner via pinfall: Dolph Ziggler
While fans will not remember this as one of wrestling's greatest nights, WWE went back to the format that has made Superstars popular since its return. I really like the idea of having a guest commentator for one match. Zack Ryder really got to show his personality. At its best, Superstars can enhance WWE's other shows for fans interested in more programming.


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(This is an encore post of Uncle Paulie's World since it seems very timely!)
Okay...NOW I know that the world is really ending--at least the creative world as we've known it! Earlier today, I had the misfortune of seeing a copy of the press kit for the new FAME movie. Have you heard about this? Are they serious? A remake of FAME? How is that possible? I don't even want to hear that Irene Cara is appearing in the new movie. I want to remember her how she was. What else could they possibly tell us about these characters? I want to continue to fantasize about the paths they took without having someone shove contrived crap down my throat, and I DON'T want to see the whole "next generation" of fame performers because that type of thing has been run into the ground. Shhh! Did you hear that? It's the sound of "dull" and "uninteresting" coming out to do a tapdance! How can a filmmaker be so bold as to think that he or she could recreate any of the characters, storylines or the New York City that many of us remember--the gritty New York. It was the Pre-Disney New York, when you could see a prostitute pee in a cup in Times Square (True story! Me, my classmates and the Milford Plaza. The year was 1986 and I was 16 and living in Texas. I had NEVER seen such a thing in my life.).
Not only did seeing the prostitute pee in that cup change my life, but so did FAME. I've never been so moved by a film in my life. I didn't know it at the time, but I was able to see elements of my future self up there on the screen. I saw myself in so many of those characters. Back then, my closeted homo-ness in my suburban Texas world, filled with my OCD need to have the latest Broadway cast album and sing show tunes all the time, as well as my insistence that I, too, would "live forever," would all be validated by this film. What kid with talent didn't want to be up on top of one of those cabs hoofing away to the beat? I didn't even like to dance for Heaven's sake!
When I was in high school, I went so far as to to write a letter to Anne Meara (Ben Stiller's mother, for those of you who are too young to remember) to let her know how much her performance of Sherwood meant to me. I still have the autographed picture that she sent me along with a sweet note. Imagine the irony, when at age 32, I ended up in the same benefit concert with her and her husband, Jerry Stiller of Seinfeld fame, at NYC's Off-Broadway John Houseman Theatre. Stuff like that in the Universe is cyclical and beautiful. FAME remakes are not!


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Last week we started a more comprehensive audit of bike parking along the Danforth. First up, the Danforth BIA the stretch between Broadview and the Carrot Common:
Zoom in, have a look. In this BIA, 119 ring & posts. = 238 spots. Of which 6 (5%) are fully broken and unusable, and 8 (6.7%) are partially blocked with street furniture making them very difficult to use. Thus, total = 11.7% need 311's attention (broken or not accessible). Look at some of the shameful ones!
|Try fitting a bike between the ring and post and the garbage bin
|Great place to store construction equipment, outside of Broadview Station
|Winner. Post butted up against planner bed, newspaper box placed in front .
Orange spots are areas we thought could accommodate more parking, either racks or ring&posts. Have some more ideas? please share in the comments.
We'll be working with the Councillor to figure out a plan to improve parking along the Danforth. Stay tuned. Also, we'll be moving further east, Greektown is up next.


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OK, so, where was I? Oh yea, I was really pondering selling the car and maybe get a '12 vert or wait it out for the ZL1 but both would have been out of the question financially. So, I decided to keep
and do some really good mods! Now that the transmission was replaced I felt more comfortable that it wasn't gonna blow up on me so let's have some fun!
Last winter after the trans was fixed I ordered up the JRE 415 package which consisted of a CAI cai, Dynatech headers with high flows, and tune! I was against tuning for the first year because of warranty but now I thought most of the bugs have been taken care of so what the hell, let's go for it!
I also got rid of the crappy pedals and installed a set of black anadized billet pedals! I hated the feel of the steering wheel so off it went! In it's place went an Ace steering wheel which I love!
I ended up replacing the Hurst T-handle in favor of the standard white cue ball. The T-handle got very HOT in the summer and very COLD in the colder weather. Oh, I also painted the instrument guage bezel, steering wheel bezel and console guage trim to match RJT!
Let's see what else, oh yea, BMR sways, trailing arms, and subframe inserts! I had BMR end links but that didn't work out to well and we won't get into that!
I have the stockers on now.
Last but not least I had the windows tinted 35/20% and installed Big Worm Graphics Gunsmoke lens tints.
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AUGUSTA — The state has launched a website aimed at making it easier to get information on licensing and permitting procedures for new businesses.
The new "Business Answers" portal launched on Wednesday. The site is hosted by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development and developed by the state's content partner, InforME.
"This is a perfect example of how government can work in collaboration with and make it easier for the private sector to grow a business," said Gov. Paul LePage. "Licensing and permitting is often blamed for getting in the way of economic development. My administration has worked tirelessly to reduce red tape and streamline the licensing and permitting process."
By selecting any one of the 104 different business types listed, a series of questions relevant to that business type will be asked. Based on the answers provided, users will be presented with a list detailing the specific forms, licenses, permits and information required for completion before that business can begin to operate.
The website will allow people to search for forms by agency name or keyword.
This launch is the first phase of an improved "Business Answers" system. Subsequent phases of the will include a form manager, which will allow users to complete forms online using saved address and name information and to make one payment for all licensing and regulatory fees.
"Imagine only having to provide information once, and that information is then used to fill out a variety of forms and applications needed to satisfy the state requirements. And imagine only having to make one payment for a number of different permits and licenses," said DECD Commissioner George Gervais. "That is where 'Business Answers' is going. We have just begun."
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Well, what's left of the middle "toe".
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Susan Littlefield gave props (10 Nov 2009):
They're all shrinking at an alarming rate! I love the blue ice of glaciers. A very nice capture!
Bruce Miller (Deleted) gave props (14 Nov 2009):
The light bouncing off the ice illuminates the rock face in a very surreal way!!
Bill Van Gelder gave props (12 Dec 2009):
Terrific shot! You have some very nice images in your jpgmag collection. Well done!!
Regenia Brabham (Deleted) gave props (19 Dec 2009):
Excellent shot and entry!! Great textures!
Linda Houghton gave props (19 Dec 2009):
Yeah Rad
Michael Ball gave props (20 Dec 2009):
Fantastic closeup! To bad we are loosing them! Voted!
Alexis - Now on Flickr gave props (24 Dec 2009):
Wonderful image, powerful nad alarming statement. My vote
JOE FAILK gave props (25 Dec 2009):
Back to vote!
John Linton gave props (3 Jan 2010):
Oh YEAH! Rad!
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eyal leave said (4 Jan 2010):
awesome image.
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Mark Stanley gave props (8 Jan 2010):
Awesome!, voted
Winky Vivas (Deleted) gave props (13 Jan 2010):
A very lovely image. You have my vote...
Mike Olbinski gave props (23 Jan 2010):
This is so good, what an amazing capture!
Richard Knight (Deleted) said (23 Jan 2010):
Karen, I voted. When we observed Crowfoot in 1973, all of its toes were intact, and it had crept down the mountainside and touched the road below. (There was a small restaurant on the other side of the road.) When we returned in 1991, it had retreated, but nothing like this! I'm truly sorry.
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Yasmina Baggili (Deleted) gave props (25 Jan 2010):
voted for this wonderful shot. Well done
Carol Arntsen Masiak gave props (28 Jan 2010):
my vote!
Lesley Williamson (Deleted) gave props (9 Feb 2010):
Great for the theme, voted!
Rob Roy (Deleted) gave props (9 Feb 2010):
AWEsome, Karen!! Isn't nature grand?? Love it!!
Jack Sills (Deleted) gave props (13 Feb 2010):
A Beautiful & Powerful Image!!!! Voted
marty maynard said (26 Feb 2010):
voted thanks for the wonderful comments on my phhoto's
Andrea Petersen gave props (4 Mar 2010):
Excellent capture... very powerful image...You have my vote!
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Thats wild! :)V+
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Got my vote. awesome.
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I love this holiday. It reminds us of the important things in life!
Be thankful.
Live Simply.
Be Kind.
Do your best.
Use please and thank you.
Cherish family and friends.
Never give up. Believe in yourself.
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Joss Whedon says it's doubtful he will return for Avengers: Infinity War
While it's still not official, the claim going around late last year that Joe and Anthony Russo were in talks to direct AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR - PART 1 and PART 2 seems more and more likely. Recent comments made by THE AVENGERS and AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON director Joss Whedon all but confirmed that he won't be continuing to helm the franchise.
Here is what Whedon told Empire Magazine about his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
I couldn't imagine doing this again. It's enormously hard, and it be, by then, a good five years since I created anything that was completely my own. So it's very doubtful that I would take on the two-part Infinity War movie that would eat up the next four years of my life. I obviously still want to be a part of the Marvel Universe – I love these guys – but it ain't easy. This year has been more like running three shows than any year of my life. It is bonkers.
As I mentioned when the story of the Russo brothers being attached initially surfaced, it's never a bad idea to walk away from something before you get too comfortable. That's especially true when it comes to Whedon, who seems to be more interested in his own original content. As for the Russo brothers, most people were more than pleased with their work on CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLIDER and I can't imagine would complain to see them tackle more Marvel movies for the better part of a decade.
Are you happy to see the Russo brothers taking over?
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LeAp's August Wilson Program, now in its eighthyear, is designed to introduce high school students to the life and work of renowned playwright August Wilson. In this year-long program, led by LeAp's theater professionals, students explore Wilson's 10-play Century Cycle, a dramatic chronicle of the 20th-Century African-Americanexperience, and examine important social issues and historical events. After selecting a monologue, students receive coaching in presence, connectedness, projection, and understanding of the text.
In 2015-2016 approximately 500 students in ten NYC public schoolswill participate in the August Wilson Program. An initial school competition will be held in each school and eight students will be selected from each school to compete in a preliminary competition. Two students from each school (20 students) will be selected to participate in the New York City Competition on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at the MMAC Theater in Manhattan. Following that, three students will advance to the National Competition, held at the August Wilson Theatre on Monday, May 2, 2016.
In addition the 20-session residency, students have the opportunity to attend Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, visit with actors and directors involved with August Wilson's work, and attend a tour of Brooklyn College and its theater program. According to a former participant of the August Wilson program: "I found out that I have a level of maturity that I never knew I had, and I was surprised that I was good at getting into a character who is completely opposite of who I am. I learned abouthow August Wilson used the problems of the decades to write such powerful pieces, and I have a better understanding of how the struggles of African Americans have changed yet stay the same."
The National August Wilson Monologue Competition was created by Kenny Leon and Todd Kreidler of True Colors Theatre Company, who collaborated with August Wilson on his work.
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Camp Nou Experience: F.C. Barcelona Museum and Stadium Tour ..
At first, I had the thought it just a stadium, a football stadium with a rich history. However, no longer now. It is undoubtedly something you can't miss if you are a football fanatic.
One of the highlights,
step back into the history of Barcelona as you tour through Camp Nou.
I can only imagine the intensive atmosphere and noise if the stadium was fully-filled with football fanatics. After tour ends, even for non-fan of FCB would never see FCB the same way again. I can assure you that, unless you just walk it through. lol.
Yeah, I got myself a poster of Neymar Jr.. a handsome Brazilian striker. :p
Las Ramblas at night. The nightlife was very lively and the people were absolutely lovely and extremely helpful. No joke! While I blogging about it, it makes me miss the pleasant stay in Barcelona even more.
@ the temporary exhibition of Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, just few steps away from La Ramblas
|Had our dinner @ La Poma in the heart of Las Ramblas.
xo ♥ Shirnie ❥