Now Maar is once again advancing on Urtho's Keep, this time with a huge force spearheaded by magical constructs of his own-cruel birds of prey ready to perform any evil their creator may demand of them. He is the fulfillment of everything that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm-a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Maar. Courageous, bold, and crafty, Skan is everything a gryphon should be. Skandranon Rashkae is perhaps the finest specimen of his race, with gleaming ebony feathers, majestic wingspan, keen magesight and sharp intelligence. It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, and magic is still a wild and uncontrolled force.
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Ends here m robinsonI have Flowers ranked highest of the three, but I’m least impressed with his situation in BAL, where receivers go to die. Pick your poison at 1.07 – 1.09 from the trio of receivers. This creates solid value for managers at 1.05 and 1.06 who should have a chance at Jaxon Smith-Njigba or Jahmyr Gibbs. Picks 1.03 – 1.06 will likely remain need-based picks, with priority given to both Bryce Young and C.J. SuperFlex managers won’t be able to resist the intrigue. I continue to devalue running backs across all my builds though Robinson remains my 1.01.Īnthony Richardson is now clearly the second-overall selection in SuperFlex, though he remains high-risk, high reward. Additionally, running backs remain on the decline and I’m not ready to suggest that Tyler Allgeier, a 1,000-yard rusher for the Falcons last year, isn’t going to have a very material role as a rusher, allowing Robinson to be far more active as a receiver. Let’s get to my post NFL draft SuperFlex rookie mock draft! Round 1īijan Robinson remains the top choice without much question unless you have a dire need at quarterback, in which case trade back to net additional assets. It’s really a fascinating rookie draft scenario which should keep dynasty managers well engaged into, and potentially through, the third round. Beyond those 10 players, the same wide band plays out below. The inclusion of the top quarterbacks pushes the top-tier player depth to nine - 10 if you also include Will Levis. You SuperFlex managers will be happy to see my focus on the format with this mock draft. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Swim the Fly by Don CalameAnd even his twin sister’s gothed-out best friend, Nessa, is looking at Sean in a whole new way. There’s the wicked hot actress from drama class, Leyna, who seems willing to do anything to land the starring role. There’s his accidental-girlfriend-turned-psychotic-stalker, Evelyn. Suddenly Sean is juggling not one but three interested ladies. But when he agrees to write a script about the attack of zombie-vampire humanzees, he has no idea just how powerful a chick magnet this movie will be. But he actually is desperate for cash - and for a way to wipe that big fat L off his girlfriend-less forehead. What’s the new master plan? Making a cheapo horror movie guaranteed to make Coop, Sean, and Matt filthy rich! It’s a terrible idea, and Sean knows it. action! As the uproarious trio returns, sensitive Sean takes the spotlight - scripting a low-low-budget film while fielding unexpected female fans.Ĭoop is cooking up another sure-misfire scheme (big surprise), and this time the comedy plays out from Sean’s point of view. And yet his legacy as a Bay Area icon had only been cemented over the last decade or so. 7, at the age of 76, of complications from Alzheimer's, had been retired from his job hosting Creature Features on Oakland's Channel 2 (KTVU) for 30 years. In the same deadpan tone, looking directly into the camera, he says: "Don't stay up late. Could that flash of anarchist glee have been a red herring? Will there be no payoff delivered tonight? He introduces himself and the show, and then begins to describe tonight's movie. There's the slightest hint of a grin for a moment on his otherwise neutral face, like a prankster savoring the moment of anticipation.Īt home, his fans recognize that little grin, and they are waiting for something unexpected, something different. He could almost be an executive for some low-rent button-down 1970s company.Īnd yet, with his thick glasses, his groovy haircut and his trademark cigar, he radiates cool. There is no monster makeup on his face, no costume, none of the trademark shtick one would expect from a TV horror host. With his matching yellow shirt and tie underneath a light brown suit, he looks startlingly conservative. Bob Wilkins sits in a yellow rocking chair on the set of Creature Features, the weekly show he hosts Saturday nights on the Bay Area's Channel 2. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Duino elegy 1In "Duino Elegies" it seems as if Rilke is explaining the meaning of his life indirectly to God through divine messengers the presence of whom we can scarcely sense. Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator David Young, “to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear.” He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then went inside to continue what was to be his major opus-completely only after another ten, tormented years of effort-and one of the literary masterpieces of the century. From out of the fierce wind, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders?). One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Evicted novelWhen Key loses her battle with cancer, that sets them adrift grief creates its own mini-diasporas. Eviction, school expulsion, job searches and loss, desire to experience life and art, and finally death scatter them. In their own way, each feels stuck yet is moving, often against their will. And indeed dislocation is the norm for the characters in White’s saga of an African American family in New York City. Audrey can see spirits, a sometimes unwelcome ability she passed on to her daughter, Key.īlack women like Audrey have long been the most likely tenants to face eviction in the US. Nineteenth-century ghosts look for freedom. Audrey’s lover parks himself in a chair in her apartment as if he hadn’t left her – or died – long before. A woman in a nightgown watches over her young son outside a Brooklyn strip mall. As the reader travels in time with Audrey, her daughter and her grandson, spirits keep returning or flat-out refuse to leave. But the supernatural jostles with the ordinary in We Are a Haunting, a much-anticipated debut novel from the Mississippi-by-way-of-New York author Tyriek White. Eviction is a quotidian kind of bureaucratic violence. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Av geigerIt’s Only Temporary is a new release from Hachette Audiobooks: Powered by Wattpad - an innovative collaboration between Hachette Book Group, a leading publisher, and Wattpad, a passionate storytelling community of over 45 million people.
The style has a retro feel, as the stories are set in the 1960s, but it’s modern enough that kids won’t groan and say: history. Eisner Award-winning writer Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel) and artist Brittney Williams (Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat) present the newest. Rich colors are used throughout, helping the artwork pop. The whole cast of characters gel together to create a mystery that’s not spooky but full of intrigue, with some fantastical elements as well. Yet her wonderfully supportive friends and family tend to forgive her easily.Īll the characters, like Goldie’s parents, Walter the in-house detective, and Agent Ladner from the FBI, are well drawn and consistent throughout the series. For a teen who wants to solve mysteries, she isn’t all that keenly aware of how her actions affect the people around her. Goldie is a bit self-indulgent and into herself. Much like Nancy Draw, Goldie Vance leans heavily on her friends, Cheryl and Diane (who is also a romantic interest). In volume 4, Sugar, Goldie’s arch nemesis hires her to find out who is sabotaging her racing car. In volume 3, unknown saboteurs threaten the big music festival that the hotel is hosting. While the girls uncover who the girl is and where she came from, they are put in unexpected danger. In volume 2, Goldie and Cheryl find someone in an astronaut suit washed up on the beach. As soon as Goldie finds them, the hotel guest goes missing. While the victim claims his jewels are priceless, they seem to be worthless. In the first volume, a collection of issues 1-4, there is a theft in the hotel. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Ralph ellison novelThe first lines of “Invisible Man” have become among the best known in American literature: “What did I do,” asked the plaintive refrain, “to be so black and blue?” Eliot and the psychological myth of James Joyce.Įllison found the impetus and strength to respond to the stereotype in the popular music of his day, saying years later that blues singer Jimmy Rushing “represented, gave voice to, something which was very affirming of Negro life, feelings which you couldn’t really put into words.”īut it was a Fats Waller lyric that he credited with driving him to focus the painful introspection of autobiography that was evidenced in “Invisible Man.” His contention that American blacks were invisible because they were seen only as stereotypes, was couched in the classic, stylistic tumult of T.S. Ellison himself was not only a sensitive youth in some conflict with his color, but an English scholar fascinated with the literature of his time. The annoyance on her face transformed to respect when she saw me, and she straightened as she lowered her gaze. Clara’s purple hair stuck out at all angles, matching the shadows under her eyes. Footsteps followed, and I could smell the distinct signature of Clara, cloves and orange.Ī moment later, she pulled open the door and stared out at us groggily. From within, a thump sounded, as if someone were falling out of bed. “Here.” I stopped by a narrow green door and pushed it open, then climbed the steps to the third floor.Įve followed closely, stopping just behind me and watching as I knocked on the door. I used the club for the monthly fights-the one release I allowed my wolf, besides runs in the Highlands-but never drank there. They were overserving at Pandemonium, no doubt. The narrow space was cobblestoned and damp, smelling faintly of vomit. I led her to an alley between Pandemonium and the shop next door. No need to have the Alpha accompanying me.” |