5/13/2023 0 Comments Herbert block cartoons![]() ![]() Leaving the American people hesitant to support the war and the act of escalation. This act only added to the antiwar movement as it was not yet apparent to the public was to what was going on. Placing Johnson on the literal “Vietnam Escalator” speaking to the American public ironically claiming that situation hasn’t changed despite the slow escalation. Despite the approval of congress and a declaration of war. Johnson free rein of military action with regards to Vietnam. This was in the wake of the still mysterious Gulf of Tonkin resolution which essentially gave president Lyndon B. This cartoon was published in the Washington post on Jand depicts the escalation of United States involvement in Vietnam, as the department of defense stated it would deploy up to 20,000 more troops to the troubled country. ![]() The award winning artist was well know for his critic of American politics and foreign policy. The famous artist Herbert Block published this political cartoon in The Washington Post on August 9th, 1972. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Thinking with type book![]() ![]() ![]() Open Sans seems to be a decent default, and Patternfly uses it. I’ll start out playing with with google fonts, because those seem to be specific for the web, and free. Mostly, I think I’m baffled by how one selects a font or font family, in part due to the sheer number of fonts out there, and in part because some require money. ![]() Without further ado, here’s my best approximation of the information in the section I’ve read, with some space available for further exploration. Failing to find those - likely because there’s an astonishing number of fonts out there - I started doodling around trying to get something on paper for myself. I started by hunting for family trees for common font families. I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around the fonts section of the “Thinking With Type” book. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Regeneration paul hawken review![]() Less attractive is the author’s fondness for lists. It is a human problem.” Or even pithier: “We are either stealing the future or healing the future.” “The climate crisis is not a science problem. There are plenty of well-turned phrases that border on political slogans. ![]() I would recommend the book for them alone. And the photographs are simply outstanding. It is no surprise that ‘Regeneration’ is a stylish treatise, somewhere between a press release and a political manifesto. He was a press advisor to Martin Luther King, at the tender age of 19, while holding down a job as a staff photographer for The Congress of Racial Equality on the side. His political credentials are equally impressive. He has founded several impact-oriented companies including Erewhon, using sustainable agricultural methods, and Energy Everywhere. Paul Hawken is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices and has dedicated his life to “changing the relationship between business and the environment”. The debate about climate change has moved on But it is too misty-eyed and too politically-naïve. ![]() There is a lot of interesting material on re-wilding, reforestation and biodiversity.We “live on a dying planet” and the only way to reverse this is a whole scale campaign of regeneration.A stylish and engaging book packed with outstanding photographs if perhaps a few too many lists. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Kakegurui compulsive gambler vol 9![]() ![]() Include personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses, URLs, or email addresses.Use any language that others might find disturbing or NSFW language.Use profanity, derogatory comments, or violent language.Write information unrelated to the product.Compose the majority of your comment in non-English characters.Comment removal is at the sole discretion of TOM. 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Is it books written by women or books that have female leads? Books about the domestic sphere? Clearly not, or not just, as that category would include, for example, Alice Munro and Marilynne Robinson. In this sense, all fiction-and this has been roughly true since the early nineteenth century, when the burgeoningly popular, still somewhat novel novel form, was declaimed as a woman’s art-is chick lit. ![]() The Corrections was infamously, and briefly, featured in Oprah’s book club and marketed as a family drama, which it is. For one thing, the category of “fiction that appeals more to women than men” is, as we know, “fiction.” Accordingly, most books are marketed toward women. Of course, this definition doesn’t hold up under much scrutiny. A book is marketed as chick lit if it broadly appeals to women books broadly appeal to women if they’re marketed as chick lit. The definition of what qualifies as “chick lit” (an unpleasant term, besides which, I’ve personally always thought if you were going to coin a sexist word for women’s books, chicktion has more pizzazz, but I digress) is, in its purest form, a stupid tautology. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bradford wright comic book nation![]() Moving them to the easily ignored back of the book just makes it more accessible for people put off by countless references to university presses and innumerable "Ibids."īut I respectfully submit that footnotes are essential. The notes themselves are essential, of course any work of even casual academia needs references for cross-checking and further research. Another guess, this time at motivation: in an effort to encourage more of the buying public to approach academic books undaunted, more footnotes have been moved to endnotes. ![]() I have to wonder: when exactly did footnotes become so despised? At a guess, I'd say it started around the early 1990s, but I didn't really notice it until a few years ago. Published by John Hopkins University Pressīefore I get to discussing Bradford Wright's Comic Book Nation, I'd like to say a few words about footnotes. ![]() Review | Comic Book Nation by Bradford WrightĬomic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments American Eve by Paula Uruburu![]() There have been four versions of the “Garden” including White’s version, which was in the beaux-arts style with a roof top restaurant/theater and a large, Moorish-like corner tower that was, for a short period of time, the tallest structure in New York City. He was the designer for the second Madison Square Garden, numerous residential mansions, and private clubs for the very rich in Manhattan, Newport and elsewhere. Stanford White was a partner in McKim, Mead and White, a prominent New York architectural firm at the turn of the twentieth century. ![]() Įvelyn Nesbit, photo from Cosmopolitan Mag., Cir 1901 Thus, it is being retold in this condensed form. It was broadly disseminated during the first half of the twentieth century, but today it is almost unknown by the younger generation of architects. Story No.1 for the blog,, copyrighted © by dale.r.ellickson, 2018 This story has been told many times in different ways including at least two movies: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) and Ragtime (1981). ![]() 1906 – Crime of the Century “I shot the wrong architect,” said Harry K. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Colorization by Wil Haygood![]() ![]() She won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Gone With the Wind” (1939). Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar. ![]() The Birth of a Nation was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson, who contributed written text for the film and is recognized now as a particularly egregious racist for even that period of time in American history. The silent film focused on the “noble intent of the Ku Klux Klan” and “portrayed Black people as criminals, sex fiends and goggle-eyed fools, in skulking league with Northern carpetbaggers,” as Dwight Garner so aptly put it in his review of Colorization in The New York Times. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood’s first blockbuster in 1915. He begins Colorization with an examination of D. Haygood looks at 100 years of Black movies, discussing the challenges and successes of Black actors and filmmakers, from Gone with the Wind to Black Panther and discusses how those films show the history of civil rights, racism and Black culture in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this accessible and fun guide, Chris Bailey offers over 30 tried-and-tested best practices that will help everyone to accomplish more – and become more awesome. Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection scheduling less time for important tasks the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions and the concept of productive procrastination. This book is the result of Chris’s year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don’t). ![]() Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep cutting out caffeine and sugar taking a daily siesta living in total isolation for 10 days stretching his workweek to 90 hours and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that – experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. The Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome Kindle Edition by Chris Bailey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 804 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 213.46 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 14,653.00 1 New from 14,653. Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bloodsucking fiends![]() ![]() She runs across Tommy, a want-to-be writer who is new in San Francisco and works as night supervisor at the Marina Safeway. Jody finds a motel room and decides that she needs someone who can help her in the daytime. They fight, and Jody finds herself knocking him out and drinking his blood. Kurt, however, is angry, selfish, and helpless. Jody is confused and finds her way back to her live-in boyfriend, hoping for help and sympathy. Her attacker has left her $70,000 in cash. She is attacked and left under a dumpster in an alley, waking two nights later with her hand, which was exposed to the sun, burned. The story begins one night while Jody walking to the bus from a late night at her job. She uses and manipulates Tommy, her naive lover, and ultimately, she turns him into a vampire so that she will not have to be alone. Still, she is unable to overcome her fear of being alone and her need of a man. Bloodsucking Fiends is the story of how Jody adapts to life as a vampire, discovering unknown power and self-confidence. ![]() Then, one day, she is attacked and turned into a vampire. ![]() Jody is a woman with low self-confidence who is afraid to be alone. ![]() |