ellauri042.html on line 684: In 1968, Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer; they divorced in 1973 without issue. Maybe they ought to have bought a handmaid. She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980. Atwood and Gibson were together until September 18, 2019, when Gibson died after suffering from dementia. She wrote about Gibson in the poem Dearly and in an accompanying essay on grief and poetry published in The Guardian in 2020.
ellauri042.html on line 686: 5 years older Gibson was married to publisher Shirley Gibson until the early 1970s, and together they had two sons, Matt and Grae. He later began dating novelist and poet Margaret Atwood in 1973. They moved to a semi-derelict farm near Alliston, Ontario, which they set about doing up and where according to Atwood they were making "attempts at farming, writing and trying to earn enough to live". Their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born there in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980. Atwood and Gibson stayed together until his death in 2019. Gibsons best book was The Bedside Book of Birds (2005).
ellauri042.html on line 688: In 2017 Gibson was diagnosed with early signs of vascular dementia. He died on 18 September 2019 in London, England, where Atwood was promoting her new book, five days after having a big stroke. Atwood later said about his death that it had not been unexpected due to the vascular dementia, had been a good one—and in a good hospital, and his children had time to come and say goodbye—and that he had been "declining and he had wanted to check out before he reached any further stages of that".
ellauri042.html on line 690: Elävän leskestä tuli leipäsusi kunnes susikoira kellahti. Gibson oli sellainen koira joka jokaisen kirjailijattaren pitäisi valita. Ei todellakaan mikään komendantti. Oktogenaari taitaa olla vähän jo liian senior fellow ehtiäxeen saada noobelin. Ja liian feministi, tollanen niinko riitasa. Ei sellaisesta Ruozin Akatemiassa pidetä. Sitäpaizi Alice Munrohan juuri palkittiin, kanadalaiset naiset on syöneet jäätelönsä.
ellauri066.html on line 292: Onnexi jotkut lukijat tykkää Pynchonista jotka diggaa myös Neil Stephensonista, William Gibsonista ja David Foster Wallace-vainaasta (nää on Pynchonin perikuntaa ja yhtä vaikeita). Pynchon ei ees tee alaviitteitä kuten Yli-Juotikas ja Foster Loppumattomassa läpässä. Points well taken. Mutta toisaalta:
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ellauri260.html on line 199: Vaikutukset: Aristoteles, Aquino, Teichmüller, Lotze, Trendelenburg. Vaikutettu: Max Scheler, W. R. Boyce Gibson, Abel J. Jones, Evelyn Bilbo and Frodo Underhill. Ei nää ole kummosia, olikohan Rudi vähän sivuraiteella? Merkittäviä ideoita olivat poliittinen aktivismi ja Todellinen. Todella. Indeed, kuten sanoo Midsummerin murhien tyhjänaamainen vanha poliiisi todistajan laskiessa luikuria läpi hampaitten.
ellauri309.html on line 1049: Seuraava kopulaatio tapahtuu kopukoiden kanssa razastusretkellä. Osoittautuu että Mikki (tai sen paras kaveri heppa Max) oli Mel Gibsonin doppelgängeri:
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ellauri309.html on line 1053: Hänet tunnetaan parhaiten toimintasankarirooleistaan, erityisesti hänen läpimurtoroolistaan Max Rockatanskyna post-apokalyptisen toimintasarjan Mad Max kolmessa ensimmäisessä elokuvassa ja Martin Riggsina kaveripoliisi toimintakomediasarjassa Tappava ase. Vuonna 1995 Gibson tuotti, ohjasi ja näytteli Braveheartissa, historiallisessa eeposessa. Myöhemmin hän ohjasi ja tuotti The Passion of the Christ -kirjan, raamatullisen draaman, joka oli sekä taloudellisesti menestynyt että erittäin kiistanalainen. Espanjalaisessa El País -sanomalehden haastattelussa hän esitti Jeesuxena halventavia kommentteja homoseksuaaleista. Vuonna 1999, kun häneltä kysyttiin kommenteista El Paísiin, Gibson sanoi: "Minun ei olisi pitänyt sanoa sitä, mutta kutittelin hieman vodkaa tuon haastattelun aikana, ja lainaus palasi kuin Riitta Purra puremaan minua perseeseen." Vanity Fair -lehden 2011 artikkelin mukaan Gibson kertoi ensin pidättäjälle: "Elämäni on ohi. Olen perseestä. Robyn jättää minut." Gibsonilla oli avoin alkoholisäiliö autossa. Gibson sanoi pidättävälle upseerille: "Vitun juutalaiset... juutalaiset ovat vastuussa kaikista maailman sodista plus Jeesuxen salamurhasta. Oletko juutalainen?" Heinäkuussa 2010 Gibson oli nauhoitettu puhelun aikana Grigorjevan kanssa, jossa hän ehdotti, että jos "neekerilauma raiskaa hiänet", hän olisi todennäköisesti syyllinen. Häntä estettiin tulemasta Grigorjevan tai heidän tyttärensä lähelle perheväkivaltaan liittyvän lähestymiskiellon vuoksi Aika paljon ehti Mel laittaa kenkää suuhun uran aikana. Se on Pezkua vuoden nuorempi. Hän sanoi, että kun hän juo, hän voi olla ilkeä humalassa ja "jutut tulevat ulos vääristyneellä tavalla..." Mikä oli Mel Gibsonin ympärillä oleva kiista, kun hän aloitti näyttelemisen? Kuinka suuri vaikutus sillä oli hänen uraansa tuolloin? Mel Gibsoniin liittyvät kohut ulottuvat aina vuoteen 1991 saakka. Häneltä kysyttiin haastattelussa, mitä mieltä hän on homoseksuaaleista. Hän vastasi: "He ottavat sen perseeseen," ja kun häntä pyydettiin tarkentamaan, hän osoitti takapuoltaan ja sanoi: "tämä on tarkoitettu vain paskantamiseen." Kyllä, hän todella sanoi niin. Kuinka väärässä hän olikaan.
ellauri309.html on line 1065: Mikki on tietysti irlantilainen, kuten Noora, ja Mikin heppakaveri Mad Max, alias Mel Gibson. Gibson's mother, Anne Patricia Reilly, was born in Ardagh in County Longford. In fact, Mel is named after St. Mel's Cathedral, the fifth-century Irish saint, and founder of Gibson's mother's local native diocese, Ardagh. While his middle name, Colmcille, is the name the Catholic diocese of Ardagh. Mel Gibson's grandfather John H Gibson was a millionaire tobacco businessman from the American South.
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xxx/ellauri121.html on line 278: Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968, but later divorced in 1973. She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976. Graeme kuoli dementtinä 2019.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 283: somewhere hadn't already done. Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." Nauroiko joku sille pienenä? Yrittikö joku setä jotain pahempaa kuin kuolema? Laittaako se joka paikkaan ihan vaan valkoista? Pikemminkin päinvastoin, mustia se laittaa kuteita. Ei sinisiä (leffassa käsirouvat piti vihreitä) eikä punaisia, paizi huiveja ja kenkiä. Se on tiukan näköinen, Gibson pikemminkin hömelön.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 301: Atwood oli tai siis on yhtä wickedly funny kuin Davis Foster Wallacen äitykkä. Sillä ja Gibsonilla oli samanlainen vittuileva huumori, vaikka Graeme soitti kyllä aina toista kitaraa.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 308: In the early 70s, Atwood added considerably to her work as a teacher and writer by editing manuscripts for the cutting-edge nationalist publisher The House of Anansi. By then, her marriage to Polk was over (Sullivan is vague about why, offering mainly generalities about the difficulty of staying together in that morally freewheeling era. Fact is, Jim Polk was not enough of a handyman for manly Margaret.) In 1972, Atwood met Gibson, a novelist and cultural activist whose own marriage was crumbling. The two began an affair, meeting at first clandestinely in the basement office of Toronto’s Longhouse Bookshop, but soon living together—for several years on a working farm north of the city.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 311: Graeme Gibson, long-time partner to author Margaret Atwood and father of their only child, Jess, died in London, England earlier this week while he was accompanying Ms Atwood on an extensive book tour to promote her latest novel, The Testaments, a sequel to the massively successful The Handmaid’s Tail. He was 84 and his death was both expected and sudden.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 312: He too was an author of novels, none of which ever came close to having the kind of success Ms Atwood has always enjoyed, but Gibson himself would have said his greatest success was the support he gave his partner during one of the most amazing careers any writer has ever had, in Canada or in any country. His support was unstinting and inspiring, and allied to it was a conviction that Atwood’s greatness demanded that kind of commitment.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 316: But back to young Peggy. As a result of the governor's award, The Edible Woman was published. Atwood began to enjoy a growing reputation; nonetheless, while her own career took off, she still devoted considerable amounts of time to a small radical publishing house, Anansi, in which her first and only husband was deeply involved. Over this period, Atwood and Jim Polk drifted apart, and Atwood began a relationship with the novelist Graeme Gibson. Together with Graeme's two teenage sons, Matt and Grae, they went off to a farm in a small agricultural community in 1973 in Alliston.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 318: Atwood and Gibson remain an utterly devoted couple - when a female US novelist famously remarked that "every woman writer should be married to Graeme Gibson", Atwood cheerfully put the compliment on a T-shirt.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 362: Kirjassa June on hetero, leffassa se lepakoizi Moiran kaa. Luke oli naimisissa, Moira pahexui, sanoi että se on saalistusta toisen naisen mailla. June vastasi ettei Luke ollut mikään kala eikä maakokkare, vaan vapaata riistaa. Se että on rakastunut ei ole mikään perustelu sanoi Moira. Joo kyllä Peggy oli aika paskapää. Gibsonilla oli vaimo publisher Shirley Gibson ja niillä 2 teini-ikäistä poikaa Matt and Grae, jotka Graeme vei mukanaan. Peggy tuli kyynärpäilemään 1973. Graeme s. 1934 oli 5 vanhempi ja silloin paremmissa varoissa, vaikka sehän kyllä sitten korjaantui. Shirley s. 1927 oli vielä paljon vanhempi, v. 1973 se oli 46 ja kuoli noin meidän ikäisenä 1997. Ei ihme että Graeme lähti lätkimään 34-vuotiaan pesää nuolemaan.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 363: Tytär Jess Gibson syntyi 1976. 1985 se oli 9-vuotias. Sen rukouxet oli huonoja.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 141: Hilja Haahdin uusi nuortenromaani Aavikkotien hyypiö sai alkunsa Max-koiran sairastuessa. Koira kuoli sopivasti muutama päivä käsikirjoituksen ensimmäisen version valmistumisen jälkeen, kuten Peggy Atwoodin huomaavainen alzheimer-mies Graeme Gibson.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 798: 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 803: In 1999, Love was awarded an Orville H. Gibson award for Best Female Rock Guitarist. During this time, she starred opposite Jim Carrey as his partner Lynne Margulies in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (1999), followed by a role as William S. Burroughs's wife Joan Vollmer in Beat (2000) alongside Kiefer Sutherland. Love was cast as the lead in John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film Ghosts of Mars, but backed out after injuring her foot. She sued the ex-wife of her then-boyfriend, James Barber, whom Love alleged had caused the injury by running over her foot with her Volvo.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 342: Emma gave birth to Nelson's daughter Horatia, on 29 January 1801] at 23 Piccadilly, who was taken soon afterwards to a Mrs Gibson for care and hire of a wet nurse. On 1 February, Emma made a spectacular appearance at a concert at the house of the Duke of Norfolk in St James' Square, and Emma worked hard to keep the press onside.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 344: Soon after this, the Prince of Wales (later King George IV) became infatuated with Emma, leading Nelson to be consumed by jealousy, and inspiring a remarkable letter by Sir William to Nelson, assuring him that she was being faithful. In late February, Nelson returned to London and met his daughter at Mrs Gibson's. Nelson's family were aware of the pregnancy, and his clergyman brother Rev. William Nelson wrote to Emma praising her virtue and goodness. Nelson and Emma continued to write letters to each other when he was away at sea, and she kept every one. While he was away too, she arranged for her mother to visit the Kidds in Hawarden and her daughter in Manchester.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 358: She was desperately lonely, preoccupied with attempting to turn Merton Place into the grand home Nelson desired, suffering from several ailments and frantic for his return. The child, a girl (reportedly named Emma), died about 6 weeks after her birth in early 1804, and Horatia also fell ill at her home with Mrs Gibson on Titchfield Street. Emma kept the infant's death a secret from the press (her burial is unrecorded), kept her deep grief from Nelson's family and found it increasingly difficult to cope alone. She reportedly distracted herself by gambling, and succumbed to binges of heavy drinking and eating and spending lavishly.
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 150: Ralph was the inspiration for the animated character Fred Flintstone. Alice (née Alice Gibson), played in the first nine skits from 1951 to January 1952 by Pert Kelton, and by Audrey Meadows for all remaining episodes, is Ralph's patient but sharp-tongued wife of 14 years. She often finds herself bearing the brunt of Ralph's tantrums and demands, which she returns with biting sarcasm. She is levelheaded, in contrast to Ralph's pattern of inventing various schemes to enhance his wealth or his pride. She sees his schemes' unworkability, but he becomes angry and ignores her advice (and by the end of the episode, her misgivings almost always prove correct). She has grown accustomed to his empty threats—such as "One of these days, POW!!! Right in the kisser!", "BANG, ZOOM!" or "You're going to the Moon!"— to which she usually replies, "Ahhh, shaddap!" Alice runs the finances of the Kramden household, and Ralph frequently has to beg her for money to pay for his lodge dues or crazy schemes. Alice studied to be a secretary before her marriage and works briefly in that capacity when Ralph is laid off. Wilma Flintstone is based on Alice Kramden.
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