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Shitty Craft Club : a club for gluing beads to trash, talking about our feelings, and making silly things
\"Through silly and deeply relatable tales from her life, Sam Reece, founder of the Shitty Craft Club, guides you through dozens of craft projects that give you permission to be as weird, wild, and wonderful as you want to be\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The hands of Donald Trump
Commentators from a broad range of perspectives have been at pains to explain Donald Trump's transition from billionaire businessman to populist presidential candidate. This article draws on cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and rhetorical theory to argue that the success of Trump's candidacy in the 2016 Republican primary was in part due to its value as comedic entertainment. We examine the ways that Trump's unconventional political style, particularly his use of gesture to critique the political system and caricature his opponents, brought momentum to his campaign by creating spectacle. Post-structuralist and neo-Marxist scholars have asserted that late capitalism values style over content: Trump took this characteristic to new heights. The exaggerated depictions of the sociopolitical world that Trump crafts with his hands to oppose political correctness and disarm adversaries accrue visual capital in a mediatized twenty-first-century politics that is celebrity driven.
Journal Article
The Marvelous Bookcase: Yang Jiong's \Fu on the Bookcase for Reading While Lying Down\
Yang Jiong ... (650-ca. 694), though hailed both by his contemporaries and later generations as one of the \"Four Elites of the Early Tang,\" has yet to receive due scholarly attention. This article contributes to the study of Yang Jiong by examining his \"Fu on the Bookcase for Reading While Lying Down\" (\"Wodu shujia fu\" ... . It demonstrates how the poet displays his literary genius by skillfully employing various allusions, using self-deprecating humor for assertive self-display, devising close echoes among different parts, and building an extremely well-balanced structure, written in verse of an elaborately parallel style. More importantly, he cleverly crafts a double text so that both the physical bookcase and he himself, the \"mental bookcase,\" become the dual subjects of the fu. The interplay between the bookcase, the poet, and his self-representation also contributes to the wider discussions of material culture, social norms, and literary expression.
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PUZZLE CERAMIC DRINKING CONTAINER
Ceramicists have produced ceramics in their direction of their own personal characteristics, worldviews, the conditions of life they live in, traditions and customs. For what purpose and how they should be used in determining their shapes and decorations of these ceramics have been influential. In this study; the puzzle ceramic drinking container which are very varied both in terms of their production stage and the applications of decorations, and also the forms that mystifications, the games, the humour and the understandings of the masters have also been reached to the user have been dealt. From the end of the 13th century it is seen that they were produced in many other European countries, especially Germany, Holland, Italy, France.These containers, intended for jokes and fun for drinkers, are handled in the play and puzzle catagories. In these cups, the puzzle is to learn the secret of drinking successfully without getting wet. Information on the subject is provided by internet sources. The puzzle drink containers found are classified as jugs, and mugs
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The Reading List 2010
The Reading List annually recognizes the best books in eight genres: adrenaline (which includes suspense, thriller, and adventure), fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, and women's fiction. In this deeply disturbing novel, the Brotherhood of Mutilation, a cult that gains wisdom through amputation, kidnaps a maimed detective and forces him to investigate the murder of a cult leader. Through spare language, a noir sensibility, and macabre humor, Evenson crafts a compulsively readable nightmare that asks, \"How do you know the moment when you cease to be human?\" Readers may also enjoy Will Elliott's Pilo Family Circus, Stephen King's Misery, and J. G. Ballards's Crash.
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Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies
Walter Little is assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and codirector of Oxlajuj Aj, Tulane University’s Kaqchikel Language and Culture class in Guatemala. He has conducted fieldwork among Maya handicrafts producers and vendors since 1992 on issues related to tourism, gender roles, and identity performance, and this research is the subject of his book, Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity (Austin: University of Texas, 2004).
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Woodworking Hobbies Master this tounge-in-cheek technique
\"I want to make a stick with one end sharpened. The stick should be about 4' long. I want to put a point on one end, preferably the end that points down. It should be able to penetrate the earth deeply enough to stand on its own. Anyone have any plans?\" \"The best way to sharpen a stick is the way it was done a hundred years ago by REAL craftsmen: use a Stanley #33 1/3 stick-sharpening plane. Of course the Stanley #33 1/3 isn't as good as the Record #007, but those are extremely rare --- only two were ever made and I own them both (I got them at a garage sale). \"The first thing you need to do is lap the sole of the stick sharpening plane. Since the sole isn't flat, you'll need a special jig. I like to use the horn of a 2-year-old mountain goat coated with tripoli abrasive, but in a pinch a 3-year-old goat will do.
Newspaper Article
Hooked on hooking
\"That's because of me texture and use of other materials creating the illusion of faces coming to life,\" said another visitor at the show. \"I could spend hours drifting from one hooked rug to another. Maybe that's why so many patients seem so content to wait!\"
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