![]() ![]() ![]() The Buddhist and Hindu subplots seem designed to point out the absurdity and excesses of religious customs, but none of the characters are especially memorable, and eventually both plot and characters give way to Biff's nightclub patter. The author gets more serious in his climax, offering a relatively straightforward, heartfelt account of the Passion and Christ's final days that includes an intriguing spin on how the Resurrection might have happened. ![]() Moore ( Bloodsucking Fiends) gets style points for his wild imagination as Biff recalls his journey with Jesus-dubbed Joshua here according to the Greek translation-into and out of the clutches of Balthasar, then into a Buddhist monastery in China and finally off to India, where they dabble in the spiritual and erotic aspects of Hinduism. Louis, where the angel who shepherds "Levi who is called Biff" has to put Christ's outrageous sidekick under de facto house arrest to get him to complete his task. The action starts in modern America, specifically in a room at the Hyatt in St. A childhood pal of the savior is brought back from the dead to fill in the missing 30-year "gap" in the Gospels in Moore's latest, an over-the-top festival of sophomoric humor that stretches a very thin though entertaining conceit far past the breaking point. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure. ![]() A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. The author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer. It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the non-fiction books Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home and Consensual Genocide, and the poetry books Bodymap and Love Cake, and is the co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." ![]() In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was actually an online reviewer who gushed so much, I dug back in and I will never regret it. Those issues disappeared in later books, but even with that first book, the characters just came to life, so I didn’t set the book aside completely. I had trouble getting into the first book because of the writing style and POV switches. (Also author, Madeleine Urban, in the first four.) I have to be honest-I didn’t think I would like these. But I will do my best to keep this post from being so long, it will take over the Internet. THREE? Really? As you can tell by one of my earlier posts, I have a lot of favorites. It was Jocelynn’s idea for me to share three of my favorite M/M romances. And I’m always up for recommending favorite authors. Nothing like disappearing into a book by a favorite author!Īs I’ve said before, I LOVE romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In China, oil wells up to 240 metres deep already existed in 347 BCE. Humans have been digging into the earth for millennia – deep mines were already known in antiquity. Here, however, I focus mainly on oil and gas extraction. Obviously, this human foray into the earth did not only involve fossil fuels but all sorts of minerals. In this piece, however, I want to chart a more experimental course and look, from a broader dis:connective as well as historical and contemporary angle, at oil and gas drilling as connecting and disconnecting the world above with its lithosphere − what one could tentatively call lithospheric connectivity. Specifically, I am investigating the imperial infrastructures in situ that made such extraction possible and that bound commodities into global networks of extraction and consumption, creating new connections while simultaneously diverting or cutting others. ![]() Since August 2021, I have been researching early colonial oil extraction (ca. What if global dis:connectivity stretches not only around the surface of our globe, but also into its crust? Let me present some initial thoughts on this idea from the perspective of global oil and gas extraction since the nineteenth century. In Blog 2022 lithospheric connectivity tom menger He saw in oil a weapon, and he heard groaning in the bowels of the Earth when the jack pumped up the oil (…) From Varujan Vosganian’s novel Book of Whispers (2018 ) ![]() |