A Vague Map in My Head: A Talk with Michelle Tea ? Used Furniture ...

Michelle Tea has published five novels, a book of poetry, numerous short stories, hundreds of Bay Area newspaper articles and has edited several anthologies on fashion, class, queer writing and personal narrative. Her novel?Valencia?won the 2000 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, a?San Francisco Bay Guardian?Goldie Award for Literature, and the prestigious Rona Jaffe Foundation award for early-career female writers. Her writing has also appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best Music Writing and The Believer. More here.

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UFR: You?re the author of a host of really great books: Valencia, The Chelsea Whistle, Rent Girl. The list goes on. All of your writing is filled with so much honesty, and also force. When you?re writing, what are you trying to explore? What would you say they?re about?

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Michelle Tea: I really am a subconscious writer. I have a vague map in my head?sometimes less vague than other times, and I just let the story carry me. I?m trying to explore whatever the story calls for at that moment, or whatever feels inspiring. Valencia is about being young and wild and new and feeling invincible and possible and filled with longing. The Chelsea Whistle is about coming of age in a place without a lot of safety, both at home and in your hometown, and the repercussions of that through time. Rent Girl is about working as a prostitute.

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UFR: In your writing, you?re quite eloquent in speaking about both queer culture and sexuality. For you, why are such matters important to talk about?

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Tea: I think most writers speak in some way about their own life and times, and mine are queer. It?s not even that it is important to talk about so much as it is just what is there. If I didn?t talk about it in writing memoir then how could I tell the stories of my lives? It wouldn?t be possible. In writing fiction it is not as overtly important to me, though like any writer my concerns and obsessions and influences leak through.

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UFR: What?s so striking about Valencia for example, is that your emotions are on display. And I know it?s technically a work of fiction, but the sense of emotional investment you must have put into the book is definitely clear. It?s the same with all of your writing, I think?in a good way. How do you feel when you think about others reading your work? Do you have any expectations? How do you want readers to receive what you write?

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Tea: Oh I only feel psyched when I think of someone reading my work because it means my work is being read! Which is wonderful. Unless it is my boyfriend?s mother and then I am less psyched and more nervous! I have no expectations of anyone?s experience of my writing, I can only hope they?ll get something out of it. I think I only want readers to sit down with an openness I suppose.

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UFR: Who are some of your favorite authors? What is it about their work that keeps you going back to it?

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Tea: Eileen Myles is someone I read again and again and again. It?s like a magic spell on me as a writer, some deep inspiration is triggered by it and it?s like yes. My resistance to writing lessens because it reminds me that I can do it too, and that I enjoy it. Which is actually very hard for me to remember. I also really love Dorothy Allison and Lynda Barry and Jennifer Egan and Vendela Vida and Mary Gaitskill.

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UFR: What or who are some of your creative influences?

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Tea: My own queer and literary communities, especially where they overlap, are tremendous influences. The people I bring on Sister Spit influence me deeply, especially after a month in the van! Being close to great people and being really open to life. Reading a lot. Color and art and movements. Judy Blume and SE Hinton and Sylvia Plath and James Baldwin and Jean Genet and Violette Le Duc.

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UFR: You?re currently the Artistic Director of RADAR Productions, a non-profit that helps to facilitate events around San Francisco. Can you talk about RADAR a little more? As Artistic Director, what are your goals? Why is the organization necessary?

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Tea: I had been curating literary events such as Sister Spit and other year-round performances for about ten years when Jeff Jones, the Director of the Queer Cultural Center in San Francisco and also a real mentor and nurturer of queer artists sort of took me under his wing. He explained that I actually had a program calendar that was more ambitious and successful than a lot of fully funded arts organizations, and I wasn?t making a penny and neither were the artists I worked with. He helped me understand my work as that of a non-profit and then took me through the millions of steps to actually bring me there. It?s amazing, it has changed my life 100% in every aspect. We do a lot of incredible programming: a monthly reading series at the San Francisco Public Library, the Sister Spit tours, our annual writers? retreat in Mexico, an annual poetry chapbook contest and an imprint, Sister Spit Books, on City Lights. My goals are to keep growing and being able to get money to the predominantly queer, underground artists I work with; to bring provocative, truthful literature to San Francisco audiences, to expose audiences to new writers and to introduce writers and artists to each other, to help build the careers of the artists and writers we support by giving them resources at every level of their careers?a show, a tour, a retreat, a book. There is no other organization that has this sort of organized focus on queer writers, so I think we are crucial.

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UFR: The city of San Francisco in particular seems to have influenced your identity in a profound way. Is that true? Could you see yourself living or writing anywhere else?

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Tea: ?San Francisco has not just a huge queer population, they have a radical queer population that attracts a lot of artists and people that want to put wild theory into the practice of their lives. It has a huge literary community, and it is a community that is less competitive and career-obsessed, more supportive and community-oriented than other cities. I think the way these communities impact the city makes RADAR possible in San Francisco in a way it would not be elsewhere?though we do want to bring programming to Los Angeles and New York. I could see myself living and writing in Paris or Mexico.

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UFR: That being said, Valencia, your portrait of an aspect of San Francisco?s culture, was published in 2000, 12 years ago. Has anything about the place changed since then? If so, in what ways have these changes occurred? Have you changed since then?

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Tea: Of course. Like all our cities it has gotten insanely gentrified. Rents are prohibitively expensive and a lot of the sort of people who were able to move to town in the 90s, like I did, can?t swing it. And I hope I have changed since the 90s! I think I?m probably a totally different person. A 41-year-old as opposed to a 21-year-old.

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UFR: What are you currently reading? How is it?

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Tea: I am reading Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton. It?s wonderful! I am utterly charmed by her writing. There is a sweet innocence and natural optimism and a tropical magic going on. I want to live inside her stories, they are sexy and strange and sassy and real even as they are sort of fantastical.

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UFR: What are you currently working on? As a writer, where do you want to go? What?s next?

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Tea: I am working on edits to the first in a YA series that will be publshed next year by McSweeney?s. The first book is called A Mermaid in Chelsea Creek. I?m finishing another YA book titled Little Faggot, and I am re-working, for the hundredth time, a sprawling memoir that I fictionalized and tore the main relationship out of due to the protests of the person I?d written about. So it is becoming a weird meditation on memoir, love, addiction, being stuck, all set against the backdrop of the end times, Los Angeles, in the 90s. It is called Black Wave.

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UFR: As an artist, what?s been your biggest obstacle?

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Tea: Managing my time!

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UFR: If you were to give one piece of advice to an aspiring writer, what would you say?

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Tea: Just write! People think they need all sorts of shit to write but I assure you you only need a notebook and a pen, and the ability to prioritize it in your life. Everything else will fall into place.

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UFR: A question I love to ask: Does art have a place in you, or do you have a place in art?

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Tea: Yeah, I love looking at art, it?s one of my favorite things to do and I am very psychically influenced by the art I expose myself to.

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Carly Rae Jepsen Finds Concept Of Giving Guys Her Number 'Terrifying'

'I'm going to be honest, I've never actually given a guy my number,' 'Call Me Maybe' singer tells MTV News.
By Christina Garibaldi


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Judging from the lyrics of Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single "Call Me Maybe," one would think that this former "Canadian Idol" contestant has all the confidence in the world when it comes to approaching guys.

"Hey, I just met you/ And this is crazy/ But here's my number/ So call me maybe," the Justin Bieber protégé sings on the track, which just hit number one in the U.K. So has Jepsen ever been brazen enough to give a guy her number?

"I'm going to be honest, I've never actually given a guy my number before 'cause I find the concept terrifying," Jepsen revealed to MTV News. "Which is kind of where the song sparked from, the idea of why this is so scary. It should be O.K."

Well, she may not be ready to give a guy her number, but that didn't stop her from walking up to a potential love interest and giving him a big kiss ... and then running away.

"I once did a kiss-and-run. I don't know what came over me — sometimes I just do things to scare myself," Jepsen said. "But there was a guy and I just went up to him and said hello, and he said hello and I'm like, 'Alright, well, I'm leaving now and it was really nice to meet you,' and I kissed him and then I left."

That wasn't the most surprising part of the encounter. Turns out, he was just as interested in Jepsen.

"Actually, it was a little bit of a romantic story," Jepsen said. "I was playing at the bar down the street and I put posters up in my neighborhood and he saw and he came to the bar and we ended up dating for month."

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International Journal of Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing ...

ISSN : 0976 ? 1764 (Online); 0976 ? 2205 (Print)
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Scope & Topics

International Journal of Ad hoc, sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Ad Hoc & Ubiquitous computing. Current information age is witnessing a dramatic use of digital and electronic devices in the workplace and beyond. Ubiquitous Computing presents a rather arduous requirementof robustness, reliability and availability to the end user. Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous computing has received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life.

Topic of Interest

Authors are solicited to contribute to this journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

Ad Hoc Computing

* Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
* Addressing and location management
* Architectures, protocols, and algorithms
* Data management issues
* Distributed technology
* Mobile ad hoc learning
* Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks
* Mobile agents for ad hoc networking
* Network design and planning
* Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
* Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols
* Power-aware and energy-efficient designs
* Quality of service
* Resource allocation
* Security and privacy
* Self-configuring and self-healing schemes
* Services and applications
* Wireless & Mobile network Security
* Wireless sensor network

Sensor Networks

* Architectures, protocols and algorithms
* Data allocation and information
* Deployments and implementations
* Embedded, network-oriented operating systems
* Energy optimization
* Hardware aspects of sensor design
* Location management and placement
* MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
* Middleware and software tools
* Modeling and Performance evaluation
* Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems
* Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance
* Scalability of wireless sensor networks
* Security and dependability issues
* Sensor circuits and devices
* Software, applications and programming
* Under water sensors and systems
* Visualization of sensor data
* Work models

Ubiquitous Computing

* Architectural structure, design decisions and philosophies
* Autonomic management of ubiquitous systems
* Context and location awareness, context based and implicit computing
* Distributed Computing
* Ubicomp Human-computer Interaction for devices
* Intelligent devices and environments
* Internet Computing and Applications
* Interoperability and large scale deployment
* Middleware services and agent technologies
* Personalized & special field applications
* Security Issues and Applications
* Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
* Software infrastructures
* System support infrastructures and services
* Ubiquitous systems and trust
* User interfaces and interaction models
* Virtualization over networks of devices
* Wearable computers and technologies
* Wireless networking and mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
* Mobile Computing
* Network Protocols & Wireless Communication

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through E-mail : ijasucjournal@airccse.org or ijasucjournal@yahoo.com. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline : 25 April, 2012
Acceptance notification : 25 May, 2012
Final manuscript due : 28 May, 2012
Publication date : determined by the Editor-in-Chief

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You can often hook your computer to the television when staying at a hotel through the use of the cables. You can take advantage of various streaming movies rather than pay for expensive rentals directly from the hotel.

Trying getting in a big workout before you board the plane. Long airplane trips can be tiring to your body. You may find your back or legs cramping from sitting in the same position for too long. To eliminate back and leg pain, stretch and do a light workout to prepare for your flight.

If you?re planning on making hotel stays, travel candles are something you?ll want to bring with you. This will make both the room and your luggage smell better. Using the same scent you would use at home, may help you go to sleep more quickly in an unfamiliar place. Many companies make these candles in convenient small sizes and without any waxy drips.

Make sure that you have clothespins with you on your next vacation. They can be very useful.

If you are going on a road trip, bring your favorite music to listen to while you ride. Radio coverage is not the greatest in some locations. Bringing along your own music can be a fun experience.

Before packing, make a list. You should start this list at least one week in advance, preferably earlier than that. The list should include all of your necessities for the trip. This can especially help you if you are in a rush to pack, as it will prevent you forgetting things or including unnecessary items.

Anytime you are going to be driving to a different city before going on a cruise, check to see if there is a hotel that has fee parking, and get there the night before. You can check with staff at the hotel for unpublished parking deals.

Whenever you go camping, but most importantly when you go hiking, you must carry local maps along with you. A hand-held, portable GPS or a compass is a must to have on you when you are out and about as they are very useful if you get disorientated and lose your bearings.

Take some bottled water along on your journey if you are traveling abroad. Unfortunately drinking water in most countries will cause you to get sick because it is not purified. Do not forget to use bottled water for teeth brushing as well. Tap water can still make you sick this way.

Always request a room that is up at least two or three flights. It may sound deceptively simple, but if you are on the ground floor, potential thieves will have an easier time accessing your room. In addition, request a room without sliding doors. Rooms with sliding doors are easier to get into.

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Hopefully, you have found a good amount of help in this advice. Regardless, if you plan ahead, your trip is sure to be fulfilling, interesting and something that you will never forget.

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