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Unfortunately there will not be in Mantova comics, because of the work that grants truces and the fact that the fairs comics are far from Palermo, I do not really possible. But I followed some online 'ad on the event, and I am pleased to report the presence of a group of designers who goes by the name of Drawers, which I had the pleasure to know and appreciate the previous "Lucca Comics & games" . Since then I follow with pleasure the updates that the various drawings published on social networking profiles or personal blogs. And with the same pleasure I want to communicate to those unfortunates that happen on these pages show their presence in Mantua. And I do cun the latest idea that came up, that is used as a avatar on Facebook design vertical development that advertises the event, each with its own design. I am sorry if you do not fill in all starting, but I wanted to pay tribute to those people with whom I had the pleasure to exchange some words in a drawing to another. And if my emissary in Lombardy succeed, even with the extreme use of force to tear a picture to someone as you carry out the commission that I gave it (the purchase of a new sketch book), I take this opportunity to thank advance and publicly! Good luck to all manufacturers of dreams! And a special wish to DDM for his degree which I have had recent news!

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Winshaws

I finally filled one of the biggest gaps in the story of my player, and so I also had the pleasure to finally read what I feel quietly defining masterpiece by Jonathan Coe. In fact, having read all the novels (except the last one, released earlier this year), I can get a good balance of production of this writer, and confirm that "Winshaws" marks the turning point in English literary author. On the one hand, we must place the youth novels like "Love does not hurt" and "Woman-case basis." Other, more mature novels, both in terms of style than content, represented by "The Rotters' Club", "The Closed Circle", "The House of Sleep" and "The Rain Before It Falls ". To act as a watershed, but I'd also be ferried from one bank to another, "The Winshaws.

Michael Owen is a young writer who, after a couple of discreet works but unpretentious is to deal with the crisis of classical inspiration. Add to this that Michael is not what we might call a balanced and emotionally healthy person, having to deal with an experience of adolescent trauma, illusions and ambitions dashed, frustrated love and family conflicts, and you can easily understand that it is not at all strange that spends most of her days locked in a room watching movies obsessively on videotape. On this basis, is part of the disturbing element of the story, namely that the offer is made to write the historical record one of the most famous families, wealthy and influential of England in the second half of the twentieth century: the Winshaw. Those behind the facade of respectable economic shapers of destiny - the country's social, hide a common desire to meet their lower desires: the desire for media coverage to the greed of money, sexual exploitation by the instincts of the masses. Inseritisi each in a pivotal position of power games of the modern world (politics, finance, trade, industry, communication), they weave their plots to encourage one another and draw more benefits at the expense of unsuspecting citizens managed. And the few members of the family less affected by this paucity of mind are relegated to the limbo of insanity, loneliness and death, depending on which of these opportunities is more easy to achieve. Throughout history, we see Michael swing between his personal hardship and horrors perpetrated by members of the Winshaws distracted or under the indifferent eyes of the world, but at first there seems to be much more than a mere chronicle, in his words. However, soon the young writer (and we with him) will have to discover that most, if not all, of what concerns his life so far and its very existence to the world is linked to the family of which he is writing, and events fruit that has always considered the case could actually be pieces of a complex woven design from someone, and we could have devastating repercussions on its future.

As is rightly explained on the back cover, it is not easy to give a definition to this masterpiece novel. Family saga from yellow, via the novel denounces and historical chronicle, Jonathan Coe weaves a plot that the cross-section photographs of England after World War II to the nineties, interspersed with autobiographical elements and great emotional momentum (it's just me opinion, but I suspect that much of what is Michael Owen is part of what was Jonathan Coe). A novel where nothing, not even the most marginal of paragraphs, it is left to chance, and where reality and fiction merge to become indistinguishable from each other. A novel that should not be missing in the library of any fan of the concept of 'narrative'.

unusual and exciting was the presence of a person at my door, but that pleasure was tempered not only dall'inopportuno timing of the interruption, but also by the feeling, stubborn and disturbing, have already seen this woman, so much so that at any moment I could recognize it and even recall his name. In his left hand clutching a sheet of A4, folded in half, and the right hung on the side of the restless, as if trying to hide in a pocket.

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I support

Michael Scherer of TIME recalled that during the Super Bowl of 2009 the newly elected President Obama said very that he would openly rooted for the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Arizona Cardinals, being a fan for a long time fan of the first, and then find a little pathetic that yesterday, just because the election cycle looms, Obama has said neutral like Switzerland and ponziopilatesco is pulled back with a "may the best win, this time denying its supporters against the Steelers Green Bay Packers (who are a team of Wisconsin, the State in which the mid-term elections have lost the Dem dangerous ground).

reading this trifle I was reminded of a more than two years ago. A few days before the vote for president in 2008 Peter Nicholas of the Los Angeles Times, after following Obama throughout the campaign, allowed himself a small vent : in bringing Obama, sighed, there should be a very interesting character, irresistible charm, and instead we find ourselves in front of a man cold, unpleasant aseptic perpetually "in place for cameras "to the point that it can not be interesting if not on video. "And 'paradoxical " writes Nicholas "that a man who attracts crowds of tens of thousands of people to his rallies, whose charisma is bound to that of John F. Kennedy, a man can be so boring ... after all this time spent with him, I still do not know who he really is. " Among the anecdotes Nicholas told there was one little men who can make a pair with that of Scherer. Once Obama, while he was on his plane with the journalists, she began to talk of the baseball team of which he is a fan, the White Sox in Chicago. It was the typical situation in which a skillful politician can fraternize with the journalists giving them scraps of his private life. Instead, Obama managed to speak like a normal person for a while, for soon one of the reporters present, finally realizing that leaked a bit of humanity to tell, turned on the recorder. Obama immediately captures the gesture and began to moderate the enthusiasm of his speech as a fan. Lit other recorders, Obama and in an instant, without the slightest sign of annoyance, he changed the subject and began to pray diligently, like a robot programmed well, the usual speeches prepared by his staff to propaganda.

these trifles do not know if they have something to do with the much more serious issue of radical difference of style between the 44th and the 40th president quibble about which so much is these days, but I suspect that a little , in their small, there azzecchino.

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ME AND ONE OF U.S.

Today marks the centenary of the birth of Ronald Reagan. This is my tribute to the site with The Right Nation , which celebrates the day with a beautiful theme:

"I Have Spent Most Of My Life as a Democrat -" for most of my life I was a Democrat ". Thus begins the speech "A time for choosing" that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964 (and, for the first time in the history of presidential elections, was broadcast on NBC a few days before the vote) to support the candidacy of Barry Goldwater to White House. He was a brilliant starting point: to convince those who think like him (what is more important to win an election) Reagan was first this was not "born" Republican - and indeed in the forties was a Roosevelt Democrat, and had long been the leader of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood. In that speech, taking the former actor who inaugurated the 53 year old made his true political orientation, was already the essence of Reagan: the overflowing charisma, the boldness deliberately a bit 'cowboy, the abandonment of any residual isolationism because those "who propose to us to trade our freedom with the pot of broth of the" welfare state "are the same ones who" told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory ", but above all the extraordinary ability to displayed next to the common people, crossing themselves easily ideological barriers that while the radical message helped to strengthen. Reagan wrote in his face "is one of you", not only in the eyes of the Republican base but also in front of independent voters and even a slice of those Democrats.

That year, Democrat Lyndon Johnson defeated Goldwater leaving just six states out of fifty - the worst result ever in the history of presidential elections. But the campaign laid the foundations of the alliance between the anti-right "religious" and the libertarian anti-statism that actually formed the premise of the recovery of which would become the protagonist, a generation later, the same Reagan. The commentator of the Washington Post George Will has summed up the concept better than anyone else, "Goldwater won the elections of 1964. Only that it took sixteen years to count the votes. "

Reagan's victory over Carter in 1980 was triumphant because it transcended the largely Republican area: three in a competition (it was in the running include former Republican Anderson, an independent candidate for), won the presidency by making also vote 26% of Democratic voters and 30% of those "independents". Lou Cannon, the most renowned among his biographers, recalls that on the eve of his election as a radio journalist asked him what America saw in him, and he, after a moment's hesitation, replied, "laughs when I say that perhaps they see themselves, they see that I am one of them? ". His inaugural speech for the 1981 inauguration ( one that contains the famous phrase" in the current crisis the government is not the solution to our problem: the government is the problem "), confirmed this idea is rightly remembered as a paean against oppressive taxation and the intrusiveness of the state, but it was also an ode to the normality of ordinary people, to " everyday heroes who enter and leave factories .. heroes behind the counters of the shops ... entrepreneurs who believe in themselves and in their ideas, able to produce jobs, new wealth and opportunity. "

His popularity fell quickly, thanks to the economic downturn, and the first mid-term parliamentary elections in 1982, the president's party was beaten: the newly elected Democrats were well fifty-seven, while Republicans were only twenty-four . Then, the recession in the second quarter gave way to a robust and sustained economic recovery, and when they played in the 1984 Reagan re-election triumph in 49 of 50 states (the Democratic challenger, Mondale, he won only in Minnesota, its status of origin) regained 26% of democratic vote, exactly the same as four years before, and as much as 63% - more than double - than the independents. His second administration skirted in the polls 60% of the vote in its worst moment, after the Iran-Contra. Since then, it has become customary to speak of Reagan Democrats (Reagan Democrats) to indicate those voters on the left (mainly white workers in the South and North) often come from voting for a Republican candidate.

In January 2008, the aspiring candidate Obama confessed to journalists to admire Reagan because he "had changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon had not done it, and even Bill Clinton." Apart from the evil subliminal message of the series "I'm a Clinton as Reagan was in Nixon (the primaries had just begun and the antagonist was half of Bill), the spot was intended to throw the hook of the campaign "yes we can" democratic electorate over the fence. The media Statter the game and immediately began to hear about Obamacons . After the election, however, the bubble has burst quickly, and once a year the 44th president was already struggling for survival. After beating of mid-term elections last November, the parallel with Reagan has resurfaced, but this time it refers to the sequence 1980-1984, striking resemblance to the parable sharply downward in the polls the first two years and the challenge of go back the slope in the second. On Christmas Eve, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told the world via twitter that reading the book in which the president would have the water while he licked his wounds in Hawaii was, incidentally, a biography of Reagan. Once again the media took the bait: speculation on a work for Barack tread the footsteps of Ronnie, not to mention the inevitable handbooks on how to achieve it, bouncing from one head to another week - and have intensified after the recent State of the Union speech, in which many were quick to read a Reaganesque tone because of the mantra "win the future".

Only time will tell if Obama will enjoy the favorable circumstances that allowed Reagan to rise after the collapse of popularity in 1982, which is a substantial economic recovery. Already, however, we can exclude that the current president has of the other ingredient of the magic formula that allowed his predecessor to "let the symbol": that is, knowing how to put aside not only the language, but more generally the conventions , the mentality and the "tick" of politics politician. Having successfully closed the Cold War, for example, is a landmark result that would not have been achieved or not perceived the same way if the 40th president had talked and acted like a politician "conventional". At the time Reagan went to the government, everything revolved around or the dogma of "containment": the Cold War was a conflict in which we do not fight for victory, but for survival. Thinking to get out of winners was a blasphemy, heresy and an expression of rudeness and ignorance, because it meant compromising the security of mutual non-aggression based on deterrence of nuclear holocaust. The 'everyman "Ronald Reagan was this view abhorrent: the scene described it as two gunmen' facing each other in a saloon, which will link each gun to your head ... forever. " The people were tired of living in that situation and crippled Jimmy Carter, right after being elected, understood in this exasperation had a plane of abandonment in his famous speech which he had held in 1977 at the University of Notre Dame had proclaimed the liberation "from the inordinate fear of communism", and ruled that the arms race until then held with the USSR was "morally reprehensible" and was abandoned as soon as possible to switch to a new phase of "detente." Reagan proposed an alternative way out: in preparing its candidacy in the 1979 Republican primary, his advisers said that his vision for managing the relationship with the Soviets was rather "simple, some would say simplistic: we win and they lose" . His doctrine was summed up The term "roll back", literally "rewind": not simply to contain but to drive back - play to win, not to survive. Ordinary people are waiting and voted en masse. The experts did shrug dismissed as a parvenu who had overestimated the Soviet threat. Instead, he was so polished that must not be mesmerized by the guidelines of the mainstream realpolitikante of the time, and guess, first and better than many "experts" that the USSR was close to collapse and for this had to be taken to chest. Even against the advice of many in his party, he did it: with the words (just think of the his famous speech to the British Parliament in June 1982 , One of the 'evil empire', ruled that communism would be "consigned to history as a pile of ashes" or the even more famous pronounced in 1987 in Berlin, with whom, contravention of the obstinate opposition of the vertices of U.S. diplomacy, he challenged Gorbachev to tear down the Wall) and with the facts (before the deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Europe to cope with the SS20 that Moscow had installed since 1977, and then "Star Wars" and then the anti-missile system that broke the balance of terror foreshadowing a capacity to hit without being hit, and forcing the opponent to a surge in the arms race that Moscow could not afford).

The current president, certainly driven by the need to distance himself from George W Bush but also by their character and academic training as a jurist, he has become accustomed, in the words and actions, something antithetical: a continuous search for ostentatious balanced compromise, which should reassure both parties that voters because of its conventionality, for the cautious and measured attitude. Obama never takes place "hot" about anything, and when he finally takes a stand stubbornly avoids unbalanced his style and his methods are always of a very anxious not to pull the rope too, did not want to drag the country into companies can not afford. To realize how little there is Reaganesque in his style, just listen to any of his State of the Union speeches, and then go and listen to what Reagan gave in 1986 in which, with typical American taste for culture " pop, even quoted the movie "Back to the Future" (which was also made fun of, but he was a man of great humor and very much appreciated), and gave the world the following dispatch: "to those who are in captivity to the will of a dictatorial regime, those who are beaten because they persist in fighting for freedom and democracy - the right to profess their faith, to speak, to live and prosper the family of free nations - we say to you tonight you are not alone, freedom fighters. America will support with moral and material assistance your right not only to fight and die for freedom, but also winning the fight and win freedom - in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua. This is a great moral challenge to the entire free world. " hard not to feel a deep, intense nostalgia.

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Days naked

Claudio Piersanti was a name that sounded familiar when I read it on the shelf of the library, written in white on the ocean blue is the cover of his new novel. Some time ago, however, was a name totally foreign and new to my eyes. This time, the cover had the dark background, and stood out violent red of her hair, leans forward in the pose that covered almost the entire face. That book was "The return home of Henry Metz" and I must say that my memory has a nice jump back when I reread the author's name on a new novel, a few months ago. I remember a feeling of lightness that I felt when I read that novel, and some images, frozen in time, that the pace of reading. In particular, I have in mind the image of an autumn park with red and brown leaves that fall to the ground to read. Although this novel has a very introspective narration, as it had been the other, although this time there is a different item that struck me.

Albert is a writer of television drama, this work years ago with his colleague Guido, and although there may be in his thoughts some regret for not having devoted more to the world of cinema, all things can considered a person satisfied with their lives. However, regular and balanced lives are there to be disturbed by extraordinary events, and what could be more extraordinary for a man, a woman? Following an accident, Albert knows the corridors of a hospital, the young Lucia, practically a kid compared to him, with whom he forms a bond that is immediately understood to be destined to become, a little later, a real report love. We see a representation of the life of this older man from the moment they enter to join Lucia in which we read as a first step a crescendo of emotions, but later we see their decline. Alberto faces, perhaps against his will, thoughts and feelings that always accompany him, but have rarely reached the level of consciousness, brought to the surface of his soul by the freshness and exuberance of Lucia, which slowly takes the field in his closed little world and narrow, leading with them the news. A novelty made of bodies that are discovered and wish to join and separate, and that you are looking for, but also a novelty made of tufts of strawberry yogurt cups and left around the house. Thus, with the wind carried the girl, events happen in the life of Albert, as the final separation from a partner in a life and starting new jobs, restructuring the holiday home and participating in certain social events, but Albert can not set aside a growing concern: what's the future hold? And what the future expects him to do?

Moving on a difficult border of the introspective analysis of a man now well into the doubts and discomforts of maturity on the one hand, and the ambitions and frustrations of a woman in the prime of youth on the other hand, Claudio Piersanti paints a wonderful portrait of couples , a drama in two acts in which the first witness to the explosion of positive emotion, the enthusiasm of newness to the exaltation of sex experienced by the nakedness of the bodies, while in the second is the one that remains when dreams and ambitions collide with reality, and it cracks, leaving a trace some cracks indelible. All filtered through the twisted psyche of a man voluntarily Isolate from the world, who can not help but take refuge in the silence of his home and his routine. But when all that had come to disturb this balance disappears, here is the specter of depression that creeps in the mind of Albert, who unknowingly is punished for what he has or has not been able to do and when that relationship

"Days naked "is a novel intense, melancholy yet joyful, very intimate and introspective but also tied in glove to the materiality of bodies and actions. A novel should be read consistently and without pause, because only then if they can fully appreciate the profound significance and the positive message that comes out at the end.

After a perfect sleep, Alberto awoke excited as when a child had been present in the bicycle race. His father was to pick up after work and receiving capacity at home and it was already night. Not being able to try it once had been content to dream and in the morning he woke up early to see her again: her beautiful Bianchi! Just as then, his eyes were still fill of Lucia. Pulled back the sheet and buried in the contemplation of his body. That path beauty had just started and he realized that would take him away. Someone had said that perfection is reached when you have something in abundance and you can lull some to have full and still wake up at will. Easy to recognize the array of infantile desire. As infants do not understand, in their passion? Within hours, had returned infant. The infant of a woman much younger than him.

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' BACK THE AMBASSADOR

For how hard I try, I just can not take too seriously the speculation that for months now, especially in the last month , chase each other and are plump alleged presidential ambitions Jon (not academic, as Bon Jovi) Huntsman, a former Republican governor of Utah ( hello hello, Mitt ) and U.S. ambassador to Beijing appointed by Obama (for turning him out, the malign conspiracy) and now has resigned (to get back on track, whisper the same course).

Sure, the former ambassador who became president of the United States would not be a novelty and even the nobles earlier date none other than the inspiration of the head of this blog - to arrive, finally, to its former ambassador in Beijing (which, however, before he had to win the White House do a lot of practice as vice president).

The fact is that Huntsman, judging from what the professionals , the wing belongs to the moderate / liberal / nontradizionalista the GOP, even though he - understandably, with the current climate - seeks to minimize this location. Not to mention that in recent months has (sacrosanct) labor of love and agree with the president, which - as has been readily noticed - not exactly a great credential for candidates to oust less than two years. I do not feel foolish that even among the "centrist" someone will come forward for 2012 - indeed, but these days to do so must be a type capable to collect great popularity with the base, so as not to electrocute tea from the wing hard-Partier ( there are those who theorize that the climate is changing, and that the candidacy of Huntsman would bet on this, but the reasoning I think scarcely applicable in the primaries, which are now almost at the gates). In this respect, the little-known aristocrat Huntsman and I think few facilities, perhaps more nuanced for a vice-president (or the State Department, since ultimately it is fashionable to assign big loser of the primaries ... ). Mah