![]() bottoms).Īs we know, fins can make or break any surfboard. ![]() The minimalist logo is out of the Channel Islands Archives-a lam Al put on his boards in the early ’70s-all CI Mids are stocked with high quality, colorful resin craftsmanship (6-4oz. Boasting a moderate midlength template with low entry rocker and foam forward for ease of paddle and effortless trim speed, the CI Mid scoots, squirts and swivels thanks to contemporary features like double-barrel concave, graduated rocker, and hard, slightly tucked rails through and off the tail.Ī reliable all-arounder that flies over the flatter, smaller stuff, the CI Mid really stands apart from other midlength designs in shoulder-high to nearly double overhead point surf, where surfers are able to lay down flowy, arcing turns with total confidence, speed, and control. ![]() ![]() Inspired by the clean, longer-railed lines drawn by traditional eggs and single-fins, the CI Mid infuses that vibe with the crispness, sensitivity, and freedom made possible by modern features synonymous with Merrick design principles. The CI Mid is a modern classic design resulting from a fun collaboration with Devon Howard, a southern California surfer that has spent the past two decades riding and refining this genre. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era's great geniuses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. ![]() The director famously suffered from a range of physical ailments throughout his life, and these were further exacerbated by Bergman’s constant anxiety, stress, and self-criticism. More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman's vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood's golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. The pain and discomfort of the human condition is a key theme in The Magic Lantern, as it is with many Bergman films. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood." Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. Παρουσίαση"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the Middle Ages, Lapvona is an allegory about suffering and power. But then no author is quite like Moshfegh. As a rule, this doesn’t happen to me while reading books, to literally feel nauseated at the suggestion of something. At one point, I had to stop reading because I thought I might vomit. ![]() Lapvona is her most recent novel, published in 2022.Īll of Moshfegh’s writings-at least the ones I have read-are grotesque in some way. ![]() I have previewed two of her novels on this blog in the past: My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands. Her prose is both straightforward and vivid. Ottessa Moshfegh is one of my favorite living authors. “When Marek reached the bottom of the mountain and looked out at the dark pasture, he saw his old home and smelled the stench of death floating on the slow breeze as he walked toward it.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adapted from his 2008 play of the same name, the ten-part miniseries is the brainchild of screenwriter Tony McNamara. Perhaps most impressively, the empress-born a virtually penniless Prussian princess-wielded power for three decades despite the fact that she had no claim to the crown whatsoever.Ī new Hulu series titled “ The Great” takes its cue from the little-known beginnings of Catherine’s reign. Ruler of Russia from 1762 to 1796, Catherine championed Enlightenment ideals, expanded her empire’s borders, spearheaded judicial and administrative reforms, dabbled in vaccination, curated a vast art collection that formed the foundation of one of the world’s greatest museums, exchanged correspondence with such philosophers as Voltaire and Dennis Diderot, penned operas and children’s fairy tales, founded the country’s first state-funded school for women, drafted her own legal code, and promoted a national system of education. Catherine the Great is a monarch mired in misconception.ĭerided both in her day and in modern times as a hypocritical warmonger with an unnatural sexual appetite, Catherine was a woman of contradictions whose brazen exploits have long overshadowed the accomplishments that won her “the Great” moniker in the first place. ![]() ![]() Understanding and applying the principles ethically is cost-free and deceptively easy. Unity, the newest principle for this edition.You may think you know these principles, but without understanding their intricacies, you may be ceding their power to someone else. You'll learn Cialdini's Universal Principles of Influence, including new research and new uses so you can become an even more skilled persuader-and just as importantly, you'll learn how to defend yourself against unethical influence attempts. ![]() ![]() With Cialdini as a guide, you don't have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science. Using memorable stories and relatable examples, Cialdini makes this crucially important subject surprisingly easy. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini- New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion-explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion-a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold-now revised, adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 2nd edition, Lamentillo, who is now Undersecretary-and previously Assistant Secretary-of the DICT, included a new chapter to segue into the digital infrastructure program of the current administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. It is a report on the Duterte Administration’s Build, Build, Build program, particularly 29,264 kilometers of roads 5,950 bridges 11,340 flood mitigation structures 222 evacuation centers 150,149 classrooms 214 airport projects and 451 seaport projects built over a period of five years. ![]() Night Owl, authored by Lamentillo, details the infrastructure accomplishments of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, particularly those of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) under then Secretary Mark A. MANILA - Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary and former Build, Build, Build committee chair Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, has released the second edition of her book, Night Owl, which includes a new chapter on the present administration’s Build Better More thrust. ![]() ![]() She may have waited until the end of her career because she knew that many, many fans of Pride and Prejudice have very definite opinions about the characters, particularly the brooding Darcy, and that anyone venturing onto Austen’s turf was running the risk of ticking off a whole lot of readers.Īlso, because, I think, James recognized that Death Comes to Pemberley isn’t great James nor is it great Austen. My suspicion is that the James book may have been written earlier, even decades earlier, and only trotted out at the end of her life because, well, she wanted to pay her homage before dying. (In addition, it gave her a chance in passing references to link the world of Pemberley to people from two other Austen novels Emma and Persuasion.) It not only gave such characters as Elizabeth and Darcy (and Lydia and Wickham and others) additional life beyond the end of the Austen novel, published 198 years earlier, but also brought them into James’s own fictional world. Her celebration of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was, it seems to me, an important book to her. Three years earlier, the 14 th and last of her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries, The Private Patient, had arrived in bookstores. James was in her 91 st year when, in 2011, she published Death Comes to Pemberley, her final book. I’d suggest, though, that, even more, it’s high-toned fan fiction. James is a pastiche inasmuch as it’s a literary work, written in the style of another author, in this case, Jane Austen, that celebrates Austen’s art. ![]() Technically, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() He brings the bodies to the shore, where he sees thousands of gulls hovering over the sea. Nat returns home to collect the bodies of the dead birds, but cannot bury them because the ground has frozen solid. Jim, a cowhand, is similarly unconcerned. Trigg of the previous evening’s battle with the birds, she is dismissive of his story, positing that it was simply the weather. He sees his daughter Jill onto the school bus and then visits the farm to check on the Triggs. The next morning Nat insists to his wife that the sudden cold snap and east wind are to blame for the birds’ behavior. When day breaks, fifty birds lie dead on the floor. Nat ushers the children out of the room before wrapping a blanket around himself and fighting with the birds until dawn. He rushes to their room to find the window open and dozens of birds diving about in attack. Nat scatters them away with his arms, only to hear cries coming from his children’s bedroom. Upon opening it, half a dozen birds swarm about his face. That evening, Nat awakens to an insistent tapping on his window. Trigg asserts that the weather must be causing the birds’ behavior, and predicts it will be a hard winter. ![]() Upon finishing his work for the day, Nat tells the farmer Mr. ![]() Nat Hocken, a war veteran and farmhand with a disability, observes that there seem to be more birds than usual clamoring restlessly over the sea. ![]() On the third of December in a quiet, seaside town, the season shifts abruptly from autumn to winter. ![]() ![]() The book was extremely well received and Roberts sold the rights for a potential film for $2 million. He published his first novel “Shantaram” after leaving prison. After evading capture for ten years he was rearrested on a drug trafficking run in Frankfurt in 1990, spending a further 6 years in prison. ![]() In order to finance his drug habit, Roberts turned to crime and was sentenced to 19 years for bank robbery but he made a famous day time escape from Pentridge Prison after serving just two years. Roberts became a heroin addict leading to a strain in his marriage that ended in divorce and the loss of custody of his daughter. Roberts, born in June 1952, overcame a debilitating heroin addiction and crime life to engineer a successful writing career that is to a large extent a chronicle of his earlier struggles. Gregory David Roberts is an Australian writer who is best known for the novel Shantaram. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poppy is actually the character I had some trouble with. …now it was only the thin line of my self-control that kept me from bending her over a pew and spanking that creamy white ass for making me hard when I didn’t want to be, for making me think about her naughty mouth when I should be thinking about her eternal soul.” It was more of an obligation, as much as he enjoyed the position and excelled at it. They have a calling I never felt that in him. But I never felt he was truly what a Catholic Priest should be. ![]() Told mostly from Father Bell’s point of view, we are able to see he is a very sexual creature, who just wanted to do something right for his community. Until SHE walked into his confessional, and they were pulled together like magnets.Īre you telling me,” I asked, “that you were masturbating in the booth next to me?” He was a good man, and a pillar in the community. But when tragedy struck his family and his town, he was drawn to the Priesthood, and devoted his life to his congregation. Since I am neither, none of that bothered me…in fact, I’d convert if I could find my own Father Bell!įather Bell didn’t always want to be a Priest. I’m going to give a warning here: If you are a religious person, especially a Catholic, I don’t recommend this book. Priest by Sierra Simone is as taboo as I have read. ![]() |