![]() Because, as Yesterday’s Perfume blogger Barbara Herman so aptly states in her book Scent & Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, “Perfume’s power is that it has one foot in the elevated world of language, and one foot in the primal, emotional, visceral, and dreamlike.” They say what I really want to say, in a cut-to-the-chase, non-HR-involving language. That’s when I reach for Bottega Veneta, or Dior Poison, or Jean Patou Joy. I also wear perfume when I can’t pile on enough cashmere, or black eyeliner, or gin flasks to keep up with my mood. I have an answer ready: It’s a piece of art that you get to carry with you all day instead of leaving on/above the mantle. ![]() ![]() Once or twice a year, someone will ask why I’m so fascinated with perfume - or, more bluntly, why I’m willing to pay more than $100 for a bottle. ![]()
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![]() It is notoriously difficult to comprehend, and even harder to articulate. The concept of emotion is a particularly evasive one. The book addresses issues such as moods and emotions, envy, fight or flight responses, the concept of art, and making mistakes. The difficult situations in which Alexander finds himself and his way of dealing with them are what makes this book ripe for philosophical discussion. He wakes up with gum in his hair, doesn’t get a seat by the window during carpool, doesn’t get dessert in his lunch, is rebuffed by his friends on the playground, has to get a cavity fixed at the dentist, and has to eat lima beans for dinner. Judith Viorst’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, follows Alexander through a rather trying day. ![]() Read aloud video Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion All kids experience this type of day and will be glad to find they are not alone! At the end of his rough day, Alexander learns some days are just like that. ![]() Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary How might we ethically deal with difficult situations and even more difficult emotions?įrom the moment Alexander wakes up, everything goes wrong! He wakes up with gum in his hair, fights with his friends, and has to eat lima beans for dinner. ![]() ![]() She wants to know how Day escaped the labor camp he was sent to at age ten, where records say he died of smallpox. Day accuses her of killing his mother, and June apologizes, adding that she didn’t intend to kill any civilians. Day admits he threw a knife that hit Metias in the shoulder, but he is positive that he didn’t kill him. When June asks him about the hospital raid, he confesses that he robbed the hospital but insists that he didn’t kill Metias, even when June threatens to cut off John’s fingers. ![]() Day confesses to many of his crimes, most of which involved helping other people. June interrogates him, threatening to torture John and Eden if he lies to her. Although Day hates her, he also finds her breathtaking. She has lost her street urchin disguise and is back in her military uniform. Commander Jameson checks in on him briefly, and then June enters. He is in agonizing pain from his leg wound. ![]() ![]() ![]() Talbot knowingly chooses to work in a European, predominantly English, tradition. It's a tradition dating at least from ancient Egypt, which gives us such 20th-century favourites as Tiger Tim, Korky the Cat and, of course, the enduring characters from The Wind in the Willows and Winnie the Pooh. ![]() Their inhabitants of Nutwood included Percy the Pug, Bill the Badger and Edward the Elephant, all drawn to the same human scale. That said, Talbot's animal characters owe more to British artists such as Tourtel and Bestall, who drew the Rupert stories. With his superb graphic novel Grandville, published last year, he extended his range to include references to the mid-19th-century French artist JJ Grandville, best known for his anthropomorphic representations of animals. Talbot's storytelling, as well as his draughtsmanship, has grown steadily more assured and subtle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was originally based on a TV documentary film called Poisonous Women, which was released in 2003. It first aired in 2005 on the Discovery Channel. ( Update timer)ĭeadly Women is an American documentary television series focusing on true crime, specifically female killers. ![]() This article was last edited by Levi Rinno ( talk | contribs) 0 seconds ago. Click on the link for template parameters to use. If you are the editor who added this template and you are actively editing, please be sure to replace this template with during the active editing session. If this article or section has not been edited in several days, please remove this template. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well. This article or section is being created, or is in the process of extensive expansion or major restructuring. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Against her better judgment and arguments, Chyna reluctantly agrees to accompany her coworker, Laura Templeton ( Deanna Milligan ), home for Thanksgiving. Her job’s transactional nature offers her the desired amount of social interaction without having to forge deeper relationships. She’s comfortable keeping a wall up between herself and everyone around her, which makes her waitress job ideal. Intensity follows Chyna Sheperd ( Molly Parker ), a loner with a twisted childhood full of abuse and neglect. Based on Dean Koontz’s 1995 novel, this psychological thriller leans into its Thanksgiving setting while going long on the propulsive cat-and-mouse game between a killer and his unwitting prey. But there’s one glaring omission from the annual Thanksgiving horror discussion: 1997’s made-for-TV movie, Intensity. The pool of Thanksgiving horror movies is relatively shallow, with only a handful of requisite titles -like Blood Rage or ThanksKilling – popping up every year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an original and compelling theoretical argument, Brown explains how and why neoliberal reason undoes the political form and political imaginary it falsely promises to secure and reinvigorate. Radical democratic dreams may not either. Liberal democratic practices may not survive these transformations. The demos disintegrates into bits of human capital concerns with justice cede to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates liberty submits to the imperative of human capital appreciation equality dissolves into market competition and popular sovereignty grows incoherent. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In vivid detail, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. Neoliberal rationality - ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture - remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015 ![]() ![]() This is a book about thrashing around in the great big world, being messy, being alive.”-Elizabeth A. The poems aren’t comforting, but they’re invigorating. The poems are vivid, heaving things, stuffed with obsession and surprises. "One book I keep returning to is Richard Siken’s Crush. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.” She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. ![]() In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. ![]() Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. "Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collectionįinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry ![]() St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life). Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his "Wall of Exclusion," which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called "sonification" so she can "listen" to the stars. ![]() Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. Download or stream Mismatch by Kat Holmes for free on hoopla. ![]() In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. ![]() Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a threat from Steph’s past catches up to her and ChesireCat’s existence is discovered by outsiders, it’s up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save her.Ĭatfishing on CatNet is a surprising, heartfelt near-future YA thriller by award-winning author Naomi Kritzer, whose short story “Cat Pictures Please” won the Hugo Award and Locus Award and was a finalist for the Nebula. What Steph doesn’t know is that the admin of the site, CheshireCat, is a sentient A.I. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet-a social media site where users upload cat pictures-a place she knows she is welcome. How much does the internet know about YOU? A thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.īecause her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t lived anyplace longer than six months. ![]() |