#I need to hunt James Cameron for sport.

[e-vultures]

you watch a "just okay" 3-hour long movie and at the end you're like "man that was kind of too long. oh well" but you watch a 3-hour long bad movie and at the end you want to become the unibomber

[adoranymph]

I’m not a fan of horror.

I’ve acquired a taste for things that contain horror elements, like Stranger Things, which contains moments of comedic heart and compelling character drama in addition to the horror, more so than say something with similarly disturbing horror moments like Alien or Aliens, and Shawn of the Dead, which is a romantic comedy spin on the traditional zombie apocalypse movie. And I’m more than certainly looking forward to checking out Lovecraft Country when it comes out. I’ve even gotten over my squeamishness concerning the face-melting in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the villain aging rapidly and ghoulishly into dust and then exploding in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 

Actually, one of my favorite movies to watch with my father was the original Predator, probably because it was as much a movie about an alien trophy hunter hunting humans for sport as it was a macho action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. And unlike Alien and Aliens, didn’t involve that oh-so-disturbing means of procreation we all have come to know and love about xenomorphs. Which means that no, much as I’m chill with the Predator, I still have little desire to watch its crossover with the xenomorph menace, Alien vs. Predator, all the way through. Admittedly, I have, in the past, watched clipped reviews of the Alien movies, including AVP and even AVP Requiem, which I think if I had watched in full would have made me sick. Because my curiosity just gets the better of me from time-to-time, and I know that about myself only too well.

And as much I love Michael Biehn in a James Cameron movie, and was touched by the concept of the found-family storyline in Aliens, I just don’t think I can stomach those chestbursters (ha ha).

I can’t even watch John Hurt reprise his role as “Kane” in a parody of his iconic horror scene in Spaceballs, and, like Shaun of the Dead, that’s a comedy! Even more so than Shaun of the Dead! Well, I do watch the part after when the CB sings, “Hello My Baby,” but by that point the parody of the worst part of that scene is over and done with, and there’s nothing but the joy of a dancing baby alien with Michigan J. Frog’s singing voice coming out of it while John Hurt “Kane” laments, “Oh no! Not again!”

And however compelling The Exorcist is in terms of character…yeah no, not touching that.

It is weird though given how far I’ve come in tolerating horror gore, but that’s just not a line I’m willing to cross yet as of writing this.

But back on track.

Sprinkling this in to counter-balance the PTSD I get from the mere thought of xenomorphs.

A few weeks ago, I got a taste for a different kind of horror, and honestly the kind I’ll take over gore in a heartbeat, even if both equally can get stuck in my head to an ugly degree. And that was rewatching M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense. Probably because I got it in my head to watch Ari Aster’s Midsommar, and I still needed something else to fill out my creep-factor quota. I thought about backpedaling and watching his film before that, Hereditary, but I already know that that one ends far more bleakly (compared to Midsommar, depending on how you look at it, mind), and I needed something that was creepy and tragic, but had an ending that positively affirmed itself.

Then I remembered that The Sixth Sense sort of did that, and it had been a while since I had seen it, but I remembered it from as far back as childhood, me with my parents, adamantly not understanding how they could be fans of things like Alien and Aliens. More than that, I remember actually being able to enjoy Sixth Sense somewhat, even then. Appreciate it for its horror elements and moments of tragedy, rather than shrink away from it.

So I that’s what I did. And for all that Shyamalan has done (botching the first attempt at a live-action adaptation of Avatar: the Last Airbender chief among them), this one still gets me in the feels. Helps, I suppose, that I faced certain deaths and griefs at a far tenderer age than I was “meant to”, but even so, what Shyamalan does best, he does best here. And probably in Unbreakable and even Split too, but I haven’t seen those, and apparently after all that, Glass got panned so…yeah.

Still, if nothing else, it was fun to remember that Toni Collette was in this, and now that I’ve grown and seen her in things like Little Miss Sunshine, and clips of–that’s right, Hereditary–not be surprised, but no less pleased for her performance. Not only is she in a Shyamalan film that works its earmarks to its advantage, but she sells her character as a single mom at the end of her rope, with both a son, Cole, going through a difficult time that they can’t talk about, considering the kid knows what she’d think if he told her he sees dead people, and haunted by the death of her mother with whom she clearly had a difficult relationship. Not saying that this still couldn’t have worked, but given what The Happening did to Mark Wahlberg, color me double-rainbow impressed.

Bruce Willis too. Plus he had the advantage of working with Shyamalan on Unbreakable. So he probably knew how to play things in either situation. That and it’s honestly not a badly written character, all things considered, any more than Toni Collette’s character was. Or, even if it was, again, he sold it with his performance. He has a handle on subtle gravitas as much as he does going toe-to-toe with Alan Rickman (rest in peace) playing a terrorist.

Picked this one for the nostalgic fondness of, “Rent it on video. DVD’s also an option!”

Then you have Haley Joel Osment as Cole. And again, given he’s supposed to be this awkward kid with the added burden that he can see ghosts when no one else can and they scare him and even if he tells someone no one will believe him, any stiffness that comes with the Shyamalan style makes sense here. Death makes everything…stiff. Moreover, he sells it too. I get a lump in my throat just thinking of that moment when, after he’s at least told Bruce Willis’s character, as his therapist, about his secret, he tearfully demands, “How can you help me if you don’t believe me?”

Then there’s the revelation itself of the probably reason the ghosts come to him in the first place. Even if they’re not appearing to him with any conscious desire, some subconsciousness of their incorporeality compels them.

They need help.

In death, they’re lost, but maybe, as Cole’s still alive, there are loose ends he can tie off that they can’t. Not that he should, or even can–like I’m not sure what good he can do for that deceased housewife who clearly committed suicide to escape her abusive husband–but when he’s visited by the girl who’s mother poisoned her to death in a little fit of Munchausen-By-Proxy Syndrome, and he goes to her wake, finds the tapes that prove her mother’s guilt, gives them to her father, and the father confronts the mother about it, that got me more even than it did when I was younger and still trying to wrap my head around the concept of mothers poisoning their daughters.

That’s when things start to turn around for Cole. It’s still scary, but he takes that leap of faith, if you will, and one of the last times you see him with a dead person he’s conversing with them rather normally. Going over lines with them where he gets to play Arthur in a reenactment of the legend of the sword being pulling from the stone. You don’t even realize they’re another ghost until his teacher asks him who he was talking to and the ghost turns her head and you see the burn on the other side that obviously came from the fire that killed her. There’s just something so pure and honest in that, the idea of not only facing your fears, but doing so for the sake of lost souls who otherwise have no other hope because they’re dead.

After that is the one-two punch feels conclusion.

One being Cole not only confessing to his mother at last that he sees dead people, and her clearly starting to freak out about it, until he tells her that, “Grandma says, ‘hi’.” And communicates to her something that her mother never got to tell her herself. Of course, after thoughts of, “Oh dear lord, my son is insane,”, when the proof that Cole has indeed been talking to her mother’s spirit, that goes out the window in favor of,

“Do I make her proud?”

and she just cries and she and her son hug it out. And again, Toni Collette sells it.

Then you have the revelation of Bruce Willis’s character: he was dead the whole time! His wife wasn’t just distancing herself from him and then maybe cheating on him, he was dead and she was a widow who was simply trying to find love again. A moment of horror, and then tragedy, and then bittersweet letting-go all in the last few frames of the film. There’s the two in the one-two punch.

Not to mention my first experience of a “Shyamalan twist”. One that was set up well. Scenes constructed to lead you into thinking that of course he’s alive, details you glaze over, and then you realize, “Oh sh**.”

Which was probably part of the problem with some of his later works, where the twist became synonymous with his style, so sometimes it felt like they were put in there in future movies of his without any real rhyme or reason other than that the public were expecting them and thus somehow obligatory to the script.

Just as I haven’t seen Unbreakable, or Split, and certainly not Glass, I haven’t seen The Visit, either, though from what I understand, it almost sounds like Shyamalan went back to the same headspace he had here in The Sixth Sense, using the awkwardness that seems to come out in his work to an advantage in the found footage format. And the twist was apparently actually hilarious. Which is nice. Good for him.

Not everything someone makes is going to be a hit, even if they’re getting paid for it. But when things are a hit, sometimes, they hit so well that it can make up for all the misses. Or almost make up for them.

Honestly, Sixth Sense is, ultimately, the only Shyamalan film I’ve seen in full. But I enjoyed it no less this time, in fact, enjoyed it more now that I have a better understanding of death and grief and loss.

Guess that’s kind of a weird thing to say, but it’s that same kind of “enjoy” that comes from feeling like someone understands something about something you understand, and maybe even feel a little bit less alone for it. Not only did I experience a lot of grief as a preteen, but before that, I was the weird one that most everyone else at school generally avoided if not viciously teased, with the exception of a few fair-weather friends. All these elements and story beats used to creepy effect in Sixth Sense, along with that sense that some horror doesn’t so much horrify me as actually make my own life seem brighter rather than darker, made for a viewing experience that I place value in as I write this. (Especially given right now we are all apparently living a Stephen King novel right now.)

  So even if I still can’t handle body horror to the degree of stuff like Alien or Aliens, or David Cronenberg’s The Fly (much as I would love to see Jeff Goldblum in all his 80s hair awkward nerd glory as he romances Geena Davis), there is some horror I can handle. And figuring out why is yet one more thing that I place value in.

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Twist 那個油罐車竟然是實景拍攝

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Crew Stories 昨天上午11:41 ·

On this day in 1996 Twister was released "That's no moon, it's a space station!" Tom Hanks was the original choice for the role of Bill Harding. Hanks read lines with the cast and even chose the character's wardrobe, which stayed in the final film, before dropping out. Kurt Russell and Michael Keaton were other possible considerations. Bill Paxton was chosen due to his "southern everyman charm" on a recommendation from director James Cameron. Another James Cameron connection is the name on the tanker truck that pushes Bill's pickup off of the tree is "Benthic Petroleum" which is the same oil company that Ed Harris' crew works for in The Abyss (1989). The base camp (where the crew trucks and equipment are staged) for the end sequence was at a pig farm down the road from the well-house. Every morning the cast and crew were greeted by the smell of a 2-acre pig-waste holding pond in the middle of all the trucks. 2nd AD Richard Oswald shared with us that the legendary Newt Arnold, was the 1st AD would do a loud Tarzan howl when camera was ready! During the hot summer shoot the crew went thru tons of Gold Bond for their “nether region” during dustings at lunch. Crew stories member Jeff Machit shared this anecdote about his experience on the film, my favorite Twister moment. “We’re working in the middle of tornado alley during the middle of tornado season. Many of the crew were concerned about what to do if we were threatened by a real twister. Production brought in the local TV weather man to reassure us. He told us not to worry as we have an on site Doppler radar. The radar would give us a 15 minute warning. He also reassured us that there were two helicopters standing by to evacuate all the above-the-line personnel. The rest of crew should find a ditch to jump into.” Some crew members, feeling that De Bont was "out of control", left the production five weeks into filming. The camera crew led by cinematographer Don Burgess ASC claimed De Bont "didn't know what he wanted till he saw it. He would shoot one direction, with all the equipment behind the view of the camera, and then he'd want to shoot in the other direction right away and we'd have to move [everything] and he'd get angry that we took too long ... and it was always everybody else's fault, never his". De Bont claims that they had to schedule at least three scenes every day because the weather changed so often, and "Don had trouble adjusting to that". When De Bont threw down a camera assistant in a fit of rage, Burgess and his crew had enough and walked off the set, much to the shock of the cast. I just talked to the AC now a operator and he shared this with us. “Looking back on it, I wish I had the self confidence and awareness to make an official complaint to the studio. But I was 32 years old with two young kids and I was afraid it would affect my ability to find work. Obviously, those were different times.” The camera grip and electric crew remained in place for one more week until cinematographer Jack N. Green's crew agreed to replace them. Unfortunately with just two days left of principal photography Jack Green was injured on stage, a warehouse. The set was built so the second floor would drop. It was very hot and there was air conditioning that was very loud. A test of the floor dropping was going to be done. The 1st AD called it out. Jack was underneath and because of the air conditioning didn’t hear the warning. Jack was instructing lamp operator Matt Hawkins to adjust a light and in doing so moved him out of harms way. Unfortunately for Jack the dropping floor hit him injuring his back. Jack spent some time in the hospital. Jan De Bont took over cinematography duties for the remainder of the shoot. Halfway through filming, both Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were temporarily blinded by bright electronic lamps used to make the sky behind the two actors look dark and stormy. Paxton remembers that "these things literally sunburned our eyeballs. I got back to my room, I couldn't see". To solve the problem, a Plexiglas filter was placed in front of the

beams. The actors took eye drops and wore special glasses for a few days to recuperate. After filming in a particularly unsanitary ditch (for the first tornado chase scene, in which Bill and Jo are forced to shelter from an approaching F1 tornado under a short bridge), Hunt and Paxton needed hepatitis shots. During the same sequence, Hunt repeatedly hit her head on a low wooden bridge, so exhausted from the demanding shoot that she stood up so quickly her head struck a beam. During one stunt in which Hunt opened the door of a vehicle speeding through a cornfield, she momentarily let go of the door and it struck her on the side of the head. Some sources claim she received a concussion in the incident. De Bont said, "I love Helen to death, but you know, she can be also a little bit clumsy. " She responded, "Clumsy? The guy burned my retinas, but I'm clumsy ... I thought I was a good sport. I don't know ultimately if Jan chalks me up as that or not, but one would hope so". To simulate the high speed winds that occurs during a tornado and Ritter fans weren’t enough special effects Legend John Frazier and his effects crew (the real heroes of this production) procured some jet engines from a Boeing 707 and mounted them to flatbed trailer! This crew pulled off some pretty epic stuff on this one from dropping tractors from cranes and helicopters to driving a truck thru the facade of a tumbling house! The instrument package used in the movie, "Dorothy", is an homage to the instrument pack real tornado researchers attempt to place in the paths of tornadoes, "T.O.T.O.". Lois Smith's character is reading Dante Alighieri's Inferno when the twister hits Wakita. The book also features a tornado in the second circle of Hell that punishes people ruled by Lust. After the team leaves Wakita, there is a seemingly impossible helicopter shot in which the camera descends several hundred feet in a matter of seconds, ending up mere feet from Jonas's convoy. This was achieved by having the cars drive slower than usual and then speeding up the film. A recording of a camel's moan was slowed down and used as the sound of the tornado. Although Amblin Entertainment has collaborated with both Warner Bros. and Universal on many occasions (Amblin co-founder Steven Spielberg directed films for both studios), as of 2014, this film marks the only time Amblin collaborated with both studios on the same film. The real town of Wakita, Oklahoma had part of its old downtown area demolished by the film crew for the scenes after the twister passes. The studio then paid for the downtown to be rebuilt. The town also kept the new fire truck used in the film De Bont insisted on using multiple cameras, which led to the exposure of 1,300,000 feet (400,000 m) of film, compared to the usual maximum of 300,000 feet (91,000 m). The 35mm short ends were used to shoot Jon Favreau’s SWINGERS. pre production in Oklahoma was briefly delayed due to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Many of the crew went to the site to help with recovery efforts. This was the first movie released on DVD, and the last released on HD-DVD. After Bill Paxton died, Spotter Network choreographed 200 storm chasers to spell out "BP" with their GPS tracker blips on a radar display to honor him. This kind of tribute had only been done five times before, and it was the first time it had been done for someone who wasn't a storm chaser. (IMDb/Wikipedia/crew stories) some photos from Sound utility and crew stories member Robert K. Maxfield and Paxtonmobile by Mel Roswell,excerpts from a previous post from Matt Hawkins, Jim Plannette, Richard Oswald If you recognize any crew members comment so we may update. A special Thank you to every crew member that endured this production, you were deep in the suck and it was worth it! These kinds of popcorn movies inspired many of us to pursue a career in the filmmaking process.

[scarecrowandmrking]

    Although I was pretty excited when I found out the writers had made a part for me on End Of Days, I kinda expected my arrival on the TV show wouldn't exactly be welcome.  My father produced the show and people were crying nepotism over it and saying that the character and story surrounding her were rushed and only created to appease my dad. And it hurt. I'd been in lots of films, including Michael Bay, Peter Jackson and James Cameron epics. I’d done Broadway and had trained in ballet at the world renowned  Paris Marais School. And still everything I ever achieved always, always, came back to my father. But I was determined to make the best of it. To prove to everyone that this demon character I was playing wasn't some bone thrown to me, it was my character. It was all me.       I was kind of surprised when Mark Pellegrino, who played the main protagonist on the show, invited me to one of his workshops at Playhouse West. Though I played a demon minion of his character in End Of Days, we seldom ever hung out or anything. I was close to all the other actors on the show, but not really to Mark. The man was at times an intimidating presence on set, depending on if he was in character or not. In fact, the first time I had met the tall, blond haired actor, I had walked up to him while he was  in full demonic make up and he had stared up at me as if he wanted to rip my face off. I didn't speak to him for a good two months after that. And, though I knew he had quite the fangirl following from the show, I found him to be too imposing and intense for my liking.      Mark had been dating the lead actress and writer on the show for a while now. Though from what I understood they had broken it off yet again. Now there was a new thing going on where the writers were having my character getting closer to Mark's, apparently because his ex wanted some space or some shit. When I first found out about it I must admit I ground my teeth a little. The fans already thought my being around was nepotism, now they were frothing at the mouth about my character breaking up the main couple on the show. Fucking perfect.      When I sat down in Marks class at Playhouse West I wasn't sure what to expect. Certainly not for Mark to come walking up to the front of the class in a black blazer and jeans. And sporting a pair of black horn rimmed glasses. I hadn't really seen that side of him before. That was new. Everyone in class seemed to love him. Many of the girls, and a few of the guys I noticed, staring at him like little lost puppy dogs. Id picked a spot at the back of the class, hoping not to be noticed by the Pellegrino loving horde. I wasn't really a big hit with the Pelli fans at the moment.      Today Mark was going over the nuances of playing villainous characters. I stifled a chuckle. This was something he would no a hell of a lot about, since the only cuddly character I had ever seen him play was Gavin off The Closer.  Mark stood in front of the class, his arms crossed, his eyes looking at each students face in turn. When he got to me, his gaze lingered a second longer than the others and I found myself nervously looking away. Fuck, his stare could melt titanium or something.      "First off, I know nothing about acting the story from the writers point of view. For me, the antagonist kind of is the story in the sense that he is the one, or she, pursuing and end passionately to the point of even death. And they force the other characters in the story to either rise up and meet them with contrary values or physical force. The antagonist is the one who brings out the heroic nature in the hero."      Mark moved around the class handing out scripts to the students. "These are scenes from shows and movies highlighting the different aspects of what it means to be a villein. And no, there aren't any Lucifer scenes in here."      The class erupted into laughter at the Supernatural reference as the actor moved to the front of the room.      "Everybody is going to divide up into pairs and come up here. We'll go through the nuances of the scene, first from the protagonists point of view. Then the antagonists. And we'll discuss how the scene can be improved by understanding what the characters want and how that affects the scenes dynamic."      As the students gathered into pairs Mark came over and plopped a script down in front of me on the desk. I looked down, my face turning a bright shade of red as I read the name upon it. Mark had chosen a scene from Creed: Legacy, a Joss Whedon series I had made a few years back. I'd starred as an apprentice witch assassin who's mother had been part of a society that hunted dark witches and demons. This scene had been a sexually charged exchange between my character and the leader of a witch hunting organization, a group of humans devoted to the genocide of the supernatural. Critics and fandom alike had hated the pairing, mostly because the actor and I had no chemistry. Though, to be fair, it hadn't been much of an issue back then. We'd both had even gotten a good laugh off of it.  I had never really considered it an insult to my acting ability. And thinking Mark had chosen this scene for me because he might think it did pissed me off royally.     "Want to go first?" he asked me, giving that famous little wink of his I recognized from having studied his work.    "Who's going to be my partner, you?"     Mark looked around. All the students were already standing around in their self made pairs. "Looks like you and I are the only ones left. Don't worry, I've had a little experience at this. I promise not to make you look bad."  I gritted my teeth and shook my head. "Why did you give me this? This scene was done just the way it was suppose to be. It was executed perfectly. Why are you trying to teach me things I already know?"    Mark's face became suddenly serious, and his eyes took on a coldly intelligent gleam that made me lean away from him a little. "The scene lacked authenticity. You went through the motions, adding nothing personal to the story. What was Amelia feeling about falling in love with a murderer of her kind? About the man who was directly responsible for her mothers death? Was she afraid, ashamed, angry at herself? You played the scene as it was written on the page. But I don't want to see what the writers wrote on the page. I want to see you."      He gave me another wink before returning to the front of the class. He had the paired off students go through their scenes, stopping here and there to explain to the class what was going on the scene and how they could improve their performances. I was actually quite impressed with him. He had a beautiful way with words and was never harsh or unnecessarily cruel in his critiques, giving praise where it was do and only using gentle prodding when students failed to grasp what they needed to learn. I found myself slowly starting to have a kind of begrudging respect for the man. He obviously cared about teaching. And I found his soothing voice and charismatic ways endearing, as much as I hated to feel anything of the sort for a guy who often made me want to hide under a rock.     When the class was over I felt a pang of sadness that I wouldn't be seeing more of Mark taking the students through their paces. This hadn't gone as badly as Id thought it would. I gathered up my stuff and prepared to hand the script back to Mark where he stood at the door.     "Hey, where are you flying off to?" He closes the door to block any hopes of my escape.     I tilted my head, giving him my best expression that would convey my wish that he leap out of the nearest window. "Come on, Mark, I've got better things to do than this."      He gave me puppy dog eyes, a sight that melted my resilience so fast I found myself both loving and hating the man in equal measure. "Oh, come on. Humor me. And if you do I'll never ask you for anything again. We're going to be having a lot of scenes together soon. Aren't you curious to see how that's going to work?"      "Ok," I replied, finally relenting under the onslaught of his continued rueful gaze. "But its gonna be cut down. No kissing. No touching. Disney stuff."     "Disney. I promise," Mark said, grabbing the script away from me and tossing it across the room.    "Hey!"    Mark motioned for me to follow him to the center of the room. "So, lets start off where my henchman brings you in. You stand right here and ill be right here. Now I want you to keep in mind what I said. Think about Amelia, not as a character, but as a real live person. With thoughts and feelings. She wants to be loved, but her life has always been about the fear of losing someone like how she lost her mother. My character is someone who threatens everything she believes about herself. A threat not only to her life but to her very being."     I fought hard not to roll my eyes. "I know the character, Mark. Played for her for seven years. How long have you played-"      "Did anybody tell you why I'm doing this or is it just because I'm evil?"      My head snapped up when I heard the words. Mark had already started the scene without me. His whole demeanor had been altered,  though it wasn't really something easily put into words. His stance, his voice, even his presence in the room had changed. His glasses were also nowhere to be seen, I noticed. I had seen actors switch into character before, obviously, but never this fast and never to quite this degree.     "Actually, I don't care," I told him, slowly stepping towards him. My hand clenched the imaginary dagger my character had snuck into the room. We eyed each other, circling one another and looking for any sign of weakness. "You think I don't know guys like you? I've dealt with guys like you all my life. You talk a big game, you act like you don't give a shit, but deep down you're all torn up because mommy didn't love you enough or some girl didn't go with you to prom."     Mark lunged out towards me, his speed and agility much faster than the original actor's had been. David had made the gesture almost playful, like a lover pulling me into his arms after a row. This was a predatory move, filled with the promise of greater violence and filled with malice. I gasped, struggling against his chest as he held me against him, the imaginary dagger falling to the floor as the real one had done in the original scene.     "I've studied your kind for years. Think your mother was a saint? Think she didn't slaughter innocents in her time? You don't know anything about me. I've never killed anybody who didn't deserve it. Never stripped anybody of their powers who didn't deserve it. How many of your kind can say the same?"      I stared up at Mark, this was the point in the scene where my character decides to seduce him in order to escape. In the original scene I had smiled at the actor playing him and playfully stroked his cheek. But that felt wrong in this scene with Mark. I decided to do what my training had taught me to do, go with my instincts.     Fuck it.     I grabbed Mark by the head and pulled him down so I could crush his lips to mine. He did something I didn't expect, he pulled away from me, staring down into my eyes. I read so many things in his deep blue eyes. Fear. Loss. Pain. I felt in that moment that I truly understood his character more than I ever had before. That he was a man on a mission to destroy what he believed to be the most dangerous abominations on earth. And that he both wanted to make love to me and kill me. And he hated himself for wanting either. And both.      "I hate you, You ruined my life" I whispered, but I reached up to stroke his face, the gesture betraying my words.      Mark kissed my forehead. "I know. Sometimes I don't like myself much, either."      He kissed me and I moaned into his mouth, leaning against him. He felt so good against me. And I found my hands wandering over his tall, powerful body. I bit and sucked his lower lip, enjoying the little jolt that went through his body. The scene we were doing became mixed with the reality of me and Mark in my mind. One minute I was the End Of Days actress looking for mentoring and the next I was a young witch being kissed and stroked by a hunter of my kind. And it felt breathtaking and wonderful. I couldn't get enough of his mouth on mine, his hands running up and down my back. His voice whispering my name.     "You think any of this is easy for me?" Mark asked, still staying in character as he pushed me towards the front of the desk. "I could have killed you so many times. I could put a bullet in you right now and nobody would bat an eye."      He threw me on top of the desk. I reached out and pulled off his tie, gazing up at him defiantly. "Yeah, well why don't you?"      Mark spread my legs and leaned against me, grabbing me by the back of the head and nipping teasingly at my lips. "Keep pushing me and you'll find out."     "Maybe I like pushing you," I told him, rubbing him through his jeans before unzipping him and stroking his hard cock. "And maybe you like it to."  Mark shuddered, kissing and nibbling my neck as I jacked him. He thrusted against me  few times before taking my hand away and leaning me further back across the desk. His eyes never left mine as he rubbed his cock over my wet pussy. I cried out his name and begged him to fuck me. He stopped for a moment, taking time to enjoy the sight of me wiggling in impatience beneath him, an affectionate, indulgent sort of smile on his face, before pushing his cock into me in one brutal thrust. I groaned as I took him in. Fuck, he was a big man, and his cock was proportionate to the rest of him.      "Take all the time you need," he tells me, pausing to lick and suck on my tits. "You're so beautiful. Wanted you for so long. Since the first time we met."     "Fuck me," I begged him, trying to move up and down on his cock myself.      "Fuck me."     He set a hard and fast pace in and our of my dripping wet pussy. I wrapped my legs around him, encouraging him with mouth, hands and impassioned pleas. No lover had ever fucked this damn well and he was actually getting me close to orgasm, which I'd never had through regular fucking. I wanted to come so fucking bad. The rise and fall of my pussy trying to come on his cock was driving me insane, and I found myself clawing at his back and shoulders. My wet pussy kept clenching around his cock, telling him that I needed it, that I needed him.     "Come for me," he says in my ear. His arms wrap around me and his thrusts become faster, more frantic. "I'm so close to coming for you."      I leaned my head back as my orgasm reached its peak, Mark groaning as he made two last deep thrusts to come when I did. The feeling of his hot spurts inside of me spurned my climax to go higher, deeper. And I heard his answering moan of pleasure as my pussy contracted, gently milking him of the rest of his cum.      When it was over we held each other, Mark planting kisses on every naked inch of skin he could find.  "I think I might have learned a few things," I told him, lovingly stroking his blond head.    "I'll give you a B for effort," he tells me.     I pull away, pretending to be offended. "What? That sounds kinda unfair to me."    Mark gives me the cutest little grin, one that melted my heart instantly. And I knew in that moment that i was falling for him. That I had been falling for him for a long time. "Well, if you're interested I could give you some extra credit."    "What kind of extra credit, sir?"     Mark takes my face in his hands and covers his mouth with mine.

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Queenslander Welch looked set to accompany Parramatta afore adversity his additional season-ending knee abrasion in aboriginal August and has now taken up his advantage to abide with Melbourne for 2020.

Transfer Centre - transfer centre | transfer centre Stream over 50 sports alive & anytime on your TV or favourite accessory with KAYO SPORTS. The better Aussie sports and the best from overseas. Aloof $25/month. No lock-in contract. Get your 14 day chargeless balloon >New Zealand Test second-rower Kenny Bromwich and Fiji all-embracing prop Tui Kamikamica, who are advancing off career-best NRL seasons, accept continued their deals until the end of the 2022 season.Tongan adumbrative Albert Vete, who was off contract, has been accustomed a one- year extension.The Storm attending set to lose centre Curtis Scott to Canberra, which is alike added of a draft accustomed Will Chambers’ abandonment to rugby abutment in Japan.MORE NRL NEWSLATRELL THE TIGER: Mitchell appears set for Concord afterwards Cowboys talks stallCOMING HOLMES: Val set to canal NFL dream for Townsville returnSAYONARA, AU REVOIR: The NRL stars branch across for 2020Meanwhile, the Wests Tigers accept accustomed a addition advanced of the 2020 division with advanced backpack duo Alex Twal and Luke Garner inking new deals.Both players accept continued their affairs with the club until the end of the 2022 NRL season.Twal, who abutting the Tigers amid through 2017, becoming alternative for Lebanon at that year’s Rugby League World Cup, starring in the Cedars’ memorable run to the knockout rounds.The 23-year-old, who didn’t absence a first-grade bold in 2019, said it was a absolutely accessible accommodation to re-sign.“This club gave me my admission and I’m absolutely blessed with area the club is activity and what administration (coach) Michael Maguire has us activity in. I’m aloof aflame to be a allotment of it activity forward,” Twal said.“I’m still a continued way abroad from the amateur I appetite to be in the NRL but I’m absolutely blessed with my progress.”MORE NRL NEWSMEETING MITCHELL: Cowboys spotted dining with adopted Roosters centreBURNING ISSUES: The affair your club needs to fix advanced of the 2020 seasonDEALBREAKER: The key amateur in the action for Jai Arrow’s signatureElsewhere, Canberra has appear the re-signing of Sam Williams on a two-year accord befitting him at the club until 2021.“I was consistently adequate about accepting the accord done and its an agitative time to be complex with the club,” Williams said.“We’ve got a acceptable band and we’re in a position now area we can abuse for a appellation abutting year.“I’m blessed to comedy whatever role I can in accepting the bays bottomward to Raiders HQ.”St George Illawarra has appear the signing of Issac Luke on a one-year deal.FULL NRL CONTRACT LISTPO = amateur option, CO = club option, MO = alternate optionBRONCOS

WATCH: Transfer Centre Extra - Seria A - 8 August 8 8 .. | transfer centre 2020 squad: Jess Arthars (2020) Jack Bird (2021/PO), Darius Boyd (2021/PO), Patrick Carrigan (2022), Xavier Coates (2021), Thomas Dearden (2021), Herbie Farnworth (2020), David Fifita (2020), Thomas Flegler (2020), Payne Haas (2024), Jamil Hopoate (2020), Jamayne Isaako (2022), Jordan Kahu (2020) Richie Kennar (2020), Rhys Kennedy (2020), Matt Lodge (2022), Andrew McCullough (2020/PO), Anthony Milford (2021/PO), Corey Oates (2020, PO 21, 22), Joe Ofahengaue (2022), Cory Paix (2022), Tevita Pangai Jr (2022), Keenan Palasia (2020) Izaia Perese (2020), Sean O’Sullivan (2020), Gehamat Shibasaki (2020), Kotoni Staggs (2020), Jake Turpin (2022) Ilikena Vudogo (2020)Gains: Jordan Kahu (Cowboys), Jesse Arthars (Titans), Ilikena Vudogo, Keenan Palasia, Jamil Hopoate, Xavier CoatesLosses: Troy Dargan (Rabbitohs), Matt Gillett, Shaun Fensom, Sam Tagataese (retired), George Fai, Alex Glenn, Patrick Mago, James Segeyaro.Coach: Anthony Seibold (2023)RAIDERS2020 squad: John Bateman (2021), Luke Bateman (2020), Nick Cotric (2020), Jarrod Croker (2020), JJ Collins (2020), Emre Guler (2021), Siliva Havili (2020/PO), Josh Hodgson (2022), Corey Horsburgh (2022), Sebastian Kris (2020), Joey Leilua (2020), Dunamis Lui (2021), Jack Murchie (2020), Michael Oldfield (2020), Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad (2023), Josh Papalii (2022), Aidan Sezer (2020), Bailey Simonsson (2023), Sia Soliola (2020), Ryan Sutton (2022), Joe Tapine (2023), Elliott Whitehead (2022), Jack Wighton (2020/PO), Sam Williams (2021), George Williams (2022), Hudson Young (2021).Gains: George Williams (from Wigan), Tom Starling, Harley Smith-ShieldsLosses: Brad Abbey, Ata Hingano, Royce Hunt, Jordan Rapana (Japanese rugby union), Reuben Porter.Coach: Ricky Stuart (2023)BULLDOGS2020 squad: Jake Averillo (2020), Dean Britt (2021) Jack Cogger (2020), Christian Crichton (2021), Adam Elliott (2020), Raymond Faitala-Mariner (2020), Kieran Foran (2020), Corey Harawira-Naera (2022), Morgan Harper (2020), Kerrod Holland (2020), Will Hopoate (2020), Josh Jackson (2020), Lachlan Lewis (2021), Sione Katoa (2021), Jeremy Marshall-King (2021), Nick Meaney (2021), Marcelo Montoya (2020), Dylan Napa (2021), Ofahiki Ogden (2021), Jayden Okunbor (2021), Chris Smith (2020), Reimis Smith (2021), Joe Stimson (2021), Sauaso Sue (2020), Isaiah Tass (2020) Aiden Tolman (2020), Renouf To’omaga (2021), Brandon Wakeham (2020), Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (2022).Gains: Joe Stimson (Storm), Sione Katoa (Panthers), Dean Britt (Rabbitohs), Isaiah Tass, Jake Averillo (upgraded from lower grades).Losses: Connelly Lemuele (Cowboys), Michael Lichaa, Danny Fualalo, John Olive, Nu Brown, Kaiyne-Lee Kalache.Coach: Dean Pay (2020)SHARKS2020 squad: Blayke Brailey (2022), Jayson Bukuya (2020), Josh Dugan (2021), Andrew Fifita (2022), Wade Graham (2022), Braden Hamlen-Uele (2022), Shaun Johnson (2021), Sione Katoa (2020), William Kennedy (2020), Billy Magoulias (2021), Josh Morris (2020), Matt Moylan (2021), Ronaldo Mulitalo (2021), Briton Nikora (2022), Matt Prior (2020), Jesse Ramien (2023), Cruz Topai-Aveai (2020), Chad Townsend (2020), Connor Tracey (2021), Brayden Trindall (2020), Braden Uele (2022), Teig Wilton (2020) Jack Williams (2022), Aaron Woods (2021), Bronson Xerri (2021)Gains: Connor Tracey (Rabbitohs), Jesse Ramien (Knights)Losses: Jayden Brailey (Knights), Sosaia Feki (Castleford), Kyle Flanagan (Roosters), Paul Gallen (retired), Kurt Capewell, Aaron Gray, Scott SorensenCoach: John Morris (2021)TITANS2020 squad: Jai Arrow (2020), Shannon Boyd (2022), Tanah Boyd (2021), AJ Brimson (2020), Bryce Cartwright (2021), Dale Copley (2020), Anthony Don (2020), Darius Farmer (2021), Moeaki Fotuaika (2021), Keegan Hipgrave (2020), Ryan James (2020), Brian Kelly (2021), Leilani Latu (2020), Tyrone Peachey (2021), Nathan Peats (2020), Kevin Proctor (2020), Mitch Rein (2021), Tyrone Roberts (2020), Phillip Sami (2022), Treymain Spry (2020/CO), Sam Stone (2020), Ash Taylor (2021), Jarrod Wallace (2022), Kallum Watkins (2021), Jai Whitbread (2021)Gains: Darius FarmerLosses: Michael Gordon, Will Matthews (retired), Jesse Arthars (Broncos), Ryley Jacks, Brenko Lee, Jack StockwellCoach: Justin Holbrook (from 2020)SEA EAGLES2020 squad: Morgan Boyle (2021), Daly Cherry-Evans (2023), Cade Cust (2020), Kane Elgey (2020), Brendan Elliott (2020), Manase Fainu (2021), Addin Fonua-Blake (2022), Tevita Funa (2020), Reuben Garrick (2021), Jack Gosiewski (2021), Albert Hopoate (2020), Sean Keppie (2021), Api Koroisau (2021), Luke Metcalf (2020), Brayden Musgrove (2020), Haumole Olakau’ata (2021/CO), Brad Parker (2021), Taniela Paseka (2021), Toafofoa Sipley (2021), Curtis Sironen (2021), Samuel Smith (2020), Moses Suli (2020), Jorge Taufua (2021), Martin Taupau (2020), Joel Thompson (2020), Jake Trbojevic (2026), Tom Trbojevic (2026), Corey Waddell (2020), Dylan Walker (2021), Tony Williams (2020)

Sky Sports Transfer Centre - transfer centre | transfer centre Gains: Luke Metcalf, Brayden Musgrove (Knights)Losses: Api Koroisau (to Panthers), Kane Elgey (retired), Trent Hodkinson (retired), Lloyd PerrettCoach: Des Hasler (2021)STORM2020 squad: Josh Addo-Carr (2021), Nelson Asofa-Solomona (2023), Jesse Bromwich (2020/PO), Kenny Bromwich (2022), Will Chambers (2020), Brodie Croft (2020/MO), Sandor Earl (2020), Thomas Eisenhuth (2020), Tino Fa’asuamaleaui (2020), Dale Finucane (2021), Harry Grant (2020), Jahrome Hughes (2021), Cooper Johns (2020), Tui Kamikamica (2022), Solomone Kata (2020, Felise Kaufusi (2020/PO), Max King (2020), Cameron Munster (2023), Isaac Lumelume (2020), Justin Olam (2020), Ryan Papenhuyzen (2020), Curtis Scott (2021), Marion Seve (2020), Brandon Smith (2022), Cameron Smith (2020), Albert Vete (2020), Suliasi Vunivalu (2020), Christian Welch (2020)Gains: None.Losses: Joe Stimson (Bulldogs), Will Chambers (Japanese rugby union), Billy Walters (Tigers), Solomone Kata (Super Rugby)Coach: Craig Bellamy (2021)KNIGHTS2020 squad: Mitchell Barnett (2020), Bradman Best (2022), Jayden Brailey (2022), Phoenix Crossland (2021), Herman Ese’ese (2020), Beau Fermor (2020), Lachlan Fitzgibbon (2021), Tim Glasby (2021), Aidan Guerra (2020), Brodie Jones (2020), Hymel Hunt (2021), Josh King (2020), David Klemmer (2023), Edrick Lee (2021), Danny Levi (2020), Mason Lino (2020), Kurt Mann (2021), Sione Mata’utia (2021), Tautau Moga (2020), Mitchell Pearce (2021), Kalyn Ponga (2021/PO), Daniel Saifiti (2022), Jacob Saifiti (2020), Pasami Saulo (2020), Star To’a (2021), Enari Tuala (2020), Connor Watson (2020)Gains: Jayden Brailey (Sharks), Enari Tuala (Cowboys), Bradman Best, Star To’aLosses: Jesse Ramien (Sharks), Jamie Buhrer (retired), Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Hull KR), Slade Griffin (retired), Zac Woolford, Nathan Ross (retired), James Gavet (Huddersfield)Coach: Adam O’Brien (from 2020)COWBOYS2020 squad: John Asiata (2020), Jake Clifford (2020), Gavin Cooper (2020), Reuben Cotter (2020), Scott Drinkwater (2021), Mitchell Dunn (2020), Kyle Feldt (2020), Thomas Gilbert (2020), Jake Granville (2021), Ben Hampton (2021), Coen Hess (2022), Peter Hola (2022), Corey Jensen (2020), Connelly Lemuelu (2021), Esan Marsters (2022), Josh McGuire (2022), Jordan McLean (2020/PO), Francis Molo (2020), Michael Morgan (2023), Justin O’Neill (2021), Tom Opacic (2020), Emry Pere (2020), Reece Robson (2023), Daniel Russell (2020), Murray Taulagi (2021), Jason Taumalolo (2027), Shane Wright (2020),Gains: Reece Robson (Dragons), Esan Marsters (Wests Tigers), Connelly Lemuelu (Bulldogs) Reuben Cotter, Thomas Gilbert, Daniel RussellLosses: Matt Scott, Scott Bolton (both retired), Jordan Kahu, Javid Bowen, Gideon Gela-Mosby, Enari Tuala, Kurt Baptiste, Carlin Anderson, Te Maire MartinCoach: Paul Green (2021)EELS2020 squad: Daniel Alvaro (2021), Waqa Blake (2023), Dylan Brown (2020), Nathan Brown (2020/PO), Reagan Campbell-Gillard (2024), Andrew Davey (2020), Haze Dunster (2020), Kane Evans (2020), Blake Ferguson (2021), Clint Gutherson (2022), David Gower (2020), George Jennings (2020), Oregon Kaufusi (2020), Shaun Lane (2020), Reed Mahoney (2020), Ryan Matterson (2022/PO), Mitchell Moses (2022/PO), Marata Niukore (2020), Junior Paulo (2022), Jaeman Salmon (2020), Maika Sivo (2021), Brad Takairangi (2020), Will Smith (2020), Ray Stone (2020), Peni Terepo (2020)Gains: Ryan Matterson (Tigers), Reagan Campbell-Gillard (Panthers), Haze Dunster, Ethan ParryLosses: Tim Mannah (retired), Manu Ma’u (Hull FC), Tepai Moeroa (Super Rugby), Josh Hoffman, Michael Jennings, Greg Leleisiuao, Matt McIlwrick (all unsigned)Coach: Brad Arthur (2021)PANTHERS2020 squad: Caleb Aekins (2020), Dean Blore (2020), Shawn Blore (2020), William Burns (2022), Jed Cartwright (2020), Nathan Cleary (2024), Stephen Crichton (2020), Dylan Edwards (2020), Wayde Egan (2021), Kaide Ellis (2020), James Fisher-Harris (2022), Jack Hetherington (2021), Viliame Kikau (2022), Apisai Koroisau (2022), Moses Leota (2022), Jarome Luai (2021), Josh Mansour (2021), Liam Martin (2021), Tyrone May (2020), Braydon McGrady (2020), Brent Naden (2021), James Tamou (2020), Malakai Watene-Zelezniak (2020), Dean Whare (2021), Isaah Yeo (2021)Gains: Apisai Koroisau (Sea Eagles), Dean Blore, Shawn Blore, Stephen Crichton, Braydon McGrady

Transfer Centre - Football Transfers News & Rumours | Sky Sports - transfer centre | transfer centre Losses: James Maloney (Catalans), Reagan Campbell-Gillard (Eels), Sione Katoa (Bulldogs), Tim Grant, Sam McKendry (retired), Wayde Egan (released), Frank Winterstein (Toulouse), Hame Sele, Paea Pua, Tyrell Fuimaono, Nick Lui-Toso (all unsigned)Coach: Ivan Cleary (2023)DRAGONS2020 squad: Euan Aitken (2020), Eddie Blacker (2020), Jack de Belin (2020), Matt Dufty (2021), Jackson Ford (2020), Tyson Frizell (2020), James Graham (2020), Jacob Host (2020), Ben Hunt (2022/PO), Josh Kerr (2020), Tim Lafai (2020), Blake Lawrie (2022), Luciano Leilua (2020), Zac Lomax (2020), Joe Lovodua (2020), Issac Luke (2020), Cameron McInnes (2021), Corey Norman (2021), Jonus Pearson (2020), Jordan Pereira (2020), Mikaele Ravalawa (2020), Jason Saab (2022) Korbin Sims (2021), Tariq Sims (2022), Paul Vaughan (2021/PO).Gains: Issac Luke (Warriors), Eddie Blacker, Jackson Ford, Jason SaabLosses: Jeremy Latimore (retired), Gareth Widdop (Warrington), Reece Robson (Cowboys), Steven Marsters (Rabbitohs), Mitchell Allgood, Jai Field, Lachlan Maranta, Patrick Kaufusi, Darren Nicholls, Lachlan Timm, Tristan Sailor (all unsigned)Coach: Paul McGregor (2021)RABBITOHS2020 squad: Corey Allan (2021), Tom Amone (2020), Sam Burgess (2023 – abased on bacon cap ruling), Tom Burgess (2023), Braidon Burns (2021), Damien Cook (2023), Joshua Cook (2021), Cory Dennis (2020), Kurt Dillon (2020), Adam Doueihi (2021), Dane Gagai (2021), Edene Gebbie (2021), Bryson Goodwin (2020), Campbell Graham (2021), Dean Hawkins (2021), Alex Johnston (2020), Liam Knight (2020), Keaon Kolomatangi (2021), Ethan Lowe (2021), Steven Marsters (2020), Cameron Murray (2021), Mark Nicholls (2021), Adam Reynolds (2021), James Roberts (2021) Ky Rodwell (2020) Bayley Sironen (2020), Jaydn Su’A (2020/PO), Tevita Tatola (2021), Cody Walker (2020)Gains: Edene Gebbie (Wynnum-Manly), Bryson Goodwin (Warrington), Troy Dargan (Broncos), Steven Marsters (Dragons), Joshua Cook, Dean Hawkins, Keaon Kolomatangi, Ky RodwellLosses: George Burgess (Wigan), Dean Britt (Bulldogs), John Sutton (retirement), Greg Inglis (retirement), Connor Tracey (Sharks), Billy Brittain, Jacob Gagan, Mawene Hiroti, Kyle TurnerCoach: Wayne Bennett (2021)ROOSTERS2020 squad: Mitchell Aubusson (2020), Fletcher Baker (2021), Egan Butcher (2021), Nat Butcher (2020), Lindsay Collins (2022), Boyd Cordner (2023), Angus Crichton (2021), Poasa Faamausili (2022), Kyle Flanagan (2021), Jake Friend (2020), Ryan Hall (2020/MO), Matt Ikuvalu (2020), Luke Keary (2021), Asu Kepaoa (2020), Lachlan Lam (2020), Isaac Liu (2021), Joseph Manu (2022), Latrell Mitchell (2020), Brett Morris (2020), Victor Radley (2023), Billy Smith (2021), Siosiua Taukeiaho (2020), James Tedesco (2021), Daniel Tupou (2021), Sitili Tupouniua (2021), Sam Verrills (2021), Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (2020)Gains: Kyle Flanagan (Sharks)Losses: Cooper Cronk (retired), Bernard Lewis, Zane TetevanoCoach: Trent Robinson (2020)WARRIORS2020 squad: Bunty Afoa (2021), Leeson Ah Mau (2021), Gerard Beale (2020), Adam Blair (2020/PO), Lachlan Burr (2020), Josh Curran (2021), Wayde Egan (2022), Jackson Frei (2020) David Fusitu’a (2023), Blake Green (2020), Tohu Harris (2021), Chanel Harris-Tavita (2020), Peta Hiku (2020), Adam Keighran (2020), Eliesa Katoa (2020), Karl Lawton (2021), Sam Lisone (2020), Ken Maumalo (2022), Taane Milne (2020) Kodi Nikorima (2021/PO), Agnatius Paasi (2022), Isaiah Papali’i (2020), Hayze Perham (2020), Adam Pompey (2020) Leivaha Pulu (2020), Nathaniel Roache (2020), Jazz Tevaga (2021), Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (2022)Gains: Wayde Egan (Panthers), Adam Pompey, Eliesa KatoaLosses: Ligi Sao, Tevita Satae (Hull FC), Blayke Ayshford (retired), Issac Luke (Dragons)Coach: Stephen Kearney (2022)TIGERS2020 squad: Josh Aloiai (2021), Luke Brooks (2023), Michael Chee-Kam (2021), Oliver Clark (2020), Matt Eisenhuth (2020), Luke Garner (2022), Robert Jennings (2020), Chris Lawrence (2020), Jacob Liddle (2021), Benji Marshall (2020), Sam McIntyre (2020), Chris McQueen (2020), Thomas Mikaele (2021), Moses Mbye (2022), Paul Momirovski (2020), David Nofoaluma (2021), Russell Packer (2021), Josh Reynolds (2021), Alex Seyfarth (2020), Dylan Smith (2020), Elijah Taylor (2020), Tommy Talau (2020), Corey Thompson (2021), Alex Twal (2022), Billy Walters (2021)Gains: Billy Walters (from Storm)Losses: Robbie Farah, Robbie Rochow, Ben Matulino (all retired), Mahe Fonua (Hull FC), Esan Marsters (Cowboys), Ryan Matterson (Eels)

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Ten decade-defining Norwich City matches

Norwich City had a more interesting decade than most teams, experiencing four promotions and two relegations. The decade began with a 1-0 win away to Gary Waddock’s Wycombe Wanderers and ended with a 2-2 draw at home to Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur. Here I’ve looked at the games which defined the decade. In some way they all changed the course of Norwich City’s recent history and provided some unforgettable memories.

Colchester 0-5 Norwich – 16 January 2010 – Arguably the most wounding result of the previous decade was losing at home to Paul Lambert’s Colchester United 1-7 on the day of the League One season in August of 2009. So having been handed the chance of vengeance, Norwich took it with both hands. Shortly after the 1-7 defeat, Paul Lambert took overs the reins at Carrow Road, so Colchester had eagerly awaited his return to the Weston Homes Community Stadium. On one of the worst pitches you’ll ever see, the Canaries decimated their opponents, with Grant Holt getting the fifth in stoppage time, and revenge was served on a cold January afternoon. Norwich went on to secure the League One title, overhauling long time league leaders Leeds and returning to the Championship at the first time of asking.

Norwich 4-1 Ipswich – 28 November 2010 – Having recently been promoted, there weren’t great expectations on the shoulders of City players in the 2010/11 season. But in this game the Canaries soared, with Grant Holt grabbing a hat-trick. The third, led to scenes of absolute pandemonium, with seats being ripped out and fans going into a state of delirium. As a pitch side steward I was hit by a flying seat but the euphoria was worth the pain. Wes Hoolahan chipped in with a fourth and a joyous Sunday was complete. Holt was sporting a very unflattering moustache for Movember, but this was the day he became a Carrow Road cult hero. And more importantly the result acted as a springboard for yet another promotion charge.

Norwich 3-2 Derby – 25 April 2011 – Paul Lambert’s side sat in second place going into an Easter Monday tie against mid-table Derby. Having beaten Ipswich 5-1 on their own turf four days earlier, confidence was high. But it was a slog for Norwich, finding themselves drawing 2-2 as second half stoppage time approached. Stoppage time was aplenty, largely thanks to a slow walk off from constant irritant Robbie Savage when was being substituted. In the 96th minute a corner was whipped in by Henri Lansbury, arriving at the feet of Russell Martin, who smacked the ball towards the six yard box, where Canadian striker Simeon Jackson kneed it in to complete a memorable hat-trick. It was one of Carrow’s Road scruffiest goals but also one of it’s most celebrated. Perhaps the moment is best remembered for one overenthusiastic fan’s celebration leading him to fall well onto the pitch, as can be seen 19 seconds into this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDM88n9ZHk0. The late win kept City above Cardiff and in the automatic promotion places. The following Monday, Norwich sealed promotion to the Premier League by beating Portsmouth, thanks to another goal from Jackson in a 1-0 win.

Spurs 1-2 Norwich – 9 April 2012 – During Norwich’s only previous top-flight stay, back in 2004/05, they failed to pick up an away win, which significantly contributed to their immediate return to the second tier. This win at White Hart Lane was huge step towards survival in the 2011/2012. Goals from unheralded wingers Elliot Bennett and Anthony Pilkington were enough to sink a decent Spurs side, which included the likes of Luka Modric and Gareth Bale. City striker Grant Holt gave Spurs captain Ledley King a torrid time, proving a real handful. It was the Canaries first win at Spurs since 1993 and proved how far they had come in a relatively short space of time. Not only were they able to compete with Premier League sides away from home, the result had shown they could topple one of the best. A month Lambert’s side travelled to Arsenal and put in another superb performance to secure a 3-3 draw against the red side of North London.

Fulham 1-0 Norwich – 12 April 2014 – Fulham’s West London home, Craven Cottage, had been somewhat of an unhappy hunting ground for the Canaries in recent times. City’s previous relegation had come on the last day of the 2004/05 season, thanks to a crushing 6-0 defeat at the hands of the Cottagers. This time around, again Norwich’s position was precarious. After three seasons mixing it with the best, a return to the Championship was looking ever more likely. Manager Chris Hughton had been relieved of his duties following a disappointing run of the results. The inexperienced Neil Adams was given the job for the final five games of the season, largely based on his success in taking City’s academy prospects to FA Youth Cup glory in 2013. If the momentum was going to change, Norwich were going to need a good start to his tenure. This was particularly crucial as after their relegation dogfight with Fulham, given their remaining games were against Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. Although the Canaries battled hard, they didn’t make their dominance in possession count. They lost 1-0, with Colombian Hugo Rodallega sealing a vital three points for Fulham. Adams’ side only picked up one point from their remaining four games, making relegation inevitable, although he did keep his job ahead of the 2014/15 season.

Norwich 2-0 Middlesbrough – 25 May 2015 - Bizarrely Adams’ last league game in charge was a 6-1 win over Millwall, but it was the right call for Alex Neil to take over in January 2015. He guided City to the play-offs where they conquered their greatest rivals Ipswich to set up a showpiece Wembley final against Aitor Karanka’s Boro side. The Spaniard had twice led his side to comfortable victory over Norwich during the season and most expected a similar result this time around. But the Canaries came flying out of the traps. Both teams hit the woodwork early on during a mad minute, before Cameron Jerome robbed Daniel Ayala in possession before slotting a cool finish past the Boro keeper. Minutes later, Steven Whittaker fed the ball to Nathan Redmond, who lashed the ball in the net to make it 2-0. Despite the nail biting in the stands, Norwich held on fairly comfortably to record a famous win. City were back in the Premier League after only one season away. The yellow and green faithful hadn’t visited Wembley for 30 years, so this victory was undoubtedly the highlight of the decade.

Norwich 0-3 Sunderland – 16 April 2016 – The 2015/16 season had started with much optimism, notably as Canaries won 3-1 away at Sunderland in just their second game, but things looked very different by the time of April’s return fixture. City’s recruitment had been poor, notably their strikers weren’t firing, whereas Sunderland had an in-form Jermain Defoe up top. Facing a side with the nous of Sam Allardyce in charge was always going to be a challenge, but no-one quite expected the Norfolk side to be cut apart in the way that they were. Defoe was of course on the scoresheet along with Fabio Borini and Duncan Watmore. After the thrashing, Sunderland were only one point behind City and had two games in hand. Again a daunting end of the season run of fixtures faced Alex Neil’s side, and they weren’t able to stay in the big time, eventually being relegated by a margin of five points.

Norwich 1-1 Ipswich – 18 February 2018 – The only draw to make the list. By this point, German Daniel Farke had become head coach at Carrow Road. His first season was unspectacular, with only James Maddison lighting up proceedings. When Norwich have a mediocre Championsip season, it is usually defined by how they performed against their greatest rivals. Back in October 2017, Maddison had given the Canaries a 1-0 win at Portman Road, but the home fixture came with a lot more jeopardy. Not a great amount happened until the 89th minute, when Ipswich captain Luke Chambers headed in to give Ipswich a 1-0 lead and a what seemed like a precious first win against Norwich in almost nine years. But never ones to give up, City produced a magical stoppage goal, with Timm Klose leaping to meet a cross from his centre back partner Grant Hanley to maintain pride in Norfolk. This game also contributed to the departure of under fire Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy, who had told his own fans to ‘F off’ after he thought Chambers had scored the winning goal. The contrast in fortunes of the two teams since this match could not be more stark.

Leeds 1-3 Norwich – 2 February 2019 – By this point of the season Norwich were flying in The Championship, but many saw Marcelo Biesla’s Leeds as the team to beat. Especially given the fact that the Argentinian’s ruthless start to the season had included his side winning 3-0 Carrow Road back in August 2018. City got off to the perfect start with Mario Vrancic curling a free kick in the back of the net. Teemu Pukki added a second before the break thanks to some calamitous defending from their Yorkshire foes. Vrancic then added his second and City’s third, to round off a superb team performance, as good as any from a Norwich side in this decade. Ex-Canary Patrick Bamford’s consolation goal in no way dampened the mood, players and fans alike were jubilant. They knew the message this sent not only to their opponents on the day but to all of their promotion rivals. The Canaries stormed to the title, only losing one match between this game and the end of the season they were crowned champions.

Norwich 3-2 Man City – 14 September 2019 – Exactly 23 years to the day I attended my first Norwich City game, a 0-0 draw against Southend, City found themselves at home to the Champions of England. Sadly I didn’t have a ticket but the drama that unfolded was box office from wherever you were sitting. The Canaries were ravaged by injuries, with up to 10 first team players unavailable. A makeshift side raced into a two goal lead by the half hour point thanks to Kenny McLean heading in an Emi Buendia corner and a great breakaway move finished off by local academy graduate Todd Cantwell. Sergio Aguero pulled one make before the break, before Pukki restored the two goal advantage just after the restart. Norwich held on for a famous victory, despite a late Rodri goal to reduce Pep Guardiola’s margin of defeat to one. This was a stand out achievement in the Norwich City story, with all the hard work of Daniel Farke, sporting director Stuart Webber and the players over the previous two years ago paying off. Pundits were marveling at the way they were playing out the back, remarking that it was a style Arsenal should aspire to. It was an excellent victory over a side managed by arguably the most influential coach of the decade. Although Norwich’s fortunes haven’t been fantastic since, football is all about moments, and those 90 minutes were something no Norwich fan will ever forget.

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6 takeaways from Yankees-Dodgers, which might have been the World Series preview

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Two of the best teams in baseball produced an exciting weekend at Dodger Stadium, and teased what could be an even more thrilling clash in October.

The battle between the teams with the two best records in baseball lived up to the hype throughout an electric weekend in Los Angeles. We’ll have to wait and see how the Yankees and Dodgers play in October to know if this was an actual World Series preview, but the series still showcased a lot of fun moments between two clearly excellent teams.

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Both offenses have been hell on opposing pitchers all season. The Yankees and Dodgers lead their respective leagues in scoring. This series was a little like looking into the mirror for both teams.

“They got a lot of good people in that lineup, just like we do,” said Justin Turner, who homered on Saturday for Los Angeles.

That home run accounted for 40 percent of the Dodgers’ offense in the series, in which they were outscored by 16-5.

Both teams grind opposing pitching staffs to the nub with patience, then pounce on the opportunities they get in the strike zone. This weekend was no different. The Yankees tagged Hyun-jin Ryu and Clayton Kershaw with three home runs each, season highs for both.

“It’s really fun to watch a team approach, with really good players. I really like guys from the offensive side of things hunting pitches and having a plan. If you don’t execute, you can get hurt,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “That’s why teams like them, teams like us, get to pens, get starters’ pitch counts up consistently.”

About those home runs

It’s the year of the home run in baseball, and this series was a monument to the feat. The Yankees mashed five home runs in Friday’s series-opening salvo, and home runs accounted for the only scoring in Saturday’s low-scoring thriller.

We went nearly two full games without a run scoring without the benefit of a home run, from the eighth inning Friday to the eighth inning Sunday.

The Yankees are second in the majors with 241 home runs, and the Dodgers are third at 227. Both are on pace to pass the major league record for home runs in a season (267) set by the Yankees in 2018.

August has been particularly powerful for the Yankees, whose 61 home runs are a major league record for a single month ... with five games still remaining.

Aaron Judge, who started his August in a 10-for-55 slump, homered in all three games over the weekend and is hitting .364 (12-for-33) with seven extra-base hits in his last eight games.

Yankees got the pitching they needed

Entering the weekend, the Yankees had a putrid 6.44 ERA from their starting rotation since the All-Star break, 29th out of 30 MLB teams. But New York’s starters got the job done against the Dodgers, allowing four total runs in 16⅔ innings over the weekend. That included Domingo German winning his 17th game with six strong innings Sunday night, and James Paxton pitching into the seventh with 11 strikeouts in the opener.

“I feel like [Paxton] has been on the verge of having this outing for a while,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “He really set the tone for us in a big way.”

No, Ryu didn’t lose the Cy Young on Friday

Hyun-jin Ryu had his worst start of the season in the series opener, allowing seven runs and three home runs while failing to finish the fifth inning. Those earned runs and home runs matched Ryu’s totals for his first 11 starts at Dodger Stadium in 2019, covering 77⅔ innings.

That performance ballooned Ryu’s ERA all the way to 2.00, still the best in baseball.

The very idea that Ryu lost the National League Cy Young Award with his Friday clunker is preposterous, first because it presumes that the award was already his to begin with. Yes, he was the favorite with a minuscule 1.45 ERA as late as Aug. 11, but there are a number of good candidates besides Ryu. Max Scherzer (2.41 ERA) and Jacob deGrom (2.56 ERA) are tied for first in the NL in fWAR (5.6), and are first and second in FIP. DeGrom leads in bWAR (5.5) narrowly over Scherzer (5.4), with Ryu trailing at 4.6. Not that the Cy Young should simply be determined by sorting a WAR leaderboard, but there are other non-Ryu candidates.

Plus there is still a month of the season remaining, and though recency bias likes to trick us, Ryu allowing five total home runs in back-to-back losses to the playoff-bound Braves and Yankees doesn’t invalidate a season’s worth of excellent pitching.

Facing a hero

Tony Gonsolin started for the Dodgers on Saturday, just his fifth major league game, opposite retiring Yankees star CC Sabathia, who was making his 557th career start. Gonsolin played shortstop, just like his idol Derek Jeter, growing up in Vacaville in northern California, just a short drive from Vallejo, where Sabathia grew up 14 years earlier.

“I was a Yankees fan growing up, so it’s pretty great to throw against all those guys,” Gonsolin said. “It feels even better going up against CC, from the hometown, 15 minutes down the road. I met him when I was in high school. He probably doesn’t remember me, but I do.”

Gonsolin got the better of Sabathia on Saturday, allowing one run in his five innings while Sabathia allowed two runs in his four innings of work. Sabathia also smoked a ball to right field, a 97-mph liner caught by Cody Bellinger in what will likely be the final regular season at-bat of Sabathia’s career.

If we do see Sabathia swing the lumber one more time, it will likely mean the Yankees made the World Series.

What in the hell were they wearing?

The Yankees and Dodgers have two of the most iconic uniforms in the sport, but they were replaced this weekend by what looked like a battle between the all-black pajamas and the ice cream men in all-white.

“With Dodgers-Yankees this isn’t the best weekend, but to have them in their uniform and ours in ours, I think that would be cool,” Boone said.

At least some of the shoes were cool, like these Doug and Hey Arnold kicks worn by Cameron Maybin:

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The Yankees won two of three games, and while it doesn’t guarantee anything for the postseason, it sure would be nice to see a seven-game series between the Dodgers and Yankees (with apologies to the Astros, who are in lock step with New York and LA with a 100-plus-win pace).

“There’s a lot of talent all over the field,” Roberts said. “Two great, iconic franchises. You could feel the energy from both dugouts as well as the stadium.”

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«GOING BACK TO COAL IS LIKE GOING BACK TO THE BLOCKBUSTERS OF THE 80S»

As Governor of California between 2003 and 2011, he placed the State at the head of the world's green cities. We met with him after Trump decided to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austria, 1947) was always an outlier among the Republican ranks of the United States: he defended the right to abortion, gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana, and carried out a passionate environmental campaign during his tenure as Governor of California between 2003 and 2011 that placed the State at the head of the world's green cities. We met with him after President Trump - against whom he maintains an open dialectical war - decided to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement.

Would you describe yourself as an ecologist?

Yes. However, the accusatory message that many people defend the environment does not work. It is necessary to promote things by celebrating them, to value what exists in nature so that the spectators fall in love with it. And here there are no ideologies. The defense of ecosystems, of the oceans, is a popular topic, because there is no republican sea or a democratic sea. We all drink from the same water and we have to protect our planet. You should not stop fishing or eating meat. We have to be smart in how we use things. It is like with money when you are in government. It all depends on how it is administered and that it is always left a little to the side when the time of skinny cows arrives. You can live on the interests instead of eating the capital. There are people, like James Cameron, who said that you shouldn't eat any meat. On the other hand, I believe that consumption should be reduced. I eat meat three times a week and the other four days I abstain. Cow overpopulation generates a lot of pollution. To be able to satisfy an absolutely carnivorous diet, you have to generate a lot of livestock, maintain large fields and have the necessary water and tractors. For that, you have to clear forests and jungles in various parts of the world, including Brazil. The correct formula is to do it in a measured and controlled way and, above all, with intelligence. To be able to satisfy an absolutely carnivorous diet, you have to generate a lot of livestock, maintain large fields and have the necessary water and tractors. For that, you have to clear forests and jungles in various parts of the world, including Brazil. The correct formula is to do it in a measured and controlled way and, above all, with intelligence. To be able to satisfy an absolutely carnivorous diet, you have to generate a lot of livestock, maintain large fields and have the necessary water and tractors. For that, you have to clear forests and jungles in various parts of the world, including Brazil. The correct formula is to do it in a measured and controlled way and, above all, with intelligence.

"In California, we demonstrate that you can protect the environment and improve the economy at the same time."

He grew up in Austria, surrounded by nature. Is your interest in the environment related to that childhood?

Of course. In Graz we led a rural life. My mother took carrots and potatoes out of the ground, we had a big garden and we lived on what grew there. The forest and wild animals were protected there, because you could only hunt a few months a year. I always had a lot of respect for nature. Back then, she did not imagine that one day we would endanger her. I never saw it as an environmental issue, but as something of everyday life. But, when I became governor, I started talking to scientists and analyzing studies, and I began to understand the magnitude of the problem. Then I realized that we were killing seven million people a year through pollution. I believe that the Government should defend the people and, therefore, It is your responsibility to do everything in your power to protect the environment, eliminating polluting fuels, transforming garbage into energy, and preventing pollution from reaching the oceans. That is why I implemented very severe environmental laws in California. They are among the strictest in the United States and even in the world. Thus, we demonstrate that one can protect the environment and improve the economy at the same time. Last year, growth in the United States was 0.7, while in California it was 5. We achieved a We demonstrate that one can protect the environment and improve the economy at the same time. Last year, growth in the United States was 0.7, while in California it was 5. We achieved a We demonstrate that one can protect the environment and improve the economy at the same time. Last year, growth in the United States was 0.7, while in California it was 5. We achieved aeconomic boom protecting ecosystems. That is what should be applied worldwide.

France is certainly at the forefront in everything that has to do with defending ecosystems.

The French did an extraordinary job last year. In fact, they have been doing it for quite some time. When it was determined that France would host the Paris Agreement, contacted California, not only with the current governor but also with me. They told me they needed my help. There is no way that a single government can rescue the world, we all have to do it together. That is precisely what I talked about in my welcome speech to the students of the University of Houston. I told them never to think they could go far without counting on others. No one succeeds. We have millions of people who helped us. And what the French did was really smart. They had a vision of where they wanted to go. Hollande invited me, we had a meeting in which he explained to me that the objective was to achieve a global agreement to be signed in Paris. They planned it very well and we all participated until we came to fruition. They went country by country looking for compromises. And when the signing date arrived, they knew what to do to get it. A process that could have taken 20 years was resolved very quickly. So Hollande, no matter how much he has had his problems, will always be a great leader for me. I think the challenge now is to protect what has been achieved. It is much easier to get a document signed than to comply. Therefore, it is very important for us to understand what role the ocean plays in all of this. Half of the food we eat comes from the sea. Half of the oxygen is generated there. It is an essential element for life on Earth and that is why we have to protect it. We must do everything in our power. It is not something that only governments can solve. They can only do so if the private sector, that of charities and individuals participate. I think what has made the United States the country it is today is the things that have been generated from the ground up. The civil rights movement started like this. Washington was not interested in solving the issue of racial conflict. The movement for the female vote also started in the same way. The North American Government had no interference in the matter. The The North American Government had no interference in the matter. The The North American Government had no interference in the matter. TheApartheid was not completed by the South African Government, it was the people who fought for it to end. The examples are many. It was the Indian people who gained their independence. The English Government had no other choice but to accept and grant it. The same goes for the ecological theme.

What is your opinion that the President of the United States denies climate change ?

What matters is that we move forward. When he speaks in favor of the use of coal, I am the first to criticize him and say he is going backwards. We must take advantage of new technologies. We don't want to use coal in our power plants, which is prohibited in California. Going back to coal is like going back to the blockbusters of the 80s. It's a thing of the past. No one will ever use horse-drawn carts when trucks exist.

“Half of the food we consume comes from the sea and half of the oxygen is generated there. We must protect him »

Looking back, what are you most proud of as governor?

I think the most important thing is that I never thought about what could be good for me, but what I could do for others. My parents taught me that you have to give back to your country and, since I was a bodybuilding champion, I thought about how to use my stardom to improve that sport and inspire the rest of the world to exercise more. When I got to know the Paralympic Games through my in-laws, I became excited and became a coach, traveling with disabled athletes around the world to make the Paralympic Games accepted by society. When I became governor, I did so because I felt the need to suspend my film career to serve society. And, while I was there, I think the most important thing that I achieved was the approval of environmental laws, with which we managed to make our state a leader in the rest of the world, marking the path that had to be taken, especially in what has to do with green and renewable energy. I also managed to get a package of measures approved for stem cell research that was once the most important in the world. I was able to achieve certain political reforms by establishing open primaries for Democrats and Republicans and by changing the electoral diagram, because the political system in the United States is corrupt. The politicians design their districts according to their political convenience, but in California, from my mandate, it is the people who design those districts, not the politicians. I must say that I enjoyed it very strange. If I had been born in the United States, I would have run for the presidency. I think it would have had an impact similar to when I ran for governor. It was very easy for me to stand out from the crowd, especially since I had things to say and a mission to accomplish.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has said he is planning to launch his own presidential bid. Do you see future?

I don't know, but what I'm sure of is that he's very smart. He is a great athlete and a charming person. He has great vision and good intentions. In addition, he has come so far with his career, and has done so by leveling up step by step, that anything is possible for him. I'm glad you're thinking about it. I think I opened that path in the same way that Ronald Reagan, or John Glenn, who was an astronaut, did before me. Bill Bradley did it too - he was one of the best basketball players and then he was a senator. Professional politicians don't like these career changes. They believe that they should have a monopoly on politics. So when someone steps into the game from the outside, like I did, they don't like it too much.

"I moved to the land of opportunity and I certainly had mine"

Would something change in your life?

No. It has been so wonderful that I would not change anything, not even my mistakes, my failures or the ups and downs. I am a happy man and I would not exchange my life with anyone else's. I always thank God and the United States, because I did not achieve things alone, they always helped me a lot. I think I got to the right country. I moved to the land of opportunity and I certainly had mine.

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North America Quotes

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• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. – Kurt Vonnegut • A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed. – Benjamin Franklin • A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States…De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation…Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being. – John Holdren • A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been “root, hog, or die.” – D. W Brogan • About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America. – James A. Michener • Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet. – Ronald J. Sider • America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States. – Alan Bersin • As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision… I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view. – Ronald Goldman • As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. – Karl Marx • As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America’s characteristic landscape. – Walt Whitman • Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America. – Dave Barry • Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production. – Thomas Homer-Dixon • Black people in America will never be free so long as they’re on the white man’s land. We can’t be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we’ll be free. – Muhammad Ali • Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who’ve had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, “Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” – Gary Shilling • Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man’s land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America. – David Cameron • Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted. – Margaret Sanger • Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward … an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified. – Ron Paul • Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined). – Susan Sontag • Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. – James Buchan • Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. – John Leo • First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. – Mitt Romney • First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada. – Vicente Fox • For [Malcolm Subban] I know that he’s the No. 1 ranked goalie in North America and the world right now, he’s got a great opportunity. He’s got to enjoy this whole process because it only comes once. Not that many players get the opportunity to walk up on that stage and get that jersey. – P. K. Subban • For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance. – Cheryl Clarke • For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. – Paul Stamets • For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world’s economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule. – Paul Achleitner • George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. – Elisabeth Elliot • Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from … God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life. – Rush Limbaugh • Had the white settlers in North America called the natives ‘Americans’ instead of ‘Indians’, the early Americans could not have said that the ‘only good Indian is a dead Indian’ and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life. – Thomas Szasz • Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. – N. Scott Momaday • Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places – interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another. – Frederick Lenz • Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. – Samuel Johnson • I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. – William Labov • I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though – Roger Tory Peterson • I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. – Paul Cellucci • I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • I enjoyed every minute of it, I traveled all over North America, racing everywhere I could, and I had fun with it. I didn’t make a whole lot of money, but if I could do it again today, I’d do it, and I think I’d make it. – Louise Smith • I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing. – Murray Bookchin • I find it interesting to see people – mostly people who are younger than I am – going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It’s become incredibly difficult. In North America, we’ve largely forgotten how to do it. – William Gibson • I guess the prime example is in North America there’s a thing where if there’s no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn’t make any sense. If you’re a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right? – Gabe Polsky • I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I’ve got deep family there, but I’m a California kid. – Donal Logue • I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money…. In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true. – Henry David Thoreau • I like driving. I’m a real sucker for driving across North America – I never get sick of it, ever. – Neko Case • I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn’t doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn’t coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America. – Kandyse McClure • I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America. – Robert Herjavec • I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. – Al-Waleed bin Talal • I think – particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America – our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances. – Gerald Horne • I think it’s great now that we seem to be in an era where it’s OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society. – Jason Priestley • I think it’s just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don’t see it as an advantage. – Daniel Alfredsson • I think it’s wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America. – Huey Newton • I think there’s a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon. – David Neeleman • I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe. – Zora Neale Hurston • I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. – Edward Abbey • I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America – which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit? – Eugene Mirman • I went to professional men’s soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. – Brandi Chastain • I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else. – George Bernard Shaw • I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote – I’m thinking of Newfoundland – feel very connected though the radio. – John Gimlette • If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn’t that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country. – Janet Campbell Hale • If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. – George Catlin • If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto’s orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America. – Wayne Hays • If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China. – Samuel Eliot Morison • If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life…. The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it. – W. H. Auden • If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America. – Tony Campolo • If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that’s been on shelves for more than five minutes, I’ll give you 1,200 bucks for it. – Jack Tretton • I’m a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I’m on my way to North America. You will find me all over. – Jean-Claude Van Damme • I’m still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries. – James Dobson • Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy. – Grant Morrison • In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn’t seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive. – Randall Kennedy • In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country. – Robert Burchfield • In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America’s Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one. – Alan Weisman • In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society. – Fred Reed • In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man’s inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. – Ellsworth Huntington • In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we’re hungry. – Brendan Brazier • In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the articulation of popular institutions in the community. I think it’s terribly important for anarchists to do that because at this moment not very much is happening anywhere in North America. – Murray Bookchin • In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. – Yehuda Levi • In North America someone who doesn’t know anybody, he can go… you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger. – Gaspar Noe • In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they’re a little bit more aware. – K-Maro • In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don’t know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don’t know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else. – Jennifer Beals • In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. – Michael Steinhardt • In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities. – Eric Bell • In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. – Thomas B. Macaulay • In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they’re really, really buying internationally. – Jim Balsillie • In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments. – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded. – Karl Marx • In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were – at least relative to their moral nadirs – such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable – the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism. – Catherine Wilson • Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. – Marsden Wagner • Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world’s cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world’s population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa. – Sandra Steingraber • It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are. – Malcolm X • It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. – Adam Smith • It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. – James F. Cooper • It’s tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. – John Malkovich • I’ve never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. – Manuel Puig • Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests. – Paulo Freire • Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance. – William Henry Willimon • Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America. – Rick Riordan • Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. – Thomas King • Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. – Mikhail Bakunin • Living here in North America – I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We’ve come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people’s willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa. – Kandyse McClure • Major theme of the book [“Hotels of North America”], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction. – Rick Moody • Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, … Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home. – Puff Daddy • Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America. – Dean Spade • Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness…He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united. – Walter Rodney • Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan • Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. – Arthur Erickson • Maybe I’ve been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I’ve been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It’s a great anthropological privilege to be there. – William Gibson • Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America. – Enrique Pena Nieto • Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. – Tom G. Palmer • Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they’ve got enough money saved up to do so. – Ann Macbeth • Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America. – Denis Leary • Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting editorial policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People just don’t know what is going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff. – Denis Halliday • My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America. – Steve Kanaly • My political position is that I’m happy to be alive and in North America. – David Letterman • Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. – Edwidge Danticat • Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin. – James W. Loewen • Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It’s better than gasoline or diesel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it’s domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America. – T. Boone Pickens • New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to. – John Guare • New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world. – Federico Garcia Lorca • North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case. – Fredrika Bremer • North America makes a ton of movies and there’s a ton of movies that are exceptional. – Joel Edgerton • North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge. – Nadia Giosia • Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. – Arthur Erickson • Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can’t rewrite history. – Jean Chretien • Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven’t much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars. – Robertson Davies • On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us – Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America. – David Suzuki • One might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting? – Seth Shostak • One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants’ power. They too understand nature’s essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man’s place to own the land at all. Imagine that – think of all the wars we would have missed! – Maryrose Wood • One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church’s economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are ‘payment.’ – Doug Pagitt • Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. – Dick Pound • Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined. – Reza Aslan • Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. – Edmund Burke • People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it’s actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error. – Richard Dawkins • President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he’s made recently. Obviously he’s not doing that well in North America [on screen: ‘36% Approval’], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: ‘Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps’], Europe seems to think the president doesn’t care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he’s done for their burning effigy industry. – Stephen Colbert • Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen. – Sebastian Bach • Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it. – Andre Vltchek • So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It’s also highly populated. So we’re working a number of water rescues. We’re working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we’re keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It’s been pretty cold. – Jay Nixon • So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it’s also the only thing that’s ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us. – P. J. O’Rourke

• Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river’s edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn. – E. O. Wilson • South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American… are all recent migrants from North America. – Stephen Jay Gould • Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the ‘cities of the world’, then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute ‘the rural areas of the world’. – Lin Biao • The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s. – Jared Diamond • The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America–the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring’s Straits. – Eugene Sue • The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America. – Ben Crenshaw • The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It’s a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. – Sara Paretsky • The biggest disease in North America is busyness. – Thomas Merton • The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image – the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America. – Malcolm X • The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black ‘Democrat,’ a black ‘Republican,’ a black ‘Conservative,’ or a black ‘Liberal’ …when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man’s vote is almost always evenly divided. – Malcolm X • The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. – Philip K. Chapman • The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive. – Edgar Allan Poe • The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe. – James Spann • The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references. – Susan Sontag • The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. – Ann Veneman • The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don’t believe in it for long. – Merle Shain • The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It’s such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There’s a dark magic present. It’s no wonder that it’s been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It’s one of the oldest cities in North America. – Daniel Gillies • The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we’ve realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price. – Dan Miller • The only reason so many are so pissed off at the US is because they see North America as promoting a ‘bad deal’ for its own masses, not because it is ruining the rest of the world! – Andre Vltchek • The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable. – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet • The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide – the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. – Chris Bohjalian • The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. – Dan Lipinski • There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now. – Dan Rather • There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case. – Joseph Boyden • These Muslim Brotherhood fronts – the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America – we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us. – Frank Gaffney • This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing. – Paul Cellucci • This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. – William Labov • Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. – Fritz Sauckel • Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months — it could be weeks, it could be days — before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now. – Willem Buiter • To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. – Peter Munk • Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand – will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not. – Arthur Kemp • Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments. – Bernard Bailyn • We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the – the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That’s why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure. – Mitt Romney • We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market. – Paul Cellucci • We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth. – Chris Alexander • We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO’s continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong. – Jens Stoltenberg • We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America. – Howard Schultz • We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don’t get it. – Joe Biden • We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis. – Alan Bersin • We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that’s what I’ve done ever since. – Warren MacKenzie • We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That’s why we’re pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy. – Bob Chiarelli • We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. – Paul Cellucci • We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs. – Mitt Romney • Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily … Those are the goals. It’s very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don’t have conflict here. – George Friedman • Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it’s incumbent upon us to. – Dan Aykroyd • We’re all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE – Ryan North • We’re seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people. – Lori Lansens

• We’ve seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There’s huge audiences for this stuff. For me it’s always been there and it’s just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word. – John Petrucci • What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. – Dave Barry • When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It’s illegal, but when you’ve got a lawless government, it doesn’t matter if it’s illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent. – Noam Chomsky • When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn’t help. I forgot most of that. – Pavel Datsyuk • When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don’t stop for customs inspections and microbes don’t carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods. – Benjamin Barber • When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life. – Thom Hartmann • When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left – the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America. – Robert Bateman • Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven’t had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature’s dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction. – Zoe Helene • White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It’s called world history. – Michael Kimmel • With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with ‘political genocide’. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied ‘political genocide’, a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries. – Richard A. Falk • With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. – Arthur Erickson • Yes, I’m an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. – Malcolm X • You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. “Huh,” “hun,” and “hi!” in their various modulations, together with “sure,” “guess so,” “that so?” and “nuts!” will meet almost any contingency. – Ian Fleming • You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth. – Malcolm X

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• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. – Kurt Vonnegut • A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed. – Benjamin Franklin • A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States…De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation…Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being. – John Holdren • A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been “root, hog, or die.” – D. W Brogan • About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America. – James A. Michener • Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet. – Ronald J. Sider • America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States. – Alan Bersin • As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision… I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view. – Ronald Goldman • As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. – Karl Marx • As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America’s characteristic landscape. – Walt Whitman • Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America. – Dave Barry • Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production. – Thomas Homer-Dixon • Black people in America will never be free so long as they’re on the white man’s land. We can’t be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we’ll be free. – Muhammad Ali • Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who’ve had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, “Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” – Gary Shilling • Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man’s land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America. – David Cameron • Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted. – Margaret Sanger • Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward … an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified. – Ron Paul • Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined). – Susan Sontag • Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. – James Buchan • Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. – John Leo • First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. – Mitt Romney • First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada. – Vicente Fox • For [Malcolm Subban] I know that he’s the No. 1 ranked goalie in North America and the world right now, he’s got a great opportunity. He’s got to enjoy this whole process because it only comes once. Not that many players get the opportunity to walk up on that stage and get that jersey. – P. K. Subban • For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance. – Cheryl Clarke • For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. – Paul Stamets • For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world’s economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule. – Paul Achleitner • George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. – Elisabeth Elliot • Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from … God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life. – Rush Limbaugh • Had the white settlers in North America called the natives ‘Americans’ instead of ‘Indians’, the early Americans could not have said that the ‘only good Indian is a dead Indian’ and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life. – Thomas Szasz • Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. – N. Scott Momaday • Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places – interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another. – Frederick Lenz • Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. – Samuel Johnson • I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. – William Labov • I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though – Roger Tory Peterson • I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. – Paul Cellucci • I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • I enjoyed every minute of it, I traveled all over North America, racing everywhere I could, and I had fun with it. I didn’t make a whole lot of money, but if I could do it again today, I’d do it, and I think I’d make it. – Louise Smith • I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing. – Murray Bookchin • I find it interesting to see people – mostly people who are younger than I am – going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It’s become incredibly difficult. In North America, we’ve largely forgotten how to do it. – William Gibson • I guess the prime example is in North America there’s a thing where if there’s no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn’t make any sense. If you’re a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right? – Gabe Polsky • I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I’ve got deep family there, but I’m a California kid. – Donal Logue • I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money…. In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true. – Henry David Thoreau • I like driving. I’m a real sucker for driving across North America – I never get sick of it, ever. – Neko Case • I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn’t doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn’t coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America. – Kandyse McClure • I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America. – Robert Herjavec • I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. – Al-Waleed bin Talal • I think – particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America – our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances. – Gerald Horne • I think it’s great now that we seem to be in an era where it’s OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society. – Jason Priestley • I think it’s just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don’t see it as an advantage. – Daniel Alfredsson • I think it’s wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America. – Huey Newton • I think there’s a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon. – David Neeleman • I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe. – Zora Neale Hurston • I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. – Edward Abbey • I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America – which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit? – Eugene Mirman • I went to professional men’s soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. – Brandi Chastain • I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else. – George Bernard Shaw • I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote – I’m thinking of Newfoundland – feel very connected though the radio. – John Gimlette • If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn’t that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country. – Janet Campbell Hale • If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. – George Catlin • If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto’s orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America. – Wayne Hays • If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China. – Samuel Eliot Morison • If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life…. The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it. – W. H. Auden • If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America. – Tony Campolo • If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that’s been on shelves for more than five minutes, I’ll give you 1,200 bucks for it. – Jack Tretton • I’m a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I’m on my way to North America. You will find me all over. – Jean-Claude Van Damme • I’m still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries. – James Dobson • Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy. – Grant Morrison • In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn’t seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive. – Randall Kennedy • In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country. – Robert Burchfield • In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America’s Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one. – Alan Weisman • In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society. – Fred Reed • In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man’s inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. – Ellsworth Huntington • In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we’re hungry. – Brendan Brazier • In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the articulation of popular institutions in the community. I think it’s terribly important for anarchists to do that because at this moment not very much is happening anywhere in North America. – Murray Bookchin • In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. – Yehuda Levi • In North America someone who doesn’t know anybody, he can go… you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger. – Gaspar Noe • In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they’re a little bit more aware. – K-Maro • In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don’t know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don’t know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else. – Jennifer Beals • In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. – Michael Steinhardt • In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities. – Eric Bell • In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. – Thomas B. Macaulay • In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they’re really, really buying internationally. – Jim Balsillie • In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments. – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded. – Karl Marx • In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were – at least relative to their moral nadirs – such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable – the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism. – Catherine Wilson • Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. – Marsden Wagner • Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world’s cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world’s population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa. – Sandra Steingraber • It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are. – Malcolm X • It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. – Adam Smith • It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. – James F. Cooper • It’s tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. – John Malkovich • I’ve never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. – Manuel Puig • Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests. – Paulo Freire • Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance. – William Henry Willimon • Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America. – Rick Riordan • Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. – Thomas King • Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. – Mikhail Bakunin • Living here in North America – I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We’ve come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people’s willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa. – Kandyse McClure • Major theme of the book [“Hotels of North America”], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction. – Rick Moody • Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, … Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home. – Puff Daddy • Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America. – Dean Spade • Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness…He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united. – Walter Rodney • Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan • Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. – Arthur Erickson • Maybe I’ve been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I’ve been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It’s a great anthropological privilege to be there. – William Gibson • Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America. – Enrique Pena Nieto • Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. – Tom G. Palmer • Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they’ve got enough money saved up to do so. – Ann Macbeth • Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America. – Denis Leary • Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting editorial policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People just don’t know what is going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff. – Denis Halliday • My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America. – Steve Kanaly • My political position is that I’m happy to be alive and in North America. – David Letterman • Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. – Edwidge Danticat • Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin. – James W. Loewen • Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It’s better than gasoline or diesel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it’s domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America. – T. Boone Pickens • New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to. – John Guare • New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world. – Federico Garcia Lorca • North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case. – Fredrika Bremer • North America makes a ton of movies and there’s a ton of movies that are exceptional. – Joel Edgerton • North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge. – Nadia Giosia • Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. – Arthur Erickson • Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can’t rewrite history. – Jean Chretien • Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven’t much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars. – Robertson Davies • On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us – Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America. – David Suzuki • One might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting? – Seth Shostak • One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants’ power. They too understand nature’s essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man’s place to own the land at all. Imagine that – think of all the wars we would have missed! – Maryrose Wood • One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church’s economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are ‘payment.’ – Doug Pagitt • Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. – Dick Pound • Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined. – Reza Aslan • Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. – Edmund Burke • People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it’s actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error. – Richard Dawkins • President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he’s made recently. Obviously he’s not doing that well in North America [on screen: ‘36% Approval’], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: ‘Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps’], Europe seems to think the president doesn’t care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he’s done for their burning effigy industry. – Stephen Colbert • Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen. – Sebastian Bach • Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it. – Andre Vltchek • So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It’s also highly populated. So we’re working a number of water rescues. We’re working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we’re keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It’s been pretty cold. – Jay Nixon • So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it’s also the only thing that’s ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us. – P. J. O’Rourke

• Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river’s edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn. – E. O. Wilson • South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American… are all recent migrants from North America. – Stephen Jay Gould • Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the ‘cities of the world’, then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute ‘the rural areas of the world’. – Lin Biao • The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s. – Jared Diamond • The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America–the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring’s Straits. – Eugene Sue • The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America. – Ben Crenshaw • The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It’s a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. – Sara Paretsky • The biggest disease in North America is busyness. – Thomas Merton • The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image – the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America. – Malcolm X • The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black ‘Democrat,’ a black ‘Republican,’ a black ‘Conservative,’ or a black ‘Liberal’ …when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man’s vote is almost always evenly divided. – Malcolm X • The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. – Philip K. Chapman • The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive. – Edgar Allan Poe • The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe. – James Spann • The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references. – Susan Sontag • The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. – Ann Veneman • The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don’t believe in it for long. – Merle Shain • The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It’s such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There’s a dark magic present. It’s no wonder that it’s been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It’s one of the oldest cities in North America. – Daniel Gillies • The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we’ve realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price. – Dan Miller • The only reason so many are so pissed off at the US is because they see North America as promoting a ‘bad deal’ for its own masses, not because it is ruining the rest of the world! – Andre Vltchek • The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable. – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet • The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide – the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. – Chris Bohjalian • The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. – Dan Lipinski • There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now. – Dan Rather • There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case. – Joseph Boyden • These Muslim Brotherhood fronts – the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America – we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us. – Frank Gaffney • This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing. – Paul Cellucci • This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. – William Labov • Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. – Fritz Sauckel • Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months — it could be weeks, it could be days — before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now. – Willem Buiter • To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. – Peter Munk • Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand – will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not. – Arthur Kemp • Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments. – Bernard Bailyn • We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the – the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That’s why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure. – Mitt Romney • We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market. – Paul Cellucci • We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth. – Chris Alexander • We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO’s continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong. – Jens Stoltenberg • We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America. – Howard Schultz • We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don’t get it. – Joe Biden • We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis. – Alan Bersin • We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that’s what I’ve done ever since. – Warren MacKenzie • We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That’s why we’re pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy. – Bob Chiarelli • We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. – Paul Cellucci • We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs. – Mitt Romney • Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily … Those are the goals. It’s very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don’t have conflict here. – George Friedman • Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it’s incumbent upon us to. – Dan Aykroyd • We’re all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE – Ryan North • We’re seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people. – Lori Lansens

• We’ve seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There’s huge audiences for this stuff. For me it’s always been there and it’s just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word. – John Petrucci • What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. – Dave Barry • When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It’s illegal, but when you’ve got a lawless government, it doesn’t matter if it’s illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent. – Noam Chomsky • When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn’t help. I forgot most of that. – Pavel Datsyuk • When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don’t stop for customs inspections and microbes don’t carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods. – Benjamin Barber • When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life. – Thom Hartmann • When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left – the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America. – Robert Bateman • Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven’t had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature’s dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction. – Zoe Helene • White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It’s called world history. – Michael Kimmel • With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with ‘political genocide’. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied ‘political genocide’, a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries. – Richard A. Falk • With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. – Arthur Erickson • Yes, I’m an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. – Malcolm X • You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. “Huh,” “hun,” and “hi!” in their various modulations, together with “sure,” “guess so,” “that so?” and “nuts!” will meet almost any contingency. – Ian Fleming • You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth. – Malcolm X

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From Black Widow to Haseen Dillruba, What to Watch This July

Black Widow is the plain spotlight of recent motion pictures and TV exhibits in July. The Scarlett Johansson-starrer is coming to theatres and streaming, however so not releasing in India on July 9, due to COVID-19 and Disney+ Hotstar's incapability to adapt, though that is most likely not going to cease enterprising Marvel followers. From India, July brings the Taapsee Pannu-led thriller Haseen Dillruba out July 2 on Netflix, Farhan Akhtar punching dudes in Toofaan out there from July 16 on Prime Video, the younger love Netflix anthology Feels Like Ishq on July 23, and the Jimmy Sheirgill-led thriller Collar Bomb exploding July 9 on Disney+ Hotstar. The second season of Netflix's By no means Have I Ever is due a day prior on July 15. In the meantime, Chris Pratt is headed to the long run in The Tomorrow Warfare, debuting July 2 on Prime Video. July can also be a giant month for sequels, follow-ups, and sophomore runs. Everybody's favorite Ted Lasso is again for some feel-good enjoyable; Ted Lasso season 2 begins July 23 on Apple TV+. Netflix is taking us again into the worlds of Resident Evil (video games) and He-Man (the ‘80s superhero) in July. Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness cuts in July 8, whereas Masters of the Universe: Revelation is due July 23. LeBron James goes to play some cartoon basketball in Area Jam: A New Legacy, premiering July 16 on HBO Max (once more, not in India). Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia wraps up with Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans, streaming July 21 on Netflix. Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are off on an Amazonian journey in Disney's Jungle Cruise, releasing July 30. However, like Black Widow, Jungle Cruise is not coming to Disney+ Hotstar in July. Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones lead the dual-timeline romantic drama story, The Final Letter from Your Lover, floating in July 23 on Netflix. And lastly, Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Robust will probably be seen in a parody of musicals referred to as Schmigadoon!, beginning July 16 on Apple TV+. With that, this is our July 2021 information to Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and Disney+. Haseen Dillruba When: July 2 The place: Netflix A newly-wed girl (Taapsee Pannu) who loves novels about small-town murders finds herself caught within the investigation into the homicide of her husband (Vikrant Massey). It would not assist that she has a sophisticated previous that entails a former lover (Harshvardhan Rane) and that her husband might need had suicidal tendencies. Or not less than, that is what the trailer suggests. Directed by Hasee Toh Phasee's Vinil Mathew, Haseen Dillruba additionally stars Aditya Srivastav and Hansika Motwani. Netflix India Unveils 13 Films for 2021, Together with 5 New Movies feat. Haseen Dillruba The Tomorrow Warfare When: July 2 The place: Amazon Prime Video Thirty years sooner or later, humanity is combating a dropping battle in opposition to aliens. In a final gasp, scientists work out a approach to draft troopers from the previous, together with Chris Pratt's warfare veteran. That is the premise for this sci-fi motion film that Amazon paid a reported $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,486 crores) to Paramount for. Yvonne Strahovski performs a soldier sooner or later, Betty Gilpin is Pratt's spouse, J.Ok. Simmons is his dad, and Sam Richardson is a fellow soldier. Chris McKay (The Lego Batman Film) directs. The Tomorrow Warfare Trailer Pulls Chris Pratt Into the Future to Battle Aliens

Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow Warfare Photograph Credit score: Frank Masi/Amazon Monsters at Work When: July 7 The place: Disney+ Hotstar Following the feature-length prequel Monsters College, Pixar — or somewhat, Disney Tv Animation — is taking us again to the world of Monsters, Included with this sequel that begins within the aftermath of Sulley (John Goodman) and Mike's (Billy Crystal) monumental shift: no extra harvesting screams, solely laughter. That is unlucky for keen younger Tylor Tuskmon (Ben Feldman) who graduated high of his class as a scarer. Now caught within the Monsters, Inc. Amenities Workforce (MIFT), Tylor should work out the way to change into humorous. Goodman, Crystal, John Ratzenberger, Jennifer Tilly, and Bob Peterson reprise their roles from the Pixar movies. Along with Feldman, they are going to be joined by Mindy Kaling, Henry Winkler, Lucas Neff, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Stanton, Aisha Tyler, Bonnie Hunt, and Curtis Armstrong. New episodes each Wednesday, consistent with Disney+'s new coverage for unique collection. Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness When: July 8 The place: Netflix Netflix is seemingly in love with Resident Evil. Whereas a live-action adaptation is at the moment within the works with Supernatural co-showrunner Andrew Dabb and anticipated in 2022, Netflix has additionally picked up an anime collection that follows Resident Evil 2 (the sport) protagonists Leon S. Kennedy (Toshiyuki Morikawa/ Nick Apostolides) and Claire Redfield (Yūko Kaida/ Stephanie Panisello), in the course of the hole between the video games Resident Evil four and Resident Evil 5. Eiichirō Hasumi directs. All Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness episodes will probably be out there collectively directly. Black Widow When: July 9 The place: Disney+ Simply over two years since Spider-Man: Far From House, the Marvel Cinematic Universe returns to the large display — arriving after a delay of over a 12 months — though not completely to theatres, and never in India simply but. Scarlett Johansson's first (and solely) standalone run as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow may also be out there on Disney+ with Premier Entry in choose markets, for an extra price of $30 or equal on high of your month-to-month Disney+ subscription. A launch date has not been set for Indian cinemas as a result of COVID-19, but it surely's anticipated October Eight on Disney+ Hotstar. As for the film itself, Black Widow is ready following the occasions of Captain America: Civil Warfare, with Natasha taking a visit again house to see her household of types: Florence Pugh as sister-figure Yelena Belova, David Harbour as father-figure Alexei Shostakov, and Rachel Weisz as mother-figure Melina Vostokoff. Like Natasha, Yelena and Melina have been additionally skilled on the KGB Purple Room within the artwork of Black Widow. Pugh will even take over from Johansson within the MCU, what with Natasha having died in Avengers: Endgame. O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid's Story), William Damage (Civil Warfare), and Ray Winstone (The Departed) even have roles. Robert Downey Jr. and Julia Louis-Dreyfus will cameo as Iron Man and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, respectively. Cate Shortland (Somersault) directs. Black Widow Trailer Guarantees to Deliver Scarlett Johansson House

Florence Pugh, Scarlett Johansson in Black Widow Photograph Credit score: Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios Collar Bomb When: July 9 The place: Disney+ Hotstar A police officer (Jimmy Sheirgill) is out to cease a terrorist from blowing up a faculty on this motion thriller from director Dnyanesh Zoting (Raakshas) and author Nikhil Nair (Critical Males). Asha Negi, Rajshri Deshpande, Sparsh Shrivastava, Ajay Purkar, Naman Jain, Ajit Singh Palawat, Shashi Bhushan, Ambarish Deshpande, Vidushi Mehra, and Suman Singh co-star. The White Lotus When: July 12 The place: Disney+ Hotstar Enlightened co-creator Mike White is off to Hawaii with this social satire miniseries that skewers wealthy white people at an unique resort, alongside the idyllic locale and the lodge's cheerful workers that develop into “far much less excellent than first appearances would counsel.” Murray Barlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Fred Hechinger, Jake Lacy, Brittany O'Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney, and Steve Zahn kind the ensemble solid. One new episode will air each week. By no means Have I Ever When: July 15 The place: Netflix Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) decides to juggle two boyfriends — Ben (Jaren Lewison) for her brainy aspect, and Paxton (Darren Barnet) for her sexy aspect — within the second season of this coming-of-age comedy, which is able to proceed to see her take care of the pressures of house and a brand new problem: a prettier, cooler Indian lady Aneesa (Megan Suri) at college. Tyler Alvarez, Utkarsh Ambudkar, P. J. Byrne, and Widespread are additionally new to By no means Have I Ever season 2 solid. Created by Mindy Kaling (additionally govt producer) and Lang Fisher (additionally EP, showrunner and author). All By no means Have I Ever season 2 episodes will launch directly. Schmigadoon! When: July 16 The place: Apple TV+ A pair (Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Robust) on a backpacking journey uncover a magical city the place everybody believes they're dwelling inside a 1940s studio musical. They then realise they can not go away stated city till they discover “real love”. Alan Cumming, Fred Armisen, Kristin Chenoweth, Aaron Tveit, Dove Cameron, Ariana DeBose, Jaime Camil, Jane Krakowski, and Ann Harada co-star. Martin Brief visitor stars. The six-episode musical parody comes from Despicable Me writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, with Paul additionally offering the music and lyrics. Barry Sonnenfeld (Males in Black) directs. Saturday Night time Reside's Lorne Michaels, Paul, and Sonnenfeld are govt producers, whereas Robust is among the many producers. Two episodes on premiere, with one new episode weekly thereafter.

Cecily Robust, Keegan-Michael Key in Schmigadoon Photograph Credit score: Apple Area Jam: A New Legacy When: July 16 The place: HBO Max LeBron James takes over from Michael Jordan on this new tackle the identical formulation: sucked into the Looney Tunes world, the basketball star should group up with Bugs Bunny and the lot to defeat some supercharged opponents. There is a digital spin on the entire thing, with Don Cheadle (Marvel's Warfare Machine) enjoying a rogue AI who traps LeBron. That (conveniently) permits Warner Bros. to showcase its different properties, together with Surprise Girl, King Kong, The Matrix, Mad Max, and even Casablanca. Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced will star as LeBron's spouse. Zendaya voices Lola Bunny, whereas most of the unique voice actors return to voice the Looney Tunes characters. NBA and WNBA stars Klay Thompson, Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Diana Taurasi, and Nneka Ogwumike lend their likeness to LeBron's opponents, the Goon Squad. Malcolm D. Lee (Women Journey) directs, Ryan Coogler and LeBron are amongst producers. Obtainable on HBO Max and in cinemas on the identical time, for a month. No phrase on an India launch date for Area Jam: A New Legacy, courtesy COVID-19. Toofaan When: July 16 The place: Amazon Prime Video Delayed a few months in respect of the debilitating second COVID-19 wave, Rang De Basanti director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's boxing drama follows an novice boxer and a petty felony (Farhan Akhtar) who should select between the life he has (working for Vijay Raaz's native Mumbai gangster) and the life he desires (coaching beneath Paresh Rawal's boxing coach). Akhtar and Mehra reunite eight years since Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Mrunal Thakur performs Akhtar's love curiosity. Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans When: July 21 The place: Netflix It has all led to this. Following the six-season-long occasions of Trollhunters, 3Below, and Wizards, the Guillermo del Toro-created fantasy collection culminates in a film. Because the supernatural worlds converge, the heroes of Arcadia from all earlier collection should come collectively getting ready to an apocalyptic battle for the management of magic, up in opposition to historical titans summoned by the evil Arcane Order. Turner & Hooch When: July 21 The place: Disney+ Hotstar There was no means Disney may get Tom Hanks to return for this collection follow-up to his so-so wonderful 1989 film, which is why his character has been killed off. That loss of life performs into the plot because it follows his US Marshall son Scott Turner Jr. (Josh Peck) who additionally finally ends up inheriting an unruly canine — identical to his father (some coincidence!) — that turns into his associate. Lyndsy Fonseca, Carra Patterson, Vanessa Lengies, Anthony Ruivivar, Brandon Jay McLaren, and Jeremy Maguire co-star. Burn Discover creator Matt Nix is on the helm of the brand new Turner & Hooch. The 12-episode first season will air new episodes weekly on Wednesdays. Feels Like Ishq When: July 23 The place: Netflix Following final month's middling Ray, Netflix India returns with one other (younger love) anthology collection. This time, it is a collection of six meet-cutes that includes Radhika Madan, Tanya Maniktala, Zayn Marie Khan, Neeraj Madhav, Amol Parashar, Mihir Ahuja, and Rohit Saraf amongst others. Ruchir Arun, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Anand Tiwari, Danish Aslam, Jaydeep Sarkar, Sachin Kundalkar and Devrath Sagar function administrators. Netflix India Unveils 15 Collection for 2021, Together with 5 New TV Exhibits feat. Feels Like Ishq

Tanya Maniktala, Skand Thakur in Feels Like Ishq Photograph Credit score: Vaspaan Shroff/Netflix The Final Letter from Your Lover When: July 23 The place: Netflix After coming throughout a trove of secret love letters from 1965 in current day, an formidable reporter (Felicity Jones) units out to unravel the thriller of the forbidden affair — involving a socialite and a rich industrialist's spouse (Shailene Woodley/ Diana Kent) and a monetary journalist (Callum Turner/ Ben Cross) — as a love story of her personal unfolds with an earnest and endearing archivist (Nabhaan Rizwan). Augustine Frizzell (By no means Goin' Again) directs what's an adaptation of Jojo Moyes' 2012 romance novel. Masters of the Universe: Revelation When: July 23 The place: Netflix By the Energy of Grayskull! Over thirty years since He-Artificial his TV debut, the character and his universe are being resurrected for a direct sequel that picks up the place we left off. As such, it is geared toward its unique now-adult viewers, although visually, it is nonetheless the identical. After all, the voice solid is all new. It contains Chris Wooden, Mark Hamill, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liam Cunningham, Lena Headey, Diedrich Bader, Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Root, Griffin Newman, and Susan Eisenberg. Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob) is the showrunner on Masters of the Universe: Revelation. It can air in two halves, with 5 episodes out there now alongside an after-show, Revelations: The Masters of the Universe Revelation Aftershow. Ted Lasso When: July 23 The place: Apple TV+ Apple's largest hit returns for its second season that finds the titular soccer coach (Jason Sudeikis) and his membership AFC Richmond now within the decrease leagues, following a relegation from Premier League on the finish of the primary season. The Ted Lasso season 2 trailer suggests a visit to FA Cup, and a go to by the coach's harmful aspect “Led Tasso”. Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed, and Juno Temple will all return — as do Ted's well-known biscuits. They are going to be joined by Sarah Niles as a sports activities psychologist. Two episodes on launch date, with one new Ted Lasso season 2 episode following every week. Jungle Cruise When: July 30 The place: Disney+ Not happy with one multi-billion-dollar franchise based mostly on a curler coaster journey — that is Pirates of the Caribbean — Disney is now at it once more. Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt set off to discover a magical therapeutic object within the dense Amazon jungles, the place they must combat off wild animals and a few Nazis. Wait, so that is Disney's Indiana Jones? That is even funnier if you realise Disney owns Indiana Jones as effectively, due to its buy of Star Wars studio Lucasfilm in 2012. Édgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti additionally star. Jaume Collet-Serra (Non-Cease) directs. As with Black Widow, Jungle Cruise is out there on Disney+ with Premier Entry for an extra price of $30 or equal, on high of your month-to-month Disney+ subscription. Jungle Cruise Trailer: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt Are Off on Amazon Journey

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NBA Summer Vacation: Emotion of the Oceans

There is motion in the SVW ocean and by that I mean an awful lot of dudes are way out in the wild blue yonder this week. A few did it really well—I mean really well, like an impending humanitarian award is on the way well—and a couple should stick to spending the rest of their summers on the dry side, lest they wanna become completely washed in the annals of these hallowed, a-little-sticky-from-aloe-vera-sun-balm halls.

Marc Gasol

Marc Gasol, who just a week ago was keeping tabs on the organic garden he planted in his yard last summer vacation, was out in a dingy rescuing migrants stranded in the Mediterranean. There is no joke here. Marc Gasol spent the last week volunteering with the NGO Proactiva Open Arms and much of that was spent out in the open water recovering the bodies of migrants and helping to bring survivors safely to land. The NBA is a progressive league, it gets talked about a lot, but it is occasionally without due credit given to the players who make it that way.

Rating: Just Marc Gasol, absolutely doing the most.

JaVale McGee

A nice transition into our regularly scheduled tittering and trash talk on the way player’s choose to spend their offseason is JaVale McGee pretending to pick up his daughter’s play phone and totally tear a new one to the would-be caller on the other end.

Rating: 9021UH OH!

James Harden

What’s UP James Harden in a trashy, regular ass tank top, flipping the hang loose hand while laser strobe lights illuminate your face?! Turns out all it takes to set James Harden free is setting him loose on the shores of Ibiza with Real Madrid Captain Sergio Ramos and frankly it’s dumb of all of us that it took this long to figure out!

You’ll be happy my sleuthing skills have peeled back another layer in this euro-rave onion, specifically why is Harden wearing that top, because from Ramos’s own documenting of this night we can see they are not just at some regular party, they are at a FOAM PARTY.

Rating: The big buildup that lasts for close to three minutes before the beat drops and every whistle is blasting and the foam cannon is pilin’ up the suds around you like so many cloud castles in heaven.

Steph Curry

We cut live to Steph Curry now, jumping fully clothed off the top of a boat. While we are not here to judge all selfless actions this summer vacation we are certainly going to judge this one. He doesn’t have trunks? He’s got to do this in what appears to be like, athletic technology warm up pants that probably shrink wrap to your legs once you hit the water?

Rating: Oh (splash) brother.

Dwyane Wade

Wade is in China, and we can only hope it’s because he’s hot on the heels of the Mr. Hyde of SVW, China Klay. In any case, he’s paused on his hunt for a quick round of golf and I am not a fan nor knowledgeable of that sport but could they not get him a taller club?

Rating: Fore out of five.

Manu Ginóbili

Aside from being in Vancouver, this looks like a nice trip for Main Manu and the entire Ginóbili family. I like to think that he’s getting familiar with the places DeMar DeRozan once set foot in before coming to Toronto for the main event, so he will have some skin in the conversation when Deebo brings up all the things he misses about Canada.

Rating: I’ll let my famous saying about Vancouver speak for itself—“Once you’ve sea-n one wall, you’ve seen ‘em all.”

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Oh my goooosh, look at our little gladiator ROMEin’ around, checking off all the sights and staying, considerately to his GF and the general public, low to the ground. My only hope is that we get a shot of Giannis high-fiving Christ in The Last Judgement, on the ceiling of the ol’ Sistine. He’d only really have to stretch on tip toes to do it.

Rating: Watch out, Eternal City, there’s a new cooler, younger, taller, Pope in town.

Lou Williams

Paris continues to be big and so does standing or sitting on some type of plinth. The supposed 6th man of the year (Fred VanVleet was robbed) has chosen either onyx or ebony, could also be a big Bose speaker just flipped around, to stand on and do the funny gag. Look how happy he is.

Rating: 6th man to attempt this gag on this particular day, maybe.

Boban Marjanović

Here’s Boban in a quarry of some kind, stalking toward the camera with his socks pulled high. Wouldn’t it be incredible if he gets really into BMX culture this year and is constantly almost caught wheelie-ing the white hot sides of the L.A. River? The LAPD are stumped, who is this giant shadow racing away every time on a tiny bike, leaving wet tire tracks all the way back to the Staple Center?

Rating: They’ll find some fancy pegs in Lonzo Ball’s locker, L.A. Boban rides again.

Jaylen Brown

Jaylen Brown is in Bali doing tarps off and fanny pack on, doing the kind of nervous smile one does on vacation when someone has pushed you into something you aren’t quite comfortable with. Out of frame I am imagining a pack of monkeys glaring at him with their beady eyes, rubbing their little paws together over what kind of gear they are going to nab off this guy.

Rating: An up-to-date rabies vaccine and one long look at the warnings, I hope.

Mirza Teletović

Ah yes, exactly the scene the Turkish folk poet Yunus Emre was attempting to set in his 13th century banger "Mirza at the Grand Bazaar."

Rating: Gives a whole new meaning to telenovela am I right?

Willy Hernangómez

Here we got a great, extremely contoured shot of Willy’s back as he soaks up the sun in the ancient port city of Cádiz, Spain.

Rating: How sweaty are you getting just looking at this? The answer is extremely.

Tim Hardaway Jr.

Double feature for THJ! What I wouldn’t give to get this in a slow-mo video but you gotta take your summer refreshers where you can get ‘em, folks. This is the exact yin to Willy’s yang (get your god damn minds out of the gutters) up there.

Rating: How quenched are you getting just looking at this? The answer is extremely.

Taj Gibson

Somebody wants to be this summer’s solo banana boat boy! Taj is floatin’ in the ocean off the coast of Pesaro, which is way up on the back side of the top of Italy’s boot, on what looks to be a rescue device but is maybe just some kind of Euro pool floatie more streamlined than the traditional mattress. In case there was any doubt that he’s fully in the Eat portion of his Eat, Pray, Love offseason, here he is giggling and having some spaghetti,

Rating: He’ll be sad when it’s time to say goodbye to this trip.

Malcolm Delaney

The Hawks guard has scooted a little farther south for a break in Miami where he’s getting some assistance getting on, or else a chauffeured ride on, this jet-ski. No reason to be out here having fun but not being safe.

Rating: As the SVW rhyme goes—“A ski on land, hold a friend’s hand. A ski on the water, let’s not repeat Sean Kingston’s mistakes.”

Sam Dekker

Double Dekker’s just the latest to be captivated this offseason by the Greek Islands, but this dude’s on ‘em for his honeymoon. One thing’s for sure, I’ve never felt less cool than when I realized Sam Dekker and I have the same style of jumping off things into pristine waters, that is, somehow bunched way the hell up in our bodies and plugging our noses like little loser babies. Congratulations, Sam!

Rating: Enjoy all that water up your nose while Sam and I breathe easily from ours!

Matthew Dellavedova

Here we have my and summer’s natural enemy, Matthew Dellavedova, holding onto a hammerhead shark with his eyes squeezed shut, praying for the photo to get taken so he can put it down. You know what, Delly? Why even pick it up in the first place? How would you like it if someone was hanging onto you by the butt and the back and lofting you high above your home? Come to think of it that must be what dunking feels like, but without the debilitating terror because the ball is not a misunderstood creature. Not that you would know what it feels like to do that.

Rating: I won’t.

Cameron Payne

Wherever Payne is—and he looks as confused about it as I am—he should stay there as long as possible, in that exact same shirt, wearing those exact same steampunk shades, squinting off into the exact same middle distance, because lord knows what’s happening to and for the Bulls this season.

Rating: If thou gaze long into an infinity pool, the infinity pool will also gaze into thee.

Marco Belinelli

I promised myself I wouldn’t cry, but I can’t help picturing Bellinelli fluttering out this big, Turkish beach towel for two in a place called “Fliper & Chiller” on the Balearic Islands as the same welcoming gesture he will make to my eternal guy DeMar DeRozan this season back in San Antonio. Belli I’ve never needed you more.

Rating: Sobbing. But this beach looks nice.

John Wall

Like catching someone mid-sneeze, blowing out birthday candles, or the second they start to hurl going down the last huge hill on a roller coaster, the moment this photo was taken it became Summer Vacation For John Wall.

Rating: Extremely end of July.

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We gotta see the Penguin: Origin 3 player ratings

QLD  1. Billy Slater – is simply all that and a bag of crisps. Brilliant. Hopefully Darius Boyd was sitting at home, scribbling notes about how to be a good fullback.

2. Valentine Holmes – 3 great finishes for tries. Still looks more nervous under the bomb than Dresden circa 1945. It took NSW 210 minutes of football to figure this out. Laurie Daley – supercoach.

3. Will Chambers – obviously in the team as some attempt to keep the game fair. Constantly got in the way. In the way of NSW, in the way of his team-mates, in his own way...

4. Michael Morgan – remember Harvey Keitel’s character in Pulp Fiction? The Wolf? That’s Morgan.

5. Dane Gagai – my pick for player of the series going into the game, the judges agreed. Who signed him again? Oh that’s right.

6. Cameron Munster – there were some question marks over whether Munster was going to be up to the job. These people are not familiar with Craig Bellamy’s Jurassic Park style cloning facility where he spliced Billy Slater’s DNA with that of some kind of football playing frog. Queensland uh uh uh finds a way.

7. Cooper Cronk – dropped the ball when about to score a certain try, so there’s that. Also put in one of the greatest attacking kicks in the history of attacking kicks. So there’s that.

8. Dylan Napa – did his job I guess? He plays for the damn Roosters, what do you want from me? Still looks like Jake Busey.

9. Cameron Smith – nothing needs to be said.

10. Jarrod Wallace – it’s always special when a prop scores a try, especially because it’s nearly universally some sort of cosmic accident when it happens. Started grinning like Hodor when he saw the tryline wide open. Good for him.

11. Gavin Cooper – there’s probably some joke I can make about barrel making but it’s late.

12. Matt Gillett – punishing in defence and attack. The best a man can get indeed.

13. Josh McGuire – There’s a lot of Dishhead Dowling in McGuire and that’s either a backhanded compliment or a cloaked insult. I can’t tell which. Runs hard, tackles hard, gets himself hurt, a bit Martin Lang as well.

14. Ben Hunt – was wisely kept off the field until the game was wrapped up.  A very shrewd move by coach Walters, we know what this guy is capable of in crunch moments.

15. Josh Papalii – like The Rock if The Rock ate another The Rock.

16. Coen Hess - ‘Rudolf’ as I’ve come to call him is just as brutal and efficient as his namesake. Too far?

17. Tim Glasby – when he got the ball on the half volley and started trundling for the try line we were all thinking it: is this the next Danny Nutley? Unfortunately Glasby doesn’t have the Nuts turn of pace. Ask me some time about the time Danny Nutley was the second leg in a double at the SFS…

NSW

1. James Tedesco – you know that ad that he’s in where he sets off the museum alarm system and then sizes up the security before the screen cuts to black? The end of that is that he trips in the first three seconds and then spends the next 45 minutes being beaten in a back room with a phone book before being sold off to work in the engine room of a Yakuza operated black ops whaling vessel...this analogy has gone too far but you see what I’m getting at. The guy’s a muppet.

2. Brett Morris – I never, ever thought I would see the day when Brett Morris was far and away the best player on a NSW team. Next thing you know Donald Trump will be President.

3. Josh Dugan – I’ve been hard on Duges for a long time, but that’s only because I want to see him develop. After my criticism of his last game he did in fact learn how to pass. Only it was forward and to a Queenslander, but baby steps. Shine on you crazy diamond.

4. Jarryd Hayne – remember in 2009 when Hayne was the best player in the comp? Let’s all remember him for the player he was and not the abomination he has become. The Michael McIntyre of rugby league.

5. Blake Ferguson – when Valentine Holmes went over the top of Fergo for his third try you could see Blake gesturing to his team as if to say ‘it’s not my fault – I didn’t pick me’.  Daley should have trusted his judgement.

6. James Maloney – how this jackboot dilettante won two premierships is beyond me and has forever tarnished my enjoyment of rugby league both as a sport and a concept. The best microcosm of his career was late in the game when the Blues were trailing but still in the game and Jimmy put in a pinpoint kick – to Alfie Langer.

7. Mitchell Pearce – Pearce again astounds me with his incredibly accurate kicking game. It was somewhere near the 30th minute before he missed a Queensland back and accidentally found the turf. Otherwise he was like the Legolas of picking out the QLD backline.

8. Aaron Woods – like Styx or Warrant or any other 80’s hair metal band – a crushing lack of talent and ability disguised by a flowing coiffure.

9. Nathan Peats – let’s remember that time when his father, Geordi Peats, played in Canterbury’s 1993 Minor Premiership team…

10. Andrew Fifita – more like Andrew FiFATa. Yeah that’s what I’m going with. A real flat track bully, looks great when things are going his way, a useless thug when they’re not. Won’t turn a game that you’re losing, just helps you win more. Ran for more than 800m, which is something, however only 12 of them were forward.

11. Boyd Cordner – seeing this man in a Blue jumper is inspirational. I mean if he can become captain of the NSW Origin team then I might just have a chance as well. Crippling ankle injury and all.

12. Josh Jackson – to quote Andre 3000 ‘Sorry Josh Jackson. I am for real. Never s’posed to make the Blues side, you’re the one who’s getting penalised’

13. Tyson Frizell – More like Tyson Fizzle. Amirite?

14. David Klemmer – If the players in this Origin series were the cast of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark then David Klemmer is the bag of sand used to weigh down the trap. A heavy, amorphous mound that is ultimately unable to perform the one simple task it was given.

15. Wade Graham – kinda like Joe Pesci in Casino, well meaning but his volatile temper makes life worse for everyone.

16. Jake Trbojevic – He still goes alright. Could possibly trade some of his consonants for some of Josh Papalii’s vowels.

17. Jack Bird – the year is 2008 and thanks to Family Guy season 7, episode 2 ‘I Dream of Jesus, everyone is talking about how the bird is the word. Well it’s 2017 and the Bird is definitely no longer the word.

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My top 10 “straight up Action movies” of the 20th century

A sample of what is available on http://www.20thcenturygeek.com/blog/ 

March has been action movie month and I love a good Top 10 list. So here is my top 10 action films. 

The only criterion for this list was that the film had to have minimal cross genre elements. So, I have discounted films like Robocop, Terminator 2 or even Indiana Jones. The other thing is that this is a list that I have created and is based solely on the films I love in date order. If you want to suggest anything else or dispute anything on this list, let me know.

1.       Rambo: First Blood (1982) – one of the first true one man army action films but not just action candyfloss. The film provides a perspective on veterans by civilians and their place in society following Vietnam. Stallone’s John Rambo is a damaged soldier looking for connection in the real world. When he is rejected he reverts to his training and takes the war to small town America. The action is raw and brutal but its true impact comes at the end when Rambo breaks down and retells what has seen and been through. This is an action film with a message about ignorance and the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder.

2.       Commando (1985) – A proper candyfloss action film and the second one man army film on this list. This film has no deeper meaning but is filled with some great set pieces and one liners. Schwarzenegger is on true muscle bound action hero form. The fact that his daughter has been kidnapped as leverage to assassinate a country‘s leader is completely immaterial. The plot is so thin but it all builds up to an amazing and ludicrous third act. Seriously, Arnie taking on an entire drug cartels army is awesome. The only thing that brings this down is Bennett, Arnie’s nemesis, who seems so out of shape next to Arnie that the final fight is a bit daft.

3.       Lethal Weapon (1987) – The buddy cop film was already a staple by the mid-80’s; the sub-genre came to America with 48 hours in 1982. This was followed by a couple of other films in the genre but it wasn’t made really popular until 1987 with Shane Black’s Lethal Weapon. The previous entries had leant a little more towards the comedy and while fun they were throw away. Lethal Weapon took this to the next level by upping the violence and intensity, and wrapping around it the great pairing of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The chemistry between the two is excellent and what drove this franchise for four films.

4.       Die Hard (1989) – Possibly the best loved action film of all time. Die Hard was a game changer, it took the everyman hero of the 70’s and throw him into the over the top action of the 80’s. Based on the book “Nothing lasts forever” by Roderick Thorpe released in 1979. To me this film is almost perfect, Bruce Willis is excellent as John McClane and Alan Rickman is thrilling as Hans Gruber, the slimy international terrorist thief.  This film was rightfully a break out for each actor and started the film description cliché “Die Hard in a …” of all the films on this list this is the one I have watched the most.

5.       Tango and Cash (1989) – The second buddy cop film on the list. While Lethal Weapon took the genre pretty straight, Stallone and Russell take it full on action cheese. This film is pure dumb fun, the plot is basic and the action is big. Of the two Kurt Russel seems the more at home as the scruffy Gabe Cash while Sly Stallone sometimes feels a little awkward as the well-manicured Ray Tango. However, when that starts to fall away a little by the second act they fall into the roles brilliantly and the fun just keeps on coming. This is not going to win any awards but is perfect Saturday night pizza and beers action mayhem.

6.       Hard Target (1993) – John Woo’s first American film and it had Jean-Claude Van Damme in it. Mixing the oriental directional style of Woo with Van Damme’s martial arts was a great idea and is brilliant fun. In a story about People being hunted for sport we get everything we would expect, slow motion, high kicks, dove’s and amazing action set pieces. This was at the height of Van Damme’s 90’s fame and is one of his best films. It also includes the brilliant Lance Hendrickson at his nastiest, as the main villain.

7.       True Lies (1994) – Take Bond and make him an American Family man built like an Oak and you get James Cameron’s True Lies. This film demonstrates how far Arnold Schwarzenegger had come as an actor. He is charismatic and plays the roles of dull computer salesman and super spy well and with charm. He is also surrounded by a solid supporting cast from the sexy Jamie Lee-Curtis (I grew up when I saw that dance scene!), the entertaining Tom Arnold and the evil Terrance Malik. The comedy never over takes the action and the third act contains some of the best stunts you will see in any action film of the decade.

8.       Goldeneye (1995) – One day I will get to cover James Bond on a couple of episodes but right now I need to admit, Goldeneye is my favourite bond film. This may be due to my age, I was 14 when the film came out, but Peirce Brosnan is my James Bond. I had seen some of the other films before this and was aware of Bond as a film series but had not been pulled into them until Goldeneye. You couldn’t avoid Tine Turner’s excellent intro song and the advertisements. This is one of the few Bond films I have seen in the cinema and I have loved it ever since. Also the game was awesome; let’s just not talk about some of the other Brosnan outings at the moment.

9.       Bad Boys (1995) – The first of two Jerry Bruckheimer actioners on this list and the film that made the Fresh Prince a legit star. This film is great for two reasons, the first is the relationship between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the second is the stylised action. Watching it now I will admit that some of the directorial choices date the film to the decade. This is small a minor complaint however when many of the other choices still stand up so well and the main cast are so good. It should also be noted that this is the feature directorial debut of Michael Bay; regardless of my feelings about his more recent Transformer efforts his style is perfectly suited for this action.

10.   Con Air (1997) – I flip-flopped between this and The Rock to put on this list, both Jerry Bruckheimer films. In the end I decided to go with Con Air because it is slightly more fun and has the amazing John Malkovich as the main villain, Cyrus ‘The virus’ Grissom. Nic Cage delivers one of his more subdued performances amid some more flamboyant choices from the bad guys around him. However, it is clear that he is having fun; he is a pretty good action lead. The premise of the film is daft and some of the leaps in logic and credulity push the boundaries at times. However, the film is endlessly quotable and the plane grave yard sequence is so much fun and chock full of great moments.

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50+ Baby Names For Parents Who Grew Up in the '90s

Source: Warner Bros. If you're still secretly obsessed with all things '90s, then you may want to consider naming your child after a teenage heartthrob (Leonardo DiCaprio) or after a character from your favorite '90s sitcom. With so many options out there, we rounded up the most well-known names from different categories. These names are just as memorable today as they were two decades ago. And if you need even more reasons to love the 1990s, we've found 375 of them. Movies Source: Paramount Pictures Girl Names * Rose (Titanic) * Cher (Clueless) * Matilda (Matilda) * Kathryn (Cruel Intentions) * Kat (10 Things I Hate About You) * Judy (Jumanji) * Louise (Thelma & Louise) Boy Names * Jack (Titanic) * Forrest (Forrest Gump) * Will (Good Will Hunting) * Kevin (Home Alone) * Patrick (10 Things I Hate About You) * Daniel (Mrs. Doubtfire) * Zack (She's All That) Disney Throwbacks Source: Disney Girl Names * Hallie (The Parent Trap) * Belle (Beauty and the Beast) * Brenda (Inspector Gadget) * Mulan (Mulan) * Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) * Jane (Tarzan) * Jasmine (Aladdin) Boy Names * Hercules (Hercules) * Wayne (Honey, I Blew Up the Kid) * John (Pocahontas) * Simba (The Lion King) * Andy (Toy Story) * Gordon (The Mighty Ducks) * Philip (Flubber) TV Shows Source: ABC Girl Names * Rachel (Friends) * Michelle (Full House) * Tia (Sister, Sister) * Kelly (90210) * Carrie (Sex and the City) * Artemis (Sailor Moon) * Grace (Will and Grace) Boy Names * Zachary (Saved by the Bell) * Dawson (Dawson's Creek) * Noel (Felicity) * Arthur (Arthur) * Steven (Family Matters) * Brandon (90210) * Dan (Roseanne) Music Source: Getty / THOMAS COEX/AFP Girl Names * Britney (Britney Spears) * Mariah (Mariah Carey) * Christina (Christina Aguilera) * Victoria (Spice Girls) * Sheryl (Sheryl Crow) * Gwen (Gwen Stefani) * Janet (Janet Jackson) Boy Names * Justin (*NSYNC) * Nick (Backstreet Boys) * Billy (Billy Joel) * Michael (Michael Jackson) * Paul (Paul McCartney) * Lionel (Lionel Richie) * Drew (98 Degrees) Celebrities Source: Warner Bros. Girl Names * Ashley (Ashley Olsen) * Julia (Julia Roberts) * Cameron (Cameron Diaz) * Katie (Katie Holmes) * Jodie (Jodie Foster) * Alicia (Alicia Silverstone) * Claire (Claire Danes) Boy Names * Joshua (Joshua Jackson) * Mark (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) * Freddie (Freddie Prinze Jr.) * Johnny (Johnny Depp) * Brad (Brad Pitt) * Will (Will Smith) * James (James Van Der Beek) Books Girl Names * Violet (The Boxcar Children) * Kristy (The Baby-Sitters Club) * Judy (Judy Blume) * Ramona (Beverly Cleary) * Nancy (Nancy Drew) Boy Names * Harry (Harry Potter series) * Gabriel (The Giver) * David (No, David!) * Max (Where the Wild Things Are) * Stanley (Holes) Sports Source: Getty / VINCENT LAFORET/AFP Girl Names * Mia (Mia Hamm) * Michelle (Michelle Kwan) * Lisa (Lisa Leslie) * Dara (Dara Torres) * Jenny (Jenny Thompson) * Steffi (Steffi Graf) * Annika (Annika Sorenstam) Boy Names * Michael (Michael Jordan) * Jerry (Jerry Rice) * Derek (Derek Jeter) * Andre (Andre Agassi) * Gary (Gary Payton) * John (John Starks) * Brett (Brett Favre) http://bit.ly/2nGwi7a

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Please welcome D. Alexander Ward to Roadie Notes……

1. How old were you when you first wrote your first story? I was the tender age of twelve or thirteen, I think, when I wrote “The Thing in the Fog.” Thankfully, that little gem never saw the light of day.

2. How many books have you written? Two novels and one novella published. One completed novel (Nightjar) in the editing stage and one completed trunk novel I may someday try to make viable. So that’d be five. I’ve also co-edited two books with Doug Murano: Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Shadows Over Main Street.

3. Anything you won’t write about? There are things I probably shy away from unconsciously—like sexual abuse—but if it’s important to the plot or the character, nothing is off the table as long as I handle it in an appropriate manner.

4. Tell me about you. Age (if you don’t mind answering), married, kids, do you have another job etc... I’m forty-two years old, married just over ten years, with one child—a daughter—who is in elementary school. I am a partner in a technology business where I also work full-time as an operations manager.

5. What’s your favorite book you have written? I like them all for different reasons but I’m historically a sucker for haunted houses and haunted people so I’d have to say my most recent book, Beneath Ash & Bone. And the reason is that when I was working the idea of it, I kind of had this aesthetic in my mind, you know? Like a full-sensory vision of what I wanted it to be. And for the most part, its final form is just as I envisioned it. I do that with everything I write but some come closer to the vision than others.

6. Who or what inspired you to write? I always enjoyed a good story in whatever form it took and after a steady diet of Poe and Lovecraft and King at a young age, I decided I’d like to try my hand at it. Then I kind of fell out of it for many years. Caitlin R. Kiernan’s Threshold and Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box brought me back to dark fiction, though, and inspired me to finally get serious about writing it.

7. What do you like to do for fun? Other than reading and hanging out with my family, I get a lot of enjoyment out of music—listening to it as well as making it. I also cook a lot, so that’s something else I’m passionate about.

8. Any traditions you do when you finish a book? Get blackout drunk and howl at the moon? Well, maybe that has happened, but not every time. In truth, I will spend about a day or two wondering if I am really done or not, then I’ll walk away from it for a week or two. Then I come back to it and begin editing. That’s my tradition. And I’m not sure that, for me, the editing process is ever truly finished—even if it’s only in my head.

9. Where do you write? Quiet or music? I like writing outside whenever possible. I have a specific spot on the back deck at the edge of the woods. Either there or my writing cave in my house.As far as quiet or music, either works for me but I do assemble playlists that capture the mood of certain projects as I am working on them, so I use music more often than not.

10. Anything you would change about your writing? I’d be faster, leaner, and more precise in my prose. But that comes with time, if it comes at all. I’d also have a better Good Idea vs. Dumb Idea filter to save time.

11. What is your dream? Famous writer? Well, as a teenager, sure it was. Who wouldn’t want to be circa 1980’s and 90’s Stephen King? But now, I just want to publish as widely as possible and make a bit of money doing it. I think the dream now is to produce quality work that more and more people will read.

12. Where do you live? I live in central Virginia, outside the city of Richmond. Used to be farms and woods were the defining characteristics of the landscape out here rather than yet another sandwich shop chain or another super grocery or whatever the hell. I sound bitter, don’t I? Well, maybe a little.

13. Pets? Two cats (one black, one orange) named Mulder and Scully. I badly need another dog in my life, though.

14. What’s your favorite thing about writing? I really enjoy writing a novel synopsis! No, I’m kidding. Those are horrendous. What I do like is the rush you get when something just clicks… and keeps on clicking. Another is the catharsis you experience when you really scrape at your insides to get something out and onto the page, because if you’re putting a lot of your self into it, it can be frightening at times. Editing can be tedious but that really is where you have the chance make a rough-hewn thing beautiful and seeing that final product is very gratifying.

15. What is coming next for you? I’m figuring out what the next novel project will be and I have a few smaller things in the hopper as well. Doug Murano and I are finishing up edits on Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2, which comes out later this year. And I am also working on editing an anthology project that will drop in 2018… that I can’t talk about just yet.

A special sample of D. Alexander Ward: 

  Beneath Ash & Bone, Synopsis

Selburn, Virginia: A quiet backwater town nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the days before the Civil War, Sam Lock keeps the peace as the town sheriff, like his father before him.

That peace is shattered during a raging winter storm when a boy goes missing at Evermore, the sprawling estate of Horace Crownhill and his family. Racing against time and the elements, Sam must mount a desperate search for the child—but what he finds in the snow, and the dark halls of Evermore, are madness … and murder.

As Sam searches for truth in a house poisoned by mysteries and haunted by ghosts, he hopes to weather the storm, but the harrowing secrets he uncovers may prove too terrible to bear. Will he escape with his sanity intact or will the dark presence rumored to hold sway over Evermore claim him as another sacrifice? Blood Savages (A Blackguards Novel #1), Synopsis A failed paramilitary assault on a nest of vampires gives a group of monster hunters called the Blackguards a terrifying glimpse of how deadly the bloodsuckers really are. Now, hunted by the ones they failed to kill and on the run from the law, they’re forced to puzzle together the mystery of a strange carcass from colonial times that their ruthless billionaire nemesis will stop at nothing to possess.

With one of their own bitten and mutating into a deadly creature of the night, they race against time as they travel the back roads of the Carolinas in a desperate attempt to save her life. But their journey toward salvation will lead to darker places than they ever could have imagined.

Blood Savages is the first novel in the Blackguards series about a misfit band of Southern heroes with extraordinary abilities. But these ain’t your high-browed superheroes flying invisible jet planes, living in fancy mansions, and sporting glittery spandex getups. The Blackguards drink too much, they tote guns, they drive muscle cars and beat-up trucks. None of them can claim a squeaky clean past and some ain’t even exactly human. But one thing’s for certain; they’ll stand against the denizens of the underworld and the corrupt men that seek to harness its dark powers, fighting the battles that no one else can.

Because, down South, sometimes the heroes are the monsters. Shadows Over Main Street, Synopsis

What happens when idyllic small-towns, and the simple folk who inhabit them, collide with inexplicable evil borne of a vast and uncaring cosmos?

Imagine a series of stories set in a golden era of American life, where worldly troubles are regarded from a distance, if at all. Hear the buzz of playing cards clipped in children’s spokes echo down quiet lanes. Smell the faint aroma of rich tobacco smoke from an old man’s pipe on a shady boulevard. Listen to the gossip of small towns where everyone knows everyone’s business. Or do they?

Sometimes, deadly secrets lurk out in the barn. Sometimes, unimaginable evil awaits us in the root cellar. Sometimes, we fall under the sway of the Shadows Over Main Street.

Contains stories and poems by: Gary Braunbeck, Nick Mamatas, Josh Malerman, Mary SanGiovanni, Tim Curran, Rena Mason, Lucy A. Snyder, Stephanie Wytovich, Kevin Lucia, Chesya Burke, Brian Hodge, James Chambers, Aaron Polson, T. Fox Dunham, Richard Thomas, Adrian Ludens, Cameron Suey, Lisa Morton, Jay Wilburn, and John Sunseri. Foreword by Ramsey Campbell.

Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Synopsis

This book is a nominee for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories–a disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness. Awe meets ache. Terror becomes transcendence.

Regret gives way to rebirth. Fifteen short stories and one poem span nearly every twisted corner of the horror and dark fiction genres. Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories features the most celebrated voices in dark fiction, as well as a number of exciting new talents: Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Tremblay, John F.D. Taff, Lisa Mannetti, Damien Angelica Walters, Josh Malerman, Christopher Coake, Mercedes M. Yardley, Brian Kirk, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Amanda Gowin, Richard Thomas, Maria Alexander and Kevin Lucia. Edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward. With a foreword from Cemetery Dance magazine founder and author Richard Chizmar. Brought to you by Crystal Lake Publishing

Getting personal with D. Alexander Ward Please welcome D. Alexander Ward to Roadie Notes...... 1. How old were you when you first wrote your first story?