![]() ![]() Other stories are eerie fantasies that cast familiar feelings and struggles in a new light. ![]() It is at once horrifying and more poignant than expected. ![]() “Twenty Hours” is about a husband who, thanks to the misuse of a new invention, can murder and resurrect his wife whenever he needs a break from her. Some of the stories speculate about how future advancements could impact evergreen, even mundane problems. It then moves through gripping, sometimes disturbing tales about characters whose lives are changed-usually for the worse-by bizarre incidents. The collection opens with “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867,” a gut-punch about a person who longs to see their dead mother one last time through a reality simulator, the moral implications of which are not well understood. Each story takes a common issue-mental illness, unhealthy relationships, the shunning of those who are different-and turns it into an extraordinary ordeal from which each person emerges forever altered. Everyone on Earth loses their sense of taste, causing a strange rift between a mother and daughter. Neighborhood children obsess over the accidental deaths of a family no one liked. Puberty takes a fantastical turn for a group of teenage girls. The incredible merges with the everyday in Kim Fu’s short story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ive already got 2 sets of his pickups, but got back on the list last week, becaue I know hes going to stop winding, so Im going to buy 2 more sets. As far a a meticulous hand done 59 PAF type of pickup, nobody does a more hands on job than Tom. Tom also makes his own bobbins, baseplates, covers, and does his own electroplating, which is an art unto itsself. Ive seen them sell for $1200, and they will go through the roof when he stops winding. Toms pickups already sell for more than he asks for them for aftermarket. Or you could get on Tom Holmes waiting list, and wait a year, and also buy 6 sets of his pickups, though you better get on the list fast, because hes going to stop winding within the next year. They even have several of the original winding machines Gibson used in the 50s, and 60s. You could buy 6 sets of Throbaks for $3500.Īnd in reality, nobody makes a more accurate PAF than Throbak. ![]() ![]() While I do like many of the more expensive pickups. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We can identify at least two important purposes that Frederick Douglass had in writing his autobiography. Toward the end of his life, Douglass even served as an ambassador to Haiti. He befriended many notable figures of the day: not only fellow abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown but also President Abraham Lincoln. He became a key figure in the abolitionist movement as an orator and newspaper publisher. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiographical publication prepared by one of the most important American abolitionists of the nineteenth century.Īs the Narrative explains, Douglass was born into slavery but escaped in 1838. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based loosely on the real community, it was a place where families depended on each other for support. It was here that the fictional town of Bumblebee, North Carolina was born. After the sun faded into darkness, and fireflies blinked in the yard, everyone would gather on Grandma Estelle’s porch and listen to the old folks tell tales-funny memories, harsh realities, family treasures, and sometimes big fat whoppers. I remember hot apple pie, cold watermelon slices, and sugar sweet tea. Our breakfast milk came warm from the cow, our eggs fresh from the chicken’s nests. We used to spend summers with her in North Carolina-in the same house my dad grew up in. ![]() Many, many years later, when she was a grandmother, and it was I who was in the fifth grade, she told me her secret. No one knew it at the time, but she would sneak out each night after everyone was asleep, and write in a journal she kept hidden under the steps. ![]() In the middle of fifth grade, the girl who would grow up to be my Grandma Estelle, was forced to leave school forever so she could help on the family farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this evaluation of SPARC’s Lost Horizon show, I offer a few observations about some of the works that were exhibited, but mostly I will allow Biberman to speak for himself by inserting those quotes by the artist that SPARC used as plaques in the exhibition. In May of 2012 I followed up with a second article titled Biberman Redux, which focused on the artist’s illustrated biographical book, Time and Circumstances: Forty Years of Painting. My review included biographical details about Biberman, as well as providing a social context to his works by taking into account the times and events he lived through. I encourage one and all to read my February 2009 article, Edward Biberman Revisited, an appraisal of a retrospective exhibit of the artist’s works that was shown at the L.A. But his paintings focusing on the architecture of Los Angeles and the new -at the time, freeways of L.A., exposed his modernist side. His figurative paintings examined social inequality, racial oppression, and the plight of workers, placing him in the school of Social Realism. ![]() ![]() The American realist painter Edward Biberman carved out a place for himself in mid-20th century Los Angeles, despite the ascendancy and domination of abstract expressionism. In August of 2014 the Social And Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, presented a small but important exhibition titled Lost Horizons: Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman. ![]() |