Today Marianne Williamson online with Jennifer Mclean.

Jennifer Mclean’s interview with  Marianne Williamson from last Thursday is online for today till midnight California time at ‘Healing with the Masters’. (And Carol Cook!, as an extra gift, great conversation too!) Beautiful meetings with beautiful women.   Friday night (in the Netherlands) before I went to bed I listened to this interview. I felt that night, with the hassle with my daughter and school, (again) indignant and angry. I told ‘the story’ to my dear neighbor-friend and by telling her I went into criticizing school again. Right or not, I felt it didn’t do me any good.    Jennifer and Marianne talk about prayer. Marianne is a teacher who works with the book”‘ A Course in Miracles’ and is well known because Nelson Mandella used a paragraph of her book ‘A return to Love’.     A RETURN TO LOVE    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.    We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.    We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.   It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”         Marianne says in the interview, when we feel angry with someone or a situation and we don’t know how to stop, we can state the intention we are willing to let the situation develop in love with a payer. That we don’t yet know or see how. That we feel the habit of hanging into the angriness and the outrage , and because we think we are right . The ‘I’m willing to’ has touched something in me.   That’s how I went to bed. And from that moment on I thought at least 50 times, ok, I give my angriness and outrage willingly to god. And I am very willing to let this situation be handled by spirit with love. It makes me stop my resentful thoughts who still can become more and more angry fast. It’s an exercise. Apparently lol.   I so don’t know how it can be different, what I could do or say, how I could behave. I can only feel a good end. When I think about, I don’t know how, a dutch song pops up in my head which has the words, ‘He doesn’t know how, he doesn’t know how, he doesn’t know how. I sing it in the she-form. ‘She doesn’t know how’. And than I start to laugh.   I’m putting my whole self into building a new thought pattern. To change the habit of criticizing and judgement in an automatic thought pattern of ‘Oh, that is a peace of cake. No problem. They are such sweet people and they are so willing to create the best solution. School is open minded. I am open minded. I’m very curious too, about their story’s.’ It is only 1 new path of neurons. I can do it!   Practice makes perfect, repetition works. An other dutch song pops up in my mind. It says, “We will continueeeeeee. Till we are in peace!’

Murkowski Could Support Climate Bill

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has “signaled she could vote for a revised version of Democrats’ forthcoming cap-and-trade bill,” The Hill reports.

In an interview to air Sunday on C-SPAN, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) explained she would "keep her mind open" during debate over the hotly contested carbon-reduction proposal, a version of which has already passed the House. The Alaska Republican also suggested she could vote for the final bill if it expands domestic oil drilling and better funds nuclear power.

"When you see changes to the land coming about … what is causing the loss of the sea ice that adds to the erosion issues, yes, in Alaska we are seeing change," Murkowski told C-SPAN. "That’s why I have been one of those Republicans who has stepped out front a little bit more on the issue of climate change."

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Breakfast at Sulimays: Old people reviewing music

You’re probably familiar with the reviewing concept. Well, this is a new take on this. Let me explain.

Meet Bill, Ann and Joe. They’re from Fishtown, Philly. And yeah, they eat Breakfast at Sulimay’s. But they do more than just eating breakfast; every episode they review the latest (indie) tracks. And yes, they’re not scared to speak their minds. Other thing that’s interesting about them; they’re some old music lovers. It’s irrelevant, useless, silly, but in someway really refreshing, because those people don’t know what’s hot and what’s not.

Joe’s my favourite, he seems quite clever. I wish he was my grandpa. Ann’s great for the one-liners. And Bill.. I don’t know what it is with Bill..

Ooh right.. some episodes:

The latest; breakfast crew thinks MGMT’s video is dreadful:

The famous Animal Collective episode:

check out more on YouTube, don’t forget to check out interviews that Joe has done with bands such as The Fiery Furnaces!

INTERVENTIONS BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

TIMELY INTERVENTIONS IN THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION

Noted Filipino scholar E. SAN JUAN, JR. intervenes again in the urgent debates in racial conflicts and international relations with four scholarly works in the last two years.

In the midst of the flag-waving lunacy afflicting the U.S. after 9/11 and the current racist war on national liberation struggles, San Juan seems to be a solitary “voice in the wilderness.” His new collection of essays on cultural theory and comparative politics, IN THE WAKE OF TERROR: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World (Lexington Books, 2007), offers critiques of U.S. interventions and the destructive effects of globalized neoliberalism in culture and humanistic studies. It focuses on the dialectic of class, race and ethnicity in the context of global capitalism.

The other important work to be released by Palgrave Macmillan (2008) this September is U.S. IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES. Here San Juan reviews the record of U.S. colonialism and neocolonial domination of the Philippines, centering on a critique of the ideological mechanisms of cultural and political control in imperial discourse and practices. The book contains documents on the human-rights violations of the Arroyo regime, including the verdict of the Permanent People’s Tribunal Session 2 at The Hague, Netherlands, last March 2007.

Recently released by the Edwin Mellen Press this year is CRITIQUE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: LESSONS FROM ANTONIO GRAMSCI, MIKHAIL BAKHTIN AND RAYMOND WILLIAMS. This work attempts to interpret and evaluyate the historical-materialist critiquye of modern society by three progressive thinkers: Gramsci, Bakhtin and Williams. Precipitated by the early crisis of global capitalism in the 20th century, the insights of Gramsci into hegemony and national-popular culture ushered the birth of Cultural Studies and a wide-ranging world-systems analysis.  Bakhtin’s concept of the “sign as the arena of class struggle” has offered a radical break with the elitist mystifications of deconstructive postmodernism.  Deployingh Gramsci’s theory of strategic intervention into the political economy of complex social formations and using Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination, Williams explored the contradictory “structures of feeling” in a world with multi-layered conflicts across class, gender, race, etc.; with diverse communities harboring their singular visions or democratic socialism. Gramsci, Bakhtin, and Williams’ exemplary critical reflectios continue to inspire concerned intellectuals everywhere.  From a dialectical inquiry into controversies and arguments engaged by these three major thinkers, E. San Juan’s scholarly project seeks to articulate a transformative praxis useful for all activist cultural workers today confronting the demise of the barbaric neoliberal enpire of fianance-capital headed by the moribund U.S.nation-state.

San Juan’s book TOWARD FILIPINO SELF-DETERMINATION, to be released this August 2009 by the State University of New York Press, Albany, updates his previous works on the Filipino diaspora found in FROM EXILE TO DIASPORA (Westview Press) and AFTER POSTCOLONIALISM (Rowman and Littlefield), with substantial explorations into the situation and plight of Overseas Filipino Workers, now about 9 million scattered around the planet. Is the term/concept “transnational” appropriate to an emergent nation? Perry Anderson gave the most powerful criticism of the neoliberal use of “transnational” in his Editorial Note to NEW LEFT REVIEW, issue 14 (March-April 2002), which many scholars have failed to take heed. San Juan rejects the whole alibi and fraud behind “transnationalism” as well as “cosmopolitanism,” to which Filipinos and Filipino Americans continue to succumb. Apart from this, San Juan provides the only left/radical alternative to the current Filipino-American assimilationist, self-serving, and opportunist tendency in the U.S. academy, as well as those in the Philippines and elsewhere, who seek recognition and kudos from the Western/global North Establishment.

A Filipino resident in the U.S., San Juan is an internationally recognized cultural critic whose works have been translated into French, German, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and other languages.  San Juan’s two previous books, Racial Formations/Critical Transformations (Humanity Books), now a classic in ethnic studies, and After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-U.S. Confrontations (Rowman and Littlefield), won the Myers Human Rights Awards. He has also received a MELUS award and the Asian American Association Prize for distinguished contributions to the discipline of cultural studies.

San Juan was previously a Fulbright lecturer at the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and visiting lecturer at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. San Juan’s previous works include The Philippine Temptation (Temple UP); Beyond Postcolonial Theory (Palgrave Macmillan), Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke UP); Working Through the Contradictions (Bucknell UP); and Himagsik (De La Salle UP). Available in the Philippines are:Allegories of Resistance; a re-issue of Toward a People’s Literature, and a new collection of poems, Sapagkat Iniibig Kita, all published by the University of the Philippines Press. Forthcoming are Balikbayang Sinta: An E. San Juan Reader (Ateneo U Press) and From Globalization Toward National Liberation (U.P. Press). San Juan taught at several universities, including the University of California, Brooklyn College of CUNY, University of Connecticut, and Washington State University. He was recently a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, Italy; 2009 fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. –##

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CURRICULUM VITAE (Selected)

Curriculum Vitae

EPIFANIO SAN JUAN

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Education

1958   A.B. magna cum laude University of the Philippines

1965   Ph.D. Harvard University

Academic Positions

1965-66   Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis

1966-67   Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines

1967-79   Associate Professor of English, The University of Connecticut, Storrs

1977-79   Professor of Comparative Literature, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

1987-88    Fulbright Professor of American Literature and Criticism, University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University

1979-1994  Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of Connecticut, Storrs

1994-1998   Professor of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

1998-2001   Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative American Cultures,

Washington State University, Pullman

2002   Fellow of the Center for the Humanities, and Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan

University

2003    Fulbright Professor of American Studies, Leuven University, Belgium

2004     National Science Council Fellow,  National Tsing Hua University, Republic of China

2006     Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Study (Fall 2006)

2008 (Spring)  Visiting Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of the

Philippines

2009 (Spring)  Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

Honors

1960-63   Fulbright-Smith Mundt Fellowship

1961-63   Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

1964      Comparative Literature Prize, Harvard University

1965      Howard Mumford Jones Award for Best Work in English, Harvard University

1963-65   Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

1987-88   Fulbright Lectureship in the Philippines

1993          Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,     Edinburgh, Scotland

1993      1993 National Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies

1993      Distinguished Book Award given by Gustavus Myers Human Rights Center

1994      Nominated for the Citizens’ Chair, University of Hawaii

1994      Katherine Newman Award, Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States

1995      Visiting Professor of English, University of Trento, Italy

1995          Scholar in Residence, Institute for the Study of Culture, Society, and Human

Values, Bowling Green State University

1999           Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature, Philippine Cultural Center,

Republic of the Philippines

2000           Visiting Chair Professor, Graduate School, Tamkang University, Taiwan

2001           Keynote Speaker, College English Association (CEA) 2002 Annual Convention

2002           Invited Speaker, American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 2002

2003           Speaker, 12th International Symposium on English Teaching, English Teachers Association, Republic of China, Nov. 7-9, Taipeh, Taiwan;    Keynote Speaker, Ninth Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature,  National Taiwan University, 19 June 2004

2004       Invited lecturer at 7 universities in Taiwan: Tsing Hua University, Chiaotung University,

Kaohsiung Normal University, Sun-Yat Sen University, National Kaohsiung University, National ChungHsing University, National Normal University, Taipeh

2007       Keynote Speaker, “Gramsci Now”: International Gramsci Conference, Michigan State

University, 9-11 November

BOOKS (Selected)

James Joyce and the Craft of Fiction. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972.

Carlos Bulosan and the Imagination of the Class Struggle.  Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 1972; reprinted by Oriole Editions, New York, 1975.

Introduction to Modern Pilipino Literature.  Boston: Twayne, 1974.

Poetics: The Imitation of Action. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Press, 1978.

Toward a People’s Literature: Essays in the Dialectics of Praxis and Contradiction in Philippine Writing. Quezon City: U.P. Press, 1984.  Winner of the Catholic Mass Media Award, 1985; and the National Book Award given by the Manila Critics Circle, 1985.

Racial Formation/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the U. S. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1992.  Winner of the 1993 National Book Award from Association for Asian American Studies; 1993 Distinguished Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights.

Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995.

The Philippine  Temptation: Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press/HarperCollins, 1998.

Beyond Postcolonial Theory.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontation. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Co., 2000.

Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.

Spinoza and the Terror of Racism.  UK: Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002.  A revised version appeared as “Spinoza, Marx and the Terror of Racism,” Nature, Society, and Thought 16.2 (2003), 193-230.

Working through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice.  Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004.

Filipinos Everywhere.  Quezon City: IBON, 2006,

In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the PostModern World.  Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007.

U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: Passages from Exile.  North Carolina: LuLu.com, 2007.

BALIKBAYANG SINTA: An E. San Juan Reader.  Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila Universiyy Press, 2008.

FROM GLOBALIZATION TO NATIONAL LIBERATION: Essays of Three Decades.  Quezon

City: University of the Philippines Press, 2008.

Toward Filipino Self-Determination. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2009.

Critique and Social Transformination. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

RECENT ARTICLES:

“The Multiculturalist Problematic in the Age of Globalized Capitalism,” Social Justice 27.1 (Spring 2000): 61-75.

“The Limits of Ethnicity and the Horizon of Historical Materialism” in Asian American Studies edited by Esther Ghymn (New York: Peter Lang, 2000): 9-34. A revised version has been translated into Chinese by Lisa Wu, National Tsing Hua University, under the title: “Ya yi mei guo ren zai mei guo kung jian li hsun zhao wei chih,” Chung-Wai Literary Monthly (Taiwan: 2000).

“The Limits of Contemporary Cultural Studies,”Connecticut Review xxii.2 (Fall 2000): 35-45. Reprinted in The Lyceum Review [Manila, Philippines] Millenium Series, No. 1 (2000): 33-38.

“Aime Cesaire’s Poetics of Fugitive Intervention,” Third Text 53 (Winter 2000-01), 3-18. German translation: “Aime Cesaire Poetik des Augstands,” Das Argument 252 (2003), 668-682.  A revised version appeared as “Aime Cesaire and Surrealism,” Working Papers Series on Historical Systems, Peoples, and Cultures (Bowling Green State University, Ohio); and in a longer version as “Surrealism and Revolution,” a special issue of Working Papers in Cultural Studies (Pullman, WA: Washington State University, Department of Comparative American Cultures, 2000). French translation by Alice Boheme, in the WEB page on surrealism sponsored by Prof. Henri Behar of the Sorbonne

“Trajectories of the Filipino Diaspora,” Ethnic Studies Report xviii.2 (July 2000), 229-244.  A revised version appeared as “The Filipino Diaspora,” Philippine Studies 49 (Second Quarter 2001), 255-264. A

shorter version appeared as “Filipinizing Diasporic Re/turns,” DisOrient 9 (2001), 45-55.

“Cultural Studies—A Reformist  or Revolutionary Force for Social Change?”  Tamkang Review 31.2 (Winter 2000): 1-29.  A revised version appeared in the on-line journal Kritika Kultura 1.1 (February 2002) sponsored by the English Department, Ateneo University

“Toward Cultural Revolution: A Critique of Contemporary Cultural Studies,” Special issue of Working Papers in Cultural Studies (Washington State University, Pullman, WA: Department of Comparative American Cultures, 2001). Partial translation into French: “Politique des Cultural Studies contemporaines,” L’Homme et la Societe, 149 (2003), 105-124. See also, for another version, “From Birmingham to Angkor Watt: Demarcations of Cultural Studies,” the WEB page of Kritika Kultura

“Interrogating the Postcolonial Alibi: A Testimony from the Filipino Diaspora,” New Literatures Review 37 (Summer 2000): 85-112.

“From Chinatown to Gunga Din Highway,” Ethnic Studies Review 24.1-3 (2001): 1-28. A shorter version appeared as “From Fantasy to Strategy: Frank Chin’s Cultural Revolution,” Tamkang Review 31.3 (Spring 2001): 1-14.  An earlier  version: “From Chinatown to Gunga Din Highway,”  Left Curve No. 24 (Spring 2000): 58-68.

“Culture and Freedom in People’s Liberation Struggles,” Dialogue and Initiative (Fall-Winter 2001): 21-24.

“Symbolic Violence and the Fetishism of the Sublime: a metacommentary on David Hwang’s M. Butterfly,” Journal of Intercultural Studies 23.1 (2002): 33-46.

“Post-Colonialism and the Question of Nation-State Violence,” Denver University Law Review 78.4 (2001): 887-905. A revised version is: “Nationalism, the Postcolonial State and Violence,” Left Curve 26 (2002): 36-44. Reprinted as “Postcolonialism and the Question of Nation-State Violence in the Age of Late Capitalism,” Lyceum Review [Manila, Philippines], Millennium Series, No. 2 (2001): 16-32.

“Cultural Studies Amongst the Sharks: The Struggle Over Hawaii,” Third Text 16.1 (2002): 71-78.

“Interrogating Transmigrancy, Remapping Diaspora: The Globalization of Laboring Filipinos/as,”  Discourse 23.3 (Fall 2001):  52-74. A revised version appeared as “Postcolonial Discourse, Diasporic Critique: Filipina Migrant Narratives in the Shadow of Globalization,” Journal of Asian-Pacific Affairs 4.1 (2002): 19-48. Reprinted as “Interrogating Transnationalism: The Case of the Filipino Diaspora in the Age of Globalized Capitalism,” Diliman Review 51.1-2 (2003), 5-22.

“Postcolonialism and the Problematic of Uneven Development” in Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies, ed. Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 221-239. “Postcolonialism y desarollo desigual,” Casa de las Americas 219 (April-June 2000), 26-34

“The Poverty of Postcolonialism,” Pretexts (Summer 2002): 57-74. . Italian version (see #172)

“Nation-State, Postcolonial Thought, and Global Violence,” Social Analysis 46.2 (Summer 2002), 11-32.

“Antonio Gramsci on Surrealism and the Avant-garde,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 37.2 (Summer 2003), 31-45.

“Spinoza and the War of Racial Terrorism, Left Curve, No. 27, 62-72.

“Fundamentals of Cultural Studies: Extrapolations from Selected Texts of Raymond Williams,” Keywords: A Journal of Cultural Materialism 4 (2003), 78-93.

“The Imperialist War on Terrorism and the Responsibility of Cultural Studies,” Arena Journal 20 (2002-2003), 45-56. A revised version: “U.S. Imperial Terror, cultural studies, and the national liberation struggle in the Philippines,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4-3 (2003), 516-523.  Reprined in Diliman Review 50.4 (2003), 39-46.  A shorter version: “U.S. War on Terrorism and the Filipino Struggle for National Liberation,” Dialogue and Initiative (Fall 2003), 2-6. An expanded version appeared as: “Imperialist War Against Terrorism and Revolution in the Philippines,” Left Curve 28 (2004), 40-56.

“Challenging Contemporary American Studies,” The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 25.4 (October-December 2003), 303-333

“Marxism and the Race/Class Problematic: A Rearticulation,” Cultural Logic (2003)   Reprinted in Diliman Review 51.3 (2004), 6-15.

“Aime Cesaire’s Insurrectionary Poetics,” in Surrealism, Politics and Culture,edited by Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003), 226-245.

“On the Filipino Diaspora and the Crisis in the Philippines,” St. John’s University Humanities Review 2.1 (Fall 2003), 81-99.

“ ‘Filipino’ Speech-Acts—Weapons for Self-Determination of the Filipino Nationality in the U.S.,”  Danyag 7.1 (June 2002; published 2003): 29-46. Reprinted in Diliman Review 50.4 (2003),  3-12; also in . KritikaKultura 5 (Dec. 2004): 70-86    A longer version appeared as: “Inventing Vernacular Speech-Acts: Articulating Filipino Self-Determination in the United States,” Socialism and Democracy 19.1 (March 2005), 136-154.

“Knowledge, Representation, Truth: Learning from Charles Sanders Peirce’s Semiotics,” St. John’s University Humanities Review 2.2 (May 2004), 15-37.

“The Field of English in the Cartography of Globalization,” Philippine Studies 52.1 (2004), 94-118.

“Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci,”  Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 11,1-2 (2004), 56-74.

“From Race to Class Struggle: Re-problematizing Critical Race Theory,” Michigan Journal of Race and Law 11.1  (Fall 2005), 75-98.

“Preparing for the Time of Reparation: Du Bois, G. Jackson, Abu Jamal,”  Souls 7.2 (2005), 63-74.

“Toward a Decolonizing Indigenous Psychology in the Philippines: Introducing Sikolohiyang Pilipino,”  Journal for Cultural Research 10.1 (Jan. 2006), 47-67.

“Edward Said’s Affiliations: Secular humanism and Marxism,”  Atlantic Studies 3.1 (April

2006), 43-60.

“Ethnic Identity and Popular Sovereignty: Notes on the Moro Struggle in the Philippines,”  Ethnicities 6.3 (Sept. 2006), 391-422.

“Carlos Bulosan, Filipino Writer-Activist,” New Centennial Review 8.1 (Winter 2008), 103-

134.

“Internationalizing the U.S. Ethnic Canon: Revisiting Carlos Bulosan,” Comparative

American Studies (June 2008): 123-143.

“Joyce/Ibsen: Dialectics of Aesthetic Modernism,” Orbis Litterarum 63.4  (2008): 267-284.

“Antonio Gramsci’s Theory of the ‘National-Popular” and Socialist Revolution in the Philippines,”  In Gramsci Now, ed. Joseph Francese.  New York: Routledge, 2009 (forthcoming).

Notre nouvel entraineur Joao Alves à l'interview sur Léman Bleu.

Dans une interview pas toujours très claire dû à quelques incompréhensions linguistiques, Joao Alves est revenu sur son arrivée au Servette et aux différents objectifs. Pas grand chose de nouveau mais certaines confirmations. Morceaux choisis.

 

Son arrivée au club

Joao Alves a mentionné qu’il ne connaissait pas Mr Pishyar avant son arrivée et c’est par l’intermidiaire d’une personne (que l’on suppose agent) qu’ils ont été mis en contact et se sont rencontrés à Paris pour trouver un terrain d’entente. Point positif: Il semble que les conditions financières qui lui ont été proposées soient satisfaisantes ce qui prouvent que Mr Pishyar sait dépenser son argent quand c’est nécessaire. Autre point positif: Il a obtenu certaines garanties sportives pour construire une équipe compétitive.

Pourquoi son fils est-il là?

Tout le monde s’interpelle un peu de la venue dans ses valises de son propre fils mais ce n’est certainement pas Mr Pishyar qui peut s’en offusquer. Son fils est venu comme personne de confiance et d’expériences car il entraine aussi et cela depuis 6 ou 7 ans. Mr Alves désirait avoir un assistant en qui il peut avoir confiance. Cependant, il a confirmé qu’Oscar Londono restait assistant coach.

Sa vision de l’équipe depuis son arrivée

Le contact s’établit petit à petit et certains joueurs ont mis plus de temps que d’autres à se libérer. Pour lui, ce sont principalement les matchs qui seront révélateurs. Au niveau du groupe, Joao Alves considère qu’il a des bons joueurs avec des bonnes qualités techniques et du talent. Il pense cependant qu’il faut améliorer la consistance  de l’équipe (plus compact) et qu’il devienne difficile de jouer contre Servette. C’est pou lui la première pierre à l’édifice.

Les objectifs

La promotion est prévue dans les 21 prochains mois et c’est l’objectif ultime (les objectifs sont donc clairement fixés). Il puisse sa confiance dans sa grande expérience de footballeur professionnel où il a cotoyé de grands entraineurs et aussi dans sa propre expérience d’entraineur avec les 5 promotions. Il sait que la victoire passe par un certain amalgame autant au niveau sportif qu’au niveau administratif. C’est pour lui un travail d’équipe qui mènera au succès.

 Les EdS

Reportage Koester release party van M.O. & Brakko

Damsceaux maakte een reportage voor Bruja & Co. (MTNL) over het winnen van de Grote Prijs, een nieuwe plaat maken en de releaseparty van M.O. & Brakko in de Bitterzoet. De boys hebben samen met de Raven Bros. een fijne plaat gemaakt als voorbode op hun komende album, dus kwam ik natuurlijk ook langs om ze te supporten. Trouwens, Rotjoch maakte ook een reportage van de release party voor 101Barz.

Meet @smeykunz

Name: Shannon

Birthdate: August 16th

Nickname(if applicable): I’ve never had a nickname on Twitter. Many people have tried to give me one, they just never stuck. I’m the only Belle that is not called “Miss”, I guess that’s kind of special so I don’t need a nickname. I will however answer to Rhoda, Scooter,  Beezy, Shanny-Bear, and oddly enough….Boo Boo Kitty Fuck?

Personal Bio: I enjoy late night walks on the beach, older dead men….wait a minute….aren’t I technically older? DAMN! Wife and mother, currently unemployed architectural illustrator, Tweetslattern with over 36,000 tweets on my main account, and of course @BillsBelles blogger. ALMOST always in a good mood, which I pride myself on and comes in handy, also I look very good in a bikini.(Yes, I am shameless)
What brought you to Twitter? When was that?: I was posting on the Bill on the Brain thread on the True Blood HBO wiki where I met some of the Belles. @BubbaLives said there were RP’s on Twitter for True Blood and you could talk to them. Being the frustrated actor that I am, I made an account on February 15th to join in. I jumped in with both feet and there was no turning back. It’s been one hell of a ride.
How did you choose your @ name?: “S” is clearly for Shannon with “mey” for part of my maiden name and “kunz” for part of my married name. If you know me, it makes more sense. I get a lot of people saying it sounds a bit dirty. Maybe that’s why I keep using it?
Why is Bill your Vamp?: I’d never been so turned on by a book in my entire life when I read “Dead Until Dark”. Bill grabbed me and yanked me in, figuratively speaking of course.(bummer) I’ll admit to being frustrated and angry with him for some of his actions, but all the while I defended them as he made them. I also love geeks and Bill is a computer using, alien movie watching geek. In addition, Stephen Moyer’s portrayal certainly doesn’t hurt this argument. Couple that with fanfiction Bill (mine specifically), throw in a dash of Twitter Bill and VOILA!
Favorite Bill book/show quote: From the book…..I LOVE when he and Sookie are in Bill’s bedroom and she asks him if he will let her get some sleep. He says “Of course I will…In a little while…Eventually.” T to the H to the U to the D! From the show….It’s not a quote, but a gesture of sorts.When Jessica first rises he has this horrified look on his face; one of a man who has just realized he has a ready made teenage daughter. I lovingly call it “Bill’s WTF face”.

Favorite Bill photo: My favorite picture of Bill has always been and forever will be, Season one Episode one, sitting in the booth at Merlotte’s hands clasped. @VampireBill’s avatar(Ya think he knew that was such a panty dropper?)
Favorite character from the books/show aside from Bill: I always liked Pam in the books and I think she is way underused on True Blood. As for the show, can I say this without losing my Belle card? I love Lorena. That’s not to say I love what she does to Bill, but she is a great antagonist for him. Undeath can’t be all wine and roses, people! I think the animosity between them was great and I must say I loved seeing Bill’s Vampy side with her, since we all know he has one. She had a bunch of great lines as well, had me in stitches. Sorry Belles and Bill, but she is the ass kicker Shan could never be.
Favorite @VampireBill moment: I enjoy a lurky Bill. In the middle of the day, if I say something and get winked at or my tweet is commented on, I just giggle. Getting busted for saying and doing things late at night that may be unbelle like is pretty funny as well. This happened recently as @MissCassee and I were having a late night Battle of the Bills and he popped up to catch me wearing his face. I laughed until I cried. That never gets old Bill. My all time favorite…One night I was on the Bill’s Belles account and mentioned I needed to run to the store as I was out of salt, detergent, and cheese. About three hours later I was on my regular account and said,” I know I needed salt and detergent but what was the other thing?” Bill popped up and said, “You needed cheese.” That was hilarious!
What would you like to see happen on Twitter in the off season?: I would like to see some Vampires that act scary and Vampy, do Vampiric things like actually kill people, fight each other, bite. Let’s embrace the dark and twisty, people! Bill has done dark twisty things on Twitter and we all liked it, forgave him, and shifted in our seats a bit. So I say bring it on!
Who is your favorite @ character? (other than Bill of course): WOW! I have a bunch. @JaneBodehouse has always been so good to me, baking me cakes and teaching how to smoke tweed @TerryB_fleur hits on me in a very non-threatening way while trying not to twitch, @SteveNewlinJr makes zealotry damned hilarious, @EatatChowPings because San never stops laughing EVER!, @LordBarren for being my favorite crotchety cartoon knight, and @JessicaHamby my Vampy BFF whom I love with all my heart.
On a separate note…..
I’d like to thank everyone who has supported me in the creation of this blog. It has been my pleasure to inform all of you of funny moments missed, hot pics, TB info, and anything else I have been known to blog. You can all rely on me to keep you in the know, since “It’s what I do”. I love all the Belles (and Bill) and have your backs always. I am thoroughly enjoying the reactions we are getting from our interviews and am so glad we decided to do this. At some point, I would LOVE to interview The Man himself. Don’t worry Bill, I am not interested in what your favorite veggie was as a kid or what your fantasy baseball pics would be, none of that silly human stuff.  You intrigued me recently with your talk about a Vampire war in the 1920’s. Fascinating, indeed. Perhaps we could discuss this at a later date. Again, enjoy the blog and PLEASE…comment on it. I love to hear what you all are thinking and would like to see posted in the future. We have many more interviews to come. Stay tuned….