Got dry skin? REALLY dry skin? Me too….
I've been diligently pursuing my "holy grail" products since June 2016 and it has been a frustrating ride, to say the least.
I have some updates, though, and wanted to share to keep other dry-skinned brothers and sister from wasting money like I did.
All of these are YMMV, of course.
If you want to see my first round of product testing here's the link.
To pick up where I left off, there were some products I wanted to try.
I found this to be a pretty good drugstore foundation for my situation.
However, it was still a bit too dry.
The color match was good, and the texture was good, too.
I kept this, but am actively trying to sell or trade it because I found something better.
I was not a fan of the color N1-2. I found it to be too dark and there's not a 'cool' in this particular product.
I was told by a local makeup artist that this would be too sheer for my goals, so I didn't bother trying it.
I expanded my wish list after I learned about Sephora.com's amazing return policy.
They will fully refund any unused or gently used products with or WITHOUT the original manufacturer box and return shipping is FREE from USPS.
Considering my location this was my best, most economical option.
Here's my tests from Sephora. I must have been too focused on taking notes on these that I forgot to take my own photos- sorry about that!
All tests included my full skincare routine, a gentle exfoliate with a konjac sponge and primer.
Initially I thought this was one of my Holy Grail products, but after a few wearings I accepted it just wasn't meant to be.
I hated this foundation. I really, really wanted to love it, but I just couldn't.
This was another product that I really wanted to love, but couldn't stand.
*I didn't like the fragrance. It smelled nice in the bottle, but I tend to avoid putting products with fragrance on my face, as it makes my red cheeks sting.
*$42 for the TRAVEL SIZE!
-sigh- another product I wanted to love, but my skin had other plans.
I also thought this was one of my Holy Grail products for lighter coverage days, but in the end I just had to accept reality.
*This seems to be buildable, but for my skin texture and condition building layers of makeup just doesn't result in a good look for me. YMMV, of course.
Are you ready for my Holy Grail foundation?
Well, it's not technically a foundation..but I digress.
After trying a lot of Western foundations I decided to research and test a Korean product.
I found a BB primer that was medium to full coverage and included Hyaluronic Acid, which is a product that promotes moisture and lubricates tissue and is found naturally in the body.
I wish I had known about product before. This would have saved me so much trouble and frustration!
*Provides great coverage, and covers my redness without color correcting. Even better coverage when I do color correct.
*Scented… which is a bummer for me, but not a deal breaker. This scent is light and disappears during the day. It also somehow doesn't irritate my red cheeks.
*Limited colors, so it's only an option for fair to medium tones. I'm a Western Ivory, but Missha's #21 Light Beige is a tad too light, and #23 Natural Beige is a bit too dark. I'm mixing them to get a better match.
*CHEAP! This cost me less than $20 USD a tube.
So, as of 9/1/2016 this is my Holy Grail in terms of foundation/base.
Have you found your Holy Grail product yet?
I'm on a mission to find the most hydrating medium-to-full coverage makeup for extremely dry skin…starting with drugstore brands.
If you're in the same situation as I am I hope you'll join me on this journey and let me know what has worked for you!
2 years ago I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had my entire thyroid removed.
My life has been turned upside down ever since.
I once had normal skin texture with no redness, hair that didn't fall out, no dry scalp, and a body that responded to exercise and diet with the appropriate response (weight loss/muscle gain).
Those days are over, apparently… and 2 years later I'm just now starting to come to terms with it.
Lately I noticed that my skin looked awful in cosplay photos- it was dull, dry, and made me look way older than I really am.
This made me seek out some new information and help on how to choose makeup that isn't a heavily advertised Japanese BB cream.
I needed something that matched my skin tone and moisturized my now desert-like skin.
I'll warn you- these images could be disturbing to those who have an aversion to dryness!
All applications are on a clean face with PCA moisturizer and Maybelline Baby Skin pore eraser primer underneath.
No undereye concealer except for the Skinfood that I had on hand. It's the wrong color- I'm kinda new to this whole "color correcting" thing.
Photos are taken with my iPhone 6s using the "daylight" setting on my vanity mirror. They looked much more clear before posting them here..not sure what happened there.
Current mood: embarrassed and frustrated. Thyroid skin is such a hassle!
First things first. I needed a good skincare routine.
Seeing as I never had skin problems before and always just bought whatever the Clinique rep recommended (a generic, normal skin regimen) I had no idea where to start.
At first I was getting regular facials. I thought that was the first step. However, even with the hydrating facials I was left dry.
Then I went to the Korean district of Tokyo and blindly bought whatever the salesperson recommended.
He recommended sensitive skin products without touching my skin. From a distance it still looks normal, so as you can imagine this was a total fail when I got home.
The only silver lining was that the kit included one of those super soft face brushes. I sold my failed skincare locally and moved on.
Then I bought a trial kit of PCA's dry skincare products.
So far I've been able to stick with it, but I feel that there's got to be a more moisturizing brand out there. If you have a suggestion, please comment!
Earlier I mentioned that my face is now dry. Unless you have a thyroid problem (hypothyroid, hashimotos, no thyroid, etc) then you may just be thinking "winter skin" level dry. Think again.
I am quite sure that my daily dryness is worse than the average person's worst winter dryness day.
I started researching and found a few leads. I live on a remote military base with very limited products, so unfortunately some of the best suggestions online were nowhere to be found.
I did find a few to test, though.
The general rule of thumb based on my research is that if you have dry skin that you want to avoid a matte base because it will make your skin look dull and more dry. I found this to be true, but this was marketed as "hydrating foundation" so I decided to give it a try.
* Lasted about 2 hours before I felt like it got a dull, matte look (it was a soft-matte, after all, so I wasn't surprised).
*Same blending issue- doesn't take the dense brush well.
*Doesn't seem to cover redness or take the translucent powder under my eyes very well.
*Blends somewhat with the dense brush. Had to finish with finger tips.
I got frustrated and thought I was maybe imagining the redness I kept seeing so I did a half and half makeup comparison.
*Hard to tell since I'm new to this whole makeup thing, but seems to look more hydrated/shiny/dewy compared to the other side.
*I liked the feeling of the CG, so I'm going to try it again with my new Spackle primer.
Update: tried it with the Spackle primer. Nice and dewy at first, but I felt a change after about an hour or 2. I'm going to give it a go today and see how it does. It's not tight or flaky..yet.
Update 2: I didn't realize it at first, but this is a scented product. The third time I tried it I didn't use any of the other skincare items I was using before because I suspected they caused the tingly redness on my cheeks. Nope, this product made my cheeks kind of tingly and red all by itself.
*Didn't blend very well with brush. finished with hands.
*Dried really matte, feels dry, but not as dry as Neutrogena.
Here's a few I want to try. They're unavailable in my area, though, so I'm going to try to find them on Amazon.
Maybelline Dream Smooth Mousse- I have tried this since this post and it's kinda awesome- I'll update this post later with photos and a review.
L'Oreal True Match Lumi- I have also tried this. I feel it's so-so, but still a keeper. I'm not a fan of the N1-2 shade, it's kind of dark on me. I'll update later on this, too.
Have you found the holy grail of foundations for us super dry skin types?
Do you have a favorite skincare brand that I should think about buying? Please let me know!


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THE 'ROYAL' CANADIAN.....the ravings of somebody who's been out in the 'Big White' too long.
Privatize All that Risk
Ma Nature dealt the USA another blow when hurricane Harvey, first of all smacked into Texas and lingered there to flood out the city of Houston. How fortunate, then, that the State of Texas had been considering some amendment to insurance claims legislation and just so happened to have a law going into effect on the coming first of September. It didn't take long for people to see rising water and recall that legislation, before the social media lit-up with warnings that people were about to get screwed.
In order to qualify for damage during the current situation the claim has to be filed in writing, by Friday, specifying exactly what damages were being claimed. After that no claims for current damage were to be accepted.
National Flood Insurance A government program that lets people build on a flood plain.
America has had some notable devastations in its history and it has grown up a healthy insurance industry to ameliorate the damage from those things. Generally, the insurance industry thrives, most often paying out far less than it takes in, adding investment value to its holdings and sharing some profit with investors. Everything usually goes just great, unless there is a 'run on the corporation ' in terms of claims. The last significant hurricane, Katrina, did exactly that and the damage from that is far from being repaired - but the insurance industry survived.
The Dirty Dems will screw thinks up (hopefully) It took three years to get legislation passed to assist the New Jersey clean-up - Republicans didn't go for the idea.
Some of the industry 'biggies' were almost 'taken under' by damage claims and the industry by and large reacted badly to its long-term customers. The Gulf oil spill added more claims the industry didn't want to pay. So where there's a tragedy - there is charity and the public purse - if insurance is involved there are higher rates, across the board, to cover the "loss".
When such things happen the insurance industry goes into 'self-protection' mode scouring the files for defaulted policy holders, examining claims in such a way that damages could be ascribed to non-covered causes, or by joining in the great calls for charity to help ordinary people rebuild. It is far easier for insurance corporations to toss all the damage to the public purse and private charity. In the meantime premiums for everybody take an up-tick (that will never actually go down again) . Texas if the focus for another 'fleecing of the suckers'. Let's see what happens with flood and hurricane damage insurance.
That clean-up's gonna cost ya extra. There's a law requiring that inflated wage rates be applied to government funding in emergency situations. But apparently there may not be enough construction workers .
Not to be outdone, valiant little EUkrainia, or at least the Ukrainian 'cowboys' of Texas, are helping get some millionaires' dumps back into full service. Head's up Mr. Trump. We are still needing better weapons to kill the russians. Please help us help you?
Oligarch helps Harvey clean up
Posted by popsiq at 10:30 AM
Labels: damage claims, flooding, Harvey, Houston, hurricane, insurance
I'm Gonna Huff, and I'm Gonna Puff ...
And he'll wind-up blowing North Korea too.
Donald Trump is reported by some media to have responded to the North Korean threat to' make the US pay' for its new sanctions program. while everybody else on earth views the North Koreans as all talk and very little effective shelling, Trump had to respond in in kind - threatening an American response of "fire and fury", this after US 'scientists' conceived that the North Koreans had advanced miniaturization processes in hand and had, in fact, produced an atomic warhead small enough to fit into the nose of the artillery rockets they have been firing into inner space of late. Is it now also believed that those rockets, if fired on the same kind of trajectory as most other ICBMs, could travel as far as Chicago.
Other US agencies were announcing a willingness to talk to North Korea if they promised to stop launching missiles. And yet others were taking some delight in the prospect of costing North Korea a billion dollars a year in truncated exports - essentially we are told the USA was shutting down the North Korean sea food industry - as well of course as enduring they will be blackballed by anybody peddling weapons or electronic technology. So I guess when the gargantuan TV on Kim il Sung square goes on the blink, they'll be scrambling for some circuit boards and switches. That should serve them right!
When the Norks actually did stop launching more missiles (at least the ones they said they were planning to shoot towards Wake) the CinC congratulated them on being "wise" (good cop) , the Sec State (bad cop) said he'd be willing to talk but that it would take "a little more" something from the Norks. They gave three short-range rockets as a reply (but they all 'failed' (yay!))
One has to wonder what, in all this, did the North Koreans do to 'break the agreement' they had made with Clinton's America? That saw them go from "world threat" to "world charity case" in less than three years. It also saw them allow US technicians to 'assist' in dismantling their sole nuclear reactor and, as far as was evident by inspection, stop developing Uranium towards making a weapon. George Bush moved into the White House and before the dust settled on the WT complex, the Norks were again "pariahs" and "threats" and the US was reneging on whatever Clinton had agreed to do.
A Nork Nuke funny
They started work again. rebuilding their reactor and, by the time Obama took over the fear mongering, they had detonated a real bomb. Since then, 'the threat' has only gotten worse, exacerbated perhaps by the thought that , if they kept it up, they might be tempted to nuke America rather than Seoul, or Tokyo. To-day, according to Trumpco, they can. And the US military, we were told last week waits only for the go signal.
When you Google "North Korea Nuke" this is the first image that isn't a 'real' rocket photo or a cartoon. Even this is a photo=montage creation - for,you see, there is precious little evidence of Pyong yang's Nukes, either. Hopefully that's enough to stop a war , as well as to start one?
The 'situation' for Long Dong Clinton
The question remains - how lucky do we feel?
Gone from America's media is Syria - a perfectly good peoples' rising against tyranny has gone 'poof'. Oh sure there is still stuff happening over there. The USAF is custom-bombing Raqqa, the Marines are bringing in equipment 'for themselves' (and the Syrian Kurds). But things have gone to hell in a handcart down in the Jordanian border - where a little incident (two weeks ago) involving some 'retreating' freedom fighters being 'ambushed' trying to cross into Jordan, parlayed itself into a fight between factions and, a few days ago, a fairly significant desertion (with all their equipment) by one group of America's 'anti-Assad' heroes.
So far, whatever agreement about Syria that Trump made with Putin seems to be holding. and while it does, the Assad forces are making significant inroads in blocking future coalition moves to 'grab territory', while putting some significant dents in ISIS land. It would appear that Assad is moving toward the relief of Deir ez Zor and clearing the rest of the Iraq border. But none of this matters to American news sources for the news isn't good. They need another good 'gassing' while somebody still remembers the hokum about the last one. (actually there was an attempt again to launch an 'Assad dunnit' news story. This once complete with the standard gasping babies and water hose decontamination procedures - flopped. It didn't make the front page anywhere, maybe even not onto the 'beautiful baby- cruise missile strike calculator'.
Meanwhile America has shifted focus to considering a bunch of 'initiatives': somebody's got the military option for Venezuela out for a 'boo'. 'Defensive' lethal weapons ( how are they different from offensive lethal weapons?) are 'on the table' for EUkrainia. And just to show how much we care , the NATO contingent ( un-armed eh?) marched in EUkraine's national independence day military parade. Hopefully the Ukrainian 'elite' units (they didn't seem to be lacking much lethal equipment) were around for the post-parade party, before shipping-out for some 'blooding' in the 'ostfront'. The message for Putin 'ist klaaar' - Barbarossa only sleeps.
One of the side stories coming out of the Nork's threat to whirled piece is the answer to the question "How'd they do that?' The answer being, they bought the rocket technology from somebody.
What somebody? Probably directed by Putin's goons, the finger initially pointed at Ukraine - purveyor of rockets parts and engines to everybody engaged in space activity. The Ukrainians naturally denied doing it and fingered the Russians who, it was claimed, had three or four Ukrainian-made roman candles that they hadn't bothered to shoot upwards. The russkies must have sold them to the Norks.
To-day another double back-cover story floating out of EUkrainia with all the eyes dotted and fingers crossed: the saga of how Ukraine duped the Norks into stealing phony rocket plans and got hem doing it on tape.
Ecce evidencia
Posted by popsiq at 3:08 PM
Labels: media, North Korea, Nukes, red lines, USA, War
Heil Trump!
German Propaganda
Russian propaganda
America is coming off a good week. After a minor riot in Charlotteville, Virginia ( named after the relative of the tyrannical English monarch George III), the USA got to look at itself up-close and personal - and it's hard to tell what exactly it saw. Particularly if you were trying to take any lead from the leader of the nation.
As riots go it wasn't much - Wall Street has seen more violence after a market downturn. It didn't even match Moscow for 'critical mass', but somebody drove their car ( an iconic American muscle car) into the crowd and a woman as killed. The driver, whose Mom said he isn'y ( "He just went out for some snacks!") was accused of being a neo-nazi and white supremacist. His murder trial should be interested in that.
Good nazis in Ukraine
Bad nazis in Charlotteville
There were, so we are told nazi flags there, nazi helmets were there - but the biker variety and there were some cis-genitals, in white Lacostes, who were saying they wanted to keep America 'blank' and 'fag-free'. There were also some 'haters' on the alter side - blacks, violent femmes and at least one Boudicca reenatctor with one bare boob and thigh-high combat boots. Each side was laying some hurtful words and some regular bric-bat hurt on the others. Than goodness nobody as armed.
Everybody saw what happened on the news - even the Prexy - for among his other cares and worries of orifice - Norks, Afghanis and Russian 'resurfacers' - he had to take time from the dwindling daze of his holiday periods to rebut the dishonest media to point out that such 'division' was an American tradition and that both sides were "baaaaad". The press immediately 'went nuts' about him conflating peaceable icinoclasts with the jack booted sturgeons of Weimar Germany. He should have, they clamored, blamed the Nazis for supporting that hateful statuary.
This week they want to remove Columbus from 'Columbus Circle' in Manhattan. And they'll be doing what with the circle, giving it back to the Indians? Like homosexuality - once you start tolerating such change you wind up supporting it and eventually promoting it. I don't think most left wing Americans have through through what undoing a few centuries of cultural genocide has done, particularly if you live in a nation that curt its teeth on screwing the natives. Crikey! We could be reverting to a time when red savages might kill us all in our beds before the rowboat-jihadi invaders do!
After bloviating his way past Charlotteville Trump hied himself west for another of his patented 'resuscitation rallies' - the ones where he touches his 'base'. There he laid down chapter and verse on all the bad guys - foreign and domestic- and the bad stuff they'd done to him and to America. He didn't mention his Afghan plan which might have caused some disappointment.
The subsequent 'address' to the nation which didn't involve any screaming and shouting - no need to do that if you're reading a script - and Afghanistan was as scripted as it could get. With the standard Trumpisms that conflated everything central Asian into an interlaced bag of goo and mother love and then laid down his patented 'starting NOW!' mantra that gets him so much traction with those trying to figure out what they're supposed to be doing. At least they've been warned that what they're supposed to be doing is now overdue
Donald is big on getting friends into things. Afghanistan is a case in point. While there are now commitments from previous participants like Britain and Spain to commit a couple of hundred personnel each - to training and a re-up of sorts from those members of NATO who didn't leave America to change the mission on her own - the Germans and Italians - to hang in, the greatest response has been received from Non-NATO allies - Georgia, Ukraine, and New Zealand who are 'doubling down' on the great shows they've already made. Thew rest of NATO is busy trying to figure out how they can spend more on their military without handing it over to defend America in Asia and now Africa. Don't anticipate Trump showing-up to take the 'allied' march past in Kabul.
Welcome Allies!
uniting America
Posted by popsiq at 12:12 PM
Labels: Afghanistan, neo-nazis, Trump
What Losing Looks Like
America is on 'the horns of the DeLeon', again! Afghanistan, that 'burning bush upon a hill' is once again in peril of going to the south side. The Taliban are resurgent and the enrollment figures for ISIS (Hindu Kush) are 'bustin' out all over'. The poor bashi-bazouks of the army America has drilled trained, equipped and taught to understand and use basic NATO military terminology ("motherfucker") are , either, dying in droves, deserting to the enema, or busily-buggering babies while 'stoned out of their gourd' and dreaming-up green-on-green attacks. The Afghan government is impotent to stop any of it.
So what is America to do for, you see, a withdrawal will create a vacuum and all the suction required to draw other forces into Afghanistan - the kind of forces that don't like America and that should not be allowed to benefit from 18 years of the best investments Bennie Franklins could buy.
The single greatest present danger of losing Afghanistan to somebody else, comes from Iran - the 'base' used by Alexander the Great for one of the few 'successful' invasions. And they hate America just on principle. Read, and moan gently.
We KNOW who ya are, and we SAW what you done.
The invasion rowboats will be built in Teheran
Putin's always in the wings somewhere. In fact our Afghan adventure may be turning into Russkie 'payback' for all the help we gave the Jihadis when they were setting up to eject the Russians.
American guns blood and treasure, Putin gets the gravy
Hey Omar! Where'd you get that kalashikova?
Pakistan has been number one with the bullet since Lord Curzon drew his line through the Pashtunwali. We forget that Britain's restive 'northwest frontier' was most of northern Pakistan and southern Afghanistan. Neither one of those places were pleased to entertain the Grand Poobah or their 'civilizing' Mem Sahibs. They haven'r modernized a bit - except in the arms department.
The India-Pakistan conflation adds to the steaming pile of ca-ca lying around to be stepped-in in Afghanistan. That little 'tiff ' they're having over Kashmir is something the Afghans don't mind poking - to remind both sides that they are important. And India's northern border is close enough to be affected by Afghanistan if they wanted to make trouble. India seems intent in nose-poking into Afghanistan to annoy the Paks, but shouldn't want to to get too closely involved.
We KNOW what you done.
Nailing the Paks to Afghanistan
And then there are those opportunist Chinamen, eyeing some 'tourist hotels' in the Hindu Kush and a east-west transportation artery through mountains flattened at US taxpayer expense.
The Yellow Peril and the silk rode west - rock and roll like you've never seen
Aside from the increasingly obvious failure to win (this week the Taliban and ISIS teamed-up to wipe out one of our 'home-defense militia' units. - whoever is causing it, there seems to be the growing sentiment that there isn't much except continued waste left in it for the USA. Trump however points out the minerals - lots of beautiful minerals, that the US should take with them when, or before, they shut out the lights.
So, what to do? Stay in let the ulcer weep? Double down again in hope of getting it right? Leave and shut everything down? There has to be some reason to stay - central Asia is the 'America' of tomorrow.
They have the most beautiful minerals - rubies and pearls and lap dancing ladies
One innovative way is to declare a victory and have the Afghans install a purely defensive force of 'contractors' tasked with winning the insurgency without all the hooplah of Geneva conventions and potential war crimes charges. Shy anything up to a nuclear strike, Erik Prince and the military marketplace will provide canned security for what's hoped to be a 'reasonable' (viz more waste) price. He could be America's last poke at a vict'ry parade.
Private Armies? Private Air Forces! Go USA!
Labels: Afghanistan, failure-to-win, Trump, USA, War
Yemen: Go ahead Blame the USA
Before there was a war on terror, possibly before there was an Al Qaeda or a Bin Laden there was some sort of anti-something operation going on in Yemen.
To begin with were the Brits and their Horn of Africa bastion at Aden - a port and RAF layover base. After the Second World war the Brits had more than a passing fancy on the Arabian littoral - the Trucial States, Oman, what were to become the 'United Arab Emirates', as well as the states of Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq had more than passing relationship with the 'Empire of Daylight'.
As Empire gave way to Commonwealth and Britain retracted itself into paying-off war debt and occupying West Germany, the Gulf States were among the last to go. Aden was a major military base into the mid-60's. After Yemen gained independence it split into two lesser states - a religious one and a socialist one. Surprisingly it was the more ruggedly-backward socialist state in North Yemen - target of at least a decade of British suppression - that eventually won the war in the whole country. Then the fun began.
The Egyptians, at that time backed by the USSR, took on the communist Yemenis over some kind of insult. They actually invaded and wasted themselves on a five-year 'un-pacification program', before retiring to lick wounds and gird for continued battle with Israel. They held a couple of Red Sea archipelagos that the Sisi government 'returned' to Saudi Arabia (not Yemen) only this year, as a 'sign'of friendship and loyalty. That hasn't shaken - out completely with most Egyptians, yet.
Then America appeared, extending its embassy and upping the CIA contingent. The CIS/FNI/NatSec chief killed in the 9/11 event was the 'lead hand' in Yemen for a decade and became an expert on terror. That was before most Americans knew there was terror. He cut his teeth killing 'commist terrorists' in Yemen. That education lasted until 'the balloon went up' a year and a half ago - with the USMC embassy contingent being 'forced' to abandon their weapons at the airport in Sana'a, before 'freedom birding' it out, to Djibouti. But look Ma, 'we're back and kicking goats herds' ass!
When it comes to bombing and droning, Yemen has to be on a couple of video game 'scenarios' by now . Now there's intel to be shared, and the former AQAP is now ISIS in the heart if Islam.
Yemen has to be the poster child for wanton destruction , civilian deaths, disease, starvation and the other couple of Apocalyptic Horsemen. Sure, somebody humanitarian wants to rush in there and aid them but not until they say 'اخو الام'. So they can just suffer - no water, no hospitals, no hope and typhus - they've brought it on themselves by refusing to make nice.
The Other Side of Nicky Haley
One of the bad things is having to wonder why they just don't quit? Usually it's because somebody evil is egging them on, or giving them supplies and weapons. We know they (Iran and Russia probably) are giving them weapons, we just can't prove it. But that doesn't stop good guys from accusing the Iranians of smuggling stuff thru Kuwait and down the Persian Gulf to Hormuz and into the Indian Ocean and Red Sea in little boats - to the one or two small ports still under Houthi control.
Smuggling arms into Yemen_ thru Kuwait!
That's probably why they're still rowing out there to attack the Arab Navies.
Invasion rowboats at War
In days of yore we'd have been cheering for this tough, fighting, little people - not bombing the shit out of them too. But, hey, they don't want us cheering, or anything else we'd like to do 'for' them.
Labels: atrocity, Iran, terrorism, UK, USA, War, Yemen
The Outrage that Got Away
Just after the latest Assad 'killing his own people' farce, a real outrage did take place. It was roundly ignored in western media because, very obviously, the good guys, or the Moslem extremists we're backing in Syria, did it. They made a video record of their attack and they very obviously targeted a defenseless 'enemy' civilian population.
What we saw of the massacre was 'given out' as 'payback' of some kind for the alleged 'atrocities' done by the Assad regime when it liberated our 'poster city' for western-based Jihad in West Aleppo. Even that latter point failed to mention that those 'victims' were involved in another of the Assad regime's - 'move them instead of maim them' population swaps - the main reason why any Jihadis weren't carried out (some were) .
These 'victims' were pro-regime people who had been besieged, for 3 years, by AlNusra/AQ/ISIS forces in their Idlib town, being swapped for a an anti-Assad population being moved to rebel held areas. And many of them - including children - failed to make the swap.
The following post is graphic - although President Trump wouldn't find many of these dead babies beautiful, - or worth a humanitarian bombardment of somebody. It should be required watching for moral relativists like Nicky Haley.
By way of a follow-up Caution graphic pix
Labels: civilians, death, killing, Syria
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Seven Staffers Fired--Or Resigned--In Connection With Internal Accounting Audit
Homestore.com yesterday announced additional disciplinary actions related to its previously announced internal accounting inquiry.
The company has terminated or accepted resignations from seven employees, including three who previously had been placed on administrative leave. The company did not disclose the employees? names.
Homestore on Jan. 2 announced preliminary results of the audit had found the company overstated its online advertising revenues for the first three quarters of 2001 by $54-$95 million. No further details have been announced.
Stuart Wolff, former Homestore chairman and CEO, resigned Jan. 7.
The company said additional disciplinary measures may be taken before the accounting inquiry is completed.


Saint Austin's Pub: Do you hear the bell?
How do you think of these things? That's actually a very good question though. I mean, if you understand it theologically of course.
Did you notice that the dog is not drooling?
As I observe my two unruly dogs and compare their lack of orderly conditioning with my own inclination to submit to structures and behaviours that are not always the best, I recognize the need to practice more rigorous spiritual conditioning.
However, I have to admit that I don't recall having such lofty thoughts when I drew that cartoon 20 years ago. It just seemed like a funny idea then.


So if you recall from a previous entry, we got lost the first time we went to search for a tea house in Insadong. This was our second time trying to get to a tea house and we still kind of got lost even with the help of our Korea buddy, but we eventually found the perfect place and it was totally worth it! The scenery was beautiful, we got to sit on heated floors, try out traditional Korean teas, oh it was just soo nice.
smooch - korean kissing art.
The long awaited tea house.
Me, Diana, Tanjin, and Kristie waiting for our tea.
We ordered 5 different types of tea (3 traditional and 2 sweet).
Soojeong, Diana, and I enjoying the sunlight with our tea.
Soojeong and I with the "map" on the wall.
After the tea house, we headed over to the Insadong market area.
The walls were covered with writings and notes.
I left my mark in Korea.
There are so many different types of street food in Korea. I tried the hoddeok today which was filled with sweet cinnamon awesomeness. It was the messiest that I had ever eaten though. My gloves, my scarf, my jacket, my HAIR, got all dirty with the gooeyness of this bittersweet treat.
Tanjin and I were meaning to try Indian food in Korea. We found a place called Taj Mahal and took our chances for Korean-Indian food.
I don't like tea but I definitely would've tried some here! The place looks awesome!


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Campaigners call for stricter rules on child restraint in schools
As reported by the BBC, Enable Scotland has said that the current system is putting children at risk of psychological and physical harm
The campaign group wants more staff who are trained in supporting positive behaviours in classrooms following 2,674 incidents reported incidents last year.
According to Enable, which provides advocacy for people with learning disabilities, children in Scotland are often put at risk due to unregulated, unsupported and unacceptable practices in schools – with limited routes of redress for parents.
Its latest report, In Safe Hands? claimed the current system denied children their rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Enable said Scotland's local authorities recorded 2,674 incidents of restraint and seclusion relating to 386 children during 2017/2018.
But it added that the figure did not paint the picture, as 10 out of 32 local authorities failed to provide data.
Daniel Gourlay from Inverness was five years old when he was first physically restrained at school by his teachers.
Now 12, and with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) disorder, his mum Barbara said she has lost count of the number of times he has been restrained.
She said: "I knew that something wasn't quite right with Daniel when he was about 18 months old. I have two older children and as a mum I just knew, but healthcare professionals made me feel like I was imagining things saying instead that he was going through the terrible twos or had separation anxiety.
"His dad died when he was five, so it coincided with the trauma he felt then too – but still I knew and yet no one listened."
Gourlay was diagnosed with autism and PDA, when he was nine, by which time his mother says he had been labelled as a "bad kid" and a "lost cause" at school.
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Barbara, who is supporting Enable's campaign, added: "It's heartbreaking, especially when you know that it's their human right to have an education, to feel safe and to feel that the adults around them care about them as an individual."
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it's Az! (@stardust@queer.party) - Queer Party!
I'm Aster (and you can call me Ás, Ace, Azzie, Az and so on). I'm an aroflux & demisexual nonvirmina who likes talking about labels.
I'm really bad at understanding subtoots, both because of their vagueness and because I'm never sure if they are meant for me or not.
Please, if anyone wants me to content warn something, or to figure out a new CW for something, or if anyone wants to correct me on my English or regarding a term I'm using wrong, or if I'm using oppressive rhetoric against a group, please warn me directly, even if we aren't friends.
This account is locked because I don't want people to follow me just out of politeness, or because they just follow anyone in front of them (this includes bots). I don't want hatefollowers or people following just for private posts either.
I /will/ talk about pride flags, obscure queer labels and lack of awareness/recognition of lesser-known identities and concepts related to them.
Feel free to not follow if you don't want to see that. You may unfollow anytime too.
I'm @Aster and I made an account here so I can talk about #queer / #IMOGA / #MOGAI stuff in English without either spamming English-speaking-only followers with stuff they can't understand or spamming my instance's public timeline with English toots about labels they don't care about.
I'm #aspec / #arospec / #acespec, #mspec, #nonbinary / #genderqueer and #polyam. More specifically, I'm an #aroflux #demisexual #nonvirmina who's in a relationship with two other people.
2) If gender can be related to how you perceive yourself relating to existing gender constructs within a society, and people of both binary genders often exclude you from social activities and consider you a weirdo for being autistic, I don't see why "autism is my gender" is so often perceived as a ridiculous or unnatural response.
But the fact that pronouns mark for social personhood is part of why it's so important to refer to someone with the right pronoun.
hey, I just found out 🜬 is an existing unicode symbol???
Gender can mean different things for different people. It's fine if you identify with the same word as someone else for different reasons, or if you and someone else have different labels and the same sense of gender identity.
But what everyone's sense of gender has to account for is everyone else's identities. Even if your gender identity could never be X, you have to account for people who are X.
This also goes for gender-oriented attractions, even if takes time to adjust.
I have pixelated hearts on my instance, but maybe I should make some non-pixelated stars too.
Those people with aporagenders, xenogenders and/or neurogenders? Those people with unconventional gender labels? Those people who hoard gender labels?
They tend to be way more knowledgeable about gender and how it can work than people with "reasonable" gender ids who don't want to have anything to do with them.
Because we talk to each other, we brainstorm ideas, we keep our minds open, and we try to talk about the core of our identities, even when it's hard.
And yet, a lot of people defend those lines of thinking, because "everyone has to start somewhere", because "it makes logical sense", because "this way it's easy to understand", and so on.
But then, when people have gender identities that don't match up with cissexist norms?
*These* people are seen as wrong, as childish, as conflating gender with the wrong things.
May pomoromantic people find success in their lives.
Just got to upload three new lesbian flags to Pride-Flags.
A shame Medium links don't work on deviantArt, though.
When someone says they "respect" you, but still don't believe that you're nonbinary, they are lying.
They respect a person that they have created in their mind, not you.
You deserve real respect for who you are, not someone else's fantasy.
"but -misia came from bigots!"
I think it's more widely used by non-bigots at this point, and most people who use it learned about it from anti-ableist people.
And if you don't like -misia, there is also -bigotry and -antagonism, although I prefer misia because it's shorter and I think it makes more sense in context.
"Homophobes are [ableist slur] and need to get some therapy/medicine to be cured"
or other things that imply that "homophobia" and such are "mental problems" and that all "mental problems" can and need to be "cured".
I'm not sure if I have ever posted these yet (I can't find them on my other accounts), so here are some free to use queer chevron headers!
All of these are 1500x500.
Credit is appreciated, but not required.


Part of preparation for winter, now that fall is seriously with us, is storing outdoor furniture. That is a major problem for me since storage space is at a premium. The other problem, as I look at my garden furniture while stowing it, is that it looks so shabby. I cannot even call it Shabby chic.
I would love some clever outdoor furniture that is funky or interesting but can stay out in all weather. I have two pieces of furniture that I like. My favorite bench is an old park bench, the kind that is made of such heavy wrought iron that you cannot budge it. It used to sit on my grandmother's front porch- so you know it is an antique. I took off the rotting wood and repainted it to match my front door and front of the house which is a silvery gray and fuschia. I love the look. This bench can weather any season.
The new piece that I treated myself to this year is a bench made from concrete. I bought it because it was on half price sale at my local nursery. I worried that it might look like it belonged in a cemetery. But it looks like it fits in a garden. And I don't have to store it for the winter.
Still I wish I had really nice outdoor designer furniture.
My problem is that I have that cliche of "champagne taste with a beer budget." Readers by now must know that most of my plants were plants that friends traded or I propagated, so you know that I if I try to be frugal in the garden, I have to be frugal with garden accessories. Any money that I spend, I prefer to spend on unusual plants.
Still I am always trying to google up interesting designer furniture sites to see things that I might dream about. And maybe I will be lucky enough to find something that I both like and can afford.
I have found some great sites with furniture I like-but they are mostly in Europe, in England. And they are really out of my price range. But I am a dreamer.
Meanwhile I store my shabby, but still usable garden furniture for next season and a good hosing.
If readers have any suggestions of places to shop for interesting garden furniture or accessories, let us know.


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The MAN Bus Modification Center (BMC) have transformed a Neoplan Tourliner into a mobile home "that leaves nothing to be desired", as MAN states: "A dream on wheels". The high-decker has been transformed into a luxurious mobile home. "We are giving travelling in comfort a whole new meaning."
With features such as a duvet instead of a sleeping mat and a luxury kitchen instead of a gas stove. "We have designed and built the interior of the vehicle specifically to meet individual customer requirements, covering everything from how the space is arranged to the lighting", says Heinz Kiess, Head of Sales & Marketing at the BMC. "On entering the luxury mobile home, we pass through the driver's cab to be greeted by a spacious corner seating area consisting of four comfortable chairs, a table and a bench. The living area flows through to the large kitchen. With its premium fixtures and fittings, the kitchen is a comfortable place to both cook and live – featuring an induction hob and modern oven along with base units and wall-mounted cupboards that provide plenty of storage space", Kiess explains. "The subtle white cupboard fronts contrast with the natural wood finish of the work surfaces and wall-mounted units to really catch the eye. Passengers can quite rightly also expect to enjoy comfort in the bedroom, where two cosy beds ensure they will sleep well. It is here in particular that you forget you're actually on a coach", says Kiess. "Alongside its washbasin and toilet, the bathroom has ambient lighting and a shower featuring a glass door and side panels made from mineral plastic."
The coach is equipped with three 5 kW power inverters, four lithium-ion batteries, a battery management system, a powerful alternator, WiFi, the BirdView camera system, a satellite system and a storage compartment for skis. A fresh water tank with a capacity of 920 litres and a grey water tank with a capacity of 520 litres have been built specifically to cater for water supply requirements on board. "Our experts also modified the shell of the bus in order to meet enhanced structural requirements for the roof and luggage compartment," Kiess says.
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BREAKING NEWS: Former La Salle Great Rasual Butler And Wife Leah LaBelle Killed In Car Crash
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STUDIO CITY, Calif. – Ex-NBA player Rasual Butler and his wife, Leah LaBelle who appeared on Season 3 of American Idol were both killed in a single car crash in California in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
According to TMZ, 38-year-old Butler, a South Philadelphia native and former Miami Heat star was drafted in 2002 after an impactful run at La Salle University – where he was a 2-time First Team All-Atlantic 10 Player. Butler went on to play in the league until 2016 — with stints on the Clippers, Hornets, Bulls, Raptors, Pacers, Wizards and Spurs.
Most recently, Butler played in Ice Cube's BIG3, where he averaged 3.9 rebounds and 11.8 points.
College Career:
Butler played his college career with the La Salle Explorers. He became the sixth Explorer to score over 2,000 points, and at the time of his induction into the La Salle University Hall of Athletes, he ranked fourth among the Explorer's all-time scorers (2,125). He was named to First Team All-Atlantic 10 (2001, 2002) and was selected to the Verizon Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship All-Tournament team in 2002. He was inducted into the La Salle Hall of Athletes in 2008.
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Revolution Blooms From A Busted Skull On The Road
Soe Myint with Nandita Haksar in 2019.
Nandita Haksar follows up a 2019 conversation with Soe Myint, a media entrepreneur now in hiding in Myanmar.
Myanmar is once again under military rule even before it could emerge as a proper democracy. Once again, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest. She had emerged as a popular leader in the national uprising in 1988 and put under house arrest for 15 years from 1989 to 2010.
She played a vital role in the transition of Myanmar from being military rule to fledgling democracy. Her role was given international recognition when she was awarded the Nobel prize in 1991; but she was severely criticised for not speaking out against army operations against the Rohingyas – one of the reasons she did not do so was to [avoid provoking] the army to take over again. Aung San Suu Kyi risked her reputation and was subjected to humiliation for her silence; and she was hoping the transition to democracy would be completed when her party, the National League for Democracy won by an overwhelming majority in [the] November 2020 national elections.
Instead the Tatmadaw or the Burmese military staged a coup and re-arrested her in February 2021. Now she is once again under house arrest.
Spectacular protests
The soldiers roam freely; there are snipers on the roofs taking aim at students, poets, writers and protestors. Right across the country there are spectacular protests with students and youth lustily singing patriotic songs, giving their three-finger salutes and waving the red flags with the fighting peacock.
The Myanmar military says these young people are all anti-national. A young Burmese poet Ka Za Win (1982-2021) described the Myanmar military's love of the country in these words:
They love the country
Just the way they love to grate a coconut
From inside out,
For coconut milk.
Ka Za Win was shot dead as he stood with young people protesting against military rule in the first week of March.
The special targets are those students who had led the uprising in 1988. Among them were two students from Rangoon University who had taken shelter with the Karens, an ethnic minority on the Myanmar-Thai border. These two students hijacked a Thai Airways plane to focus global attention on the plight of their people under military rule. They successfully diverted the plane to Calcutta in November 1990.
They knew that hijacking was a serious crime and they could spend the rest of their lives in jail in India; at the time India was officially supporting the military junta.
When they were asked by the West Bengal police what they wanted, the two Burmese hijackers said they just wanted a news conference so they could tell the world about what was happening in Myanmar. Their demand was that Aung San Suu Kyi be released.
One of those hijackers was Soe Myint. He stayed in exile in India for 15 years. Most of the other Burmese refugees opted to get resettlement in Europe, America and Australia but Soe Myint and his wife, Thin Thin Aung, started Mizzima news service. Mizzima is a pali word for middle or moderate.
The Mizzima news service blossomed into a multi-media news organisation. In 2007, the International Press Institute awarded Mizzima News its Free Media Pioneer award. In 2012, Soe Myint took his Mizzima back to his country. Mizzima became the first exile-based media organisation to get incorporation and is counted among the five top media houses in Myanmar.
In 2017, Mizzima was awarded a licence to operate an independent free-to-air digital TV channel. Mizzima even set up a foundation as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility and has taken [on] various projects. On August 24, 2018, Prasar Bharati signed an agreement to share content with Mizzima. It is the first such deal India's public broadcaster has made with a private media company – and it completes a dramatic cycle in the life, and struggle, of Mizzima's owner and editor Soe Myint.
I have seen Soe Myint and Mizzima's struggle from the first day to last year when the Mizzima team came to India and we did some programmes together to promote Indo-Mynamar friendship.
Then came the news of the military coup of February 1. I read a report of the raid on media houses; the raid on the offices of Kamayut Media ended with the detention of its co-founder, Han Thar Nyein, and editor-in-chief, Nathan Maung. The report stated: 'Witnesses said seven military trucks were involved in the raid, according to a member of Han Thar Nyein's family. The military also raided the offices of Mizzima News.'
The Mizzima office in downtown Yangon
A Burmese friend informed me that [the] Mizzima office had been raided and smashed to smithereens but there was no news of Soe Myint. It was a great relief when I was finally able to get in touch with Soe. This is what had happened, in his own words:
'The military from the day one on February 1, they wanted the independent media to be silent. That's why they shut down our Mizzima TV free-to-air TV channel on the day they took power on February 1. They revoked licence to publish and broadcast of the five independent media outlets (including Mizzima).
'The heavy military and police forces surrounded the Head Office of Mizzima Media on March 9 and raided the office and took away whatever they could get (we have not been using the premise since the military coup day and we are operating from different hideouts in the country).'
I asked Soe Myint what was the difference between this military coup and the one in 1988. He says this time the Tatmadaw is even more brutal and the soldiers are totally undisciplined. 'The military is using snipers to shoot the peaceful protestors,' he said. 'As of March 15, at least 138 people have been killed and in one township along in Hlaing Thar Yar township in Yangon, at least 74 people were killed on March 14 alone.
'This is the figure of the United Nations and I believe the actual number is more than that. It is because there are many people missing and they are believed to be dead somewhere on the road. More than 2100 people have been arrested, charged or sentenced, according to Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.'
K Za Win had written these lines just hours before he was shot dead:
Before the Revolution blooms,
From the busted skull on the road,
Are there any words with devils,
Do statements still matter?
But words do matter. And Soe Myint knows that. He has only recently been discharged from the hospital where he had undergone chemotherapy. From the hospital, he said the doctors recommended that he go to India and I arranged for his treatment but he said he trusted his own doctors. When he was discharged he was proud that it was Burmese doctors who had cared for him.
Now he and the Mizzima journalists continue to broadcast from various hideouts.
But Soe Myint knows that the fight against military rule cannot be won without international solidarity at all levels. And his appeal to the Indians is to ensure Mizzima survives.
Soe Myint writes:
'For Mizzima, we are determined to continue our reporting and broadcasting in the country to tell the peoples inside and outside the country of what is happening on the ground in Burma/Myanmar. Please set up a network of Friends of Mizzima, who can help the work of Mizzima with monetary and technical support, who can continue the Mizzima team members inside the country, even if people like me is either arrested or killed. We want Mizzima to continue to report as an independent media and fighting against the military junta for the restoration of democracy in the country.'
Soe Myint says he has found that writing is important but listening is even more so. If people had not listened to him they would not have extended the solidarity they did when he was in exile in India.
I hope someone is listening.
First published in Scroll.in, Saturday, March 20th 2021.
Nandita Haksar
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Author Buckley, James, Jr., 1963- author, illustrator.
Title Martin Luther King, Jr. : voice for equality! / by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Youneek Studios ; lettering & design by Comicraft ; cover art by Ian Churchill.
Publication Info. San Diego, CA : Portable Press, 2018.
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Description 1 volume unpaged : color illustrations 24 cm.
Series Show me history!
Summary "A graphic biography of civil rights leader and American icon Martin Luther King Jr. This graphical biography tells the story of the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. With full-color illustrations and a historically accurate narrative, Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality! will inform and entertain readers of all ages. From his childhood in Atlanta to his rise as an international icon of human rights and a fiery orator who refused to back down in the face of adversity, King's life story serves as an ongoing source of inspiration"-- Provided by publisher.
"This graphical biography tells the story of the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. With full-color illustrations and a historically accurate narrative, Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality! will inform and entertain readers of all ages. From his childhood in Atlanta to his rise as an international icon of human rights and a fiery orator who refused to back down in the face of adversity, King's life story serves as an ongoing source of inspiration"-- Provided by publisher.
Audience GN590L Lexile
Note GN590L Lexile
Subject King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Graphic novels.
Added Author Roshell, John, letterer.
YouNeek Studios, illustrator.
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MANY questions of selection and annotation were discussed with Dr. W. H. Clawson of the University of Toronto. Information concerning cowboy life was received from Mr. and Mrs. Will A. Emmert, formerly of Delta county, Colorado, as well as from Professor Lomax of the University of Texas. The manuscript was read and criticized by Professor Albert F. Kuersteiner of Indiana University, Mr. Joseph S. Ragsdale, principal of the McCracken County (Kentucky) High School, Mr. Garnet G. Dodds of the Emmerich Manual Training High School of Indianapolis, Miss Selma A. Stempel of the Fort Madison (Iowa) High School, and the General Editor of the series. Professor Cross's suggestions saved the section of new Ballads from spiritual resemblance to life in Tantallon Castle. The indebtedness to Child and Gummere is infinite.
Cordial thanks are due besides to the living authors and their publishers, whose permission to use copyrighted matter is duly noted in loco.
So far as this volume is mine to do with, I dedicate it to my parents and my wife, in the name of that Tradition through which days are Bound each to each by natural piety."
G. H. ST.


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Beyett, Melvin D. "Mel" Essexville, MI Mel, surrounded by his family, passed away peacefully, Tuesday, December 8, 2020 after a courageous battle with COVID at the age of 77. He was born in Bay City Michigan August 14, 1943 to the late Joseph L. and Cecelia M. (Drzeweicki) Beyett. He married the former Cheryl Tacey on November 28, 1964 and she survives him. He was a hardworking, dedicated, loving and supportive, husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend. Mel and his wife Cheryl have been the proud owners of Alert Lanes and Mel's Diner since 1975. Mel spent a large portion of his life doing what he loved to do, and was currently in his 60th season in the bowling industry. Although he had many achievements, he was especially proud of being inducted into the Bay City Bowling Hall of Fame in 2007. Mel loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren whom he loved very much. He and Cheryl enjoyed traveling and taking many car rides to "Lost in Michigan" places. He loved riding motorcycles and belonged to the Harley Owners Group and Gold Wing Club. Mel truly loved and lived for his family and friends, often saying that many of his customers were not only friends, but family as well. He has touched many lives and will be missed by many. He is survived by Cheryl, his wife of 56 years; children, Jeffrey Beyett and Lisa (Dale) Hofmeister Jr.; grandchildren, Sydney and Blake Beyett, Kendyl and Braedyn Hofmeister; sister, Joan Yeomans; brother-in-law, Virgil (Virginia) Tacey Jr.; and special niece, Jennifer Guoan Levengood. He was predeceased by his brothers, Joseph Beyett Jr. and Robert Beyett. Per Mel's wishes, cremation has taken place, and due to the current COVID restrictions, a Celebration of Life is being planned for a later date. In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider Memorial Contributions to the Wishes of the Family. Mel's family would like to extend a special Thank You to the nurses and physicians for the care and compassion shared with Mel and his family during this difficult time. To sign online guestbook, visit www.hyattewald.com
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Geoff Keighley reminds you of Summer Game Fest as E3 2022 goes online-only
January 6, 2022 by Perry
E3 will once again be an online-only event, as organising body the Entertainment Software Association has now confirmed. The group cites continued concerns around COVID-19 outbreaks as the reason, though the Consumer Electronics Show has gone ahead in Las Vegas this week. The Game Developers Conference is still scheduled to take place in San Francisco this March.
"Due to the ongoing health risks surrounding COVID-19 and its potential impact on the safety of exhibitors and attendees, E3 will not be held in person in 2022," the ESA says in a statement provided to GamesBeat. "We are nonetheless excited about the future of E3 and look forward to announcing more details soon."
Geoff Keighley took the opportunity for one of his now-trademark cheeky jabs at modern E3, reminding the world that "Summer Game Fest returns summer 2022" in a tweet. The event had already been confirmed ahead of The Game Awards in December, and there are certainly more places than E3 to get your mid-summer gaming announcements these days.
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Solutions and Other Problems
Hardcover – Illustrated, September 22, 2020
by Allie Brosh (Author)
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays.
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.
This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art. Solutions and Other Problems marks the return of a beloved American humorist who has "the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian" (Bill Gates).
Praise for Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half:
"Imagine if David Sedaris could draw….Enchanting." —People
"One of the best things I've ever read in my life." —Marc Maron
"Will make you laugh until you sob, even when Brosh describes her struggle with depression." —Entertainment Weekly
"I would gladly pay to sit in a room full of people reading this book, merely to share the laughter." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"In a culture that encourages people to carry mental illness as a secret burden….Brosh's bracing honesty is a gift." —Chicago Tribune
"Brosh's storytelling is so distinctive and compelling it's like suddenly running in to a friend you feared was lost forever . . . [She] reliably channels the simplicity of a child or the innocence of an animal and tells raucous, heartbreaking stories that reflect the hidden parts of us all . . . For Brosh's millions of fans, this is well worth the wait."
"Gut-busting . . . . Like a millennial James Thurber, Brosh has a knack for seeding a small, choice detail that snowballs into existential chaos . . . [Her] spidery and demented digital portraits, a visual expression of fun-house mirror anxiety, fits her material perfectly. . . This achingly accurate and consistently hilarious comic memoir finds Brosh moving forward and becoming a stronger, braver storyteller page by page."
"Through it all, [Brosh] is refreshingly vulnerable and honest. In trying to overcome her weaknesses, by spending a night alone in the woods, she reminds us that it's okay not to be okay ... Another standout from Brosh that is both heartening and heartbreaking."
—Library Journal, Starred Review
"Brosh alternates sorrow with levity—funny childhood stories, more animal tales, and general musings on life and its lack of meaning or fairness—with grace that feels true to life."
"The book an author produces after a wildly popular debut has all eyes on it. Fear not, Allie Brosh fans: Solutions and Other Problems is every bit as hilarious and slyly poignant as 2013's Hyperbole and a Half. Starting with the time she got stuck in a bucket at age 3, Brosh's autobiographical comics thrust her into a variety of insane and sometimes heartbreaking scenes. She battles anxiety, depression, annoying neighbors . . . and somehow, it cheers you right up."
Allie Brosh is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half, which was named the Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Humor Book of the Year. Brosh has also given herself many prestigious awards, including "fanciest horse drawing" and "most likely to succeed." HyperboleandaHalf.blogspot.com
Hardcover : 528 pages
Publisher : Gallery Books; Illustrated edition (September 22, 2020)
Dimensions : 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches