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Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller Eye- opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment.

With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, “Where are we?” Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.

“Gripping... one of the best accounts of addiction, the college experience, or even what it means to be an average teenage girl in America. A.” –Entertainment Weekly.
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Said to be passed down through the Ma Family of Hunan this form of Drunkard's boxing traces its roots to the Shaolin Temple. It's never easy to find in-depth information on this style. Sifu Ripski not only gives us a good martial background but he's added information on the even rarer Crippled (Beggar's?) Fist as well. Teacher Ripski takes us through the training he received, including back bends with weights on the body and other specialty exercises. His serious approach to the material corrects many misconceptions and mythological ideas. Far too often people try for the effect of appearing drunken without the fighting potential. He also shows the Eight Shadows Drunken Fist Form. This is followed by applications demonstrating the flavor of the boxing form, a photographic section on drunken weapons and a long section on acupressure points with information on striking angle and effect. This is a labor of love showing deep respect for his teacher, Ma Qing Lung, and his style..
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Just a thought:

Sometimes there is nothing finer than breaking all the rules and reaching for the sky. Especially if those rules were meant to confine you, us instead of uplifting us.

Then it becomes almost a heavenly act.As with everything, there is an art to breaking all the rules.
It needs to be done in such a manner that it harms no one.
But instead it lifts us and gives us a new horizon to reach for.

Publishers, publishing houses, you got to love them; you can't do this!
It's never been done like this! O no not possible! You must do it like???
It's always been done . . .

Excuse me please, it seems I left my bulldozer running, I'll be right back I promise.

What does all of this have to do with a leprechaun?
Everything is connected to everything. O' please feed me sweet nothings but don't make me face the truth again, not again..
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"Attack of the Water Soverigh".
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"A Girl Called Mystic".
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From the fabulously creative filmmaker who wrote and produced movies such as Fargo, Barton Fink, and Blood Simple, this is a provocative, revealing, and often hilarious collection of poems that offers insight into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft.

In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan Coen surprises and delights us with a rich brew of ideas, observations, and perceptions. In his first collection of poems he does much the same. The range of his poems is remarkable–funny, ribald, provocative, sometimes raw, and often touching and profound.

In these poems Coen writes of his childhood, his hopes and dreams, his disappointments, his career in Hollywood, his physically demanding love affair with Mamie Eisenhower, and his decade-long battle with amphetamines that produced some of the lengthier poems in the collection. You will chuckle, nodding with recognition as you turn the pages, perhaps even stopping occasionally to read a poem. Handsomely and durably bound between hard covers, this is a book that will stand up to most readers’ attempts to destroy it.
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