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Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for September 14
Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking today in entertainment.
Norm Macdonald, a staple on “Saturday Night Live,” died Tuesday following a nine-year battle with cancer. He was 61.
Just minutes after news of his death broke, many of his industry peers and friends took to social media to pay tribute to Macdonald, who was able to bring context to the most pressing social topics and garnered the respect of those around the comedy scene.
“Norm, I didn’t just like you. I loved you,” Rob Schneider tweeted. “You didn’t just make me laugh. You made me cry with laughter. I’m still crying today. But when I think of you, my tears will run down my face with all the memories of all the laughter and all the joys that you brought to all of us. Rest.”
Adam Sandler wrote, “Every one of us loved Norm. Some of the hardest laughs of my life with this man. Most fearless funny original guy we knew. An incredible dad. A great friend. A legend. Love u pal.”
Actor Giacomo Gianniotti tweeted, “Norm Macdonald was in a complete league of his own. Every person in our industry knows this. I am devastated by his passing. His work inspired me and so many other Canadians growing up. Rest easy.”
Norm Macdonald, a staple on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ died Tuesday following a 9-year battle with cancer. He was 61.
(Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Paul Scheer recalled his funniest Macdonald moment and shared a YouTube video of the comedian during an appearance on “Conan” back in 1997.
“I saw this @ConanOBrien when I was still in High School and I don’t think I ever laughed as hard as I did when I was seeing this live, @normmacdonald was a genius.”
Seth Rogen also struggled to contain his emotions after learning of Macdonald’s passing.
“Oh f–k. I was a huge fan of Norm Macdonald and I essentially ripped off his delivery when I first started acting,” he tweeted. “I would stay up specifically to watch him on talk shows. He was the funniest guest of all time. We lost a comedy giant today. One of the all time greats. RIP.”
Added funnywoman Sarah Silverman: “Norm was in a comedy genre of his own. No one like him on this plane,” she wrote before encouraging others to “please do yourself a favor and watch his stuff. He was one of a kind of all time.”
Writer Sean O’Neal even shared chilling pages from the final chapter of Norm Macdonald’s book in which O’Neal said he believed would “make for a fine eulogy.”
“I swear I didn’t mean anything by it,” O’Neal added in retrospect. “But they do.”
Former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, wrote: “Norm @normmacdonald was a great talent, and I loved laughing with him on SNL. *Bob Dole* will miss Norm Macdonald.”
Fox News’ Mariah Haas contributed to this report
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The one tree on the property with colored autumn foliage has really been putting on a show. The variety of colors in the leaves fascinates me.
A small potted orchid which is still blooming - the blossoms are only about an inch / 2-3 cm in size and such an unusual color.
Starfruit, known locally as carambola. There is a tree on the grounds and I found this fruit so I thought I would try it. Unfortunately when I cut it, it had enough bruised parts that the cross sections didn't look pretty enough to photograph, and the taste - ugh, it tasted like oxalis, which we called "sourgrass" when I was a child. Maybe it's better cooked, like rhubarb.
Amazing moth I found in my house. To my eye, it looked dark green and iridescent, but when I photographed it, WOW! Look at the colors on its "feathers". Amazing.

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text: Hey kids! We’re having a Halloween coloring contest! Come in to the library and pick up this cute Halloween coloring page. Color it here or take it home to color and bring it back later. We will hang all the pages on the bulletin board by the front door and choose one randomly to win a fun Halloween prize!

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The IP Center's broader goals and objectives include advancing the law of intellectual property, advocating and stimulating reform through scholarship and programs, and providing meaningful, non-redundant assistance and support to the numerous constituencies in various areas of intellectual property law, including inventors, authors, artists, corporate IP departments, IP owners, IP litigators, judges, legal academics, university research departments, consultants, experts, and others.
The IP Center promotes student education and scholarship in intellectual property, providing an extensive IP curriculum taught by an eclectic faculty of full time and adjunct professors. The IP Center has been successful in obtaining approval for a Graduate Certificate in IP law for JD students, establishing a patent law AIPLA moot court team, creating a student awards program for outstanding IP students, instituting an IP Center Distinguished Speaker Series, facilitating new IP internships and externships for IP students. Among its many other initiatives, programs, and events, the IP Center holds a major annual symposium, each dealing with cutting edge IP issues and attracting internationally acclaimed IP figures. The IP Center has also established an international outreach initiative, meeting with groups of IP specialists from around the world. Our IP graduates include award winning private practitioners of patent, trademark, copyright, and right of publicity law, chief patent counsel of Fortune 500 companies, and IP litigators and counselors throughout Indiana and the nation.
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NO HANGING OUT
15 OCTOBER - 17 NOVEMBER
Tanya Leighton is pleased to present No Hanging Out, an exhibition of new works by the American artist Borna Sammak.
This is the artist's first exhibition in Germany. Sammak’s unique approach to mining contemporary culture – translated into video, sculpture and painting – often amounts to an overwhelming, nearly illegible accumulation of the stuff that surrounds us. Everyday life is an increasingly manic and junk-littered thing, accompanied by an incessant stream of everyone else’s half-thoughts and fleeting photos. Sammak’s works fold the fabric of life in on itself, revealing the absurdity of what surrounds us and refocusing our attention on the humorous, foreboding or revealing threads that can otherwise become lost in the white noise.
Four video loops – compiled by layering fragmented footage and digital drawing – are partially framed by baroque arrangements of flora that mirror the overabundance on screen. These ‘Video Paintings’, as the artist calls them, are built with technologically-aided gestures, drawn and mediated to the point they seem to paint themselves. The kitschy subjects hover in front of a mesh of abstracted clips lifted from YouTube, movie trailers and footage shot by the artist. As the videos undulate and loop, recognizable imagery becomes clear in what at first glance seems like a chaotic array of pure color and form.
The architecture of the gallery is likewise skewed and fractured in the exhibition’s largest work, a gray painted sculpture that twists the gallery’s two staircases into geometric abstraction. Like the prismatic architectural paintings of Lyonel Feininger made physical, or if MC Escher had a laptop and Google SketchUp at his disposal, these ‘stairs’ depicts real space made functionless. The sculpture is installed directly in front of the stairs that inspired it, and what would normally be ignored in a visit to the gallery becomes an essential point of reference.
Upstairs, in a painting consisting of hundreds of heat transferred t-shirt graphics on canvas, a litany of countercultures are represented: vaping enthusiasts, bikers, gun lovers and war hawks, armchair politicians and even nihilists. Their slogans of self-definition are reconfigured into something resembling a hyper-contemporary Dadaist poem. The messages in these graphics are familiar – we’ve seen them in cheap tourist shops or memes – but collapsed into one space, their sentiments combine into a wryly antithetical soup that co-opts meaning through recombination. What exactly could an Obamacare-loving, libertarian stoner look like?
If contemporary life feels cluttered, Sammak asks just how much overstimulation we are willing to slog through to find meaning that makes sense to us. In No Hanging Out the accumulation of visual and textual information illustrates the elusive and unfixed meaning of much of what we interact with daily. As the show’s title suggests, we are all too used to the fleeting, itinerant motion of contemporary life. Sammak’s works, in their resolute mania, compel their audience to slow down and look with renewed focus.
Borna Sammak (b. 1986, Philadelphia) graduated from New York University in 2011. Solo exhibitions include Sadie Coles (2016), American Medium, New York (2016) and JTT, New York (2012 and 2014). His work has been included in group exhibitions including 'OVERPOP', Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2016, curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Karen Smith), 'Transmission Legacies of the Television Age', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2015), and 'Analogital', Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2013). The artist lives and works in New York.

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Because there's no word better than "love," where do you go from "I love you"? I really, really love you? I love you so much? With a cherry on top? Ugh. Pretty soon, you're in Hallmark territory, quoting bad pop lyrics. Since "I love you" is as good as it gets, maybe you feel you've peaked. You might be wondering: Is this it? Do you just say the same thing, over and over, for the rest of your days? "I love you" can be scary when it seems to be a plateau and the end of something. But that's bullshit. Hopefully, "I love you" is just the beginning.
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Although not proven, it is likely that erectile dysfunction can be prevented by good general health, paying particular attention to body weight, exercise, and cigarette smoking. For example, heart disease and diabetes are problems that can cause erectile dysfunction, and both are preventable through lifestyle changes such as sensible eating and regular exercise. Furthermore, early diagnosis and treatment of associated conditions like diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol may prevent or delay erectile dysfunction, or stop the erectile dysfunction from getting more serious.
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Cardiovascular diseases: The most common cause of cardiovascular diseases in the United States is atherosclerosis, the narrowing and hardening of arteries that reduces blood flow. Atherosclerosis (a type of vascular disease) typically affects arteries throughout the body; hypertension, high blood cholesterol levels, cigarette smoking, and diabetes mellitus aggravate atherosclerosis. Hardening of the arteries to the penis and pelvic organs, atherosclerosis, causes insufficient blood flow into the penis. There is a close correlation between the severity of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries and erectile dysfunction. For example, men with more severe coronary artery atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries in the heart) also tend to have more erectile dysfunction than men with mild or no coronary artery atherosclerosis. Some doctors suggest that men with new onset erectile dysfunction undergo evaluation for silent coronary artery diseases (advanced coronary artery atherosclerosis that has not yet caused angina or heart attacks).

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Scope and Contents The Diana Korzenik Papers Collection contains a wide variety of materials, including news clippings, correspondence, contracts, journal publications, hand-written notes, manuscript drafts, DVDs, and photographs.The collection’s most significant series consists of the research writing materials created and collected by Diana Korzenik over the course of her teaching career at MassArt (1970s to 2000s). The materials show the development of Korzenik’s research interests over time and...
Dates: 1938 - 1980
Scope and Contents The materials in this collection document the activities of the MassArt galleries 1983 through 2010, with the bulk of materials focusing on the years 1989 through 2004The documents pertain to the galleries’ operations, communications, and activities. Letters included in the collection are between members of the committee and various parties, such as artists, educators, members of the public, MassArt faculty and staff, and others. A large portion of the correspondence is addressed to Jeffrey...
Dates: 1983-2010, bulk 1989-2004
Scope and Contents The papers in this collection include Full Council, Executive Board, and various subcommittee meeting minutes, agendas, and attendance; registration forms, charters, contracts, budget requests, and lists of events for student groups and their SGA student representatives; the SGA constitution and by-laws; lists of accomplishments; member contact lists; awards for Faculty and Staff; memos, flyers, emails, and other correspondence of students, faculty and staff, and others outside of MassArt. The...
Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Donald Burgy (1937-) as a part of the Studio for Interrelated Media Collection. The materials were created from 1974 to 2001, the period of time where Donald Burgy taught at the Massachusetts College of Art (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design). The materials in this collection include both items from individual classes, faculty committees, and student records. Throughout these folders there are administrative documents, correspondence,...
Scope and Contents Freelance Design Series Printed Samples Sub-Series Arranged alphabetically by project, then chronologically This series contains printed samples of Muriel R. Cooper’s freelance design work. Cooper worked with many Boston area agencies to create unique and informative pamphlets, reports, newsletters, business materials and more. Notable companies include Allied Kid Company, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, Arthur D. Little, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the Institute for Contemporary Art, and...
Scope and Contents This collection contains the records kept by Theron I. Cain throughout his life, as an artist, student, veteran, and professor. Materials were created over an 80-year period from approximately 1908-1988. Collections records pertain to Cain’s personal and professional life throughout the greater Boston Area. The bulk of the collection is of Cain’s works while teaching Drawing and Perspective at the Massachusetts Normal Art School (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) from...
Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Vincent Schofield Wickham (1894-1968), an artist, teacher, poet, and inventor who graduated from the Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1917. Materials were created over a 70 year period, between 1911 and 1981 [Bulk 1917-1968.] Collection items pertain to Wickham’s personal and professional life in New York and New England. The majority of materials relate to Wickham’s education and work at the Massachusetts Normal Art School (now the...


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Changes in regulations controlling the supply of raw or unpasteurised milk may increase the food safety risk by encouraging a black market trade, the Green Party says.
A Government review means restrictions on the amount of raw or unpasteurished milk which can be sold direct from farms to the public will be lifted from March next year. However, there will still be strict hygiene requirements and tighter distribution controls.
Greens agriculture spokesperson Steffan Browning said one change in particular could be setting up the raw milk business to fail.
"The problem that it's likely to create is a deeper black market than previously existed at times and that could risk raw milk safety, because they've stopped the central collection points that some people were using, where they could actually keep milk in the best possible conditions," Mr Browning said.
"What is required now is that other consumers go directly to the farmer or the farmer delivers to consumers. It is possible that they may be able to find an agreement to be able to be delivered by courier but we're talking about a product that needs to be kept in optimum condition all the way and that people need to be home when the milk is delivered.
"What MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) is doing is reducing the possibility the milk being kept in good condition for an increased consumer base. I think the possibility of failure is higher now than previously."
Mr Browning said the requirement for farmers to record the full name, address and phone number of every consumer for every raw milk sale was also a draconian measure which went far beyond traceability demands for other products.

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This paper is a response to the questions raised at the Re-imagining Education for Democracy Summit, 2017, including: what and where are the spaces for change, affirmative interference and democratic alternatives in education? In recent times, education policy and reform discourses have become increasingly politicised and critical policy methodologies are struggling to catch up. Over time, policy sociologists have noted that critical commentaries rarely succeed in changing or impacting dominant education policy pathways. This paper presents our initial thoughts around a framework for critical scholarship in education policy that draws on Foucauldian notions of governmentality to imagine a path to policy discourse intervention and change from within. The Affirmative Discourse Intervention (ADI) model builds on Foucault’s assertion that we must work with government to avoid subjection or acceptance, and thus affect change. The ADI model comprises three interrelated processes to engage and respond to discourse as a function of governmentality: discourse recognition, discourse disruption and discourse action. The paper outlines the ADI model and its theoretical framework, drawing on a joint study of the Australia early childhood quality reform policy context to briefly illustrate each ADI process in application. Last, the paper offers concluding thoughts and invites further commentary.


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Make a fun, dimensional tribute to the white, orange and yellow candy of the season with a Felt Flower Candy Corn Plaque! Cover a wooden candy corn shape with rolled felt flowers and glue the shape to a painted, laser cut frame. Finish with a candy-corn strewn ribbon border for a Halloween wall or door decoration as sweet as the seasonal confection!
My new blog friends might not know this, but I have an obsession with candy corn! I’m like a little kid when I spot my first bag of candy at the store. Not everyone is fan of the sweet treat, I know, but don’t you think anything candy corn just says fall and Halloween? My candy corn project for this year can go on your front door or hang on the wall – it’s easy and fun to put together. It’s been rainy and we haven’t seen the sun here for days but this project brightened my day!
It all starts with a laser cut wooden plaque from Michael’s. I gave the plaque of few of coats of satin-finish acrylic paint.
The star of the project is this wooden candy corn shape from Jo-Ann. It measures about 12” high and is a bit less than 1” thick, so our project will have great dimension! Give the piece a coat or two of white acrylic paint.
Make the flowers from sheets of inexpensive craft felt in white, orange and yellow. Cut a circle template about 1 ½” in diameter from paper and use the template to cut circles of felt; the circles don’t have to be perfectly round. With a pair of sharp scissors, start from an outer edge and cut the felt circles in a spiral shape. Roll the felt spiral tightly into a flower shape.
Use hot glue to attach the felt flowers to the candy corn shape. Cover the entire front of the shape first and add flowers to the side as well. If you need to adjust the size of the flowers, simply snip of a bit of the felt spiral for a smaller flower. The entire shape will be a burst of white, orange and yellow flowers and look like this!
You know I have a bit of sparkle and shine! Add some small gems in clear, orange and yellow to the centers of some of the flowers. Attach the gems to the felt with a bit of Gem-Tac.
I found this fantastic, candy-corn ribbon at Jo-Ann and thought it was tailor made for this project! Plus, the ribbon has sparkle, so it totally had my name written all over it. 🙂 Thread the ribbon through the opening all around the painted black plaque. I added bows to the sides, top and bottom, plus added an additional knotted piece of ribbon for hanging.
Glue the flowered covered candy corn to the beribboned plaque. You can use either high temp hot glue or use wet glue like Weldbond. I like to use the wet glue, because it lets the shape be moved a bit in case you didn’t get it exactly where you’d like it the first time (happens to me all the time!) If using wet glue, let the piece dry several hours and it’s ready to hang!
What do you think? I’m super happy with how this turned out and as soon as I’m finished writing this, I’m hanging this pretty candy corn in my kitchen. Maybe being surrounded with lots of candy corn projects will satisfy my sweet tooth….maybe!
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How Egypt is zeroing in on paleohistory to help its travel industry area in emergency
From the declared disclosure of a 3,000-year-old lost city south of Luxor to firecrackers and buoy move of 22 of the nation’s valued illustrious mummies from focal Cairo to their new resting place, Egypt is endeavoring to dazzle the world with its ancient pieces to restore its travel industry industry.As some Western nations are temporarily resuming to worldwide vacationers because of the continuous Covid-19 immunization crusade, Egypt has decided to profit by its huge number of intriguing archeological locales and galleries to resuscitate a mainstay of its economy: the travel industry area in full emergency.
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“Saqqara is a fortune,” the pastor said, declaring the November revelation. “Our concern currently is that we don’t have the foggiest idea how we can wow the world after this,” he added. The drive to astonishing the world with Egypt’s antiquated fortunes has proceeded from that point forward, and this April Zahi Hawass, the country’s prestigious paleontologist, declared the disclosure of a 3,000-year-old lost city in southern Luxor, lauded as one of the finds generally significant from the burial place of Tutankhamun.Known as Aten and uncovered half a month after unearthings began in September 2020, she rose up out of the sand with a suit of mud-block houses, ancient rarities, and apparatuses tracing all the way back to the Pharaonic time. The disclosure traces all the way back to what in particular was named the “brilliant age” of antiquated Egypt, the rule of Amenhotep III of the eighteenth tradition (1390–1353 BC).
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I have a vexed relationship with contemporary short stories. Writing a short story is in many ways an entirely different skill from writing a novel, so when even my favorite, most-loved novelists contribute to a short story anthology, I usually end up disappointed with the results. (And when Edgar Allan Poe, king of short stories, tries to write a novel, everyone ends up disappointed with the result.) For a while I accepted this situation pretty much at face value. I figured these authors didn’t focus on crafting short stories, so of course they weren’t as good at it as they were producing longer fiction. They just needed more practice, which they were unlikely to get because once you’re a bestselling author, there’s little point in moving to the less-glamorous short story market these days. But the more I thought about why I don’t like many of these stories, the more I began to realize there was a trend.
Perhaps it’s the Edgar Allan Poe influence, but a disproportionate amount of writers seem to believe that a short story has to be suspenseful; it has to be ambiguous. But there are more and less effective ways of trying to twist your readers’ brains with ambiguity, and for it to work particularly well, the story often needs to be exceptionally clever. Many stories stop short of cleverness and end up just being frustrating in one of three ways: 1) being so vague that it’s hard to imagine even the author had a clear conception of what was supposed to be happening in the story, 2) just not telling the reader the answer to whatever riddle/mystery/situation was set up, 3) suggesting two answers are possible when they’re clearly contradictory and both are illogical.
I recently ran into this issue with Among the Shadows: 13 Stories of Darkness and Light. To be fair, this anthology was released around Halloween and was themed around “dark” tales, so there was particular incentive for creepy, ambiguous tales to be submitted. However, many of them fell flat for me, despite the fact I loved the novels of several of the contributing authors. A couple of the stories were standouts. I especially enjoyed Lenore Appelhans’s “Panic Room.” In a few short pages, she gave me a character, a plot, and enough world-building to make the story work. Many of the other stories contented themselves with hazy world-building and inexplicable magic, as if writing a short story automatically excuses you from giving your readers context.
Yet this unanswerable ambiguity also makes its way into novels. I’m somewhat of a black sheep for not loving The Accident Season, and though there were several reasons the novel was not my favorite, the illogical ending sealed the deal for me. [Spoilers ahead.] The story simply wants to have its eat and eat it, too. The ending isn’t just artfully unclear; it’s contradictory. It tries to tell me that the “accident season” isn’t real at all and it’s all in the characters’ heads—but it also wants me to believe there were supernatural forces at work. So…some of the accidents were caused by “magic” but not all of them? I frankly have no idea, but my reaction here is not thoughtful acknowledgment that we cannot have all the answers in the world; it’s frustration because the ending doesn’t make sense.
Total Recall (1990), in contrast, does the ambiguous ending well. There are two possible interpretations of the move: Quaid is still in the dream-sequence, or he actually woke up at some point during the sequence and the story all really happened. (Inception could be another example, though I think that movie gives broader hints at the end about which interpretation is correct.) The key is here that both interpretations are logical—either of these things could reasonably have occurred, given the world-building, and there is enough evidence in the movie for a viewer to argue a case for either interpretation. Both endings are equally believable.
I enjoy ambiguity, but it’s difficult to do well. It takes cleverness and a solid set-up. If one of the two presented options clearly isn’t right based on information or plot occurrences previously given in the story, the ending will fall flat. If the story just cuts off, it’s not tantalizing or mysterious; it just looks as if the author didn’t have a possible explanation for the strangeness of the story in mind, which makes the whole thing less believable. Creating ambiguity, it turns out, requires creating a lot of consistency in other areas of the story. The goal isn’t to have no explanation, but rather to imply there is one, there could be one that works with the rules of the world, even if the readers don’t quite know what it is.
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I’m not a fan of short stories either. My prof for my writing class wants us to write a 2000 word short story, but so far all the short stories we’ve read in class have been super weird and confusing. I feel like if mine isn’t weird and confusing enough I’ll lose marks or something. He also wants us to state which short story inspired us to write our story, but I barely read short stories. Do you have any suggestions?
I don’t read very many short stories! But I think a lot of people get their influence from horror writers like Poe, Hawthorne, and King, which is why everyone thinks a short story has to be creepy and not make sense (even though a well-done one DOES make sense).
L.M. Montgomery has some fun, light-hearted short stories because in addition to novel writing, she made her living submitting short stories to magazines. Some are better than others, and some of them are kind of similar, but at least she gives a different take on what a short story might look like.
I’ve enjoyed Ambrose Bierce’s short stories. I don’t read many because too often it seems like the author just ends the story to make it seem more complex or mysterious. I like ones that definitely conclude while still leaving room for thought.
I am a fan of short stories, but I have to say it was Stephen King who really got me into them. He does a short story really well, and it’s often hard to find other authors who can live up to that level of greatness.
I liked Among the Shadows, but there were some stories better than others, for sure. The best YA collection of short stories that I’ve read in recent memory was Slasher Girls and Monster Boys- I absolutely loved that collection! But I read Bad Seeds which was edited by Holly Black, and most of those stories were terrible. I don’t mind an ambiguous ending at all, but it has to make some kind of sense.
I just read The Accident Season, and while I really liked it, the ending kept it from being a truly good read- I was confused about certain plot points. I guess I was expecting more magical realism? There were just too many questions left unanswered- that’s not really ambiguous, that’s just poor editing.
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My biggest issue with ambiguous endings is when there doesn’t seem to be a possible answer–not even one that work within some set of rules of magic unique to the world. Things just inexplicably happen and then cut off. The author doesn’t know what happened or why it happened, so neither do you. An answer isn’t possible.
The Accident Season drove me nuts because it’s answer was “The accident season isn’t real; it’s all in your head. Except for some parts that were real and caused by a magic curse. It was half real?” That means it was real, and the family just had some natural accidents that coincided with the cursed one. But it wasn’t just in their heads. At all.


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Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo is an independent public institution and its primary objective is to promote and maintain a sound financial system and an efficient payment system
Governor Gërguri hosted today Ms Jane Armitage, World Bank Director for South-East Europe and Mr Jan-Peter Olters, director of the World Bank Office for the Republic of Kosovo.
Governor Gërguri initially thanked the World Bank representatives for the strong support to the development of the CBK until now regarding financial sector and other sectors and institutions in our country. In particular, Governor Gërguri highlighted the importance of projects which through the affordable World Bank loan, are is expected to develop in the best interest of our country as a project on the payment system, deposit insurance, work continuity and strengthening of financial sector market infrastructure.
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We’re going to be kinda gross for a second. But let’s face it, the icky parts of life are often the most fun.
Some years ago a girl meets a guy (or a test tube - you can see where this is going). Now, they have met for only an hour, a day, a month, or maybe they’re still together (which would be oh so awesome).
At some point, usually with the help of your third parent, beer, something happened and, whether by design or mistake, you were created!
Go you! Pat yourself on the back for that because you won a race against literally thousands of hungry competitors.
Now, maybe you think that being born kinda sucked and that life went down hill from there. The sad news here is that few babies come out of the womb dressed like Dean Martin, surrounded by bikini clad models, sipping Champaign and smoking a cigar.
That was just me.
Of course, if you’re a girl, maybe you come out looking like Barbie and surrounded by a dozen Robert Pattinson’s. Or is that when you’re gay?
Well, anyways it doesn’t matter because it never happens.
Maybe Mother and Father were less then perfect.
We’re bombarded as kids with the images of happy families on the television. They are meant to be inspirational.
For who? I’m not so sure. Maybe the dog?
I say this because I have never met the happy Hollywood/kids TV family in real life.
It could be that mum had to worked triple shifts whilst dad drank beer and gave out beatings as bedtime stories. Or it could be, as it was in my case, mum just ran off and dad had to do everything (I know that it’s the other way round in most cases. I guess I’m kinda lucky).
Or maybe you were raised by WOLVES! Which would be so awesome it deserves capital letters:
RAISED BY WOLVES! AWESOME!
Go wolf boy! Go wolf girl!
Maybe at school you were/are the kid with the virtual target painted on the chest that every one but you can see.
Or perhaps you were/are the kid who gave out the beatings.
As we progress form the innocence of childhood and into adolescence, our bodies and minds undergo amazing, intense, and often terrifying transformations.
We are confronted with the desires to conform and break away.
Express ourselves, but seek the protection of a group (maybe).
A lot of kids get depressed. Some (including me) attempt suicide as a way out.
Naturally this is the stupidest thing that you could do.
I would like to humbly present several reasons why if you can’t be happy, you should at least be grateful and curious enough to keep going.
It is a scientifically proven fact that smiling makes us feel better.
Obviously you don’t smile all the time. If you’re getting beaten up, or your wolf family has finally realised that no fur and two legs equals dinners, don’t smile. RUN! Run for your freaking life.
Also, don’t smile if you’re punching someone rather than being the punchee. Because that is the dick cherry on top of the douchebag pudding that you are.
And it’s a full douchebag.
Laughing is very much like smiling, only bigger and with sound.

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CRESTWOOD — A delay in the construction of the Crestwood stadium that will serve as the home field for the Cook County Cheetahs will force the independent minor-league baseball team to hold its first few homestands in another south suburban ballpark.
Gerald Clark, general manager of the Heartland League team, said because bids obtained by the Village of Crestwood for the second phase of the construction of the proposed $3.3 million ballpark came in too high, it will not be possible to complete the facility in time for the opening homestand as originally planned.
As a result, Clark said, the team most likely will play its first four sets of home games at Howie Minas Field, a semiprofessional baseball park at 143rd Street and Homan Avenue in Midlothian.
"It's a little discomforting to realize that we won't be able to open in our own ballpark as we originally planned," Clark said, "but at least we can take comfort in the fact that Howie Minas Field is nearby and an excellent facility in which to play baseball until our ballpark is completed, which we now project to be around mid-July."
The Cheetahs, who moved to Crestwood after playing their first two seasons in Romeoville, plan to put up at least temporary seating and concession stands at the Midlothian ballfield to accommodate fans, Clark said.
Crestwood officials rejected bids for structural steel and precast concrete work on the planned 2,500-seat Cheetahs Stadium at Kenton Avenue and the Midlothian Turnpike in Crestwood. However, the bids, according to village trustee Ronald Wasag "came in too high and over budget." The village is expected to seek new bids in the near future.

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I keep hearing the media call the faction that has caused the government shutdown”nihilists.” But that’s a misdiagnosis. They’re zealots, not nihilists: nihilists don’t believe in anything, but these guys are fanatics, true believers in the dogma of unregulated markets, minimal government, no social programs, and all the other unbalanced ideas of modern conservatism.
They believe there is an absolute truth about governing, and that they have it. And it’s their zealotry that makes them so destructive, not any supposed nihilism.
Polls show that more Americans blame Republicans than Democrats for the shutdown, and they’re right. Of course, it’s also the case that there are different factions within the Republican Party, and much has been made about the disproportionate dominance of the tea party wing over against the moderates. These factions do have somewhat different beliefs and motivations. Some are in it mainly for power, self-aggrandizement, or ego. Modern conservatism, with its ethos that “greed is good,” attracts more than its share of narcissistic sociopaths with no beliefs or principles other than those which promotes their interests in the moment. But for a generation the Republican party has been shaped and propelled by its many fanatical Social Darwinists and culture warriors who believe in reactionary economics and/or “Heartland Americuh” for the sake of these beliefs themselves, regardless of personal gain. And of course many in the party combine selfishness and zealotry. But the zealots, with the energy and determination that fanaticism gives them, are the driving force behind the shutdown — not the merely greedy wing of the party.
While most American conservatives are strong in their beliefs, the tea party are the hard-core and are well-represented in the House. They really believe that Obama is a Muslim sympathizer, that Obamacare is creeping socialism (this Heritage Foundation plan with its market insurance exchanges!), that social programs endanger the republic, and that they are making a heroic stand for America. They’ve dug in to oppose Obamacare because they see it as an existential threat: they associate it with socialized medicine, which to their minds puts the country on the road to serfdom. Indeed they see themselves as victims and probably have something of a martyr complex. Unfortunately as with all martyrs, their self-destructive impulses are dangerous for those around them, which in this case means the whole country.
The centrist media has needed to think of these fiscal vandals as nihilists because they are attacking institutions and norms that insider journalists identify with. The media elite see themselves as of a piece with technocrats who emphasize stability and professionalism in government — and there’s nothing more technocratic in government than the ordered numbers of a balanced budget, passed like clockwork every year by a well-functioning legislature. That the current Congress is failing to pass a budget, and may fail to raise the debt ceiling, is an affront to all that the centrist media feel and imagine a Congress should be. And with the centrists’ penchant for interpreting all political events through the lens of false equivilance, of “both parties do it,” they have a tendency to forget that one faction in our present politics is much more irrational, fanatical, and delusional, and consequently causes most of our country’s political paralysis and self-inflicted wounds. At least this time popular opinion is placing the blame where it properly belongs, and the media is having to go along.
This misdiagnosis of nihilism matters because it underestimates the potential harm, and minimizes how hard it is to root out the problem. Fighting nihilists and fighting zealots are two different things, and require two different strategies. I’ve never met any real nihilists, actually, that is, people who truly don’t believe in anything, and I doubt that you’ve met any either; and if one did have to fight a group of nihilists politically, it probably wouldn’t be too hard. Without beliefs to guide and motivate them they would fold like paper at the slightest opposition to whatever their plans might be. Zealots, on the other hand, have all the stubbornness that their absolute convictions give them. They dig in their heels when opposed; when reality doesn’t go their way they inflexibly cling to their faith and drive forward anyway. This all too often carries them through to victory, even when their goals are foolish. Fighting zealots requires reason and good strategy, but above all it requires firmness, patience, fortitude, and determination in the service of reason and good strategy. You have to be as strong as they are, for they do not fold easily; and you have to expect them to persist in their destructive positions with extraordinary obstinacy. While one can simply roll over nihilists who don’t believe in anything, one must decisively defeat zealots, and break their spirit in the process so that they don’t come back to cause further harm.
The tea parties zealots know this: Ted Cruz has been saying for a while that the way to win the fight on Obamacare is to simply “not blink.” And his supporters believe him. It’s a game of chicken to them, and they believe — with good reason, given the past pusillanimity of liberals — that this fight will be like any other over the past thirty years, and all they have to do is stick it out longer than the historically irresolute Democrats. This time, however, it looks like the Democrats have found some backbone; probably not because they’ve really become stronger in character, but because they have a better tactical position, and because President Obama is not going to give up his signature domestic achievement.
I always get annoyed when nihilists or relativists get the blame for causing all the moral problems in the world. They never cause the trouble. It’s the zealots who do, the absolute believers who are convinced that they have the truth and/or God on their side. They are the ones who spill the most blood and cause the most destruction.
Such zealots are stubborn as jackasses, and have to be faced with determination, strength, and tenacity.


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A simple piece of specialist equipment will soon be keeping little Elisha Mae Clarke safe and comfortable on car journeys – thanks to fabulous fundraisers in West Yorkshire.
Two local people have come forward to donate to the Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children appeal to provide a £684 car seat. One donation, for £624, means the equipment is now fully funded.
A mystery donor from Halifax (Northowram) is the generous person behind this donation. She said: “It was a spur of the moment thing really. I bought myself a copy of the local paper and read an article about how Newlife was helping another little girl in the county, with local help, and I thought how nice it was of those donors.
“I took a look at Newlife’s website page for West Yorkshire and saw the story about Elisha Mae needing a specialist car seat. I thought ‘I would like to help’ – it was a simple as that. Her story touched me, particularly as she is a local girl.”
Elisha, aged four and from the Ovenden area of Halifax, has the neuromuscular condition Rett Syndrome combined with the spinal condition scoliosis and epilepsy. She is losing her acquired skills and is becoming more dependent on her family for everyday care needs.
Mum Kirstie Aitchison said: “I would like to say a big thank you to this lady for her kindness. I can’t begin to tell you how much of a difference this will make to our lives.”
A booster seat isn’t appropriate for Elisha and standard child seats just aren’t big enough. Kirstie added: “Her occupational therapist told us about specialist travel seats and Elisha has been able to try one – she seemed comfortable and much happier. This equipment will also help prevent further problems with her hips by keeping her legs in line.”
With the specialist car seat costing £684 and no statutory funding available, Kirstie turned to the UK’s leading charity funder of specialist equipment for children with disabilities and terminal illness – Newlife Foundation.
In West Yorkshire, Newlife has provided in excess of £348,000 of disability equipment – including beds, wheelchairs, seating and sensory aids – for 290 children.
In response to the growing need in the county, earlier this year the charity launched its Newlife West Yorkshire Fund. The fund’s website – www.newlifecharity.co.uk/westyorkshire – enables local people to find out who needs help in their area right now and highlights the support the charity gives families. It includes contact details for the Newlife County Liaison Team – tel no 01543 431 444 or email email@example.com – and shows specific ways people can help support children with disability and terminal illness and their families.
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Washington, DC—Belinda Thomson studied at the University of East Anglia and the Sorbonne before earning her MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute. From 1977 to 1983, Thomson was a research assistant at the Open University, United Kingdom, and lectured at the Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Edinburgh. She is an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh and an independent scholar.
Thomson was curator for the exhibitions Patrick Geddes: The French Connection (2005) and Gauguin's Vision (2005), both at the National Galleries of Scotland. She was an advisory consultant and contributing author to the exhibition Gauguin, Paris, 1889 (2009–2010) at the Cleveland Museum of Art and at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
As a specialist of late nineteenth-century French art, Thomson has written books and articles on impressionism and post-impressionism and Gauguin, Vuillard, Bonnard, Van Gogh, and Pissarro, including Gauguin by Himself (2001) and Van Gogh's Paintings: The Masterpieces (2007). She is a coauthor of the exhibition catalogue Gauguin: Maker of Myth (2010).
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For the second month in a row, Romania has been ruled by a government with limited powers in the midst of the deadly fourth wave of COVID-19 and amid an energy and economic crisis.
The coalition government, led by the National Liberal Party (NLP), led by Florin Katsu, was ousted on October 5th by a no-confidence vote by the largest parliamentary force, the Social Democratic Party. However, it was backed by former coalition partner Union for the Salvation of Romania and the nationalist Alliance for the Unity of Romanians party.
Parliamentary committees were to hear the candidates for ministers nominated by NLP’s nominee for prime minister, Nicolae Chuka. The intention was for the 54-year-old reserve general, former defense minister, to appear in parliament tomorrow with a proposal for a minority government made up of the Liberals and the party of ethnic Hungarians – the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania. Instead, NLP decided to make a U-turn and return the mandate at the last minute. At an extraordinary meeting late last night, the NLP’s executive bureau decided to show even more flexibility in negotiations with other political forces to form a parliamentary majority and a new government. Why this flexibility has not been used so far, probably no one will allow himself to admit publicly.
The National Liberal Party and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania currently hold a total of 150 seats in the 466-seat parliament after the Union for the Salvation of Romania (80 MPs) left the coalition. A minimum of 234 votes is required for government approval.
Despite this deployment, the Liberals continued to claim until last night that their proposed minority government had a chance in parliament.
The day before, the Social Democratic Party announced that it would not support a minority government, and a few hours later the Liberals decided to return the mandate. This reinforced suspicions that some behind-the-scenes talks were taking place between the two largest parties, no matter how much their leaders denied it.
Former coalition partner Union for the Salvation of Romania (SSR) was the first to try to form a government led by former prime minister technocrat and former European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos. The vote on October 20th was eloquent – Cholosh’s proposed cabinet received only 88 votes.
“PHARAOH OF A SICK COUNTRY”
Criticism of President Klaus Johannes and his role in the current political crisis has intensified in Romania in recent weeks. The comments are that without his approval, Prime Minister Florin Katsu would not have taken the steps that led to the break-up of the coalition between the Liberals, the SS reformers and the ethnic Hungarians. Johannes has also been criticized for wasting valuable time resolving the crisis.
Some media called him “the pharaoh of a sick country.” During a state visit to Egypt last week, Johannes was photographed looking at the pyramids with his wife as a tourist in the midst of a government crisis and at a time when “every three minutes a Romanian was dying of COVID-19,” as one leading health official said. experts – Dr. Octavian Jurma.
A few days later, on the anniversary of the tragedy at the Kolektiv nightclub, where a fire killed more than 60 people and injured nearly 200 in 2015, Klaus Johannes went to play golf at his friend’s business complex.
“Johannes lost control of the management bus just as we were descending a long and uneven road, full of dangerous turns, no direction and no brakes. But the bus is not just Florin Katsu, but the whole of Romania,” journalist Dan Popa wrote in a comment. for the information site Ziare.
Not coincidentally, Johannes’ rating plummeted from 30 percent approval in September to just 14 percent in late October.
Things don’t look rosier for interim Prime Minister Florin Katsu, who supports him – only seven per cent of Romanians vote for him, according to a poll by the Avangard news agency.
If parliamentary elections are held next Sunday, the Social Democratic Party would receive 40 per cent, the National Liberal Party 17 per cent, the Nationalist Alliance for the Unity of Romanians 14 per cent and the Union for the Salvation of Romania 13 per cent.
The survey also showed that 80 per cent of Romanians believe the country is moving in the wrong direction, and a quarter give the government the lowest rating 1 (out of 10 possible) on how it manages the health crisis.
“IN THE EMBRACE OF THE PSD”
Two months ago, the National Liberal Party (NLP) was a leader in the Katsu government, held the post of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, had a significant majority in parliament, had a high percentage of confidence and the prospect of completing its term in office. billions of euros are expected under the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan, Ion Yonitsa commented in the Adevarul newspaper. The NLP is now in the hands of the SDP, the Social Democratic Party, which has been touted as the fiercest political opponent, the one that brought Romania back years in judicial reform and the fight against corruption, and which pushed for economic measures that led to a budget deficit boom. the analyzer.
The same opinion seems to be shared by the former coalition partner of the Liberals – Dacian Ciolos. “In recent hours, the intention of some NLP leaders to throw themselves into the arms of the PSD is evident,” said Dacian Ciolos, leader of the Union for the Salvation of Romania (SSR). According to him, the liberals are faced with the following choice: re-establishing the coalition with the SSR or throwing themselves into the arms of the PSD.
“I still hope the NLP will think carefully about where this path leads,” Cholos said, calling the potential alliance between the two largest parties in parliament a “toxic alliance.” “We know what the PSD did when it was in power,” Ciolos said, adding that the decision of the Liberals would determine Romania’s path over the next few years.
The National Liberal Party and its former leader and current president, Klaus Johannes, appear to have completely severed ties with reality, analysts say. In the worst health situation Romania has found itself in peacetime, in the midst of an energy crisis and a storm of price hikes, political factors are playing tricks on the government. Romania looks like a village without dogs and without fences, where everyone does what they want, without law, without institutions, Ion Ionica commented on the pages of Adevarul.
In addition, former Liberal leader Ludovic Orban, who lost the battle for party chairman to Florin Katsu at a congress in late September, is gathering disgruntled liberals.
Orbán resigned as Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and left the NLP parliamentary group, announcing he was ready to “start from scratch” with a new political movement. Until yesterday, his example was followed by 13 deputies and senators.
And that’s not all: yesterday, nationalists from the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians announced that they had begun collecting signatures to launch an impeachment procedure against President Johannes.
He was currently in Glasgow to attend the UN climate conference, but in the interests of his political future and that of his former party, his presence in Bucharest is more than necessary. And not only presence, but responsible and quick actions, as the Romanians insist.


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No criminal charges will be filed against the 42 migrants arrested during a weekend clash that culminated in U.S border agents firing tear gas into Mexico, according to a United States official.
The incident unfolded Sunday at the border between the United States and Tijuana, where thousands of caravan members, many of them asylum-seekers fleeing violence and poverty in Central America, have camped out in recent weeks. On an average day, the U.S government processes around 100 such cases, leaving many migrants waiting for months.
Frustrated by the slow-moving application process, scores of migrants marched to border over the weekend, calling on the United States to move things along. The demonstration quickly descended into chaos, with hundreds of migrants rushing past Mexican authorities and toward the border.
Several border agents were struck with rocks and other projectiles, prompting authorities to use tear gas against the migrants. The move was condemned by activists and many politicians, though President Trump has defended officers’ response.
“Here’s the bottom line: Nobody is coming into our country unless the come in legally,” Trump said, adding that they used a “very minor form” of tear gas, which is also “very safe.”
The weekend arrests included 27 men, with the rest being women and children.
Customs and Border Protection referred only two cases to the Justice Department, though charges were not filed as the suspects had medical problems that prevented them from being held in the Sand Diego detention center, a United States official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press.
While they won’t face any criminal charges, the fates of the arrested migrants remain unclear. Customs and Border spokesman Ralph DeSio said many of them could still be subject to deportation.
“Depending on their country of citizenship and their case’s final disposition, the Border patrol may turn those people over to Immigration and Customs enforcement,” DeSio said.
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The trailer for “Venom” director Ruben Fleischer’s new movie starts out with a feeling of prestige. Over intense music, we see shots of an impressive cast as text introduces Academy Award nominees Woody Harrelson, Jessie Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin, and Academy Award winner Emma Stone. Just when you start to think you are watching an ad for the latest star-studded, Oscar-bait drama, you realize that the lineup feels somewhat familiar.
Suddenly the dramatic music comes to a halt as the shot of Emma Stone widens to reveal her loading, aiming, and firing a grenade launcher at a walking corpse. Music starts up again, but this time it is Ice Cube’s Click Clack-Get Back as the characters wade through a field of zombies towards a deteriorating Whitehouse.
Suddenly, we know where we are… We are back in Zombieland!
“Zombieland: Double Tap” is a follow-up to the 2009 zombie-horror-comedy “Zombieland.” It has been ten years since the first movie hit theaters and surprised audiences with its humor and fresh take on the genre. Fortunately, despite how long it has taken to produce a sequel, the aforementioned original cast and director are back in their rightful places for the new film.
In addition to Fleischer returning to the director’s chair and Harrelson, Eisenberg, Breslin, and Stone reprising their roles, writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are also coming back for “Double Tap.” Since the first film came out, Reese and Wernick have become contemporary comedy legends, having written both of the “Deadpool” movies.
Joining the writing staff for “Double Tap” is also “The Expendables” and “Godzilla” screenwriter Dave Callaham. “Double Tap” will be the first of many upcoming blockbuster projects for Callaham. Over the next few years, he is lined up to write for “Wonder-Woman: 1984,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2,” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”
Stellar Cast and Creative Team should produce Entertaining Bulls-eye
If the creative minds behind “Zombieland: Double Tap” are any signifier, the movie will not lack in humor or action. Like the first “Zombieland,” the sequel’s story takes place in a post-apocalyptic America, centering on a quartet of survivors who have come to depend on each other as a motley, makeshift family.
This time around, the characters are seeking refuge in middle-America, combating new kinds of zombies and encountering other survivors in the process. Joining the cast to play these other survivors are Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, and Thomas Middleditch. The movie will also have a couple cameos from the likes of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
Of course, comedy has noticeably changed since 2009. Ten years ago, the most talked about comedies were “Step Brothers,” “The Hangover,” and “Pineapple Express.” Will Farrell’s absurdist humor was still at its peak and Seth Rogen’s stoner bromance style felt fresh. These icons led the genre in a very goofy direction at the turn of the decade.
Today, however, audiences have shown that they want something a bit more socially telling. Viewers desire either genre parodies such as “Deadpool” or “Shazam!” or they want political satires that cross over into dramas such as “Vice” or “The Big Short.”
This raises the question of whether something as silly as rednecks and nerds killing zombies in over-the-top violent fashions will still be suitable for contemporary audiences?
More Apropos in 2019 than 2009?
In response to that valid query, perhaps we can look at the first “Zombieland” not as a product of 2009, but rather as a film that was ahead of its time. After all, the movie is a parody of a specific horror sub-genre and it blends comedy with action quite well, leaving viewers feeling as if they laughed, but also enjoyed a solid zombie movie in its own right.
Lastly, “Zombieland” is not without its own pinch of satire, as it characterizes certain America stereotypes and pokes fun at low-mimetic people by placing them in high-stakes situations. As previously described, the trailer begins with the characters fighting zombies on the Whitehouse lawn. In the next scene, Woody Harrelson’s hickish character is sitting in the oval office, explaining how he would make a good president. While such jokes could be excused as mere gags ten years ago, they now have a touch of real-world relevance.
In total, “Zombieland: Double Tap” promises to be the thrilling, yet gut-busting action comedy that we are expecting. Like its 2009 predecessor, it will cross boundaries and use humor to deliver a message while winking at the audience in the process. In 2019, though, that message may be more divisive or potent, ultimately making the wink a whole lot less subtle.
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