![]() ![]() The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. Politicians may or may not follow-it is up to them-but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them. ![]() Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. ![]() We-Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people-did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() With a film being optioned before it had even been released, this has been awaiting production for some time now, with a script from Lynch currently under-way. The first of the ‘Gentleman Bastards’ series, initially published by Lynch on June the 27th, 2006, this was the book that was to introduce the character of Lock Lamora to the world, along with the rest of his universe. ![]() Gentleman Bastards: The Lies of Locke Lamora ![]() There are also supplementary novels featuring these cast members in different adventures of their own, as it’s a world Lynch continues to expand upon, where con-artistry is still a new and intriguing form of crime with as yet to be witnessed consequences. Looking at a period of between fifteen to twenty years of his life, they feature an insight into his world and the various supporting characters who inhabit it. These fantasy novels are based around the exploits of chief protagonist Locke Lamora, a resourceful young con-artist and thief. Lynch has also mentioned that there will be a further sequel series to arrive afterwards, which will be set twenty years into the future and will also be seven books long. With the first three having already been published, there are still five waiting to be released. Set within the ‘Therein Throne Empire’, a broken world containing a number of descendant states, this is a series of seven planned novels in total from American fantasy author Scott Lynch. ![]() ![]() What richness! Jeffrey being placed in the queen’s household by her greatest rival for King Charles’ affections, then Jeffrey’s loyalties shifting as he came to love the queen, following her through her turbulent years of civil war and exile. There is even a statue portraying him popping out of a coffin pie at a banquet, dressed in a miniature suit of armor. Jeffrey’s presentation to his future royal mistress, French Catholic Queen, Henrietta Maria, was even orchestrated by Buckingham. ![]() As I delved into research about Jeffrey Hudson, the subject of The Queen’s Dwarf, I practically did a happy dance when I discovered that Jeffrey’s father was the keeper of the Duke of Buckingham’s bull-baiting dogs. – Andrea A villainous courtship: George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and Lady Katherine Manners.Įvery worthy hero needs an adversary to test his mettle. Chase, which is sure to interest you all, especially those who have a particular fondness for the Early Stuarts of the 17th-century. Today, we have a wonderful guest post from Ms. ![]() I am very pleased to welcome acclaimed historical fiction author Ella March Chase to The S eventeenth Century Lady! Ella has written several books, and her latest book, The Queen’s Dwarf, is now out in paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was hoping for Stephen King or something.” Whenever I’d present Ted’s short story to producers, I was met with a not-insignificant level of suspicion. The only horror script I’d ever written was the one that sold, and I soon discovered this was all I was trusted to write. Six of those spec features were science fiction. I just knew I had to find a way.Īt this point in my career, I had written 13 spec screenplays. I knew I wanted to translate to screen, but I had no idea how, or with whom. It shadowed me by day and hovered over me when I slept. And while so much of his work is built purely as literature, when I think about adapting a story I don’t dwell on how cinematic the source material is but rather how it makes me feel. He can educate me about theoretical physics and then leave me sobbing into my couch cushion. ![]() Ted is one of those rare finds in that he writes compelling fiction that is both intellectually invigorating and emotionally true. Nevertheless, science fiction was my first literary love, and after years away from the genre, the author who brought me back was Ted Chiang. It was a key ingredient in my childhood, but one I learned to keep quiet in my hometown in Oklahoma where, occasionally, adults used air quotes when saying the word science. Stories of new worlds, new ideas, and possibilities for the future. ![]() My mother read to me when I was young, like mothers do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the story revolves mainly around the protagonist Septimus and his sister Jenna, the whole family comes together in the adventures. The Heaps are the main characters in the series. ![]() Thus an evil principal becomes the necromancer, the dead queen loved grandparent, Septimus as the most intelligent but quiet boy in class and Jenna, perhaps, as the new best friend in the neighbourhood" - The Heaps They are, but by highlighting certain aspects of their personality, she makes it easy for the reader to think of real people in terms of these characters. But this doesn’t mean that her characters are not well-rounded people. The good and the bad characteristics are accompanied by the dull and the intelligent, the silly with the mature and the unapproachable with the loving. ![]() ![]() Sage separates the qualities that make us who we are and typecasts them into these roles. These characters remind us of the different types of people around us. When reviewing the first book in the series, Magyk, Sabina Qazi of described the characters as follows: Some characters play a central role in all the books, while others are only central to the plot in one or two of the books. These include the books Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren, Darke, and Fyre. This article catalogs the key characters from the books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We can no longer afford to blindly follow the recommendations of doctors or friends, advertisements, or online ratings to make what are often the most important decisions in our lives. The coronavirus has destabilized the entire healthcare system, resulting in higher costs and more complexity for everyone. When you're in need of an elective procedure, SurgiQuality provides you expert recommendations, full cost comparisons, and, most important, a ranking of surgeons based on past outcomes. Sanjay Prasad explains how SurgiQuality uses breakthrough technology to provide patients unprecedented transparency, quality, cost control, and expertise. With so much uncertainty surrounding our healthcare, Resetting Healthcare Post-COVID-19 Pandemic is your essential guide. The pandemic reset how doctors practice and how patients receive care–there's no returning to the pre-coronavirus status quo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fox were the only two to have the number one movie at the box office and the number one show on TV simultaneously. Left alone, my crazy brain (crazy only in this area by the way) would find some excuse to do the unthinkable: drink and drugs. At forty-nine, I was still afraid to be alone. He admits he once fell asleep on the couch in “Central Perk.” Until Joey nudged him, he thought no one else noticed. He said a half gallon of Vodka lasted him two days. I don’t know how Matthew Perry ever pulled off Chandler Bing as stoned or hungover as he was. I looked at it and wondered, what the f*ck is this?īack to Friends, Lovers, & the Big Terrible Thing I tried that one time and looked at the results the following day. However, don’t even try serious writing, like copywriting. ![]() No hangovers, no wondering what the hell I did the night before. I smoked when I was 16 years old and still enjoy a righteous high now that I am 66. Not bad for allowing folks to do what they going to do anyway. That’s a cool $16,000,000 added to the state treasury. Maine did $160 million in sales in 2022, double the 2021 sales. Some others I wanted to try were Afternoon Delight, Comfortably Numb, and Scuba Steve (for obvious reasons).Īs I said, I bought mine at Brothers, but the other stores I saw with more creative names were High Supply Company, Highbrow Supplies, and KannaKraft. My nephew said he had some I could try later. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of your Doing becomes stressful and ultimately pointless, because you are not rooted in the dimension of Being. This dysfunctional state of consciousness keeps you trapped in unease, unhappiness, anxiety, stress, frustration, and so on. If you habitually resist the present moment or see it as an obstacle or even an enemy, then you’re never really fully alive. Why is life so much better when we align ourselves with the present moment? Because the Now is the only place where life happens. ![]() I call it Presence.Īnd in this online course, The Power of Presence, I invite you to not only realize this shift for yourself, but also ensure that it becomes your predominant state of consciousness. This brings about a new state of consciousness. How? By making the present moment their friend and by honoring rather than denying it. Instead of reducing the moment to a means to an end-or worse, unconsciously regarding it as an obstacle or an enemy, they are starting to experience a depth of freedom and joy they couldn’t imagine previously. Since the publication of The Power of Now, many people have been undergoing a shift in consciousness by changing the way in which they relate to the present moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not tiny, Fitzgerald says, sounding offended. ![]() You’re way too fucking tiny for the checking line. We might play on a line together, so I thought I’d introduce myself. You’re Mike, Fitzgerald says, providing himself the introduction Mike didn’t. I’m Liam, the kid - Fitzgerald - says, either not realizing or not caring that he’s interrupting Mike’s pregame routine. He introduces himself to Mike before his first game with a outstretched hand and a shit-eating grin, radiating that specific kind of confidence that teenage boys the world over seem to have: cockiness overlaying self-consciousness. And he is a kid: eighteen, baby-faced, smaller than everyone else on the roster at 5’8" and clearly determined to make up for it. The kid gets called up to the Oilers when Steinberg breaks his foot halfway through the season. He just doesn’t know if that makes it better or worse. Let’s be clear: Mike knows from the get-go that it’s a stupid fucking idea. ![]() ![]() I feel bad telling you this, but it is divine. Nora: I found a better recipe, from Mark Bittman. Nora: By the way, that pound-cake recipe you gave me? I have bad news for you. Ina Garten at home in East Hampton, 2008. Ina: This morning I said to my assistant, Barbara, “Tell me again-what’s the name of Nora’s book?” “ I Remember Nothing,” she answered. Today’s menu is bruschetta with herbed ricotta, salad, and, for dessert, panna cotta with balsamic strawberries, all recipes from How Easy Is That? Gossip, fashion, politics, and travel are among the table topics du jour, but with the holidays fast approaching, the subject quickly turns to one main dish: food and entertaining. Ina’s How Easy Is That?, her seventh book, is a collection of her most delicious and time-saving recipes yet. I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections, a collection of comic and insightful essay about the many vicissitudes of modern life, is Nora’s follow-up to her 2006 best seller I Feel Bad About My Neck and then there is her new divorce blog on Huffington Post. ![]() This is an eventful fall for both women, who have just published new books. This article original appeared in the December 2010 issue of Town & Country.Īfter a midday nip of rose Champagne in the living room of her East Hampton house, the Barefoot Contessa serves lunch to her friend and weekend neighbor Nora Ephron in her barn, the setting for her popular television show. ![]() |