[scifinoir2] Carole's re-introduction
1. Name: Carole McDonnell 2. Location: NY 3. Nickname/ Alias: none 4. To What Speculative Fiction Character do you relate or identify(describe the character): None i can think of 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: alternate reality, anthropological Spec-fic, time travel, creature features 6. Favorite Speculative Fiction TV Show (canceled shows ok): Can't think 7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Movie: Dune, Logan's Run, TimeCop, Incredible Shrinking Man, Lake Placid, Deep Blue Sea 8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: Any kind of Savior hero or Christlike hero 9. Favorite Speculative Fiction Villain: Any kind of sexy but sensitive evil guy 11. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: 12. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Superhero: 13. Topics of importance to you: religion 14. Your own published works, if any: Black is the color of my true love's hair, Lingua Franca, Homecoming at the Borderlands Cafe and coming in June 2007 Wind Follower 15. Your web site: _www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html) 16. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: celtic fantasy. Am burned out with Eurofiction, bad Christian fantasy 17. Memberships in science fiction clubs: gonna join carlbrandon one o these days. 18. Anything else you think is important: Am a Christian and the Bible informs everything i write. I also write about characters who have physical or emotional disabilities. Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[scifinoir2] Top Five Most Challenged Books in 2005
Top Five Most Challenged Books in 2005 September 28, 2006 This week (September 23-30) is _Banned Books Week_ (http://www.ala.org/bbooks) . It is also the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week. The ALA says there were 405 known attempts to remove books in 2005. These attempts include "formal, written complaints filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness." The ALA has also listed the following books as the five most challenged books of 2005. _It's Perfectly Normal_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763624330/writerswrite) by Robie Harris _Forever_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689849737/writerswrite) by Judy Blume _The Catcher in the Rye_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316769177/writerswrite) by J.D. Salinger _The Chocolate War_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440944597/writerswrite) by Robert Cormier _Whale Talk_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440229383/writerswrite) by Chris Crutcher Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the ALA, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores. It is also endorsed by the Library of Congress Center for the Book. www.internetwritingjournal.com/cgi-bin/iwjblog.pl?id=928061 Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] www.associatedcontent.com/join/jjobsgames
Website: _http://www.associatedcontent.com/join/jjobsgames_ (http://www.associatedcontent.com/join/jjobsgames) Description: Do you always have the latest video games even before they hit GameStop? Do you have an insider scoop on the gaming industry? Did you stand in line at the Nintendo World store to get the DS Lite? Are you pissed off that E3 is no more? And…do you think you have the skills to write about it? We’re looking for video game heads, people who can write must-see video game reviews, and gaming news for our website. We want news so hot that it hits the Digg.com homepage. You should be ready to write five or more reviews per week. This is a short-term, work-from-home opportunity, but it could lead to more work. $10 per piece, for starters. We also need writers who are ready, willing and able to take on a product/category as their ‘beat’. Check out our entertainment library at: _AC _ (http://www.associatedcontent.com/entertainment/) Then, drop us an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skip the resume! We’re more interested in what work you have online. Send URLs, including personal blogs and more. **You must be 18 or over to receive payment.** When applying, mention you saw this opening listed at JournalismJobs.com. Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] art contestThe Legends of Mernac
Amy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Legends of Mernac Announces Debut Art Contest September 1, 2006 Grand Opening Never-Ending Fantasy Series Launches Grand Opening! POMPANO BEACH, Florida – August 15, 2006- The Legends of Mernac (www.mernac.com), is an on-line fantasy saga built on interlinked stories. The mythical world of Mernac is created by the registered users of the site, in the fashion of “spinning tales” that tell the 10,000 year history of Mernac. This is done from the prospective of well-written characters that keep readers riveted and wanting more. The Legends of Mernac is a site jam-packed with contests for writers and artists. The Legends of Mernac is structured to promote unfound talent and for the Grand Opening on September 1, 2006, the site will host a huge international 3D Art contest. The challenge will be to illustrate a current short-story from The Legends of Mernac. The Grand Prize will be $500.00, a feature in the print magazine ImagineFX, and a feature on the world’s largest online art community, renderosity.com. Full contest details available at www.mernac.com. The Legends of Mernac is driven to providing an audience to up and coming talent and will host various contests at all times in the search to find that next great writer and/or artist. The only requirements are that participants must be registered users, which is free. Contests will include, art contests, writing contests, even programming contests! And, users can also sponsor their own contests! The developers of The Legends Mernac are also working on additional phases which are slated to include music and/or soundtracks, RPG Gaming, animations, movie clips, and, eventually, full-feature movies. All of these functions will be available to the public-at-large, providing users an even more means to create their own “LEGENDS” in the world of MERNAC. Founder of The Legends of Mernac, Rick Merriman, has based his creation on a philosophy of people helping people. The goal being thousands of talented (yet undiscovered) writers, artists, musicians, programmers, promoters or business people provided an outlet for their passions and a possible ultimate escape from the standard 9-5 job. According to Mr. Merriman, “The Bottom line: I believe that the surest path to success is to help other people become successful. I believe that after providing my family with a comfortable living (and a way for others [who contribute to, or promote Mernac] to provide their families with a comfortable living) that the bulk of any profits should be used to fund and help talented people create their art.” To learn more about this project or to schedule an on-line interview with Founder, Rick Merriman, please contact Heather Merriman, Director of Publicity at 954-298-5481 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broaduniverse/post?postID=ZuGp6XsvTcAfjyf4oDtXf5ZCUrKG5fc7A3tjyAqibcqrKA88MF XCWJFSbLkc_-IzSCtgXY7od9AhLVzV) Heather Merriman Director of Publicity The Legends of Mernac 954-298-5481 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broaduniverse/post?postID=ZuGp6XsvTcAfjyf4oDtXf5ZCUrKG5fc7A3tjyAqibcqrKA88MFXCWJFSbLkc_-IzSCtgXY7od9AhLVzV) Lillian Hawkins Renderosity Marketing Manager Phone: 866-220-2949 ext 27 “Because the art matters!” Archived Press Releases Available at www.mernac.com. _http://www.mernac.com/modules/mernac/?cid=53_ (http://www.mernac.com/modules/mernac/?cid=53) END Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] OT: Agony of New Orleans, Through Spike Lee's Eyes
August 3, 2006
Agony of New Orleans, Through Spike Lee's Eyes
By FELICIA R. LEE (new york times)
NEW ORLEANS - From the beginning Spike Lee knew that Hurricane
Katrina was a story he had to tell. Watching the first television images of
floating bodies and of desperate people, mostly black, stranded on
rooftops, he quickly realized he was witnessing a major historical
moment. As those moments kept coming, he spent almost a year capturing
the hurricane's sorrowful consequences for a four-hour documentary,
"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," to be shown on HBO
this month.
The film, which Mr. Lee directed and produced, comes 20 years after
the August 1986 debut of his first hit, "She's Gotta Have It," about Nola
Darling, a Brooklyn graphic artist, and her three lovers. The
provocative films that followed ("Do the Right Thing," "Jungle Fever,"
"Malcolm X," among others), with their searing cultural critiques,
cemented Mr. Lee's reputation as his generation's pioneering black
filmmaker. This year he had a commercial and critical success with
"Inside Man," about a bank heist.
Like him or not, Mr. Lee, 49, is an artist many people feel they
know. People, black and white, approached him and the "Levees" crew here,
he said, imploring: "Tell the story. Tell the story." "It becomes like
an obligation we have," he said.
Mr. Lee's reputation helped get his camera crew into the city's
water-soaked homes, he said. It allowed him to stretch out a complex
story, with themes of race, class and politics that, he said, have too
often been sensationalized or rendered in sound bites. He received
permission, for example, from Kimberly Polk to film the funeral of her
5-year-old daughter, Sarena Polk, swept away when the waters ravaged
the Lower Ninth Ward. "She came to me in a dream," Ms. Polk says in the
film. "She said, 'Mama, I'm falling.' "
"Levees" opens with the Louis Armstrong song "Do You Know What It
Means to Miss New Orleans?" and offers black-and-white images of the city's
Southern-with-a-twist past - Mardi Gras, Confederate flags -
interspersed with scenes of children airlifted from demolished houses,
a door marked "dead body inside."
This gumbo of a film lingers on the politics of disaster response,
the science of levees and storms, the city's Creolized culture, the
stories of loss. Many faces are familiar: politicians like C. Ray Nagin, the
city's mayor, and Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana;
celebrities like Harry Belafonte, Kanye West, the Rev. Al Sharpton and
Sean Penn; and the native son and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who
talks about New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz. "It's like somebody
violating your mama," Mr. Marsalis says of the flooding.
Mr. Lee said he intended most of the "Levee" stories to come from the
ordinary people who endured the Superdome's makeshift shelter or long
searches for loved ones. So "Levees" includes many people like Phyllis
Montana LeBlanc, depressed and outraged after her family was
evacuated to different places around the country and she waited four months
for
a government trailer. "Not just the levees broke," she says in the
film. "The spirit broke."
And there's Paris Ervin, a University of New Orleans student, who
fled Hurricane Katrina but left behind his mother, Mary Johnell Morant.
Months later, after their home was officially searched and marked
empty, the police found Ms. Morant's remains in the kitchen, under a
refrigerator. It took two more months for the coroner's office to identify
her officially and release the body.
As a kind of thank-you to the many residents like Mr. Ervin, the
first half of "Levees" will be first shown free on Aug. 16 to 10,000 people
at the New Orleans Arena. HBO is to show the first two hours of "Levees"
on Aug. 21 at 9 p.m., the last two on Aug. 22 at 9 p.m. It will be shown
in its entirety at 8 p.m. on Aug. 29, the anniversary of the hurricane,
one of the country's worst natural disasters.
The critics and audience will have the final say on whether "Levees"
is the thorough examination that Mr. Lee intends. His views are clear.
"What happened in New Orleans was a criminal act," he said, a tragic
backhanded slap to poor, black or politically insignificant people.
"The levees were a Band-Aid here and a Band-Aid there. In the famous
statement of Malcolm X, the chickens came home to roost. Somebody
needs to go to jail."
Douglas Brinkley, the author of "The Great Deluge," a book about
Hurricane Katrina said: "When I heard Spike Lee was coming down, I
felt grateful. I thought the media perspective - while good - still showed
that a lot wasn't being asked." Mr. Lee is "grappling with the larger
question of why so many African-Americans distrust government," said
Mr. Brinkley, a professor of history at Tulane University, who appears in
the film.
Just as Michael Apted's "7 Up," documentary series followed a group
of people, filmed
[scifinoir2] Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] I finally get Phillip K. Dick
No one really knows what day or time it is. One is never sure of anything and one never knows if one is missing the boat, on the boat, is the only one on the boat, or is the only one on the boat who realizes that the boat isn't moving although everyone else thinks it is. The thing is to have some bearing about how much one has missed the boat, or how society has missed the boat and to see through the glass darkly...at least a bit ...so one can be somewhat free. It's a bit like a mystery story, I think. Or like those psychological terror stories of Edgar Allen Poe. The characters are almosting it, and trying to see their way clear in a world where the world is always with them, AND where their own minds aren't that clear either. Just because one is nutty doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't. One wakes to find that one has awakened into a weird kind of dream-world. I like that about Dick. -c Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books _www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html) carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] couple of odds and ends
See the nominees of the World Fantasy Awards on-line at _http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/_ (http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/) Okay, I'll admit it...I was so busy working on my novel that I only read stuff I had to review. I wish they'd had links so I could see just what the blurbs for these writers were but... One of my favorite sites -- if you like fantastic and macabre poetry _http://www.poemsofthefantastic.com/contents.html_ (http://www.poemsofthefantastic.com/contents.html) Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: The August IROSF is Here!
In a message dated 8/9/2006 9:34:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The August edition of the Internet Review of Science Fiction is now officially clogging the Internet "tubes" -- with fascinating material on a wide variety of topics. Reviews, including a mammoth compendium of short fiction reviews for presses large and small; essays from Negadon to the Wendigo; coverage of television and film; bold new forays into multimedia reporting from WisCon; material of interest to authors and readers...this is an issue with something for everyone. Check it out! http://www.irosf.com Contents of the issue: Editorial * Catching Up With Fame by: Bluejack Feature * Anatomy of an Idea by: Jay Lake, Ruth Nestvold * Got Filk? by: Heidi Kneale * Point of View by: Juliette Wade Con Report * WisCon30 by: Dotar Sojat Essay * Friends of the Wendigo by: Lisa Agnew * Negadon Attacks by: Amy Harlib * Down the Tube by: Abby Goldsmith Criticism * Drugs and A Scanner Darkly by: Ryder W. Miller Review * NFSF #8: Facing the Other by: Greg Beatty * Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski by: Abigail Nussbaum * The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton by: David Soyka * August Short Fiction by: Lois Tilton If you don't wish to receive this email notification in the future, you can adjust your settings through on our website, just go to the 'My Account' section. If you find you have forgotten your login or password, there are now tools available off the login page to help you with those problems. Sincerely, Blunt "Bluejack" Jackson Editor in Chief Internet Review of Science Fiction http://www.irosf.com Carole McDonnell Wind Follower June 2007 Juno Books www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/Publications.html carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] SF Citations
Thought this was interesting. _http://www.jessesword.com/sf/list/?page=2&subject=sf_criticism_ (http://www.jessesword.com/sf/list/?page=2&subject=sf_criticism) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings
This is from the Gotham list The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and the South Street Seaport Museum Present <-- Andrea Hairston Celeste Rita Baker Sheree Renée Thomas, Guest Curator It seems like our 17th season has barely begun, but we have already reached our final event before the Summer break. This special reading is guest-curated by Sheree R. Thomas, writer, artist, and editor of the ground-breaking Dark Matter anthologies. She has brought us two fine writers: Rita May Baker and Andrea Hairston. -- Andrea Hairston's first novel, Mindscape, has recently been published by Aqueduct Press to great acclaim. She is a Professor of Theater and Afro-American Studies at Smith College, as well as the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, Stage West, and on public radio and television. She has received many awards for her writing and directing, including an NEA Grant to Playwrights, a Ford Foundation grant to collaborate with Senegalese Master Drummer Massamba Diop, and a Shubert Fellowship for Playwrighting. Ms. Hairston is currently at work on a new novel, for which she received the 2004 Speculative Literature Foundation’s Older Writer Grant. You can learn more at _http://www.andreahairston.com_ (http://www.andreahairston.com/) -- Celeste Rita Baker says that in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, “I reach! I reach!” Is one way of saying that you have arrived. So yes, she reach. She was born. But, even her mother says that Celeste acted like she wasn’t from around here. Pretty as the earth is, fascinating as people are, Celeste has always had the feeling that this is not her home, and so she writes. When she was young, an ‘other mother’ of hers gave her a journal titled “How Can I Know What I Think Until I See What I Say?” And so she writesand she tries not to write. She tries to earn money, or sleep or sweep, but the writing urge won’t go away. So she submits. And she writes. And she submits. And it’s worked out pretty good so far. She has published short stories in The Caribbean Writer, Calabash, and Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. Celeste has a story forthcoming in SCARAB and is working on a novel about a Saint who reluctantly finds herself in the same body as a Black woman in NYC about 50 years from now. And she hopes that she’s not, as her sister says, spreading malfeasance in your world. -- The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is currently in it's 17th season of providing some of the best writers in speculative fiction, science fiction fantasy, etc. The series currently recurs the first Tuesday of every month at the South Street Seaport's Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street. Admission is free, but $5 donations are encouraged to offset costs and buy dinner for the readers. The producer and curator is radio producer and talk show host Jim Freund. --- WHEN: Tuesday, 5 / 2 / 6 Doors open at 6:30 -- readings begin at 7 WHERE: The South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery 213 Water Street (near Beekman) HOW: By Subway Take 2, 3, 4, 5, J, Z, or M to Fulton Street; A and C to Broadway-Nassau. Walk east on Fulton Street to Water Street By Bus Take M15 (South Ferry-bound) down Second Ave. to Fulton Street By Car >From the West Side: take West Street southbound. Follow signs to FDR Drive Take underpass, keep rightuse Exit 1 at end of underpass. Turn right on South Street, six blocks. >From the East Side, take FDR Drive south to Exit 3 onto South Street Proceed about 1 mile. LINKS: _http://www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf_ (http://www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf) _http://www.southstseaport.org_ (http://www.southstseaport.org/) _http://www.nyrsf.com_ (http://www.nyrsf.com/) -- The New York Review of Science Fiction is celebrating its 18th Year Subscribe or submit articles to the magazine! New York Review of Science Fiction PO. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY, 10570 NYRSF Magazine: _http://www.nyrsf.com_ (http://www.nyrsf.com/) -- Upcoming: See you again starting September; first Tuesday of each month. In the meantime, be sure to listen to Hour of the Wolf (99.5 FM Sat. 5-7 AM) or check out the site for the on-demand audio. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] SPONSORED LINKS Science fiction and fantasy Genre magazine YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "scifinoir2" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Fair use and copyright law
Really good website on justice... they have a cool report on copyright law. _http://www.brennancenter.org/_ (http://www.brennancenter.org/) _http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=463&fid=6&sid=17_ (http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=463&fid=6&sid=17) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] OT: Nice website for political/cultural writers
Middle Eastern Studies Association has a website for those who wish to write about middle eastern issues or American policy on the middle east. Basically, anything that concerns the middle east, African, Islam, Judaism, cultural politics, the iraqi war, Asia, etc. It gathers CFS from all over. Check the deadlines. These are just a couple but if you're interested check out the website _http://mesa.wns.ccit.arizona.edu/publications/calls.htm_ (http://mesa.wns.ccit.arizona.edu/publications/calls.htm) BAD SUBJECTS Call for Reviews Iraq War Culture Bad Subjects is issuing an open call for review essays of 1000-3000 words dealing with the cultural landscape created by the Iraq War. We are interested in essays that examine cultural products (art, film/video, photography, writing, music, theater, dance, software) or public-sphere phenomena (protests, political events, media coverage, educational projects, public reports, law) that respond to the war and its social environment. This review essay series will be especially concerned to address issues created by the ideologies of the American Empire and ‘democratic imperialism’; permanent military mobilization and domestic security watches; diminution of civil liberties and human rights; religious triumphalism and its relations with state violence; and the deepening of economic inequalities and poverty under global capitalism. How are such issues reflected in Iraq War culture and challenged through cultural critique? The editors will be interested equally in essays that review resistant cultural or political responses to Iraq War culture. Bad Subjects is a heterodox progressive journal publishing on ‘the politics of everyday life.’ It currently serves approximately 5000 readers daily from the English Server at Iowa State University and is the oldest cultural studies publication on the Internet. The journal is located at: _http://bad.eserver.org_ (http://bad.eserver.org/) . This is currently an open-deadline call. Submit review essays as Word attachments to Joe Lockard (English Department, Arizona State University): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) . Deadline: open. MELUS Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Iranian American Literature We are inviting proposals for a special issue on Iranian American Literature, projected for publication in 2008. The explosion in memoirs written by Iranian women in the last few years has provided an unprecedented literary introduction into the lives and experiences of Iranians, whether exiles, immigrants, or in several cases, second-generation Iranian Americans. This special issue of MELUS will focus on the emerging literature of Iranian Americans, (written by both women and men) and will explore the relationship between literature and Iranian immigration and the politics of US-Iranian relations in the second half of the 20th century and the emerging literature of this community at the start of the 21st century. Possible topics might include: memoir and women’s narratives; the fiction of the Iranian Revolution; the return narrative to Iran; growing up Iranian/growing up American; expatriates and exiles; and Iranian American poetry. We welcome proposals that discuss the emergence of Iranian American literature (including Canada) and explore the role of literature in creating a public Iranian identity in North America. Please submit a 2-page abstract to Persis Karim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Nasrin Rahimieh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) by no later than April 15, 2006. PEACE REVIEW Call for Book Reviewers Peace Review is looking for Book Reviewers for each of its quarterly issues. Our book reviews are generally short (usually 2000 words), although we're also interested in book review essays (of two or more books), which can run 3500 words. The reviews will appear in our Recommended Book section, and thus we're looking for positive reviews (although flaws should obviously also be mentioned, if appropriate). Peace Review is also looking for books to review, in the general category of peace and justice studies. If you have published a book, and are looking for a review, then please send (or have your publisher send) us a copy of the book. For either of the above, send to: Peace Review, c/o Stephen Cole, Book Review Editor, University of San Francisco, University Center 563, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco CA 94117. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: CR Newsletter 20 Jan: Wallace, Hamann, Fforde, Williams, Irving and more
In a message dated 2/20/2006 4:30:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Mailing List Information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) The Compulsive Reader News [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.compulsivereader.com/html Volume 7, Issue 3, 20 Feb 2006 == IN THIS ISSUE Publisher Notes New Reviews Survey news Competition News Coming soon *** PUBLISHER NOTES Hello readers. In the news, after a lengthy investigation in LA Weekly, “ Nasdijj” the author of three memoirs The Blood Runs Like A River Through My Dreams, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000, The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping (Ballantine, 2003), and Geronimo's Bones: A Memoir of My Brother and Me (Ballantine, 2004), was revealed to be S/M gay porn pioneer Tim Barrus. Nasdijj's work won the 2004 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, given annually to Native American writers to help spread "racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities," and the revelation that Barrus isn’t Native American at all, and that his story was entirely manufactured puts another spin on the faked memoir controversy which Frey’s work sparked (or reignited, since literary hoaxes, pseudonyms, and faked memoirs are nothing new). On the same topic (it’s hogging the news I’m afraid), Megan O’Rourke of Slate talks about another literary scandal which took place in 2002 over Jimmy A. Lerner‘s You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish, and suggests, rightly I think, that part of the problem is the public’s appetite for the “ overblown” and sensationalist memoir. Part of the predicament editors face, of course, is the continuing appetite for this type of overblown story. She suggests that perhaps a new category for this type of “nonfiction” which is only loosely based on the author’s story might be created. For the full article visit: http://www.slate.com/id/2135613 Dreams From My Father by Senator Barak Obama (Random House Audio) has been declared winner of the best spoken word album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. PWWeekly reports on the AAP’s critical response to reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act. “According to AAP president Pat Schroeder, the compromise fails to provide the most important safeguard sought by publishers: a requirement that in order for the FBI to seize records, including those of libraries and bookstores, the government would have to show a connection with a suspected terrorist or spy.” Schroeder claims that the compromise is too vague and allows the government the right to seize records without enough proof of their relevance to a specific investigation. Finally, Australia’s Sleepers Publishing have officially launched their 2006 Almanac - The Nervous System. The Almanac features writing as diverse as Frank Moorhouse (who seems to be in every journal he isn’t editing--if you read his work you‘ll understand why), Patrick Cullen, Jack Ames, and food writer Stephanie Alexander (among many others). Sleepers also runs a number of open Salons, aimed at stimulating the Australian literary community. Entertainment takes shape in the form of readings from novels-in-progress, talks and discussions, music, comedy, poetry readings and on-the-spot poetry writing, spoken word and song, and a number of other oddments including “balloonology, haircuts and the odd massage, and live onstage interviews“. If you happen to live in Melbourne, these Salons look a pretty interesting evening (I could certainly use a haircut and massage). For more information visit: http://www.sleeperspublishing.com All the best. Maggie == SPONSORED BY: Aaron Paul Lazar’s Upstaged features a disturbed stage mother, a deviant predator, and a twisted saboteur who lurks backstage, terrorizing the drama club with deadly, psychotic games. Lush, vibrant, and delicious. A feast for the senses that will leave you breathless! Visit: http://www.legardemysteries.com THE BEND IN THE RIVER Ms. Gibbs' new, powerfully detailed book and enhanced characterizations, The Bend in the River hooks the reader from the first sentence and does not let go until "The End" of the last page." Visit: http://www.hawkshadowpublishing.com *** Jerome and the Seraph Drawing strongly from art and myth, this literary fantasy will please many. With a Christian influence running throughout the story and firmly grounded in the spiritual questions that all of us ask, including our endearing Brother Jerome, Robina Williams has taken on answering these questions in the form of a seraph--also known as Quant. Visit: http://www.robinawilliams.com ***
[scifinoir2] INFO -- MORGAN FREEMAN FILM TO DEBUT ON FILM AND WEB AT SAME TIME
MORGAN FREEMAN FILM TO DEBUT ON FILM AND WEB AT SAME TIME --- ClickStarThe USA Today reports that Morgan Freeman's ClickStar company is working on a movie called 10 Items or Less starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega. USA Today says Brad Siberling (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events) is the director and Intel is putting up some of the funding for the movie. The most interesting aspect of the film is that it will debut in theatres and on the Internet as a download all on the same day. "So imagine the tempest ClickStar will brew. Its 10 Items or Less will be a major-league movie — exactly the kind that would normally lure consumers to theaters its opening weekend. Except no one will have to go to a theater to see it or even drive to a Wal-Mart to buy the DVD. You could start watching it on your Internet-connected HDTV -- which, OK, you're not likely to own now but probably will in coming years -- within 30 seconds after clicking "buy" on the ClickStar site. The movie industry makes almost all its money from theater tickets and DVD sales, and basically no money from Internet sales. So ClickStar scares Hollywood. That's why Freeman is doing it. 'This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection,' Freeman says. Hollywood has a window of time to find a way to avoid getting Napstered. Pirates haven't yet succeeded in stealing movies on the scale they steal songs, because movies are such huge files. But that barrier will fall. Then the only way to get ahead of the Napstering, Morgan believes, is for the movie industry to create its own, superior marketplace first, before file-sharing of pirated movies takes hold." Freeman's company is likely where the future of movies is headed. Movie studios and television networks have been losing control of when people watch their content ever since video tapes were created. See this article with hyperlinks included at: http://www.writenews.com/wnews.php?zone=207061 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] de Griot Space
//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\ dE GRIOT SPACE (est. 1995) Black Words, testimonies, and other essentials... //^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\//^//\\//^\\ de Griot Space is a free online workshop developed to support and encourage Black writers. The workshop focuses on helping members develop writing and editing skills by focusing on participation, exercise, technique, and critique. To join our workshop: 1) Send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the workshop guidelines will be sent to you in an automatically generated electronic mail message (Please Read These Workshop Guidelines). 2) Read the guidelines/Code of Ujima; and then complete the registration form. 3) Send your completed registration (including brief bio) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4) If you have a spam-filter through your ISP, please do whatever necessary to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] an acceptable address, or your emails from the workshop will not be delivered. = SPECIAL MENTORS NEEDED FOR TEEN GIRLS... Everyone knows about my interest in teen writers and the mentoring program FundsforWriters does in conjunction with the teen website Absynthe Muse. We have a new request A juvenile court school in California has asked if we could pair writing mentors with some girls who are in juvenile facilities due to hard times in their lives. The girls have found new hope in learning how to write well, and have asked for assistance. A librarian in that system has asked if we could help make a difference in the lives of these girls. Since they are confined, most do not have access to Internet and the correspondence would have to be conducted via postal mail. A teacher at the facility would act as intermediary (their rules). This librarian states that such a simple process as mentoring could make a difference in the direction these girls take with their lives. Care to be the one to make that difference? If so, please email a brief resume via the form at http://mentoring.absynthemuse.com. PLEASE NOTE YOU ARE REQUESTING THE JUVENILE SCHOOL PROGRAM. If you wish to mentor but not in this program, feel free to fill out the form as well. We are ALWAYS in need of mentors. Thanks for having a big heart. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Raised eyebrow "am kinda
Okay, here's the deal... go to this link and enter your address...it will show a "house", that's yours... all the little colored boxes are Sex Offenders... click on them and you get a name, address & picture of the person along with his crime... pretty amazing and scary...it shows you where they live in proximity to your home and the local schools. It also will not show your house location. As a mom and a woman I'm kinda happy about this, but geewow...information is everywhere isn't it? _http://www.familywatchdog.us/_ (http://www.familywatchdog.us/) Carole McDonnell If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html www.blogitorium.com/TheSecularChristian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] interesting list of blogs from write news
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR BLOGS --- Book Blog: BookScan's List of the Bestselling Books of 2005 http://www.readersread.com/cgi-bin/bookblog.pl?bblog=105061 Editorial Dead Zone: Music Publisher Pursue Lyric Aggregators http://www.writenews.com/deadzone/deadzone.php?zone=104061 HowToWeb: Sony Unveils Sony Reader http://www.howtoweb.com/cgi-bin/insider.pl?zone=111061 IWJ Blog: The Narnia Rap http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/cgi-bin/iwjblog.pl?id=116061 Pleasant Morning Buzz: The Star Jones Blogging Drama http://www.pleasantmorningbuzz.com/cgi-bin/buzz.pl?buzz=110061 Shopping Blog: Personalized M&Ms http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sblog.pl?sblog=116061 Writer's Blog: Oprah Stands Behind James Frey http://www.writerswrite.com/writersblog/wblog.php?wblog=112061 Writer's Blog: New Media Opportunities for Writers http://www.writerswrite.com/writersblog/wblog.php?wblog=103061 Workers Work: Google Factor Influencing Executive Tech Hiring http://www.workerswork.com/cgi-bin/workerswork.pl?wblog=110061 Note: You can find the RSS Feeds to all of our blogs and website at: http://www.wwfeeds.com WEBSITES MENTIONED IN THE WRITE NEWS(TM) THIS WEEK --- WWFeeds.com, feeds on a variety of subjects from Writers Write, Inc. http://www.wwfeeds.com The Author's Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog? http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/nov05/cew4.htm The Best Author Blogs http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/authorblogs/ Charity, new publication covering philanthropy http://www.charitymagazine.us Omgili, a new forum discussion search tool http://www.omgili.com Carole McDonnell If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html www.blogitorium.com/TheSecularChristian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] OT: Banished phrases
_http://www.lssu.edu/whats_new/articles.php?articleid=930_ (http://www.lssu.edu/whats_new/articles.php?articleid=930) SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – This “breaking news” just in: Lake Superior State University releases its 31st annual List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness. It was during a New Year’s party 30 years ago when LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and some colleagues cooked up a whimsical idea to banish overused words and phrases. On Jan. 1, 1976, with “tongue firmly in cheek,” Rabe took his first crack at it. Much to the delight (or chagrin) of word enthusiasts everywhere, the list endures into a fourth decade. Through the years, LSSU has received thousands of nominations for its “all -time” list of banished words and phrases, which now stands at nearly 800. This year’s list is culled from almost 2,000 nominations received mostly through the University’s Website, www.lssu.edu/banished. Word-watchers target pet peeves from everyday speech, as well as from the news, fields of education, technology, advertising, politics, and more. A committee makes a final cut in late December. The list is released on New Year’s Day. So pour out that last glass of eggnog, “hunker down” with a “person of interest” and enjoy the 2006 list, which is guaranteed “97% fat-free.” SURREAL – One part opiate of the masses, 13 parts overuse. Oddly, news anchor and television small talk is becoming more surreal. “Dreams are surreal, not daily adjectives.” – Tracy from Murray, Ky. HUNKER DOWN – To brace oneself, in anticipation of media onslaught. Trotted out in reports about everything from politics to hurricanes. “I have a hankering to ban all of this hunkering.” – Kate Rabe Forgach, Fort Collins, Colo. PERSON OF INTEREST – Found within the context of legal commentary, but seldom encountered at cocktail parties. “People with guns want to talk with you.” – Melissa Carroll from Greensboro, NC. “Does this mean the rest of us are too boring to deal with?” – Patricia Johnson from Mechanicsville, Va. COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS – A five-dollar phrase on a nickel-errand. Value-added into many higher education mission statements. “Not to be confused with ‘ school.’” – Jim Howard from Mishawa, Ind. UP OR DOWN VOTE – A casualty of today’s partisanship. No discussion on this one; the committee just tossed a coin. “I see a bright future for ex-senators as elevator operators.” — Allan Dregseth, Fargo, ND. BREAKING NEWS – Once it stopped presses. Now it’s a lower-intestinal condition brought about by eating dinner during newscasts. “Now they have to interrupt my supper to tell me that Katie Holmes is pregnant.” — Michael Raczko, Swanton, Ohio. DESIGNER BREED – Many nominators consider this a bastardization of dog breeding. It may be a good line to use on angry neighbors when an un-neutered dog escapes. “When you mate a miniature schnauzer to a toy poodle, it’s not a ‘ Schnoodle,’ it’s a mongrel.” – George Bullerjahn, Bowling Green, Ohio. FEMA – Dedicated to the memory of a great federal agency consigned to the ash heap of parody. “If they don’t do anything, we don’t need their acronym.” – Josh Hamilton, Tucson, Ariz. FIRST-TIME CALLER – Preamble often heard on talk radio. “I am serious in asking: who in any universe gives a care?” – Miguel McCormick, Orlando, Fla. PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO YOU! – Marketing catch phrase that became a lost-leader long ago. “Read: Pass the markup along to you.” – C. W. Estes, Roanoke, Tex. 97% FAT FREE – Adventures in delusion. “Still has 3% fat . . . accept it.” – Andrew Clucas, Canberra, Australia. AN ACCIDENT THAT DIDN’T HAVE TO HAPPEN – Best-laid mayhem. “This means some accidents need to happen, for whatever reason, I can’t figure.” — Thomas Price, Orlando, Fla. JUNK SCIENCE – Banished from the Marketplace of Ideas. “It’s not scientists who are using this phrase so much as the people who practice junk politics.” – Ron LaLonde, Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. GIT-ER-DONE – It’s overdone. “There’s no escaping it. It’s everywhere, from TV to T-shirts,” says Amanda Tikkanen of LaGrange, Ind. “Please tell me when we’re done with this one.” DAWG – No designer breed here. Someone should wash out this Spot. “Even parents are starting to use it!” – complains Mrs. Swartz’s Fifth Grade Class in Church Road, Va. “This is species confusion.” – Rob Bowers, Santa Clara, Calif. “Don’t call me ‘dawg’! I’m not your pet!” – Michael Swartz, Albuquerque, NM. TALKING POINTS – Cover your ears! “Topics which will please those you want to impress.” – Michele Mooney, Van Nuys, Calif. Joe Wonsetler of Swanton, Ohio, believes the phrase was created after PR staffers stopped attending seminars on how to put a positive ‘spin’ on their press releases. HOLIDAY TREE – Many salvoes were fired during this past season’s “wa
[scifinoir2] FAA proposes rules on Space Tourism
URL to an article in USA Today _http://www.usatoday.com/techhttp://www.usatoday.com/thttp://www.usatoday_ (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-12-29-spacetourism_x.htm) The proposed rules are at _http://frwebgate1.access.gpohttp://frwebgate1.access.http://frwebgate1.access .gpo&WAISaction=retrieve_ (http://frwebgate1.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=00622910914+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve) Carole McDonnell If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html www.blogitorium.com/TheSecularChristian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] www.triggerstreet.com
Hi all: Yes, sure I should be writing away but I've been on _www.triggerstreet.com_ (http://www.triggerstreet.com) this morning. And realized I didn't brag about it anytime this year. This is Kevin Spacey's website for screenplay and short video reviews. It's basically a crit group for indie films and unknown screenwriters. It's fun. One downloads and reviews films and screenplays and rates them. The films that get a lotta votes rise to the top (unless nasty-minded jealous competitors decide to write bad reviews to bring it down.) The films that receive great reviews are looked over by Kevin to see if they are produceable. It's a fun way to look at cute little videos and to study the craft of screenplays. Also a great place to waste one's time looking at strange little flicks. Warning...it takes about five minutes to sign up to this site. But it really is worth it. -C Carole McDonnell If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html www.blogitorium.com/TheSecularChristian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Know an art & music fan? Make a donation in their honor this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/.6dcNC/.VHMAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] OT: 'We Want to Make a Light Baby'
Many slaves have been released but starvation, tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, and other diseases are rampant. And genocide still continues. It's terrible about Katrina, but lets remember this racial and religious (anti-Christian) genocide-C news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3549325.stm 'We Want to Make a Light Baby' Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, June 30, 2004; Page A01 _http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16001-2004Jun29.html_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16001-2004Jun29.html) GENEINA, Sudan, June 29 -- At first light on Sunday, three young women walked into a scrubby field just outside their refugee camp in West Darfur. They had gone out to collect straw for their family's donkeys. They recalled thinking that the Arab militiamen who were attacking African tribes at night would still be asleep. But six men grabbed them, yelling Arabic slurs suczurga" and "abid," meaning "black" and "slave." Then the men raped them, beat them and left them on the ground, they said. "They grabbed my donkey and my straw and said, 'Black girl, you are too dark. You are like a dog. We want to make a light baby,' " said Sawela Suliman, 22, showing slashes from where a whip had struck her thighs as her father held up a police and health report with details of the attack. "They said, 'You get out of this area and leave the child when it's ma Suliman's father, a tall, proud man dressed in a flowing white robe, cried as she described the rape. It was not an isolated incident, according to human rights officials and aid workers in this region of western Sudan, where 1.2 million Africans have been driven from their lands by government-backed Arab militias, tribal fighters known as Janja Interviews with two dozen women at camps, schools and health centers in two provincial capitals in Darfur yielded consistent reports that the Janjaweed were carrying out waves of attacks targeting African women. The victims and others said the rapes seemed to be a systematic campaign to humiliate the women, their husbands and fathers, and to weaken tribal ethnic lines. In Sudan, as in many Arab cultures, a child's ethnicity is attached to the ethnicity of the f "The pattern is so clear because they are doing it in such a massive way and always saying the same thing," said an international aid worker who is involved in health care. She and other international aid officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they feared reprisals or delays of permits that might hamper their opera She showed a list of victims from Rokero, a town outside of Jebel Marra in central Darfur where 400 women said they were raped by the Janjaweed. "It's systematic," the aid worker said. "Everyone knows how the father carries the lineage in the culture. They want more Arab babies to take the land. The scary thing is that I don't think we realize the extent of how widespread this is Another international aid worker, a high-ranking official, said: "These rapes are built on tribal tensions and orchestrated to create a dynamic where the African tribal groups are destroyed. It's hard to believe that they tell them they want to make Arab babies, but it's true. It's systematic, and these cases are what made me believe that it is part of ethnic cleansing and that they are doing it in a massive Secretary of State Colin L. Powell flew to the capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday to pressure the government to take steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. U.S. officials said Powell may threaten to seek action by the United Nations if the Sudanese government blocks aid and continues supporting the Janjaweed. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is due to arrive on Khartoum this The crisis in Darfur is a result of long-simmering ethnic tensions between nomadic cattle and camel herders, who view themselves as Arabs, and the more sedentary farmers, who see their ancestry as African. In February 2003, activists from three of Darfur's African tribes started a rebellion against the government, which is dominated by an Arab e Riding on horseback and camel, the Janjaweed, many of them teenagers or young adults, burned villages, stole and destroyed grain supplies and animals and raped women, according to refugees and U.N. and human rights investigators. The government used helicopter gunships and aging Russian planes to bomb the area, the U.N. and human rights representatives said. The U.S. government has said it is investigating the killings of an estimated 30,000 people in Darfur and the displacement of the more than 1 million people from their tribal lands to determine whether the violence should be classified as gen The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch said in a June 22 report that it investigated "the use of rape by
[scifinoir2] Is Any Genre Safe?
RANDOM ACTS OF LANGUAGE:From the Sublime to the Morose: Is Any Genre Safe? by Nick DiChario I went to my local science fiction convention this weekend (Astronomicon in Rochester, NY), as both a program panelist and bookseller, and it seemed that the only thing people wanted to talk about was how far the field has fallen over the past decade or so, how the most recent numbers foretold nothing but the doom of the genre and its inevitable demise. The sad truth is, alas, it’s hard to argue with them. One author said that SF was going the way of the western, and soon no one would be reading it but the old diehards. I’m not sure I’m ready to say SF is dead, but it’s a point well taken. Most people who consider themselves SF fans these days are really talking about media sci fi, film tie-ins to Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc., etc., none of which qualifies as original SF literature of the kind that used to be written (and read) regularly by a giant core of insatiable fans. There are a lot of reasons for the genre slipping in sales over the years, far too many than I care to get into here, but much of it comes down to dollars and cents, balance sheets, marketing departments, and, well, big business taking over the publishing industry and consolidating lines. Original SF novels just don’t sell the way they used to when Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury ruled the roost, and the audience has been rudely divided by media fiction, gaming books, the up-and-coming sub genre of graphic novels, and fantasy novels (which have slipped so far away from SF that they’re not even considered the same genre any longer, e.g., J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter). They’ve all taken their toll on science fiction, slowly chipping away at its waning readership. Another author at the convention, gallantly defending SF, said that even if what we consider original science fiction couldn’t get published in the genre any longer, it might, ironically, get published outside the genre and continue to live a good long time. After all, there’s precedent for it. Doris Lessing was published outside the field. Ursula LeGuinn. Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale brought SF to the contemporary reader the way Brave New World did decades ago. Let’s not forget our old friend Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote some of the best SF ever written, although he’d never admit to it. More recently, authors like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson have found crossover readers to some extent. But this defense is no great consolation. There will always be examples of writers breaking down barriers in every genre, exceptions to the rules, maybe even paradigm shifters. Unfortunately, with every paradigm shift there are casualties. This leaves me wondering how many excellent SF authors will be lost if the genre continues collapsing into its own black hole. If you want proof of how bad it can get, just look at what happened to horror in the 80s, and many fine writers lost their careers in that dark pit. As writers ourselves, we should all be concerned about this, regardless of our chosen fields. What people are reading today isn’t going to be what people fancy tomorrow, and if publishing turns into a business like every other business, fashions will go out of style as soon as they’re recognized, and writers will be replaced in faster-than-light speed. If I can speculate into the future, as SF writers are prone to do, I foresee authors desperately changing their names every year or so just to get a fresh start somewhere else, hoping to get published in some other genre by fifteen-year-old editors who have never heard of them before. And perhaps worst of all, the joy and originality will be sucked out of commercial fiction, proving right every literary snob in the universe who claims that genre fiction is nothing more than trash written by hacks following the money trail, low-brow scribblers who care nothing about literary quality or artistic integrity. Writing has turned into a complicated business. It’s no longer just about writing great books. This bothers me. I don’t have any answers for it, no quick solutions, no easy fixes. All I can do is pop a couple of anti-Ds, wash them down with an good old fashioned, chemically delicious Diet Coke, and dream about the glory days of SF. Well, I suppose I can do a bit more than that. I can continue to write to the best of my ability and hope that someone will publish me, and hope that at least a few interested readers out there will find my work. My first novel is due to be published next spring. It’s an original SF novel, just the kind of thing that isn’t being published much anymore. If even one editor can find me and appreciate my work, I know there’s still hope for others, and for a dying genre that is not dead yet.
[scifinoir2] Longlist for literature's richest prize
Longlist for literature's richest prize announced Michelle Pauli Wednesday November 23, 2005 The Impac longlist has been announced and, once again, it's huge - in every sense. The 132-strong list reads like an alphabetti of authors, from Chris Abani to Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and a the full gamut of genres are represented. There's chick lit in the form of Cecilia Ahern's PS I Love You, a thriller from Ken Follett, crime fiction courtesy of Walter Mosley, and masses of literary fiction, too. Books in translation make up 31 of the titles, with 15 languages covered - not altogether surprising given that the nominations for the longlist come from a staggering 180 libraries from 124 cities in 43 countries. And with a purse of €100,000, the International Impac Dublin literary award, to give it its full name, is also one of the world's richest prizes. It truly is a monster. Predicting which novels will make it on to the whittled-down shortlist of around 10 books is a tricky business, as the number of nominations each book receives from the participating libraries is not necessarily taken into account by the judges. However, Alan Hollinghurst's Booker winning tale of homosexuality and Thatcherism, The Line of Beauty, which was appreciated by libraries in Scotland, Switzerland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, may be a frontrunner, while Andrea Levy's Small Island, which scooped the 2004 Orange prize and Whitbread book of the year, must also be in the running. Looking further afield, French novels have a good showing on the longlist, including Frédéric Beigbeder's 9/11 novel Windows on the World and Jean Echenoz's comedy Piano, and a quota of American big-hitters (Tom Wolfe, Anne Tyler, Joyce Carol Oates) are present and correct. Books set in Asia feature strongly this year, from Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, a tale of adventure and love set in the tiny islands of the Bay of Bengal, to War Trash by Ha Jin, set during the Korean war, and Xiaolu Guo's study of disaffected youth in modern Beijing, Village of Stone. There are also three books by writers from Sri Lanka - all nominated by Colombo Public Library, Sri Lanka - while Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue tackles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in world war two. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany may be the strongest offering from the Middle East. An ambitious political melodrama set in Cairo, it has been the world's bestselling novel in the Arabic language since its publication in 2002. Orhan Pamuk, a previous winner of the prize is back on the list with Snow, his study of an exiled poet who returns to Turkey, while his compatriot Moris Farhi gets a mention for his erotic tale of a group of teenage friends set against the backdrop of Nazism in wartime Turkey. Part of the fun of the list is finding out where UK writers have their fans abroad. Alexander McCall Smith gets a nomination not from Scotland but from South Africa, and they dig Jeanette Winterson and Toby Litt in Belgium, AL Kennedy in Switzerland and Ruth Rendell in Russia. The breadth of appeal of some books is also remarkable. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's bestseller The Shadow of the Wind, which is translated from the Spanish is appreciated from Northern Ireland to New Zealand. Aside from its remarkable diversity and large coffers, the Impac also stands out from the crowd for its long lead-time. Books first published in English between January and December 2004, or first published in a language other than English between January 2000 and December 2004, are eligible for consideration. This means that books which have already done the round of literary prizes (such as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell) have a final chance to pick up a gong, while books which may have drifted from public consciousness (Muriel Spark's The Finishing School, Jonathan Coe's The Closed Circle) are granted a second wave of publicity. The shortlist and the winner are chosen by an international panel of judges. This year's panel includes the writers Percival Everett and Andrew O'Hagen and poets Mary O'Donnell and Paolo Ruffilli. The chair of judges is Eugene Sullivan, a former US court of appeals chief judge. The shorlist will be announced on April 5 next year, and the winner on June 14. Last year's winner was The Known World by Edward P Jones; previous winners include Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red), Tahar Ben Jelloun (This Blinding Absence of Life) and Michel Houellebecq (Atomised). _http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2006/longlist.htm_ (http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2006/longlist.htm) AOL has been bouncing many of its clients. If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'"_ www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/sci
[scifinoir2] A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men inAmerica
NONFICTION_Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=790090&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.powells.com/biblio/61-0385510020 -0) by Scott Poulson-Bryant _http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id= 790090&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.powells.com%2Fbiblio%2F61-0385510020-0_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=7 90090&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.powells.com/biblio/61-0385510020-0) Synopsis A cultural critic asks just how well black men measure up. Review In Hung, Vibe founder and Spin columnist _Scott Poulson-Bryant_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=790090&listin g_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.ruhung.com) confronts the roles black men play in today's pop culture by taking on the myth of penis size. The author traces his obsession back to the time he slept with his first white girl, in college. When she told him she thought he'd be bigger because he was black, he responded, "So did I." That's a tight spot for Poulson-Bryant to be in — intellectually he understands the social and cultural implications of the black penis. He hears _echoes of lynching_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=790090&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.albany.edu/ws/j ournal/2004/cooley.html) in the idea of "being hung." Those who would locate that painful legacy in the unpleasant past need only remember the 1997 NYPD sodomy attack on _Abner Louima_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=790090&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.thesmokin ggun.com/torture/torture.html) to realize that the past is never dead. This double-edged sword eats away at Poulson-Bryant: "I don't want anything to do with that ugly American history, the stereotypes that have been created to control me — do I? Hell yeah, my inner ear tells me, I do." The book opens with a letter to the late _Emmett Till_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=790090&listing_id=LIST ING_ID&url=www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/) — a horrifying and well-documented case of a of a black man's being punished for his penis. With anecdotes and interviews both appalling and hilarious, Poulson-Bryant proceeds to rip apart façade of modern equality. He introduces us to folks like Ty, or, rather, the "_Eracist_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=582935&subscriber_id=790090&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movi e.html?v_id=315353) ." Like white basketball fans who mimic moves on their own courts, Ty wants to be black enough to reap the so-called rewards but quietly rejects being black. The stakes of black male virility are similar: the black man must be black in all his pseudo-glory without achieving the real glory of self-ownership. As Poulson-Bryant puts it, "The black athlete will submit to ascribed rules that are set up: you be black and do what black guys do (be virile, be strong, be worshipped), while I'll be white and do what white guys do (be worshipful, be deferential, yet always be more powerful)." The question is no longer who's watched and who's watching but, rather, who's performing and who's actually owning. - Linda Chavers AOL has been bouncing many of its clients. If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'"_ www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html) _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/7zgKlB/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Thought this was cute...from Dark Echo
it's that time of year when we see "year's best" and "recommended" lists. I've already done one -- 2000 words (mentioning about 40 books) on recommended sf/f/h for the year that then had to be cut down to a list of *ten* books with 75 words about each. Sigh. Some of what was cut from the article-truncated-to-top-ten (only some) was last month's Book Briefs (http://darkecho.com/darkecho/brief_10.05.html)... but sometime in December I'll do something more. Meanwhile, these are some categories I probably WON'T be writing about: Year's Most Meaningless Literary Award: The Quills They had me fooled. I thought "quill" had something to do with writing, but it turns out they may have meant something you pluck from a turkey. Most Ostentatiously Mysterious and Useless Hype Award: The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks The Proof That $500,000 and a Well-spoken Novelist Can Make Any Vampire Novel and/or Historical Horror a Best Seller Award: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Ego Is Not Imagination Award: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis The Who Cares If It Sucks It Sells Award: Eldest by Christopher Paolini The Half-A-Book Is Better Than None Award: The Feast of Crows by George R.R. Martin The How Many More Volumes Will It Take? Award: Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan The It's About Bloody Time Award: Viriconium (US edition) M. John Harrison The Obviously Most Anticipated Award: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by O.K. Rowling The Most Annoying Title Award: Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred by Mary Jo Putney * * * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: CR Newsletter 22 Oct: Smiley, Stella, Salter, and more
In a message dated 10/21/2005 9:07:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Congratulations to John Banville, whose novel, The Sea, won this year’s £50,000 Booker Prize. The Sea was a 7-1 outsider in betting odds. According to The Guardian, “Banville's vindication at the age of 59 with his 14th novel is a victory of style over a melancholy content which makes his book one of the least commercial on the six-strong shortlist.” Also on the shortlist this year were: Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes; A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry; The Accidental, by Ali Smith; and On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. Judge and Chairman John Sutherland provides an insider’s perspective to the controversial and difficult decision in the Guardian: “Judgment on John Banville's triumph was predictably divided. On one side there were those (in Ireland, for example) who felt it a wholly appropriate award for a writer who was now certified, on merit and achievement, to stand alongside Beckett. On the other side there were those of the Diogenes faction who declar ed Banville's triumph a "disaster" from which Man Booker, and indeed English fiction, might never recover. An event to rank with England failing to qualify for the World Cup.” For the full article visit: http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2005/story/0%2C16347%2C1590021%2C00.html The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, will bestow its 2005 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on Norman Mailer in recognition of his five decades of brilliant work. Mailer has long been considered a major figure in post-war American literature whose innovative works of fiction and nonfiction have changed the landscape of American writing. He won the National Book Award in 1969 and the Pulitzer Prize twice, once in 1969 and again in 1980. He will receive his Medal at the 56th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City on Wednesday, November 16. The evening will be hosted again this year by author and radio host Garrison Keillor. Toni Morrison will present Mr. Mailer with his Award. Also that evening, The National Book Foundation will award poet and social activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti a new award, The Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. This Award recognizes Ferlinghetti’s tireless work on behalf of poets and the entire literary community for over fifty years. Carrie Tiffany’s Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living has been Selected for the UWA Perth International Arts Festival's One Book 2006. We’ll be featuring a review of this book, and exclusive interview with Tiffany, whose first novel is getting a lot of attention, very soon. The NBA has publishing their list of nominees for the 2005 National Book Award. For fiction they are: The March by E.L. Doctorow (Random House); Veronica by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon); Trance by Christopher Sorrentino (FSG); Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke (William Morrow); and Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (Viking). For the full list of nominees and previous winners visit: http://www.nationalbook.org Susan Greger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Robert Gussin, of East Hampton, New York, and Longboat Key, Florida, announce the formation of Oceanview Publishing. Greger and Gussin, both former executives with Johnson & Johnson, created Oceanview Publishing to fill a need they saw in the publishing industry. Greger, President of Oceanview commented, “After speaking with authors and attending writers conferences, we learned of the tremendous frustration many authors have with larger publishers. Time and again, we heard that big publishers wouldn’t publish authors who weren’t established or top tier, and that mid-list authors often received little or no support from their publishers. With so much competition in an industry that is tough to break into in the first place, it became clear that there were plenty of wonderful books out there that weren’t getting published and many great voices left unheard. Oceanview was created to fill that void.” Oceanview’s mission is two-fold: to publish great books and to support and develop its stable of writers. Based on a traditional publishing model, Oceanview does offer its authors advances and royalties. Greger added, “We think the real key to our success lies in nurturing and developing our writers. We have the financial backing to support our authors, and have put in place a plan to maximize each book’s exposure. We are steadfast in our commitment to the lasting success of our writers.” For more information, please visit www.oceanviewpub.com Submission guidelines are available on the website. November is National Novel Writing Month or “NaNoWriMo”. The first one began in July 1999 with 21 ambitious friends. The participants for 2004 were 42,000, an
[scifinoir2] Emmanuel's Gift
Was really inspired by this. _http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emmanuels_gift/about.php_ (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emmanuels_gift/about.php) _http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/emmanuels_gift.html_ (http://www.freewheelchairmission.org/emmanuels_gift.html) AOL has been bouncing many of its clients. If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] TYSON FOODS BOYCOTT
TYSON FOODS SUED FOR RACE BIAS AND RETALIATION AGAINST BLACKS; ‘WHITES ONLY' RESTROOM AT ISSUE Rare EEOC Case for Segregated Job Facilities In Deep South BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After complaining to Tyson Foods, Inc. about the posting of a "Whites Only" sign on one of Tyson's restrooms at its Ashland, Alabama, facility, two black employees were subjected to adverse personnel actions by Tyson management, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleges in a discrimination lawsuit announced today. The EEOC's suit, EEOC v. Tyson Foods, Inc., CV-05-BE-1704-E (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama), alleges that Tyson's violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against Henry Adams, Leon Walker, and other black employees, by establishing and maintaining a locked bathroom facility, which on occasion had signs posted on it stating "Out of Order" and "Whites Only". Keys to the facility were distributed to white employees only. After Mr. Adams and Mr. Walker complained of the segregated facility, management subjected them to adverse employment actions, including suspensions and disciplinary write-ups. "This year the Commission is celebrating its fortieth anniversary," said Bernice Williams-Kimbrough, District Director of the EEOC's Birmingham District Office. "While this country has made great strides in addressing issues of racism, unfortunately there are still people who have not yet gotten the message that segregation in the workplace will not be tolerated. The EEOC exists to make certain that the promise of equal opportunity in employment extends not only to access to jobs but to equal treatment on those jobs." The EEOC filed suit only after attempting to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The suit seeks injunctive relief, and compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of Henry Adams, Leon Walker, and the class of black employees. "A company's commitment to equal opportunity is measured by more than the existence of written policies and diversity training," said Charles E. Guerrier, Regional Attorney for the EEOC's Birmingham District Office. "True commitment is measured by the environment in which employees work and their understanding of what equal opportunity means on a day-to-day, one-on-one basis. When an employee feels free to lock a bathroom facility and to post a ‘Whites Only' sign on it, even for one day, that employer has not been effective in delivering the message of equal opportunity to its employees." According to its web site _www.tysonfoodsinc.com_ (http://www.eeoc.gov/press/www.tysonfoodsinc.com) : "Tyson Foods, Inc., founded in 1935 with headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork and the second-largest food company in the Fortune 500. The company produces a wide variety of protein-based and prepared food products, which are marketed under the Powered by Tyson (TM) strategy. Tyson is the recognized market leader in the retail and food service markets it serves, providing products and service to customers throughout the United States and more than 80 countries. Tyson has approximately 114,000 Team Members employed at more than 300 facilities and offices in the United States and around the world." The EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which prohibits discrimination against individuals 40 years of age or older; sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Equal Pay Act; Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector and state and local governments; and the Rehabilitation Act's prohibitions against disability discrimination in the federal government. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at _www.eeoc.gov_ (http://www.eeoc.gov/) . _http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-11-05.html_ (http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-11-05.html) _http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/tysonfoods831_ (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/tysonfoods831) Black Employees Sue Tyson Foods for Maintaining ?Whites Only? Restroom Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 By: _Michael H. Cottman_ (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/authors/10015) Twelve black employees of Tyson Foods, Inc. are suing the world?s largest meat producer, alleging the company allowed a segregated break room and bathroom which included a "Whites Only" sign posted on the wall in the Ashland, Alabama plant. According to the complaint, in July 2003, a newly-renovated bathroom at the plant remained locked except to a white supervisor and certain white employees. It a
[scifinoir2] How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb
<< How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb? The Answer is: TEN 1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed, 2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed, 3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb, 4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb or for darkness, 5. One to give a billion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb, 6. One to get a photo of Bush, dressed as a janitor, on a ladder under the banner "Light Bulb Change Accomplished," 7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally "in the dark," 8. One to viciously smear #7, 9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along, and finally: 10. One to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country. >> AOL has been bouncing many of its clients. If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Some New Orleans news
Hi all: Got this from an ebuddy. Only goes to show that even when they tell you they're telling you everything they're not. -C hi everyone i've just returned to alexandria after spending a few days in n.o. with friends. what they don't show or tell in the news: the city is besieged by vagabonds and starving dogs. i took a fifty lb bag of purina dog chow for the mongrels and a few human beings shared. many dead bodies everywhere. they bash doors in to find the dead yet leave babies and old men hanging from posts, tangled in fences. you drive some sections and have to foot it through others. walk into a restaurant in our french quarter and get a decent meal, listen to some jazz, then walk five blocks and the muck is waist deep. when the wind blows the stench will sick you up. like walking through a city dump. the rich have security guards ready to shoot but the poor have their weapons confiscated. the mayor's an idiot. bushes and trees a hundred years old are dead from the chemicals and salt. all my gardens are destroyed but our house took more hits from looters than from the flood. my dad's been but won't start clean-up until Rita does her thing. man the mold is unbelievable, it's five inches thick in our basement and first floor kitchen walls. hopefully some of those damned termites got obliterated. thanks for all your good thoughts AOL has been bouncing many of its clients. If bounced, please use my alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/FXrMlA/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Katrina Literary Collective
Dear Friends, In addition to the important work being done by the American Red Cross and other relief agencies, there are a number of special efforts we thought writers might be particularly interested in: * The Katrina Literary Collective has been created to collect and distribute books to victims of the hurricane. For more information, contact the Amber Communications Group at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * A Louisiana Disaster Relief Fund has been established to receive monetary donations to assist libraries in Southeastern Louisiana. For more info, visit the American Library Association at _www.ala.org._ (http://www.ala.org/) * The American Booksellers Association has created a Bookseller Relief Fund to assist independent booksellers affected by Hurricane Katrina. For info, visit _http://www.bookweb.org/_ (http://www.bookweb.org/) * The Southern Arts Federation has set up an Emergency Relief Fund to assist arts organizations and artists in those Gulf Communities most devastated by Katrina. For more info, go to _http://www.southarts.org/ _ (http://www.southarts.org/) Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/FXrMlA/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] some of Brian Williams Comments from the MSNBC site
We are just back from the French Quarter... checking up on the condition of some old haunts... Arnauds, Brennans... and most of the landmarks that people would remember visiting from even a single Convention-attending visit to New Orleans. We are happy to report that the Quarter is slowly drying out (while the Ritz Carlton hotel, for example, remains surrounded by rancid water that appears to be 30 percent oil) and cleaning up. There are a few random businesses open. It will be a long time before it resembles anything close to New Orleans. An interesting dynamic is taking shape in this city, not altogether positive: after days of rampant lawlessness (making for what I think most would agree was an impossible job for the New Orleans Police Department during those first few crucial days of rising water, pitch-black nights and looting of stores) the city has now reached a near-saturation level of military and law enforcement. In the areas we visited, the red berets of the 82nd Airborne are visible on just about every block. National Guard soldiers are ubiquitous. At one fire scene, I counted law enforcement personnel (who I presume were on hand to guarantee the safety of the firefighters) from four separate jurisdictions, as far away as Connecticut and Illinois. And tempers are getting hot. While we were attempting to take pictures of the National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a Brooks Brothers on the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to the other side of the boulevard. The short version is: there won't be any pictures of this particular group of guard soldiers on our newscast tonight. Rules (or I suspect in this case an order on a whim) like those do not HELP the palpable feeling that this area is somehow separate from the United States. At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious members of the media... armed only with notepads. Her actions (apparently because she thought reporters were encroaching on the scene) were over the top and she was told. There are automatic weapons and shotguns everywhere you look. It's a stance that perhaps would have been appropriate during the open lawlessness that has long since ended on most of these streets. Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history. _http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8045532/#050907c_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8045532/#050907c) Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Trapped in New Orleans by the flood--and martial law
Oh my! -C Trapped in New Orleans by the flood--and martial law The real heroes and sheroes of New Orleans September 9, 2005 | LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco. They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck. They spent most of the next week trapped by the flooding--and the martial law cordon around the city. Here, they tell their story. Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City. Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized and the windows at Walgreen's gave way to the looters. There was an alternative. The cops could have broken one small window and distributed the nuts, fruit juices, and bottle water in an organized and systematic manner. But they did not. Instead they spent hours playing cat and mouse, temporarily chasing away the looters. We were finally airlifted out of New Orleans two days ago and arrived home yesterday (Saturday). We have yet to see any of the TV coverage or look at a newspaper. We are willing to guess that there were no video images or front-page pictures of European or affluent white tourists looting the Walgreen's in the French Quarter. We also suspect the media will have been inundated with "hero" images of the National Guard, the troops and the police struggling to help the "victims" of the Hurricane. What you will not see, but what we witnessed,were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort: the working class of New Orleans. The maintenance workers who used a fork lift to carry the sick and disabled. The engineers, who rigged, nurtured and kept the generators running. The electricians who improvised thick extension cords stretching over blocks to share the little electricity we had in order to free cars stuck on rooftop parking lots. Nurses who took over for mechanical ventilators and spent many hours on end manually forcing air into the lungs of unconscious patients to keep them alive. Doormen who rescued folks stuck in elevators. Refinery workers who broke into boat yards, "stealing" boats to rescue their neighbors clinging to their roofs in flood waters. Mechanics who helped hot-wire any car that could be found to ferry people out of the City. And the food service workers who scoured the commercial kitchens improvising communal meals for hundreds of those stranded. Most of these workers had lost their homes, and had not heard from members of their families, yet they stayed and provided the only infrastructure for the 20% of New Orleans that was not under water. On Day 2, there were approximately 500 of us left in the hotels in the French Quarter. We were a mix of foreign tourists, conference attendees like ourselves, and locals who had checked into hotels for safety and shelter from Katrina. Some of us had cell phone contact with family and friends outside of New Orleans. We were repeatedly told that all sorts of resources including the National Guard and scores of buses were pouring in to the City. The buses and the other resources must have been invisible because none of us had seen them. We decided we had to save ourselves. So we pooled our money and came up with $25,000 to have ten buses come and take us out of the City. Those who did not have the requisite $45.00 for a ticket were subsidized by those who did have extra money. We waited for 48 hours for the buses, spending the last 12 hours standing outside, sharing the limited water, food, and clothes we had. We created a priority boarding area for the sick, elderly and new born babies. We waited late into the night for the "imminent" arrival of the buses. The buses never arrived. We later learned that the minute the arrived to the City limits, they were commandeered by the military. By day 4 our hotels had run out of fuel and water. Sanitation was dangerously abysmal. As the desperation and despair increased, street crime as well as water levels began to rise. The hotels turned us out and locked their doors, telling us that the "officials" told us to report to the convention center to wait for more buses. As we entered the center of the City, we finally encountered the National Guard. The Guards told us we would not be allowed into the Superdome as the City's primary shelter had descended into a humanitarian and health hellhole. The guards further to
[scifinoir2] King Leopold's Ghost
HISTORY_King Leopold's Ghost_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=465325&subscriber_id=247296&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=www.amazon .com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0618001905/102-1521687-6248139) by Adam Hochschildjournalistic account of King Leopold II's colonization of the Congo, which killed ten million Africans, inspired Heart of Darkness, and led to Mobutu Sese Seko's brutal dictatorship. Review When Adam Hochschild realized that King Leopold II's colonization of the Congo — a holocaust that killed ten million Africans — was largely untold and unremembered, he decided to write King Leopold's Ghost. Hochschild is a Berkeley professor, a long-time journalist, and cofounder of Mother Jones, and in his able hands what could have been a morbid read becomes an eye-opening, plotty story filled with intrigue and poignancy. King Leopold II assumed the throne of Belgium in 1865, and if there were ever a monarch whose ambitions did not fit his country, he was it. Hemmed in by an elected government and larger, stronger _neighbors_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=465325&subscriber_id=247296&listing_id=LISTI NG_ID&url=www.onwar.com/aced/nation/fax/france/ffranceprussia1870.htm) , Leopold's dreams of power, wealth, and empire seemed destined to wither away until _Henry Morton Stanley_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=465325&subscriber_id=247296&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Henry_Morton_Stanley) emerged (barely alive) from his treks through the Congo in 1877. Courting the macho trailblazer, Leopold was able to get the inside scoop on the vast jungle from virtually the only person who could provide it to the Western world. It wasn't long before Leopold laid claim to an enormous swath of land, halving the Congo's indigenous population in 40 years and making himself rich and powerful. As the wealth stacked, so did the atrocities: children were clubbed to death to save bullets, women were abducted to compel men to work, and entire villages were razed to plant rubber. Despite _the horror_ (http://sublit.com/ad/func/ct.php?mail_list_id=22&job_id=465325&subscriber_id=247296&listing_id=LISTING_ID&url=etext.lib.virginia.edu/e tcbin/toccer-new2?id=ConDark.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/mode ng/parsed&tag=public&part=all) of Leopold's regime, King Leopold's Ghost is also a story of redemption. Hochschild relates the tale of George Washington Williams, a plucky African-American polymath who began the crusade to liberate the Congo from Leopold's grasp. Although tuberculosis claimed Williams before the Congo was free, the torch was picked up by E.D. Morel, a Liverpool dockworker who could not ignore his conscience once he realized that the firearms he helped ship to the Congo in exchange for ivory and rubber could only mean slave labor. Showcasing Hochschild's keen eye for detail, King Leopold's Ghost does just what a history should do; it relates an episode that we should care about, and tells it in a way that will make us want to know more. (SE) Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/FXrMlA/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] RESOURCE: International Network of Street Papers
RESOURCE: International Network of Street Papers The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) unites street papers sold by homeless and people living in poverty from all over the world. INSP is an umbrella organisation, which provides a consultancy service for its partner papers and advises on the setting up of new street papers and support initiatives for marginalised people. http://www.street-papers.com Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Fats Domino missing
_http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/music/article.adp?id=20050901133509990003&ncid=NWS 000101_ (http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/music/article.adp?id=20050901133509990003&ncid=NWS000101) NEW YORK (Sept. 1) - Fats Domino was missing Thursday, days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, said his longtime agent, Al Embry. Embry told The Associated Press that he hadn't been able to contact Domino since talking to him Sunday evening by phone. The 77-year-old R&B legend, whose real name is Antoine Domino, told Embry that he planned to stay at his New Orleans house with his wife, Rosemary, and their daughter. "I hope somebody turns him up, but as of right now, we haven't got anybody that knows where he's at," said Embry, who has worked with Domino for 28 years. "I would think he might be safe because somebody said he was on top of the balcony." Checquoline Davis, Domino's niece, posted a message on Craigslist.com Thursday pleading for information. Davis wrote that Domino, his wife, their children and grandchildren "didn't get out" of the second floor. Domino, who has rarely appeared in public in recent years, has a home in the 9th ward, a low-lying area of the flooded city. Getting information on possible missing persons has been nearly impossible as phone lines for hospitals and police haven't been working. Domino has sold more than 110 million records in his long career, including the legendary singles "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That a Shame." His 1950 recording of "The Fat Man" is sometimes called the first real rock 'n' roll record. He was among the first honorees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 09/01/05 16:16 EDT Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. Carole McDonnell "Then said I, 'Here am I; send me.'" www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/FXrMlA/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Library Journals most borrowed books -- Summer 2005
Fiction _http://libraryjournal.com/info/CA604223.html_ (http://libraryjournal.com/info/CA604223.html) 1. 4th of July.James Patterson. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-71060-1. $27.95. 2. Honeymoon. James Patterson. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-71062-8. $27.95. 3. The Mermaid Chair. Sue Monk. Kidd Viking. ISBN 0-670-03394-4. $24.95. 4. The Broker. John Grisham. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-51045-4. $27.95. 5. True Believer. Nicholas Sparks. Warner. ISBN 0-446-53243-6. $24.95. 6. No Place Like Home. Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-26489-4. $25.95. 7. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead: Putnam. ISBN 1-573-22245-3. $24.95. 8. Eleven on Top. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-30626-1. $26.95. 9. Broken Prey. John Sanford. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15272-5. $26.95. 10. Two-Dollar Bill. Stuart Woods. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15251-2. $25.95. 11. The Innocent. Harlan Coben. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-94874-0. $25.95. 12. Lifeguard. James Patterson and Andrew Gross. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-05785-1. $26.95. 13. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon. ISBN 0-375-42271-4. $19.95. 14. Cold Service. Robert Parker. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15240-7. $24.95. 15. Ya-Yas in Bloom. Rebecca Wells. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-060-19534-7. $24.95. 16. Girls in Pants. Ann Brashares. Delacorte. ISBN 0-385-72935-9. $16.95. 17. Marker. Robin Cook. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15293-8. $25.95. 18. The Closers. Michael Connelly. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-73494-2. $26.95. 19. Star Wars, Episode III. Matthew Stover. Del Rey. ISBN 0-345-42883-8. $25.95. 20. The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50420-9. $24.95. 21. Vanishing Acts. Jodi Picoult. Atria: S. & S. ISBN 0-7434-5454-5. $25. 22. Hard Truth. Nevada Barr. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15241-5. $24.95. 23. Saturday. Ian McEwan. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-51180-9. $26. 24. Superstition. Karen Robards. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15280-6. $24.95. 25. Prince of Fire. Daniel Silva. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15243-1. $25.95. 26. London Bridges. James Patterson. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-71059-8. $27.95. 27. Gilead. Marilynne Robinson. Farrar. ISBN 0-374-15389-2. $23. 28. Blood Memory. Greg Iles. Scribner. ISBN 0-7432-3470-7. $24.95. 29. Northern Lights. Nora Roberts. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15205-9. $25.95. 30. Zorro. Isavel Allende. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-077897-0. $25.95. 31. Countdown. Iris Johansen. ISBN 0-553-80342-5. $25. 32. Impossible. Danielle Steel. Delacorte. ISBN 0-385-33826-0. $27. 33. Conviction. Richard North Patterson. Random. ISBN 0-345-45019-1. $25.95. 34. Cut and Run. Ridley Pearson. Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6726-4. $23.95. 35. A Thread of Grace. Mary Doria Russell. Random. ISBN 0-375-50184-3. $25.95. 36. The Ice Queen. Alice Hoffman. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-05859-9. $23.95. 37. Sentenced To Die. Judith A. Jance. Morrow. ISBN 0-06-077603-X. $21.95. 38. Survivor in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15208-3. $23.95. 39. The Historian. Elizabeth Kostova. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-01177-0. $25.95. 40. Devil’s Corner. Lisa Scottoline. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-074288-7. $25.95. Non-fiction _http://libraryjournal.com/info/CA604224.html_ (http://libraryjournal.com/info/CA604224.html) 1. French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure. Mireille Guiliano. Alfred A. Knopf, $22. ISBN 1400042127. 2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown, $25.95. ISBN 0316172324. 3. My Life So Far. Fonda, Jane. Random House, $26.95. ISBN 0375507108. 4. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, $25.95. ISBN 006073132X. 5. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey. Keith, Sam. Alaska Northwest, $14.95. ISBN 0882405136. 6. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond, Jared. Viking, $29.95. ISBN 0670033375. 7. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Friedman, Thomas L. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.5. ISBN 0374292884. 8. A Lotus Grows in the Mud. Goldie Hawn. Putnam, $25.95. ISBN 0399152857. 9. Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential. Joel Osteen. Warner Faith, $19.95. ISBN 0446532754. 10. Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover. Greene, Bob. Simon & Schuster, $25. ISBN 0743254058. 11. The Glass Castle: A Memoir. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $25. ISBN 0743247531. 12. Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America. Mark R. Levin. Regnery, $27.95. ISBN 0895260506. 13. God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. Wallis, Jim. HarperCollins, $24.95. ISBN 0060558288. 14. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a
[scifinoir2] list of the 50 top socialist sf stories
_http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/50socialist/full/_ (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/50socialist/full/) Carole McDonnell_"Then said I: 'Here am I; send me." _ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GenreChristianWriters) www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html groups.yahoo.com/group/genrechristianwriters _groups.yahoo.com/group/Thecontestinganthologist_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thecontestinganthologist) (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EthnicChristianWriters) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h7hp6s9/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123172242/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good. ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: O/T -- Speaking of narrative structure
Sorry, Nora. I did write that it was off-topic. But you're right. Other list. It's just that it had an interesting narrative structure. First person narration mixed with revelation and as I said in the old black theater genre. And the language...was so ...well "down home." I smiled to see how "real" it got. And yet...it was high opera. But opera isn't literature, it's more musical or visual. -C --- > > Hi all: > > > > Anyone here see the R Kelly "Trapped in the closet" video? Aside from > > what it might be saying about the sexual proclivities of the young > > urban black professionals, the narrative structure -- of the "what > > goes around comes around" theme-- and the cynicism (Is no one good or a > > faithful? Not even a pastor or a cop?) makes me wonder. Okay, I have a > > sense of humor but what's the theme of this thing? Secrets coming out > > of the closet? > > > > It reminds me of the cornbread theater circut with all the high > > operatic stuff and the black theater but those plays always end with > > someone being redeemed. This is cynical totally. Not anything > > redemptive. Or is coming to the truth the happy ending? > > > > I like it. I just think it's a big jump from the kind of "okay, it's > > the happy ending and we're all singing in church and the family's > > united" that one sees at the Beacon theater or at the Apollo. A near -- > > yet far -- cry from Confessions of a Mad black woman. > > Just commenting. > Nora writes: > The thing you have to remember is that this video was made by R Kelley, > whose sexual proclivities (as Dave Chapelle has reminded us) are FAR FROM > NORMAL. =P The drama and cynicism of the video is based on *his* > experiences, which clearly aren't all that fantastic on the relationship > front. But then considering how he treats women, does that really surprise > anyone? > > Nora Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studies -- easywaytowrite.com/bible_studies.html Then along came an angel: Messengers of Deliverance - Pleasant Word Books Life Spices from Seasoned Sistahs - www.nubianimagespublishing.com Jigsaw Nation -- Wildside Press [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Women Accused of Scamming Aspiring Writers
* * * http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050707/ap_on_en_ot/writers_scammed Women Accused of Scamming Aspiring Writers By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 7, 5:15 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. - Kathy Cunningham was an aspiring children's author with nothing but rejection slips for "Frumpy's Grumpy Day" when Martha Ivery's publishing company offered to print it — for a price. The North Charleston, S.C., resident and her husband sent $2,000 for a share of publishing costs and waited. And waited. Uneasy feelings crystallized about nine months later when illustrations for her book came back from Ivery's Press-TIGE Publishing Co. They were "badly done" copies from a Berenstain Bears book, Cunningham said. "When I opened that, I said, `Does she think we're stupid?'" she said. Cunningham is not the only aspiring author claiming to have lost money to Ivery, who's accused of cheating others by dangling false promises to publish their books. A federal indictment last month charged Ivery with defrauding 15 writers from 1997 through 2002. Advocates for writers say such operations prey on would-be authors. "So often the worst aspect of these scams is that they're not just stealing the money, they're stealing the dreams," said C.E. Petit, an Urbana, Ill., lawyer representing people who claim they were defrauded by Ivery. Ivery, 56, is accused of defrauding writers as both an agent and a publisher. Ivery not only ran Press-TIGE out of the sleepy town of Catskill, N.Y., but posed as a literary agent named Kelly O'Donnell, federal prosecutors say. Clients worked with both O'Donnell and Ivery without being told they were the same person. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Ivery told writers that O'Donnell died in the World Trade Center and O'Donnell said Ivery died in the attacks, according to A.C. Crispin, a science fiction writer who co-founded the scam-busting Writer Beware Web site, which is run by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Writers who sent manuscripts to O'Donnell/Ivery were promised such perks as book signings and TV talk show appearances. But they had to pay fees for representation and editing. Writers wondering about publication delays were told there were problems with illustrations, printers or computer viruses, according to prosecutors. "This is a vulnerable population that is vulnerable to hearing what they want to hear," Petit said. "And what they want to hear is `Yes, I'll publish your book.'" With millions of aspiring writers, and only limited capacity or desire to publish them, scammers proliferate. Some set up as literary agents who promise to get manuscripts published for an upfront fee. Then there are fly-by-night publishing houses that charge fees for services never rendered. Ivery, whose own author credits include "Make Millions From Your Kitchen Table," said her lawyer advised her not to comment. Her lawyer, Richard Mott, did not return calls Wednesday and Thursday seeking comment. Crispin said some literary scammers get caught — like a Kentucky couple accused of pocketing nearly $1.5 million from authors before 1999 — but victims are often too heartbroken or embarrassed to fight. And the amounts scammed from individual victims tend to be relatively small. For instance, the Ivery indictment lists individuals defrauded of between $1,665 and $10,025. "Scammers tend to fly under the radar," Crispin said. Writer Beware co-founder Victoria Strauss keeps a database of almost 400 questionable literary agents and 200 questionable publishers. Strauss said the FBI investigated Ivery after she and Crispin collected information from 100 victims, who together lost more than $100,000. By 2002, Press-TIGE filed for bankruptcy. The criminal indictment against Ivery includes 15 counts of mail fraud, a related fraud count and one count of bankruptcy fraud for allegedly making a false statement under oath. Prosecutors said if convicted, Ivery faces up to 20 years in prison on the mail fraud charges, 10 years on the related fraud count and 5 years on the bankruptcy fraud charge. She also could be ordered to pay up to $250,000 in fines. Based on sentencing guidelines, Petit said she probably faces at least seven years in prison if convicted. Ivery is out on a $50,000 bond. Barring a plea deal, her trial is set for September. Writer Beware operators say they have not heard complaints against Ivery for a couple of years, though other scams continue to flourish. "Sadly, Martha is just the tip of the iceberg," Crispin said. ___ On The Net: Writer Beware: http://www.sfwa.org/beware/ Authors Lawyer: http://www.authorslawyer.com/ Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studi
[scifinoir2] Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe
Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe (http://ar.atwola.com/link/93179288/html?badsc=B0l8hLfyBKERKXbuvDDvHOPsW0aIRiy9FWfJ-ZjYGJ87TS2zoSF60-9Tb1v5BtJxCCOSluymcI5H1af9j0Rl7DJx5F0fQ_MM2Q1TvNKNsBlF IRUWG1It0kkMglVoDmQc06dDIWrid-JaxVQXo5TBOsMiNH4ZRpzRZ3hLpjIXG9KmRuxpTaE5z07Kmw BMEOPZXBao3pGgEK1XxmC03AZgVK-n2s74zg0z6RXOFvWe2_zMLBwEksczwEkqRqIzaOD6CUfO5-KG vKJeQFy8wf8qch1Q$$) _http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=2005070519990002&ncid=NWS000101_ (http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=2005070519990002&ncid=NWS000101) Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studies -- easywaytowrite.com/bible_studies.html Then along came an angel: Messengers of Deliverance - Pleasant Word Books Life Spices from Seasoned Sistahs - www.nubianimagespublishing.com Jigsaw Nation -- Wildside Press [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Mexican Stamps Racist, Civil Rights Leaders Say
_washingtonpost.com_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/) Mexican Stamps Racist, Civil Rights Leaders Say Images Feature Popular Cartoon Character By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 30, 2005; A01 < The Mexican government issued a series of stamps yesterday depicting a dark-skinned Jim Crow-era cartoon character with greatly exaggerated eyes and lips, infuriating black and Hispanic civil rights leaders for the second time in weeks. Mexican postal officials said the five-stamp series features Memin Pinguin, a character from a comic book created in the 1940s, because he is beloved in Mexico. A spokesman for the Mexican Embassy described the depiction as a cultural image that has no meaning and is not intended to offend. "Just as Speedy Gonzalez has never been interpreted in a racial manner by the people in Mexico," embassy spokesman Rafael Laveaga said. ". . . He is a cartoon character. I am certain that this commemorative postage stamp is not intended to be interpreted on a racial basis in Mexico or anywhere else." But the leaders of the NAACP, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the National Council of La Raza and the National Urban League denounced the image in strong terms, calling it the worst kind of black stereotype. The curator of a Michigan museum that collects Jim Crow memorabilia said the Memin Pinguin caricature is a classic "pickaninny" -- a black child, oafish and with apelike features. "It is offensive," said the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, who like other leaders called on Mexican President Vicente Fox to apologize and stop circulation of the stamps. Jackson vowed to lead a demonstration at Mexican consulates if Fox does not do so. It was the second time in seven weeks that Jackson called on Fox to apologize for a racial offense. In May, Fox apologized for saying that Mexican migrants in the United States work jobs that "even blacks don't want," a comment he said was taken out of context. Marc H. Morial, executive director of the National Urban League, joined Jackson in calling on President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to denounce the stamps. "It's outrageous, it's offensive, and it really raises the question of whether President Fox's apology was sincere and meaningful," Morial said. Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, said it is "impossible to overstate how appalled and offended I am, not only by the stamp but by the reaction of the Mexican postal service." She added: "Hispanic Americans and all other Americans will and should be equally outraged." David Pilgrim, curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., said images such as that of Memin Pinguin are prolific in Mexico, Latin America and Japan. "I'm disappointed but not shocked," he said. "This is consistent with what we in the United States would refer to as a pickaninny image. It's disappointing when you find a government putting its stamp on racism." © 2005 The Washington Post Company Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studies -- easywaytowrite.com/bible_studies.html Then along came an angel: Messengers of Deliverance - Pleasant Word Books Life Spices from Seasoned Sistahs - www.nubianimagespublishing.com Jigsaw Nation -- Wildside Press [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Pentagon Creating Database of High School Students
Jun. 23) - As U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan continues, the Pentagon -- which has fallen short of its recruitment goals -- is using new means to find potential recruits. Working with the private marketing firm BeNow, Inc. of Wakefield, Mass., the Pentagon has created a huge database of millions of high school students, aged 16 to 18. The database includes names, dates of birth, genders, addresses, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, ethnicity, telephone numbers, and even grade point averages. The purpose, according to a Defense Department statement, is "to assist" in "direct marketing recruiting efforts." Privacy Advocates Concerned But privacy advocates say it violates a federal law that restricts the government's ability to gather personal information. They say they understand the military's need to recruit but this type of information-gathering goes too far. "It's very secretive," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It feels a lot like a big brother proposal, and it really should be stopped." The Pentagon -- struggling to recruit in the face of the daily violence in Iraq -- says the database is a way to remain competitive in a marketplace where young people have a lot of choices. Officials say they will handle the data with care. "We always worry about privacy issues," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said. A growing number of parents were already upset about the military's recruiting techniques. A little-known provision in the 2002 "No Child Left Behind" education law requires every public school to provide the military with the names, addresses and phone numbers of students. Last month, Louise Wannier went to her daughter's high school to submit an opt-out letter, which prohibits recruiters from accessing personal information. She learned today about the new database, which may have much more information on her daughter than she'd ever imagined. "I thought I had protected my kid," she said. "This is a direct violation of family privacy and parental rights." Privacy advocates and at least one congressman are now fighting to stop the gathering of information for the database. ABC News' Dan Harris filed this report for "World News Tonight." Copyright 2005 ABC News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studies -- easywaytowrite.com/bible_studies.html Then along came an angel: Messengers of Deliverance - Pleasant Word Books Life Spices from Seasoned Sistahs - www.nubianimagespublishing.com Jigsaw Nation -- Wildside Press [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] PRESS FREEDOM: Japanese publisher defies Little Black Sambo protest
PRESS FREEDOM: Japanese publisher defies Little Black Sambo protest Seventeen years after it was removed from bookshops for its racist content, the children's story Little Black Sambo has made a comeback in Japan... In 1988, Japanese booksellers agreed to remove it from their shelves after a US-led campaign against its racist language and imagery. http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1506576,00.html Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studies -- easywaytowrite.com/bible_studies.html Then along came an angel: Messengers of Deliverance - Pleasant Word Books Life Spices from Seasoned Sistahs - www.nubianimagespublishing.com Jigsaw Nation -- Wildside Press [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th century
Ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th century. (I sincerely wonder) _http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591_ (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591) , For the life of me I don't know why Silent Spring should be considered one of the most harmful books. Conservatism is one thing but really! I haven't read Ralph Nader's book either. I'm a Christian but I suspect some of these books are on this list because American business is challenged. Carole McDonnell www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html So Long Been Dreaming - Arsenal Pulp Press. www.arsenalpulp.com Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises. www.fantasistent.com Easy Way to Write Bible Studies -- easywaytowrite.com/bible_studies.html Then an angel came along - Pleasant Word Books Life Spices from Seasoned Sistahs - www.nubianimagespublishing.com Jigsaw Nation -- Wildside Press [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/rkgkPB/UOnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re:Home from Surgery!
YAY -C In a message dated 6/1/2005 2:12:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com writes: Then I noticed that ALL of the pain in my left shoulder, chest, and shoulder blade was gone, too! Carole McDonnell "If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] =====TODAY'S BOOK=====================
This is from St Martin's Press. Some publishing houses have a read-it-first feature which sends you emails of books they're about to publish. I like doing it just to see but one never knows what book chapters one will receive each week. They range from inspirational to fiction to mystery to speculative fiction, etc. Am sending this to the list if any of you want to subscribe, but also because this is a book about race. =TODAY'S BOOK=Today We Begin a New Book!PRAYING FOR GIL HODGESA Memoir of the 1955 World Series andOne Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgersby Thomas Oliphant (nonfiction)Published by St. Martin's PressHardcover, ISBN: 0-312-31761-1Copyright (c) 2005 by Thomas OliphantThis book will be available in bookstores May 20, 2005To reference this email: HODGES (Part 1 of 5)==CHAPTER ONEA Bridge in IndianaIt happened out of the blue.State Highway 41 shoots straight north out of Evansville, Indiana.It quickly clears what pass for the suburbs of the small city andthen becomes a two-lane quiet rural road, guiding a traveler byfertile fields of soybeans and corn, thick woods, and little else.For someone who is on the road a bit too much, Highway 41 is theperfect respite from the homogenized sameness of interstate-airport-hotel "life." For a newspaper columnist with a yen forpolitics this is familiar; favored territory because of its proximityto one of the most revealing stretches of real estate in America--theland on either side of the Ohio River. From Pittsburgh to Cairo,Illinois, where it meets the Mississippi, the Ohio defines what iscalled Middle America; every two years, the six states that touch itprovide many of my reliable clues about where the country is headed.I had started early, taking a slight detour to the northeast tospend some time in the university town of Bloomington. After maybethirty uneventful miles, I passed a sign announcing the town ofPrinceton, which set off a tiny bell of recognition in my head, oneof those inexplicable moments when you know you hive reacted for areason, but the memory is slow to produce it. I had not quiteresolved the question of why Princeton, Indiana, would ring a bellwhen the next sign answered my question--The Gil Hodges MemorialBridge.I hit the brake without thinking. The compulsion to stop wasinstantly overpowering.It wasn't much, a simple concrete structure spanning the not-mightyPatoka River in an area where coal had once been big. The bridge waspuny compared to the other bridge named after Gil Hodges--whichconnects the western chunk of New York's Rockaway peninsula toBrooklyn and which had his name added to its more familiar MarineParkway title in 1978, six years after he died of a heart attack waytoo young just shy of his forty-eighth birthday.But this was Indiana bridge Gil Hodges--quiet, simple, strong,unadorned.I am a New Yorker by birth, childhood, and disposition still. GilHodges was my father's hero and my hero. For the longest time, Iassumed it was because they were both from Indiana; only as timepassed did I come to understand that my father looked up to Hodges'senormous character, his stoic response to adversity. He was my heroat first because he was my father's hero; only as time passed did Irealize that I looked up to him for the same reason. It was so verypersonal.Gil Hodges was one of the stars on the Brooklyn Dodgers, a baseballteam long ago that personified the hard-luck struggler's lot, blazedstill-astonishing trails in race relations long before the rest ofthe country caught up, represented a huge chunk of New York that hasdeep ties to the entire country and then like my own family wentwest.In addition to being one of the premier first basemen of his time,Hodges was also one of the stars on what for a great many years Ihad no difficulty identifying as the happiest day of mylife--October 4, 1955, the only day in the seventy-odd years of thefabled and cursed franchise when the Dodgers ruled the world. Idon't have to close my eyes; I can still see the solid single hehit cleanly into Yankee Stadium's left field that drove in RoyCampanella with the first Dodger run of the afternoon.I can still see the long fly ball that he hit near the warning trackin right-center field two innings later that for one thrillinginstant looked like it might he a grand-slam home run. It was morethan deep enough to drive in his pal and Ohio River valley neighbor,Pee Wee Reese, with the second and only other run of anexcruciatingly tense game.I can still see this tall, broad-shouldered man with a big,expressive face reaching and then reaching some more to take twofamous throws at first base from his Kentucky friend that day--thefirst to complete an electrifying double play following aspectacular catch in the outfield that remains one of the memorablemoments in one hundred years of World Series lore; the second torecord the last
[scifinoir2] Hard Shell Word Factory
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Hard Shell Word Factory is a royalty paying publisher of works for sale in electronic format and trade paperback.. (We DO NOT charge our authors for publication. The work must be submitted and pass our editorial review process.) We publish book-length quality non-fiction and fiction--Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Western, Historical, Mainstream, Young Adult and Children's books.There are no "content" guidelines regarding age, race, career, setting, etc. in our fiction stories. The best way to see what we're looking for is to read some of our books.To help our readers find the kind of books they want, we reserve the right to use content ratings regarding sex or violence on explicit material. SUBMISSIONS: Hard Shell Word Factory is now accepting submissions for a four book anthology series of 25,000 word novellas, centering on Egyptian artifacts. Chronicles of Egypt: Book I: Stelas of Terror (Horror, optimal release date 9/05)Chronicles of Egypt: Book II: Temples of Desire (Romance, optimal release date 2/06)Chronicles of Egypt: Book III: Echoes of Intrigue (Mystery, optimal release date 8/06)Chronicles of Egypt: Book IV: Realms of Orion (SF optimal release date 2/07) This series of anthologies will be published approximately every six months starting in September/October of 2005. Each anthology will consist of three novellas of 25,000 words each for a total of 75,000 words for each genre. Each novella in the series revolves around an artifact, but needs to fit the genre. The artifact can be a mummy, or amulet, or scroll, or anything that is ancient Egyptian. The story can take place in Egypt or anywhere in the world. The artifact can also be new if the story is set during the time of the pharaohs. Stelas of Terror: three horror novellas. Temples of Desire: three hotter, spicier romances than traditional, but not erotica. Echoes of Intrigue: three mysteries set in Egypt or centered on Egyptian artifacts. Realms of Orion: three science fiction novellas centered on the Orion theory that the Egyptians were descendants of an alien race. Submissions should be two chapters of the novella and a complete synopsis. If we like your partial, we will request the complete novella. Submissions can be for any of the four anthologies, however, since the horror anthology is time sensitive, we would like those submissions as soon as possible with a cut-off date of July 31, 2005. Microsoft Word is preferable. If you would like to submit, please send your submission as an email attachment to Diane Kirkle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE NOTE: REGULAR SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL TEMPORARILY CLOSED! We hope to reopen them soon, and will probably do so by Genre.Please check back here for updates and submission guidelines. Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Re:Re: Bollywood 'Oscars' Honour Hasselhoff
Oh gee! (giggling) Was that him? I thought I recognized those shorts. Yes, it's hard to see what others see in folks we don't. But as I said, the last word on style, technique and creativity. doesn't stop with the US...and considering that India has way more people than we do and a larger film industry...we might be missing a great acting genius. Hey, I'm with you but...just trying to lose my US western "we know better than everyone else about everything" mindset. Perhaps we've lost something of our souls by not being able to dive into melodrama and musicals with such aplomb. -C In a message dated 5/24/2005 11:32:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com writes: And, of course, everyone knows Hasselhoff should have been oscar nominated for his transcendant performance in the "Sponge Bob Square Pants" movie.~rave! Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Passing a question along
Got this from a friend so am passing it along as a question? Did George Luca break the canon with this film? If you figure it in context w/ Return of the Jedi. There's a line in Jedi which entirely blows something in Sith outta the water, a line in Jedi that makes Sith's ending difficult to see as a straight line. Watch jedi esp. at the end when vader is dead, before you go see the movie. -C Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] quotes yet again for quote generator
"Be not afraid. The Island is full of noises." Shakespeare The Tempest "Oh brave new world that has such people in it." Shakespeare The Tempest In xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner I cannot live without my life; I cannot die without my soul -- Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte "Haunt me then!" Wuthering Heights "We are such stuff as dreams are made of and our lives are rounded in a dream." Midsummer night's dream "Death, the sound was reverbeated --everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated --everlasting farewells Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an Opium Eater "I dreamed a dream tonight" "And so did I." "Well, what was yours?" "That dreamers often lie." "In bed asleep, while they do dream things true." Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare" "Would you like to play a game?" Wargames "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane" Superman "To the Batcave!" Batman "I see dead people." Signs "He whose name must not be spoken" Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone Their maxim is, that among People of Quality a Wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable Companion, because she cannot always be young. -- Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud; and Pride and Hunger will ever be at variance.-- Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley "History is bunk.": Aldous Huxley Brave New World "Christianity without tears— that’s what soma is." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World "But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World "You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art." Aldous Huxley Brave New World Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Another Quote for Quote generator
"You can't play God." The Butterfly Effect. Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Quote for quote generator
Hi Tracey: This is one of my favorite quotes but couldn't find the book in my bookcases last night. Found it this morning. I especially like this quote because one can see the trouble brewing. Any fool can tell you that a spell used on a mermaid is not gonna work for the daughter of an Elf king. -C "And at last he found in his book a form of service for the wedding of a mermaid that had forsaken the sea, though the good book spoke not of Elfland. And this he said would suffice, for that the mermaids dwelt equally with the elf-folk beyond thought of salvation." Lord Dunsany "The King of Elfland's Daughter." Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [scifinoir2] PS: Quotes can come from your own work/SciFiNoir Needs Your...
Gosh this feels so weird, but here goes. Some of my favorite passages from my own published works. And the last two from my novels in progress. I also did some quotes from some poems of mine that were based on fairy tales. Don't know how fairy tales fit into the specfic theme. -C âTell us, Sir Knight,â they asked, âwhy you brought this heathen woman to us. We see by your clothing that you have come from fighting in Palestine. We know you are as holy a man as any of us. Therefore tell us, is this woman a slave of yours, a prize earned in your many battles? Or is she some princess? For dark though she be, she is beautiful to look upon. Was she given to you as booty by some great king?â - Carole McDonnell, "Black is the color of my true love's hair" Published in Fantastic Visions III Edited by William Horner "For we are Godâs children and this woman is a dark heathen, without knowledge of God and with no power to understand spiritual matters were they explained to her, for far be those heathenish people from salvation or even good sense. It is obvious to me that no true friendship can ever grow between such a great lord and such a woman." Carole McDonnell, "Black is the color of my true love's hair" Published in Fantastic Visions III Edited by William Horner The woman from beyond the Two Hills continued, âAlready the children of our village no longer dance to the light at our festivals. They insist on âSound-dances,â preferring âmusicâ to light. They hide their natures, clans, and status. They do not wear their clan colors. Some of our marriageable young girls refuse to wear the courtship tassels. They refuse to give the world knowledge of themselves. Itâs a perverse game they play. Yesterday, at the beginning of the Mother-Infant Festival, some children insisted on mouth-singing, even though their parents could not understand a word they said. And when they talk, they hide their conversations, imitating the mouth-speakers' mouth-to-ears talk, what the Earthers callâ âthis she finger-spelled in English-- ââwhispers.ââ - Carole McDonnell "Lingua Franca" Published in So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonialism in Science Fiction. Edited by Nalo Hopkinson I do not like the name: Snow White.No one could be that pure.But, accepting it, let us move on. -- Carole McDonnell "Snow White" Published by Hudson River Arts Review. Itâs small the pea. Some little comment. -- Carole McDonnell "The Princess and the Pea" Published by The Hudson River Arts Review. My mother built ivory towers too.They loomed high, without windows or walls or laddersand she put me and herself inside.-- Carole McDonnell "Rapunzel" Published by the Hudson River Arts Review. There are some women who truly feel themselves to be ideal.There are some women who cannot see their own fraud.There are some women who have crooked measuring sticks.This poem is not for them.We know all too well that we are not perpetual joys.We know the day will come when Prince Charmingwill see us covered with ashessitting beside the cinders. -- Carole McDonnell "Cinderella" Hudson River Arts Review. I donât think I can adequately describe the feeling of intimacy and personal attachment that this person seemed to feel for me. -- Carole McDonnell "That Smile" Then Along Came an Angel. Published by Pleasant Word Books. Edited by Julie Bonn Heath. We donât see a lot of mixed couples around here, and weâre not like some of the other states in the Confederate United Republic. Itâs not like theyâre gonna get killed or lynched or nothing. But itâs tough just the same. And although itâs weird enough that theyâre an interracial couple, it seems to me that theyâre arguing about something bigger than merely coming into this cafe. I donât know any Blacks. You got to go to Laramie, or Cheyenne to see them. But I watch Cosby when itâs on. The Confederacy ainât as bad as the folks in Columbia might think. Sure everyoneâs segregated, but itâs all equal and the Platte County school district is pretty good about African-American History Month. -- Carole McDonnell "Homecoming at the Borderlands Cafe" Jigsaw Nation. (Wildside Books) Edited by Ekaterina Sedia. âAnd you are not weak or lacking in morals?â âI am not. I have told you that I am a reinforced wall. No door of mine is opened to you. Only my husband can enter me.â -- Carole McDonnell "The Wind Follower" (specfic historical novel.) Gray Wolf stooped by the waterâs edge washing Davidâs blood from his knife. He gazed up with surprised eyes at his friend, Maelstrom. âThis killing does not satisfy. I thought it would. But revenge does not heal.âMaelstrom nodded then turned toward the horizon. âThe humans have always known this. But come now. The deed is done. Return your ladyâs body to the convent. Perhaps the Silent One will there heal your heart.âDavid Haskinsâ service to his lord had ended. Which of us knows our great and supreme
[scifinoir2] OT - King Tut reconstruction
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050510153509990008 Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [scifinoir2] SciFiNoir Needs Your Favorite Quotes
Hi Tracey: Here are my favorite quotes. As you can see most of them are religious... I've always liked the numinous. Guess that's why I got into spec-fic...where spirituality and creativity and wonder meet. -C "If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Jesus No, rather it would the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. Shakepeare, Macbeth I am often amazed by how unamazed people are by their own evil. -- Blaise Pascal There are reason for believing that reasons know nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal Joy is the serious business of heaven -- C S Lewis And he said, "who shall go for us? And whom shall I send?" Then said I, "Here am I; send me." Isaiah, Bible "Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." G K Chesterton. The greatest offense of Christianity is that it tells us that it tells us that --for all we say and do-- we do not like goodness and if we were to get our hands on God, we would kill him. -- Soren Kierkegaard "Oh to have seen what I have seen, see what I see." Shakespeare, Hamlet "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - G K Chesterton. "To God I still exist." The last line of the Incredible shrinking man. "And there was suddenly in the world a small place for me." Flirting "These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G K Chesterton "God is not neutral, God is biased." Archbishop Desmond Tutu "We are not asked to believe in our belief, we are asked to believe God." - St Augustine "All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well." St Julian of Norwich. "All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive." G K Chesterton "Love has pitched His tent in the place of excrement" W B Yeats. "Nor mouth had -- no, nor mind expressed-- what heart heard of, ghost guessed." Gerard Manley Hopkins. "There is a loving heart at the center of things." Browning. "Billions of consciousnesses silting history full, each of them the center of the universe." John Updike. "I'm almosting it." James Joyce. "several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature â I mean NEGATIVE CAPABILITY, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason â " ~John Keats Carole McDonnell"If I've told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will it be when I tell you about heavenly things?" Let the weak say I'm strong.Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
