Thanks again, Dakini for sharing your skill, warmth and knowledge with me in such a delightful way.
I will visit you again for another session the next opportunity I have to come to your city. I would love to spend even longer with you next time if that works for you.
After meeting you, I now know a longer session would leave me with even greater positive feelings.
Your new devotee,
Fred, Toronto
Oddly enough, my new-age type business colleague first introduced me to a book on Tantra. I didn’t really have any sex problems but I was very curious about this idea of multiple orgasms for men. I liked what I read but was nervous about trying it with a new woman. I tried it was with a partner who had also read the book, but I felt awkward. I knew how to do the dance steps but I didn’t have the rhythm or flow of the dance. Once I started seeing Dakini Bliss, the Goddess took me into the dance and I experienced first-hand what the book discussed. Four weeks laters, I’m practicing tantra with my girlfriend…it’s awesome. I feel blessed to have discovered these these lovemaking skills at the age of 28. Most other guys my age are still in the jump-on/jump-off mode! Not me…I love taking my time int he tantric way.
Ever seen Sweet Smell of Success? If you haven’t then you should: because, even though the film was shot in 1957, it rings far too much, and far too loudly, in 2012.
In a nutshell, Sweet Smell of Success (directed by Alexander Mackendrick from a script by the amazing Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman) is about the all-powerful columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) – who can make or break anyone and anything he wants — and the desperate press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), who loses everything for trying to curry favor with Hunsecker for … well, that Sweet Smell of Success.
So … 1957 to 2012. A lot’s changed, that’s for sure. But recently rewatching this, one of my all-time favorite films, gave me a very uncomfortable chill. But first a bit of history (stop that groaning): you see, J.J. Hunsecker was based – more than thinly – on another all-powerful columnist, the man who once said, about the who he was, and the power he wielded as, “I’m just a son of a bitch.”
There was even a word, created by Robert Heinlein of all people, to describe a person like this: winchell – for the man himself — Walter Winchell.
A book, movie, star, politician – anyone who wanted success would do, and frequently did, anything for both Walter and his fictional doppelganger J.J. Hunsecker. Their power was absolute … even a rumor, a fraction of a sentence could mean the difference between headlines and the morgue of a dead career. As Hunsecker puts it to a poor entertainer who crossed him: “You’re dead, son. Get yourself buried.”
Welcome to 2012: we have iPhones, Ipads, Nooks, Kindle’s, 4G, Bluetooth, Facebook, Twitter … in many ways we’re just a food pill away from every futuristic fantasy ever put-to-pulp. But there’s a problem … and it’s a big one.
I think it’s time to bring winchellback … not the man, of course, even if that were possible, but the word. Yes, a lot has changed from Walter and Sweet Smell of Success but, sadly, as the old cliché goes: “the more things change the more they stay the same.”
The Internet has altered – quite literally – everything, but in many ways the speed, and totality, of its change has made a lot of people, writers to readers to just-plain-surfers, desperate for benchmarks: a place or person to go to that, they hope, will be there in the morning.
For writers this often means an editor, site, or just another writer. In the ‘biz’ these people are called names: meaning that mentioning by them seems to have a kind of rub-for-luck power for other writers – with the ultimate prize being (gasp) noticedby them. Sadly, this make-or-break mojo is occasionally true – though a surprising large number of these “names” are only divine in their twisted little minds.
I’ve said it before and so, naturally, I have to say it again: writing anything – smut to whatever you want to create – is damned hard work: all of us writers put our heart and souls down on the digital page and then send it out into a far-too-frequently uncaring digital universe. No writer … let me say that again with vehement emphasis … is better than any other writer. Sure, a few get paid more, have more books or stories published, but the work involved is the same – as is their history: name any … well, nameand you will see a person who, once upon a time, was sitting in the dark with nothing but hopes and dreams.
Which is why these … winchells give me unpleasant flashbacks to Lancaster telling Curtis: “Son, I don’t relish shooting a mosquito with an elephant gun, so why don’t you just shuffle along?”
Honestly, I will get to the point: never forget that what you are doing, as a writer, is special and wonderful. Yeah, you might be rough around the edges; sure, you may be years away from stepping out of the shadows and into the blinding light of being (gasp) a nameyourself; but you deserve respect.
I have a simple rule. Okay, it might be a little harsh but it keeps me going in the face of trying to get out there into the big, wide, and far-too-uncaring world: ignore me and I ignore you.
Facebook likes and comments, twitter responses, by the way, don’t count. That’s not communication – at least not to me (not to sound like a crotchety old man). If I write anyone – an editor, site, or just another writer – and I don’t get an answer then I wish you into the cornfield. The same goes with rude responses … like the writer who asked me to promote her book. I said that I would if she’d promote mine as well. Quid pro quo, right? She never wrote back – not even after a few polite suggestions for mutual exposure … so I hope she likes popcorn.
Being rude, not answering messages, playing the “are you a name? If not then screw you” game: there is no reason for this behavior. Never!
Instead of trying to suck to up names or support them and their sites with a pathetic fantasy that you, too, may actually be seen by them, find some real, true, and good friends: people who will hold your hand when it gets dark and scary; who will bring you along no matter where they go; who understand the bumps in the road because they, too, are on the same path; who will understand kindness but also karma – that good begets good.
Being a winchell may taste good, at first: being able to consider yourself better than other writers, to associate with other names in the business, to be able to make – or break – anyone who want for whatever reason you have … but there’s a great Hollywood expression that rings in my head just as loudly as any line from Sweet Smell of Success:
Always be nice to the people you meet on the way up, because those are the very same people you’ll be meeting on the way back down.
In closing, remember that anyone, anywhere – nameor not — who doesn’t treat you with at least professional equality, mutual respect, or just simple human politeness is, to quote from Sweet Smell of Success: “A cookie full of arsenic.”
Le soleil pointe son petit nez timide et voici le temps de la nouvelle collection BigBeauty pour Taillissime!
Ma 5ème collaboration avec La Redoute pour une nouvelle capsule de la taille 42 au 60.
Et cette saison j’ai eu envie de vous surprendre avec une collection de maillots de bain que j’ai nommé
“Cupcake”
Vous aviez été nombreuses à me réclamer des maillots de bain et c’est cette idée que j’ai soumis à La Redoute pour cette nouvelle saison, un exercice loin d’être facile, mais que j’ai tenté de relevé entouré de l’équipe des stylistes spécialistes chez Taillissime. J’ai imaginé une collection très actuelle dans les couleurs mais avec les codes du rétro que j’aime beaucoup pour la plage.
Sous l’objectif de la talentueuse photographe Pauline Darley, 2 mannequins m’ont accompagné pour ce shooting. Christelle que vous connaissez déjà, car fidèle depuis quelques saisons à présent et une nouvelle jolie BB que j’ai découvert en casting “sauvage”, Colombe.
La collection “Cupcake“ sera disponible sur le site www.taillissime.fr dès le 15 mai prochain, à peine 5 jours à attendre pour craquer sur ces gourmandises fruités et ensoleillées.
La capsule contient 3 maillots de bain dont 1 tankini rétro en psycho red (rouge fluo) et en noir, 1 maillot baigneur en taupe et bretelles corail fluo, 1 maillot de bain croisé vert pastel à pois blanc ainsi que 2 robes en voile de coton pour l’été.
Rendez-vous mardi ici sur le blog pour découvrir toutes les photos et autres infos sur la 5e caspule BigBeauty pour Taillissime ainsi qu’un joli concours à la clé!
Et pour vous mettre l’eau à la bouche voici le making off de la journée de shooting qui s’est déroulé dans la bonne humeur absolue:
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Curator’s Office has announced the
release of two new prints by Tom Green
from his acclaimed Of This World
body of work recently exhibited in
April at Curator’s Office. The two
works were printed by the renowned
master printer David Adamson of Adamson Editions.
TOM
GREEN
Of
This World 8 (left)
Of
This World 6 (right)
archival
pigment print on natural watercolor
paper, 330 gsm
28″
x 20″ paper size
edition
of 25
2012
For
further information on these two
prints, please contact Curator’s
Office at 202.387.1008 or info@curatorsoffice.com.
Of This
World includes 8 of the last
works on paper that the artist made
in 2011, prior to being diagnosed
with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). The
suite is a lyrical compendium of the
glyphic work the artist is so
well-known for. A horizon line
unites the entire body of work, but
his continued preoccupation with the
semiotics of symbolic form is lucid,
restrained, and powerful.
Tom
Green began working with the glyph
forms in the late sixties, while he
was taking Pre-Columbian courses. He
says, “Studying the Mayan culture, I
was struck by the glyphic carvings
and drawings that seemed so
inventive yet puzzling. So I began
writing notes in a glyphic script to
my friends, not copying the Mayan
forms but trying to create my own
forms that would resonate in a
contemporary mind. Around 1987,
casting about for a new direction, I
tried painting a canvas covered with
glyphs. The glyphs are not a
language. (I try not to repeat
forms) but rather a series of
discreet forms that are to be
interpreted individually. Most are
not abstract but derive from the
sensory experiences of daily life.”
J.W.Mahoney
writes, “The most obviously
recognizable element in Tom
Green’s eight paper pieces is
something that another master
abstractionist, Mark Rothko,
couldn’t avoid: the horizon. Tom
Green’s facing a horizon we all
will, that of leaving our
circumstantial world for that
beyond our personal life. Tom’s
working both sides of this line,
so far, as his work reflects. But
these pieces are still of this
world, as Tom is.”
An opportunity to hang as
much artwork as possible in a space 10ft x 4ft for the month of August at
Touchstone Gallery a contemporary gallery in the heart of Washington, DC.
Digital images of all artwork required with application.
There will be room for
only 38 artists; each space about 10ft high x 4ft and 1 floor space for
sculptor 5ft x 5ft. $240 hanging fee; work to be hung by their hanging committee.
No entry fee is required. Must submit filled out application form that can be downloaded
at www.touchstonegallery.com
and e-mail it to images.touchstone@gmail.com along with images
of the works you intend to show.
Full Prospectus, Application form and other
information are available for download on Touchstone’s website: www.touchstonegallery.com
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I’m heading to Indy today, still in the whirlwind of pre-vacation preparations, and I haven’t packed a single thing yet. Sometimes I think it’d be easier to just stay home. But, of course, I won’t. ;)
Went to see The Avengers last night. Excellent movie! As always, RDJ stole the show.
Although that Hawk fellow was an interesting character. I mean, check out those veins!
Not surprisingly, our friend Kendra Castle is a big fan of Loki. She always did like the bad boys.
Loki isn’t in this picture, but from this we can assume that Chris Hemsworth is the tallest of the bunch and probably has a YD to match.
Just a thought…
You didn’t REALLY think I’d leave you without a naked hunk, did you????
Finally you can now make your Cuban or Cuban-American’s dreams come true! Cuba’s brutal dictator and for over 50 years the suffocater [[Verb] To stifle; to destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate] of the Cuban people, deserves to be in the mierda tanks of history.
Full roll of toilet paper with Fidel Castro’s face on every sheet. Ideal for parties, reunions or for plain personal pleasure. Order more than one. The ideal gift for your Cuban friend.
Holy Oil from Psalm 23! All the way from Israel! Healing nearly everything! Free giveaway! – a rather interesting 14th century commercial playing on Univision tonight…