#snodgrass legacy

[commitmentissue]

a new challenger approaches . . . spring snodgrass ! the founder of the differences in the family tree challenge. i've decided to randomly choose each generation (including the extra ones) so i can try different things from my lepacy.

generation one: ghost hunter

join the ghost hunting profession 1+ point

reach the top of your career +1 point

-1 if this goal is not reached before your child(ren) are YA

master the logic skill +1 point

-1 if skill is not maxed before child(ren) are YA

catch at least thirty ghosts +1 point

convince at least ten ghosts to move on +1 point

marry and have kids +1 point

1+ per child

optional objectives:

marry a ghost 0.5+ point

have a ghost child 0.5+ point

learn ambrosia 0.5+ point

[theozma]

Axel has flat head syndrome!! My cousin's son (2nd cousin?) actually had this. I think it looks awesome. Axel dresses himself and I respect that.

sometimes it is hard to keep up with my beloved snodgrass tumblr bc their lives are so far past what i am posting and i want to post what is happening now...but i'm really trying to create some sort of story. maybe?

i'm not good at storytelling on purpose. i am great at blathering on...but idk about this!

[fantasmicmenagerie]

hellooooo lovely people! first blog post, so i thought i'd start off with pics of mine and my bsf's hogwarts legacy OCs!! in order their names are: henry harper, maximus harper, moira crowe, percival snodgrass and guinevere webb-ellis! they are a silly little friend group that we've worked hard on haha

picrew credit: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/644129

[deathropology]

Highlights + Updates!

Hello! It's been such a long time since I've posted because I am. Bad at social media :-). Either way, it is currently Rock the Clock, and there's some down time so I'll give you a highlight reel of what the rest of last term was like from episode 52-57.

Episode 52: Tokophobia - Tying back to the previous episode, we took the time to discuss the fear of pregnancy and giving birth.

Sources

Cleveland Clinic, 12 April 2022. Tokophobia (Fear of Childbirth)

Jomeen et al, 2020. Tokophobia and fear of birth: a workshop consensus statement on current issues and recommendations for future research

Kathy E. Greathouse, 2016. The "Nightmare" of Childbirth: The Prevalence and Predominant Predictor Variables for Tokophobia in American Women of Childbearing Age.

Kristina Hofberg and Ian Brockington, 2000. Tokophobia: an unreasoning dread of childbirth

Léa Poggi, 2018. When Fear of Childbirth is Pathological: The Fear Continuum

Manjeet Singh Bhatia, 2012. Tokophobia: A dread of pregnancy

Rebecca Webb et al, Sept 2021. Interventions to treat fear of childbirth in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Episode 53: The Unification Church - This episode connects back to the beginning of the school year, where we had previously discussed Shinzo Abe's death and his ties to the Unification Church. A brief unpacking of the political/religious organization.

Sources

Erin Snodgrass, 2022. Mass weddings and cult accusations: Who are the 'Moonies' and what is the Unification Church?

Alia Shoaib, 2021. A gun church that glorifies the AR-15 and is led by the son of the 'Moonies' church founder has been making alliances with far-right figures

Why I Joined, 2022. Dr. Thomas Ward: Leftist to Unificationist

Unification Thological Seminary, n.d.. Ward, Thomas J.

Yim Hyun-su, 2022. [KH Explains] What is Unification Church and why is it controversial?

John Gorenfeld, 2022. Bad Moon Rising

John Gorenfeld, 21 June 2004. Hail to the Moon king

Congressman Danny K. Davis, n.d..

Lisa Kohn, 20 August 2018. I grew up in a cult — and there is nothing more intoxicating than knowing you have the 'Truth'

Thisanka Siripala, 15 September 2022. Japan and the Controversial Unification Church

Episode 54: Midwestern Mormonism - Keeping to the topic of religion, I wanted to make sure we did an episode about Mormonism in between The Brobecks and IDKHOW episodes, lol. This episode is more specifically about how some Mormons are starting to move back to the midwest.

Sources

KBIA, 31 January 2012. Mormons returning to northwest Missouri, 174 years after 'extermination order'

Pew Research, n.d.. Mormons - Religion in America

Church of Jesus Christ Wikia, 2023. United States List of Stakes of the Church

History, 7 October 2021. Mormons

James T. Duke, n.d.. Eternal Marriage

Mormon Wiki, 28 April 2021. Eternal Progression

BBC, 8 October 2009. Baptism for the Dead

American Experience, n.d.. Polygamy and the Church: A History

Brooke Crum, 21 July 2013. Mormon church to end door-to-door missionary practice

Rachel McRady, 12 December 2022. 'Sister Wives' Guide: Everything to Know About Kody Brown's Wives, Children and Who Is Legally Married

Episode 55: Organ Donation - A more fundamental-style episode, Jeffrey and I talked about how Americans can sign up to have their organs donated as well as being sure to make your wishes known to your family, friends, or both. Communication is key! A few weeks after this episode came the fed's big investigation into UNOS, which is quite unfortunate timing on our end, but hopefully there can be more equity in our donation process moving forward.

Sources

UNOS, n.d.. The history of organ donation and transplantation

One Legacy, n.d.. Organ Donation Step by Step

ISOS, n.d.. Illinois Organ/Tissue Donor Registry

Iowa Donor Network

Maggie Koerth, 3 April 2019. Our Organ Donation System Is Unfair. The Solution Might Be Too.

A.P., 9 March 2022. A man who got the 1st pig heart transplant has died after 2 months

Hanae Armitage, 30 August 2022. Stanford Medicine researchers take early, critical step toward growing organs

Episode 56: The Long History of Fanfiction - This is Jeffrey's solo episode for the term! I hope tumblr can take to this one as well :-).

Sources - Waiting on Jeffrey, will amend this post ASAP!

Episode 57: IDKHOW and Reincarnation... - I know this one could probably use its own post, especially because it seems to be the most relevant to tumblr's interest, but it would be unfair to separate my solo work out again I think you know? This episode starts off where I ended The Brobecks episode from last term. It was recorded JUST BEFORE some of the recent drama, there was very little evidence at the time I had presented this. Oh how cruel time can be...

Sources

Ryan Seaman and Friends, May 2022. Anthony Purpura

Genius Lyrics, n.d.. I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

TELLEXX, n.d.. Stress Evaluation

iDKHOW LORE, n.d..

Twitter, 21 October 2018. SRCH PRTY

The Brobecks, 2012. Quiet Title

Instagram, n.d.. iDK HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Instagram, n.d.. Dallon Weekes

Instagram, 18 February 2023. 2nd album recording announcement

P.S. Here's a thing I intended to have for the IDKHOW solo post before winter quarter killed my soul...

[justforbooks]

Robert Bly: Influential American poet with an abiding interest in mysticism and the nature of masculinity

In 1986 the New York Times review of Robert Bly’s Selected Poems was headlined “Minnesota Transcendentalist”. It was perceptive to note his link with the New England poets of the 19th century, which was strong, but within a few years it would look absolutely prescient. For although he was one of the outstanding poets of his generation, Bly, who has died aged 94, may be remembered, like the two most enduring of the original Transcendentalists, for facets of his work other than poetry.

Just as Ralph Waldo Emerson’s legacy is as an essayist, the influence of Bly’s essays on poetic theory and his many translations have resonated with readers and his fellow poets. But Bly is more likely to be seen as a 20th-century parallel to Henry David Thoreau. Like Thoreau, he made his mark with civil disobedience, and later with a hugely popular prose work concerned with the denaturing effects of civilisation.

Bly’s early poetry in the 60s was his best, although its quality was often subsumed by controversy surrounding his anti-war positions. In 1966, he co-founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War. The following year, when he won the National Book award for The Light Around the Body, he donated the prize money to draft resistance. But his entire poetic career was thrown into the shadows by the remarkable success of Iron John: A Book About Men (1990).

A meditation on his vision of American manhood being torn from its natural roots because fathers fail to initiate their sons properly into masculinity, Iron John spawned a movement combining encounter-group sensitivity with primal tree-hugging survivalism. Yet with his imagistic, often spiritual, poetry, his deep interests in mysticism, his rustic dress and his nasal, high-pitched voice, Bly often seemed an unlikely prophet of masculinity.

Bly called his poetic technique “deep image”, and his highly visual, quietly surreal poems, often in rural settings, reflected his upbringing in Scandinavian-settled Minnesota. He was born in Lac qui Parle county, where his parents, Alice (nee Aws) and Jacob Bly, Norwegian immigrants, were farmers. At 18, after graduating from high school in Madison, he enlisted in the US navy.

Discharged in 1946, he enrolled at St Olaf’s College in Northfield, Minnesota, but after a year transferred to Harvard, where he joined a precocious group of undergraduate writers, including John Ashbery, Richard Wilbur, John Hawkes, George Plimpton and, at Radcliffe, Adrienne Rich. It was at Harvard that he read a poem by WB Yeats, and resolved to “be a poet for the rest of my life”.

After graduation in 1950, he moved to New York, writing and struggling to support himself with a succession of menial jobs and meagre disability payments for the rheumatic fever he contracted while in the navy.

In 1954, he returned to the midwest, as a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s writers’ programme, teaching to pay his way. Again he found himself in a writer’s hothouse; his fellow students included Philip Levine, Donald Justice and WD Snodgrass, with Robert Lowell and John Berryman on the faculty. The proliferation of creative writing programmes on American campuses today owes much to the collective success of this group, the level of which, it could be argued, has never been repeated.

He married the writer Carol McLean in 1955, and returned to Minnesota. The next year, he received a Fulbright grant to travel to Norway to translate poetry. There he discovered not only such Swedish poets as Tomas Tranströmer, Gunnar Ekelöf and Harry Martinson, but also, in translation, other writers relatively unknown in English: Georg Trakl, Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo. His translations of Tranströmer continued throughout both their careers, and the affinity between their poetry makes these some of the most effective ever done.

On his return to America, Bly started a magazine to publish such writers. The Fifties, co-edited with William Duffy, would change its name decade by decade, and had an immense effect on American poetry, defining the deep image style. Through the magazine, Bly became close to a similarly inclined poet, James Wright, and with him translated Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl (1961). He also translated Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger from the Norwegian in 1967.

Deep image arose from the way the poets Bly admired drew on almost subconscious imagery, yet used it in a very deliberate way. He called it “leaping” poetry, once describing it as surrealism with a centre holding it all together. Out of these influences, in 1962, came Bly’s first book of poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields, whose bonding with the countryside would be echoed by later generations of creative writing professors in poems about chopping wood in denim shirts. But in Bly’s hands, the quiet of the northern landscape provided a deep, personal beauty. It was an immediate success, and led to a Guggenheim fellowship.

Those poems gave no hint of the despair that became evident in The Light Around the Body, which not only reflected his feelings about the Vietnam war, but also his years of struggle in New York. They drew on the same imagery as his first book, but used it in a far more ferocious way. Studying Jung’s theories of mythic archetypes led to Bly’s mixing them into his politics in Sleepers Joining Hands (1973), whose long poem, The Teeth Mother Naked at Last‚ is a powerful condemnation of war as an affront to the Great Mother Culture. He placed a long essay, I Came Out of the Mother Naked‚ at the centre of this book, and prose poems would soon become an integral part of his poetics, culminating in This Body Is Made of Camphor and Gopher Wood (1977).

After a divorce from Carol in 1979, in 1980 he married Ruth Ray, a Jungian psychologist, and moved to Moose Lake, Minnesota. He began working with men’s and women’s groups, producing books of poetry that reflected the transactional experience, most notably the love poems in Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (1985).

After PBS Television’s Bill Moyers produced a documentary, A Gathering of Men, about those men’s groups, Iron John became an immediate bestseller. It was followed by The Sibling Society (1996), which lamented the “perpetual adolescence of modern American men”, and The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (with Marion Woodman, 1998). At the same time his translations expanded to include the 15th-century Sufi mystic Kabir and the Urdu poet Ghalib. Bly encapsulated his poetic career in the moving Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (1994) and Morning Poems (1997), and published his second “selected poems” collection, Eating the Honey of Words, in 1999. The US invasion of Iraq inspired the collection The Insanity of Empire (2004).

In 2013 Airmail, selections from Bly’s decades of correspondence with Tranströmer, was published in English. It revealed both a deep friendship and a contrast in the way the poetry of this homespun American mystic and the Swedish psychologist made its “leaps”. Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected and New Poems was published in the same year, and a last Collected Poems appeared in 2018.

Bly is survived by Ruth, by four children, Mary, Bridget, Micah and Noah, from his first marriage, and by nine grandchildren.

🔔 Robert Elwood Bly, poet and writer, born 23 December 1926; died 21 November 2021

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[jkottke]

Star Trek: Progressive, Sexist, or Both?

For io9, Eleanor Tremeer digs into the complex and sexist legacy in Star Trek's progressive universe. From Uhuru on, Star Trek has always pushed the boundaries of how women were portrayed on TV, particularly in science fiction, but in some aspects, the shows have also been undeniably sexist.

With Yar gone, the women of The Next Generation fit more snugly into classic feminine molds, as Marina Sirtis reminisces. "They got it right, they cast a woman as the security chief. But Denise left, and the two remaining women were in caring professions. So it was ok to be on a spaceship as a woman, but you had to be a nurturer." Speaking to io9, Gates McFadden (Crusher) is scathing about the few times the women would be thrown together, not to work together, but to gossip. "If the ladies did have a scene together we were dressed up in leotards talking about men. We weren't sharing opinions on a medical issue!"

Over the ensuing years, Troi and Crusher would slowly get more screen time, as their characters became more nuanced, but they would rarely get the chance to break out of their nurturer molds. And with Crosby gone, security chief wasn't the only position that needed filling. "I was never supposed to be the chick on the show, the va-va-voom. That was supposed to be Denise," Sirtis told us. For as progressive as Star Trek tried to be with its women, every show has something in common: There has to be a hot chick.

To understand why this was the case, you have to look behind the scenes and at who was making the casting and plotting decisions.

If the entertainment industry is dominated by men now, this was even more the case decades ago. Star Trek has had a few female writers and producers over the years-DC Fontana wrote for The Original Series, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine; Jeri Taylor got her start producing The Next Generation before co-creating Voyager, to name just two immensely influential staffers. But, as Sirtis points out, Star Trek was a franchise created by men: "Even though we were writing a show about the 24th century, apart from Jeri Taylor and Melinda Snodgrass [another writer], the writers and producers were all men. Twentieth-century men. So it's not gonna be that far-reaching."

We could argue, of course, that Star Trek was a product of its era, but the actors were aware, at the time, that the show could be better. This aggravated Gates McFadden, as early as season one of The Next Generation, as she revealed to io9. "I wondered, did the women exist for the men to react to? Even Wesley just reacted to his mother, not seeking out her counsel-for counsel he sought out the men on the ship." Coming from academia, McFadden was used to a collaborative creative environment, but she didn't encounter that behind the scenes of The Next Generation. "Jonathan Frakes could bound into the producer's office and put his feet up, but I couldn't. That wasn't acceptable."

I'm rewatching The Next Generation right now and have been paying a lot of attention to how the women on the show (both the recurring cast and various single-episode characters) are portrayed. There's definitely improvement after the first season or two, but there's just so much on the show that's off and obviously written primarily by and for men.

Anyway, if you're a Star Trek fan at all, you should read Tremeer's whole piece.

[mccraylegacy]

Lark and Poppy have hired a moving truck to take all their things to Josef’s and have gone to his place together for good. Poppy is looking extremely thrilled that she’ll officially be living with both of her parents but Lark and Josef... not so much. Josef I think is kind of freaking out about losing his independence and Lark is just hoping that this works out and they can handle living together.

[theeverlastingshade]

A few weeks ago Neil Young released a previously shelved record titled Homegrown, that was initially recorded between his masterful fifth LP, On the Beach, and it's terrific follow-up, Tonight's the Night. Highlight "Star of Bethlehem" sounds like an instant classic in the Young cannon as Neil's tender yelp encircles jangly acoustic guitar strums and a lumbering tom/snare rhythm that provides plenty of pockets of space for his voice to sprawl. Young's voice is joined here by the vocals of Emmylou Harris, and her honeyed tone complements his voice superbly while heightening the contrasting rasp inherent in his delivery. The two of them sing a bleak ballad that touches on the worst of human nature to close out the record "All your dreams and lovers won't protect you/They're only passing through you in the end/They'll leave you stripped of all that they can get to/And wait for you to come back again" and yet they harmonize with one another as in if transfixed in a state of bliss.

Homegrown is the soundtrack to Young's disintegrating relationship with Carrie Snodgrass, and there's a melancholic undercurrent coursing through these warm folk compositions offset by the plethora of exceptional melodies that mark Homegrown as the true sequel to OtB. Midway through both vocals slip out of the mix and Young dips into a breezy, melodically rich harmonica solo. While nothing on Homegrown sounds unprecedented or particularly surprising, the record as a whole certainly lives up to it's reputation as the missing link connecting Young's burnout folk beginnings to his electric heartland rock middle period. Homegrown won't alter Young's legacy much, but it cements just how vital Young's mid-70s output was. Young would go on to release several exceptional records throughout his career, but never again would he tap into such a sublime blend of sincerity, wisdom, and youthful zeal. Homegrown may be a relic of it's time, but it also sounds simultaneously out of time itself, enveloped with the glow of an autumn golden hour and the pang of a soured relationship.

[freehealthteacher]

Promoting earth's legacy delivers local economic benefits

Promoting earth’s legacy delivers local economic benefits

Shiprock, a volcanic neck named for its resemblance to a ship’s silhouette, is a popular geotourism attraction in northwestern New Mexico. Photo taken Nov. 29, 2006. Credit: Credit Bowie Snodgrass. CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shiprock.snodgrass3.jpg

For iconic landscapes such as Grand Canyon or the Appalachian Mountains,…

[un-enfant-immature]

Yellowbrick Data raises $81M Series C for hybrid data warehouse

There’s lots of data in the world these days, and there are a number of companies vying to store that data in data warehouses or lakes or whatever they choose to call it. Old school companies have tended to be on prem, while new ones like Snowflake are strictly in the cloud. Yellowbrick Data wants to play the hybrid angle, and today it got a healthy $81 million Series C to continue its efforts.

The round was led by DFJ Growth with help from Next47, Third Point Ventures, Menlo Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Threshold Ventures and Samsung. New investors joining the round included IVP and BMW i Ventures. Today’s investment brings the total raised to a brisk $173 million.

Yellowbrick sees a world that many of the public cloud vendors like Microsoft and Google see, one where enterprise companies will be living in a hybrid world where some data and applications will stay on prem and some in the cloud. They believe this situation will be in place for the foreseeable future, so its product plays to that hybrid angle, where your data can be on prem or in the cloud.

The company did not want to discuss valuation in spite of the high amount of raised dollars. Neither did it want to discuss revenue growth rates, other than to say that it was growing at a healthy rate.

Randy Glein, partner at DFJ Growth, did say one of the things that attracted his company to invest in Yellowbrick was its momentum along with the technology, which in his view, provides a more modern way to build data warehouses. “Yellowbrick is quickly providing a new generation of ultra-high performance data warehouse capabilities for large enterprises. The technology is a step function improvement on every dimension compared to legacy solutions, helping modern enterprises digest and interpret massive data workloads in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost,” he said in a statement.

It’s interesting that a company with just 100 employees would require this kind of money, but as company COO Jason Snodgrass told TechCrunch, it costs a lot of money to build out a data warehouse. He’s not wrong. Snowflake, a company that’s building a cloud data warehouse, has raised almost a billion dollars.

[commitmentissue]

bridgeport morning

[shiro-absence]

Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children. 　 Early life and family[edit] Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Churchill Harvey. She had two older sisters, Jane Elizabeth Harvey (born 1923) and Blanche Dingley Harvey (born 1925). She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school, Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School.[1] For a time she modeled for Boston's Hart Agency. On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Muller Sexton II and they remained together until 1973.[2][3] She had two children named Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd. 　 　 Poetry[edit] Sexton suffered from severe mental illness for much of her life, her first manic episode taking place in 1954. After a second episode in 1955 she met Dr. Martin Orne, who became her long-term therapist at the Glenside Hospital. It was Dr. Orne who encouraged her to take up poetry.[4] 　 The first poetry workshop she attended was led by John Holmes. Sexton felt great trepidation about registering for the class, asking a friend to make the phone call and accompany her to the first session. She found early acclaim with her poetry; a number were accepted by The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and the Saturday Review. Sexton later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University alongside distinguished poets Sylvia Plath and George Starbuck.[3][5] 　 Sexton's poetic career was encouraged by her mentor W.D. Snodgrass, whom she met at the Antioch Writer's Conference in 1957. His poem "Heart's Needle" proved inspirational for her in its theme of separation from his three-year-old daughter.[6] Sexton first read the poem at a time when her own young daughter was living with her mother-in-law. She, in turn, wrote "The Double Image", a poem which explores the multi-generational relationship between mother and daughter. Sexton began writing letters to Snodgrass and they became friends. 　 While working with John Holmes, Sexton encountered Maxine Kumin. They became good friends and remained so for the rest of Sexton's life. Kumin and Sexton rigorously critiqued each other's work and wrote four children's books together. In the late 1960s, the manic elements of Sexton's illness began to affect her career, though she still wrote and published work and gave readings of her poetry. She collaborated with musicians, forming a jazz-rock group called "Her Kind" that added music to her poetry. Her play Mercy Street, starring Marian Seldes, was produced in 1969, after several years of revisions.[7] Sexton also collaborated with the artist Barbara Swan, who illustrated several of her books.[8] 　 Within twelve years of writing her first sonnet, she was one of the most honored poets in America: a Pulitzer Prize winner, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the first female member of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.[9][10] 　 Content and themes of work[edit] Sexton is seen as the modern model of the confessional poet. Maxine Kumin described Sexton's work: "She wrote openly about menstruation, abortion, masturbation, incest, adultery, and drug addiction at a time when the proprieties embraced none of these as proper topics for poetry."[12] Sexton's work towards the end of the sixties has been criticized as "preening, lazy and flip" by otherwise respectful critics.[9] Some critics regard her dependence on alcohol as compromising her last work. However, other critics see Sexton as a poet whose writing matured over time. "Starting as a relatively conventional writer, she learned to roughen up her line. ... to use as an instrument against the 'politesse' of language, politics, religion [and] sex."[13] 　 Her eighth collection of poetry is entitled The Awful Rowing Toward God. The title came from her meeting with a Roman Catholic priest who, although unwilling to administer last rites, told her "God is in your typewriter." This gave the poet the desire and willpower to continue living and writing. The Awful Rowing Toward God and The Death Notebooks are among her final works, and both center on the theme of dying.[14] 　 Her work started out as being about herself, however as her career progressed she made periodic attempts to reach outside the realm of her own life for poetic themes.[15][15] Transformations (1971), which is a revisionary re-telling of Grimm's Fairy Tales, is one such book.[16] (Transformations was used as the libretto for the 1973 opera of the same name by American composer Conrad Susa.) Later she used Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno and the Bible as the basis for some of her work.[17] 　 Much has been made of the tangled threads of her writing, her life and her depression, much in the same way as with Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich and Denise Levertov commented in separate obituaries on the role of creativity in Sexton's death. Levertov says, "We who are alive must make clear, as she could not, the distinction between creativity and self-destruction."[5] 　 Subsequent controversy[edit] Following one of many suicide attempts and manic or depressive episodes, Sexton worked with therapist Dr. Martin Orne.[9] He diagnosed her with what is now described as bipolar disorder, but his competence to do so is called into question by his early use of allegedly unsound psychotherapeutic techniques.[18] During sessions with Anne Sexton he used hypnosis and sodium pentothal to recover supposedly repressed memories. During this process, he allegedly used suggestion to uncover memories of having been abused by her father.[19] This abuse was disputed in interviews with her mother and other relatives.[20] Dr. Orne wrote that hypnosis in an adult frequently does not present accurate memories of childhood; instead, "adults under hypnosis are not literally reliving their early childhoods but presenting them through the prisms of adulthood."[21] According to Dr. Orne, Anne Sexton was extremely suggestible and would mimic the symptoms of the patients around her in the mental hospitals to which she was committed. The Diane Middlebrook biography states that a separate personality named Elizabeth emerged in Sexton while under hypnosis. Dr. Orne did not encourage this development and subsequently this "alternate personality" disappeared. Dr. Orne eventually concluded that Anne Sexton was suffering from hysteria.[4] During the writing of the Middlebrook biography, Linda Gray Sexton stated that she had been sexually assaulted by her mother.[19][22] In 1994, Linda Gray Sexton published her autobiography, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, which includes her own accounts of the abuse.[23][24] 　 Middlebrook published her controversial biography of Anne Sexton with the approval of Linda Gray Sexton, Anne's literary executor.[4] For use in the biography, Dr. Orne had given Diane Middlebrook most of the tapes recording the therapy sessions between Orne and Anne Sexton. The use of these tapes was met with, as The New York Times put it, "thunderous condemnation."[9] Middlebrook received the tapes after she had written a substantial amount of the first draft of Sexton's biography, and decided to start over. Although Linda Gray Sexton collaborated with the Middlebrook biography, other members of the Sexton family were divided over the book, publishing several editorials and op-ed pieces, in The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review. 　 Controversy continued with the posthumous public release of the tapes (which had been subject to doctor-patient confidentiality). They are said to reveal Sexton's inappropriate behavior with her daughter Linda, her physically violent behavior toward both her daughters, and her physical altercations with her husband.[22] 　 Yet more controversy surrounded allegations that Anne Sexton had an affair with the therapist who replaced Dr. Orne in the 1960s.[25] No action was taken to censure or discipline the second therapist. Dr. Orne considered the affair with the second therapist (given the pseudonym "Ollie Zweizung" by Middlebrook and Linda Sexton) to be the catalyst that eventually resulted in her suicide.[5] 　 Legacy and tributes[edit] Peter Gabriel dedicated his song "Mercy Street", from his 1986 album So, to Sexton.[26] She has been described as a "personal touchstone" for Morrissey, former lead singer and lyricist of The Smiths.[27] She is commemorated on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.[28] 　 In other media[edit] In James Ellroy's 1987 novel The Black Dahlia, the epigraph is "Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, My first lost keeper, to love and look at later." The passage is from Sexton's 1962 poem All My Pretty Ones. 　 In Kidnap Kid's unreleased track(ID-ID) on Above & Beyond's Group Therapy Guest mix Episode 226 you can find Ann Sexton reciting the poem "The Truth the Dead Know. "[29] 　 　 Sexton's works[edit] 　 Poetry and prose (collections and novels)[edit] Uncompleted Novel-started in the 1960s To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) The Starry Night (1961) All My Pretty Ones (1962) Selected Poems (London, 1964) No equivalent US edition Live or Die (1966) – Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967 Love Poems (1969) Mercy Street, a 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969), published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Transformations (1971) ISBN 0-618-08343-X The Book of Folly (1972) The Death Notebooks (1974) The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975; posthumous) 45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous) Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (1977; posthumous) Words for Dr.. (1978; posthumous) No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews and Prose, edited by Steven E. Colburn (1985; posthumous) Children's books[edit] all co-written with Maxine Kumin 　 1963 Eggs of Things (illustrated by Leonard Shortall) 1964 More Eggs of Things (illustrated by Leonard Shortall) 1974 Joey and the Birthday Present (illustrated by Evaline Ness) 1975 The Wizard's Tears (illustrated by Evaline Ness)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sexton

[olivereliott]

Custom Bikes Of The Week: 19 April, 2020

It’s all about Honda this week, with a CB900 Bol d’Or from Spain, an Elsinore from Australia, and a Shadow 500 from Arkansas. Plus a new Lego Technics x Ducati kit from Denmark, if you’ve got a little time on your hands .

Honda MT250 Elsinore by Fossick Moto The MT250 Elsinore was Honda’s first foray into purpose-built two stroke scramblers. It made waves then and it’s iconic today—so it’s nice to see a restoration that lives up to the legacy. And this one from Fossick Moto in Sydney, Australia, certainly does.

Steve at Fossick has a soft spot for the Elsinore, citing the simplicity of the two-stroke motor and the no-nonsense dirt bike styling as its strong points. His Elsinore is more resto than mod… but it does have a few neat custom touches.

On the one hand, Steve spent much of the project cleaning and polishing OEM bolts to better-than-new standards. And he even color-matched the motor to the original hue, and kept the bulky stock clocks. But he swapped out the bars, grips, cables for modern items, and replaced the turn signals with discreet LED units.

The seat’s a custom job too, and the Honda’s bulky stock tail light is gone. It’s also got wider footpegs and new rear shocks, and a coat of satin black on the exhaust’s expansion chamber. Every last inch of this classic scrambler has been cleaned and polished, and every last perishable item replaced. It’s a great refresh that doesn’t try too hard, leaning into the Elsinore’s enduring appeal instead. [More]

Honda CB900 Bol d’Or by Señor Motorcycles 80s muscle bikes are great, but they can be even greater with the right upgrades. This CB900 Bol d’Or belongs to Nacho Fernández at Señor Motorcycles in Spain, and he seems to have found the magic formula.

His CB900 is sporting a Suzuki GSX-R1100 front end, fitted by installing a new stem in the Suzuki triple clamps. The rear shocks are from YSS, and the wheels are gold 17” Honda VTR SP01 items, shod with Metzeler Roadtec Z8 tires. Nacho used the GSX-R and VTR brakes at the front and back respectively, matched to Honda CBR600 controls via braided hoses.

There’s no major engine work here, because Nacho was more than happy with the Honda’s stock performance and character. So he just added pod filters, tuned the carbs, and installed a burly four-into-four aftermarket exhaust system.

There are some changes to the bodywork, but they all maintain that cracking 80s bruiser vibe. The fairing and boxy tail section are custom, as is the seat. Other upgrades include LSL clip-ons, a Motogadget speedo and a slick silver and gold paint job. [More]

Honda Shadow 500 by One-Up Moto Garage Art Henschell at One-Up Moto Garage in Arkansas has a unique eye, and isn’t afraid to cut into less-than-ideal donors. For this project he picked a 1984 Honda Shadow 500. Old Shadows are cool in a sort of quirky Japanese chopper way—but they don’t exactly have the cleanest lines.

One-Up’s bikes are usually tough to pigeonhole into one style, and this Honda is no exception. Art started by building a new subframe and seat, then vapor-blasted the motor to a raw aluminum finish while the frame was in for powder-coating. The motor had some work done too; new gaskets, some valve work and a clutch overhaul.

The front end was lowered, and the rear boosted with a set of Progressive Suspension shocks. The wheels are 18” Honda Ascot hoops—painted charcoal silver and vapor-blasted for a contrast effect. Art fabricated the snaking pie-cut stainless steel exhaust headers himself, terminating them in a pair of Lossa Engineering mufflers.

Several other parts were drawn up and sent to a third party to be CNC machined, including the top yoke, rear set mounts and the plate behind the triangular headlight. The tank paint was a collaboration between Art and Eric Snodgrass, who added the silver leaf logos and pin striping details. The parts list is rounded out with new bars, grips and mirrors, and an iPhone for a speedo. [More]

Lego Ducati Panigale V4 R If you’re not quite liquid enough to afford the extremely desirable 230 hp Ducati Panigale V4 R, but still want to park one at your abode, this might just be the next best thing. Everybody’s favorite Danish toy company is about to release a 12” long, 6” tall model of the eye-watering superbike.

The 646-piece set forms part of Lego’s mechanically focused Technics line, and that means you can expect a lot of moving parts. The Lego Panigale has suspension that goes up and down, a ‘chain,’ and a working two-speed gearbox. There’s also a faux dry clutch, brake discs, a kickstand and a paddock stand.

It has some pretty killer details too—like a ‘dashboard’ (which is basically just a sticker), and an accurate set of decals.

If you’re tickled, you’ll need to wait a bit though—this set only goes on sale in June in Europe (at €60) and in August in the USA (at $70). And you can buy it via either Ducati or Lego’s official channels. [Via]

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Manuel Pellegrini hopes West Ham’s new claret carpet helps improve on-pitch performances

West Ham's job on the new West Ham claret carpet helps improve pitch results: & # 39; I think it's a good idea is to have the color of our club & # 39; on Leicester at home in the Premier League on Saturday

This week the Hammers rolled out an Bordeaux carpet in club colors

Manuel Pellegrini is ] Published: 00:42 BST, April 19, 2019 | Manuel Pellegrini hopes for some magic from West Ham's new £ 250,000 claret carpet against Leicester on Saturday

After a long period ] Legacy Development Corporation, West Ham has rolled out a Bordeauxt carpet in club colors this week and Pellegrini expects the change to be more than decorative.

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West Ham has rolled out a Bordeaux carpet in club colors this week at London Stadium

& I did not see it, but I will see it Friday & he said. & # 39; that it is a good idea to have the color of our club, so I think it is an improvement. It will help with aesthetics, but it will help to determine the pitch. "

Pellegrini revealed Thursday that he will continue to pick Robert Snodgrass while the club waits for written reasons from the FA for his ban on one game

The midfielder was found guilty of making a inappropriate comment to a tester, although the club has been stressed that he has not been selected for testing, nor has he refused to make a test

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Snodgrass has denied making the comments and his suspension will only become active if written reasons have been given and the club has had a chance to consider an appeal.

Pellegrini said: & # 39; Robert will be available. He kept saying he didn't say anything. It's so hard to know who is telling the truth. I trust the player, but I don't believe the man who comes out of the doping system is lying. It's hard to know. But I believe in my player. "

Meanwhile, Jack Wilshere is almost just after his first performance since December after ankle problems. Pellegrini said: & # 39; We'll see it on Friday. We'll see how it feels. I played one game for the promises , so we'll talk to him, but it will be fast this week or next week. He will play before the end of this season. & # 39;

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Episode 16  3-31-18

This week’s show is a special one. My old friend Brian Keating drove up from Boulder to help DJ. Earlier in the week we hung out and assembled the ingredients. It starts with Drive-By Truckers and ends with Elvis Presley. Everything in between is fair game.

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Lester Young “Lester Leaps in” from Complete-Volume on Blue Moon Import

Drive-by Truckers “The Living Bubba” from It's Great To Be Alive! on ATO

Neil Young “Tell My Why” from After the Gold Rush on Reprise

Donny Hathaway “Jealous guy” from Live on Atco

Jon Snodgrass “Perfect Match” from Carpet Thief 7" on Snodgrass

Counting Crows “Catapult” from Recovering The Satellites on Atlantic

Etta James “If I Can't Have You” from At Last! on Chess

Jimi Hendrix “Ain't No Tellin'” from Axis: Bold as Love on Warner?

The Kinky Fingers “Spider Walking” from Garbage Plate on Self-released

Cleo Page “Goodie Train” from Goodie Train on Goodie Train

RL. Burnside “Poor Black Mattie” from Mississippi Delta Blues Vol. 2 on Arhoolie

Dolly Parton “The Bargin Store” from 16 bigest hits on Legacy

JD McPherson “jubilee” from Undivided Heart & Soul on New West Records

J.B.'s “Pass the peas” from Food For Thought on UM Japan

Lauryn Hill “Doo Wop (That Thing)” from The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill on Ruffhouse

Big Mama Thornton “Just Can't Help Myself” from She's Back on Backbeat

Box Tops “I Met Her In Church” from The Best Of The Box Tops: Soul Deep on Arista

Mountain Goats “Dance music” from The Sunset Tree on 4AD

Whitney “No Woman” from Light Upon the Lake on Secretly Canadian

Micah Schnabel “Blame It On Geography” from I'm Dead Serious on Micah Schnabel

Justin Wells “The Dogs” from Dawn In the Distance on August Music

Rolling Stones “Memphis, Tennessee” from Rolling Stones Greatest Hits Vol 1 on abkco

Ramones “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” from Ramones on Sire

Supremes “This Old Heart Of Mine” from 20 Best hits of the 60s on Madacy Entertainment

Jerry Lee Lewis “Let's Talk About Us” from Jerry Lee Lewis - Sun Essentials on Licensemusic.com

Hold Steady “your little hood rat friend” from Separation Sunday on Frenchkiss

Swamp Dogg “Did I Come Back Too Soon” from Have You Heard This Story on Island

Doris Day “Close Your Eyes” from Here's Doris Day on disky communications

Beatles “It's all too much” from Beatles 1967-1970 on Apple

RL Cole “I Have Seen The Light Come Shining” from Money For The Milkman on Self-released

Elvis Presley “I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone” from I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone