As a femme queer, I have so been long resigned to being visually misread that I’ve reached the point of just not caring and doing whatever I want, since people usually just begin and end with my hair anyway. What those lipsticks give me is something incredibly rare: power over the way other people see me. I actually had a teenage girl timidly touch me on the shoulder at a museum exhibit to compliment me on it, staring at my mouth like she’d simply never conceived of the idea before and found something inspiring about it. I leave fantastical, cosmic lip marks on coffee cups and apples. Women are usually pleasantly baffled by it men are repelled. With the warm tones in my face neutralized by how dark and cold they are, I look… different. I’ve also started wearing purple lipstick-true, dark, royal purple, not berry or mauve-but they both get the kind of attention I want. I’ve started wearing blue lipstick recently. Edited by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton
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This was pretty intimidating for me but I said well - maybe somebody needs a manual for this and besides, a good business book is a great business card. In addition I had reconfigured my business and put my name on the masthead so part of my mission was to create a website and was advised by my advisors to create a book – write a bestselling book. Plus I’d been working with some of the best and brightest business people and other over-achievers on the planet and I had become convinced due to their productivity improvements while using the system that it was pretty bullet proof. There really wasn’t anything else out there like it. Really that’s how long it took me to have enough life experience to put GTD together, as well as to realize that it (GTD) was as unique as it was and as badly needed as it was. Oliver Starr: What was the original impetus for writing your first book?ĭavid Allen: It took me about 25 years. Interview with David Allen David Allen - №1 with David Allen Earlier I suggested that knowing something about the Manhattan Project and its key players will enhance one's enjoyment as you see what the story does to these characters. I haven't had as much fun with comics since Last Gasp Eco-Funnies' SLOW DEATH series in the 1970s and Moebius' AIRTIGHT GARAGE. I look forward to additional volumes in this series though I can't imagine how they can possible match Volume 1. For example, see how the Oppenheimers are distinguished. The art work and color is totally in service of the interweaved story lines. Somehow Hickman and Pitarra manage to make sense out of steadily increasingly weird situations in this tale involving teleportation, mysticism, aliens, and artificial intelligence. But as the story unfolds and layers are added showing how the development of the atom bomb during WWII was really just a front for even weirder and bizarre science, you will be greatly entertained. Some may be put off initially by the remarkably twisted take on the main characters - Groves, Oppenheimer, Von Braun, and Feynmen in particular. If you have studied the real Manhattan Project and its main characters your enjoyment of this outlandish and irreverent treatment will be enhanced. The audio over the PA system was difficult to decipher much of the time. Boarding was chaotic at best with very little control and guidance provided by Delta staff. Seating in immediate gate area was not comfortable. We received three additional alerts making our total wait time at the airport 5½ hours before we could approach the gate and board the aircraft. We got an alert stating that the flight was going to be delayed but we were already almost to the airport when I received the first message on my smartphone. Maybe they have better service on the east coast but they should do a total overhaul of their service in the Caribbean."Ĭons: "Our flight was originally scheduled for departure at 7:45 PM. Never flying with them again obviously, and recommend you avoid them if you have connections or need to get somewhere guaranteed. They assured me they would refund me but of course I've been emailing with Cape Air for a week and still no refund. Flight was cancelled on xmas weekend because the "pilot was over his hours." After they rebooked everyone else on the flight including my boyfriend, their computer wouldn't rebook me for some reason so I had to purchase a ticket to be able to leave. This time, they left me stranded in Puerto Rico. I was left stranded in St Croix because even though they charged me for the flight "my name didn't appear on their seat list." And they were like oops nothing we can do sorry. Cons: "They have a bad rap in the Caribbean for bad service and unreliability, as I found out after my bad experiences. It’s like climbing a mountain, I tell myself. Most people walk along in their own worlds anyway.Īs I reach the town centre the crowds become denser and the shop fronts are bright and noisy and with every step I have a stronger desire to run, but I don’t. I haven’t raised my gaze from the pavement but that’s OK. My dark glasses are on, my hands are jammed in the pockets of my hoodie, and I’ve pulled the hood up for extra protection. Even though my lizard brain is poised to curl up in fright, I’m managing to put one foot in front of the other. We live about twenty minutes’ walk from Starbucks, if you’re striding. So I waited till they left, got my key, got my money and the camera, and just left the house. I couldn’t face the whole big deal of telling them and Mum fussing and all that palaver. Mum and Dad are out for the day with friends at some garden show and they’ve taken Frank with them to “broaden his horizons,” so they have no idea I’m doing this. Impossible not to compare this book, as many others have, to Patricia Highsmith’s famous novel. Possibly, better friends than is good for them.Ī dreadful accident occurs which wrenches them apart, and they go their separate ways Lucy to New York and Alice with her new husband to Tangier.īut a year later, Lucy turns up uninvited on Alice’s doorstep, convinced there is unfinished business between them. Alice is an orphan and Lucy is an outcast, but after being thrown together by chance they become best friends. Tangerine is the story of Alice and Lucy, old college roommates. It seems like any book blog I visit it’s there, up in the ‘currently reading’ sidebar with that gorgeous cover of a 1050s belle shielding her eyes and looking out over a black and white landscape. Is it me or is eeeeerybody reading Tangerine? When should you read ‘Tangerine’? On holiday in Morocco, having first found a particularly busy souk in which to abandon any female friends who accompanied you there. For his own part, the Mason can see nothing worthwhile in Gabriel and draws inordinate pleasure from making fun of him for his ineptitude, his looks and, most of all, his mass of curling golden hair. From an adult perspective it’s charming but painted in rather broad strokes.Įleven-year-old Gabriel is apprenticed to the Mason, a brutish, impatient man who has no time for teaching or nurturing the boys in his care. I’m completely out of practice in judging the correct reading age for a children’s book, but I would hazard a guess that this would probably be best suited for nine to twelve-year-olds. In the end I bought it because, after all, it is a historical novel, set in the medieval period. The cover caught my eye about four years ago, with its glorious sweep of peacocks’ feathers, and I’ve found myself coming back to admire the design ever since (it is much more beautiful than the covers of other editions I’ve seen on LibraryThing). First things first: this is a children’s book, and I was never under any illusions about that. In addition to its accessibility, the wit and dazzling morbidity of her prose sheds new light on the saga for scholars. In the end, Orestes, driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family, and Elektra are condemned to death by the people of Argos, and must justify their actions-signaling a call to change in society, a shift from the capricious governing of the gods to the rule of manmade law.Ĭarson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra. After the murder of her daughter Iphegenia by her husband Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions-Aiskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes-giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Media Issues, Communication & Journalism.Computer Science & Information Technology. The British press set expectations high when the six-part psychological thriller premiered in the U.K. (I have to admit: Every time I mentioned Doherty to my colleagues ahead of our interview, I referred to her as Princess Anne.) Now that she’s the star of Chloe, though, Doherty is clearly fast on the path to becoming a name in her own right. The vast majority of people have only ever seen the 29-year-old actor as a younger version of the royal, seeing as she primarily acts on stage and isn’t exactly active on social media. The public has had the same view of Doherty ever since she entered the spotlight. I’m not going to do that.’ And she was very much like, ‘But… you’re Princess Anne!’” In the lead-up to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the U.K.’s mega celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne, Erin Doherty received a request from her mom: Would she come to her Jubilee street party-and, most importantly, would she do so dressed as Princess Anne? “My mom lost her mind about The Crown,” Doherty, who broke out with her portrayal of the royal in seasons 3 and 4 of the hit Netflix series, says with a laugh from her apartment in South London. 4,652 fans heard the call from directors/producers Jim Denonakos and Kevin Konrad Hanna and pledged $528,785 to bring the project to fruition.Īnd now, well, it’s done and- boy, is it good! Last year I had mentioned that a documentary about Hellboy’s creator was being funded through Kickstarter and in production. Dutifully when he’s finished, he slowly turns to the camera and looks at the imaginary audience with one of the best dead-pan Jack Benny impressions I’ve seen-an expression that’s part amused, part long-suffering, and all Mike Mignola. Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters opens as the artist is sketching in his studio at night, his table illuminated by a single lamp from offscreen we hear the director instruct him to turn and look at the camera when the art is completed. |