![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been listening and I know exactly what women want. I may not know much about play strategy, but I’ve been the good guy my whole life. As glorious as these days may be for my all-star roommate, Laney is my end game. As a matter of fact, I’m not going down at all. That is, until Troy takes a good look at her. Theodore Houseman, former band geek, now marching band rock star has finally landed the girl of his dreams. There’s only one problem, my new roommate, Troy, is football royalty and looks like he stepped off the set of an Abercrombie shoot.ĭoesn’t matter, I cook a mean breakfast for his panty parade, and we get along well.Īnd anyway, this year I got the girl. ![]() The place where all bets are off, and I’ve managed to redeem myself. I‘ve spent most of my life answering to Teddy, because I couldn’t make Theo work.Įxcept for here. Strike One-My mother named me Theodore after her favorite chipmunk. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In his New York Times obituary, Joan Ganz Cooney describes Stone as "probably the most brilliant writer of children's television material in America. Jon Stone died of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease on March 30th, 1997. ![]() The special was created as a tribute to Joe Raposo, who passed away from lymphoma in February 1989. In April 1990, Stone hosted and directed a television special titled Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music. Stone contributed occasional announcer voices (such as the soap opera promo spoof "School in the Afternoon"), and served similar duty on two Muppet Meeting Films. He was also responsible for the show's format and setting. Working with Jim Henson, he helped to create many of the Muppet characters, including Big Bird and Cookie Monster. Stone was Sesame Street's principal director until 1996. ![]() He was married for 9 years to actress Beverly Owen. He also worked on several other Muppet projects before and during his time on Sesame Street, and was the author of several books including the popular "The Monster at the End of this Book". seriously I’ve mentioned several times (probably too many times) on this blog that the very first book I bought for my daughter was The Phantom Tollbooth. Share One of the most essential kids books of all time. ![]() Before helping to create Sesame Street, he worked on the popular children's television show Captain Kangaroo for CBS. The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone, illustrated by Mike Smollin by Tom B. He received a master's degree from the Yale University School of Drama in 1955, at which time he joined a CBS training program. Stone graduated from Williams College in 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, there isn’t a strong female presence – Hist-fic world building is rustic, has medieval flair, and the tone is vividly portrayed given it’s time mild “fade to black/off-screen” gore – Frenetically paced mystery with solvable puzzles providing an interactive reading experience (re: Goodreads The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands) Should this book be picked up? the tl dr review: ![]() With time running out, Christopher must use every skill he’s learned to discover the key to a terrible secret with the power to tear the world apart. ![]() Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthorn-with maybe an explosion or two along the way.īut when a mysterious cult begins to prey on London’s apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer and closer to Blackthorn’s shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nights of secret baking and eating form the backdrop of the story as Jingwen slowly adjusts to his new home and comes to terms with his grief. When he and Yanghao secretly make a cake one night while his mother works the late shift, he feels happier than he has in months, and decides he will make all the cakes his father dreamed of featuring in the bakery he wanted to open, Pie in the Sky. His younger brother Yanghao embraces the new language, while Jingwen resists learning it, weighted down by guilt over his perceived role in his father’s death. After his father’s death (yes, another 2019 middle grade novel about dealing with the loss of a family member), Jingwen’s mother decided to follow Dad’s dream to pursue a better life in Australia. ![]() Summary: Jingwen is struggling with his family’s move to Australia (a.k.a., Mars) from an unnamed Asian country where his parents both worked as bakers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The loopiest of her manic episodes make you smile even as you fear for her sanity her low periods, meanwhile, she treats succinctly, knowing that depression is wearying for the reader (one page contains six frames, each filled with the same image of Ellen covered by a blanket on a sofa). It's a difficult trick: to be both grave and funny at the same time, but somehow she has done it. Forney's account of her diagnosis and her subsequent decade-long struggle to stabilise her condition is an unexpectedly brilliant read. ![]() When Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me came out in the US last year, it was to a rapturous reception – and no wonder. Ellen, it seemed, was bipolar – or as she puts it in her new graphic memoir of this time: "I was officially a crazy artist." Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences? Double check. Inflated self-esteem and grandiosity during these moods? Check. ![]() Persistently and abnormally elevated mood? Check. Together, they went through Ellen's symptoms. Her psychiatrist, however, wasn't convinced, and during what was only Ellen's second appointment reached for the ominous blue telephone directory that is known as the DSM ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). ![]() ![]() ![]() This striking vignette in Hannah Barnes’s book encapsulates why GIDS was deemed unfit for purpose and finally closed last year. She drafted this, then emailed it to Carmichael for approval. Senior GIDS clinicians, including its director, Polly Carmichael, listened to Bellringer and afterwards one psychotherapist proposed writing a leaflet to forewarn parents of boys contemplating blockers. With insufficient skin for surgery, he was having to construct vaginas with stretches of bowel tissue, a more hazardous, expensive operation, prone to infection and an “unwanted smell”. A specialist in creating “neo-vaginas” in adult trans women, he had noted that natal boys were being given puberty-blocking drugs so young that their penises hadn’t yet fully developed. In 2016, James Bellringer, an eminent consultant urologist, visited the Tavistock child gender identity development service (GIDS) to issue a warning. ![]() This dogged, brave investigation shows what happens when self-righteous ideologues capture a field of medicine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Commentators in the 14th century, including Dante’s disciple Giovanni Boccaccio, began calling the Comedy “Divine” both because of its sacred subject matter and because of its literary significance. The other reason for the title has more to do with the poem’s narrative pattern: Since the poem begins in sorrow (the dark wood of sin) and ends in joy (the vision of God), one can easily argue that the poem’s movement parallels the plot of a comedy. ![]() The first, as explained by Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, one of the early Italian commentators on the poem, is that the Comedy (composed in Italian rather than Latin) is written in a vernacular language-an assertion that gains support from Dante’s own comments in Book 2 of De vulgari eloquentia, where he defines comedy in terms of style and diction. But there are two reasons Dante calls the poem a comedy. This seems an odd title for most modern readers, who see little humor in the poem. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Februĭante’s crowning achievement, one of the most important works in Western literature and undisputedly the most important poetic text of the European Middle Ages, is the great poem he calls his Comedy, or Commedia (ca. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() This comprehensively researched, well-written volume merits recognition from Civil War students and military historians.Ĭopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. His death from typhoid prevented the further successes that would almost certainly have been his as a cavalry commander. At Gettysburg, his eye for terrain determined the Union position, and his troopers held that position until the main army arrived. Buford applied that principle while commanding first a cavalry brigade, then a division, in the Army of the Potomac in 1862-1863. Serving on the Western frontier, he decided that whether cavalry fought mounted or on foot in a given instance mattered less than using its speed and mobility to be in the right place at the right time. John Buford graduated from West Point in 1848. This is one of Longacre's earliest books, but it still ranks as one of his best. Longacre adds to his status as a leading authority on Civil War cavalry (The Cavalry at Gettysburg Mounted Raids of the Civil War) with this definitive biography of one of its key leaders. Edward Longacre's The Cavalry at Gettysburg continues to deserve an honored place at the top of the Gettysburg canon, which is saying a lot considering how much has been published on America's most written-about battle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Former frontman of Chris Poland’s eclectic mid-nineties post-Megadeth outfit Mumbo’s Brain. Uber-editor of gobstoppingly comprehensive horror anthologies such as Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed and Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane. John Skipp is the paradigmatic Renaissance Man in the world of bizarro carnage, and those tempted to doubt it should first consider the laurels draped around his neck: Stalwart/progenitor of the gore-festooned splatterpunk literary revolution. ![]() If our hero isn’t actively channeling the book’s co-author in this passage, he might as well be. ![]() “We have to raise hell, man,” Jake Hamer chides his wavering rock n’ roll brethren early on in John Skipp and Craig Spector’s 1988 let’s-give-the-fucking-PRMC-something-to- really-fear barnburner The Scream. Welcome to Tales From the Metalnomicon, a new twice-monthly column delving into the surprisingly vast world of heavy metal-tinged/inspired literature and metalhead authors… ![]() |