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This is outside my usual wheelhouse but all the same I wanted to give it a shake. Here's my OC Avril, but uhhh he's a big wolf guy. 🙏
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Holidays 2.27
Holidays
Anosmia Awareness Day
Aspirin Day
Doctors’ Day (Vietnam)
False Flag Day
Flag Day (Antigua and Barbuda)
Goat Willow Day (French Republic)
Godhra Train Burning Remembrance Day (India)
The Hop (Fairy Holiday)
Insipid Day (according to Jonathan Swift)
International Polar Bear Day
Majuba Day (Orania, South Africa)
Marathi Language Day (India)
Mercury Day Day
Mr. Rogers Remembrance Day
National Albert Day
National Anosmia Awareness Day
National Cigar Day
National Khachapuri Day (Georgia)
National Protein Day
National Retro Day
National She’s The B.O.S.S. Day
National Susan Day
National Term Limits Day
No-Brainer Day
Oops Day (Commemorating Tower of Pisa Leaning)
Peace Memorial Holiday (Taiwan)
Perseverance Day (Elder Scrolls)
Pokémon Day
Public Sector Day (Kuwait)
Ralph Nader Day
Read Five Pages in the Dictionary Day
Special Operations Forces Day (Russia)
Threepenny Day (Eton College, England)
World NGO Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
The Big Breakfast Day
National Grape Harvest Festival (Argentina)
National Kahlua Day
National Milk Tart Day (South Africa)
National Strawberry Day
World’s Biggest Tea Party Day (Pakistan)
4th & Last Tuesday in February
Digital Learning Day [4th Tuesday]
World Spay Day [Last Tuesday]
Weekly Holidays beginning February 27 (4th Week)
International Petroleum Week [thru 2.29]
Independence & Related Days
Aurumia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Dominica (from UK; 1967)
Dominican Republic (from Haiti, 1844)
Lebanon (Declared; 1945)
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Declared sovereignty over Western Sahara, 1976)
Slavtria (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
St. Kitts Statehood Day (West Indies; 1967)
Festivals Beginning February 27, 2024
BakingTech Conference (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 2.29]
Geneva International Jewish Film Festival (Geneva, Switzerland) [thru 3.4]
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo (Houston, Texas) [thru 3.17]
Iowa Hawkeye Farm Show (Cedar Falls, Iowa) [thru 2.29]
Wilmington Beer Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 3.3]
Feast Days
Alnoth (Christian; Saint)
Anaximenes (Positivist; Saint)
Bhumchu (Sikkim, India)
Bir Chilarai Divas (Assam, India)
Carl Sagan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Day of Selene (Goddess of the Moon; Ancient Greece)
Day of the Elders (Pagan)
Equirria (Ancient Roman Chariot and Horse Race) [1st of 2 / 2nd one 3.14]
Equaria, Mars Gradius (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Feast of Morrighan, the Three-Fold Goddess of War & Death (Badbh, Remain and Macha; Celtic Book of Days)
Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Christian)
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Christian; Saint)
Galmier of Lyon (a.k.a. Baldomerus; Christian; Saint)
George Herbert (Anglicanism)
Guru Ravidas Jayanti / Magha Purnima (India)
The Hop (Shamanism)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Writerism)
Honorina (Christian; Saint)
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Artology)
John of Gorze (Christian; Saint)
John Steinbeck (Writerism)
Julian, Cronin and Besas (Christian; Martyrs)
Leander of Seville (Christian; Saint)
Silly Hat Day (Pastafarian)
Thalelaeus the Hermit (Christian; Saint)
William F. Lamby (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [12 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [13 of 60]
Premieres
The Adventures of Chip ’n’ Dale (Animated TV Series; 1959)
The Arctic Giant (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#4]
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (TV Game Show; 2007)
The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch (Novel; 1973)
Fast and Moose or Charley’s Antler (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 156; 1962)
The Fella with a Fiddle (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (Novel; 1975)
Girlfriend, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2007)
The Gold Bricks, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 45 & 46 1965)
Good Bye Lenin! (Film; 2004)
Hotel California, by The Eagles (Song; 1977)
House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (Novel; 1968)
Jaws, by Peter Benchley (Novel; 1974)
The Magnet Men, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 43 & 44; 1965)
Not Barking (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)
Orange & Lemons, by XTC (Album; 1989)
O-Solar Meow (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)
Picador Porky (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
Psyche, by Matthew Locke (Opera; 1675) [oldest known opera in English]
The Shriek (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)
Some Kind of Wonderful (Film; 1987)
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, by Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony; 1814)
To Bring You My Love, by PJ Harvey (Album; 1995)
A Whale of a Tale or That She Blows Up (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 155; 1962)
Wigwam Whoopee (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)
The Wild Chase (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Wild Wild World (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)
You Better You Bet, by The Who (Song; 1981)
Today’s Name Days
Baldur, Gabriel, Marko, Markward (Austria)
Donat, Gabrijel (Croatia)
Alexandr (Czech Republic)
Leander (Denmark)
Helbe, Helve, Helvi (Estonia)
Torsti (Finland)
Honorine, Léandre (France)
Baldur, Gabriel, Marko (Germany)
Asklepios, Asklipios, Nisios (Greece)
Edina (Hungary)
Leandro, Onorina (Italy)
Andra, Daiva, Līva, Līvija (Latvia)
Fortūnatas, Gabrielius, Ginvilas, Skirmantė (Lithuania)
Laila, Lill (Norway)
Aleksander, Anastazja, Auksencjusz, Gabriel, Gabriela, Honoryna, Leander, Leonard, Sierosława (Poland)
Procopie, Talaleu (Romania)
Alexander (Slovakia)
Gabriel (Spain)
Lage (Sweden)
Margaret (Ukraine)
Houston, Leander, Leandra, Leandro, Leland (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 58 of 2024; 308 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 9 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 18 (Xin-You)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 18 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 17 Sha’ban 1445
J Cal: 28 Grey; Sevenday [28 of 30]
Julian: 14 February 2024
Moon: 91%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 2 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Anaximenes]
Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 69 of 89)
Week: 4th Week of February
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 9 of 30)
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Holidays 2.27
Holidays
Anosmia Awareness Day
Aspirin Day
Doctors’ Day (Vietnam)
False Flag Day
Flag Day (Antigua and Barbuda)
Goat Willow Day (French Republic)
Godhra Train Burning Remembrance Day (India)
The Hop (Fairy Holiday)
Insipid Day (according to Jonathan Swift)
International Polar Bear Day
Majuba Day (Orania, South Africa)
Marathi Language Day (India)
Mercury Day Day
Mr. Rogers Remembrance Day
National Albert Day
National Anosmia Awareness Day
National Cigar Day
National Khachapuri Day (Georgia)
National Protein Day
National Retro Day
National She’s The B.O.S.S. Day
National Susan Day
National Term Limits Day
No-Brainer Day
Oops Day (Commemorating Tower of Pisa Leaning)
Peace Memorial Holiday (Taiwan)
Perseverance Day (Elder Scrolls)
Pokémon Day
Public Sector Day (Kuwait)
Ralph Nader Day
Read Five Pages in the Dictionary Day
Special Operations Forces Day (Russia)
Threepenny Day (Eton College, England)
World NGO Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
The Big Breakfast Day
National Grape Harvest Festival (Argentina)
National Kahlua Day
National Milk Tart Day (South Africa)
National Strawberry Day
World’s Biggest Tea Party Day (Pakistan)
4th & Last Tuesday in February
Digital Learning Day [4th Tuesday]
World Spay Day [Last Tuesday]
Weekly Holidays beginning February 27 (4th Week)
International Petroleum Week [thru 2.29]
Independence & Related Days
Aurumia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Dominica (from UK; 1967)
Dominican Republic (from Haiti, 1844)
Lebanon (Declared; 1945)
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Declared sovereignty over Western Sahara, 1976)
Slavtria (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
St. Kitts Statehood Day (West Indies; 1967)
Festivals Beginning February 27, 2024
BakingTech Conference (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 2.29]
Geneva International Jewish Film Festival (Geneva, Switzerland) [thru 3.4]
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo (Houston, Texas) [thru 3.17]
Iowa Hawkeye Farm Show (Cedar Falls, Iowa) [thru 2.29]
Wilmington Beer Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 3.3]
Feast Days
Alnoth (Christian; Saint)
Anaximenes (Positivist; Saint)
Bhumchu (Sikkim, India)
Bir Chilarai Divas (Assam, India)
Carl Sagan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Day of Selene (Goddess of the Moon; Ancient Greece)
Day of the Elders (Pagan)
Equirria (Ancient Roman Chariot and Horse Race) [1st of 2 / 2nd one 3.14]
Equaria, Mars Gradius (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Feast of Morrighan, the Three-Fold Goddess of War & Death (Badbh, Remain and Macha; Celtic Book of Days)
Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Christian)
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Christian; Saint)
Galmier of Lyon (a.k.a. Baldomerus; Christian; Saint)
George Herbert (Anglicanism)
Guru Ravidas Jayanti / Magha Purnima (India)
The Hop (Shamanism)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Writerism)
Honorina (Christian; Saint)
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Artology)
John of Gorze (Christian; Saint)
John Steinbeck (Writerism)
Julian, Cronin and Besas (Christian; Martyrs)
Leander of Seville (Christian; Saint)
Silly Hat Day (Pastafarian)
Thalelaeus the Hermit (Christian; Saint)
William F. Lamby (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [12 of 71]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [13 of 60]
Premieres
The Adventures of Chip ’n’ Dale (Animated TV Series; 1959)
The Arctic Giant (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#4]
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (TV Game Show; 2007)
The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch (Novel; 1973)
Fast and Moose or Charley’s Antler (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 156; 1962)
The Fella with a Fiddle (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (Novel; 1975)
Girlfriend, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2007)
The Gold Bricks, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 45 & 46 1965)
Good Bye Lenin! (Film; 2004)
Hotel California, by The Eagles (Song; 1977)
House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (Novel; 1968)
Jaws, by Peter Benchley (Novel; 1974)
The Magnet Men, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 43 & 44; 1965)
Not Barking (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)
Orange & Lemons, by XTC (Album; 1989)
O-Solar Meow (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)
Picador Porky (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
Psyche, by Matthew Locke (Opera; 1675) [oldest known opera in English]
The Shriek (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)
Some Kind of Wonderful (Film; 1987)
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, by Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony; 1814)
To Bring You My Love, by PJ Harvey (Album; 1995)
A Whale of a Tale or That She Blows Up (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 155; 1962)
Wigwam Whoopee (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)
The Wild Chase (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Wild Wild World (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)
You Better You Bet, by The Who (Song; 1981)
Today’s Name Days
Baldur, Gabriel, Marko, Markward (Austria)
Donat, Gabrijel (Croatia)
Alexandr (Czech Republic)
Leander (Denmark)
Helbe, Helve, Helvi (Estonia)
Torsti (Finland)
Honorine, Léandre (France)
Baldur, Gabriel, Marko (Germany)
Asklepios, Asklipios, Nisios (Greece)
Edina (Hungary)
Leandro, Onorina (Italy)
Andra, Daiva, Līva, Līvija (Latvia)
Fortūnatas, Gabrielius, Ginvilas, Skirmantė (Lithuania)
Laila, Lill (Norway)
Aleksander, Anastazja, Auksencjusz, Gabriel, Gabriela, Honoryna, Leander, Leonard, Sierosława (Poland)
Procopie, Talaleu (Romania)
Alexander (Slovakia)
Gabriel (Spain)
Lage (Sweden)
Margaret (Ukraine)
Houston, Leander, Leandra, Leandro, Leland (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 58 of 2024; 308 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 9 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 18 (Xin-You)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 18 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 17 Sha’ban 1445
J Cal: 28 Grey; Sevenday [28 of 30]
Julian: 14 February 2024
Moon: 91%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 2 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Anaximenes]
Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 69 of 89)
Week: 4th Week of February
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 9 of 30)
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MARDI 4 AOUT 2020 – (Billet 2/2)
On vous l’a souvent dit, trouver un document sur le Net susceptible de nous/vous intéresser pour le Blog peut se comparer à une « chasse au trésor ». Beaucoup de temps consacré à la « chasse » mais très peu de chance d’en découvrir un !
Alors vous pouvez imaginer notre joie lorsqu’enfin on tombe sur « ça ». En l’occurrence, ici, le « ça », ce sont deux jeunes et adorables chanteuses de rue qui interprètent en duo le tube de Jason Mraz, « I’m Yours ».
Celle qui nous a fait craquer, c’est celle de gauche sur la photo mais à droite dans la vidéo. Elle s’appelle Allie Sherlock. Avant de choisir la vidéo que nous avons placée dans la visionneuse, nous en avons visionnées quelques autres qui lui sont plus spécialement dédiées… Non seulement elle a un minois qui en ferait craquer plus d’un, mais en plus elle a un timbre de voix (très particulier dans les aigus) qui ne peut pas laisser indifférent. Nous, on adore.
Cette jeune-fille, à notre avis, ne va pas rester très longtemps dans les rues, nous lui promettons un bel avenir. Et cela a peut-être déjà commencé pour elle…
Ci-dessous sa fiche « Wikipédia » et, en fin de Billet, le lien vers sa Chaîne YouTube ». Si vous vous intéressez à la musique, allez-y faire un tour. Début juillet 2020, 323 millions de personnes l’ont fait avant vous ! Et oui, vous avez bien lu : 323 millions de personnes l’ont fait avant vous !!!
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Allie Sherlock, née le 7 avril 2005 à Douglas, en banlieue de Cork, est une chanteuse, guitariste et compositrice irlandaise.
Allie Sherlock est originaire de Douglas, en banlieue de Cork, au sud de l'Irlande. À partir de huit ans, elle apprend à jouer de la guitare avec son père. Elle est très marquée, à l'âge de neuf ans, par le décès de sa mère. Un an plus tard, victime de harcèlement scolaire, elle choisit d'être scolarisée à la maison ; en plus de son cursus scolaire, elle profite de cours de chant, de piano et de guitare.
La père d'Allie Sherlock crée la Chaîne YouTube de sa fille en 2014 et y dépose les vidéos qu'il filme de concerts improvisés durant lesquels elle chante seule dans Grafton Street en s'accompagnant à la guitare, reprenant des chansons anglophones célèbres. En décembre 2018, les vidéos de cette chaîne cumulent 98 millions de vues1… et 323 millions en juillet 2020. À partir de 2018, elle commence également à interpréter son propre répertoire, qu'elle enregistre à Los Angeles avec Ryan Tedder.
En janvier 2018, elle est invitée de l'émission américaine « The Ellen DeGeneres Show » après que cette dernière l'a découverte en train de chanter une reprise de la chanson « Million Years Ago » d'Adele.
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Sa chaîne YouTube :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGnsRwFS8Xm13lMAeouzT9g
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Post Scriptum. On annonce une canicule assez importante dans les jours qui viennent sur toute la France… la jeunesse, la beauté et la FRAÎCHEUR de ces 2 demoiselles devraient nous/vous faire un bien fou !!!
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“Adrift in Batavia”
“When I am inside writing, all I can do is think about how I should be outside living
When I can outside living, all I can do is notice all there is to write about..”
-Sarah Kay, “Paradox”
I.
Early October. I was in Humboldt Colectivo once again in pursuit
of getting some writing done. Laptop, composition notebooks, a spill of highlighters,
pens, and Sharpies on the table.- I get a Facebook message from my new friend, Megan
asking, Did you want to drive up north to go grape-picking after my photo shoot?
I was so flattered, a YES was the only appropriate answer.
1:25pm was what my laptop's right hand clock read when she came
in a cherry top beret, overalls and baby-face smile. Megan's light blue Volkswagen beetle
parked out front matched her personality so well.- I grabbed a granola bar out
the car trunk in a light blue-white polka dotted backpack she offered and we were off.
A dash onto the ashen streets as Creme City's autumnal glow blinded us.
Vermillion, canary and marmalade.
Small talk sparked, specifically about her, a soon to be married woman from
China, Maine, I, an inner city Milwaukee Native. Somehow our connection was poetry. -
Car radio tuned to 103.7 Kiss F.M played a poppy tune. We were at one point
singing Avril Lavigne and Michelle Branch songs; Sk8r Boy, Complicated
and Goodbyyyye to Youu-ahh-ooo! - The car wheels' perpetual rotation on the rippleless
highway was concrete jazz. - The fall countryside was magical with all the trees'
motley hues viscerally going past our window. A perennial pathway
ahead forever changed by the sway of vehicular movement.
II.
Megan wanted to know what car fits my personality. I sight referenced
cars whisking by in both traffic lanes, and picked a purple Jeep with a little dirt the wheels. -
She handed me instructions to the farm written on a single index card. A cluster of
parabolic lines and arrows, county road names and numbers in gel pen. We passed through
the municipals of Cedarburg, Grafton, Random Lake, Port Washington, and a couple
unincorporated places as the green roadside signs read.
We were lost for a couple of hours. No worries. Our misdirection intensified
the anticipation. U-turn after U-turn, passed red barn after red barn, Trump sign after
Trump sign made us sigh. The ubiquitous sight of Guernsey cows and golden horses ate grass
behind high fences. A Confederate flag symbolically said to us, You are not in the city anymore.
A road named Indian Mound next to a grassy field whispered secrets of a spiritual
but dark past. A roadkill raccoon with its insides bloodied and smeared on the yellow
lines said, Welcome to the country...
We called a guy named Bill Wilmot as it appeared on Megan's fancy phone.
The third call went straight to voice mail. Megan assumed he was probably to busy
picking grapes like we should be doing. Ugh!
III.
A town of Adell Mini Mart slash Mobile gas station off 57 was where we
finally stopped for directions. A nice brunette behind the cashier counter, ripped off
a blank receipt and wrote down new instructions. - I bought a 89 cent bag of Uncle Ray's
Cheddar & Sour Cream potato chips in the meanwhile. Slid my dollar on the counter.
Then went outside, cracked open the chips, leaned against a wooden post
and listened to autumn sing.
I came back in, walked pass all the cardboard cases of Miller Highlight
and Coors into the surprisingly clean Men's bathroom for a piss, and to get a mirror image
of my fine new haircut. - I was tempted to buy one of the huge cheap slices of fudge cake.
They costed one-seventy-five and were the size of my HEAD!...Okay, a bit to hyperbolic.
I only didn't buy one because to much sweet gives me a migraine.
III.
Apollo's lantern dimmed again the wild blue yonder. A llama farm off
Cherry Hill Road...YES, a llama farm, Not making this up fascinated us. I didn't know
Wisconsin could raise such an exotic mammal. We reached out destination.
Of course after a few more U-turns - Parked right up on little hill between a red barn
and a small German farmhouse - switched shoes from our cheap slide-ins to
a sturdy pair of dirt-gripping brogans out the trunk.
George, a middle-aged White guy, scruffy, gray-haired in a blue jean jacket
and pants nicely greeted us. I firmly shook his hand as normal courtesy. He told us grape
crops statewide have been devastated by rot, because of unusual cold weather and low rain.
Typical Wisconsin, I thought. - He handed us each a fork-shaped tool called a grape razor
and showed us how to use it. A simple process. My mind at first always tends
to complicate the small things.
We hopped in a XUV farm car and drove on the dewy grass between
a tall cornfield and grapevines to a table with yellow and blue lugs underneath.
The rows of fifty plus grapevines were so long and beautiful - Really seemed so unreal to
be there after sitting in coffee shop alone and depressed. Megan saved from my
saturnine state.
She grabbed a yellow lug and I, a blue lug one. We walked out to some
untouched rows and began to pick with no reluctance. - Disembodied calls of bird
sung ceaseless acapellas in the near woodland. We couldn't see it, but hear the spin of an
airplane's propeller. An infrequent breeze rustled and slanted the cornfields.
George was right. Some of the grapes were rotted, covered in fuss or both.
We just let those drop to the ground. - Wonderfully surprised to find ladybugs, flies
and even spiders hiding and crawling in the boytroidal bunches. We continuously
picked and picked 'til a whole lug each was filled to the top. Until our fingers and hands
were cold, numb, and of course sticky. Until another lug was filled each.
Felt so Good...
Bill finally came out and handed us three slips of paper each to write our
name, email and row number to get paid. He didn't look any different from George.
No sign of a flat-surface in sight, we chicken scratched the info against our upper leg...
and tucked them inside the lugs. Drove back to the city as Megan's Volkswagen's
seat warmers made us yawn-worthy- Benighted by 6pm sunset.
We could feel our fingers once more.
IV.
I cleansed my mind of all city toxins Milwaukee poisoned me with.
I love my home city so much no matter what. Still it felt so refreshing to barely be
around people. To not see the same ol' civilians. To not even see cars and sidewalks.
To not see the same ol' metropolitan landscapes of refurbished centuries old buildings.
To not see the same ol' coffee shops,restaurants, and art galleries...
All the things which have made me
fall in love with Milwaukee.
Instead, to be surrounded by cornfields, a llama farm, and grapevines.
I was ensorcelled in a ritual of cathartic revitalization out in Batavia, Wisconsin -
named after the Dutch East Indies capital renamed Jakarta. I'll one day maybe visit
Jakarta, Indonesia, baring grapes instead of bombs, baring this poem's words
instead of gunfire. The essence of Milwaukee will captivate me 'til then.
I can't wait to go back out there in another season...
Adrift in Batavia once again-
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Cet Australien de 28 ans, auteur présumé de l'attaque contre deux mosquées de Christchurch qui a fait au moins 49 morts, avait publié quelques instants plus tôt un manifeste où il dénonce un supposé «génocide blanc».
Pendant dix-sept minutes interminables, il a filmé et diffusé en direct sur les réseaux sociaux les images insoutenables de la tuerie. L'assaillant équipé d'armes semi-automatiques a tué au moins 49 personnes vendredi dans deux mosquées de Christchurch, en Nouvelle-Zélande. II s'agit un ressortissant australien, a confirmé le premier ministre australien, Scott Morrison. Il décrit celui-ci comme «un terroriste extrémiste de droite», sans toutefois donner plus de détails sur son identité. Un homme âgé d'une vingtaine d'années a été inculpé pour assassinat, a de son côté annoncé Mike Bush, chef de la police néo-zélandaise. Il comparaîtra samedi devant un tribunal de Christchurch.Trois autres suspects, qui font selon les autorités parties des mêmes milieux extrémistes, ont également été arrêtés.
Nouvelle-Zélande : «Il est désormais clair qu'il s'agit d'une attaque terroriste», selon la première ministre - Regarder sur Figaro Live
Les armes exhibées sur Twitter portaient des références anti-musulmanes en anglais et dans plusieurs langues d'Europe de l'Est. - Crédits photo : SOCIAL MEDIA/Twitter/via REUTERS
À croire plusieurs médias locaux, l'individu se présentait sous le nom de Brenton Tarrant sur les réseaux sociaux. Quelques instants avant la tuerie, un message anonyme a été publié sur le forum de discussion 8chan, très prisé par les suprémacistes blancs. Son auteur déclarait qu'il allait «mener une attaque contre les envahisseurs» et renvoyait notamment sur le compte Facebook de brenton.tarrant.9. Des photos présentant tout un arsenal avaient également été postées deux jours avant l'attaque sur le compte Twitter de @brentontarrant. Les armes exhibées portaient des références anti-musulmanes en anglais et dans plusieurs langues d'Europe de l'Est. Le tireur a également publié un long manifeste, qui porte la marque du Norvégien Anders Behring Breivik.
Installé depuis peu en Nouvelle-Zélande
Dans ce long texte de 87 pages, où il fait le lien entre immigration et un supposé «génocide blanc», le tireur se présente comme un «homme blanc ordinaire» et explique être né «dans une famille de la classe ouvrière ayant de faibles revenus». Brenton Tarrant, 28 ans, serait originaire de Grafton, en Nouvelle Galles du Sud. Il a travaillé en 2010 comme entraîneur personnel dans un centre de fitness de la ville. Il serait parti deux ans plus tard voyager à l'étranger. Il s'était installé depuis «relativement peu de temps» en Nouvelle-Zélande, selon les autorités néo-zélandaises. Lui-même explique dans son manifeste y être venu «pour y vivre temporairement, alors que je planifiais et me formais», assurant que ce pays n'était pas le choix initial pour son attaque.
«Cela faisait de nombreuses années que j'entendais et lisais sur l'invasion de la France par des non-Blancs»
L'auteur de la tuerie
Toujours dans ce long texte, l'assaillant révèle qu'il préparait ses funestes desseins depuis deux ans déjà. Il déclare que les moments clé de sa radicalisation furent la défaite de Marine Le Pen à la présidentielle de 2017 et une attaque au camion qui a fait cinq morts à Stockholm en avril 2017. Le titre de son manifeste, «The Great Replacement», fait d'ailleurs référence à la théorie controversée de l'écrivain d'extrême droite, Renaud Camus. «Cela faisait de nombreuses années que j'entendais et lisais sur l'invasion de la France par des non-Blancs», écrit-il. «Une fois arrivé en France, j'ai découvert que les histoires étaient non seulement vraies, mais profondément sous-estimées. Dans chaque ville française, dans chaque ville française, les envahisseurs étaient présents.»
Les musulmans représentent un peu plus de 1% de la population néo-zélandaise, selon le recensement effectué en 2013.
(Avec agences)
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Un nouvel ebook à la BNR :
Trollope Anthony - Le Domaine de Belton
Trollope Anthony – Le Domaine de Belton : Clara Amadroz , bien que fille de châtelain, est menacée de pauvreté car le château de son père doit revenir à son cousin Will Benton, riche fermier dans le Norfolk. Ce dernier propose à Clara de l’épouser mais, même si elle lui trouve beaucoup de qualités, elle lui préfère le capitaine Frédéric Aylmer, un homme distingué, membre du Parlement et tout disposé également à lui demander sa main. Finalement, Clara accepte et découvre alors la froideur de son futur mari… Et elle fait la connaissance de sa mère ! Lady Aylmer tyrannise son entourage et compte bien soumettre sa future belle-fille. Mais Clara est une jeune personne au caractère bien trempé et n’a pas l’intention de se laisser faire…
Ce texte séduit par la fine analyse des personnages, par les questions morales qu’il soulève mais aussi par son humour « so british ».
Anthony Trollope (Londres, 24 avril 1815 – Londres, 6 décembre 1882) est l’un des romanciers britanniques les plus célèbres de l’époque victorienne. Parmi les écrits de Trollope, on distingue les Chroniques du Barsetshire (en), qui tournent autour du comté imaginaire de Barsetshire, et des romans sur des sujets politiques, sociaux et sentimentaux, et aussi sur les conflits de son époque. Alec Guinness, John Major, l’économiste John Kenneth Galbraith, les écrivains Sue Grafton et Harding Lemay peuvent être comptés au nombre de ses admirateurs. (source Wikipédia.)
Téléchargements : ePUB – PDF – Kindle-MOBI – HTML – DOC/ODT
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I've made new renders for the entire cast of the story I'm writing, "All Bets are Off"! Check the new art (and some tweaked designs)!
Got any early faves? If so, I'd love to hear!
#art#oc#abao#all bets are off#mai nakano#trevor rascoe#fablei treunem#miyo hamasaki#päivi koski#taichi souji#avril grafton#kellan murley#hildryn almer#violetta pacetti#eizo koshiro#the monarchs#look at my babies#new renders
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Did some VN mock-ups last week to basically answer the question of “what if I was paid enough to actually make All Bets are Off into a visual novel?”
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ArtFight attack for @limeleight!
Also featuring my OC Avril!
I love men, Charlie, I love mennnnn
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First Day of Summer's just around the corner...
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My friend Zelia informed me it was Maid Day so I knew I had to draw Avril dressed for the occasion.
Not pictured: Trevor blushing like crazy
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To be honest, I get you, Trevor.
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Avril found one of his old shirts from his band hehehe
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That handsome devil, Avril Grafton 💜📸
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ALL BETS ARE OFF CHARACTER REFS
After so so long, I FINALLY have all the refs for the main cast of my death game passion project, All Bets are Off, completed!
All 11 Character Refs are below!
Got any early favorites? Feel free to let me know!
#art#abao#all bets are off#purepari#oc#mai nakano#trevor rascoe#fablei treunem#miyo hamasaki#päivi koski#taichi souji#avril grafton#hildryn almer#eizo koshiro#violetta pacetti#kellan murley
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