"You've been the most uncomplaining, patient partner a man could wish for while we've been here. Thank you, darling."

best books of 2023

2023 isn't over yet but thought i'd make a post listing my most favorite books that i loved enough to get hard copies.

tom lake by ann patchett. my first ann patchett novel. love, love, love. almost persuaded me to settle down, marry a farmer and pop out babies, preferably 3 girls!

galileo's dream by kim stanley robinson. my first ksr novel. what if time travelers from the future traveled back to 16th century italy and exposed galileo to modern physics and math? this story is so bittersweet

strangers drowning. inspired me to go vegan and donate regularly to charities and animal sanctuaries. see https://niallharbison.substack.com/ for a beautiful example.

a swim in a pond in the rain. such goodness from george saunders. loved his discussion on tolstoy's master and man. look at this quote: “I feel about Olenka the way I think God might. I know so much about her. Nothing has been hidden from me. It’s rare, in the real world, that I get to know someone so completely. I’ve known her in so many modes: a happy young newlywed and a lonely old lady; a rosy, beloved darling and an overlooked, neglected piece of furniture, nearly a local joke; a nurturing wife and an overbearing false mother. And look at that: the more I know about her, the less inclined I feel to pass a too-harsh or premature judgment. Some essential mercy in me has been switched on. What God has going for Him that we don’t is infinite information. Maybe that’s why He’s able to, supposedly, love us so much.” gahhh

a life of one's own by joanna biggs. forever grateful to ms biggs for introducing me to zora neale hurston and elena ferrante. after i read this book, i started listening to lectures by prof. hungerford from https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291

super-infinite, the transformations of john donne by katherine rundell. after i read this, devoured all of donne's poetry. printed out a copy of "love's growth" to affix in my office cubicle

This day in history

Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."

#20yrsago Dell won’t help customers remove spyware https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/12/03/0257238/dell-to-techs-dont-help-customers-remove-spyware

#15yrsago Spider Robinson reads John Varley’s “The Persistence of Vision” https://web.archive.org/web/20111215214809/http://hw.libsyn.com/p/b/f/e/bfea9a6569a591aa/SOTW057.mp3?sid=669e18ee3a02e91b0ddc3bc71878673a&l_sid=21159&l_eid=&l_mid=1970776&expiration=1323992876&hwt=f3158434ea94dcfa536ce7d3b1a49107

#15yrsago Atheism Song — Adam Sandler’s Hannukah Song, but for nonbelievers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqSNpK9vm8

#15yrsago Interview with Harvard law prof who’s challenging the constitutionality of the RIAA suits https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2008/12/02/radio-berkman-the-pay-us-hotline-fines-and-the-riaa/

#10yrsago RIP, Roy Trumbull: happy mutant, TV/radio engineering legend, podcaster https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/02/rip-roy-trumbull-happy-mutant-tv-radio-engineering-legend-podcaster/

#10yrsago Leaked UN document: countries want to end War on Drugs and prohibition https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/30/un-drugs-policy-split-leaked-paper

#10yrsago How big corporations and government spy agencies surveil and sabotage activist groups https://web.archive.org/web/20131121063549/http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf

#10yrsago 84% of stocks owned by richest 10% of Americans https://money.com/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/

#1yrago How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/02/not-what-it-does/#who-it-does-it-to

It's EFF's Power Up Your Donation Week: this week, donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation are matched 1:1, meaning your money goes twice as far. I've worked with EFF for 22 years now and I have always been - and remain - a major donor, because I've seen firsthand how effective, responsible and brilliant this organization is. Please join me in helping EFF continue its work!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/01/bookmaker/#2023-in-review

Christmas all year

Word for Today written by Bob and Debby Gass

Tuesday 26th December 2023

'The shepherds returned, glorifying...God.' Luke 2:20 NIV

An early pioneer travelling across the USA discovered the Grand Canyon. Amazed at this vast chasm, he said, 'Something must have happened here!'

And as Prof. Haddon Robinson observed: 'At...Christmas...anyone who stops to look and listen must ask what the hustle and bustle is all about. A thoughtful man or woman seeing the lights...decorations...festivities, and religious services might also conclude, "Something must have happened here!" Of course, something did happen. We need to tell the world...God has visited our planet. his Son...came to reveal God and to die for our sins (see John 1:1-14). He lived among us that we might live forever with him. When the shepherds found the Messiah lying in a manger, they marvelled because it was "just as they had been told" (Luke 2:20 NIV). As a result, they 'returned, glorifying...God for all the things they had heard and seen' (Luke 2:20 NIV). They returned to their fields and flocks with fresh energy. But they still had to return.

Jon Walker writes: 'After we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we return to the office...to school...the things we normally do...God takes us to the mountaintops...shows us great miracles and wonders, but he doesn't leave us there. It's in the fields and among the flocks that our faith grows, nurtured in the soil of the mundane...The conflicts over...who cleans up the mess, who gets to go home early, or who gets the biggest piece of pie, test whether it's really Christ who lives in us.'

2023 In Memoriam Part 28

Renault Robinson, 80

Prof. Evelyn M. Witkin, 102

(Junior) Lee Hedges, 93

Hitoshi Wakabayashi, 80

Joe Campbell, 63

Col. Leroy W. Stutz, 83

Prof. Basil Balme, 100

Erich Bitter, 89

Randy Fullmer, 73

Sara Minco aka Marga Minco, 103

Bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke, 81

Bishop Jose Bernal Vargas, 94

Helen Nordquist, 91

C.R. Roberts, 87

Daniel Goldberg, 74

Ed Bressoud, 91

Josephine Chaplin Gardin, 74

Edward Hume, 87

Fr. Theodore Khoury, 93

Bishop John R. Manz, 77

Billy MacMillan, 80

Kazimierz Klimczak, 109

Hettie Love, 100

Bishop Peter Takaaki Hirayama, 99

Marie-Laure De Decker, 75

Darrel Aschbacher, 88

Julius Crosslin, 39

Dave Currey, 80

Yrjö Hakala, 91

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Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the Labour Party has released its Presidential Campaign Council list consisting of 1,234 members, including the CEO of Njeje Media Group, Maazi Tochukwu Ezeoke. Njenje Media News reports that the list was disclosed on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja, 14 days after the official commencement of campaigns for the forthcoming 2023 general election. Earlier, Dr Doyin Okupe who was announced as the Director General of the Campaign Council declared that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has the capacity the defeat other candidates in the coming election. Below is the comprehensive list of the Labour Party campaign council. LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION 2023 NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL S/NO NAMES PARTY STATUS 1 AIG. MOHAMMED ZAREWA CAMPAIGN COUNCIL CHAIRMAN 2 COMR JULIUS ABURE PARTY CHAIRMAN 3 HE. MR. PETER OBI PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 4 SEN. DR. YUSUF DATTI BABA-AHMED VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 5 COMR. CLEMENT OJUKWU COUNCIL SECRETARY 6 ALH. BASHIRU APAPA LAMIDI MEMBER 7 ALH. UMAR FAROUK IBRAHIM MEMBER 8 MRS. OLUCHI OPARA MEMBER 9 BARR. AKINGBIDE OYELEKAN MEMBER 10 MR. GBENGA DARAMOLA MEMBER 11 MRS. DUDU MANUGA MEMBER 12 COMR. ANSLEM ERAGBE MEMBER 13 PRINCE REUBEN FAVOUR MEMBER 14 COMR. ADI SHIRSHA ADI MEMBER 15 COMR. SUNDAY OKEKE MEMBER 16 MR. MOHAMMED A IBRAHIM MEMBER 17 PRINCE KENNEDY CHIGOZIE MEMBER 18 ALHAJI. SALEH LAWAL MEMBER 19 DR. KEN ROBINSON MEMBER 20 CHIEF. SOLA EBISIEME MEMBER 21 DR. BITRUS BOUTROU MEMBER 22 PROF. CHARLES NWEKEAKU MEMBER 23 COMR. ARUBA WABA MEMBER 24 COMR. FESTUS OSIFU MEMBER 25 LADI ILLIA MEMBER 26 DR. OLORUNFEMI AYO MEMBER 27 ALH. BASIDIA LAMIDI APAPA MEMBER 28 CHIEF. GODWIN AGBASINNELO MEMBER 29 MR. SIMA LUKA MEMBER 30 MR. JOSEPH GONDO MEMBER 31 MR. JOHN ENEMARI MEMBER 32 PROF. QRISTUERG AMUA MEMBER 33 HON. JOSEPH TARKAR MEMBER 34 MRS. ESTHER NEVKAA MEMBER 35 ENGR. S. SALIFU MEMBER 36 AMB. MOSES ORIRI MEMBER 37 MR. ABAH LEWIS ELAIGWU MEMBER 38 MR. DANLADI IBRAHIM MEMBER 39 COMR. JONATHAN ONOJA MEMBER 40 MR. KEN ORKUMA HEMBE MEMBER 41 PROF. OWOJECHO OMOHA MEMBER 42 ENGR. BEN AKAAKAR MEMBER 43 MR. GIDEO IYOM MEMBER 44 DR. MOSES O. PAUL Y MEMBER 45 COMRD. ABAH OWOICHO NY MEMBER 46 COMRD. SAM ODEH NY MEMBER 47 MR. EMMANUEL TYIOSHI MEMBER 48 MR.TARUKAA TYODZER MEMBER 49 GEN. HARRISON ADOGA (RTD) MEMBER 50 PROF. JAMES APAM MEMBER 51 DR. ISAAC EBOJA MEMBER 52 PRINCE JOSEPH GONDO MEMBER 53 MRS. MERCY M.ACHAGH MEMBER 54 MR. GIDEON INYOM MEMBER 55 HAJIA. IRETI KINGIBE MEMBER 56 MRS. JOY A. OHIOMERO MEMBER 57 HON. CHINEDU OBIKA MEMBER 58 MR. DANLAMI UMAR RUMU MEMBER 59 ENGR. ALFRED N.OZOEMENA MEMBER 60 MR. SHAIBU ADEJOB MEMBER 61 PHARM. SAM OGONNA MEMBER 62 SURYV. CALLISTUS CHIJIOKA MEMBER 63 MR. DANJUMA SAMSON MEMBER 64 DR. BENEDICT OCHEOHA MEMBER 65 HON. DR. BAKO NAZING MEMBER 66 RT. HON. EDWARD PWAJOK MEMBER 67 PROF. HARUNA DABIN MEMBER 68 MR. IDI WAZIRI MEMBER 69 PROF. JOSEPH GOLWA MEMBER 70 REV. ALEX ANOKWURU MEMBER 71 MR. FARUK ADJO-AUDU MEMBER 72 PASTOR CHUWANG PAM MEMBER 73 BARR. (MRS) N. AKUNWANNE MEMBER 74 ENGR. CHRIS KEDESH MEMBER 75 MRS. KANENG GYANG FULANI MEMBER 76 MR. MARK DAPE MEMBER 77 MR. SOLOMON EGETRE HUIZINGI MEMBER 78 ARC. YAKUBU BAWA MEMBER 79 DR. GENEBU AYEBE PWD MEMBER 80 COMRD. ALICE CHITTLE NY Member 81 MR. YOHANNA BADUNG MEMBER 82 MR. NDE SOLOMON GOTAU MEMBER 83 MR. BERNARD B.KYENGESON MEMBER 84 HON. BUTRUS KAZE MEMBER 85 MR. MAICHIBI UWARJI MEMBER 86 SEN. VICTOR LAR MEMBER 87 DR. B. B NABUSU MEMBER 88 MRS. LOIS GOTOM MEMBER 89 BARR. DEP DUNG MEMBER 90 MR. EMMANUEL GOLADI MEMBER 91 MR. MISKOOM THOMAS SHALSUK MEMBER 92 MR. JAMES MAHA MEMBER 93 ENGR. AHIABA ATTAH MEMBER 94 ALH. MOHAMMED SHUAIBU MEMBER 95 COL. BABANWA SULEIMAN MEMBER 96 HON. EKELE KING MEMBER 97 COM. JOEL OMOLAYE MEMBER 98 HON. EZEKIEL MOPA MEMBER 99 HON. SUNDAY ADEBAYO MEMBER 100 HON. ADAJI UGANE MEMBER 101 HON. IGNATIUS SIEDU MEMBER

102 COM. BEN EZEMBI MEMBER 103 MS. CAROLINA EJAH MEMBER 104 MR. VICTOR UMORU MEMBER 105 MR. LANRE OBAFEMI MEMBER 106 ENGR S. SALIFU MEMBER 107 BARR. KENNEDY AJAKA Y MEMBER 108 PROF. ABUBAKAR DOMINIC AKPA MEMBER 109 MR. YUNUSA SHAIBU MEMBER 110 DR. EMEKA K. ONYEJEBOSE MEMBER 111 MR. RAPH EKPAH ADEJOH MEMBER 112 MR. PAUL ENEJUKAN MEMBER 113 RABIAT USMAN MEMBER 114 MR. IKELEJA USMAN ABDULLAHI MEMBER 115 MR. OJOCHOGWU JUDE MEMBER 116 AGADA FRANCIS ENEJO MEMBER 117 AISHATU MOHAMMED HASSAN MEMBER 118 DR. JOSEPH N. MAMMAN MEMBER 119 MR. JAMES BAWA SALKA MEMBER 120 BARR. TONY NWORAH MEMBER 121 MOHAMMAD HADI PANDOGATI MEMBER 122 REV. MIKE AGBON MEMBER 123 HON CALIP YAHAYA SONG MEMBER 124 MR. JOHN K. MURA MEMBER 125 MR. JERRY NGYAKWAR MEMBER 126 MR. ADAMU B. WATU MEMBER 127 PROF. VALDYA TAME MEMBER 128 MRS. RHODA ELIASHA MEMBER 129 MR. SULEMAN YADIMA MEMBER 130 PST. VIDYAM CHARLES BUTE MEMBER 131 MR. BUBA S. JIKA MEMBER 132 COMR.TONY SUDAN GOMPWEL MEMBER 133 MR. NAFIU RABIU IBRAHIM MEMBER 134 MR. ISHAYA DOKWA MEMBER 135 MS. MUSA JUMMAI AISHATU MEMBER 136 COMRD. CHAMA MIJILI NY MEMBER 137 HON. YAKUBU ALIYU MEMBER 138 MR. BULUS YOHANA MEMBER 139 GEN. YAKUBU USMAN MEMBER 140 COMRD. ANAS HAMZA NY MEMBER 141 MR.GAMBO ABUBAKAR MEMBER 142 MR. ILIYA BAGU MEMBER 143 MALLAM KASIR DAHIR MEMBER 144 MRS. MARY AUGUSTINE MEMBER 145 MR. GARBA SULE MEMBER 146 MR. FAUWALU GARBA MEMBER 147 ALH. MUSA MATO MEMBER 148 DR. ABUBARKA ABDULRAHMAN MEMBER 149 MRS. MARIAN SAMBO ALI MEMBER 150 MR. EMMANUEL A. AGUNBIADE MEMBER 151 MR. YEKEEN AGUNDADE MEMBER 152 DR. D.K EHINDERO MEMBER 153 ALH. RASAK EBODA MEMBER 154 MR. ALOYSIUS NWORA MEMBER 155 HON. AJIBADE ADEKUNLE MEMBER 156 ALH.RASAK ONIYE MEMBER 157 MOHAMMED SHEHU ANUA MEMBER 158 PST.OWUNA JAMES MEMBER 159 PRINCEWILL ONWRIMBA MEMBER 160 PST.TOPE KELVIN O MEMBER 161 MRS. NNADIUKWU EUNICE MEMBER 162 MR. RAPHAEL MATTHEW MEMBER 163 BARR. HADIZA ISA KIRIPKO MEMBER 164 MR. JONES ILIYA SHAMAH MEMBER 165 MRS. FAVOUR THOMPSON MEMBER 166 MR. EMMANUEL DANLADI MEMBER 167 MR. ALI KPADUM MEMBER 168 AMB. JONATHAN M.TSAKU MEMBER 169 ISTIFANUS HARUNA MEMBER 170 BARR. ORTAN GABRIEL AKAAKA MEMBER 171 MRS. CECILIA JY ANGAKU MEMBER 172 MR. GABS KATIYA MEMBER 173 ENGR ISAAC BALAMI MEMBER 174 MR. AYUBA SAMAILA MEMBER 175 BARR. LEONARD ZADON MEMBER 176 APOST. AKINTEWE CHANKER MEMBER 177 MR.USMAN I. BURATAI MEMBER 178 MR. MAIRO UMAR MEMBER 179 MR. MUSTAPHA HAMZA MEMBER 180 SIR. SAMAILA MAIDOKI MEMBER 181 MR. YERIMA IJAI RUPALU MEMBER 182 USTAZ ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI MEMBER 183 MR. LIMAN BUKAR MEMBER 184 PROF. KALEP FILLI MEMBER 185 MRS. AIMINA TAGWAI MEMBER 186 MR. IBRAHIM ZARMA MEMBER 187 MR. AGUR ATARI MEMBER 188 MR. DANLADI BAKO MEMBER 189 MR. DANIEL SOLOMON MEMBER 190 MR. JERIMOND SHAKWALLO MEMBER 191 MR. JAMES ILU MEMBER 192 MRS. HANNATU AHMED MEMBER 193 MRS. NIAGA KANU MEMBER 194 AMD. OTHIEL FALIFA MEMBER 195 COMR. KENAN IBRAHIM ASFA Y MEMBER 196 JORAM S. MASSAM MEMBER 197 MR. BUBAKAR MOHAMMED TALASE MEMBER 198 MR. YAU FINDIGA MEMBER 199 CHIEF. DENNIS IKEH MEMBER 200 MR. AGURA ATAHIRU MEMBER 201 MR. MOHAMMED ABDUSALAM PANTAMI MEMBER 202 BARR.HEMAN JAMIYAL MEMBER 203 SEN. JOEL DANLADI MEMBER 204 BARR. VANIAH AGBON MEMBER 205 MR. DANJUMA PAPA KUNNI MEMBER 206 MR. HOSEA HASSAN KARMA RTD AIG MEMBER 207 NATHAN SANDRA JUNIOR MEMBER 208 HON. IDI HOGA MEMBER 209 ENGR. AUGUSTINE BAZING MEMBER 210 MICHEAL PIUS MEMBER 211 ISA HAMMAGADBO MEMBER 212 ABUBAKAR ABUBAKAR MEMBER 213 DR. ISHAKU HABILA JAURO MEMBER 214 MAL. MALO GARBA MEMBER 215 LAWAN M. IBRAHIM MEMBER 216 MR.I BRAHIM BAWA MEMBER 217 ALHAJI YUSUF JAJERE MEMBER 218 HANEEFA AHMAD MEMBER 219 MANNIR RABIU MEMBER 220 ALH. ABDULRAHMAN ALBARKA MEMBER 221 ALH. IRO BAWALE MEMBER 222 ALH. AHMED MUHAMMED YAR’DUA MEMBER 223 ALH. AMINU KAIKAI MEMBER 224 ALH. KABIR JIMI MEMBER 225 ALH. SADA BAKO MEMBER 226 SEN. NENADI USMAN MEMBER 227 MR. NASIRU JAGABA MEMBER 228 MRS. SARAH KELVIN MEMBER

229 MR. BULUS MASAMARI MEMBER 230 MRS. ZULAIHAT YUNUS MEMBER 231 MR. ABUBAKAR SADIQ BELLO MEMBER 232 MRS. PAULINA JEREMAIH MEMBER 233 MR. ISA ABUBAKAR MEMBER 234 MRS. ZULAIHAT YUNUS MEMBER 235 ALH. ISAH ABUBAKAR Y MEMBER 236 MRS. LYDIA BABA Y MEMBER 237 COMRD. VICTOR ODODO Y MEMBER 238 MR. GAJIR VALUMUU Y MEMBER 239 DR. DANJUMA SALE Y MEMBER 240 MALLA KAVIRU YUSUF Y MEMBER 241 MS LOIS ERLAND MAUDE NYMEMBER 242 MR.MOHAMMED AZARE MEMBER 243 MRS.MONICA MUSA MEMBER 244 MADAM PRICILLA MEKAM MEMBER 245 HAJIYA BILIKISU ADAMU MEMBER 246 AISHA ABDULLAH MEMBER 247 MRS.SAADATU SULAIMAN MEMBER 248 HON.ABDULRAMA MAGAJI MEMBER 249 ALHAJI.MANIR RABIU MEMBER 250 MOHAMMED HADI MEMBER 251 MALLAM IBRAHIM BAMALI SIDI MEMBER 252 PROF AKALI MPANTOR OJONI MEMBER 253 MR. UMAR ADAMU KAWO MEMBER 254 COMRD ZAAI T. BABA NY MEMBER 255 MR.NASIRU MUHAMMED MEMBER 256 MRS.AMINU TAFIDA MEMBER 257 MRS.HADIZA KISHIMI MEMBER 258 MR.ABDULLAHI A KABO MEMBER 259 SALISU IBRAHIM KOKO MEMBER 260 BARR. YAKUBU BAWA MEMBER 261 MR. ADAM ABUBAKAR PWD MEMBER 262 MR.UMAR SANI KANKA MEMBER 263 ABDULLAHI MUH’BALANGE MEMBER 264 AHMED IDRIS KAFAN-HAUSA MEMBER 265 MOHAMMED JIBRIN ABUBAKAR MEMBER 266 MALLAM KENAM MAMMAN KUMOH PWD 267 IHEKWOABA PAUL E.ESQ PWD 268 MR. AGBO CHRISTIAN PWD 269 MR. ONYEBUCHI STANLEY PWD 270 MR. LIMAN USMAN PWD 271 MRS. ZAINAB YUSUF PWD 272 MRS. TAIBAT JANET PWD 273 INAJAW MIRACLE PWD 274 EKWO COMFROT PWD 275 MR. GODIAN AMADI PWD 276 AMB. M. GAJAM MEMBER 277 MS. ELIZABETH A. JIBRIN MEMBER 278 MR. MUTARTI YALAI BUNGA MEMBER 279 MR.USAINI YAWURI MEMBER 280 MR.AUWAL UMAR IMAM MEMBER 281 MR.IFEANYI EZEAGU MEMBER 282 MR.MAMUDA MOHAMMAD MEMBER 283 AMINU UMAR AHMAD MEMBER 284 MR.SAIDU MUHAMMAD MEMBER 285 MUAZU LADAN KANWURI MEMBER 286 MOH’D MUKTAR MACCIDO MEMBER 287 COMR. ABDULLAHI UMAR MODOMAWA MEMBER 288 CHIEF OKEY UGOBEZE MEMBER 289 ENGR AMINU MUAZU MEMBER 290 COMR BARAKA BAWA MEMBER 291 COMR IBRAHIM KANOMA MEMBER 292 BASHIR M. MAFARA MEMBER 293 GARBA BALA GUSAU MEMBER 294 MALLAM MUHAMMAD NURUDEEN MEMBER 295 SA’IDU AHMED MEMBER 296 HABIBU SANI MEMBER 297 MR. ABDULLAHI MUHAMMED MEMBER 298 MR.HALIRU JIBRI MEMBER 299 MR. MUHAMMED ATTAHIRU MEMBER 300 DR. ALEX OTTI MEMBER 301 CHIEF EBOH D. IHEKWEREME MEMBER 302 MR. VICTOR IKEJI MEMBER 303 CHIEF WAKA INEM MEMBER 304 MR. JOE EZEARU MEMBER 305 DR. CONFIDENCE CHUKWUEMEZIE PWD MEMBER 306 CHIEF MRS CHIGAZU OKEKE MEMBER 307 DR.PRINCE NDUBUEZE MEMBER 308 CHIEF DAN CHINYERE IMO MEMBER 309 COMR. ABDULLAHI UMAR MODOMAWA MEMBER 310 MRS.COMFORT OKORONKWO MEMBER 311 DR.JAMES OKOROMA MEMBER 312 OKORONKWO OJI MEMBER 313 SEN VICTOR UMEH MEMBER 314 DR. TONY NWOYE MEMBER 315 DR. OBINNA UZOR MEMBER 316 LADY CHIDI ONYEMELUKWE MEMBER 317 PROF. OBY LILIAN OROGBU MEMBER 318 PROF. ZELINJO IGWEZE MEMBER 319 HON AFAM OGENE MEMBER 320 CHIEF CHUKA EZEWUNE MEMBER 321 CHIEF EURIEL CHUKWUDUM MEMBER 322 CHIEF OKEY EZEIBE MEMBER 323 CHIEF TONY OBIAGU MEMBER 324 PRINCE IKE ILOGHALU MEMBER 325 MR PETER AFUBA SAN MEMBER 326 CHIEF EDOZIE EZEUGWA MEMBER 327 BARR MIKE UGWA MEMBER 328 HE MR. VAL C. OZIGBO MEMBER 329 HE AZUKA ENEMO MEMBER 330 HON KINGSLEY IRUBA MEMBER 331 DR. CHIGBO OKOLI MEMBER 332 COMRD. KENNETH OKEKE NY MEMBER 333 COMRD. OBELE CHUKS OBELE NY MEMBER 334 MRS.DAMA CYNTHIA MEMBER 335 MR.SOMTO ONUMEGBU MEMBER 336 RT.HON CHUKWUDI ORIZU MEMBER 337 MR.UZOR OBI MEMBER 338 MR.CHUKA ORIZU MEMBER 339 MRS.ADA ORJI MEMBER 340 IFEANYI EZEAGU MEMBER 341 NONSO AMACHUKWU MEMBER 342 BARR.MRS UCHE EBO MEMBER 343 AMAKA ONUMAJULU MEMBER 344 EBELE OBI MEMBER 345 DR.PATRICK OBI MEMBER 346 DR.BEATRICE OKONKWO MEMBER 347 MR.ODERA OZOKA MEMBER 348 HON. CHIMAMKPAM ANYAMKPA MEMBER 349 MR.BEN ETIBA MEMBER 350 RT. HON. BEN CHUKS NWOSU MEMBER 351 AMAKA EWIM MEMBER 352 HON. KELECHI UZOKA MEMBER 353 HON FIDELIA NJEZE MEMBER 354 DR. DAVE NNAMANI MEMBER 355 MR. CHIJIOKE IDEOGA MEMBER 356 PROF CHARLES NWAKEAKU MEMBER 357 COMRD. IBUCHUKWU O. EZIKE MEMBER

358 PRINCE CHIGO IKPENNWA MEMBER 359 MS. NKEMDILIM UGWUAGBO MEMBER 360 MRS EBERE AGU MEMBER 361 DAE ELIZABETH O. AGU MEMBER 362 CHIEF CYRIL NNABUIKE ENE MEMBER 363 PROF AUGUSTINE AKUBUE UCHENNA MEMBER 364 BARR. FIDELIS ANI MEMBER 365 HON. OKEY NNADOZIE MEMBER 366 PASTOR DAMIAN C. AMOKE MEMBER 367 MR. JOHN EDESON MEMBER 368 BARR. MRS BENIGNA EJIMBA Y MEMBER 369 MR. IKECHUKWU CHUKWUMAH PWD MEMBER 370 CHIEF EMEKA MAMAH MEMBER 371 OBOIGEDE AGBO ANTHONY MEMBER 372 BARR AWFFORKANSI NNADIUME MEMBER 373 PROF BARTH NNAJI MEMBER 374 MRS FIDELIA NJEZE MEMBER 375 DR. MONANU MEMBER 376 CHIEF. OGUERINWA AMADI MEMBER 377 ENGR. CHUKWU SYLVESTER CHUKWU MEMBER 378 DR. VICTOR ODOEME (PhD) MEMBER 379 GOLD EZIOFOR MEMBER 380 CHIEF MARTIN AGBASO MEMBER 381 SEN. CHRIS ANYANWU MEMBER 382 SEN. EZENWA F. ONYEWUCHI MEMBER 383 CHIEF STAN UKAGA MEMBER 384 MR. ANDY EZEANI MEMBER 385 CHIEF JONJUDE OKERE MEMBER 386 SIR CAJETAN EBERENDU MEMBER 387 PROF FRANK EJIOGU MEMBER 388 PASTOR IYKE ONUOHA MEMBER 389 MR. RAYMOND NWACHUKWU MEMBER 390 DR. FRESH ONUOHA MEMBER 391 MR. EKENE NWAKUCHE MEMBER 392 GEN.OBI UMAHI Y MEMBER 393 BARR UCHE NANDI Y MEMBER 394 MR. CHARLES OKWUDIRICHUKWU Y MEMBER 395 COMRD. MINISTER UDOCHUKWU NY MEMBER 396 HON IKE IBEH MEMBER 397 MR.CHUKA SOLOMON OBAEGO MEMBER 398 MR. EXCEL OCHIAMA MEMBER 399 MR. CHIBUZO NDUBUAKU MEMBER 400 MR. HENRY CHIDI IBE MEMBER 401 MR. EKENE NWAKUCHE MEMBER 402 MRS. SHARON CHUKWUEMEKA MEMBER 403 CP. MIKE OKOLI MEMBER 404 PROF. NNAMDI OBIARERI MEMBER 405 DR. CHINERE OKPARA MEMBER 406 ARC. EDWARD NKWEGU MEMBER 407 HON NWABUEZE IGWE MEMBER 408 HE LAWRENCE NWURUKU MEMBER 409 HON. DR. EMMANUEL EZE MEMBER 410 SEN. EMMANUEL OMEZUE AGBOTI MEMBER 411 PASTOR INIOBONG UDO MEMBER 412 CAPT. AUGUSTINE OKON MEMBER 413 BARR. JAMES ESSIEN MEMBER 414 ENGR. EMMANUEL EDET MEMBER 415 ENGR. OTOABASI NTIAH MEMBER 416 PRINCE VICTOR ENYINIHI MEMBER 417 MR. MFON EFFIONG UDOM MEMBER 418 MR ERARD TITUS IKPAI MEMBER 419 SIR. SYLVESTER OKOKON JONAH MEMBER 420 EDET SOLOMON INUA MEMBER 421 PROF. EDET BASSEY AKPAKPAN MEMBER 422 DANIEL UMOBONG MEMBER 423 BARR. LILLIAN EVUGHIRE PWD MEMBER 424 MR. IPUE LEGBORSI BARILEDUM Y MEMBER 425 HON. INNOCENT KAKU MEMBER 426 EFIYE BRIBENA MEMBER 427 HELEN IZOFADE AJOKO MEMBER 428 ARC. FURUOBI AKENE MEMBER 429 PROF. ALOYSIUS LIGHA MEMBER 430 CHIEF RITCHIE OMO MEMBER 431 MR. ANTHONY MADAGUA MEMBER 432 DR. CHRIS M. NWAOKOBIA JR MEMBER 433 PROF FRANCA OVADJE MEMBER 434 MR.AJIRI ALUTA MEMBER 435 MR. JOSIAH OMENUWONA MEMBER 436 CHIEF KENNETH OLISA MEMBER 437 BARR. VICTOR ODJEMU MEMBER 438 PST. ALICE AWOGWONUWE MEMBER 439 CHIEF SOLOMON AKENI MEMBER 440 PRINCESS NANA MODUPE MEMBER 441 MR. DANIEL WILBERT MEMBER 442 PROF BENDICTA EGBO MEMBER 443 HON EASTMOND OJEN MEMBER 444 CHIEF UGBA MURPHY MEMBER 445 ADIE EMMANUEL UNGWUGIAN MEMBER 446 JAMES ITAM MEMBER 447 LUCKY JAMES AIGBOKHAN MEMBER 448 COMR.OMINI BASSEY ARIKPO MEMBER 449 MRS.ONYODUMA OGUDA ONYA MEMBER 450 JUDE IKHIDE MEMBER 451 CHIEF OMINI OKOI EDET MEMBER 452 CHIEF PATRICK OKOMISO MEMBER 453 BARR. UK IYIOKE MEMBER 454 ENGR. ESOSA IYAWE MEMBER 455 CHIEF EMMANUEL OMO MEMBER 456 MR. ISAAC OSAGIEDE EDEWELE MEMBER 457 MR. OSEGHALE ISIDAHOMEN MEMBER 458 MR. MONDAY EBOIGBE MEMBER 459 MR. ODIGIE UWADIAE MEMBER 460 PST. SAM OMEDE MEMBER 461 MRS. ADESUA OMORODION MEMBER 462 MR. TARELLA MUIZZA MOMOH MEMBER 463 MR. IDEMUDIA AGBONAYE MEMBER 464 KINGSLEY OKENWAN MEMBER 465 MATTHIAS OBAHIAGBON MEMBER 466 MRS JOYCE ROBERT-ORHUE MEMBER 467 CHIEF EKWUTOSI A. ONUMBA MEMBER 468 DR. AGWERU FRANKLIN-AJINWO MEMBER 469 SIR UGOCHUKWU OGU MEMBER 470 MR. TOKU OBIAIME MEMBER 471 DR. DAVID EDOKA MEMBER 472 MR. OKEY CHIKE MEMBER 473 MR. AMOEBI OKARA MEMBER 474 MR. HENRY BRIGGS Y MEMBER 475 COMRD. LEDOGO AMABU NY MEMBER 476 ENGR. DIMIEARI F. GREEN MEMBER 477 MR. EBENIZER FOBY MEMBER 478 CHIEF. OWO ETETE MEMBER 479 HON. ELEMECHUKWU OGBOWU MEMBER 480 MR AMAEBI OKARA MEMBER 481 PHILIP THOMAS MEMBER

482 NENE NGBAFOR MEMBER 483 MS. LYDIA AJAYI PWD MEMBER 484 MRS. WENDY OBI MEMBER 485 HON. IBRAHIM ONILE MEMBER 486 HIGH CHIEF SAMUEL FADARE MEMBER 487 REV. DAINI PETER MEMBER 488 CHIEF FEMI OGUNLEYE MEMBER 489 ALHAJI BASHIRU APAPA MEMBER 490 MR. GBADEBO RHODES-VIVOUR MEMBER 491 ALHAJI MOSHOOD SALVADOR MEMBER 492 HON BABAJIDE BALOGUN MEMBER 493 HON OLA OGULANA MEMBER 494 COMRD. OGBOLO MONDAY NY MEMBER 495 CHIEF. MRS ABIOLA OGEDENGEB MEMBER 496 HON. BOLORUNDURO E. BIODUN MEMBER 497 HON. ADEYERI STEPHEN KUNLE MEMBER 498 BARR. AKINBINU REMIGIUS MEMBER 499 BARR. ADEBAWO AJIBADE MEMBER 500 HON SULIAMON LASUN YUSUFF MEMBER 501 HE ADEKUNLE ADEOLA ATANDA MEMBER 502 RT. HON YUSSUF LASUN MEMBER 503 MR. ADEOLA ATANDA ADEKUNLE MEMBER 504 BARR. BABALOLA BADE MEMBER 505 MR. ABASS ADEYELOJA MEMBER 506 MS. OJO SUSAN MEMBER 507 MR. AKIN OLAOYE MEMBER 508 OTUNBA ENIOLA TOPE MEMBER 509 COMRD. AYODEJI BABALOLA NY MEMBER 510 MR. EMMANUEL BABATUNDE OYEDEJI MEMBER 511 MR.AYODEJ MAFIKUYOMI MEMBER 512 MR. FESTUS OLAYINKA ADEBISI MEMBER 513 MR. JOY ONAOPEMIPO MEMBER 514 DR. AKINPELU SOGUNLE MEMBER 515 MR. AJIBADE BOLANLE AKADE MEMBER 516 CHIEF OLASODE ROTIMI MEMBER 517 CHIEF BAJELA YOMI MEMBER 518 CHIEF BOLAJI SUNMOLA MEMBER 519 CHIEF SURAJ OLADELE AKINSANYA MEMBER 520 CHIEF EURIEL CHUKWUDUM MEMBER 521 MR. REAGAN JOHN UFONBE MEMBER 522 CHIEF CHRIS UCHE MEMBER 523 PRINCE HENERY ELOGAN MEMBER 524 MR. JEFF KELECHI MEMBER 525 DR MRS COLLEEN NNENA MEMBER 526 MRS. NGOZI EGBUCHULALIC MEMBER 527 COMR. EMMA ONYEMURA MEMBER 528 DR. MRS NMA OLEBARA MEMBER 529 BARR. OBINNA OBIEGUE MEMBER 530 MR. EMMANUEL NWEKE MEMBER 531 MR. CHARLES IIOEGBUNAM MEMBER 532 MR. BERE ODIO MEMBER 533 HON. LAWRENCE NWACHUKWU MEMBER 534 CHIEF MRS CD DURUOHA MEMBER 535 MRS ORIOLA MEMBER 536 MR. SEGUN OKUPE MEMBER 537 GEN. OYE OJO MEMBER 538 MR. OTUNBA FAMUYIBO MEMBER 539 MR. UCHE PRINCEWILL MEMBER 540 MR. EMEKA EDEH MEMBER 541 MR. ALEX EJESIENCE MEMBER 542 MR. ALULI JEMIDE MEMBER 543 MR. FAFA PRINCEWILL MEMBER 544 MR. OLIVER EBERENDUN MEMBER 545 MR. ADAM YAHAYA MEMBER 546 COMR. NAFIU YUSUF MEMBER 547 MR.TABITI MOSES MEMBER 548 MR. TOMMYWA KUKU MEMBER 549 PROF. CHINDU NNAEMEKA OGBUJ MEMBER 550 MRS. EGWUAGU CHIDIMMA ONYINYA MEMBER 551 MR. ABUBAKAR BALA MEMBER 552 MRS. ZAINAB MUHAMMAD MEMBER 553 MRS. ONUOHA SOREAL IJEOMA MEMBER 554 ENGR. CHRISTOPHER J UMAR MEMBER 555 MR. USMAN JAMES BUHARI MEMBER 556 MR. TUNJI ADENIRAN MEMBER 557 MR. TEMITOPE OLAGBAYE MEMBER 558 MR.FOLUSO LEIGH MEMBER 559 MRS.LAURA OGUNSOLA MEMBER 560 MR. KENNETH EGBOH MEMBER 561 MR. JUDITH AKATUGBA MEMBER 562 MRS. NKIRUKA JOY BANJOKO MEMBER 563 MR. DOTUN SODUNKE MEMBER 564 MR. SEGUN ADEBANJO MEMBER 565 MR. EMMANUEL SANNI MEMBER 566 OTUNBA OLATUNDE ONAKOYA MEMBER 567 MRS. NIKE OLUJEMBOLA MEMBER 568 MR. LANRE ANJOLAIYA MEMBER 569 MR. FUNSHO KUFEJI MEMBER 570 DR. BAYO ADEDOKUN MEMBER 571 MR. LEKAN ADEBIYI MEMBER 572 MR. POPOOLA OLAYIWOLA MEMBER 573 ALHAJI WAKILU APETE MEMBER 574 MRS. YINKA NOLA MEMBER 575 SENATOR FEMI OKUROUNM MEMBER 576 OTUNBA OPEYEMI AGBAJE MEMBER 577 DR. EBUN SONAIYA MEMBER 578 ENGR. THANKGOD ILUOS MEMBER 579 MR. SYLVANUS AFEBU OSHIOKPEKHAI MEMBER 580 ENGR. BAYO ADENEKAN MEMBER 581 OYUNBA TAYO ONAYEMI MEMBER 582 MR. LEKE MABINUORI MEMBER 583 OLOROGUN POP ADEBANJO MEMBER 584 PRINCE SHINA BASHORUN MEMBER 585 PRINCE WAHEED ADEDOKUN MEMBER 586 MRS. DEBORAH FOLARIN TAIWO MEMBER 587 CHIEF AHEM PETER OJONUGWA MEMBER 588 MR. ABDUL AHMED MEMBER 589 COMR. BABAJIDE OSORI MEMBER 590 CHIEF FEMI ENEMUO MEMBER 591 CHIEF FEMI AJISAFE, PH.D MEMBER 592 REV. ZACCHACUS JONATHAN MEMBER 593 MRS. BLESSING MARTINS MEMBER 594 MR.ABDUL YAHAYA MEMBER 595 MRS.JOY ACHOR MEMBER 596 PST.GBENGA H BABAGBEMI MEMBER 597 MR.DELE FAROTIMI MEMBER 598 MR.OLASOJI DAVID MEMBER 599 MR.ADEYINKA AKALA MEMBER 600 HON.CHIEF KEMADE ELUGBAJU MEMBER 601 HON.CHIDI AKINADE MEMBER 602 COMR.SEGUN FAMOGBIYELE JP MEMBER 603 HON.SOGO FAGBAMIGBE MEMBER

604 HON. LUCIA ALAKE (MRS) MEMBER 605 AYONOLA AYANSOJI (ODO OTIN) MEMBER 606 BOLU OJO MEMBER 607 MR.REUBEN FAMUYIBO MEMBER 608 MR.SINA FAGBENRO MEMBER 609 MR.GANI JIMOH MEMBER 610 MR.ROTIMI OGUNDANA MEMBER 611 MRS.SUCCESS FAITH OYEEZE MEMBER 612 MRS.ADENIYI ADEKOLA MEMBER 613 MR.OLADOKUN BABAFEMI MEMBER 614 MR.AYO OLAJUYINU MEMBER 615 MR.AFOLABI AKAANI MEMBER 616 ENGR.OLUGBENGA AJETUNMOBI MEMBER 617 MR.TOYIN FALADE MEMBER 618 DR.MRS ESTHER SANYA MEMBER 619 OTUNBA FEMI AROWOSOLA MEMBER 620 ALHAJI ABIMBOLA SANUSI MEMBER 621 HON.YAHYA ADETUNJI MEMBER 622 MR.WAHEED OLOYED MEMBER 623 BASORUN SEGUN SANNI MEMBER 624 MOGAJI GBOYEGA ADEJUMO MEMBER 625 HAJIYA HAUWA BUKAR MEMBER 626 MRS CECELIA ANZAKU MEMBER 627 HAJI.ZALIYA ALIYU MEMBER 628 MR.JAMILU SUFI MEMBER 629 BARR.VICTOR OPURUM MEMBER 630 MR.UMA GODWIN MEMBER 631 DR.PAT OBUEFULE MEMBER 632 MR.ADESEGUN BAMODU MEMBER 633 MR.ADEKUNLE SHITTU MEMBER 634 MR.OLALEYE ABEL MEMBER 635 ADENIYI BUKKY MEMBER 636 DR. ADEREMI BELLO MEMBER 637 PRINCE ELIAS MATIMINU MEMBER 638 BARR.OMOLEGBON OLAWALE ODUSOLA MEMBER 639 BARR.DAYO AKINNANU MEMBER 640 ADEGOKE KAYODE ADEWUSI ESQ MEMBER 641 PRINCE ADEBANJO EDEMA MEMBER 642 ELDER ISAAC FANOKUN MEMBER 643 PRINCE ADEREMI OLADIRAN MEMBER 644 BARR REMIGUS AKINBINU MEMBER 645 MR. ROTIMI HENRY FADENIPO MEMBER 646 MRS.HELEN AKINWANDE MEMBER 647 MR.JAMILU ABUBAKAR ALIYU MEMBER 648 HAJIYA MARYAM ISMAIL MEMBER 649 MR.IBRAHIM UMAR MEMBER 650 MR.NNAMDI CHUDE MEMBER 651 MR.MORRIS MONYE MEMBER 652 MRS.EZE OKOLI BLESSING MEMBER 653 MR.F.S YUSUF MEMBER 654 WEYIMI LUBE MEMBER 655 MR.CHARLES NOVIA MEMBER 656 MR.EMMANUEL A. OFFODILIE MEMBER 657 MR.CHARLES OGBU MEMBER 658 PROGRESS OKUK MEMBER 659 ABDULLAHI UMAR ZARMA MEMBER 660 AISHA SALISU MUSA MEMBER 661 SARAH MUSA JANDI MEMBER 662 JAMILA A. KATALA AISHA GEIDAM MEMBER 663 AISHA MOHAMMED ABDULLAHI MEMBER 664 MRS.ROSE MODIBBO MEMBER 665 MR.MOHAMMED ALIYU MEMBER 666 ALICE DAVID NANUSHI MEMBER 667 MRS.ZAINAB JOHNSON MEMBER 668 MRS ODDET MBUMOH NWANKWO MEMBER 669 MRS.FATIMA NASIRU MEMBER 670 MRS.SADIYA USMAN MUHAMMAD MEMBER 671 MS.AISHA MOHAMMAD MEMBER 672 BARA’ATU YAHAYA MEMBER 673 SHAFA’ATU UMAR SANI MEMBER 674 MRS PEACEFUL OWOGHIRI MEMBER 675 MRS ROSEMARY OJIMADU MEMBER 676 MRS.DEBORAH EFFIONG MEMBER 677 MRS.ESTHER KPALUWU MEMBER 678 ARURU EJU-ILE JOY MEMBER 679 MRS.RUKAYAT SIRAKAT MEMBER 680 MR.ABIODUN OLAYINKA SMITH MEMBER 681 ALAJA DOYIN RAJI MEMBER 682 MRS.ANTONIA TOYIN OLANIYAN MEMBER 683 MRS.ADEWALE AINA ESTHER MEMBER 684 MRS.ELESAODO OLAYEMI MEMBER 685 CHIEF MRS ADEKUNLE ADERONKE MEMBER 686 MRS AGUNBIADE ADEBANKE MEMBER 687 MRS OYEBANJO OLYWAYEMISI MEMBER 688 MRS OLAOSEBIKAN OLUWABUSAY MEMBER 689 MR.GANIYU BOSEDE MEMBER 690 MRS.JOSEPH FUNMILAYO MEMBER 691 MR.SAKA EFUNYEMI MEMBER 692 MR.LAWAL BOLAJI IDOWU MEMBER 693 MRS.VICTORIA PAUL LAMI MAMU MEMBER 694 MRS.RAMATU AHMAD LARABA MEMBER 695 AKAWU MURJANATU BUSA MEMBER 696 MRS ANTHONIA MEMBER 697 MRS. ANTHONIA OYENEYE MEMBER 698 MRS.FOLASHADE KASSIM MEMBER 699 LOLA MAJEKODUNMI MEMBER 700 MR.BOLA AYENI MEMBER 701 MRS.AGATHA UDOIRE MEMBER 702 MRS.ANGELA SANI MEMBER 703 DR MRS JOY ACHOR RODA MEMBER 704 MRS.RHODA ZAKARI MEMBER 705 SHAIBU UMMIE MEMBER 706 CHENCEMI YAKUBU MEMBER 707 MRS.ESTHER HINDI MALIK MEMBER 708 MRS.MARY DUNIYA MEMBER 709 JAMILA RIBA MEMBER 710 NADIYA KAMAL USMAN MEMBER 711 ZAINAB UMARU MEMBER 712 HAJIYA MURJA LAWAL MASANAWA MEMBER 713 HAJIYA RABI UMAR DARMA MEMBER 714 HAJIYA AISHA MOHAMMED MEMBER 715 HAJIYA HAUWA LAWAL JIBIYA MEMBER 716 HAJIA RASHIDA SANI BARDE MEMBER 717 HAJ HADIZA KISHIMI MEMBER 718 PRINCESS RAKIYA ABDULLAHI MEMBER 719 AISHA Y. MUHAMMAD MEMBER 720 MRS.MARYAM KHALID MEMBER 721 HAJ. HALIMA AHMED GWALE MEMBER 722 HANNATU YARO MEMBER 723 NYIAGA KANU MEMBER 724 MRS.AISHATU UMARU MEMBER 725 MRS LOIS THOMPSON DANIEL MEMBER 726 MRS.RAMUNA YUSUF ISMAILA MEMBER 727 MRS.ADA ORJI NWANYANWU MEMBER 728 MRS.CHISARA NNADOZIE MEMBER

729 LADY MARIA IKEBUNNA MEMBER 730 HON JOSEPHINE UDORJI MEMBER 731 DR. QUEEN IFEOMA OSUALA MEMBER 732 BARR. NGOZI NJOKU MEMBER 733 LADY GRACE OGBONNA MEMBER 734 MRS NELLY NDUKWO MEMBER 735 LADY CHINYERE ANYA MEMBER 736 MRS SARAY OCHEZE ULUELU – MRS MEMBER 737 NKECHI NNENNA NWULU MEMBER 738 MRS.LINDA T THOKOLOS MEMBER 739 MRS.CAROLINE MAGDEL MEMBER 740 ZATI PHAROS GEORGE MEMBER 741 MRS.RAHILA BITRUS MEMBER 742 MR.AKENI SABI MEMBER 743 MR.IMAOBONG CHRIS MEMBER 744 MR.ENEM NTIENSE MEMBER 745 GLORY INIOBONG NYONG MEMBER 746 PATIENCE MAXWELL MEMBER 747 MRS.EWIM AMAKA MEMBER 748 UJU OKOYE MEMBER 749 BARR UCHE EBOH MEMBER 750 IYOM PRINCESS AMAKA OBI MEMBER 751 MRS.PRINCESS CHIKA EBEOGU MEMBER 752 HAUWA UMAR ZULL MEMBER 753 MRS.LARAI SHAIBU MEMBER 754 MRS.MARY AUSTIN MEMBER 755 ASMAU ALIYU MEMBER 756 SADIYA SALIHU MEMBER 757 PROF. JOY TELU EKEKE MEMBER 758 DR. JOSEPHINE O. MATTHEW MEMBER 759 DR. LEKE ZALAKURU MEMBER 760 MRS PREYE OKPARA MEMBER 761 DR. MACDONALD CHRISTIANAH MEMBER 762 MRS.MARGARET AYUNGUL MEMBER 763 MRS.BLESSING ERBIA MEMBER 764 MR.JONAH BONNET MEMBER 765 MR.MARTHA ADEBU OCHEKE MEMBER 766 HON NGOHEMBA AGAIGBE MEMBER 767 MRS.FATIMA ABBA AJI MEMBER 768 MRS.SA’ADATU AFUNO MEMBER 769 MRS.AISHA YUSUF MEMBER 770 PARUM HENA MEMBER 771 HAJ.HAUWA BUKAR MEMBER 772 APOSTLE MRS MARIA GEORGE MEMBER 773 DR. MRS HANNAH EDIM ETTA MEMBER 774 BLESSING EKPIDEMI AKAK MEMBER 775 MR.OBONGAWAN BARBARA ETIM JAMES MEMBER 776 ADIM EFFANGA HENSHAW MEMBER 777 MRS.BENEDICTA AKAMSUBE MEMBER 778 EVANGELIST MRS AGNES OVWIGHOSE MEMBER 779 DR. OMAWUNMI EVELYN URHOBO MEMBER 780 MRS OMOWUNMI JEMIDE LAWAL MEMBER 781 ANTHONIA OKUALISE MEMBER 782 MRS ATEVURE IRENE MEMBER 783 CHIEF MRS D. OBOH MEMBER 784 MRS GRACE U. AKHAIME MEMBER 785 MRS.ISOKEN TONGO MEMBER 786 PROF. EGOMWAN MEMBER 787 MRS KATHIE USIOMON MEMBER 788 MRS. MARGARTE ONOVO MEMBER 789 LOVE ANEKE MEMBER 790 MRS.ONYEJIUWA PHILOMINA MEMBER 791 NDUAGUBA AMAKA MEMBER 792 MRS.OGBODO IFEOMA MEMBER 793 TABITHA YUSUF MEMBER 794 RAMATU USMAN MEMBER 795 SALAMATU MEMBER 796 PRINCESS MILLE UZOKWE AGORUA MEMBER 797 LADY UJU CHIME MEMBER 798 LADY CECILIA AJA-BISONG MEMBER 799 DR. MARIA ADANA NWOKIKE MEMBER 800 EVANGELIST NONYE OBI MEMBER 801 EMEKA EDMUND ONWUOCHA MEMBER 802 MR.DIRAN ONIFADE MEMBER 803 DR TANKO YUNUSA MEMBER 804 MR.KENNETH OKONKWO MEMBER 805 MODELE SARAFA YUSUF MEMBER 806 IME UFOT MEMBER 807 KEN ASOGWA MEMBER 808 NANA KAZAURE MEMBER 809 MR.NDI KATO MEMBER 810 MR.KENNY ADEWOLE MEMBER 811 MR.MADU ONUORAH MEMBER 812 MR.IBRAHIM ISMAILA UMAR MEMBER 813 MR.FEMI SALAKO MEMBER 814 NNAMDI OKOSIEME MEMBER 815 DR. BRIGHT ONOCHIE MEMBER 816 MR. MALACHY UZENDU MEMBER 817 MR.CHUKS OHUEGBE MEMBER 818 MR.OKEY MUOGBO MEMBER 819 MR.PAUL MUMEH MEMBER 820 DIKE CHUKWUMERIJE MEMBER 821 DELE FAROTIMI MEMBER 822 DR. FABIAN IHEKWEME MEMBER 823 AMB. LILLIAN-SLEEK UKOHA MEMBER 824 BARR. KINGSLEY ONONUJU MEMBER 825 CHIEF HENRY CHIDI IBE MEMBER 826 MR. GBOYEGA ADELAJA MEMBER 827 OTUNBA DEJI OSIBOGUN MEMBER 828 TONY ADEBANJO MEMBER 829 MR. MAICHIBI VWARJI MEMBER 830 HON. BUTRUS KAZE MEMBER 831 MR. TIMOTHY PARLONG MEMBER 832 NURA TANKO WAZIRI MEMBER 833 REV. BERNARD KYENGSON MEMBER 834 MR. POLYCARP GUMWOS MEMBER 835 MR. DELLY AJUFO MEMBER 836 MRS.MILDRED BAKO MEMBER 837 MR.EMMANUEL AMEH MEMBER 838 MR.STANLEY OKOCHA MEMBER 839 EYITEMI TARE MEMBER 840 MRS.JUMOKE ALAWODE MEMBER 841 PRINCE SHERIFF ADEGBITE MEMBER 842 MR.SHINA FAGBENRO MEMBER 843 LAURA TOLULOPE OGUNSOLA MEMBER 844 MORRIS MONYE MEMBER 845 ARC. STELLA OZEMOYA MEMBER 846 MRS.HELEN DIM MEMBER 847 OSAGIE EHIKS MEMBER 848 MR.ABIODUN ADEGUN MEMBER 849 MS EMELE GODSPOWER MEMBER 850 OGUNLOLA OLUWAFEMI TONY MEMBER 851 MR.AKINYELE OKE MEMBER 852 MR.OGUNYEMI SUNDAY MEMBER 853 MR.OLAWUYI DOMINIC O. MEMBER 854 PRINCE ADEOYE TOLULOPE A. MEMBER 855 BABATUNDE ISHAOLA DESMOND MEMBER 856 MRS ADELUGBA TOLANI OLUFUNKE MEMBER 857 MRS OYEDIJI MEMBER 858 MRS OLANIYI MEMBER

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Guy Williams "Prof. John Robinson" Spacesuit and Helmet from Pilot Episode of Lost in Space (CBS-TV, 1965-1968)

X-Men: The Hidden Years #21, page 4 by John Byrne & Tom Palmer & VLM. 2001.

Remembering Guy Willliams, Lost in Space dad and Zorro, who was born on this day in 1924 (died 30 April 1989).

The top 10 classic fears in literature

By Prof. Marianna Torgovnik on TedBlog

Fear #1:  Death, death, death—did I mention death?

An almost universal fear, death recurs in literature more than any other fear, all the way from canonical works through fantasies like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I list the fear of death three times since it occurs in many forms: fear of our own deaths, fear of family members or close friends dying, fear of children preceding parents, the death of an entire culture.

Some examples: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”; Hamlet  (“To be or not to be”); John Keats (“When I have fears”); Virginia Woolf, The Waves; Pat Barker, The Ghost Road. This list could go on and on, because the fear does.

Fear #2:  Avoiding death for the wrong reasons.

Literature loves paradox and so, paradoxically, the second greatest fear is avoiding death for the wrong reasons: when death will inevitably follow a noble or moral act or out of cowardice, especially in war. For understandable reasons, this fear is less common than more general fear of death, but it is out there and memorable nonetheless.

Some examples: Sophocles, Antigone (to bury her dead brother, Antigone famously courts death); Shakespeare several times — Hamlet again (“There is a providence in the fall of a sparrow”) and Antony and Cleopatra (to avoid capture by Octavius); Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (“It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done”); Harry Potter in his pursuit of Voldemort.

Fear #3:  Hunger or other severe physical deprivation.

Survival tends to trump the finer emotions when it comes to fear. Sometimes time specific, the fear of hunger nonetheless reminds us of basic things. In romantic novels or poems, it can be and often is a symbol for more abstract needs, like love. In Holocaust literature, it portrays humanity strained to the core.

Some examples: Dante, The Divine Comedy (Count Ugolino and his children); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (“Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink”); Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre; Elie Wiesel, Night; Susanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.

Fear #4:  Killing or causing the death of someone you love.

Whether by murder, negligence or a set of circumstances beyond our control, the fear of causing the death of someone we love is a big one. It’s a stock feature of numerous spy and crime dramas, where we tend to brush it off since the hero (think James Bond) or (more rarely) heroine’s beloved is almost always a goner. Numerous operas by Verdi, including Rigoletto and Un Ballo in Maschera use this theme, sometimes more than once; in fact, opera thrives on this fear, as in Bizet’s Carmen. It usually takes serious and even majestic forms in literature.

Some examples:  Patroclus dying for Achilles in Homer’s The Iliad; Othello killing Desdemona in Shakespeare’s Othello; Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (“Done because we are too menny”); D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love (Gerald choosing to die rather than kill Gudrun); Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.

Fear #5: Being rejected and/or being loved by the wrong person.

At last we come to a fear that can have a lighter side and, sometimes — though not always — a happy ending. In literature, characters fear being rejected, being loved, and being loved by the wrong person in almost equal proportions. Once again, the examples span the ancient classics all the way up to the present.

Some examples:  Woman loves step-son madly in three versions of the same story, none with a happy ending (Euripides, Hippolytus; Racine, Phaedra; Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea); mixed up couples set right in Shakespeare’s As You Like It; love triumphs by the end in Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; two different kinds of love lead to tragedy in Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles; mixed results in Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot.

Fear #6:  Illness, disease and aging.

Closely allied to the fear of death — but not identical to it — the fear of illness is another constant though, as we’d expect, the disease most feared changes over time. The bubonic plague used to be the leading contender; TB enjoyed a long dominance until cures were found. Nowadays, cancer and, more often, dementia are far greater fears. There is at least one stunning example in this category of embracing the fear being absolutely the right thing to do: Flaubert’s St Julien, L’Hospitalier, in which the saint embraces a leper and achieves transcendence.

Some examples:  Giovanni Boccacio’s Decameron; Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year; Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Albert Camus, La Peste (The Plague); Ian McEwan, Atonement; Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections.

Fear #7:  Lost reputation, divorce or scandal.

People used to fear this one more than they do today, when our motto seems to be that no publicity is really bad publicity and unseemly revelations are the order of the day. Still, this is a significant fear, and one that even recent books revisit in original ways.

Some examples: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex; Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Thomas Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities; Phillip Roth, The Human Stain.

Fear #8:  War, shipwrecks and other disasters.

The fear of shipwrecks can seem archaic — but they were the airplane crashes of yesteryear. Shipwrecks can be mere episodes or the core of the plot; in early literature, they are closely allied with war, a more global disaster. While other disasters arouse fear — earthquakes, volcanos — war and shipwrecks lead the field. Both change characters’ lives, with variable results.

Some examples:  Homer, The Odyssey; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Tolstoy, War and Peace; Yann Martel, Life of Pi.

Fear #9:  The law and, more specifically, lawyers.

Fear of the law is a surprisingly classic fear, weighing in at number nine. But what’s meant by the law changes over time. While fear of God’s judgment remains plausible in literature, it is far less common today than fear of society’s laws — and specifically the rapacity of lawyers and the law’s ability, in Dickens’ words, “to make business for itself.” In some modern books, the law becomes a metaphor for the meaning of life.

Some examples:  The Bible; Aeschylus, The Oresteia; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Dickens, Bleak House; Franz Kafka, The Trial; Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Fear #10:  That real life won’t resemble literature.

While this might seem the most trivial of fears, in fact it drives a lot of great literature. Some characters want life to be elevated, inflated, like epic or romantic literature. Deprived of that illusion, they die or take their own lives—looping us back to fear #1. Other characters favor codes of renunciation that have been called by literary critics “the Great Tradition,” fearing that they will gain something by immoral or amoral actions; a variation on this fear is the fear, as George Eliot’s Dorothea puts it, “I try not to have desires merely for myself.” Not at all light for avid readers, this fear usefully reminds us that life is not really like a Henry James novel.

Some examples:  Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote; Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; George Eliot, Middlemarch; Henry James, The Ambassadors; Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending.

2 lasers, no waiting.

The City, the County and the State each add a tax to the sale of most items. The City will retain its portion of those revenues as usual. New in FY20 will be a 3% tax on the sales of recreational marijuana, and revenues from that tax only will go into the Reparations Fund.  

Projected revenues for 2020 from the tax on sales of recreational marijuana are $250,000. All such tax revenues will go to the Reparations Fund until the City has contributed $10 million to the fund.

Reparations 2019

Several speakers during public comment voiced support for the measure.

Evanston resident and local historian Morris “Dino” Robinson recounted the history of discrimination in Illinois and Evanston, where, he said, “residents had to abide by ‘Black Codes.’” He added that Edwin Jourdain [Evanston’s first black alderman] ran for office for the sole purpose of defeating the Jim Crow laws and attitudes here.

Doug Sharp of Reclaim Evanston said, “We are pleased with and support the City’s intention to begin to address the longstanding theft of wealth and opportunity that has been committed against the African American residents of Evanston.

“We feel that the use of the cannabis tax as a funding source for reparations is a proper and fitting first step in righting the wrongs of past decades, especially when we consider how the arrests for possession of marijuana have been disproportionately used to incarcerate young African Americans.

Fifth Ward Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, along with Eighth Ward Alderman Ann Rainey have been the drivers of this move.

Ald. Simmons reported at the Nov. 25 City Council meeting that she had attended the National League of Cities convention earlier this month and found that many representatives of other municipalities were “in awe” of Evanston’s move toward reparations.

She also said there would be a community town hall meeting – the date as yet unscheduled – co-hosted by the National African American Reparations Commission, at which the “extensive feedback” from reparations meetings held over the summer would be incorporated.

Alderman Peter Braithwaite, 2nd Ward, recalled that his predecessor, Lionel Jean-Baptiste “had wanted to get this thing going. This is a good thing. I want to acknowledge Judge Jean-Baptiste and many other people who attempted to do this. Judge Jean-Baptiste said he’d like to support it now.”

Ald. Braithwaite added, “I think it’s going to be very special for Evanston, and I think it’s going to have one of those ripple effects that create a change in our nation. This is a special moment in the City of Evanston and in the country.”

Ald. Rainey said, “Judge Jean-Baptiste began this in 2002.” She added, “We’ve had offers of counsel as late as Saturday [Nov. 23] from national leaders of the ACLU.”

Ald. Rue Simmons read a statement about the damage done to the black community by institutional racism. “We acknowledge history wrongs in our City are directly responsible for our segregation, wealth divide and overall lesser quality of life. On June 10, we passed a resolution to end structural racism and achieve racial equality.”

She said racist practices have excluded black residents from housing, employment and education, and she noted that the black population of Evanston has “declined to a historical low of 16%.”

Comparing one of the wealthiest census tracts in the City with one of the poorest, she said there is a disparity of about $46,000 in median income and a lowered life expectancy of 13 years between the two.

“It is important that the income from marijuana sales be used toward repairing the community it unfairly policed and damaged,” she said.

Sixth Ward Alderman Thomas Suffredin was the sole “No” vote on creating the Reparations Fund. Although he did not explain his vote at the meeting, he did so in a newsletter to his constituents the next day: “Any revenue that the City of Evanston realizes from recreational cannabis sales will go to the City of Evanston Reparations Fund until funding from that source has reached $10 million. The Reparations Subcommittee is currently working to determine how the Reparations Fund dollars will be utilized in the future.

“I voted no on this, because in a town full of financial needs and obligations, I believe it is bad policy to dedicate tax revenue from a particular source, in unknown annual amounts, to a purpose that has yet to be determined.  

“Individuals and institutions who wish to make contributions to the City of Evanston Reparations Fund may do so. I voted no to funding reparations with recreational cannabis revenue not because I don’t support the City taking responsibility for the role it played in disadvantaging our African American residents, but because it is bad policy.”

Larry Gavin’s article “Developing a Segregated Town, 1900-1960,” which was published in the RoundTable’s November magazine, will soon be posted on this website.

Reparations 2002

The idea of reparations is not a new one to the City Council. The minutes of the May 20, 2002, City Council meeting reflect that during the Call of the Wards, “Alderman Jean-Baptiste reported that on June 3 and June 10, he intended to put before Council a resolution on reparations. He would first go through the Human Services Committee and then come before the Council. He hoped to get information to them in the short term, did not want them to be surprised and that they would approach it with an open mind. He referred to the UN Conference Against Racism, which he had attended in South Africa, where the slave trade and colonialism were declared as crimes against humanity. He noted that the declaration stated as well that it should always have been so. He reported that the declaration further stated that former slave-owning states ought to take up reparations and that it would be on the agenda.”

Ald. Jean-Baptiste brought a resolution, 43-R-02, to the June 10, 2002, City Council meeting, supporting U.S. House of Representatives 40, proposed by Representative John Conyers of Michigan. That resolution called for the establishment of a federal commission to study slavery and its consequences and make recommendations for compensation to black people.

Rep. Conyers first introduced that resolution in the House of Representatives in 1989. On June 19 of this year – Juneteenth – Congress held hearings on reparations for the first time in a decade.

The Evanston City Council unanimously approved Ald. Jean-Baptiste’s resolution, 7-0; the two aldermen who were absent from the meeting had indicated their support for the measure.

RoundTable reporter Mark Berry wrote in the June 19, 2002, edition that Northwestern University Professor Martha Biondi spoke at the Council meeting. She said the failure of civil rights remedies has resulted in greater socio-economic disparities between African Americans and the majority of the population. She said, Mr. Berry wrote, “Eighty percent of African American males will be arrested in their lifetimes, and 13% of African American men have lost the right to vote.

Prof. Biondi attributed the increased push for reconciliation and compensation to the treatment of other groups that sought reparations. “In 1988, Congress apologized and paid $1.2 billion to the relatives of Japanese Americans detained in camps in World War II. The German government and private corporations have paid $65.2 billion to Israel in reparations. In September, 2001, the United Nations World Conference declared slavery a crime against humanity and that reparations be made,” Mr. Berry quoted Prof. Biondi as saying.

Mr. Berry also reported comments from three of the aldermen. He wrote, “Alderman Stephen Engelman, 7th Ward, stated his support of the resolution but hoped that it was not ‘solely about money.’ … I do not believe a social compact can be founded on collective guilt or collective entitlement.’

Alderman Edmund Moran, 6th Ward, reportedly said the “aim of the resolution is to achieve reconciliation and that to some extent it can be accomplished through the means of government, but ultimately it will rest with each of us – individually and collectively – to answer the question, ‘Will we be friends?’”

Fifth Ward Alderman Joseph Kent said, according to Mr. Berry’s article, “The best thing that can happen out of this is education, so we can change some of the old curriculum. Children can’t really achieve if they don’t know who they are.”

During public comment at that June 10, 2002, meeting, several speakers said they supported then- Alderman Jean-Baptiste’s resolution on reparations, which Council approved on the consent agenda that evening.

Below are excerpts of some of the comments from the public, as reflected in the minutes of that meeting.

“Rev. Mark Adams, Hillside Free Methodist Church pastor, spoke on behalf of the Evanston Ecumenical Action Council in support of Resolution 43-R-02; said that support of House Resolution 40 allows the nation to ask questions about reparations. The recommendation is that the U.S. government begin to investigate the issue of reparations by asking the question nationally and getting the facts. He did not know what reparations would look like. ... He suggested they would never know or do the right thing until the nation no longer prohibits them from asking the question. He said if reparations were ever adopted, all would pay. Reparations are not an individual concept, rather national restitution and would be dealt with nationally. He could imagine a nation where brotherhood is a reality. He said it was time to ask the question and engage in the debate that can bring about the American dream for everyone. He hoped Evanston could help encourage the nation to ask questions to start healing.

“Neta Jackson and her husband are authors and recently wrote ‘No Random Act: Behind the Murder of Ricky Byrdsong.’ She stated it was important to stand up and be counted on the issue of reparations. In trying to understand racism, one stumbling block stands out. As a white person she does not have to face the consequences of racism daily, but black people do. She is not always aware of lingering racism because it does not directly affect her choices, but African Americans who are descendants of slaves don’t have that choice. She said the racism that lingers, affects attitudes and practices and, in spite of strides of civil rights laws, is the legacy that affects their lives. She noted that some will say their ancestors were not slave owners so why should they make reparations for something they had nothing to do with. She said the opposite is true and that all living in this country reap the benefit of living in the greatest democracy in the world with benefits provided by people who lived, worked, died and fought for freedom built on the backs of people enslaved for over 246 years.

“Ra Joy, suburban director for U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky and lifelong resident, read a letter from Congresswoman Schakowsky on Resolution 43-R-02 to Alderman Jean-Baptiste: ‘I was pleased to learn about the resolution you introduced at the City of Evanston Human Services Committee on Monday June 3. The proposed City Council resolution would call attention to the injustice of slavery and urge our federal government to investigate its negative effects. It has always been difficult for our country to come to grips with the unspeakable cruelty and massive human suffering resulting from slavery. It is estimated that more than four million Africans and their descendants were enslaved in the United States and its colonies from 1619 to 1865. I believe we must acknowledge this terrible chapter in American history and, where possible, make amends. I am proud to co-sponsor H.R. 40, a bill introduced by Representative John Conyers of Michigan. This bill would establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery and subsequent discrimination against African-Americans, study the impact of these forces on living African-Americans and make recommendations on appropriate remedies to Congress. I believe this study will help stimulate public dialogue of significant importance and assist our nation in coming to terms with this unprecedented tragedy. … I wish you much success in moving this resolution forward.”  

“Ayinde Jean-Baptiste, stated that Resolution 43-R-02 represents all movements for social justice in world history. Universally, it will send a message to state and federal governments and communities throughout the nation, including Evanston. Evanston is an inclusive, diverse and welcoming community committed to equity in America and the world. He said in communities such as Evanston, that real people are concerned about justice in America and making amends for the pitfalls of the past.

“Mary Goering said that while reparations may deal with monetary reparations, she thought equally important was the development of a good understanding of the effects of slavery on American society. … Her ancestors are the people who shaped the nation and that means ancestors who were slave traders and slave owners. She suggested that whole history needs to be dealt with. … She suggested this resolution calls national attention to focus on that to come to a fuller understanding.

“Bennett Johnson, president, Evanston branch NAACP, stated national NAACP has a policy supporting reparations. … He stated that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harold Washington, Elijah Mohammed and Mohammed Ali among others supported reparations in principle. He did not think it was a matter of guilt. He stated there is a social dysfunction in this nation – a cancer on the body politic. Reparations will help heal that wound, help everybody because this is one people and one country. If there is a problem in one section it needs to be taken care of. “

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what i read in march

several antigones & some other stuff

call me zebra, azareen van der vliet oloomi

oh boy. i really wanted to like this one, but uh. nah. so this book is about zebra, a young iranian-american from a lineage of ‘autodidacts, anarchists and atheists’, still traumatised by her childhood experience as a refugee (incl. her mother’s death on route). when her father dies years later, zebra decides to retrace the route of her exile thru barcelona, turkey, and back to iran. this sounds great! the beginning is good! but zebra is a quixotic figure (don quixote is unsubtly flagged as THE intertext several times), delusional about her own importance, obsessed with some kind of great literary mission and obnoxious & condescending & egotistic as all fuck (she looks down on students but treats her realisation that like, intertextuality is a thing, as this grand revelation when like..... we been knew since Lit. Theory 101) - and this is intentional & part of the quixotic thing & in general i approve of abrasive & bristly & difficult female characters BUT i expected there to be a gradual process of realisation where she sees that a) maybe her entirely male lineage of geniuses ain’t all that, c) her mission is uh.... incomprehensible. instead, once she reaches spain, she gets bogged down in endless pretentious bullshit and a #toxic relationship that takes up way too much space. knowing that all of that is likely intentional doesn’t.... make it good. also the writing is pretty overwrought for the most part & not even your narrator’s voice being Like That excuses plain bad writing, like the  absurd overuse of ‘intone’ and ‘pose’ as dialogue tags. i see the potential and i see the point & i liked some of it but uh. not good. 2/5, regretfully, generously

in the distance, hernan diaz

i don’t really go for westerns or man vs wilderness stories but damn i’m impressed. despite the violence & deprivation and sheer amount of gross shit, this story of a swedish immigrant getting lost in the american west for decades remains at its core so human, so tender, so sad (honestly this book is SO SAD, yet sometimes oddly hopeful), so evocative of isolation, loneliness, and the desire for human connection. 4/5

notes on a thesis, tiphaine rivière (tr. from french)

god, if i ever considered doing a phd i sure don’t anymore. this is a short graphic novel about a young woman’s descent into academic hell while writing her dissertation about labyrinths in kafka. it’s funny, the art is expressive and fanciful, and it is incredibly relateable if you’ve ever tried to actually write your brilliant, glorious, intricately constructed argument down, battled uni administration or had a panic attack over how to phrase a harmless email to a prof. Academia: Not Even Once. 3.5/5

red mars, kim stanley robinson

this is a very long hard sci-fi novel about mars colonisation & terraforming, discussing the ethics of terraforming, the potentials of a truly ‘martian’ culture, and how capitalism will inevitably fuck everything up, including outer space. all of this is up my alley and i did really like the first half (early colonisation efforts), but the 2nd half (beginning of terraforming, lots of politicking) was a slog - i liked reading about how terraforming was going, but the rest was just bloated, scattered and confusing. also there’s a tedious love triangle the whole time. 2/5

dragon keeper (rain wild chronicles #1), robin hobb

i love robin hobb she really can write a whole 500+ page book of set-up, characterisation and politicking and make it WORK. anyway, this has disabled dragons, a quest for mystical city, lots of rain wilds weirdness, a dragon scholar in an unhappy marriage, liveships, a sweet dummy romance, and uh... a lil penpalship between two messenger bird keepers? not much happens but it’s so NICE & so much is going to happen. also althea & brashen & malta turned up & i screamed. 3.5/5

season of migration to the north, tayeb salih (tr. from arabic)

this is a seminal work of post-colonial arabic literature, a haunting tale of the impact of colonialisation, especially of cultural hegemony in the education system, the disturbing dynamics of orientalism and sex, and village life in a modernising post-colonial sudan. it’s important, it’s well-written, it’ll make you think, but fair warning, there is a lot of violence against women - it has a point but still uh... wow. 3.5/5

dune, frank herbert

SOMETIMES.... BOOKS THAT ARE CONSIDERED MASTERWORKS OF THEIR GENRE.... ARE WORSE. so much worse. the writing in this is atrocious (”his voice was charged with unspeakable adjectives”), herbert somehow manages to make court intrigue and plotting UNBELIEVABLY DULL and sure, it was the 60s, but i’m p sure people knew imperialism was bad in the 60s! the main character, the eugenically-engineered chosen one or whatever, literally spends years among the oppressed & resisting natives of a planet ruled by a space!empire and at the end he’s like ‘i own this planet bc imperialism is Good Actually’. emotionally neglecting/abusing your wife, who you (!!!) decided (!!!) to marry for political reasons bc you’d rather marry your gf is also Good Actually (cosigned by the protag’s mother....) the worldbuilding is influential for the genre, sure w/e, but mainly notable for there just.... being a lot of it, the whole mythology-science makes No Goddamn Sense, all around this is just Bad. Bad. 0.5/5 i hope the Really Big Worms eat everyone 

dragon haven (rain wild chronicles #2), robin hobb

this healed my soul after toxic exposure to dune. anyway w/o spoilers: everyone is very much In Their Feelings (including me) and there’s a lot of Romance and Internal Conflict and Feelings Drama and Complicated Relationships and Group Dynamics and also dragons, which are really like very big, very haughty cats who can speak, and a flood and a living river barge with a mind of his own (love u tarman!). it’s still slow and languid but so so good. also: several people in this have to be told that People Are Gay, Steven, including Sedric, who is himself Gay People. 4/5

an unkindness of ghosts, solomon rivers

super interesting scifi story set on a generation ship with a radically stratified society in which the predominantly black lowerdeckers are oppressed and exploited by the predominantly white upperdeckers, mixed in with a lot of Gender Stuff (the lowerdeckers seem to have a much less stable and binary gender system than the upperdeckers) and neuroatypicality. it’s conceptually rich and full of potential, but just doesn’t quite stick the landing when it comes to the plot. 3/5

sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass, bruno schulz (tr. from polish)

more dreamy surreal short stories (ish?). i didn’t like this collection quite as much as the amazing street of crocodiles, but they are still really good, even tho you never quite know what is going on. featuring flights of birds, people turning into insects, thoughts about seasons and time, fireman pupae stuck in the chimney, and the continuing weird fixation on adela the maid. 3.5/5

angela merkel ist hitlers tocher, christian alt & christian schiffer

a fun & accessible guide to conspiracy theories, focusing on the current situation in germany and the current boom in conspiracy theories, but also including some historical notes. i wish it had been a bit less fun & flippant and more in-depth and detailed bc it really is quite shallow at points, but oh well. also yes the title does indeed translate to ‘angela merkel is hitler’s daughter’ so. yes. 2.5/5

the midwich cuckoos, john wyndham

fun lil scifi story in which almost all women in sleepy village midwich are suddenly pregnant, all at the same time. the resulting children, predictably, are strange, creepy, and possibly a threat to humanity. i get that it was written in the 50s but it is strange to read a book where almost all women, and only women, are affected by A Thing, but all the main characters are men & no one tells the women ‘hey we think it’s xenogenesis’ -  like realistically 80% of women affected went to the Neighbourhood Lady Who Takes Care of These Things like ‘hello, one (1) abortion please’ and the plot just ended there. i still liked it tho! 3/5

antigone project

antigone, the original bitch, by sophocles (tr. by fagles)

god antigone really is That Bitch. that’s all i have to say. 4.5/5

antigone, That Bitch but in french, jean anouilh

the Nazi-occupied france antigone. loved the meta commentary on what tragedy is and how antigone has to step into the Role of Antigone, which will kill her “but there’s nothing she can do. her name is antigone and she will have to play her part through to the end”. i didn’t really like (esp. given the ~historical context) the choice to make creon much more sympathetic, trying to save antigone’s life from the beginning. hmm. 3.5/5

antigonick, anne carson

look, antigone really is That Bitch and you know what? so is anne carson. best thing i’ve read so far this year, don’t ask me about it or i’ll yell the task of the translator of antigone at you. 5/5

home fire, kamila shamsie

honestly i really wanted to like this bc politically it’s on point and an anti-islamophobia antigone sounds amazing, but it just doesn’t succeed as a book/adaption. it spends way too much time in build-up/backstory (the play’s plot only starts in the second half of the book!), waaayyy to much time on the weirdly fetishistic antigone/haimon romance, and even the most interesting characters (ismene & creon) don’t fully work out. sad. 2/5

currently reading: the magic mountain by thomas mann, but i should be done in a week or so! also: the paper menagerie by ken liu, a collection of sff short stories

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Tommy Chong (Canadian-American comedian & actor), 85

Bob Dylan (American singer & guitarist), 82

Gary Burghoff (American actor), 80

Patti Holte aka Patti LaBelle (American singer & actress)(pictured), 79

Priscilla Presley (American actress & businesswoman)(pictured), 78

Albert Bouchard (American drummer & singer), 76

Mike Reid (American singer & football player), 76

Waddy Wachtel (American guitarist & record producer), 76

Jim Broadbent (British actor), 74

Sir Roger Deakins (British cinematographer), 74

Alfred Molina (British actor), 70

Rosanne Cash Leventhal (American singer & guitarist), 68

Prof. Richard B. Bernstein (American historian & lecturer), 67

Guy Fletcher (British keyboardist & guitarist), 63

Kristin Scott-Thomas (British-French actress), 63

Alain Lemieux (Canadian hockey player & executive), 62

Rich Rodriguez (American football coach), 60

Pat Verbeek (Canadian hockey player & executive), 59

John C. Reilly (American actor & singer), 58

Carlos Hernández (Venezuelan-American baseball player & analyst), 56

Rich Robinson (American guitarist & singer), 54

Kris Draper (Canadian hockey player & executive), 52

Bartolo Colón (Dominican-American baseball player), 50

Kobayashi Masahide (Japanese baseball player & coach), 49

Dr. Heinrich Manske (German biochemist & software developer), 49

Will Sasso (Canadian actor), 48

Alessandro Cortini (Italian keyboardist & singer), 47

Brad Penny (American baseball player), 45

Johan Holmqvist (Swedish hockey player), 45

Kareem McKenzie (American football player), 44

Jason Babin (American football player), 43

Rian Wallace (American football player), 41

Guillaume Latendresse (Canadian hockey player & coach), 36

Sgt. Monica Brown (American soldier), 35

Artem Anisimov (Russian hockey player), 35

G-Eazy (American rapper), 34

Kalin Lucas (American basketball player), 34

Mattias Ekholm (Swedish hockey player), 33

Cody Eakin (Canadian hockey player), 32

Jarell Martin (American basketball player), 29