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 martin amis | Ginny Dougary :: Award-winning journalist and writer

Enough, says Amis, in Eagleton feud

Warring professors of cultural theory and creative writing fight themselves to a standstill over Islam

Maev Kennedy
Saturday October 13, 2007
The Guardian

Martin Amis, interviewed by Ginny Dougary, Times, September 2006

‘Moderate Islam is always deceptively well-represented on the level of the op-ed page and the public debate; elsewhere it is supine and inaudible.’

The voice of experience

Times Online – September 09, 2006
– Ginny Dougary

At 57, Martin Amis’s days as the enfant terrible of British fiction are long gone, yet he still has the unerring ability to shock. Ginny Dougary hears his frank views about love, terror, growing old and the tyranny of daughters

Martin Amis is jumpy. He sees the secret police everywhere. His eyes dart around, starting at shadows, and his concentration is shot. For a while he’s fine and we’re back to the effortless flow of elegant sentences; the lazy, patrician drawl – and then, arrrgh, back comes the paranoid facial freeze, the whole body tensing and doubling over as he scrabbles to conceal what he fears his tormentors will find. So this, you might think – possibly smugly, particularly if you’re one of those Schadenfreude-meisters who revels in the misfortunes of “little” Martin Amis (as he was dubbed, years ago, and with no great affection, by the “towering” Gore Vidal) – this is what comes of dropping out of metropolitan life for two and a half years to live in a house that has been built for you in the wilds of Uruguay.

“It is pathetic,” he agrees. “But they’re just horrible to me. They’re proper little fascists about it and they know they can be really authoritarian and still have right on their side.” The Amis litany of American wives, the American über-agent, the American novel, the American teeth; all of this we could live with. But the latest development is distinctly more worrying. For in America, as we all know, lighting up a cigarette is an incendiary offence and Amis, who has always reliably smoked for England, seems to be seriously thinking of giving it up. “The little fascists”, you see, are the nicotine-Nazis – his small daughters, Fernanda and Clio, nine and six – and it is fascinating to see how much power they wield over their father. They must be the real reason (rather than any new Stateside enthralment) why he’s happier these days to be photographed, as he was in another newspaper, looking a bit of a wally – or “ponce”, as he puts it – pert bum in the air, performing his Pilates leg extensions, than with the sagging decadence of a half-drained glass of wine and a fag.

Ah well, he’s hardly the first parent to be tyrannised by the moral loftiness of his offspring. (I told him that my younger son had recently asked me whether I was, possibly, an “antisocial” rather than “social smoker”, and felt a complicated flush of maternal pride when Amis said, “That’s very good. That’s rather penetrating.”) Neither is he the first second-time round father to be struck by the new-found wonderment of a child growing up. But struck, quite palpably, he is: “It’s a great pleasure to watch a growing thing, and it’s more and more of a pleasure to watch my daughters. It was great to watch my boys grow [Louis and Jacob, from his first marriage to the academic Antonia Phillips; now both reading ancient history at Oxford and Bristol], but I was younger then and it didn’t strike me as so significant.

“Now the idea of something growing… that’s why people take up gardening when they’re old. They want to be around growing things. I had a tiny experience of that in Uruguay where it was for a while my duty to water the garden, and there was that elderly pleasure in it… just when you play the water on a plant, how its colour gets richer and you kid yourself they’re grateful for it. No, I didn’t talk to them, but it is satisfying. It’s really because you’re shrinking and dying in the long term that it’s very nice to see something that’s coming up.”

At 57 (incredibly! Did the père have to go, before the fils was finally uncoupled from his enduring epithet – despite that very public mid-life crisis – as an enfant terrible?), Amis has had to contend with the usual roll-call of losses, as well as the less usual – the death of his father, Kingsley, who was most definitely The King to him; followed not long after by Sally, his sister – the baby of the family – struck down by “a mysterious failure cascade” (a phrase, the closing down of organ after organ, I find attached to one of the characters in his new book) and dead within the week; Rob, his oldest friend, who is vividly present in Experience, then dying equally suddenly of cancer at the age of 51; Saul Bellow, the father-figure to whom he was umbilically attached; the ghastly late discovery, at such a long remove from the night of her disappearance, that his cousin Lucy Partington had been one of serial-killer Fred West’s victims.

It is hard to move on from that last name on the list without pausing; the empathy with her family’s bereavement echoing every family’s worst fear. It makes you wonder whether there wasn’t something in Amis’s unconscious that had already divined what the writer didn’t dare to contemplate; the very idea of him inventing a “murderee” (London Fields’s Nicola Six); his male characters who casually boast about beating and raping and subjugating women. Writing fiction can be an unpremeditated exorcism of events that are too profoundly haunting for the surface gaze of rational examination; those thoughts that lie too deep for tears – as in the knowledge, albeit a different order of pain, that you have fathered a daughter you cannot acknowledge (as Amis did, although father and grown-up daughter, Delilah, are now, happily, embraced in each other’s lives). He found it strangely consoling when another novelist, Maureen Freely – in the wake of the news, as it inevitably became – detected the number of “lost or wandering daughters and putative or fugitive fathers” who appeared in his books. It meant, he later wrote, that Delilah had been with him in spirit far more than he knew.

“You find that some things have not been written about by you and gone down to the subconscious level,” Amis says, “and they belong to fiction. It’s a silent anxiety… an anxiety that you don’t articulate. That’s where your fiction comes from. Sometimes it’s stuff that you don’t even know is bothering you. You think life is going on and nothing much is happening but there is… Saul Bellow has a nice sentence for it… ‘The silent work of uneventful days’, when great changes are happening inside you but it just seems like ordinary life.”

The central subject of his fiction, he says, has been masculinity – but as ageing and its accompanying layers of loss make their imprint on him, it seems likely that his novels will come to reflect those themes in a way that might eclipse his other preoccupations. Or, perhaps, more pertinently, that he might be freed up to engage in a more direct way with the human condition. Amis has never been one of those writers who only lives in his books. We know about his enthusiasms and engagements in the business of living: the daily tennis game, the blokey world of snooker and darts; the long-lasting male friendships (with the writer and polemicist, Christopher “The Hitch” Hitchens, and the novelist Julian Barnes; their glacial rift over the agent defection finally shows signs of thawing); the pageant of glamorously well-connected girlfriends; the importance of family. And yet, as with most serious novelists near the top of their game, surely for him what really matters, in the final reckoning, is the work? But while this may once have been true, Amis says it is no longer the case.

“I’ll tell you why. It has become clearer and clearer to me that when you get into the last lap of your life, you don’t really think about your work at all. What you think about is (a) how it went with the women in your life and (b) your children, and work comes very much third. There’s even a hint of it in there [pointing to his new book, House of Meetings] when the main character says that men always die in torment because they’re not congratulating themselves on their achievements in the world; they’re reproaching themselves for the bad things they did.” When I interviewed Kingsley, a year before his death in 1995, he was beset with those torments at dawn. He said that he still felt guilty – even more, as the years stacked up – about the break-up of his first marriage, when he left Hilly for the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, and the effect it might have had on his children. At the time, his son was in the throes of separating from his first wife for his new love, Isabel Fonseca, whom he went on to marry – and perhaps there was an element of his feeling that it was his own example that had somehow led to this. “There’s no point in agonising about it,” he said, “but that doesn’t stop you agonising. As you get older, you spend more time on your own, therefore you think more about your past. But there’s nothing you can do.”

Martin, when I phoned him then, said that he’d forgiven Kingsley long ago, and made a point of adding that he didn’t know anyone who was as close to their father as he was to his. When I said that Kingsley did not appear to have forgiven himself, he said: “As you get older, you have fewer defences against those big regrets in your life, and sources of guilt. My father says that they are there all the time; you have to live with them.”

Saul Bellow, too, was filled with anxiety in his final days. “You would think Saul would be in a stupor of self-satisfaction because his work was so celebrated. He didn’t say it till quite close to the end when a friend came in, who was almost the same age, and asked, ‘Well, what have you got to say for yourself, Bellow?’ And Saul, from his hospitalic bed in his own house, said, ‘I’ve been thinking. Now which is it? Is it: there goes a man or there goes a jerk?’ And his friend, Karl, said, ‘There goes a man.’ And Saul said, ‘OK. I’ll take your word for it.’

“So that’s what you’re thinking. He had five marriages – and four children – and the last was his longest and his best. But there had been a lot of wounds and blows given and received in four divorces. It’s there [he refers again to the book; its story takes the form of a letter as a manuscript from the Russian narrator to his American stepdaughter], when he says to Venus that there’s a difference between men and women in the last round. Men break the habit of a lifetime and start blaming themselves; women break the habit of a lifetime and stop blaming themselves. Good news for women.”

We’re talking in the garden of the Fonseca family’s summer residence in the Hamptons. A deer and a stag tilt through the high grass in the distance. It’s really a most un-Amis-like setting, despite the tennis court at the approach of the drive. I had been told that the house was in a compound in a nature reserve, but I hadn’t quite clocked that this would be a private compound, much like the Kennedy set-up, with various members of the Fonseca clan ensconced in their own expansive New England-style homes, a discreet remove from one another, divided by curving hedges and banks of blowsy white hydrangeas.

When Isabel Fonseca’s name first appeared in the popular press, she was described as an American heiress, daughter of a Uruguayan sculptor and a Jewish (why the need for that prefix, one wonders?) American socialite, and I remember thinking that didn’t sound right. Surely what was most notable about La Fonseca at that time was that she had recently written a tremendous and highly praised book of her own, Bury Me Standing, about the gypsies of East Central Europe, for which she had devoted four years of her life, interviewing and travelling with gypsies in order to tell their story.

Well, having visited the family estate, I can see that “heiress” is probably accurate – along with “stunning beauty”, and all the other gallant nods to her good looks. Still, writers are competitive, particularly couples – however much they demur – and I caught a faint whiff of it in Fonseca. This struck me at the end of the interview with Amis – when his missus had obligingly posed, despite her understandable resistance, in a sort of disgraced-Tory “happy family” shot. (The “I have resigned to spend more time with…” quips were fast and flowing.)

Afterwards, when we were chatting before she kindly drove us to the bus-stop, Isabel told me that she was working on her first novel, and said, “So you can interview me when it’s published” and then, “No, of course, I’m only joking” and, after another pause, “If it gets published.” And I thought however gilded your life must appear to others – and Mr and Mrs Amis appear to be very happy indeed; they still flirt with each other, for instance – it must sometimes sap your confidence to have your status as a writer relegated to “wife of”.

In his study of masculinity, Amis has always maintained that one of the characteristics that defines men is their intense competitiveness. Several of his novels – London Fields, The Information – zone in on consuming rivalries between different male novelists. Looking through the large Amis file of cuttings, you notice – particularly back in the Eighties, when Money was widely considered to be the novel to speak for that decade – that it wasn’t chick-hacks or geezer-birds who were dispatched to interview its author, but literary-minded young men, often novelists themselves. And it was to America – and the Big Beasts of literature – that Amis would turn, in the Eighties, for his masterful interviews with the likes of Mailer and Updike and Bellow.

I wonder whether Amis now feels that he is in their league? “Oh, no. No,” he says. You have said, in the past, that you have to feel that you’re the best at what you do, in order to do it at all. “You’ve got to think you’re the best of your lot [by which, I take it, he means his generation of British novelists]. But it’s not a wannabe thing. I think it’s much exaggerated, this pecking-order stuff with novelists – particularly since Salman Rushdie. He cut through a lot of that just because it was suddenly life and death, and these little jealousies looked very petty after 1989. Also, more generally, you’re not trying to write someone else’s novels. And they’re not trying to write yours. We’re all trying to write the novel that Trollope called The Way We Live Now – but we’re all coming at it from a thousand different directions.” And then, as an afterthought: “Clearly there is a lot of ego stuff… and there must be something in it because it’s such a massively established idea that novelists are… Look, you can be competitive about sales and prizes and stuff like that, but you really can’t be in competition with anyone to write your next novel.”

So you’re not at all bothered by not getting the Booker? (The King was shortlisted three times and eventually won it in 1986, for The Old Devils; The Prince has been shortlisted only once for his Holocaust backwards novel, Time’s Arrow, in 1991; among his friends and contemporaries, Barnes, Swift, McEwan, Okri and Rushdie have all been Bookered.) “No, I’m completely reconciled to the fact that my books do not unite people, and they blatantly don’t unite committees. If they did, I would be a different writer. Obviously, winning the Booker simplifies things. But what’s most important is feeling that you have a core of readers. And that’s more important than the money, too, as long as you’re not starving. The sashes and the cups and the Tonys and the Pulies… that’s very secondary.”

In our meandering conversation – we cover a lot of ground in an afternoon – I am struck by the way Amis talks about his mother. Perhaps it takes the particular skill of a novelist to conjure such a telling portrait of someone that close to him, so tenderly and yet with such forensic precision. The closing chapter of Kingsley’s life – after the crushing failure of that second marriage – was spent sharing his home in Primrose Hill with his first wife, Hilly, and her third husband, Lord Kilmarnock. Martin recalls how sentimental Kingsley became about Hilly; we both remember the poems he wrote to “H” which appeared at the end of his memoirs; the girl he met in 1946 “whose eye I could have met for ever then” and how he made the mistake of looking further, since “How can we tell, with nothing to compare?”

Their son says, “I think the sentiment was real, too. But then my mother is a very extraordinary person, and he must have thought that he didn’t realise how exceptional she was.” In what way? “I can elaborate on this a bit. She is the only woman I’ve ever come across who doesn’t have an atom of theatricality in her. She never says anything for effect. Takes it that what you’re telling her is what you mean. None of the Byzantine stuff that we’re used to. Oh, and by the way, I think women are theatrical and men are cinematic. It’s the same sort of seeing themselves from the outside, but men underact whereas women overact. Anyway, she never did that. She was [striking, too, how he slips into talking about Saul and Kingsley in the present; and Hilly, who is still alive, in the past] really straight – which is very attractive and very unusual. She’s also very funny – but, again, she doesn’t time her funny remarks. They just sort of pop out and they’re funny but she sort of doesn’t intend them to be funny. Oh, she’s just very unusual,” he says again, his gaunt features plumped up by the sweetness of the thought. “Everyone who has met her sees it.”

It is Hilly, he says, who provides the extra “lift” in Zachary Leader’s forthcoming authorised biography of Amis Sr. “There’s a charming bit where she’s first met Kingsley – it took her a while to fall for him and then she did fall for him in a big way – and she said,” he switches to the first person, “‘He was so unlike my own parents and brothers and sisters. We tended to accept people for what they are and be tolerant of them, but Kingsley, sitting in a café, would say [here, he scrunches up his face in a comically exaggerated look of withering scorn, somehow summoning both his father and his father’s own brilliant mimicking of others], ‘Look at those fools who’ve just come in… look at that bloody hat he’s wearing’, flailing out in all directions. She was very puzzled by that. Couldn’t understand it. She was thinking, ‘What’s wrong with all these people?’, as he’d be going, ‘Look at that idiot over there.’”

So where does he fall between his father’s punishing eye and his mother’s non-judgmentalism? “I’m not inclined, unlike Kingsley, to have a category in my mind that ropes in certain kinds of people for disapproval. But as I’ve got older, I’m a bit harder on what I see as herd stuff. I hate the clunking initials – but the sort of PC package of moral equivalents on every issue, where no one’s right about anything. The use of catchphrases which go around for a few months and then disappear. I keep seeing headlines that say that the new PLO guy is ‘Arafat-lite’ and my attitude to that is, well, take your hat off to whoever said it first but don’t use it yourself. That sort of subtext of used novelty – that’s something that Kingsley disliked.”

The freshly minted expression that becomes an instant cliché? “Yeah… heading towards cliché, like ‘no-brainer’. Don’t yourself use those phrases because it is a sort of automatic thought – and I’m impatient with that.” So do you manage to be vigilant with yourself? “You have to catch yourself and you have to forbid family members to use them. My daughter says, ‘What? I’m supposed to go to bed without ice-cream? I don’t think so.’ That sort of thing.” He’s amusing himself here, I should point out, as well as me. “You have to say, ‘Fernanda, that’s the sort of phrase that other people use. You don’t have to use it.’” Not in our house, you don’t. “That’s right – so there’s a bit of snobbery about that.” How do you deal with the dangling question mark, the Valley Girl vault? “She’s actually satirising that at the age of nine; she and her cousin do it as a joke. So I’m very pleased to see that and encourage it.”

When Amis was Fernanda’s age, a most blue-eyed and blond little boy, he saw some image from the Holocaust that disturbed him enough to repeat it to his mother. “And she said, ‘Oh, don’t worry about Hitler. Hitler would have loved you.’ I don’t know whether I’ve ever said this before, but I think that’s why I wrote Time’s Arrow in the end. I didn’t want Hitler to love me. I wanted Hitler to hate me. It sort of worked away at me because I remember thinking, ‘Whew.’

“And now, for instance, it’s very important to me that my daughters are fully Jewish by Jewish law, which is matrimonial. So I’m pleased they’d be the first to be summoned.” That’s rather a peculiar thought, isn’t it? “It is, but let’s not mess about – that’s what they are. So there’d be no shilly shallying there. Especially since what we’re living through now, among other things, is a huge recrudescence of anti-semitism. And, with my two daughters, it makes me feel great solidarity with them.”

He lays the blame for Israel’s plight (and there is, conspicuously, no mention of Palestine’s) firmly with the Brits: “For Nasrallah, it’s a power play; for Israel it’s survival. And they always have this hanging over them. It’s our fault because we put them in it. There couldn’t have been a worse place on earth than where they are. They should have been in Bavaria and then they would have had a couple of leather-shorted scoutmasters from the BLO throwing Molotov cocktails at them, from time to time… at least they wouldn’t have been surrounded by millions of people who thirst for their death. So I think you’ve got to bear that in mind.”

He and The Hitch were in Las Vegas the previous week, and shared their grim premonition that this could be the beginning of the end for Israel. “You can’t put them anywhere else now. They can’t have another country, another Homeland. It’s a very chilling thought because the only thing the Islamists like about modernity is modern weapons. And they’re going to get better and better at that. They’re also gaining on us demographically at a huge rate. A quarter of humanity now and by 2025 they’ll be a third. Italy’s down to 1.1 child per woman. We’re just going to be outnumbered.

“The one built-in element that works in our favour is that it’s so vile and poisonous, so preposterously disgusting that it must burn itself out. They have managed to fix on a real paradigm shift – earlier, people would die for causes and for tiny religious reasons, but to convert it into this luscious, sensual paradise that you go straight to, while the rest of the poor sods have to moulder in the earth for centuries until they’re kicked awake by furious angels and interrogated about their sins. The suicide bomber doesn’t do any of that shit. He goes straight to the ripe wine and women.”

This is the central question Amis keeps coming back to in his writing: an extended and moving review of the film United 93; a short story, published in The New Yorker, The Last Days of Mohammad Atta (we talk about the haunting photograph of the 9/11 leader, with his hard black eyes “full of murder… as though he couldn’t contain it a second longer”); a new 12,000-word essay tackling the terrorists head-on. This last response is likely to be extremely hardline, inflamingly so, if Amis’s message to me is anything to go by.

“What can we do to raise the price of them doing this? There’s a definite urge – don’t you have it? – to say, ‘The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order.’ What sort of suffering? Not letting them travel. Deportation – further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people who look like they’re from the Middle East or from Pakistan… Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children. They hate us for letting our children have sex and take drugs – well, they’ve got to stop their children killing people. It’s a huge dereliction on their part. I suppose they justify it on the grounds that they have suffered from state terrorism in the past, but I don’t think that’s wholly irrational. It’s their own past they’re pissed off about; their great decline. It’s also masculinity, isn’t it?”

I remember reading somewhere that Atta’s cell of devout Muslims had been loaded on cocktails and playing Space Invaders in the days leading up to their murder spree. Amis, in his deep research, has come across the suggestion that there were even visits from strippers and call girls: “None of that would surprise me. I think they’re hugely hypocritical in their hearts. Their big beef against the West is that it’s tempting them. That’s just impossible. I mean, ‘Sorry. We didn’t know that what we were doing was creating a society for the tantalisation of good Muslims.’ When Khomeini called America the Great Tempter, that’s what he meant, the Great Satan. In the Koran, Satan is a tempter. So they want it, you know.”

His new book circles back to Amis’s old subject of Russia – which he tackled in Koba the Dread, with its central rebuttal of Stalin’s claim that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere statistic. House of Meetings revolves around a love triangle between two brothers – we meet them as prisoners in the Gulag, nightmarishly conjured – and a complicated Jewish beauty, which spans four decades of post-war Russia. A description of the House of Meetings – the generic name for the buildings where prisoners were allowed conjugal visits – in Anne Applebaum’s Gulag, was the starting point for his novel: “the atmosphere after such a visit, where everyone would be silent and very respectful of the man – no laughter, no mocking – because they knew the depth of the pain that such visits always bore.” And, also, a long piece in The New Yorker, entitled “Is Russia Dying?”

Amis says that he had a bad time writing the book – a sentiment, I am saddened to say, I shared on reading it, and not for all the right reasons. His first problem was structural – to whom was his narrator (one of the brothers) telling his story? His solution was to make the hero’s stepdaughter the recipient of his confession. “If she’s there all the time, it grounds it in the present and against another mild ideology – not the ferocious ideology he had to live through – but the modern culture of forgiving.”

The other problem was more existential: “I had a terrible struggle with this; a bit life and death. I’d written a book about the Holocaust, but that was fine because I was writing it from the point of view of a perpetrator. I could never have written it from the perspective of a victim. But this is about a victim. And I was writing about penal servitude above the Arctic Circle when I was living in a house in Uruguay with my beautiful daughters and wife, and having a stressless existence because that’s what it’s like down there – beautiful people; superb manners and civility; wonderful attitude to children; park anywhere you like; no traffic; not speaking Spanish, there were some evenings I hardly said a word and it was nice to have a vow of silence for a bit so you can just think your own thoughts…

“And I realised when I’d done the book that I had to really suffer as a writer. I wasn’t sitting around weeping about the poor sods in the Gulag – although I did have stabs of sympathy, obviously, as well – it just attacks your self-confidence. And then when I’d suffered enough and thought about suicide and not writing again…”

Are you being flippant? (My voice, here, sounds very sharp on the tape.) “No.” Why suicide? “Because you’re in such despair about it.” But why? “I kept thinking that it was pleading with me to abandon it. But that’s all it was really – doing the suffering to earn the book.”

And so we are at the pass I have been trying to avoid – which is my difficulty getting on with (as his father put it; he only managed to finish Time’s Arrow) Amis’s novels. Before we met up, I tried to do the right thing and muscled my way through Money – I’d given up on it when it first came out – and did marvel at its vim and originality and surface dazzle, even catching a glimpse of Amis nudging at something deeper than grotesque satire, with its redemptive suggestion of love that has been offered but squandered, before the fagged-out splutter of the end. London Fields – although again, obviously touched with inventive brilliance – was a bludgeoning ordeal.

Amis has been bludgeoned himself by great regiments of monstrous women (but only in England, he assures me) accusing him of misogyny. When I said that those particular novels made me feel as though I was trapped in a pub with a group of men making fishy-fanny jokes, he said, sounding genuinely sincere: “Well, I’m very sorry that you felt that.”

Someone wrote – and I wish I had his or her name, since it so precisely expressed my frustration – that while admiring his pure writing talent, “his books lack real emotional bite; we do not care what happens in them. You can open an Amis novel at any point and be mesmerised by the sentences and paragraphs (but you can still open them at any point). Like all standard lines, this is an exaggeration of the truth, but points at a real deficiency.”

Even in the new novel, which Amis says marks his first attempt to go deeper – “I’ve never done a tragic situation before… it felt like new territory to me” – there is something weirdly unjoined up about the emotion; as though the big subject of the tragedy has been grafted on to the characters, rather than us experiencing it through them. When I told Amis that I hadn’t quite got to grips with it, and would probably have to reread it (I tried and failed) – he told me that his previous interviewer (Tatler editor, Geordie Greig) had read it three times. This he took as a compliment – “Well, I do hope it takes a bit of absorbing.”

And, yet, I am a huge fan of his non-fiction, and it was a joy to revisit The Moronic Inferno – Amis’s take on America; those memorable and instructive encounters with its novelists, film directors, TV evangelists and shonkier politicians. (It was a slight comfort to be reminded of his own difficulties as an interviewer. When Vidal harrumphed that the article – which he had demanded to check pre- publication – was short on the work, Amis later informs us: “This was perfectly true. [Followed by a list of novels he tried but failed to get through] “and concluded that “I cannot get through Vidal’s fiction. The books are too long. Life is too short”). But it was in rereading Experience, his autobiography, that I felt the emotional reach, the thrill of deep engagement drawing you into the internal worlds of the characters (who happen to be real) – that is so absent for me in the novels.

He’s 300 pages into a new book which he describes as a “blindingly” autobiographical gossip novel, with real people in it: Larkin and The King are there, and Ian Hamilton and The Hitch and – of course – Saul Bellow, the inspiration for this departure from Amis’s usual approach. “I realised that he’s the only writer ever in the history of the world who’s been able to write autobiographically – with all sorts of artistry as well – and to do it that way round. Because he stares at the real person until he sees the universal. Most of us go the other way round and arrange our characters to stand for universal things.”

He tells me that he’s not afraid of sentimentality – “which is defined as a coarse and unworthy emotion. Well, we don’t want any of that, but some people are so frightened of sentimentality that they don’t go near the sentiments, and I think you should.” He also says that he can see himself going further into that territory, “that the strange impulse that makes you think, ‘Ah, here’s something for me that I can write’ won’t alight on these dark things so much.”

And what is the theme of this new, new novel? “Ageing,” he laughs. “Yeah, the big one. Actually, I think ageing is a very irresponsible horror film, where they’re saving the worst for last. And just when you think it’s all over, there’ll be the hand coming out of the grave.”

We’re done. Out comes the chardonnay and a lovely warm hug at the end, as we leave Amis to get on with the business of shrinking and dying and not caring all that much about the work. Yeah right, Marty, I don’t think so.

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Spirits Industry Concerned about Darling’s Plan to Raise Taxes

The Gin and Vodka Association (GVA) has expressed its serious concern at today’s announcement by the Chancellor that he intends to proceed with plans to raise taxes on alcohol this year.  The news brings further misery to hard-pressed consumers and threatens more job losses in a sector already facing record numbers of business failures, pub closures and worsening trading conditions.

Today’s Budget raised alcohol taxes by 2%. If the tax escalator on alcohol continues for the next three years as scheduled, it will mean that duty on alcohol will have been raised by around 40% by the time of the London Olympics.

In the first ever joint industry Budget Submission, the GVA joined other major drinks industry trade associations in warning that a total of 75,000 jobs would be at risk if the plans to increase taxes further went ahead.

The impact of today’s announcement will be more severe than anticipated because the Treasury based its calculations on a notional zero inflation rate rather than the current forecast for deflation of minus 3%.

The GVA will continue to seek an end to the four year tax escalator. Importantly, it is also seeking reversal of the duty increase announced in last year’s Pre-Budget Report, once the temporary VAT reduction it was designed to offset ends in January 2010.

Edwin Atkinson, Director General, said: “The Government had announced a tax escalator for our industry of 2% above the rate of inflation (RPI). Now they have admitted that in actual fact, there is deflation. So they have changed the rules in order to apply a further tax increase to the drinks industry. Due to the price sensitivity of spirits, these tax hikes are unlikely to deliver the revenues originally forecast by the Treasury.”

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29 and looking or 29 and looking for love?

Are 29 year old men at the stage in life that they're starting to look for someone to settle down with?

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  • Yes I think so. The guy I'm seeing now is 26 and he's looking to settle down, I think because a lot of his friends who are around his age are getting married and he just wants someone too. I'm 22 btw and not that serious so I'm not sure how this relationship is going to work out

    • Yes,Im not sure what I want either.I have feelings for him and I would like to slowly get serious in time....but I'm not sure how he feels.He is one year away from 30...so I'd assume any 30 year old man would be looking for a future wife.

  • Depends some guys are and others are not ready.

    • How can I tell if he wants a relationship?

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    • I kinda of have.....I asked him how do you think of me and he replied"how do you want me to think of you" and then he said I'm not playing you...so don't worry about dumb things"...what does this mean lol?

    • Sounds like he's serious about ya togeather.


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Guys Wearing Leggings?

I get up at 5am everyday and have a dance class at 6:30 at college, pre my girlfriend asking me to take one. So since its a dance class I have to wear "active" clothes that are light and don't keep warm at all.. For the last week I have been trying to find a way to keep warm that early, I kept my mind open when out with friends and family and came to a thought yesterday. I decided to go to the store and buy a per of Leggings. While Its strange no doubt about it, It doesn't seem too bad in my opinion since I got them to keep warm not to be "fashionable" and will always have them under some type of other pants. All my friends think I am stupid for this but honestly, I find them rather comfortable. Is it well "wrong" that I wear them or are my friends just being immature.

Note: all my friends that say that are girls, I don't have many guy friends.

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  • i wouldn't worry about it,

    there are many social norm exceptions.

    we're raised in a culture where it's not

    exactly acceptable for males to wear

    what is classified as 'female' clothing.

    it's like males aren't "suppose" to shave

    their legs, but it's completely appropriate

    when they're swimmers.

    & guys straight males 'don't' touch other

    straight males on the butt, but it's acceptable

    when playing american football.

    they're being used for a purpose,

    it's not like you're creeping THAT

    far out of your gender/sexual norm.

    wear them, be warm & don't listen to the others.

    • That, is a beautiful, beautiful poem. Made me cry. :p. Great answer though ^^. I'd say exactly that but just would like to add that people WILL make fun, but don't listen to them because they ARE being immature and people wouldn't really care if they were mature about it, although some girls might be turned off because attraction can't be rationalised, so just bear that in mind. :)

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    • Very good.

      although it doesn't look like a poem to me? It doesn't rhyme at all, just looks like someone who pressed enter mid way through their sentences.

    • Excellent There. That's pretty much how I was rationalizing it in my head. Thanks for reinforcing that theory :D

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  • people tease to hide the fact that they aren't comfortable with their own sexuality. do what you want, and don't mind what others think! you know who you are.

  • Well leggings *are* very comfortable, I don't blame you. I don't think you could get away with wearing them on their own, though. Not against androgynous guys or anything, it'll just be a challenge to hide 'dat bulge'. xD

  • ur gunna come off as a homosexual if you announce that you wear leggings but if you want to then that's your biz. plus you got a girl so that should dispel the rumors. who cares? you know why your wearing leggings so f what people might say

  • just wear some shorts over them or somethin

  • go for it. do what you feel is comfortable

  • It could be a little odd. But I see guys running in leggings all the time and I think it's fine. With them under another pair of pants, you should be fine. So, ignore your friends... just make sure the leggings are black :) By the way, have fun at the dance class! :)

    • Yah, there black sadly they only had my size with zippers on the side haha. and I am having some fun. I was thinking go on that new dance show with Paula Abdul after I get good, ha!

    • Where do you live? San Fransisco? Or the French Quarter? HAHAHAHAHA, OMG I didn't know TRANSVESTITES were that COMMON...

    • Actually, no. I live in a running, college town. They're long spandex. It doesn't make you a transvestite. QA: god luck :) haha

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  • Why not buy a pair of long johns?

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Manchester United predicted line-up v Norwich City

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Manchester United will look to maintain their position at the top of the table in Saturday’s late kick-off against Norwich City.

Sir Alex Ferguson now appears settled with David De Gea in goal, but has option ahead with Chris Smalling back in contention.

The England international is ready to replace Jonny Evans if the centre back is not fit, with Rafael, Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra expected to keep their places for the Old Trafford outfit.

Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young are tipped to start in the wide positions, with Nani and Shinji Kagawa out through injury. Michael Carrick and Paul Scholes could be the Manchester United midfield pairing of choice, after Tom Cleverley played for the Three Lions in midweek.

Up-front, Mexican hitman Javier Hernandez seems like a certain starter following his brace against Aston Villa last weekend. Both Robin Van Persie and Wayne Rooney are fitness concerns, but the Dutchman is expected to get the nod ahead of his Red Devils teammate.

Manchester United predicted line-up v Norwich City:

David De Gea; Rafael, Chris Smalling, Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra; Antonio Valencia, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Ashley Young; Javier Hernandez, Robin Van Persie.

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nokia mobile's First Touch Screen Phone - nokia mobile 5800 XpressMusic

{image-nokia mobile.jpg}nokia mobile, the world's largest handset maker, today unveiled its first touch screen phone at Rs 19,999 in India, besides announcing the launch of its 'Beta' music store.

"India has 30 million music handset owners and with the launch of this new phone from the company's platform will further increase that number," nokia mobile Managing Director (India) Shiv Kumar said while talking to reporters in the capital.

He said the new phone - nokia mobile 5800 XpressMusic - will be available in the domestic market by December-end or early next year.

The 'Beta' music store, which will go live on December 18, will be available for commercial use for the customrs in the first quarter of 2009, Mr Kumar added.

The company has also tied up with leading independent recording labels such as universal and hungama along with the Indian Music Industry which is a consortium of 150 music companies to provide its customers favourite music across genres and languages.

The new 5800 express music comes with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, along with a 8 GB memory card and will be available in three colours.

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The Curious Case of the Disappearing Gold Moto 360

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First it was there. And now it's not. On Friday, a Redditor spotted a new addition to the Moto 360 lineup through a link emailed out by Motorola itself. The curious timepiece in question is the gold-rimmed device on the top row centre.

However, after being contacted for a comment on the new watch, Motorola quickly caught their blunder. First, they fixed the image by simply removing the gold watch entirely and then eventually rearranged all the watchfaces to cover up any possible evidence of its existence, as Android Police illustrates below.

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Gold Moto 360

Reportedly, this is what Moto 360 had to say about the matter:

Although we can't comment on gold specifically, we're always exploring new materials and we intend to provide Moto 360 in a selection of styles in the future.

It would make sense for Motorola to consider more editions of its popular wearable as they're already having issues keeping their current editions in stock. Also, Motorola may be reacting, much like the rest of the industry, to this month's Apple Watch reveal and its 18-karat gold variant and hoping offer similar choices. However, some analysts think Apple's top-tier watch could run as much as $5,000 (around £3,000), so let's hope that if Motorola does continue with these golden ideas, it's just the colour they'll be copying and not the price.

It also makes sense because, you know, it's gold.

In the end, it's uncertain if a gold Moto 360 is coming our way or all of this is just an unfortunate mix-up, but as is the case with most disappearing acts, they always tend to reappear in the end. [Reddit via Android Police]

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Music Q&A: The Infamous Stringdusters

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS Pictured from left are Jeremy Garrett, fiddle; Andy Falco, guitar; Chris Pandolfi, banjo; Travis Book, bass; and Andy Hall, dobro.

Going on a national tour wasn’t enough for Grammy-nominated bluegrass/country/folk band The Infamous Stringdusters.

From July 31 through Aug. 10, The Infamous Stringdusters will combine a love of music and the outdoors during the 2013 American Rivers Tour, where the group plays river towns, donating portions of ticket sales to the American Rivers organization, which works to protect and restore U.S. rivers and streams (americanrivers.org.)

Before The Infamous Stringdusters — fiddler Jeremy Garrett, guitar player Andy Falco, banjo player Chris Pandolfi, dobro player Andy Hall and upright bass player Travis Book — play as part of the 2013 Colorado Riverfront Concert Series, Book talked to me about the idea for this tour, what fans can expect from a “‘Dusters” show and his love of mountain biking.

Melinda Mawdsley: Thanks so much for your time. Tell me about this tour.

Travis Book: We haven’t done anything like this before exactly. We were playing out West last year at some great venues on the river and found a really strong connection between the music culture and river culture. It was so much fun playing these beautiful places, and we decided to build a tour around this. It occurred to us that extrapolating this idea would not only engage new partners but spread the message that rivers our are livelihood.

Mawdsley: Does the band really enjoy performing outdoors?

Book: We do. I think it’s just really an extension of our world view.

Mawdsley: Why?

Book: Musicians tend to spend a lot of time in the room, head down, getting better at their craft, and we’ve all done our fair share of that. When we play outdoors, conditions sometimes leave things to be desired. We once had a show in Vail at 10 at night in a full on blizzard. It was definitely extreme. The instruments took a beating. We had to drink three bottles of whiskey to stay warm enough to play, but it was a unique experience. In the summer, it’s hot and the strings get sticky, but playing outdoors gives shows an added opportunity to be unique or memorable. From my perspective, I’d much rather experience a show outdoors.

Mawdsley: You’ve experienced the Colorado outdoors at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival before but have you performed outdoors here before?

Book: No. Never performed there before. I’m really excited about it. I’ve done some mountain biking out there, and I’m hoping to get some mountain biking in and maybe some floating. I hear the venue is amazing. It’s right on the river?

Mawdsley: Yeah. It’s right on the river. What can fans expect from the show?

Book: We play original string band music, but it has a rock aesthetic. It’s a really good time. It’s as much a social event and dancing party as a concert. We do this thing I don’t think anyone else does. It’s very unique and very fun.

Mawdsley: How did you guys meet?

Book: We sort of met through the bluegrass scene. We’re from all over. There’s a guy from Idaho, a couple guys from New York. The New York guys now live in Colorado. I live in Virginia. We’re highly mobile. We came together in a range of circumstances as will happen. We just met playing music.

Mawdsley: In your bio, Jeremy (the fiddler) is quoted as saying the people who listen to your music get out and experience life. How do you guys experience life when not touring?

Book: For myself, I live in the mountains of Virginia. I live on an 80-acre piece of property owned by a brewery. When I’m home, I’ve built six miles of singletrack out there for cycling and running. I run the wood chipper and chainsaw a lot to clear the woods of our campground. I have a garden. I just had a baby and want to feed her something other than chemicals. Everyone else does pretty much the same thing. The cats that just moved to Colorado are getting way into mountain biking.

Mawdsley: Speaking of mountain biking, you mentioned you’ve ridden here before. I’m guessing you’d like to do that again?

Book: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I may float, but I’m definitely planning to do some mountain biking on this trip. It’s legendary out there.

Mawdsley: What do you ride?

Book: I ride single speed, exclusively. I love riding single speed. If I had more money, I’d probably ride a full suspension 29er. I’m just as poor as they come.

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The Infamous Stringdusters show will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at James M. Robb-Colorado River State Park in Fruita. Tickets cost $2 and are available at City Market stores and TicketsWest.com. No limit on tickets. Children 4 and younger get in free.

Food and drink, including local wine and beer, will be for sale. Gates open at 6 p.m. No outside beverage containers allowed. No pets. Picnics and lawn chairs permitted.

Here is the rest of the 2013 Colorado Riverfront Concert Series, which benefits the work of the Colorado Riverfront Commission:

■ Shemekia Copeland (blues) — Friday, Aug. 2.

■ Asleep at the Wheel (Texas swing) — Friday, Aug. 9.

■ Poco (country rock) — Friday, Aug. 16.

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GJ Rockies’ bats silenced by Great Falls’ pitchers

Grand Junction Rockies reliever Billy Waltrip delivers a pitch Saturday during the eighth inning of the Rockies’ 5-0 loss to Great Falls at Suplizio Field. Waltrip allowed two hits and struck out two in his 1 1/3 innings of work.

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Grand Junction Rockies reliever Billy Waltrip delivers a pitch Saturday during the eighth inning of the Rockies’ 5-0 loss to Great Falls at Suplizio Field. Waltrip allowed two hits and struck out two in his 1 1/3 innings of work.

Normally for the Grand Junction Rockies, getting the leadoff man on base means runs will be scored.

Saturday night was not normal.

The Rockies’ leadoff man reached base in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Only one got as far as third base in Grand Junction’s 5-0 loss to Great Falls. It was the first time Grand Junction (14-9) has been shut out this season. The Rockies still have a one-game lead on Ogden in the Pioneer League South.

“We weren’t focused today. We didn’t focus like we do pretty much every day,” said right fielder Ryan Garvey, who had half of the Rockies’ hits, going 3 for 4.

Entering Saturday’s game, the Rockies led the Pioneer League in scoring, averaging 7.3 runs per game. They couldn’t do anything against the Voyagers’ pitchers, namely starter Todd Kibby, who struck out six, two fewer than he had in his previous four starts for Great Falls (12-11), which is tied with Helena atop the Pioneer League North.

The left-hander had the Rockies off balance in his six innings of work.

“That happens a lot, in my opinion, in lower levels. You get a soft-throwing lefty up there, he’s mixing up pitches on us and throws a lot of these young kids off, and I think we were a victim of that tonight,” Grand Junction manager Anthony Sanders said. “He just kept us off balance tonight.”

A short, heavy rainstorm about noon on Saturday flooded parts of the stadium, with water running in from North Avenue and through the gate down the right-field line, said Eddie Mort, the stadium supervisor.

The grounds crew used sump pumps to get several inches of standing water off the field, but the teams couldn’t take batting practice.

“I got here earlier, and it was under puddles. It just came out of nowhere,” Sanders said.

The Rockies were less than aggressive at the plate all night, completely out of character.

“We were missing the fastballs that were in the zone; we can’t miss those,” Garvey said. “We’re going to jump on those fastballs (today), and we won’t miss.”

Raimel Tapia extended his hitting streak to 14 games with a leadoff single in the fourth, the first base runner to reach against Kibby, but he was stranded at second.

Garvey led off the fifth with an infield single and took second on a throwing error, but he was thrown out at third when Jairo Rosario grounded to short.

“He threw a great game, a perfect game in my eyes,” Garvey said of Kibby. “He spotted up his pitches, threw his off-speed for strikes and spotted up his fastball. That’s what you want in a pitcher, and that’s what he did today. He had a great day, and we just couldn’t adjust to what he was throwing.”

The Rockies’ Terry McClure singled and was bunted to second in the sixth, but he was doubled off second when Zach Osborne hit a fly ball to shallow center on a hit and run.

“Something that we’ve been preaching all the time and we’ve been OK with it this year, except for tonight, is situational hitting,” Sanders said. “Little things and that game could have been a completely different score early on, had we done some little things.”

Jose Briceno was the only Rockies’ base runner to reach third base, beating out an infield hit and advancing to second on a throwing error in the seventh. With one out, Garvey singled to left, sending Briceno to third, but they, too, were stranded.

Grand Junction starter Peter Tago (1-2) showed progress despite taking the loss. Two of the three men he walked in 5 1/3 innings ended up scoring, the first coming in on one of Grand Junction’s three errors.

“Some positives out of him tonight,” Sanders said of the Rockies’ 2010 first-round pick. “He went further and threw a lot of ground balls.”

The only ball hit out of the infield through the first five innings against Tago was Jacob Morris’ home run in the second. Tago ran out of steam in the sixth, giving up two runs and leaving with the bases loaded and one out.

Reliever Manuel Montilla got out of the jam with two fly balls to left.

Shortstop Emerson Jimenez left the game in the fifth inning. Sanders said he hadn’t talked to the trainer right after the game, but suspected a sore leg, possibly from Jimenez trying to beat out a ball hit in the hole in the third inning, lunging toward first base.

Third baseman Ryan McMahon, who tweaked his right knee running out a ground ball Thursday, could be back in the lineup soon, Sanders said.

“Hopefully the season doesn’t start going that way,” Sanders said of the injuries. “That’s why we keep everybody playing and mixing things up, so everybody stays ready to go.”

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Glamgerous Reloaded 2013

Here is a post with the most beautiful pics of this 2013! I hope this 2014 will be better than the past year and I wish you guys HAPPY NEW YEAR! ❤ Ecco un post con le foto piú belle di questo 2013 che questa sera finirá definitivamente! Sperando che questo 2014 sia migliore delll’anno vecchio vi auguro a tutti […]

Mexico: Discovering the Maya

The last stop of my trip before coming back to Miami was Cozumel in Mexico. I could’t miss the chance to visit Tulum, one of the most famous archeologic site belonging to the Maya population of the world. The ruins of the city are right on the water from which it was also possible to access a beautiful beach by […]

Pirates Of The Caribbeans: Honduras Island

Unfortunately my trip around the Caribbean islands has come to an end (although I still have many pictures to show you).  Now I will be staying in Miami for a week where I will greet the new year. Before I do that though, here are some shots I took while in Honduras. Besides being a true terrestrial paradise, in the past […]

In The Open Ocean with A&F

Before showing you the pictures of the day I spent at the Cayman Islands, here is a few shots I took in the open sea with another Abercrombie&Fitch outfit. This time, I went for a simpler yet more structured look, as I needed something heavier to protect me from the overwhelming wind blowing on the boat bridges. I chose this […]

3rd Day: Jamaica

The third place we visited was Jamaica, where I went to see the famous waterfalls of the Dunn river, which flow into the crystal clear water of a gorgeous white beach… I swear I would have stayed there the whole day if I could. Despite the fact of being the less sporty person I know, I was even able to […]

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Can Lady Gaga Do for Versace What Jay-Z Did for Tom Ford? Her New Song Includes an Ode to Donatella!

For years, pop stars and rap artists have proclaimed their love for fashion designers in the lyrics of their songs, but for Lady Gaga, it turns out a quick shout-out just wasn't enough. The title track off her new album, Artpop, is called "Donatella," and it has been described as a love letter to the platinum blond Versace designer.

As you can imagine, Donatella is more than honored. "I would like to thank Gaga for her geniality, creativity, incredible talent, and super bitchiness," she told JustJared.com. "I am honored to be her friend, and of course, I love the song!"

Their friendship began approximately two years ago, when Gaga wore a vintage Versace dress in her video The Edge of Glory. "She was determined, she already knew what she wanted: to go straight to the heart of the maison and show those clothes to a new generation, to all her fashion-lover fans," Versace told WWD. She was talking about the brand's signature bondage-inspired dresses designed by her late brother, Gianni Versace. "I'm sure that if Gianni were still alive he would have been a huge fan of hers."

Check out that dress in action, in Gaga's video.

Gaga understands why people are starting to compare her song to Jay-Z's "Tom Ford," but she said the two pieces are very different because he's talking about the fashion brand and she's singing about Donatella, the person. I think she makes a fair point. Listen to "Tom Ford" and then check out the lyrics (but I wouldn't look at them while at work. There are quite a few words in there you don't want your boss to see on your computer screen!) It's also true that Jay-Z loves a good fashion name drop (he's rapped about Burberry, Maison Martin Margiela, Hermes, Manolo Blahnik in the past).

If you want to hear "Donatella" and the rest of Gaga's Artpop album, you'll have to wait a little longer since it drops Nov. 11.

Are you excited to hear Gaga's new album? Did you like Jay-Z's song about Tom Ford?

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I Made Engagement Chicken. Here's How It Turned Out…

When I left work Friday, my coworkers really thought this whole Engagement Chicken experiment was going to be an utter disaster. And I can't really blame them.

You can't even imagine the insane questions coming out of my mouth…

WHAT is a roasting pan? OMG, WTF is a giblet? You want me to do what with the giblet? Can I hire someone to do this for me? Do you think I should call the fire department and tell them to be on standby? OMG, the recipe calls for herbs: What kind of herbs should I buy? Do I leave the skin on the lemons or take it off? Oh God, this is going to be a DISASTER.

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This is how I thought my chicken was going to turn out. Luckily, mine looked much yummier!

*Luckily, Little Miss Fortune (AKA my domestic diva) talked me down from the ledge. She reminded me to buy an instant-read meat thermometer (remember: I don't cook) and told me to buy little packages of fresh sage and thyme to use as my herbs. Phew.

After a quick trip to Whole Foods, I returned to my apartment armed with a 3.31-pound chicken, herbs, three lemons, a stick of butter, a meat thermometer and a roasting pan—oh yeah, and Little Miss Fortune's cell phone number in case an emergency arose. (It did, twice. For the record, you should not peel the lemons and you should also butter the inside and outside of the chicken before you cook it.)

But after unwrapping the bird and sizing it up a few times over, I decided the little guy wasn't so scary after all. The giblets were easy to find (and not that gross!), and the whole preparation took less than 15 minutes. I did have a bit of a problem fitting both lemons into the chicken, though, so I went with one and some herbs--it worked out just fine. Oh, and don't forget to pat the chicken dry after you rinse it. I forgot that step and had to backtrack.

When the BF walked in the door from his week out of town, the chicken was just about done and I was wearing my "I Heart AP" (his initials) t-shirt. The whole scene was all very 1950s-esque.

Did he drop down to one knee after the first bite and propose? Of course not. But I'm convinced Engagement Chicken is working. I'll tell you why tomorrow ;) (I know, I'm such a tease…)

Are you as afraid of cooking as I am? What's the most complicated thing you've ever made?

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What Is an Athletic Trainer?

Certified Athletic Trainer: A healthcare professional who collaborates with physicians to provide preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

Athletic training is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) as a healthcare profession.

Athletic Trainers are educated and trained in five major practice domains

  • Prevention
  • Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis
  • Immediate and Emergency Care
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation
  • Organization and Professional Health and Well-Being

 Professional Preparation

Students who wish to become a certified athletic trainer must earn a degree from an accredited athletic training curriculum.  Programs accredidted by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) are currently available at the baccalaureate and graduate level.  However, in May 2015, the AT Strategic Alliance announced plans to phase out baccalaureate degrees.  A planned phase out date has yet to be announced.

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Okay – so sitting down to type up a post just has not happened.  I have been sick lately – not just with a cold, but beyond normal.  I thought I had mono (nope) and am just ready to be able to take a full breath again.  I’m so tired, but life just does not stop when Mom is tired….or grades are due…or … well, you already know.

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Some curly pasta caught my eye. Stir-fried with garlic, chicken, and veggie? Done. And quick too.

Blanced giant collard green paddles, stuffed with ground turkey, rice and veggies and topped with enchilada sauce before baking a bit more. A veggie packed dinner punch for sure!

Last minute garlic bread. Seriously. From idea to the table in 35 minutes or so. Hot dog! It’s definitely modified, but this working woman is keeping this idea in the mix!

This Pinterest-inspired dish is great. I mixed a ton of veggies into the dish and will absolutely eat this again and again. YUM.

Breakfast burritos are so much faster now – Thank you, Rudy’s! I can make a huge batch, wrap and freeze. Then reheat in the microwave on my way out the door in the morning.

I’ve been working on a new GF bread recipe – and converting some of my favorites for the bread maker. Honestly, I’ve realized I just don’t eat that much sandwich bread any more. But I LOVE having the breadcrumbs on hand for fish, chicken, etc. :D

Making fancy potatoes for the girls “Princess dinner” – easier with a great pair of squared-off chopsticks as cutting guides. Don’t slice all the way through, just down until about 1/3-1/2 inch. Then slightly separate the potatoes when placing in the baking dish and drizzle with butter, season to your desired levels and top with some great chopped parsley.

Currently, I have a fresh, whole pumpkin sitting on our counter.  It came with our CSA pick up.  I have delicata squash, carrots, beets, rainbow chard, purple cabbage, celeriac, etc.  Missing is the time to explore/experiment.  Most of what we eat is stir-fry as it is so easy to chop up the veggies we have on hand and munch.

But last night I made some yummy tortilla soup – another family favorite way to use a ton of veggies.

Winter is really just starting around here now.  The dark, cold mornings are upon me.  Seems like just last week the sun was shining on my way in to work and on my way home.  I think I need to learn how to make some tasty gumbo this winter.  Anyone have a recipe they recommend?  😀

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  1. We are having a lot of soup right now. And, tortilla is one of our favorites!

  2. So sorry to hear you’ve been ill!

    please do make sure you’re taking adequate vitamins C (I take 500 mg “Ester-C” when I’m healthy, 1000 when I’m sick) and D-3 (NOT D-2, we don’t absorb D-2 as easily; I take 5,000 IU in the summer, and 10,000 in winter or when I’m sick).

    I think B12 deficiency may have a role in mono, especially if you take acid blockers, which block the acid needed to process the B12 in diet/supplements. Celiacs are at increased risk for B12 deficiency, even after going gf. I had it 4 years after going gf. It was not fun, and overlapped in many ways with mono symptoms (exhaustion, dizziness, headaches, etc).

    I now take a methyl cobalamin sublingual supplement (1000mcg) combined with frolic acid and B6.

    And chicken soup is a must (unless you are vegetarian, of course)!

    Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery. Really, after all the good food you’ve brought to so many households by inspiration, we should be bringing food to YOUR house.
    Wish I lived close enough to do so!

  3. hope you are feeling better. I feel guilty for asking. can you shre the recipe for the last minute garlic bread recipe? I am looking for a homemade and very quick GF bread recipe.

  4. Varenikje says:

    The turkey and veggie collard green chiladas look like a good one to try. They remind me of dolma. Ever make those? Dolma are made with grape leaves (usually sold in jars at the grocery store) and the liquid over the top is tomato sauce and served with plain yogurt and/or feta cheese and a Greek salad.

    The breakfast burritos also look promising. So, Rudi’s makes ng tortillas?

  5. Sweet! I bought collard greens on a whim at the farmers market…..and forgot to ask for ideas what to do with them. I had assumed steamed but when I tried a bite at home …. Not so sure anymore. But this, will work great.

  6. Well, I know this post was two months ago, but just in case you’re still feeling really tired. Have you had your Dr. check your vitamin D levels? People in the Pacific Northwest have a hard time getting enough sunlight for vitamin D. Even though it’s added to things, it’s still not enough. Our family doc just checked ours (mine, my husband and my son’s) last month. Out of the 3 of us, only my son was in the “Normal” range (20-80) and his was 20.3! My husband was the lowest at 11 and I came in at a whopping 13.7. So, my husband and I have been placed on a high dose weekly vitamin D supplement. My hubby was definitely feeling exhausted. As for me, I’m always tired anyway, but it has helped. Being low can also make you depressed and susceptible to colds. You can “Google” vitamin d deficiency to find out more side effects. Hope you’re feeling better. :)

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The event is usually one of the easier tests for the players, with it turning into a putting competition, so stroked gained in putting is the stat to look at this week.

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Bill Haas 4 points each way at 25/1 – Always a dangerous player when the scoring is easy, was runner up here in 2010. This is his first appearance since finishing 4th at the WGC-HSBC Champions.

Charles Howell III 4 points each way at 28/1 – Another player who should enjoy these conditions, has had three top 10s here in the past. Also looks to be in good form with a 7th placed finish last week in Mexico.

Harris English 2 points each way at 40/1 – Finished 4th recently in Las Vegas one of the best putters on the PGA Tour. Has played at the event four times in the past so has the course knowledge to succeed.

Scott Brown 1 point each way at 125/1 – Has had three top 20s here in the past and he needs a course that he is comfortable on following a few months of poor results.


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Mosca Colorado Golf Courses

Great Sand Dunes Golf Course at Zapata Ranch

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Links at Highlands Ranch, The -- Good At What It Is
Review by: Kirk This is an executive course - no par 5's, and few truly long holes, even from the blue tees. Thus, the big hitter who insists on always hitting driver from the tee might want to look elsewhere. However, it is an excellent challenge for the shorter hitter, and the three sets of tees truly offer different levels of challenge, so a mixed bag of golfers can all have a good time. Many holes are beautifully laid out, and the course is in very good shape, particularly the greens. Recently played 18 in well under four hours, so my wife was pleased !
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Ford's Colony at Williamsburg - Blue/Gold Course

240 Ford's Colony Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23188
Phone: (757)258-4130Fax: (757)258-4168

These twin regulation eighteen hole resort courses were built on rolling hills and feature tall pines complimenting their beautiful scenery. The fairways on the original courses are defined by a thick cut of rough. The White/Red Course offers tree-lined fairways that are open, while its greens are medium in size and speed. There are ponds that come into play on several holes. The signature hole is #4, a 402-yard, par 4, requiring a precise tee shot up a dogleg fairway, then an approach shot to a well-bunkered green. There are twilight discount rates available. The Blue/Gold Course has fairly open fairways and greens that are somewhat undulating. There are water hazards that come into play on several holes and sand bunkers spread throughout the entire course. The signature hole is #8, a 192-yard, par 3, requiring a tee shot over water to the green. There will be a new nine hole course added in April, 2000.

Holes: 18Greens: Bent GrassFairways: Bermuda Grass

Tee Information:
TeeParYardageCourse RatingSlope

Greens Fees:$80-$124
Course Type:semi-private
Dress Code:No denim, collared shirt and bermuda shorts required
Season:Open all year
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