![]() ![]() ![]() Hideaki Anno’s 1988 OVA classic Gunbuster: Aim for the Top! explores similar ideas of cosmic time dilation, but approaches the idea with an entirely different voice, tone, and style, one wholly characteristic of the unpredictable auteur who would go on to create Neon Genesis Evangelion. ![]() For this short, he worked almost entirely alone, crafting a visually striking and narratively poignant story of two high school sweethearts separated by a cosmic expanse of space and time, communicating via cell phone as one’s adventures in distant space cause them to age at completely different rates. First up is Voices of a Distant Star, the debut short film of Makoto Shinkai, who would go on to direct globally acclaimed hits like Your Name (2016) and Weathering With You (2019). In this week’s very special Double Feature, we have two early works by two major anime auteurs. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Zero fail the rise and fall![]() ![]() "Cassidy Hutchinson presents as one of the most credible witnesses possible in this way," Leonnig said. She also spoke about the credibility of Hutchinson. ![]() ![]() Leonnig also reflected on the reputation of the lead agent on Trump's detail, Engel, and former deputy Chief of Staff Ornato and their relationship with the then-president. "However, if they testify, under oath, 'this is what happened,' I think that is going to be important." "I am not saying that Tony Ornato or Bobby Engel did that but they are viewed as being aligned with Donald Trump, which cuts against them. ![]() "Some of them even took to their personal media accounts to cheer on the insurrection and the individuals rioting up to the Capitol, as patriots. "There was a very large contingent of Donald Trump's detail who were personally cheering for Biden to fail," she said. Leonnig, who has written a book on the Secret Service, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of The Secret Service, said it was "problematic" some of Trump's detail appeared to support the rioters on January 6. Hutchinson made multiple claims regarding the former President's actions and insisted that he demanded to go to the Capitol after the riots began, getting into an altercation with his security detail. Here is our conversation with, who literally wrote the book on the Secret Service, about the questions surrounding Cassidy Hutchinson's recounting of the story of Donald Trump lunging for the steering wheel when he found out he wasn't going to the Capitol. ![]() ![]() Stalinism was also marked by militant atheism, mass anti-religious persecution, and ethnic cleansing through forced deportations. The most notorious examples were the Great Purge and the Dekulakization campaign. This resulted in mass repression of such people and their families, including mass arrests, show trials, executions, and imprisonment in forced labour and concentration camps known as gulags. Stalin's regime forcibly purged society of what it saw as threats to itself and its brand of communism (so-called " enemies of the people"), which included political dissidents, non- Soviet nationalists, the bourgeoisie, better-off peasants (" kulaks"), and those of the working class who demonstrated " counter-revolutionary" sympathies. After Stalin's death and the Khrushchev Thaw, a period of de-Stalinization began in the 1950s and 1960s, which caused the influence of Stalin's ideology begin to wane in the USSR. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country (until 1939), collectivization of agriculture, intensification of class conflict, a cult of personality, and subordination of the interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, deemed by Stalinism to be the leading vanguard party of communist revolution at the time. Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not a single one of them ends the book the way they began the story or the series, and their conclusions will shock you no matter how much you think you know what’s coming. Each member of Alphabet Squadron goes through more growth and emotional turmoil over the course of this novel than perhaps any Star Wars characters have ever had the opportunity to before. ![]() The Alphabet Squadron series is just one beautiful, tragic page after the next, and the trilogy’s conclusion takes everything from a 10 to a 12. With Lieutenant Yrica Quell having turned coat again back to the Empire, the remaining Alphabet Squadron members, led by General Hera Syndula, must stop the 204th, Shadow Wing, at all costs.Īlexander Freed is perhaps the most affecting and devastating Star Wars writer right now. But before the Empire’s final defeat, Colonel Soren Keize and his 204th Imperial Fighter Wing must fulfill the late Emperor Palpatine’s last will and testament: a second Operation Cinder. In the dying days of the Galactic Civil war, sometime after Endor but before the military conclusion at Jakku, the Imperial Remnant is gasping its last breaths. ![]() The audiobook edition is narrated by January LaVoy and published by Random House Audio. Victory’s Price is the grand conclusion to Star Wars’ Alphabet Squadron trilogy by Alexander Freed with cover art by Jeff Langevin and published by Del Rey. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Doctor Who by Lawrence Miles![]() ![]() The New Adventures: Dead Romance (London: Virgin Publishing, 1999).The New Adventures: Down (London: Virgin Publishing, 1997). ![]() Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Christmas on a Rational Planet (London: Doctor Who Books, 1996).This series took on a life of its own, eventually losing – probably for legal reasons – the tenuous links it had had to Doctor Who. The Paradox Faction, originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor books, were developed by Miles initially using characters and settings from Doctor Who. With Tat Wood he co-authored the first five volumes of the series companion The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who, later continued by Wood alone. His most influential work has been in the Doctor Who: Eight Doctor sequence the four-volume story arc beginning with Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor: Alien Bodies ( 1997) and closing with Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street ( 2001), perhaps because it does not novelize a prior Television sequence, shakes off some of the claustrophobic introversion typical of its hundreds of stablemates, offering some genuine Space Opera, with a soupçon of speculative matter, in its stead. ![]() After some early work in Comics, he began his main association with Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Christmas on a Rational Planet ( 1996). ![]() (1972- ) UK author best known for his significant contributions to the Doctor Who universe, though he has occasionally published unconnected work. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Stitches by David Small![]() “When I started making it a graphic, it started coming back,” he says. He’d been having bad dreams and knew he had to write something, but he couldn’t dredge up the memories. No one told him he had cancer- no one told him anything.Īn acclaimed illustrator of children’s books, Small says his early attempts to write his memoir as prose got him nowhere. He underwent not one but two surgeries and woke up missing half his vocal cords, unable to speak. At age 14, his parents finally took him to get the cyst removed. ![]() A doctor friend diagnosed him with a cyst at age 11. When David developed a lump on his neck, no one seemed worried. As a boy, Small had sinus problems his father, a radiologist, treated him with X-rays, state of the art at the time. ![]() The book describes Small’s gothic-horror childhood, his weird, remote parents and deranged grandmother and the catastrophe that shaped his young life. Reached at his home in Menden, in the southwest corner of the state, David Small says, “It’s a gray day in Michigan.” Gray seems appropriate for the conversation somehow, discussing Stitches, Small’s grim, deeply affecting graphic memoir, in bright sunshine would feel wrong. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Constance matthew fitzsimmons![]() There was one idea that stood out for me. And the questions cloning raises are numerous and troubling. The world-building is solid and believable. Besides the excellent writing, it’s the research that makes this novel enjoyable. Despite missing eighteen months of memories, she goes in search of answers. And like the first Constance, she’s independent and fearless. In classic whodunnit form, Con D’Arcy’s clone awakens because her original is dead. In Constance by Matthew Fitzsimmons, human cloning exists, although it comes with a few glitches. ![]() And when you wrap it in a sci-fi thriller about human clones, it sings. The idea of a character hunting their killer is powerful. My introduction to the story of a person attempting to solve their own murder came when I saw the outstanding 1949 noir classic D.O.A., starring Edmond O’Brien. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Kokoro by soseki![]() ![]() Through the tortured and melancholy character of Sensei, Natsume showed the alienation and guilt that he himself felt personally from his separation from the traditional ethics of Japan, along with his struggle to find a solution. ![]() In his novel, Natsume deals primarily with the psychological and ethical problems dealt with by the Meiji era intellectuals, who had to reconcile their Confucian dedication to the public with the individualism imported from the West, and the new unabashedly individualistic tide of thought which had emerged even while Meiji was alive. That year, two years had passed since the death of Emperor Meiji, under whose rule Japan saw its first period of intense modernization, and in two years Natsume himself would be dead. Kokoro (こゝろ), written by the famous Japanese author Natsume Soseki, was published in serial form by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, for which he worked, in 1914. ![]() ![]() ![]() ¿Qué vamos a encontrar en este tomo? Despúes de los acontecimientos ocurridos en navidad y año nuevo, la clase de Sawako reinicia su segundo periodo y en el nuevo grupo los viejos amigos se reencuentran, sin embargo hay un chico nuevo llamado Kento Miura que de inmediato parece sentirse atraído e intrigado por la personalidad de Sawako y por el empeño que pone en llevarse bien con sus compañeros, esta repentina atención hace que Kazehaya se sienta celoso pero también de que se de cuenta de una enorme realidad: el siempre se ha sentido cercano a Sawako por ser el primero que le habló pero la realidad es que la vergüenza y el sentimiento de que sus intenciones no son correspondidas han hecho que levante un muro entre Sawako y el, por lo que las personas que realmente conocen a la joven son sus amigas Yano y Chizu. ![]() ![]() ![]() "With traditional glued on paper, walls are often skim coated, sanded, and primed," says Kristina Phillips of Kristina Phillips Interior Design in Ridgewood, N.J. First and foremost, you need to assess the condition of your walls. But there are some things to consider before diving into this project. ![]() "Peel and stick wallpaper is the obvious choice for renters and those who want a temporary change, however it's also a great choice for DIYers who might be intimidated by traditional wall paper installation," says Nadia Watts of Nadia Watts Interior Design in Denver, Colo.īeyond being easier to remove, peel and stick wallpaper is also simple to install. But if you're not ready to commit to a permanent option, which can be very difficult to remove, peel and stick wallpapers are a great solution. Whether it's for an accent wall or an entire room, wallpaper is an easy way to add color and texture to any space. ![]() |