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Western Wisconsin Word: Hudson local to present at Garden & Green Living Expo
Hudson hosted its annual Hot Air Affair over the weekend. Balloons soared through the cold winter air as attendees participated in themed events, beverage crawls and smooshboard. Western Wisconsin's distillery scene adds the new while keeping the old. The Circuit Court Judge Branch 2 Election will feature a primary Feb. 18. Here are the candidates running to replace Ed Vlack III as judge in St. Croix County. Is Northwoods League baseball coming to Hudson? So far, there's been delays in the process.
13 Questions for Derek Maine — Books of Some Substance
What are you reading currently and why? Currently I am reading Gerald Murnane’s entire catalog (that I can get my hands on). Thus far I have finished Inland, A History of Books, Border Districts, and Last Letter to a Reader. I am currently reading A Million Windows.
Gaddis/Markson: Two Letters
By William Gaddis and David Markson February 27, 2023 Although William Gaddis’s first novel, The Recognitions, is now regarded as one of the great American novels of the second half of the twentieth century, it was panned upon its publication in March 1955. Among the early few who recognized its greatness was the future novelist David Markson, who read it shortly after it came out, was so impressed that he reread it a month or two later, and then decided to write Gaddis a fan letter.
La amante de Wittgenstein
David Markson SEXTO PISO Una mujer llamada Kate vive sola en una casa en la playa y escribe a máquina un alud de recuerdos y reflexiones aunque nadie los leerá, convencida como está de que es el último ser humano sobre la faz de la tierra. Lo sabe con certeza, pues no ha dado con un alma a pesar de haber recorrido el mundo entero, refugiándose en la National Gallery, en el Metropolitan o en el Louvre, donde quemaba antigüedades y marcos de cuadros para soportar el frío en invierno.
Ask: How does vertical farming compare to organic?
Community | Technology | Soil | Organics Nina Pullman 26th January 2022 Desihristova I have been wondering about how organic farming compares to vertical farming in terms of environmental impact and cost of production? An important question, since vertical farming is being positioned as some kind of solution to our food system woes.
Ask: Can London ever be sustainable?
Community | Cities | Climate change | Biodiversity Jack Thompson 23rd December 2021 Our monthly series, Your Questions Answered, collates questions from Wicked Leeks readers and puts them to our expert team of writers and contributors. Submit your question for consideration by commenting on this article. Do you think London can ever be sustainable? Adam42, via wickedleeks.com This is a colossal subject; you could easily write a book on it. In fact, many have.
A spirit of empathy at Christmas
Community | Inequality David Markson 14th December 2021 With COP26 bringing climate change mainstream, the hard science illustrating so well the need for urgent change, I’ve always thought that the best way personally that I can control my fear and worry, is by helping to build a feeling of shared strength and resilience within our local communities. To then be stronger collectively and in a better position to accept the necessary changes needed within our lifetimes.
Let’s talk about money
Inequality | Mental health | Food waste Chantelle Norton 13th September 2021 Glossy blackberries ripening everywhere, the start of the new school term and cosy nights in. There’s change, the air is fresher, cooler. I spoon blackberries onto my morning porridge as I get ready for my day with Food in Community, a Devon-based not-for-profit tackling poverty, social isolation and waste.
Cheap housing, not cheap food
Ethical business | Environment & ethics | Health Guy Singh-Watson 28th July 2021 Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy, published last month, seeks to address the twin challenges of saving our health, and saving our planet. It delivers an excellent analysis of the problems in food and farming, and how we got here. The logical and well-thought-through recommendations that follow include: - Taxes on salt and sugar, and large food companies to report on sales and waste.
'The relief corp' and a pool of untapped talent
Ethical business | Inequality | Politics David Markson 27th July 2021 ‘The object of government in peace and war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but of the happiness of the common man.’ Sir William Beveridge, Social Insurance and Allied Services report, 1942. Imagine a society where everyone is incentivised to be involved in the wellbeing of each other. Want help filling in that tricky form? Your children collected from school? Covering a catering shift? A parcel delivery?
The wellness lie: a dangerous game
Health | Eating & drinking | Mental health Emily Muddeman 16th July 2021 What do you picture when you think about wellness? Perhaps yoga, smoothie bowls, a vegan diet, beautiful women? Gwyneth Paltrow and her brand Goop is the epitome of it all, and there are thousands of others representing this lifestyle on social media, mainly white, thin women. These wellness figures inspire others to lead similar lives and offer advice on how to replicate their wholesome lifestyles.
Food aid is sickening our society
Politics | Inequality | Health David Markson 23rd June 2021 We’re led to believe that what we feed ourselves is a personal choice, and that by making the right choices this will be life sustaining, help our mental and physical wellbeing, and lessen the burden on an overstretched health service.
Hard Brexit brings chaos to small business
Politics | Ethical business Nina Pullman 7th May 2021 Brexit has left small businesses reeling as new trade rules mean exports to Europe have ceased in some sectors, while others face thousands in new weekly paperwork costs. It comes amid growing long-term fears that small sustainable businesses are unable to shoulder the burden of the new trading regime, leaving the UK market open to dominance by global brands.
Campaign for Brits to work on farms is dropped
Farming | Growers and suppliers Jack Thompson 20th April 2021 The Government has dropped a campaign to recruit British workers to pick fruit and veg on farms after only a year due to low take-up. The ‘Pick for Britain’ campaign launched last year, alongside similar company-run recruitment drives, to encourage out-of-work Brits to help plug a shortage of EU seasonal workers on farms due to the pandemic.
What can we glean from the loss of the Commons?
Inequality | Farming | Politics David Markson 6th April 2021 Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops after harvest and is still practised today. It has its roots as an ancient right and is even mentioned in the Bible. It was once a seasonal activity of commoners (landless residents), who were allowed by the landowner to gather crop remains. This was a necessary boost, where livelihoods of those living off the land were largely dictated by seasons and favourable weather.
Reconnecting with my land
Inequality | Farming Jack Thompson 24th March 2021 Like many of us during these extended periods of lockdown, I’ve discovered a new-found appreciation of the countryside. With this renewed sense of gratitude and value has come more awareness; from the woodpecker that lives in the spinney nearby, to the smell of wild garlic flourishing. But most of all I started to question: what shapes our landscape?
Green Brexit fails to arrive
Politics | Biodiversity | Climate change Nina Pullman 17th March 2021 Britain has equal or weaker protections for the environment despite loud promises for a ‘Green Brexit’, a new report has found. Air pollution, nature restoration and chemical regulation are among the areas facing lower standards as a result of Brexit, found the coalition of green groups, Greener UK, which has been tracking the strength of environmental standards in the UK since Brexit.
Are we due a community eating revival?
Mental health | Inequality | Ethical business David Markson 18th December 2020 As 2020 ends, many of us will be relieved. We allow ourselves to hope that we might once again enjoy eating with friends, with masks the preserve of medics once more, and alcohol served in a glass on your table rather than in a pump bottle by the door.
Delivering food and friendship
Inequality | Health | Food waste Nina Pullman 15th October 2020 Navigating access to food and social isolation might be relatively new concepts for some, as the pandemic brought both to the fore with shortages, supermarket queues and lockdown conditions. But one charity knows better than most just how many people live with these challenges on an everyday basis, with lockdown shutting down some of their only routes to nutritious food and companionship.
50 Books of Literary Collage
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We cowrote and coedited Life Is Short — Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity. We're interested in brief prose (short-shorts and mini-essays), but we're also (and even more) devoted to book-length works of literary collage, built out of brief shards. Here are some of our favorite examples of such works. – David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman Speedboat by Renata Adler David learned how to write by reading this book until the spine broke. He typed the entire book twice.
By Melanie Thernstrom, Robert Gottlieb, David Shields, Renata Adler, Sarah Manguso, Arthur Schopenhauer, Eula Biss, Bernard Cooper, Kurt Vonnegut, Jean Stein, Kathryn Harrison, Art Spiegelman, Roland Barthes, Don Paterson, Richard Brautigan, Amy Fusselman, Simon Gray, Elizabeth Hardwick, Blaise Pascal, James Richardson, John D'Agata, Annie Dillard, Eduardo Galeano, Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson Verified, F Scott Fitzgerald, Alan Bennett, E M Forster, Annie Ernaux, Marguerite Duras, Cyril Connolly, Joe Brainard, Joe Wenderoth, D J Waldie, Jean Toomer, Laurence Sterne, Fernando Pessoa, Leonard Michaels, Carole Maso, David Markson, Sven Lindqvist, Michael Lesy, Barry Hannah
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Cry for Me Billy (1972) ⭐ 5.9 | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director Writer All cast & crew Production, box office & more at IMDbPro Trivia The outfit that Harry Dean Stanton wears was modeled from a tintype photograph of one of his actual relatives, taken during the time period in which the story is placed. Review Little sparrow,don't be afraid/Your Winter 's been delayed.
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