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Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Grosjman On The Gurney - The Sequel
I have now had the biopsy results back from the consultant who performed the procedure - as his letter is also a little surprising, I thought it worth quoting here:
"Further to your operation on 30 September, I am pleased to be able to advise you that the lesion removed was a benign seborrhoeic keratosis. There was no sign of skin cancer.
I trust the wound is healing well. Incidentally, I enjoyed your account of the operation on your blog."
!!!! : - )
Seborrhoeic keratosis is not my own! (photo from aad.org)
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glad all is well- he does sound eccentric!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you shared this with us. :)
Thanks, Rose - eccentric is a good thing in my book!ReplyDelete
Hi Ines,ReplyDelete
I have to say it made my day, on both counts...
Flitter, that's awesome! You must feel good about that. And I'm happy to hear that all is well in moleland.ReplyDelete
That's great news, and how wonderful that doc took the time to look at your blog :-)ReplyDelete
Hi Josephine,ReplyDelete
It is a relief, yes! And thanks to the doctor's precision excision, that would be "the country formerly known as moleland" now...
: - )
Hi lovethescents,ReplyDelete
I am wondering if reading the patient's blog (as applicable) may become a standard feature of the hospital's aftercare service?
- Wordbird27 October 2010 at 18:05
Super-cool doc!ReplyDelete
And great news.
Thanks guys! Yes, super-cool and eccentric is a good combination... : - )ReplyDelete
I'm so happy all is well, and your doc is amazing!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 October 2010 at 17:19
Crikey! Top bloke indeed, and good news about no need for any more ops.ReplyDelete
Perhaps have some fun this weekend to celebrate?
cheerio, Anna in Edinburgh
Thanks, folks! Mr Bonkers is playing away in Croatia this weekend (in a manner of speaking), but a bunch of us are going out for dinner this evening, which will be nice.ReplyDelete
- potiron29 October 2010 at 09:29
Ah, so glad to hear that news. And "hello" to the Doc, if he's reading this. :-)ReplyDelete
Hi potiron,ReplyDelete
Wouldn't it be funny if he checked back...?
: - )
- Anonymous31 October 2010 at 16:15
That's wonderful news! And I'm sure your doctor may be reading this at some point in the future. Hi doc!!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Farah! Maybe I should find some fragrant medical topic that might be of interest to the doctor - one on contact dermatitis, for example... : - )ReplyDelete


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Hello everyone! ♥ I'm now live-blogging at McDonalds, 1U while waiting for the boyfriend (◕‿-)
Well, my sem-break is fully scheduled. So happy! Lucky I got work during this sem-breaks, gonna earn as much as possible! Money money come!
Yesterday went to have movie with my baby boy. Thanks for your surprise! ♥
Watched "Treasure Hunt"《無價之寶》. Overall was fine, nothing much special about this movie. You know what, Cecilia Cheung has teamed up with her 4-year old son, Lucas in the movie. Aww... he looks superb cute and spoken in both English and Chinese. I feel like wanna pinch his cheeks!
I like cute kids/baby but somehow I hate kids when they cry, really pissed me off! lol.
Hmm... I suddenly feel hungry while blogging this *stare at people's fast-food* Urggh NO! I'm on diet now! :'(
Well, I think I should stop right here and quickly leave this place else my diet plan gonna fail! So that's all for today. I promise I would blog more again once I'm free. So stay tuned!
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Last night as I was winding down to get ready for bed I visited my blog roll and saw my name in Erin's giveaway winner post of Rare & Beautiful Treasures. If you haven't visited her blog, it's just lovely. She always has the best photos and most inspiring words to uplift you. I am so excited for her as she is about to soon receive one of life's most glorious gifts-a sweet baby boy.
I was so excited because I was chosen at random to win a copy of Layla Palmer's e-book titled 'Creating and Inspired Home'. Not only is Layla now an Author she also has some beautiful photography for sale HERE and her blog 'The Lettered Cottage' has become one of my favorites to visit regularly. She has a beautiful home and really great ideas and home decor tutorials. You can hop on over and visit for your very own copy and to get inspired as spring approaches!
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Voice Recognition in the Work PlaceMonday, October 24th, 2011
If I could have three wishes, one of them would surely be 100% accurate voice recognition with every electronic device that I interact with. I don't mind typing but given the choice, I would much prefer to speak my commands rather than have to type them into a keyboard or hammer them out on an iPhone or iPad.
Voice recognition is obviously in its infancy but it is becoming quite good considering the tools we have to work with. In fact this blog post is being dictated into an iPad with the headphones that come with the iPad and so far it has been 100% accurate. I agree it could get confusing for a computer to decipher commands if you're in a crowded room or there is loud music playing in the background or any other number of situations that might not be applicable to voice recognition.
That said how nice would it be to wake up in the morning and say, "turn on shower". Or if you're laying in bed at night and you want the lights off, instead of getting up to walk across the room you say, "turn off the lights". How about you say, "did I remember to lock the doors" and the computer says "no, the back door is unlocked, would you like me to lock it for you now".
It almost sounds a little like being lazy on the surface but I think it goes much deeper than that if you really ponder the possibilities. Steve Jobs seemed to be headed in the right direction before his untimely passing and I suspect that in the not-too-distant future, keyboard will go the way of the eight track.
Imagine how much we would save on hand sanitizer and carpal tunnel syndrome treatments.
Using a Content Management System (CMS)Monday, August 1st, 2011
Content management systems have been around for many years and while they have their pitfalls, they also offer a tremendous advantage over hand coded HTML websites. The primary difference is that the content management system provides you with a web-based interface to modify the contents of your website. If you are unfamiliar with HTML, this prospect might scare you. However, if you know how to use email than you have enough skills to use a content management system and update the content on your website by yourself.
Even designers are using content management systems for the final product because it's much easier to hand off the completed website and a fully functioning back end control panel that empowers their clients to make changes without having to call the designer every time they want to add a new sentence or change a heading. There are lots of content management systems available but WordPress is probably the most commonly used. It's easy to install, easy to manage and even easier to use. If you have a complex website that is database driven or have some special function that you think might be incompatible with WordPress, it's very likely that the developer can integrate that functionality into WordPress and still give you enough control to make changes to your content without whacking all of the code that they created.
The thing that blows me away about Word press and other content management systems is that there is literally an army of developers who create widgets and plug-ins for WordPress and most if not all, are free. So if you need to add a scheduling function to your website, you can typically just search the plug-ins and find one that you like and that is rated very highly by other users, then easily add that your website yourself. This whole process could take (5) or (10) minutes as opposed to (5) or (10) days with a developer, and your cost is nothing.
Another cool thing about WordPress is that it runs on open source operating systems (you can run it on Windows too) and WordPress itself is totally free. So you can essentially run this free application on a server running an open source operating system and open-source web server software like Apache. WordPress is also a very light weight application so it will only use a small amount of resources on the server. This doesn't mean that WordPress is not capable of serving up millions of webpages because it certainly is. In fact, there are tremendous amount of very popular blogs and websites running WordPress right now that serve tens if not hundreds of millions of page views monthly.
While WordPress is not for everyone and content management systems in general are not always a good fit, they're certainly worth a look if you're tired of waiting around for your Web designer or developer to return your phone call or email because you need to update the telephone number on your website.
There simply must be an easier way…Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Used car shopping, that is. With all the usual suspects including cars.com, eBay motors, autotrader and new come-along driversselect to name a few of the online options. This isn't easy. And I'm really pretty open. Many models will meet the requirements. I just want to see the options available in the marketplace. Then dig through carmax, craigslist and the many local dealer websites for pre-owned inventory. It's positively mind boggling.
Sure, it's easier than driving all over town, but I don't want to drive all over the Internet either. In this day and age, there simply must be an easier way.
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The latest version of MindTouch (news, site), an enterprise open source collaboration platform, has just been released. Dubbed MindTouch Minneopa, this release adds three new features to MindTouch 2009 including collaborative video, application packaging and content staging.
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(Reuters) - Richard Mosk knows they got it right.
Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he and others who worked on the Warren Commission, the government's probe of the shooting, say they have become inured to the seemingly endless stream of conspiracy theories.
"It's natural that an event like this would cause skepticism and suspicions, especially in light of what has come out about our government," said Mosk, 74, who was a newly minted lawyer in his mid-20s when he was hired as a researcher for the commission.
Mosk, who is now an associate justice on the California Court of Appeals, said the evidence was nevertheless "overwhelming" that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he mortally wounded the nation's 35th president on November 22, 1963, shooting him in the head and neck as Kennedy rode through Dallas in an open car.
Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later.
The Warren Commission was formed just a week after the assassination to officially examine the murder. The following September, it issued an 888-page report with 26 volumes of supporting material.
A range of theories, popularized in movies and books, has countered the commission's finding that Oswald acted alone, and a Gallup poll published on November 15 found 61 percent of Americans continue to believe others were involved.
Some have argued the CIA played a part. Others suggest organized crime or then-Cuban President Fidel Castro had a hand in the shooting.
Many critics say the commission did not have all the facts when it concluded Oswald was the sole actor. These include details about time Oswald spent in Mexico City and meetings he had with Russian intelligence officers, they say.
"I get aggravated," said Mosk. "Yes, there was a lot of information withheld from the commission. But none of these things would have made any difference."
Melvin Eisenberg, 78, who was assistant counsel for the commission and now is a law professor at the University of California, said the persistence of conspiracy theories is something to be ignored.
"Oswald did it," he said. "We can't prove there was no conspiracy. People have been digging to find something but have not been able to do it."
Lloyd Weinreb, a Harvard law professor who also worked on the commission staff, concurs.
"I run into lots of people who feel there may have been a conspiracy," Weinreb, 77, said. "They don't like the notion that random happenings determine many aspects of our lives. But it was an immense set of fortuities that left Oswald in the path of the presidential route through Dallas.
"He took a pot shot, and the pot shot happened to hit," said Weinreb. "I have no doubt whatsoever that it was Oswald and Oswald alone."
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Bike path in Durban, South Africa
Here's a very quick round up of how the racing has turned out. The United States has two spots to fill for the games and, as predicted, it's been a close competition for those coveted spots. At the beginning of this year, the US created an Olympic long team of nine women. From those nine, two US women will go to the games. In South Africa, I felt amazing and had a great race. I raced myself from the back of the pack (due to a chaotic start) up to 14th place. I was the first American. It was definitely a solid start to the season and I was completely thrilled with the result. I have never had to start the season with such fitness and it's always a question how my preparation will work out. This result affirmed that I am definitely prepared for the early racing and ready to go. For the second world cup in Belgium, I was flat. I had a great start, but I just didn't have the extra zip needed to close gaps and move up. Instead, I had a solid race and placed 19th as the second American. This result wasn't what I hoped for, but I was still happy nonetheless. I left Belgium ranked 18th and the first American in the world cup rankings.
jojo rides by the world cup soccer stadium in Durban, South Africa
Last weekend was the third world cup in Nova Mesto Na Morave, Czech Republic. I was so excited for this race and feeling fantastic after a great training block at home. I've come into this last trip with great fitness. This Czech Republic course is one of the most fun tracks on the circuit. It winds through the open Czech pine forest, over roots and rocks, and up a fair share of punchy technical climbs. Last year, this was my break out world cup where I finished a career best seventh place. I was pumped. But, everything doesn't always go as planned. About one hundred feet into the pavement start, a racer weaved in front of me and I was forced to the left to avoid crashing with her. I was pinched in the tight pack of seventy girls and I locked handlebars with the girl next to me and went down hard on the asphalt. I was on the bottom of the pile. I jumped up and had a lot of road rash on my right side and a charlie horse on my left leg. I stopped in the tech zone to change a rear flat tire and then started my race at the absolute back. I was so far back that they were letting spectators cross the start loop by the time I got there. I couldn't even see anyone in the race. I forged on and resolved to just do my best under the circumstances and pass as many girls as possible. I clawed my way up to 37th place which I was really proud of giving that I was still bleeding and dazed. I was the fourth american on the day and I'm still the second ranked american in the standings. I'm definitely bummed about the bit of bad luck but at least I'm still moving and well. I only have bruises and a lot of road rash to show for it. I can race this weekend which I am really grateful for. Without the valleys, the peaks wouldn't seem as high.
I'm looking ahead to this weekend. It's the last qualifying opportunity in La Bresse, France. The course has a lot of climbing which suits me and the descents are steep, slippery and rocky. It's exactly the conditions I grew up riding in. I'm going to relax and ride my bike as fast as I can. Simple as that. Hammer.
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I think Morgan starts off strong, noting in his own way pretty much what I said above, that SFFdom has almost created a fetish out of arguing matters of point. While some of you might have BDSM imagery dancing in your heads, I'm going to be wondering what in the hell Morgan thought he'd be adding after his "five years of reading [this crap-ed.]." More of the same?
Instead of having that program quoting The Who, perhaps Morgan would rather have had the first lines of Allan Ginsberg's "Howl" quoted, the bit about "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"? Because in a sense, that seems to be what's bothering him, this thought that this is just insanity. Then he continues by noting a difference with another genre group, the crime fiction writers:
But then, finally, at Eastercon 2006, things came to a head; one panel title in particular leapt out of the Glasgow Concussion programme at me, and I realized -- oh, for fuck's sake!!! -- that I'd really, really had it with this shit.
Won't Get Fooled Again, the item in question declaimed. Why don't we just completely trash the whole tired SF genre and try to take the discourse somewhere genuinely new?
What the hell is wrong with us?
Of course, I'm finding myself asking "since when did crime fiction writers ever really have a symbiotic - parasitic? - relationship with its fans?" I dunno, was there a time when there were as many organized fan conventions for crime fiction as there have been for SF? Has there been anywhere near as much diversity in the crime fiction genre has there have been in all the flavors of SF and Fantasy? How many existentialist crises were caused by the hunt for the perpetrator? I just am not convinced that this is a solid comparison point, since one would have to accept as a fait accompli that SF and Fantasy are really homogeneous entities with a fairly well-understood impetus for crafting such stories. Color me unconvinced that this is the case.
Here's a funny thing. Skip across the tracks to the world of crime fiction for a while, and you don't see this shit going on. You don't get this gnawing, mutilative thread of self-hatred, this bulemic purging of whole sub-genres or readership sub-sections as somehow unworthy. A quick trawl through a couple of dozen crime writer websites and messageboards reveals no agendas or dogme-style utterances, no towering rages or griping about how the genre's going to shit these days, how there's all this generic pap being published, how this strain of crime writing is so much more valid than this other strain, how maybe we shouldn't even be reading or writing crime fiction at all, how we need to Get Back to Basics, or Rip it Up and Start Again, or any other misbegotten Year Zero bullshit.
Go on, see for yourselves -- it just ain't there.
Well, Ali and I batted that one back and forth for quite a while. Where does this rather less cannibalistic attitude come from? Is it maybe because there's a bigger pie to share in crime fiction, more readers, more dosh, and so a lot less anxiety about why >not enough people are buying my stuff, goddamnit, why don't they appreciate what I'm doing with the genre? Is it because, aside from the money, there's relatively more respectability in being a crime writer than in writing SF and Fantasy? Or is it perhaps that the line between reader and writer isn't as blurred in crime writing, that comparatively few of the crime readership are themselves aspiring to write what they read, so the genre lacks the bitchy that should be me up there dynamic? Is it because crime readers are older on average, or less demanding, or less transgressive, or maybe just less bloody-minded? Is it the readers, or the writers, or both (or neither)? And back on this side of the fence, is it just a few malcontent bad apples in the SF barrel, or is it something endemic to the form? Is it maybe just down to an overdeveloped literary ghetto grievance and a lack of self-esteem?Nice questions, albeit ones asked along the tangential path being blazed by this point. While certainly there is some cause to wonder if certain authors (or unpublished/obscure ones in many cases) might meet much of this, I can't help but to believe that Morgan isn't really addressing the root causes here, especially that of there being such a fractured sense of what "the genre" really is.
But instead of addressing this potential departure point for exploring why such vehement disagreements come about, Morgan begins to lay it on thick with the Kumbayahisms:
All nice and warm in one bit, all in-your-face,-motherfucker the next. But while to a degree I agree with the sentiment, I still believe that Morgan fails to address what's occurring here. Is it really a unified umbrella approach going on here? Or is it rather a barely-communicating loose set of confederations that has taken place over the years, each with vaguely-defined boundaries that need to be hashed out before much can occur? And as for the bit about the New Weird, I still am waiting for that "manifesto," considering one of the points of the recent The New Weird anthology was that it was far from an easily-defined "movement" at all during its tenuous "genesis" and dissemination. Sorry, but I'm just not buying this part of your argument right now, Mr. Morgan. As much as I want to agree with you about how there are readers that have defined tastes, there seems to be too much of a flow between these groups (look at my reviews over the past year here and the books I mention in passing, for example; hardly the sign of a homogeneous reading taste) for there to be that much justification for the criticisms leveled at the groups named in those passages.
At this point, you might be forgiven for asking the question So What? So there's a lot of bitching, lekking and squabbling in SF and Fantasy. So it's a cannibalistic, malcontent genre. So who cares?
I care.
Because it seems to me rather a shame that right here and now, in the form of fiction that's most fit to explore the twenty first century, at a time when our newer, sister media -- movies, TV, video games -- are replete with the genre's well-worn furniture, we still can't seem to get our fucking act together, find some faith in ourselves and just go do our thing. So you want to write Mundane SF. Good idea -- go away and do it; if Geoff Ryman's Air is anything to go by, something resembling Mundane SF might -- eventually -- win the genre its first Booker prize. But why the crushing need to denigrate the space opera end of SF before you start? What's with the superior attitude? Oh, and you guys -- before you start looking all smug 'n' shit behind this -- so you lot don't want to write (or read) mundane SF. Fine -- don't. But is it so terribly threatening when someone else does, that you have to vomit up this ocean of rage and abuse, as if the Mundanistas had come out suggesting re-education camps for the Star Trek fanbase. Is the Mundane manifesto really such an affront that established authors (who really should know better) and fans alike have to start hurling abuse around like they're a street gang and someone said something dirty about their mothers?
And while we're at it, all you self-professed New Weirdsters - did nailing your New Weird colours to the mast five years ago really have to mean such an avowed and out loud contempt for all that painstakingly imagined (and yes, mapped!) "consolatory" fantasy and those who like to immerse themselves in it? Was that the only way the manifesto could stand -- in fake-defiant from-the-barricades revolution-chic opposition to something else? Did there -- does there always -- have to be an enemy? Do we have to hate before we can get passionate about what we're doing? Or was it just a sneaking suspicion that those "consolatory" guys were going to steal readership share?
Which, of course, they inevitably will do. "Consolatory" fantasy does well. So does "consolatory" Space Opera. People like it, and so, not unreasonably, they buy it by the ton. Of course, it's become customary in genre debates to sneer and blame this sort of thing on marketing -- as if without the marketing departments, Terry Brooks fans would suddenly be marching en masse into Barnes and Noble and demanding a reprint of In Viriconium; as if marketing is what prevents the readers of Star Wars tie-in novels from developing a passion for Stanislaw Lem. I mean, come on, guys, get real -- enough of the false consciousness rap, already. People know what they like (and, yes, sadly, they tend to like what they know). And a large number of such people within the SF&F readership like straightforward, by-the-numbers story-telling with a lot of sensawunda, heroes who achieve their goals, bad guys who go down hard, and a solid happy ending. In this, they are no different than the reading (or indeed TV, or cinema-going) public in general. Marketing is simply a system for shifting product to that public in as large quantities as possible. And I never met an author yet who didn't want their books to sell in large quantities.
Damn, I hoping for something other than more of the same, tired two paths. Can't one just be themselves within the genre without either conforming to some perceived "model" or some "genre-escaping" alternate? The fact that Morgan uses "mainstream" here in an almost pejorative sense makes me wonder why he bothered with the above, since it seems that unwittingly he has many of the same attitudes regarding this so-called "mainstream" and "mainstream critics" as those of many others that have preceded him on the Bitch Trail. For whatever reason, I get this bad image of a segregationist railing against the evils of racism when I read such comments that seem to validate (or at least encourage) this notion of a division between "Genre" and "Mainstream," with literary miscegenation being almost abhorrent for a great many of them. Irritating, that thought. Hope that isn't close to the heart of the matter here.
So. This is the landscape around us, and we all know what it looks like. What we need to do is stop qvetching about the terrain, and just decide where we're going to pitch our bloody tents. Ian McEwan argues (obliquely, through conversation and event in The Child in Time) that good writers write for themselves, and I think probably that's true; certainly I try never to write for anybody else. But writing for yourself does carry an opportunity cost. If you're lucky, your self shares tastes with enough other people that your books are going to sell well; you can hand your finished product over to the marketing guys, and they'll run with it. As Neal Asher once remarked to me, I don't mind doing the crowd-pleasing stuff because most of the time what pleases the crowd also pleases me. But if that particular piece of serendipity doesn't happen for you, then you're simply going to have to make a choice. Want to make a shit-load of money? Want to make the bestseller lists? Then get on and write a three brick fantasy trilogy about a good hearted farm-boy who becomes a wizard or a warrior (or a space pilot) and defeats an evil empire. Want to write grim and gloomy portraits of emotional decay in unemployed, divorced or otherwise alienated Londoners who may -- or may not! -- have come from an ever so faintly different parallel universe? Prepare to keep your day job for some time to come.
Or, of course, you could reduce that parallel universe angle to such homeopathic dosage that it can be safely interpreted by mainstream critics as wholly illusory, in which case you can then make your genre-break escape bid. And the best of luck to you, if you do. Sincerely. There's gold in them thar TLS pages, and why shouldn't you have some of it? You might be the next Jonathan Lethem or David Mitchell in the making. But watch out -- don't allow even the whisper that you might be writing SF or Fantasy, because in the mainstream, that kind of thing still goes down about as well as lap dancers at a wedding. Sad fact, but an enduring one. The bulk of mainstreamers (and mainstream critics) are no different in this to the bulk of any other readership, including our own. They also know what they like, and like what they know. (And generally, they don't know or like SF&F very much). Yes, they are partisan and small "c" conservative and subject to prejudice, just like the rest of us. Big surprise.
And now for the closing arguments:
I guess in the end what I'm saying is that it's about growing up. Not growing up in the sense of writing or reading "grown up" literature (whatever that actually is), or pretending -- on some Eastercon panel or messageboard somewhere -- to cast off a specious immaturity of prior literary taste in favour of more weighty and worthwhile prose. No, I'm talking about growing up in the sense of seeing both the genre and the wider world in the way they are instead of the way we'd like them to be. I'm talking about making conscious choices in what we write, and then taking responsibility for those choices, instead of railing against some crudely confected other that's spoiling everything for us. This is, above all, about getting a sense of perspective on what we do for a living, about accepting our genre as a whole, the way the crime guys accept theirs; accepting it has facets and seeing them that way, instead of constantly turning them into factions; accepting that just because you don't get off on a particular strain of SF&F, doesn't mean other people don't, can't or shouldn't. This is about accepting, as Iain Banks once said, that when all is said and done, we are all a part of the entertainment industry.
Is that so terrible to admit? It shouldn't be. Entertainment looks set to become the major industry of the twenty first century. It seeps into everything we are and do; it's as powerful a globalizing force as anything else in play right now. Not a bad place to be working, really. All we have to do is keep our perspective; shrug off that pitifully self-important delusion that we're locked in some sort of titanic struggle for the cultural soul of humanity against hostile elites or witless hordes or evil marketing empires. Let's save that kind of hyperbole for (some of) our fiction. Let's get a fucking life, people, let's get over ourselves and start enjoying this ride for its own sake -- rather than constantly glowering around with militant disapproval at our fellow passengers further down the car, all on account of what they're reading.
Enough bile. Gentlemen and ladies -- let's go to work.
For a writer who isn't the biggest fan of Conservatism, Morgan certainly sounds that way in his closing. For many (not all, but many certainly) writers, the point isn't to accept that genre is this static thing (after all, a lot of these hellraisers with whom Morgan seems to be irritated here created some very influential work that pushed SF and Fantasy writing in different directions, creating little globules from the greater globe for such exploration of style, theme, and characterization), but instead to push, push, and to keep on pushing to see what will emerge. Sometimes that means conceptual arguments as to what "should" and "shouldn't" be taking place. That's only natural, but it seems that Morgan poo-pahs this a bit too much. Maybe on occasion it gets to be a bit "ridiculous," maybe people push too far for other's comfort, but I'm sorry if I just cannot accept fully Morgan's alternative.
Sure, there is certainly hyperbole in a lot of these arguments, but underlaying quite a few of them is this searching quest for understanding and of exploration that is akin to the writing spirit. Entertainment is not a bad thing; it just isn't necessarily a great thing either. Some writers want to discover themselves and others as they write and while on occasion this spills out in invective that isn't all that enjoyable, I cannot help but to think that even this negative sort of discourse has had an ultimately beneficial effect on writing. So rage on, you followers of your Muses, rage on.


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For Your Consideration: An Ameritrade Review
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Day traders are a specific type of investor. Traditional investors usually go for the buy and hold, long-term strategies. That is not the game of the day trader. What a day trader is is something that traditional investors don't really sync with. So traditional investors look at online brokerages in a different way from day traders.
So the day trader needs a platform that emphasizes speed, ease of trading volume and lots of information at the ready. The question to be answered by this Ameritrade review is, can Thinkorswim be that platform. Thinkorswim is Ameritrade's proprietary platform for at-home investors. An interactive broker like Ameritrade must provide traders with the tools needed to be successful. That is what makes for a good online brokerage.
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So choose your trading platform wisely, because it has a very large effect on your profits and your career. Beyond keeping a profit/loss ratio in the black, finding the right trading platform is crucial to make a real career out of day trading.


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"Banish Tonsil Stones" by Diane Puttman - REVIEW
Brace yourself. It's not pleasant.
Tonsilloliths or tonsil stones are calcifications that form on the tonsils (and other parts of the mouth). Because another awkward thing about tonsils (apart from the fact that you don't need them and they can become infected...) is that they have crevices in them where bacteria and other materials (dead cells, mucus) become trapped.
Which can, in some people - especially those prone to throat infections and tonsillitis - become calcified.
They are not especially harmful but they do cause some unpleasant symptoms like halitosis (bad breath).
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Diane says that she suffered from this condition herself, starting at 18 with 'smelly balls clamped on my tonsils.'
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Just published by Columba Press is a new book entitled 'A Future Full of Hope?' - edited by Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ (Congregation of Jesus). The book, which is based on papers given at a colloquium run by the Religious Life Institute (Heythrop College, University of London) seeks to consider whether religious life is facing imminent death or is on the cusp of a hopeful future - or somewhere in between.
Despite recent scandals and a steady diminishment of numbers since Vatican II, religious remain a powerful source of inspiration and positive energy within church and society. Some fifty years after the Council today's context and questions are different. Did the Council bring about a renewal or an implosion of religious life? Who is looking at religious vocation today? What are they seeking, and what are they finding?
The foreword to the book is penned by former Master of the Dominican Order - Timothy Radcliffe OP and has contributions from well known figures in religious life, including Christopher Jamison OSB, Gregory Collins OSB, James Sweeney CP.
The author of this blog has contributed a chapter to the book entitled 'The Dominicans and Vocations' which is a reflection on the response of the Irish Dominican friars to the vocations question over the past ten year period.
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Worst. Movie. Ever. (Of the Week)
Every Friday, our fearless cultural critics, armed with nothing but smartphones and hangovers, report live via email from an A.M. screening of what we believe will be the most horrible thing Hollywood has foisted on an unexpecting and undeserving American populace. It's like you're right there suffering with them. Except you're not.
This week: Dan Fierman and Alex Pappademas suffer through Dear John starring Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, and a lot of really horrible stereotypes about autistic people.
**Dan Fierman: **Buying that ticket hurt. I think my soul is burning.
Alex Pappademas: Passed the poster for Brendan Fraser's upcoming Furry Vengeance on the way in here. I kind of wish we were seeing that today. I think it's about a guy who goes undercover in the world of furries after a guy in a Pepé Le Pew costume murders his wife. Like The Salton Sea, but with dudes who collect Animaniacs porn.
**Fierman: **Wait. Wait. They're actually writing letters out LONGHAND? Does this movie take place during the FIRST Iraq war?
Pappademas: Yes—that's why they're all written on Bart Simpson stationery and full of 90210 references.
Fierman: John just pulled a piece of paper out of the garbage, wrote something on it and gave it to his girlfriend. Is that how the kids are getting laid these days? Am I that old?
**Pappademas: **The ambiguity about whether or not Richard Jenkins is "going full retard" as the dad continues to trouble me.
**Fierman: **Help me out. Is this what all Nicholas Sparks movies are like?
**Pappademas: **Yeah. This is basically the loose-leaf version of The Notebook. I think he also wrote one where two people fall in love using Post-Its. It's called While You Were Out.
**Fierman: **The Etch-A-Sketch!
Pappademas: Blake Lively and Chad Michael Murray write each other love letters on a dirty car window in...Wash Me.
F**ierman: **Seyfried doesn't drink, smoke, or sleep around. And she builds houses for poor people in her spare time.
**Pappademas: **AND she wants to start a camp where autistic kids can ride horses. This movie is a fantasy for parents who wish their kids cared about something other than sexting and Adderall.
**Fierman: **Alex, I have a dream. You might think it's silly. You might think it's stupid. But I want to start a camp for survivors of this movie. They need it. What's more, I think WE need it.
Pappademas: So they're going to write each other letters for the rest of the movie. Dan, I'm inspired. I'm going to write the rest of my snide comments about this movie to you on paper with a quill pen. Please wait six to eight weeks for my comments on this exciting montage of letters going through the mail.
**Fierman: **Wait. 9/11? This movie isn't set in the present day?
Pappademas: And actual Twin Towers footage! Movie terror alert: It is now officially not "too soon."
**Fierman: **Oh, OK. Voice over explains that they have no email in Iraq, which is totally false, and incredibly convenient.
**Pappademas: **Putting this out there: Isn't "Savannah" kind of a stripper name? Was she named "Lexxxus" in the first draft?
**Fierman: **"Everything around me reminds me of you," writes Tatum. The IEDs. The explosions. The snipers. The continual sense of terror. Everything.
**Pappademas: **One of Tatum's Army buddies appears reading an old issue of Marvel Universe from the 1980s. If an argument about Ant-Man's correct height and weight breaks out in the barracks, my money's on that dude.
**Pappademas: **Can we make fun of GQ West Coast Editor Chris Huvane for saying he enjoyed this movie unironically?
Fierman: Oh hell yes. He has some explaining to do.
Pappademas: Every song on this soundtrack has those acoustic-guitar string-squeaks in it—the ones that say, "My name is James Blunt and ALL I CAN DO IS FEEL."
**Fierman: **I feel like I can't even make fun of this. It's like clubbing a baby seal, but less cute and less difficult.
Pappademas: "Come on, seal! Get up off the ice and fight!"
**Fierman: **He just wandered away from his unit into an abandoned building in Iraq. He can't use email. And he didn't notice his dad was autistic until age 30. If Nicholas Sparks has his finger on the pulse of what modern young women want, I think we can now conclusively say they want their men DUMB.
**Pappademas: **She broke up with him, and now he's throwing himself into dangerous war situations. Maybe this is the prequel to The Hurt Locker!
Pappademas: Either they shot this entire movie in the same town, including the Iraq stuff, or Basra looks more like Charleston than I realized.
**Fierman: **He just got a Dear John letter. How did he not see that coming?
**Pappademas: **Also, I'm confused—when does Judd Hirsch show up?
**Fierman: **He's back for an 18 hour shore leave. They're still together, but his best friend Tim's wife has apparently been on "vacation" for the last half a year. I think she wised up and just fled this movie.
**Pappademas: **I think she's the 20th hijacker.
**Fierman: **Zoom forward. Channing Tatum gets shot, discharged, and comes home to find out Dad stroked out. Bad week to be Channing Tatum.
**Pappademas: **"He's conscious, but he's not lucid." Doctor explaining to Tatum about his dad's stroke—or review of this movie?
**Fierman: **He just handed his dad a letter in the hospital. I think this movie was wholly financed by the American Paper Lobby.
Pappademas: Promotional consideration furnished by Dunder-Mifflin.
**Pappademas: **Also, I understand that the dad had a stroke and can't talk, but why does that mean Tatum has to read the letter to him out loud? There are some serious inconsistencies in this movie's portrayal of how letters work.
Fierman: Amanda Seyfried has been off-screen for roughly the last half hour. Think she did what we should've done? Fled?
**Pappdemas: **She's on an island with three dudes who might be her dad. Man, I would rather be watching Mamma Mia right now. I would watch the shit out of Mamma Mia if it meant I could be done with this.
Pappademas: Seyfried: "John. What brings you home?" Who talks like that? What ho, John? How goeth the Crusade against the Infidels of the Holy Land?
**Fierman: **Dad is dead. His girl is marrying some jackhole. WHO WILL IT BE?
**Pappademas: **She married Tim, the dude whose wife is on vacation.
**Fierman: **BUT HIS WIFE COULD COME BACK ANY MINUTE! Oh, but he has cancer and is about to die. Cool. Lesson to all you lovesick dudes out there: just give the other guy fatal lymphatic cancer and it will ALL work out.
**Pappademas: **Seriously—you KNOW Tatum borrowed the cancer ray from the GI Joe arsenal.
**Fierman: **"Why didn't you call?" he asks with five minutes left in the movie. That's it. I'm done. I'm fucking done.
**Pappademas: **"I picked up the phone a thousand times! But I couldn't figure out how to stuff a letter into the little holes in the receiver!"
Fierman: Now they're going to read letters together. In a darkened room. Because that is how you read things.
**Pappademas: **He's selling his dad's coin collection. Is he going to give Seyfried the money so she can save her autistic-kids horse camp? Because it'll be really ironic when it turns out she sold the autistic kids to buy his dad a 1919 "D" dime.
**Fierman: **NO! He sold his dead dad's coin collection so Cancer Husband could come home for two months and then die. Now Amanda Seyfried is staring wistfully at the moon. I don't think I am ever going to recover from this movie.
Pappademas: Me? I just feel bad for the Mr. Skin correspondent who's going to have to sit through this entire movie to clock this two second shot of Seyfried's sideboob.
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Jordan's pain level is finally going down a bit, and she's only hurting when I have to pick her up. Unfortunately, I have to move her around quite a bit to avoid bed sores and muscle spasms. She's getting better, it's just a slow process. She's gotten a few more cards over the past week, and I will be sure to share a photo of her with them soon.
Today, I'd like to share a scrapbook page that I made several weeks ago. The longest wait we encountered in Disney World was for the Toy Story ride. It was a relatively new attraction, and the line was insane. It was all worth it in the end, because the kids all had a wonderful time! I'm just a bit bummed that I couldn't get a photo of Lexie because she was in the other part of the ride with Ronnie.
The supplies on this layout came from an older Crate Paper collection called Toy Box. It's one of my favorite boy themed collections of all time, and the toy accents worked perfectly with the theme.


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I love Target too! Now that I have a Target debit card that gives me 5% off, I'm really getting my shop on! lol :)ReplyDelete
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I love #8. I went for a ten-miler this morning, and two weeks from today I'm running a half in Seattle. Enjoy those shoes of yours!ReplyDelete
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I need to start running again! It's hard to get back once you've taking time off.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure what looked better, the Starbucks or Blizzards. YUM! :-) As soon as I get off here, I feel the need for something sweet!ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Happy to have you following. I am following your blog too! Look forward to keeping in touch!
I too *wish* running was an obsession of mine. It's not. However, I could do Blizzards and Target all day!! So something I noticed we have in common besides being newlyweds is a pet rabbit. It caught my attention because I don't know too many other people who do, not exactly common. I'm willing to bet your husband doesn't insist on letting yours take over a whole room in your house like mine does though. I also remember you from the Proteacher boards last summer- you had some really great ideas! Happy to have now found your blog and start following:)ReplyDelete
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OH NO....my husband is the one who lets the rabbit out. Not me:) I am the one who follows the rabbit and picks up after him! He likes to leave me presents! Ugh:(Delete
Yeah, I ma glad you found me. I am still on PT but not as much. More in the teachers lounge than anything. I still get many great ideas from there! I need to share in both places! Just had to keep up with it all!
Thanks so much for linking up! I'm your newest follower :) Your blog is just adorable! I am so with you on Target! I had to return something the other day and it took all of my strength to not walk through the store! Good luck with running! I used to run regularly...and then I started teaching!ReplyDelete
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I wish I had more to say!
Politics is increasingly boring. It's like checkers - it's been solved, so what is there to talk about? About every possible topic, at least one of the actors is lying to you very clumsily. "Oh, hey, Congress devised another way to screw us" is just not something I can make hay with.
I could post links every time it happens, but Reason magazine seems to do ok providing that service.
I haven't been into anything else lately. Philosophy has been neglected, except for logic, which I briefly got very into - to the point of doing completeness and soundness proofs for classical and modal logics. I am sure I will return to it, though it's hard to maintain the interest when there's no concrete purpose, no thesis to write or classes to attend. Grad school should happen sooner rather than later.
I think I am becoming too sanguine to maintain an angry blog, ;_;
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I've made one edit to the recipe I posted below... since walnuts didn't go with either the wet or the dry ingredients, I forgot about them. But don't... they're awesome!
Well, the overwhelming applications for the SRAJD this week demolished my Monday evening (and most of my Sunday). Ha ha ha! That's right… I'm putting off a decent blog post… still!
I will, however, at least try to remember what I put into the Banana Nut Coconut Bread I was talking about on Facebook. This was a mish-mash of several different recipes I have for banana nut bread. Sometimes you have to improvise based on what you've got in your pantry. :-)
As with most baked products, you mix the dry ingredients in one bowl, mix the liquid ingredients in another bowl, then add the dry mix to the wet mix and stir.
Dry Stuff:
2 cups flour (I used whole wheat, but you can probably use whatever)
¾ t baking soda
½ t salt
1 C white sugar
3 T dark brown sugar
Wet Stuff:
5 very ripe mashed bananas
¼ C butter or oil
2 eggs
¼ C milk, sour cream, or yogurt
½ t vanilla
I mixed these things together then added 1¼ C shredded coconut (actually, it was probably sweetened coconut flakes).
Then a folded in about 3/4 C of chopped walnuts.
I put the mixture into two 9x9" cooking pans that I had sprayed with Pam.
I threw some more coconut on top, then put them into a 350-degree pre-heated oven for … oh wow… I don't remember… I usually just bake stuff until it's done. Um… I'm thinking it was probably about 40 minutes. You know, test it with a knife or toothpick… does it come out clean or still wet?
You can pretty much tell when their done also when they start to get brown on the edges and on top.
After being out of the oven for half an hour, I flipped them over onto a paper plate, then flipped them back onto a regular plate so they were then face up, outside of the cooking pan.
Then I take ½ C of powdered sugar and mix it with 1½ T of lime juice… whisk together and drizzle over the warm cake.
Slice and eat… this stuff is super yummy when still warm. Mmmmm…
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Children Are Scapegoats For Adults Without Power
Lately I have been observing a cruel, almost combative hostility toward chidren that amounts to a new "cult of toughness." I first noticed it in 1979 when the United Nations International Year of the Child--a global campaign to end poverty and provide health and human rights to all children--was attacked by a number of groups, including Americans Against Abortion, which called it "an intense propaganda campaign to 'liberate' children from their parents." The suggestion was that the millions of starving children were merely rebellious little brats who deserved no help at all.
In 1980, I watched delegates convened to address the problems of children and families turn the White House Conference on Families into a forum for parental vituperation. Dozens of male delegates skipped over family economics, housing, violence, and stress to rail against children who disobeyed their fathers (and to predict consequent doom for all other authority figures in Western civilization). A man who accused government job programs of "coddling" kids later acknowledged bitterly that he had been unemployed for 18 months.
Several people sidetracked discussions of child abuse with a defense of corporal punishment. 'Why is spanking children so important?' I asked one man. "To teach them who's boss," he answered. The refrain became familiar: Too many kids "talk back," they get "big-shot ideas" from television and books, they "think the world owes them a living." The common enemy was "permissiveness," the preferred cure "discipline."
For years, various religious and political fundamentalists have validated parents' anger and offered relief in the form of authoritarian certainties. The Indiana Moral Majority leader, Greg Dixon, for example, engineered a weakening of his state's child-abuse laws in 1981 because "the Bible instructs parents to whip their children with a rod." Mr. Dixon insists that "welts and bruises are a sign that a parent is doing a good job of discipline."
More recently, the new cult of toughness has found expression in books such as The Coming Parent Revolution, Back in Control, Toughlove, Dare to Discipline, and Spank Me If You Love Me. Appealing to readers who are more interested in learning to control children than care for them, these books tend to underplay children's suffering and glorify parent power in the name of either God or the family.
"We can trace to the Puritans the idea that children are inherently bad and it is up to adults to cleanse them of their evil," said Edward F. Zigler, professor of psychology at Yale and head of the psychology section of the Child Study Center there. "Those who argue against heavy discipline may be accused of being too tender-minded, but today there is total consensus among behavioral scientists that hard discipline is counterproductive. It only teaches children that people who are big and strong can do what they want."
Much of the get-tough impulse seems to originate in adult insecurity and the American fixation with power hierarchies. (Who's in charge? Who's on top? Who's Number One?) When grown-ups feel powerless, one response is to take it out on children.
"Most concrete kinds of violence come from adults who are themselves vulnerable in some way," commented Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard. "For instance, when unemployment strikes, children become objects for adult rage and frustration. Among men especially, violence toward children is connected to bitter feelings of worthlessness and powerlessness."
Children have always been readily available scapegoats for male impotence and anger. But now, without animals to tame or frontiers to conquer, with no control over economic conditions and world events, with women in revolt and machines displacing workers, men may look to children as the last subjects of male domination. When gender, class, and racial supremacy fail, who but children will anchor the bottom of the chain of command?
The truth is that many people who consider themselves child-loving sentimentalists love only docile and respectful children. They are not so fond of independent, free-thinking, quirky, or opinionated children who are critical of adults. The defiant child magnifies adult impotence. The vulnerable child reminds us of our human frailty. The self-sufficient child proves us dispensable. Believing that children are intrinsically bad frees adults to be cruel and punitive.
In many cases, the psychological and political dynamics of power are intertwined. Some people with heavy responsibilities can live with their envy of carefree youth only if adults have the ultimate control of children's freedom; these people oppose any advance in children's rights for fear it will rob them of that edge. Other people feel their educational or intellectual superiority threatened by precocious children who are "too smart for their own good" or by child advocates whom they accuse of "trying to undermine parents' authority." Still others suffer the existential knowledge that each year added to a child's age is a year stolen from a parent's youth.
Altogether, these diffuse resentments can make children, the most powerless people of all, seem privileged--and give adults unconscious reasons to retaliate against them. Moreover, it is not just extremists who get tough on children and ignore their needs. Millions of moderate citizens protest the cost of public education, child-care centers, infant-health programs, and food stamps, and worry about their property values when juvenile facilities are planned for their neighborhoods.
In this supposedly child-loving country, most of us quietly tolerate a situation in which one disabled child in five is not getting an education and 13 percent of our 17-year-olds (47 percent of black youths) are functionally illiterate. The poorest people in the land are kids. More babies die at birth in the United States than in 14 other countries. One child in six gets no health care at all. Eighteen million have never seen a dentist. More than a million have serious drinking problems. A quarter of a million youngsters try to commit suicide annually (10,000 succeed) and homicide has become one of the five leading causes of children's deaths--with parents or step-parents responsible for a third of them.
On official levels, mistreatment of children can mean cutting 28 percent of federal nutrition programs or it can mean maintaining a public policy that answers real suffering with benign neglect. "We may be a youth-oriented society," Dr. Coles commented, "but what we love is youth, not children."
Recently, during the National Governors' Conference, 250 state officials from around the nation gathered in Portland, Me., to consider state-initiated solutions to children's problems. The well-chosen title of their three-day symposium was "America's Children Need Powerful Friends." Given the obsession with adult power over children, the idea of using adult power for children is refreshing. Having "powerful friends" in high places is the only hope for those with neither the vote, the voice, nor the economic clout to fight for themselves. The question is, as the cult of toughness gains more converts, where are children's friends going to come from?
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An MA thesis Luca Guadagnino intended more by about one hour -- and variant of Dario Argento terror masterpiece Suspiria is made and refined, and there sting. Whoever can uncertainty his reverence for the first, or really his reverence for his reverence. Even though the finish does provide a twist to the colour-dial the blocks of color in the movie, the reds blues and bile greens are muted largely wintry colors of anxiety and distress, into something controlled.
Suspiria is a 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Luca Guadagnino, with a screenplay by David Kajganich. It is a remake of the 1977 film of the same name directed by Dario Argento and written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi.
You will find shivers of disquiet and moments of dread, the dancing sequences are great and obviously Guadagnino may never be anything aside from an. However, this really is a passionless movie that is weirdly. Diabolical craziness of Argento's flicker is now gonewith his series of humor, and in its place is something determinedly together with indigestible layers of significance.
From her childhood, forces she could never know have attracted to the town Susie. Her tryout admires business officials' gallery, and an eye is cast by Madame Blanc herself. Susie is in -- and she is able to have a spot at the school girls' dorm, situated over the rooms Patricia has stopped, afflicted by some type of breakdown, together with schizophrenia that is incipient. Patricia and a Berlin psychoanalyst, Dr Klemperer visit. He's deeply feared, and also his concern deepens to a feeling, to be shared with the crowd: the dancing school is in reality a front for a coven.
The growing feeling of dread and disorientation is managed, and there's a fantastic scene where Susie's athletic and hot solo dance performance provides a sort of telekinetic beating up into a priest from the next-door rehearsal area, a parodic choreography of violence, which renders its prey horrifyingly mangled and broken. There are actually person vignettes of dread, but stressing longueurs between in.
The film stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Jessica Harper, and Chloë Grace Moretz. Its plot follows an American woman who enrolls at a dance academy in Berlin plagued by unusual occurrences. Harper, who starred as the lead in the original film, appears in a different role. The film features an original musical score by Thom Yorke.
We hear a great deal about terrorism around the information; you will find demos on the roads and also an off-camera bomb: members of this feuding Red Army Faction are participating in violence, and the quasi-familial dysfunction of the revolutionary group is attracted into parallel with what is occurring with the witches. Along with the ones' discord contrasts with all all the battle between Mennonites and Amish that might have been an occult precursor into the theology of evil that surrounds her, and which Susie grew up with. There's also the question of exactly what happened in Germany decades.
There are a great deal of thoughts in this movie, but she is not at the movie as far as she might have been -- and Dakota Johnson herself is quite good lots of things that are important occur elsewhereto other interesting characters. Tilda Swinton herself and she has charm and elegance and some wise lines, respectively. She believes herself to be an overturner of values something of a leader . "We have to break the nose every gorgeous thing," she informs Susie, an astringent maxim, that becomes even more menacing in circumstance. This Suspiria is a act of connoisseurship, a labor of love for Guadagnino, an interesting variation on a subject. Yet storytelling pulse is that the shout of fear and this is lost.
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On the notion of the political in postmarxist theory.
Miguel Abensour
Is there a proper way to use the voluntary servitude hypothesis?
The Transformation of Structural Causality in Late Modernity
Propositions on Subject and History
Filippo del Lucchese
The symptomatic relationship between law and conflict in Spinoza
Jura communia as anima imperii
Warren Montag
Althusser and the Question of Origin
Hegel sive Spinoza
Jacques Rancière
On the political and theoretical effects of Althusserian Marxism
Althusser's Lesson
Michael Löwy
Romanticism and Zivilisationskritik
Walter Benjamin
V. Desclaux, K. Diefenbach M. Dolar, D. Hoens, A. Kukuljevic,
Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan II
The impossible encounter
Michaela Ott
Reading Spinoza with Nietzsche
Deleuze's affective thinking with
Emiliano Battista, Vanessa Brito, Jack H. Fischer
Book presentation
Becoming major, becoming minor
Sara Farris, Peter Thomas
Counter-politicisation of the non-political
The theory of politics in the young Marx
Lars T. Lih
The Unifying Theme of his Political Career
Lenin's Scenario of Class Leadership
Rodrigo Nunes
The politics of Badiou and Deleuze/ Guattari
Subject, event, separation
Rodrigo Nunes
Politics, poetics + popular culture in Brazilian cinema 1962-1979
'Stronger are the powers of the people' I
Thomas Seibert
Reading Badiou with and against his postmarxist contemporaries
Politics unbound
Kathrin Thiele
Nietzsche with Deleuze II
The thought of becoming
International conference
Becoming-major, becoming-minor
Marina Grinić
Global capitalism, necropolitics and contemporary art
Roberto Esposito
The dispositif of the person
International Conference
Encountering Althusser
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Encountering Althusser
Antke Engel
Queer/ing Images of Sexuality and Economy
The Surplus of Paradoxes
Matteo Mandarini
Negri's encounter with Guattari: the elision of Lenin
Communists like us
Ruth Sonderegger
A cinematic diagnosis of biopolitics
The cinema of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Christian Kerslake
The specter of an unsolved problematic
The Meanings of Immanence in Deleuze's Philosophy
Luca Basso, Vittorio Morfino
A French Marx
The singular, the trans-individual and the common
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrea Cavaletti, Katja Diefenbach, Mark Purcell, Miguel Robles-Duran, Lukasz Stanek, Roemer van Toorn, Peter Trummer, Sven-Olov Wallenstein
State-space symposium no. 1
Biopolitics of scale
Paul Hegarty, Vanessa Theodoropoulos, Jean Louis Violeau
Against the economic: Reading Baudrillard with Bataille, Lacan, Marx, and Debord
A Workshop on Baudrillard
Lecture of Tom Rockmore at the International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam
Is Marx a Fichtean?
Martin Saar
Negri on Power
Political Spinozism
Steve Wright
The Refusal of Labor
Tronti's Legacy
Massimo De Angelis, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Anne Querrien
The production of commons, subjectivity and space
Communists like us
A. Auerbach, K. Diefenbach, S. Dillemuth, M. Vishmidt
The politics of bohemia
Maria Muhle
From Foucault to Rancière
Politics, police and power
Manfred Hermes
Narrative strategies of subjectivisation in Fassbinders "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
In the figurative sense
Serhat Karakayali
On political hegemony and militant becoming: Gramsci and Deleuze
The poetics of knowledge
Ruben Martinez, Jaron Rowan, Marina Vishmidt, Katja Diefenbach
The cultural producer as model of the post-fordist worker
In the mood for work
Grahame Lock
The actuality of Althusser's thinking
Dictatorship of the proletariat as political science
Judith Hopf
The imposition of creative work
Hey production!
Raul Zelik
Notes on asymmetric warfare and governance
Sovereign police
The paper examines the concepts of truth and philosophy in Badiou and Deleuze by investigating the consequences for political practice that can be derived from their work.
It does so by tracing their apparent practical differences back to the ontological decisions that set them apart, while at the same time suggesting that not only Badiou's present positions are less distant from those held by Deleuze and Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s.
What is more, it argues for a way of reading them that, without disregarding the significant philosophical differences, places them in a relation of complementarity -- which can both expose the limits of both sides and provides each with a defense against an aestheticisation of their respective political dimensions that risks neutralising their contributions to thinking political practice. In this, we can see both competing projects as articulations of a fidelity to May 68, and think what retaining such fidelity can mean for us today.
Rodrigo Nunes is a philosopher, activist, translator and curator with a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he wrote a thesis on immanence and philosophy in Deleuze and Foucault. His texts have appeared in such publications as Radical Philosophy, ephemera, Mute, Transversal and Deleuze Studies. He has participated, as an organiser and popular educator, in various political initiatives in Latin America and in Europe, including the first three editions of the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and the Cleaners for Justice campaign (London, UK). At present, he is an associate researcher at PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil and an editor of Turbulence (www.turbulence.org.uk).