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Tove Jansson with Moomintroll dolls made by Atelier Fauni (1956). My restoration and colorization of an image in the Wikimedia Commons archive.
"Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was held during 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.
Jansson wrote the Moomin novel series for children, beginning publication in 1945 with the release of The Moomins and the Great Flood. The following two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, were highly successful, and sales of the first book increased correspondingly. For her work as a children's author she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966, and in 2016 Jansson was included in The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Starting with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter (Sculptor's Daughter) in 1968, Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired Sommarboken (The Summer Book), and five short story collections for adults."
(Wikipedia)
Two important members of the Senate Budget Committee, Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) (pictured center) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) (pictured right), discussed their efforts to implement reforms to streamline the annual budget process. Can an improved budget process lead to less gridlock, more fiscal policy certainty, and, ultimately, economic growth and stability? How can budget process reforms set the stage for Congress to lead the country to a more secure fiscal and economic future? Moderated by John Harwood (pictured left), chief Washington correspondent, CNBC, and political writer for The New York Times.
Watch the video: youtu.be/TWXRHKf7NUY
so a few months ago, a writer for the chinese magazine "homeland" finds me on flickr, and asks me if they could put my photo on their cover. um, why not?
so there it is, including a full two pages on me, including a small interview (i think, it's chinese anyway :)
they originally wanted to go for my icon picture, but well, i can make my peace with this one.
in all it looks like a nicely designed magazine.
On Explore #155, August 13, 2009
Some of you will remember Willy (Paul Williamson), columnist writer for the Winnipeg Free Press, that I featured last week here.
Well this is what Willy drives, a 1949 Pontiac 2 door with one of the finest torpedo back designs to ever come out of Detroit. There is something about the rusted surface blending with the little paint remaining that is so appealing to me and of course Willy.
Willy, why not buff this surface and put on a couple clear coats of sealer and let her age......:-)))
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
I officially became a college student this month, after taking a break for several years. This time, the goal is to enrich my writing skills and confidence as a writer and earn my English degree with a concentration in Creative Writing.
I have been scared to take the first step in becoming who I always dreamed I could be, a writer. For the past few years, it is as though I have been sitting in an abyss of darkness, terrified that the sunlight will burn my skin and leach me of my dreams, robbing my soul along with it. Sitting in the depths of the shadow lands, my soul cries out, bleeding tears of sorrow for the many wrong paths I have taken that have left me lost and confused. My eyes search for those I have sacrificed my dreams for, wondering why I would have ever paid such a price to just remain with broken dreams.
I am now listening to God's voice, reassuring and guiding me to venture out of the cave of darkness and dance in the light of His promises. He has shown me I am far more than I can fathom because I have been deluded, seeing myself using eyes that have been shielded by standing in my own shadow. Although it is easier to blame our troubles on the hardships that the world throws in our path, it is often our own selves that stand in the way of our dreams and Promised Land, and until we take responsibility for our own actions or inaction, our world will remain unchanged.
As I stand at the opening of the cave, some days my eyes still ache from the intense rays of the sunlight and I ache for the security of my hiding place, but I realize how much I need to keep moving forward towards God's voice... towards the person He intended me to become.
One step. One class. One dream.
The journey is long and mostly uphill from where I stand, but I know that unless I fight for who I should be, I will remain only a silhouette of a dream.
Genre: Pop
Store: BOOM
Store Owner: Aranel Ah
For those who have been following plurk would have seen these posters that I was working on; they are music posters created as teasers leading up to Rhapsody, inspired by the genres that will be at the event. Thank you to all who bought posters to support Rhapsody :>
These posters were wonderfully shot by Strawberry Singh & RubyStarlight Writer for Rhapsody which is now open! Do take a look at the AMAZING venue built by Annette Voight <3
If you’re interested in getting these Posters in world in a framed or unframed version, visit the venue and they’re available for freebie grabs behind the stage of the landing point.
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Rhapsody Links:
LM; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TaleAsOldAsTime/127/129/39
Info; hottiecooterati.com/events/rhapsody/
HottieCooterati Plurk; www.plurk.com/hottiecooterati
Genre: Pop
Store: Plethora
Store Owner: LiquidH3ll Carter
For those who have been following plurk would have seen these posters that I was working on; they are music posters created as teasers leading up to Rhapsody, inspired by the genres that will be at the event. Thank you to all who bought posters to support Rhapsody :>
These posters were wonderfully shot by Strawberry Singh & RubyStarlight Writer for Rhapsody which is now open! Do take a look at the AMAZING venue built by Annette Voight <3
If you’re interested in getting these Posters in world in a framed or unframed version, visit the venue and they’re available for freebie grabs behind the stage of the landing point.
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Rhapsody Links:
LM; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TaleAsOldAsTime/127/129/39
Info; hottiecooterati.com/events/rhapsody/
HottieCooterati Plurk; www.plurk.com/hottiecooterati
Balloon 717 working a heritage tour service from North pier to the Pleasure Beach Blackpool.The Blackpool Tower Company was founded by London-based Standard Contract & Debenture Corporation in 1890, when it bought an Aquarium on Central Promenade with the intention of building a replica Eiffel Tower on the site. John Bickerstaffe, a former Mayor of Blackpool, was asked to become Chairman of the new company and its shares went on sale in July 1891. The Standard Corporation kept 30,000 £1 shares for itself and offered £150,000 worth of shares to the public, although initially only two-thirds of these shares were taken up. This lack of interest forced the Tower Company to ask for further cash contributions from its existing shareholders, but the poor financial situation of the Standard Corporation, worsened by the falling share price, rendered it unable to pay. Bickerstaffe’s remedy for the potential collapse of the venture was to buy any shares available, until his original holding of £500 amounted to £20,000. He also released the Standard Corporation from their share commitments. When the Tower opened in 1894 its success justified the overall investment of nearly £300,000, and the Company made a £30,000 profit in 1896.[3]
Two Lancashire architects, James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, designed the Tower and oversaw the laying of its foundation stone[4] on 29 September 1891.[5] By the time the Tower finally opened on 14 May 1894, both men had died.[4] Heenan & Froude of Worcester were appointed structural engineers, supplying and constructing both the main tower, the electric lighting and the steel front pieces for the aquariums. A new system of hydraulic riveting was used, based on the technology of Fielding & Platt of Gloucester.[6]
The total cost for the design and construction of the tower and buildings was about £290,000.[7] Five million Accrington bricks, 2,500 tonnes of iron and 93 tonnes of cast steel were used to construct the tower.[8] Unlike the Eiffel Tower, Blackpool Tower is not free-standing. Its base is hidden by the building which houses Blackpool Tower Circus. The building occupies a total of 5,050 square metres (54,400 sq ft).[2] At the summit of the tower there is a flagpole;[9][10] A time capsule is buried beneath the foundation.[7]
The design of the tower was ahead of its time. As a writer for the BBC noted: "In heavy winds the building will gently sway, what a magnificent Victorian engineering masterpiece."[10]
Originally come from Frank Herbert's Dune, Ornithopters inspiring thousands of artists and writers for more than 50 years! As you can see, I'm not an exception. Its original design and features make ornithopters far different from any other vehicles shown in books and movies.
The building represents the House Atreides' thopter from the recently released movie by Denis Villeneuve. It's unique dragonfly look has completely blown my mind! I've tried to clearly recreate most iconic features of the vehicle including wings flapping and landing gear. The model contains about 1000 pieces + Paul Atreides' minifigure. There's enough space for three minifigs in the cockpit. The set includes a black stand for the Ornithopter with rubber pieces on the bottom, so three options of placing make it an ideal display piece for expert builders.
Hope, you'll appreciate it!
Genre: Pop
Store: Half-Deer
Store Owner: Halogen Magic
For those who have been following plurk would have seen these posters that I was working on; they are music posters created as teasers leading up to Rhapsody, inspired by the genres that will be at the event. Thank you to all who bought posters to support Rhapsody :>
These posters were wonderfully shot by Strawberry Singh & RubyStarlight Writer for Rhapsody which is now open! Do take a look at the AMAZING venue built by Annette Voight <3
If you’re interested in getting these Posters in world in a framed or unframed version, visit the venue and they’re available for freebie grabs behind the stage of the landing point.
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Rhapsody Links:
LM; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TaleAsOldAsTime/127/129/39
Info; hottiecooterati.com/events/rhapsody/
HottieCooterati Plurk; www.plurk.com/hottiecooterati
We rarely see the moon this way, it inspired a song writer for this famous song:
Tu peux pleurer Pierrot
Here some updates on some things
Customs:
I'm currently making a new Doctor Strange fig, So far I'm making a template for the new cape (That's why it's blue) and that's all I've got. Though it will be based off the new Doctor Strange costume in Thor Ragnork. I am also attempting to make a Batman Beyond cape, and that's really all my plans.
GCPD:
GCPD is not dead, I'm am currently writing the next chapter, It's going to be a very long chapter by the looks of it. So yeah, next chapter will hopefullu be up by saturday.
Other stuff:
My Instagram has almost hit 70 followers which is pretty awesome,l.
I did see the Lego Batman Movie, and absolutely LOVED it. So much color, energy, and heart. 9/10 (The pacing dragged a little in the second half.)
Helping Ludofilms as a script writer for his Batman series, so far going pretty well.
552 followers!
...And yeah. Awesome stuff coming your guys way in the near future.
Take care and have a nice day :)
-LegoBatbrick
Fernando Quiñónes Chozas (Chiclana de la Frontera, 2 de marzo de 1930 - Cádiz, 17 de noviembre de 1998), escritor destacado por su obra literaria y poética.
La estatua de Fernando Quiñoóes es obra de Luis Quintero, quien ha realizado un monumento realista, en bronce, al gusto de la familia del escritor chiclanero, hijo adoptivo de Cádiz. En él se representa a Quiñónes descalzo con una guayabera en cuyo bolsillo guarda sus gafas. Con las manos a la espalda, Quiñones refleja en su posición y su mirada contemplativa la veneración que siempre sintió por la playa de La Caleta y la ciudad que hoy acoge su monumento.
Fernando Quiñones Chozas (Chiclana de la Frontera, March 2, 1930 - Cádiz, November 17, 1998), a noted writer for his literary and poetic work.
The statue of Fernando Quiñones is the work of Luis Quintero, who has made a realistic monument, in bronze, to the liking of the family of the Chiclana writer, adopted son of Cádiz. In it, Quiñones is represented barefoot with a guayabera in whose pocket he keeps his glasses. With his hands behind his back, Quiñones reflects in his position and his contemplative gaze the veneration that he always felt for the beach of La Caleta and the city that today houses his monument.
Cádiz (Andalucía/ Spain)
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Wales.
Day Nine .. A Stop at Caernarfon making our way to Hirael where we are staying the night.
Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales.
Gwynedd’s county town, home to Wales’s most famous castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mighty Caernarfon Castle commands the lion’s share of attention, but the town’s narrow streets and stylishly redeveloped waterfront also merit a visit. The castle, built in the 13th century by Edward I as a royal palace and military fortress, was at the core of a medieval walled town. The Romans left their mark too – 1000 years earlier they constructed their fort of Segontium on the hill above (its foundations still exist). Other attractions include Welsh Highland Railway (which runs for 25 miles to Porthmadog), Hwylfan Fun Centre, Redline Indoor Karting and the scenic Lôn Eifion recreational cycle route. Waterside Doc Fictoria is home to Galeri (contemporary arts complex with theatre and cinema). The Caernarfon Record Office has archives of Gwynedd (documents, images, maps and newspapers) stretching back 400 years. Cae’r Gors at nearby Rhosgadfan was home of Kate Roberts, one of Wales’s most celebrated writers.
For More Info: www.visitsnowdonia.info/caernarfon
When we walked into the tapestry room at The Cloisters immediately our eyes went to this famous tapestry. I loved that it wasn't behind glass and you could get up close to it to appreciate the craftsmanship and bask in its history - it's dated between 1495–1505!
From the website: "'The Unicorn in Captivity' is tethered to a tree and constrained by a fence, but the chain is not secure and the fence is low enough to leap over: The unicorn could escape if he wished.
Clearly, however, his confinement is a happy one, to which the ripe, seed-laden pomegranates in the tree—a medieval symbol of fertility and marriage—testify.
The red stains on his flank do not appear to be blood, as there are no visible wounds like those in the hunting series; rather, they represent juice dripping from bursting pomegranates above.
Many of the other plants represented here, such as wild orchid, bistort, and thistle, echo this theme of marriage and procreation: they were acclaimed in the Middle Ages as fertility aids for both men and women.
Even the little frog, nestled among the violets at the lower right, was cited by medieval writers for its noisy mating."
Signing at Book Expo in New York City. A writer for the X-Men series, he created some of its more popular characters, such as Phoenix and Storm.
A mature bull bison is such a powerful and majestic creature that it's no wonder it became one of the true icons of the Old West. Prior to that, of course, it was revered by the First Nations, especially the Plains Indians who relied on it as their primary life sustainer. It provided them with food, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other commonplace items in their daily lives.
Sitting Bull's name derived from this animal. Although refined ladies and gentlemen in eastern parlours would amuse themselves by translating his name as "posterior-recumbent gentleman cow", the verb "sit" had more than one implication in Lakota. It also meant to come among the people and take an honoured place. Therefore Sitting Bull was a wise and spiritual being who had come to lead his people.
This week we have lost another wise and spiritual being here in Canada: Ojibway author Richard Wagamese died at age 61. One of my favourite writers. For what my opinion is worth, in the realm of CanLit First Nations writing, Thomas King is the intellectual and the trickster; Joseph Boyden is the creator of epic tales; and Richard Wagamese was the heart and soul. How can we ever replace him? We can't. We can only be grateful that he was with us for a brief time, and that he spoke.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Wales.
Day Nine .. A Stop at Caernarfon making our way to Hirael where we are staying the night.
Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales.
Gwynedd’s county town, home to Wales’s most famous castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mighty Caernarfon Castle commands the lion’s share of attention, but the town’s narrow streets and stylishly redeveloped waterfront also merit a visit. The castle, built in the 13th century by Edward I as a royal palace and military fortress, was at the core of a medieval walled town. The Romans left their mark too – 1000 years earlier they constructed their fort of Segontium on the hill above (its foundations still exist). Other attractions include Welsh Highland Railway (which runs for 25 miles to Porthmadog), Hwylfan Fun Centre, Redline Indoor Karting and the scenic Lôn Eifion recreational cycle route. Waterside Doc Fictoria is home to Galeri (contemporary arts complex with theatre and cinema). The Caernarfon Record Office has archives of Gwynedd (documents, images, maps and newspapers) stretching back 400 years. Cae’r Gors at nearby Rhosgadfan was home of Kate Roberts, one of Wales’s most celebrated writers.
For More Info: www.visitsnowdonia.info/caernarfon
North Brother Island[edit]
The northern of the islands was uninhabited until 1885, when Riverside Hospital moved there from Blackwell's Island (now known as Roosevelt Island). Riverside Hospital was founded in the 1850s as the Smallpox Hospital to treat and isolate victims of that disease. Its mission eventually expanded to other quarantinablediseases, with the most recent being the Tuberculosis Pavilion, which was opened in 1943 and was almost immediately obsolete.[6]
The island was the site of the wreck of the General Slocum, a steamship that burned on June 15, 1904. Over 1,000 people died either from the fire on board the ship, or from drowning before the ship beached on the island's shores.[7]
According to Joseph Mitchell – a newspaper reporter and a short-story writer for The New Yorker – the island was the site of many outings of "The Honorable John McSorley Pickle, Beefsteak, Baseball Nine, and Chowder Club" organized by John McSorley of McSorley's Old Ale House; photos of the outings are featured on the walls of the bar.[8]
Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to the island for over two decades until she died there in 1938.[9][5] The hospital closed shortly thereafter.
Following World War II, the island housed war veterans who were students at local colleges and their families. After the nationwide housing shortage abated, the island was again abandoned until the 1950s, when a center opened to treat adolescent drug addicts. The facility claimed it was the first to offer treatment, rehabilitation, and education facilities to young drug offenders. Heroin addicts were confined to this island and locked in a room until they were clean. Many of them believed they were being held against their will. By the early 1960s widespread staff corruption and patient recidivism forced the facility to close.[citation needed]The facility is said to have been the inspiration for the Broadway play Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, which helped to launch the career of Al Pacino.[6]
Over the years, various New York City mayors have explored what to do with the island. John Lindsay, for instance, proposed to sell it, and Ed Koch thought it could be converted into housing for the homeless. The city also considered using it as an extension of the jail at Rikers Island.[6]
Now a bird sanctuary for herons and other wading shorebirds,[6] the island is currently abandoned and off-limits to the public. Most of the original hospitals' buildings still stand, but are heavily deteriorated and in danger of collapse, and a dense forest conceals the ruined hospital buildings. In October 2014, New York City Council member Mark Levine, Chair of the City Council's Parks Committee, led a delegation to visit the island,[10] and declared his desire afterwards to open the island for limited "light-touch, environmentally sensitive" public access.[11] In October 2016, New York magazine reported that the Council had commissioned a study from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, followed by a public hearing, on how the island could be converted into a park with controlled access by the public.[6]
I was recently tagged by panic-embryo. So here are my random factoids:
1.My first language was Polish.
2.The photograph above came from the first self-portrait session that I’ve ever done.
3.I’m an only child.
4.When I was 9, my mother signed me up for modelling classes. I’m not sure why.
5.I hate the texture of cooked onions, which makes it difficult to eat in Italian restaurants.
6.Paris is my favorite city. I first went there when I was in high school as part of a French Club trip during March break. I’ve been there a total of four times.
7.I’ve had this really annoying ringing in my left ear (tinnitus) for about a year now. I learned that William Shatner, David Letterman, Bono, Sting, Barbra Streisand, among many others, also have it.
8.I became a certified yoga instructor 4 years ago, though it’s not my profession. I just loved yoga that much.
9.I studied psychology and French in university.
10.My favourite movie is Wings of Desire (the original German version).
11.Whenever I listen to the album Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros, there is a point at which I invariably start to tear up due to its extraordinary beauty.
12.Whenever I go camping, I can’t sleep the first night because I’m convinced that every sound I hear is a bear prowling around outside the tent.
13.When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with the Beatles and I used to wish that I had been born early enough to have seen them in concert. I had to make due with the stage show Beatlemania whenever it came to town.
14.Although I’m Canadian, I often use the American spellings of words by habit because I was a technical writer for many years and that’s the standard.
15.My favorite quotation is “follow your bliss” (Joseph Campbell).
16.If I’m flipping through TV channels and the movie Rosemary’s Baby is playing, I’ll often end up watching the rest of it. There’s just something about the look of that movie that I love.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate Judge Aileen Cannon’s order that a special master review classified documents taken in an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida home and private club. There were no noted dissents.
The one-sentence order turned aside an emergency request from the former president to intervene in the document review, which is part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified material after Trump left the White House.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Robert Barnes has been a Washington Post reporter and editor since 1987. He joined The Post to cover Maryland politics, and he has served in various editing positions, including metropolitan editor and national political editor. He has covered the Supreme Court since November 2006.
Perry Stein covers the Justice Department and FBI for The Washington Post. She previously covered D.C. education. Before she joined The Post in 2015, she was a staff writer for Washington City Paper and wrote for the Miami Herald.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Wales.
Day Nine .. A Stop at Caernarfon making our way to Hirael where we are staying the night.
Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales.
Gwynedd’s county town, home to Wales’s most famous castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mighty Caernarfon Castle commands the lion’s share of attention, but the town’s narrow streets and stylishly redeveloped waterfront also merit a visit. The castle, built in the 13th century by Edward I as a royal palace and military fortress, was at the core of a medieval walled town. The Romans left their mark too – 1000 years earlier they constructed their fort of Segontium on the hill above (its foundations still exist). Other attractions include Welsh Highland Railway (which runs for 25 miles to Porthmadog), Hwylfan Fun Centre, Redline Indoor Karting and the scenic Lôn Eifion recreational cycle route. Waterside Doc Fictoria is home to Galeri (contemporary arts complex with theatre and cinema). The Caernarfon Record Office has archives of Gwynedd (documents, images, maps and newspapers) stretching back 400 years. Cae’r Gors at nearby Rhosgadfan was home of Kate Roberts, one of Wales’s most celebrated writers.
For More Info: www.visitsnowdonia.info/caernarfon
Portrait of American writer George Lippard (ab. 1850). My colorization of the Daguerreotype image in the Library of Congress archive.
"George Lippard was born on April 10, 1822, near Yellow Springs, in West Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the farm of his father, Daniel B. Lippard. The family moved to the city of Philadelphia two years later, shortly after his father was injured in a farming accident. Young Lippard grew up in Philadelphia, in Germantown (presently part of the city of Philadelphia), and Rhinebeck, New York (where he attended the Classical Academy). After considering a career in the Methodist religious ministry and rejecting it because of a "contradiction between theory and practice" of Christianity, he began the study of law, which he also abandoned, as it was incompatible with his beliefs about human justice. Following the death of his father in 1837, Lippard spent some time living like a homeless bohemian, working odd jobs and living in abandoned buildings and studios. Life on Philadelphia's streets gave him firsthand knowledge of the effects the Panic of 1837 had on the urban poor. Distressed by the misery he witnessed, "Lippard decided to become a writer for the masses." --
"Lippard's writing has occasional glimmers of style, but his words are more memorable for quantity than for quality, and his writing for its financial success than for its literary style. He proved that one could make a living by wordsmithing. If he is remembered at all today, it is more for his social thinking, which was progressive, than for his language and literary style. One contemporary reviewer noted Lippard's efforts as a social critic: "It was his business to attack social wrongs, to drag away purple garments, and expose to our shivering gaze the rottenness of vice—to take tyranny by the throat and strangle it to death."" --
(Wikipedia)
“As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.
One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.
In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.
Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.
Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”
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“As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.
One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.
In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.
Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.
Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”
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Two important members of the Senate Budget Committee, Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) (pictured center) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) (pictured right), discussed their efforts to implement reforms to streamline the annual budget process. Can an improved budget process lead to less gridlock, more fiscal policy certainty, and, ultimately, economic growth and stability? How can budget process reforms set the stage for Congress to lead the country to a more secure fiscal and economic future? Moderated by John Harwood (pictured left), chief Washington correspondent, CNBC, and political writer for The New York Times.
Watch the video: youtu.be/TWXRHKf7NUY
Originally come from Frank Herbert's Dune, Ornithopters inspiring thousands of artists and writers for more than 50 years! As you can see, I'm not an exception. Its original design and features make ornithopters far different from any other vehicles shown in books and movies.
The building represents the House Atreides' thopter from the recently released movie by Denis Villeneuve. It's unique dragonfly look has completely blown my mind! I've tried to clearly recreate most iconic features of the vehicle including wings flapping and landing gear. The model contains about 1000 pieces + Paul Atreides' minifigure. There's enough space for three minifigs in the cockpit. The set includes a black stand for the Ornithopter with rubber pieces on the bottom, so three options of placing make it an ideal display piece for expert builders.
Hope, you'll appreciate it!
A lovely phenomenon, the willow rose, created when in early spring an itty bitty willow gall midge laid her egg on the willow growth tip bud.
The midge's egg hatched into a grub and burrowed in, feeding on the growth tip bud, stunting the willow's ability to expand normally in spring.... thus the leaves, rather than emerging singly up the growing stem, pushed themselves out in this compact whorled rosette.
Ironically, this rosette is also irresistible to a certain species of wasp, which comes along and also lays eggs on the already ravaged willow bud, it's grubs devouring the midge grub....
This fascinating tiny tête-à-tête happens almost exclusively on one species of willow, the Barclay willow, which seems to be the most obvious way to identify the species.
Ned Rozell, science writer for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is my source for many fascinating natural wonders.
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Game of Thrones Will Return in April
The epic fantasy series Game of Thrones will return for its six-episode, eighth and final season April 14, 2019.
David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik will be the directors for the new season. Writers for the new season are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill.
The executive producers of the series are David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield. Co-executive producers are Bryan Cogman, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis and George R.R. Martin.
Juego de tronos volverá en abril
La serie de fantasía épica Game of Thrones regresará para su temporada de seis episodios, octava y última el 14 de abril de 2019.
David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter y Miguel Sapochnik serán los directores de la nueva temporada. Los escritores de la nueva temporada son David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman y Dave Hill.
Los productores ejecutivos de la serie son David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger y Bernadette Caulfield. Los productores co-ejecutivos son Bryan Cogman, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis y George R.R. Martin.
The nation's 45th president will face complex fiscal and economic realities. In just eight years, interest on the national debt will become the third-largest "program" in the federal budget. What steps can the next president take to ensure we have the resources necessary to invest in critical areas of our economy? In this session, we heard directly from economic policy advisors to the presidential campaigns — Sam Clovis (right), National Co-Chair and Chief Policy Advisor, Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. and David Kamin, Economic Policy Advisor to Hillary For America — who will tell us how their candidates are preparing to address America’s unsustainable fiscal outlook and secure a strong economy of the future. Interviewed by John Harwood (left), chief Washington correspondent, CNBC, and political writer for The New York Times.
Watch the video: youtu.be/YYcMFotufQI
Editorial illustration for GOOD Magazine, accompanying an article written by a writer for the Conan O'Brien Show. The article talks about how hard it is to get a truly funny idea, to actually make it on to the final show.
Published in the Fall 2001 issue (pg. 49).
*Explored*
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Boeing 737-8JP(WL)
cn: 39010 / ln: 3871
ff: 10-12-2011
19-12-2011 LN-DYW Norwegian Air Shuttle, config Y186
LN-DYW had Norwegian writer Torbjørn Egner on the tail, he was a wellknown writer for children here in Norway, and he was on the radio in the 1960s telling tales and stories.
During the winter 2017/2018 Torbjørn Egner unfortunately was changed to a ghost on the tail of LN-DYW, so it ended up as a white-tail.
Final pax flight for DY was DY1109 SXF-OSL 21-11-2018
21-11-2018 wfu
22-11-2018 returned to lessor Arictic Aviation, and stored at Abu Dhabi (OMAA/AUH)
29-01-2019 HL8332 Jeju Air
01-04-2021 stored at Seoul (RKSI/ICN)
Seen being towed to hangar after a long day of flying, 8 years ago. This was my first photo of LN-DYW
(Tails of LN-NOM and LN-KKL visible in background)
Created this LO for the "doodle" challenge going on at American Crafts Studio. TFL!
Journaling: You love to dress up & pretend. Today you are Dorothy...tomorrow...who knows? Keep on pretending & dream away. Jan/09
Materials used:
Stamps: Hero Arts F5158 Heart Winged Butterfly
Ink: Memories Black
Cardstock: American Crafts
Pens: American Crafts Slick Writer (for thicker parts of butterfly trails) & Sakura black pen
Ribbon: Taylored Expressions
Bling: Hero Arts
“As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.
One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.
In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.
Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.
Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”
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Genre: Punk
Store: Exposeur
Store Owner: RubyStarlight Writer
For those who have been following plurk would have seen these posters that I was working on; they are music posters created as teasers leading up to Rhapsody, inspired by the genres that will be at the event. Thank you to all who bought posters to support Rhapsody :>
These posters were wonderfully shot by Strawberry Singh & RubyStarlight Writer for Rhapsody which is now open! Do take a look at the AMAZING venue built by Annette Voight <3
If you’re interested in getting these Posters in world in a framed or unframed version, visit the venue and they’re available for freebie grabs behind the stage of the landing point.
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Rhapsody Links:
LM; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TaleAsOldAsTime/127/129/39
Info; hottiecooterati.com/events/rhapsody/
HottieCooterati Plurk; www.plurk.com/hottiecooterati
DEHOMAG (Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH) was the German subsidiary of IBM, and a very profitable one thanks to the monopoly it enjoyed in Germany. It provided various early data processing and storage services for the Nazi government, as demonstrated by this punch card from 1942 that stated the racial status of a citizen. Whatever was punched into these cards could lead to a human being stripped of all rights, carted off and murdered.
Seen in the Museum of Communication, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Camera: Leica R7 (10068), made in 1996
Lens: Leitz Summilux-R 50 mm 2nd model (11776)
Kodak Portra 800 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Wales.
Day Nine .. A Stop at Caernarfon making our way to Hirael where we are staying the night.
Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales.
Gwynedd’s county town, home to Wales’s most famous castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mighty Caernarfon Castle commands the lion’s share of attention, but the town’s narrow streets and stylishly redeveloped waterfront also merit a visit. The castle, built in the 13th century by Edward I as a royal palace and military fortress, was at the core of a medieval walled town. The Romans left their mark too – 1000 years earlier they constructed their fort of Segontium on the hill above (its foundations still exist). Other attractions include Welsh Highland Railway (which runs for 25 miles to Porthmadog), Hwylfan Fun Centre, Redline Indoor Karting and the scenic Lôn Eifion recreational cycle route. Waterside Doc Fictoria is home to Galeri (contemporary arts complex with theatre and cinema). The Caernarfon Record Office has archives of Gwynedd (documents, images, maps and newspapers) stretching back 400 years. Cae’r Gors at nearby Rhosgadfan was home of Kate Roberts, one of Wales’s most celebrated writers.
For More Info: www.visitsnowdonia.info/caernarfon
Mark favourite all time record
Waterloo Sunset
The Kinks
Mary Boast Walk Camberwell.
Mark left school in 1978. It was a time when if you managed to get a job you hung onto it, if you could. The Tory election posters claimed 'Labour isn't working' but in 1979 but when they got into power privatisation and the culling of the Unions saw unemployment escalate. Mark managed to get a job in the print industry in Fleet Street. With his union card he felt he was there for good.
Rupert Murdoch's News International changed the landscape of the print industry. Print workers were offered redundancy because of the way the business was modernising but the Unions refused and a 54 week dispute ensured. Murdoch had already built his new premises in Wapping and this signaled the end of Fleet Street. Mark found himself on the picket line but eventually as with the Miners the strikes ended in defeat. Murdoch ended the careers of 90 per cent of the old type setters. Fleet Street an old London institution collapsed.
Mark eventually took redundancy and set upon his next move. He had a clothes stall at Camden Market so he was able to put more time into that and get by but clearly it was a major blow to lose a job he thought was his for as long as he wanted.
He had always had a few other work things going besides being a print worker and the stall in Camden allowed him to get by while he decided what would replace his main job. But it was the death of Mark's dad later that year that really changed his view. It hit him hard, and sparked him to start writing. He had always liked writing at school but didn't think he could write for a living and there was no encouragement from school. It comes down the institutionalised idea of the class system that that certain people from certain places don't do certain jobs.
He remembered a time when he would go to the pub with his dad on a Sunday afternoon and just watch the interaction within the friendships that his dad had and how that existed in the pub and within their community. It became cathartic and he just carried on writing about these times and people. Music had always been a big influence and Mark loved the storytellers songwriters like Ray Davis, Pete Townshend and Paul Weller and this gave him a good imputes to really develop his story. He wanted to write about his dad's world and how that defined many of things about him. He set it within the backdrop of the Wapping print dispute a story that had been strangely untold to this point. Eventually after a few drafts it became a book and he called it The Mumper. Mark decided to self publish it and got 10 copy's printed. He sold them around the local pubs of Camberwell. The book resonated with people they could see themselves and their friends within the pages. He knew this life because it was part of him. The people who it was written about wanted to read it so he carried on self publishing it. In the end he sold 900 copy's. Agents and publishers ignored it, it wasn't their world and they thought it wouldn't be understood outside of South London. But it a universal story of friendships, of living through difficult times and having a go.
After a while a mutual friend showed a copy to Trix Worrell a writer for Channel 4. He really liked it and then recommended it to a producer who thought it could be a tv series but then someone said it should be a film. Things escalated and work began on 'Outside Bet' his book The Mumper was being made into a film. The film was on a £2.5 million budget and starred Bob Hoskins, Phil Davis, Jenny Agutter and Rita Tushingham. One day Marks mum saw Jenny Agutter waiting for a bus near Camberwell and said that she was starring in a film that her son had written, Agutter looked bemused clearly wondering about the truth of her statement. Mark introduced them at the Premiere putting any doubts to rest. The Mumper was published and released nationwide and he has since gone on to write over 20 books and produce and write documentary's on artists as diverse as Peter Blake, Tubby Hayes, and The Style Council. Mark says it all about learning and grafting something he has always done. He is always open to new worlds and new people while cherishing his roots and background. He seized on a moment that was very dark but created an opportunity for himself. He found a positivity where he was able to explore new things. He still lives the place in he loves, Camberwell and some of the youngsters who know him and know he writes for a living call him JK Rowling.
Mark has proved you don't have to have a certain education to be a writer even if the literally agents the owners of publishing houses took their time to find that out and some of the kids on the street might still find it amusing. Finding the right job doesn't always come when it's expected, time and inspiration can lead to different things. You can always fail it's the not trying that's the problem. And the way Mark talks he doesn't think making films and writing is superior to working in the print, it's just different and he likes the diversity and he likes 'having a go' but it's all about putting the graft in.
www.amazon.co.uk/Mumper-Mark-Baxter/dp/1780220448/ref=sr_...
www.amazon.co.uk/Outside-Bet/dp/B015T6KSM4/ref=sr_1_1?cri...
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Sadie is the guitarist of The Slim Sadies and Molly is a writer for Furrow Magazine. Sisters. Their father, me, is the author of three novels, As God Looked On, Nowhere Near the Sea of Cortez, and A Bottle of Rain. Latest review in the Florida Book Review--
Name: Jessica Chobot
Hardcore gamer and host/writer for IGN Entertainment, Jessica (aka The Baroness) says she often reads manga on the toilet.
A limited edition anime-style collectible J!NX figurine of Jessica is slated to be manufactured by the Southern Island Toy Company.
She ROCKS at Guitar Hero!!!
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Photography by Love Ablan
For more information on the Fangirl Project photo documentary, go to http://www.fangirlproject.com
Candid pictures from conventions can be found on my other flickr, LoveByte.
Good times in Toronto. Wall still in progress.
Big thanks to Bacon, Tenser and all other amazing writers for the hospitality!
From the outside this time...
Technique/Processing
Really nothing fancy this time. The most complicated thing about this shot was to get all the lines lined up ;-)
P.S.: I mirrored the image horizonatally, in order to have the Apple logo right - it looked strange otherwise.
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The Big Apple is a nickname or moniker for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, known now as NYC & Company.
Although the history of the Big Apple was once considered a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by noted amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Professor Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history. Prior to their work, there were a number of false etymologies, of which the most ridiculous was the claim that the term derived from a New York brothel whose madam was known as Eve. This was subsequently exposed as a hoax and has been replaced on the source web site with more accurate information.
The Big Apple was first popularized as a reference to New York City by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in reference to New York horse-racing. The earliest of these was a casual reference on May 3, 1921:
J. P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for "the big apple" to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.
Fitz Gerald referred to the "big apple" frequently thereafter. He explained his use in a February 18, 1924, column under the headline "Around the Big Apple":
The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the "cooling rings" of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
"Where y'all goin' from here?" queried one.
"From here we're headin' for The Big Apple," proudly replied the other.
"Well, you'd better fatten up them skinners or all you'll get from the apple will be the core," was the quick rejoinder.
Fitz Gerald's reference to the "dusky" stable hands suggests the term's origin may lie in African-American culture. Support for this is found in the Chicago Defender, an African-American newspaper that had a national circulation. “Ragtime” Billy Tucker, a vaudeville/ragtime performer and writer for the Defender, there used "big apple" to refer to New York in a non-horse-racing context on September 16, 1922:
I trust your trip to 'the big apple' (New York) was a huge success and only wish that I had been able to make it with you.
The same writer had earlier used "Big Apple" as a reference to a different city, Los Angeles. This example, from May 15, 1920, is the earliest known use of "Big Apple" to refer to any city. It is possible that the writer simply understood "Big Apple" as an appropriate nickname for any large city:
Dear Pal, Tony: No, Ragtime Billy Tucker hasn't dropped completely out of existence, but is still in the 'Big Apple', Los Angeles.
By the late 1920s, New York writers other than Fitz Gerald were starting to use "Big Apple" and were using it outside of a horse-racing context."The Big Apple" was a popular song and dance in the 1930s. Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the name in the 1940s and 1950s.
By the 1960s, "the Big Apple" was known only as an old name for New York. In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau (now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, begin promoting "the Big Apple" as the city's moniker. It has remained popular since that time. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald resided from 1934 to 1963, as "Big Apple Corner."
Since 1980, the New York Mets baseball team has featured a "Home Run Apple" that rises when a Mets player hits a home run at Shea Stadium and Citi Field.
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Tomlinson is the name that I have given this chameleon art piece that I received for Christmas. (I love lizards.) His name comes from a main character is Randy Wayne White's "Doc Ford" series. If you read the character origins below, you'll understand why he typifies "unusual" and why I appreciate Tomlinson.
"Bill “Spaceman” Lee stood near Connie Mack Field at Terry Park and pointed backward in time..
Lee, 70 and a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos from 1969-1982, expounded upon the history of Terry Park, the first ballpark to have spring training in Fort Myers. It dates back to the 1920s with the Philadelphia Athletics. Babe Ruth, Roberto Clemente and George Brett were just some of the Hall of Famers who have played there, Lee noted.
Another moment that would shape the region’s legacy, in literature instead of sports, also took place at Terry Park. Lee befriended future mystery novelist Randy Wayne White there in 1989 while both were playing in a professional-amateur league.
Lee, an All-Star for the Red Sox in 1973, pitched for the Orlando Juice at age 42 in 1989. White, then 39, caught for the Fort Myers Sun Sox.
White, a former writer for The News-Press, had shifted his career to freelance writing. He had dabbled as an action-thriller novelist under a pseudonym and began planning a new character under his real name.
White began writing “Sanibel Flats”, published in 1990, as the first mystery novel built around marine biologist and retired spy Doc Ford.
Ford always has been the main character, but a secondary character named Tomlinson appears in every novel, the yin to Ford’s yang.
Lee, a self-avowed “Rastafarian yogi,” and “far-to-the-left liberal” ran for governor of Vermont last year. He received 2.8 percent of the vote, a combined 8,912 votes in the Liberty Union Party, founded in part by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Republican candidate Phil Scott won with 52.9 percent of the vote with 166,817 votes.
“I received two votes per penny spent,” said Lee, who recognized his politics shift far to the left of the 60 percent of Lee County residents who voted Donald Trump for president.
“If John Birch and I were on planet Earth, and he and I were yelling at each other from the furthest ends of the Earth, we would be standing back-to-back,” Lee said, referring to the far-right conservative advocacy group, the John Birch Society.
Randy Wayne White transferred the personality of his friend, retired Red Sox pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee to "Tomlinson," a recurring character in White's Doc Ford novels.
White, who said he leaned conservative, and Lee sometimes talk politics but never argue about it despite their differences. They talk often, and Lee lives in White’s Pine Island home whenever he visits, which amounts to several weeks throughout the year.
“He and I are both hermits,” Lee said. “We’re hiding away from our fame and notoriety, because there’s drinking involved.”
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I was provisionally offered a job recently. Well, what they actually said was ‘you’re exactly the type of guy we’re looking for, let’s chat’. It would be as a ‘comedy writer’ for a new up and coming website. They found me through my blog.
The first thing I thought was ‘they find my life funny?’ Then I thought ‘how much money will they pay me?’ Then I thought ‘how much freedom will I lose?’
I’m not a particularly funny person. I write about my observations and experiences and I try to add a humorous perspective to it. I don’t think I’d be comfortable/good making stuff up or purposefully trying to be a funny guy.
My goal, as it stands right now, is to develop my career in photography in various ways. I’d love to start teaching HDR at some point but that’s a wee bit further down the line.
We’ll see what happens.
We went shopping today. Rachel told me to leave her to it because I act like a baby and shopping requires real attention. I went for a walk around Le Bugue, a small town where the supermarket is. I strolled around it twice, found 3 spots that I need to photograph at a later date, tried to convert a priest to atheism (he wasn’t interested), and sat on a curb wasting time. By the time I got back to the supermarket, Rachel only had a few tins and cereal in the trolley. I just don’t get it.
I attempted to scare Rachel today. She was drying her hair. I crept up the stairs, into the room and stood about 2 metres away just to her left. I held a blank stare. She didn’t notice me and continued to dry her hair. Resilient, I stood there and waited. It took 5 minutes before she saw me. It was the most boring joke in the world. In fairness, she nearly jumped out of her skin when she finally noticed me. I won that little duel.
Last time I tried a similar joke, I put her clothes on when she went downstairs to make a cup of tea in her old university house. She ended up chatting to her house mate for 45 minutes. I sat there miserably in a tight vest and short skirt. In the end I took the clothes off. She won that one.
Sometimes I wonder if a person who is serious about developing a reputation in photography should talk about things like this.
Today’s Photo – Some Singaporean Rocks
These rocks can be found at Changi bay. I manually blended the images so I didn’t lose any sharpness in the rocks. I was going to darken the sea and sky but decided against it. I like the blown-out look there.
India Tiger Safari trip.
Our third park, Kanha.
Kanha National Park is nestled in the Maikal range of Satpuras in Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India that forms the central Indian highlands.The national park is being popularized as the Tiger reserve and interestingly is being declared as one of the finest wildlife areas in the world. Spreading across two revenue districts the Mandala and the Kalaghat, Kanha National Park was declared a reserve forest in 1879 and revalued as a wildlife sanctuary in 1933. Its position was further upgraded to a national park in 1955.
The Kanha National Park is spread across the area of 940 sq km in the Maikal chain of hills. By bringing up the buffer and core zone all together, the Kanha Tiger Reserve has the total area of 1945 sq km.
The landscapes and the surrounding luxurious meadows along with the wooded strands and the dense maroons of forests offer magnanimous sightseeing experiences for the nature lovers. Making the land more beautiful and adorable, the crystal clear streams amidst the dense jungle cleanses the surroundings and makes the wildlife unrivalled. This vivacious land has been the source of inspiration for Rudyard Kipling, a famous writer for his outstanding creation- “The Jungle Book”.
The Kanha National Park is the ideal home for wide ranges of wild creatures; right from the mighty tigers to the most populated Barasingha and the countless species of plants, birds, reptiles and insects. This reserve has fascinated many travelers around the corners of the world with its well developed infrastructure specially meant for them. The best location here to enjoy the most is the Bammi Dadar, also known as the Sunset Point.
The black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia and accidental visitor of Japan (specifically eastern Japan and Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan,particullarlly Yonaguni and Iriomote Island). It is an all black bird with a distinctive forked tail and measures 28 cm (11 in) in length. It feeds on insects, and is common in open agricultural areas and light forest throughout its range, perching conspicuously on a bare perch or along power or telephone lines. The species is known for its aggressive behaviour towards much larger birds, such as crows, never hesitating to dive-bomb any bird of prey that invades its territory. This behaviour earns it the informal name of king crow. Smaller birds often nest in the well-guarded vicinity of a nesting black drongo. Previously grouped along with the African fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), the Asian forms are now treated as a separate species with several distinct populations.
Genre: Classic Rock
Store: ZOZ
Store Owner: Zozicon
For those who have been following plurk would have seen these posters that I was working on; they are music posters created as teasers leading up to Rhapsody, inspired by the genres that will be at the event. Thank you to all who bought posters to support Rhapsody :>
These posters were wonderfully shot by Strawberry Singh & RubyStarlight Writer for Rhapsody which is now open! Do take a look at the AMAZING venue built by Annette Voight <3
If you’re interested in getting these Posters in world in a framed or unframed version, visit the venue and they’re available for freebie grabs behind the stage of the landing point.
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Rhapsody Links:
LM; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TaleAsOldAsTime/127/129/39
Info; hottiecooterati.com/events/rhapsody/
HottieCooterati Plurk; www.plurk.com/hottiecooterati