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“We Have Always Survived” Cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze, nichrome wire $1,500cad (SOLD!)

20% of sales profit will be split and go to a trans aid organization in Canada and the US.

Huge thank you to Martina Lantin for putting together this NCECA - (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) exhibition “Beacon” at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Exhibition runs March 25-29, opening Friday, March 28th 6-9 NCECA bus tours - Wednesday-Thursday Collector’s Bus Tour ONSITE: Thursday 1:35-2:35

this made the university of oxford and cambridge press insanely mad, they sued both delhi university and the xerox shop in a landmark case

I think fast-paced genre fiction is the best way to get people reading again. I have a few books in mind.

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

It's a contemporary mystery novel that is now considered a modern classic. The book popularized several tropes and helped renew literary conventions in the Japanese detective genre. Many elements you see in recent Japanese detective TV shows were influenced by the TV adaptations of this detective novel series.

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

It was recently adapted into a movie titled The Sheep Detectives, starring Hugh Jackman. I missed the screening, though, so I'm reading the book right now.

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

A dystopian horror novel set in a world where humans are farmed and consumed as meat. It's deeply unsettling but excellent. I think you could finish it in a single sitting.

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

We're all familiar with the premise that inspired a hugely influential movie, but many people don't realize that the film was actually adapted from this novel. I can't think of a better way to get back into reading than by picking up a book that was later turned into such a memorable movie.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

About a decade ago, I worked in a daycare/Montessori school that has an explictily stated nut-free policy specifically to protect medically vulnerable children from peanut and tree nut exposure. One vegan mother insisted that her child be served dairy free milk. Okay. Fine. Bring in some oat milk, right? Wrong! What does she provide? An almond/coconut/walnut blend that then is splashed around the kitchen and refrigerator of an explicitly stated nut-free facility, which your tree nut allergy-having narrator discovered by getting stinging, burning welts up her right side while trying to repair a fridge. And *I* got in trouble for pitching that allergen in the dumpster. My boss threatened to fire me over enforcing the no nut policy. The mother chewed me out for "wasting [her] money" too!