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Midnight Pals: Mr Electric
Ray Bradbury: Submitted for the approval of the midnight Society, I call this the tale of the eternal summer, the last vestiges of muggy august giving way to the bluster of autumn, the twinkling lights of town below in the humid night, young lovers stealing kisses in the dark, old men on the porch, jawin and chewin and chuckling at remembrances of romances long past
Barker: you’re literally just describing a Thomas Kinkade painting
Poe: clive
Stephen King: wow ray you really come up with some evocative imagery!
King: whatever inspired you to become a writer anyway?
Bradbury: well, it all started when I went to the county fair and met a wizard
Koontz: whoa! A real wizard!
King: no dean he’s talking about a magician
Bradbury: [chuckling] am I?
Bradbury: mr electrico was no mere magician!
Bradbury: he had the REAL power!!!
Bradbury: the power
Bradbury: to fire a young boy’s IMAGINATION!
Neil Gaiman: [clapping] right, right! Good show! Right on!
Ray Bradbury: and Mr Electrico pointed a flaming electrical sword at me and said
Bradbury: “LIVE FOREVER!!”
Bradbury: now I cannot be killed
Gretchen Felker-Martin: oh yeah, big mood
Bradbury: Mr Electrico said “Live Forever!”
Bradbury: Now I cannot be killed
Bradbury: and it’s true
Bradbury: c’mon try it out
Stephen King: no no I couldn’t
Bradbury: c’mon
Bradbury: c’mon!!!
Bradbury: come at me bro!!!
Bradbury: I can take it!!
Bradbury: [slapping chest] c’mon, take a swing at me!
Stephen King: I really don’t want to fight you Ray
Bradbury: do it! Do it!
Barker: I’ll do it
Poe: clive
Barker: I’m just giving him what he wants!
Poe: clive
Poe: clive he’s like 100 years old
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Bradbury: mary!!! Come at me!
Mary Shelley: okie dokie [immediately shivs Bradbury, blade snaps]
Mary Shelley: what the fuck
Bradbury: ha! this isn’t even a tenth of my power!!!
Bradbury: what did I tell you?!
Bradbury: not a single one of you could defeat you!!
Mary Shelley: oh yeah?
Mary Shelley: guess we’ll have to gang up on you!! Get ‘im boys!
[Ann Radcliffe and Monk Lewis approach with chain and billy club respectively]
[Bradbury effortlessly blocks roundhouse kick by Wrath James White]
Bradbury: ha! Laughable!
[Bradbury effortlessly sidesteps kung fu chop by Alan Baxter]
Bradbury: ha! Pathetic!
Bradbury: come on! Come at me!
Robert E Howard: you sure about this pardna?
Howard: this ain’t no pea shooter hombre
Bradbury: [slapping chest] what’s the matter, ya pussy?
Bradbury: Fuckin do it!!
Howard: hold on thar pardna
Howard: I think ya might wanna calm down
Bradbury: [grabbing gun and pulling Robert E Howard closer]
Bradbury: DO
Bradbury: IT
Howard: [aiming gun] okay pilgrim you asked fer it
Poe: bob
Poe: bob this is getting ridiculous
Poe: bob don’t
Howard: [cocking gun] sorry pardna
Howard: I gotta
Howard: it’s the law of the west
Ray Bradbury: [flexing] Behold!!! The power of Mr. Electrico!!! The electric man!!!
Barker: so ray
Barker: I hear this magician’s fake
Poe: clive
Bradbury: he’s a real magician
Barker: is he now
Barker: then why hasn’t anyone ever heard of him
Bradbury: he
Bradbury: he lives in Canada
#midnight pals#midnight society#the midnight society#ray bradbury#stephen king#dean koontz#edgar allan poe#clive barker#neil gaiman#gretchen felker-martin#alan baxter#wrath james white#robert e howard#mary shelley#ann radcliffe#matthew “monk” lewis
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#movie#motion picture#film#cinema#American film#American motion picture#Hollywood cinema#Hollywood film#Hollywood motion picture#neo noir#psychological thriller#Alan J. Pakula#Jane Fonda#Donald Sutherland#Warner Brothers#movie poster#film poster#movie trailer#film trailer#70s cinema#70s movie#70s film#70s motion picture#Klute#Andy Lewis & David E. Lewis#crime#Roy Scheider
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Here are just a few of the visitors to Jeffrey Epstein's island who were confirmed: 👇
▪️Adam Perry Lang
▪️Akon
▪️Al Gore
▪️Alan Dershowitz
▪️Albert Pinto
▪️Alee Baldwin
▪️Allison Mack
▪️Alyssa Rogers
▪️Anderson Cooper
▪️Andrea Mitrovich
▪️Andres Pastrana
▪️Angelina Jolie
▪️Anthony Kiedis
▪️Anthony Weiner
▪️Barack Obama
▪️Ben Affleck
▪️Bernie Sanders
▪️Beyonce
▪️Bill Clinton
▪️Bill Gates
▪️Bob Saget (deceased)
▪️Bruce Willis
▪️Casey Wasserman
▪️Callum Hudson-Odoi
▪️Celine Dion
▪️Charles Barkley
▪️Charlie Sheen
▪️Charlize Theron
▪️Chelsea Handler
▪️Cher
▪️Chris Tucker
▪️Chris Wagner
▪️Chrissy Teigen
▪️Cyndi Lauper
▪️Claire Hazel
▪️Courteney Cox
▪️Courtney Love
▪️Demi Moore
▪️Dan Schneider
▪️David Koch
▪️David Spade
▪️David Yarovesky
▪️Dolores Zorreguieta
▪️Donovan Mitchell
▪️Doug Band
▪️Drew Barrymore
▪️Ed Buck
▪️Ed Tuttle
▪️Ehud Barak
▪️Ellen DeGeneres
▪️Ellen Spencer
▪️Eminem
▪️Emmy Tayler
▪️Fleur Perry Lang
▪️Francis X. Suarez
▪️Freya Wissing
▪️Gary Roxburgh (pilot)
▪️George Clooney
▪️Ghislaine Maxwell
▪️Glenn Dubin
▪️Greg Holbert (deceased)
▪️Gwen Stefani
▪️Gwendolyn Beck
▪️Hank Coller (pilot)
▪️Heather Mann
▪️Heidi Klum
▪️Henry Rosovsky
▪️Hillary Clinton
▪️James Franco
▪️James Gunn
▪️Jay-Z
▪️Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased)
▪️Jean-Michel Gathy
▪️Jeffrey Jones (deceased)
▪️Jim Carrey
▪️Jimmy Kimmel
▪️Joe Biden
▪️Joe Pagano
▪️John Cusack
▪️John Legend
▪️John Podesta
▪️John Travolta
▪️Joy Behar
▪️Juan Pablo Molyneux
▪️Juliette Bryant
▪️Justin Roiland
▪️Justin Trudeau
▪️Kathy Griffin
▪️Katy Perry
▪️Kelly Spam
▪️Kevin Spacey
▪️Kirsten Gillibrand
▪️Kristy Rogers (deceased)
▪️Lady Gaga
▪️Larry Summers
▪️Larry Visoski (pilot)
▪️Laura Z. Wasserman
▪️Lawrence M. Krauss
▪️Linda Pinto
▪️Lisa Summers
▪️Lynn Forester de Rothchild
▪️Madonna
▪️Mandy Ellison (assistant)
▪️Mare Collins-Rector
▪️Marina Abramovic
▪️Mark Epstein
▪️Mark Lloyd
▪️Melinda Luntz
▪️Meryl Streep
▪️Michelle Obama
▪️Michelle Wolf
▪️Mikel Arteta
▪️Miley Cyrus
▪️Nadine Dorries
▪️Naomi Campbell
▪️Naomi Watts
▪️Natalie Blachon de Perrier
▪️Nicole Junkermann
▪️Olga Kurylenko
▪️Oliver Sacks
▪️Oprah
▪️Orlando Bloom
▪️Paris Hilton
▪️Patton Oswatt
▪️Paul Mellon
▪️Paula Epstein (deceased)
▪️Paula Hala
▪️Peter P. Marino
▪️Pharrell Williams
▪️Prince Andrew
▪️Prince Charles
▪️Quentin Tarantino
▪️Rachel Maddow
▪️Rainn Wilson
▪️Ralph Ellison
▪️Ray Barzana (pilot)
▪️Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis
▪️Rihanna
▪️Rita Wilson
▪️Rob Reiner
▪️Robert DeNiro
▪️Robert Downey Jr.
▪️Rodney E. Slater
▪️Ronald Burkle
▪️Rudy Gobert
▪️Sander Burger
▪️Sarah Kellen (assistant)
▪️Sarah Silverman
▪️Seth Green
▪️Shelley Harrison
▪️Shelley Lewis
▪️Sophie Biddle-Hakim
▪️Sophie Trudeau
▪️Stephen Collins
▪️Stephen Colbert
▪️Steven Spielberg
▪️Steven Tyler
▪️Svetlana Glazunova
▪️Teala Davies
▪️Tiffany Gramza
▪️Tom Hanks
▪️Tom Pritzker
▪️Tyler Grasham (deceased)
▪️Victor Salva
▪️Wanda Sykes
▪️Whoopi Goldberg
Of course we knew some of these already. 🤔
#pay attention#educate yourselves#educate yourself#knowledge is power#reeducate yourself#reeducate yourselves#think about it#think for yourselves#think for yourself#do your homework#do some research#do your own research#ask yourself questions#question everything
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what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark
In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson
The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood
The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
The Willows, Algernon Blackwood
The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon
'Bloom', John Langan
The Ruins, Scott Smith
The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell
'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson
The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley
The Ash-Tree, M.R. James
Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney
The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter
'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini
Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss
Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin
Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks
Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison
The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector
'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams
Apartment Building E, Malachi King
The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith
Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Nursery, Lewis Mallory
The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima
The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda
Semiosis, Sue Burke
The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly
Perennials, Bryce Gibson
Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary
The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson
Ordinary Horror, David Searcy
The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper
The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey
Seeders, A.J. Colucci
Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean
The Plant, Stephen King
Anthologies/collections :
The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry
Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward
Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher
Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller
'But fungi aren't plants' :
The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight
Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay
The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley
'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher
The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling
Mungwort, James Noll
Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham
Notes :
all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;
list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;
if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;
not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).
#text#ramblings#plant tag#botanical horror#last time i posted a list of non-fiction books on the topic. time for some variety
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Welcome to the hottest 80s band tourney
In this tournament you can submit an band from the 80s here and we’ll see who’s the hottest
Submissions are now closed
Submission requirements
It must be a band no solo artists
I need a list of the members and the instrument they play
They had to have produced at least one album during the 80s
Choose the lineup that you want just make sure that they just all performed together during the 80s
For a list of the lineups check here a quicker list of submitted bands is down below. We are trying to get to 256 submissions so don’t worry about submitting to many bands.
List of submitted bands
will be updated
Guns’N Roses
Mötley Crüe
Queen
Hanoi Rocks
Iron Maiden
Poison
Rush
Anthrax
Possessed
Bon Jovi
Skid Row
Talking Heads
Warrant
The Cure
The Bangles
Def Leppard
The Traveling Wilburys
U2
Dokken
Blondie
Duran Duran
Quiet Riot
Aerosmith
Dio
Metallica
Winger
The Human League
The Clash
Cinderella
Nirvana
The Smiths
The Police
They Might Be Giants
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
R.E.M.
Spın̈al Tap
Tin Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
ZZ Top
AC/DC
Beastie Boys
Depeche Mode
The Pogues
Bauhaus
Prince and the Revolution
Joy Division
Fleetwood Mac
Devo
Van Halen
Van Halen (again)
Led Zeppelin
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
Genesis
Primus
Ramones
Yes
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Kraftwerk
The Alan Parsons Project
Hall and Oates
Echo and the Bunnymen
Tears for Fears
The Psychedelic Furs
Misfits
Living Colour
XTC
Adam and the Ants
Run-DMC
King Crimson
Public Enemy
KISS
N.W.A.
Whitesnake
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
L.A. Guns
W.A.S.P.
Pantera
Styx
B-52’s
Vixen
The Go Go’s
The Residents
Pretenders
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Asia
Jethro Tull
Green Day
Journey
Wham!
Pet Shop Boys
The Who
Scorpions
Heart
Ratt
The Beach Boys
Queensrÿche
The Cars
Foreigner
Marillion
GWAR
Max Webster
Twisted Sister
Stray Cats
Megadeth
The Stone Roses
Slayer
Operation Ivy
Bam Bam
Cybotron
Steve Miller Band
The Highwaymen
10cc
Fugazi
Minor Threat
Dead Kennedys
Blackfoot
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Dire Straits
Electric Light Orchestra
The J. Geils Band
Judas Priest
Motörhead
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Chicago
The Replacements
The Kinks
Pixies
Men at Work
Stryper
Faster Pussycat
Thin Lizzy
Grateful Dead
Sepultura
Bananarama
Nine Inch Nails
Foghat
Blue Öyster Cult
Culture Club
Tesla
Soundgarden
Berlin
Boston
Public Image Ltd
Pink Floyd
The Professionals
Starship
REO Speedwagon
Extreme
Shonen Knife
Night Ranger
De La Soul
Salt-N-Pepa
Earth, Wind & Fire
X
X Japan
The The
The Time
Steely Dan
Godley & Creme
The Tragically Hip
Dexys Midnight Runners
The Cross
Sonic Youth
Roxy Music
The Rolling Stones
Hüsker Dü
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
New Kids on the Block
Huey Lewis and the News
Eurythmics
A Flock of Seagulls
The Blues Brothers
Love and Rockets
Strawberry Switchblade
Los Lobos
Santana
Oingo Boingo
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
A-ha
Crack the Sky
Crowded House
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Eric B. & Rakim
Commodores
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
KIX
White Zombie
UB40
Great White
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
White Lion
.38 Special
The Tubes
Utopia
The Sugarcubes
Faith No More
Throbbing Gristle
Ministry
'til tuesday
Sparks
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
The Oak Ridge Boys
The Judds
Dinosaur Jr.
The Moody Blues
Pat Metheney Group
INXS
Status Quo
Melvins
Pandora's Box
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
New Order
Meat Puppets
Descendents
The Fall
Spandau Ballet
Thompson Twins
Tom Tom Club
Jane's Addict
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Modern English
Cutting Crew
My Bloody Valentine
Black Flag
Wire
The Cult
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Specials
Missing Persons
Simply Red
The Romantics
Madness
Violent Femmes
Skinny Puppy
Cocteau Twins
The Damned
Simple Minds
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
TISM (This Is Serious Mum)
The Cockroaches
The Allman Brothers Band
Cold Chisel
Midnight Oil
NOFX
The Crucifucks
America
Bad Religion
Helloween
Mother Love Bone
The KLF (a.k.a. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, a.k.a. The Timelords) [same group, just used numerous names]
Dog Police
Frank Chickens
Men Without Hats
Europe
Can I submit propaganda?
Not right now. If you do I won’t post it until the polls start which looking right now could be a while.
But it will be posted eventually
can I submit more than one band?
yes!! Go wild
Some blogs that inspired this
@billboard-hotties-tourney
@the-80s-music-colosseum
#80s bands#80s music#80s glam#80s metal#80s rock#tournament poll#tumblr tournament#The hottest 80s band tournament#80s pop#80s post punk#80s country#80s#1980s#eighties
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I have neither the time nor the inclination to reread every single one of these this Christmas season, but I'd like to get to some of them and wanted a reference. These are nonexhaustive lists of books from my own collection.
Christmas as a primary theme/setting
While Shepherds Watch by E. L. Bates
I Am Half Sick of Shadows and Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mewed by Alan Bradley
The Snow Sister by Emma Carroll
"The Flying Stars" by G. K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sister of the Angels by Elizabeth Goudge
Addy's Surprise by Connie Porter
"The Necklace of Pearls" by Dorothy L. Sayers
Samantha's Surprise by Maxine Rose Schur
Kirsten's Surprise by Janet Beeler Shaw
Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories by Noel Streatfeild
Felicity's Surprise, Josefina's Surprise, Kit's Surprise, and Molly's Surprise by Valerie Tripp
The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
"Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit" by P. G. Wodehouse
Not about Christmas primarily but have memorable sequences set then
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Tenthragon by Constance Savery
Most of the Shoes books but especially Theater Shoes/Curtain Up by Noel Streatfeild
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Most of the Little House books but especially Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#random personal stuff#this one is up for grabs#I can reel it back in if it gets out of hand no worries#the AG Christmas stories are classics and I stand by this
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The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis // A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin // Angst - Merita Jaha // This is Me Trying - Taylor Swift // Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Gladly Beyond - e. e. cummings // Making Amends, panel 2 - Holly Warburton // Nothing Else Matters - Phoebe Bridgers // A54 -Alan Aine // Georgia O'Keeffe - Alfred Stieglitz // I Hate U, I Love U - Garrett Nash // Dragon Age: Origins - David Gaider // Sweetwater 4 - Manuel Neri
#web weave#web weaving#compilations#lyrics#poetry#words#on love#love is pain#vulnerability#fear of intimacy#c s lewis#george r r martin#game of thrones#taylor swift#this is me trying#e e cummings#holly warburton#phoebe bridgers#dark academia
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Hi Ms. Duane. It’s really crazy for me to find out you have a tumblr. I just want to say that I loved your books growing up. They pulled me through middle school and high school. The combination of magic and science fiction was super inspiring, and they’re still some of my favorite books. It was also so cool to have two main characters who were Hispanic, I really appreciated it. I’m an adult and also a writer now (though unpublished.) I just wanted to say thank you :) and ask, do you have any favorite books that inspired you? Or advice for people just starting out?
First of all: thanks for the nice words! I'm very glad you've enjoyed the books. (As for characters, have to agree that the Rodriguez family are something special. In Kit's case I think I knew from the start that he was star material; but there's no question that Carmela has been giving him a run for his money. That girl needs watching.) :)
If we were to start getting into a really substantive list of my favorite books, we'd be here for the rest of the month. :) ...It's safer to come at it more generally. In my teens I was reading a lot of what we'd think of as the "old classic" SF writers such as Robert Heinlein, Andre Norton, Alan Nourse, Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury: and on the fantasy(ish) side, E. R. Eddison, Lord Dunsany, J. R. R. Tolkien, William Morris, Clark Ashton Smith, Andre Norton (again), T. H. White, Gene Wolfe, James Branch Cabell, Peter Beagle, Joy Chant, Susan Cooper, C. S. Lewis, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Eager, Edith Nesbit, and many others. (The works included in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series—pretty much all of them—could probably be considered the foundation on which my own work rests, especially the fantasy.)
There are numerous books I come back to repeatedly—not so much for inspiration as for (periodically necessary) reminders of what good writing looks like to me: particularly that kind of writing in which a rock-solid "certainty of voice" means I can practically hear the author speaking. The ones I'm rereading at the moment are Lewis's Till We Have Faces, Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree and The Dean's Watch, and Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
As for advice to people just getting into writing (whether or not with an eye to possible future publication): I think the smartest move is to write with an eye to finding, and learning to trust, your own voice. It's paradoxical, but I think this happens most quickly when you read very widely—meaning both out of our own time period, and outside of your chosen genre. This isn't something that happens overnight, or that (once you've found a writing voice that feels right to you) is going to stay the same. Everything about the work of writing grows and changes with the writer: your voice will be no exception.
Also: in your writing, keep trying new things, new approaches. Some of them won't work, but some of them will... and if you don't go looking for them, you'll never find out what difference they can make in your work. Always be challenging yourself: always be saying, "That worked (or didn't): how can I do better next time?" ...That's what I've been doing for a good while now, and it's worked fairly well for me. :)
...Hope this helps!
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100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order
The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Passage to India by EM Forster
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1984 by George Orwell
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Ulysses by James Joyce
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Watchmen by Alan Moore
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Money by Martin Amis
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968
Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm
Transcript Below
We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.
Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.
We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.
Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.
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I libri nominati da Rory Gilmore
1 – 1984, George Orwell
2 – Le Avventure di Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain
3 – Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carrol
4 – Le Fantastiche Avventure di Kavalier e Clay, Michael Chabon
5 – Una Tragedia Americana, Theodore Dreiser
6 – Le Ceneri di Angela, Frank McCourt
7 – Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoj
8 – Il Diario di Anna Frank
9 – La Guerra Archidamica, Donald Kagan
10 – L’Arte del Romanzo, Henry James
11 – L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu
12 – Mentre Morivo, William Faulkner
13 – Espiazione, Ian McEvan
14 – Autobiografia di un Volto, Lucy Grealy
15 – Il Risveglio, Kate Chopin
16 – Babe, Dick King-Smith
17 – Contrattacco. La Guerra non Dichiarata Contro le Donne, Susan Faludi
18 – Balzac e la Piccola Sarta Cinese, Dai Sijie
19 – Bel Canto, Anne Pachett
20 – La Campana di Vetro, Sylvia Plath
21 – Amatissima, Toni Morrison
22 – Beowulf: una Nuova Traduzione, Seamus Heaney
23 – La Bhagavad Gita
24 – Il Piccolo Villaggio dei Sopravvissuti, Peter Duffy
25 – Bitch Rules. Consigli di Comune Buonsenso per donne Fuori dal Comune, Elizabeth Wurtzel
26 – Un Fulmine a Ciel Sereno ed altri Saggi, Mary McCarthy
27 – Il Mondo Nuovo, Adolf Huxley
28 – Brick Lane, Monica Ali
29 – Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner
30 – Candido, Voltaire
31 – I Racconti di Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer
32 – Carrie, Stephen King
33 – Catch-22, Joseph Heller
34 – Il Giovane Holden, J.D.Salinger
35 – La Tela di Carlotta, E.B.White
36 – Quelle Due, Lillian Hellman
37 – Christine, Stephen King
38 – Il Canto di Natale, Charles Dickens
39 – Arancia Meccanica, Anthony Burgess
40 – Il Codice dei Wooster, P.G.Wodehouse
41 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
42 – La Commedia degli Errori, William Shakespeare
43 – Novelle, Dawn Powell
44 – Tutte le Poesie, Anne Sexton
45 – Racconti, Dorothy Parker
46 – Una Banda di Idioti, John Kennedy Toole
47 – Il03 al 09/03 Conte di Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas
48 – La Cugina Bette, Honore de Balzac
49 – Delitto e Castigo, Fedor Dostoevskij
50 – Il Petalo Cremisi e il Bianco, Michel Faber
51 – Il Crogiuolo, Arthur Miller
52 – Cujo, Stephen King
53 – Il Curioso Caso del Cane Ucciso a Mezzanotte, Mark Haddon
54 – La Figlia della Fortuna, Isabel Allende
55 – David e Lisa, Dr.Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56 – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
57 – Il Codice Da Vinci, Dan Brown
58 – Le Anime Morte, Nikolaj Gogol
59 – I Demoni, Fedor Dostoevskij
60 – Morte di un Commesso Viaggiatore, Arthur Miller
61 – Deenie, Judy Blume
62 – La Città Bianca e il Diavolo, Erik Larson
63 – The Dirt. Confessioni della Band più Oltraggiosa del Rock, Tommy Lee – Vince Neil – Mick Mars – Nikki Sixx
64 – La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri
65 – I Sublimi Segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecca Wells
66 – Don Chischiotte, Miguel de Cervantes
67 – A Spasso con Daisy, Alfred Uhvr
68 – Dr. Jeckill e Mr.Hide, Robert Louis Stevenson
69 – Tutti i Racconti e le Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe
70 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook
71 – Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
72 – Lettere, Mark Dunn
73 – Eloise, Kay Thompson
74 – Emily The Strange, Roger Reger
75 – Emma, Jane Austen
76 – Il Declino dell’Impero Whiting, Richard Russo
77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective, Donald J.Sobol
78 – Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
79 – Etica, Spinoza
80 – Europe Through the back door, 2003, Rick Steves
81 – Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
82 – Ogni cosa è Illuminata, Jonathan Safran Foer
83 – Stravaganza, Gary Krist
84 – Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
85 – Farhenheit 9/11, Michael Moore
86 – La Caduta dell’Impero di Atene, Donald Kagan
87 – Fat Land, il Paese dei Ciccioni, Greg Critser
88 – Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, Hunter S.Thompson
89 – La Compagnia dell’Anello, J.R.R.Tolkien
90 – Il Violinista sul Tetto, Joseph Stein
91 – Le Cinque Persone che Incontri in Cielo, Mitch Albom
92 – Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce
93 – Fletch, Gregory McDonald
94 – Fiori per Algernon, Daniel Keyes
95 – La Fortezza della Solitudine, Jonathan Lethem
96 – La Fonte Meravigliosa, Ayn Rand
97 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
98 – Franny e Zooeey, J.D.Salinger
99 – Quel Pazzo Venerdì, Mary Rodgers
100 – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut
101 – Questioni di Genere, Judith Butler
102 – George W.Bushism: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President, Jacob Weisberg
103 – Gidget, Fredrick Kohner
104 – Ragazze Interrotte, Susanna Kaysen
105 – The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
106 – Il Padrino, Parte I, Mario Puzo
107 – Il Dio delle Piccole Cose, Arundhati Roy
108 – La Storia dei Tre Orsi, Alvin Granowsky
109 – Via Col Vento, Margaret Mitchell
110 – Il Buon Soldato, Ford Maddox Ford
111 – Il Gospel secondo Judy Bloom
112 – Il Laureato, Charles Webb
113 – Furore, John Steinbeck
114 – Il Grande Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald
115 – Grandi Speranze, Charles Dickens
116 – Il Gruppo, Mary McCarthy
117 – Amleto, William Shakespeare
118 – Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, J.K.Rowling
119 – Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale, J.K.Rowling
120 – L’Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio, Dave Eggers
121 – Cuore di Tenebra, Joseph Conrad
122 – Helter Skelter: La vera storia del Caso Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry
123 – Enrico IV, Parte Prima, William Shakespeare
124 – Enrico IV, Parte Seconda, William Shakespeare
125 – Enrico V, William Shakespeare
126 – Alta Fedeltà, Nick Hornby
127 – La Storia del Declino e della Caduta dell’Impero Romano, Edward Gibbon
128 – Holidays on Ice: Storie, David Sedaris
129 – The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton
130 – La Casa di Sabbia e Nebbia, Andre Dubus III
131 – La Casa degli Spiriti, Isabel Allende
132 – Come Respirare Sott’acqua, Julie Orringer
133 – Come il Grinch Rubò il Natale, Dr.Seuss
134 – How the Light Gets In, M.J.Hyland
135 – Urlo, Allen Ginsberg
136 – Il Gobbo di Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
137 – Iliade, Omero
138 – Sono con la Band, Pamela des Barres
139 – A Sangue Freddo, Truman Capote
140 – Inferno, Dante
141 – …e l’Uomo Creò Satana, Jerome Lawrence e Robert E.Lee
142 – Ironweed, William J.Kennedy
143 – It takes a Village, Hilary Clinton
144 – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
145 – Il Circolo della Fortuna e della Felicità, Amy tan
146 – Giulio Cesare, William Shakespeare
147 – Il Celebre Ranocchio Saltatore della Contea di Calaveras, Mark Twain
148 – La Giungla, Upton Sinclair
149 – Just a Couple of Days, Tony Vigorito
150 – The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander
151 – Kitchen Confidential: Avventure Gastronomiche a New York, Anthony Bourdain
152 – Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni, Khaled Hosseini
153 – L’amante di Lady Chatterley, D.H.Lawrence
154 – L’Ultimo Impero: Saggi 1992-2000, Gore Vidal
155 – Foglie d’Erba, Walt Whitman
156 – La Leggenda di Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield
157 – Meno di Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
158 – Lettere a un Giovane Poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke
159 – Balle! E tutti i Ballisti che Ce Le Stanno Raccontando, Al Franken
160 – Vita di Pi, Yann Martell
161 – La piccola Dorrit, Charles Dickens
162 – The little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway
163 – La piccola fiammiferaia, Hans Christian Andersen
164 – Piccole Donne, Louisa May Alcott
165 – Living History, Hilary Clinton
166 – Il signore delle Mosche, William Golding
167 – La Lotteria, ed altre storie, Shirley Jackson
168 – Amabili Resti, Alice Sebold
169 – Love Story, Eric Segal
170 – Macbeth, William Shakespeare
171 – Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
172 – The Manticore, Robertson Davies
173 – Marathon Man, William Goldman
174 – Il Maestro e Margherita, Michail Bulgakov
175 – Memorie di una figlia per bene, Simone de Beauvoir
176 – Memorie del Generale W.T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman
177 – L’uomo più divertente del mondo, David Sedaris
178 – The meaning of Consuelo, Judith Ortiz Cofer
179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy, H.R. Mencken
180 – Le Allegre Comari di Windsor, William Shakespeare
181 – La Metamorfosi, Franz Kafka
182 – Middlesex, Jeoffrey Eugenides
183 – Anna dei Miracoli, William Gibson
184 – Moby Dick, Hermann Melville
185 – The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, Jim Irvin
186 – Moliere: la biografia, Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187 – A monetary history of the United States, Milton Friedman
188 – Monsieur Proust, Celeste Albaret
189 – A Month of Sundays: searching for the spirit and my sister, Julie Mars
190 – Festa Mobile, Ernest Hemingway
191 – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
192 – Gli ammutinati del Bounty, Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall
193 – My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Seymour M.Hersh
194 – My Life as Author and Editor, H.R.Mencken
195 – My life in orange: growing up with the guru, Tim Guest
196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978, Myra Waldo
197 – La custode di mia sorella, Jodi Picoult
198 – Il Nudo e il Morto, Norman Mailer
199 – Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco
200 – The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
201 – Il Diario di una Tata, Emma McLaughlin
202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing my Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen
203 – Nuove Poesie, Emily Dickinson
204 – The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay
205 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
206 – Notte, Elie Wiesel
207 – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, William E.Cain, Laurie A.Finke, Barbara E.Johnson, John P.McGowan
209 – Racconti 1930-1942, Dawn Powell
210 – Taccuino di un Vecchio Porco, Charles Bukowski
211 – Uomini e Topi, John Steinbeck
212 – Old School, Tobias Wolff
213 – Sulla Strada, Jack Kerouac
214 – Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cuculo, Ken Kesey
215 – Cent’Anni di Solitudine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216 – The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan
217 – La Notte dell’Oracolo, Paul Auster
218 – L’Ultimo degli Uomini, Margaret Atwood
219 – Otello, William Shakespeare
220 – Il Nostro Comune Amico, Charles Dickens
221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan
222 – La Mia Africa, Karen Blixen
223 – The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
224 – Passaggio in India, E.M.Forster
225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Donald Kagan
226 – Noi Siamo Infinito, Stephen Chbosky
227 – Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
228 – Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
229 – Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington
230 – Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
231 – Please Kill Me: Il Punk nelle Parole dei Suoi Protagonisti, Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain
232 – Una Vita da Lettore, Nick Hornby
233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
234 – The Portable Nietzche, Fredrich Nietzche
235 – The Price of Loyalty: George W.Bush, the White House, and the Education on Paul O’Neil, Ron Suskind
236 – Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen
237 – Property, Valerie Martin
238 – Pushkin, La Biografia, T.J.Binyon
239 – Pigmallione, G.B.Shaw
240 – Quattrocento, James Mckean
241 – A Quiet Storm, Rachel Howzell Hall
242 – Rapunzel, I Fratelli Grimm
243 – Il Corvo ed Altre Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe
244 – Il Filo del Rasoio, W.Somerset Maugham
245 – Leggere Lolita a Teheran, Azar Nafisi
246 – Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
248 – The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
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The Folio Society to Publish "DC: Batman" Celebrating Batman's 85th Anniversary
The Folio Society and DC Comics are partnering on DC: Batman, a hardback book celebrating the Dark Knight's 85th anniversary. The 320-page deluxe compilation will include 12 seminal comics all selected and introduced by DC President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief Jennette Kahn. DC: Batman will also come with stand-alone replica copy of Batman #1, "scanned in its entirety from an original 1940 copy...which includes the original back-up strips and vintage ads and introduces DC’s Clown Prince of Crime, aka The Joker, and The Cat, who would come to be known as Catwoman." (DC Comics)
Per DC Comics, DC: Batman includes:
"Facsimile: Batman #1 (Spring 1940)
Writer: Bill Finger
Cover artists: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson
Artists: Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
The Bat-Man
Detective Comics #27 (May 1939)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Bob Kane
Editor: Vincent Sullivan
Robin—the Boy Wonder
Detective Comics #38 (April 1940)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artists: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
The Crimes of Two-Face!
Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artists: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos
Letterers: Ira Schnapp
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
Batman and Green Arrow: The Senator’s Been Shot!
The Brave and the Bold #85 (September 1969)
Writer: Bob Haney
Cover artist: Neal Adams
Penciler: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Ben Oda
Editor: Murray Boltinoff
Daughter of the Demon
Batman #232 (June 1971)
Writer: Dennis O'Neil
Cover artist: Neal Adams
Penciler: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza
Editor: Julius Schwartz
The Dead Yet Live
Detective Comics #471 (August 1977)
Writer: Steve Englehart
Cover artists: Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin, Tatjana Wood, Gaspar Saladino
Penciler: Marshall Rogers
Inker: Terry Austin
Colorists: Marshall Rogers
Letterer: John Workman
Editors: Julius Schwartz, E. Nelson Bridwell
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 (June 1986)
Writer: Frank Miller
Cover artists: Frank Miller, Lynn Varley
Penciler: Frank Miller
Inker: Klaus Janson
Colorist: Lynn Varley
Letterer: John Costanza
Editors: Dick Giordano, Dennis O'Neil
Batman: Year One—Chapter One: Who I Am—How I Come to Be
Batman #404 (February 1987)
Writer: Frank Miller
Artist: Dave Mazzucchelli
Colorist: Richmond Lewis
Letterer: Todd Klein
Editor: Dennis O'Neil
Batman: The Killing Joke (July 1988)
Writer: Alan Moore
Cover artists: Brian Bolland, Richard Bruning
Artist: Brian Bolland
Colorist: John Higgins
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Editors: Dennis O'Neil, Dan Raspler
The Last Arkham (Part One)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992)
Writer: Alan Grant
Cover artist: Brian Stelfreeze
Penciler: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Norm Breyfogle
Colorist: Adrienne Roy
Letterer: Todd Klein
Editors: Scott Peterson, Dennis O'Neil
Knightfall Part 1: Crossed Eyes and Dotty Teas
Batman #492 (May 1993)
Writer: Doug Moench
Cover artists: Kelley Jones, Bob LeRose
Penciler: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Norm Breyfogle
Colorist Adrienne Roy
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Editors: Scott Peterson, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Dennis O'Neil"
DC: Batman is available at The Folio Society.
(Image via DC Comics)
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Is there a good book (or books) you'd recommend that cover the presidency from a broader or institutional perspective? I'm interested in learning about more than just one president, and I'd like to better understand how the powers of the office have transformed during the last century. Thanks in advance, if you have the time to respond!
There are scores of books that analyze and explain the institution of the Presidency itself, but I'll just list a few that immediately came to mind when reading your question:
•Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan by Richard E. Neustadt.
Neustadt was arguably the preeminent political scientist when it came to studying the institution of the Presidency. You can't go wrong with anything that he wrote.
•The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2021 [BOOK | KINDLE] by Sidney M. Milkis and Michael Nelson
This is the ninth edition of this book and I think the title pretty well explains what it's about. If you're looking to really get into the weeds about the Presidency, this book (or its previous editions) will take you there.
•The American Presidency by Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer (Editors)
Again, the title is pretty self-explanatory.
•The Modern American Presidency [BOOK | KINDLE] by Lewis L. Gould
Like Richard Neustadt, Lewis L. Gould is one of the top-notch experts on the study of the Presidency.
•The Imperial Presidency [BOOK | KINDLE] by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
This is probably the most well-known of the books that I'm listing. Schlesinger's study of the Presidency begins with the very creation of the position by the Founders and continues with the gradual expansion of Presidential power and growth of the Executive Branch. This book is also much more readable than some of the others I've mentioned, so it might be a good one to start with.
•The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office [BOOK | KINDLE] by Jeremi Suri
Published in 2017, this book focuses on many of the same aspects of the institution as others I've mentioned, but also brings the Presidency into the 21st Century and explains how top-heavy and unwieldy the position and the institution has become in the world today.
•The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency [BOOK | KINDLE] by John Dickerson
Another recently published book (2020), Dickerson's book also looks at how the Presidency has expanded and how difficult the job is and the burden that many Presidents have felt once they took the oath of office. Dickerson also focuses on some of the personalities who have tried to shape the Presidency, how some succeeded in the job, and how others were trampled by the immense powers and responsibilities of the office.
Again, these are just a handful of books that match what you seem to be looking for, but there are many more that focus on pretty much any aspect of the Presidency or the Executive Branch that you might be interested in.
I'd also suggest checking out two websites that have a lot of material that might help with what you're looking for and have the added bonus of not costing you anything to explore:
•The American Presidency Project at the UC Santa Barbara hosts tens of thousands of Presidential documents, speeches, a media archive, and commentary regarding the Presidency.
•The University of Virginia's Miller Center for Presidential History has many of the same resources as UCSB's American Presidency Project, but even more essays and analyses about the Presidency, specific Presidents, and Presidential policy. Their oral history archives are full of fascinating material and there is a ton of content all over their website. I've found the Miller Center's website to be a priceless source of material when doing research, or just checking out some of the featured content like audio from White House Tapes.
#Presidency#Executive Branch#Presidential Politics#Presidents#History#Presidential History#Institution of the Presidency#Executive Office of the President#Book Recommendations#Book Suggestions#Politics#Government#Presidential Power
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bands that have a picture
Guns’N Roses
ZZ Top
Mötley Crüe
Queen
Green Day
Hanoi Rocks
The Residents
De La Soul
Dead Kennedys
Europe
Iron Maiden
Wham!
Men Without Hats
The Cockroaches
Midnight Oil
GWAR
The Pogues
Beach Boys
Journey
Jethro Tull
Black Sabbath
Vixen
Queensrÿche
Ratt
Scorpions
Public Enemy
Faster Pussycat
Def Leppard
Heart
Bon Jovi
Skid Row
Bangles
Blondie
Duran Duran
The Go Go’s
The Highwaymen
Aerosmith
Nirvana
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Eric B. & Rakim
Godley and Creme
The Eurythmics
N.W.A.
Run D.M.C.
The Professionals
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Crucifucks
Cold Chisel
TISM
Bad Religion
Hall and Oates
The Pet Shop Boys
The Alan Parsons Project
Possessed
Cinderella
Whitesnake
W.A.S.P.
L.A. Guns
B-52’s
Dokken
Winger
The Cure
Quiet Riot
Poison
Both the Van Halens
Salt-n-Pepa
U2
New Kids On The Block
REO Speedwagon
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Huey Lewis and The News
The J. Geils Band
The Kinks
Warrant
Yes
White Zombie
Anthrax
Traveling Wilburys
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Body, Power, Politics
I've been having fun drafting my syllabus for my Body, Power, Politics graduate seminar happening in the spring. This is still just a draft of the readings... We will think through the body through the lenses of psychoanalysis, affect theory, biopolitics, social reproduction theory, black feminism, queer theory, new materialism, posthumanism, disability studies, and black studies. (I'm honestly tempted to do a whole semester of Sylvia Wynter...)
Seems like grad students from across the university have gotten wind that I'm now on faculty... my class was full within hours of registration opening. Departmental administrator: "This is a first that a class is full on the first day of the registration period." Now I have an inbox of students requesting to be let into the class. What to do!
Week 1: Introduction; Psychoanalysis and the Body
January 10
Course Introduction
Selection from The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader
2: Sigmund Freud, “A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis,” 1912, p 10
6: Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,” 1949, p 57
Week 2: Race and Psychoanalysis
January 17
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Recommended
Lewis Gordon, “Through the Zone of Nonbeing A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth Birthday”
Week 3: Between Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
January 24
Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage
Catherine Malabou, Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
“Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain”
“On Neural Plasticity, Trauma, and the Loss of Affects”
Week 4: Sylvia Wynter and the Human
January 31
Sylvia Wynter, “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, Identity, the Puzzle of Conscious Experience, and What It Is Like to Be ‘Black'”
Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—an Argument”
Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism”
Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, “Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations”
Recommended
Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, Its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition”
Week 5: Biopolitics, Bodies Without Organs
February 7
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?” 149-166
Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze (editor), Biopolitics: A Reader
Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, “Biopolitics: An Encounter,” p 1
Michel Foucault, “Right of Death and Power over Life,” p 41
Michel Foucault, “‘Society Must Be Defended,’ Lecture at the Collège de France,” p 61
Giorgio Agamben, “Introduction to Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life,” p 134
Week 6: Entangled Matter
February 14
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
Monika Rogowska-Stangret, “Corpor(e)al Cartographies of New Materialism. Meeting the Elsewhere Halfway”
Week 7: Social Reproduction Theory
February 21
Tithi Bhattacharya (Editor), Social Reproduction Theory
1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya
2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism - Nancy Fraser
3. Without Reserves - Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman
4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class - Tithi Bhattacharya
5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory - David McNally
9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities - Alan Sears
10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike - Cinzia Arruzza
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “The Power of Women and Subversion of the Community”
Silvia Federici, Chapter 2, “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” in Caliban and the Witch
Angela Davis, "The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective"
Week 8: Gender, Sexuality, and Capitalism
February 28
Christopher Chitty, Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System
Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke (editors), Transgender Marxism
Nat Raha, “A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction”
Zoe Belinsky, “Transgender and Disabled Bodies - Between Pain and the Imaginary”
Nathaniel Dickson, “Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology”
Recommended
Nat Raha, “Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism”
Week 9: Social Reproduction and the Family
March 7
Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
Week 10: Resistance and the Body
March 21
Nayan Shah, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes
Week 11: Surrogacy
March 28
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Recommended
Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now!
Week 12: Black Feminism, Flesh, Labor, and Value
April 4
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”
Saidiya Hartman, “The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors”
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “Towards a Black Feminist Poethics”
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value”
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “Difference Without Separability”
Week 13: Debility/Disabilty
April 11
Jasbir Puar, The Right to Maim Debility, Capacity, Disability
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
“Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)”
Week 14: Race and Technology
April 18
Ramon Amaro, The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
Week 15: Antiblackness and the Human
April 25
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
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TMJ Headcanons - Filmes
O que são headcanons? Headcanon é um termo utilizado por fãs que indica uma crença pessoal sobre a história ou os personagens que não foi confirmada oficialmente.
Ou seja: Tudo o que for escrito a seguir é de minha autoria, não foi confirmado ou negado por nenhuma fonte oficial.
Aviso: Não tenho direitos sobre nenhum aspecto da Turma da Mônica Jovem. Todos os direitos reservados à Maurício de Sousa Produções.
Esse post foi um pedido de @1995slisa
Sintam-se livres para me mandar mensagens e pedir por posts também!
Os filmes preferidos dos personagens da Turma:
Ah cara, não tem como escolher um só! São tantos filmes maneiros! Quer dizer, temos os filmes de super-heróis, que estão cada vez mais incríveis, tanto os da Marvel quanto os da DC (ok, talvez os da Marvel sejam um pouco mais incríveis). Também tem Piratas do Caribe, ou os filmes do Indiana Jones! Espera, e os Transformers! E Velozes e Furiosos! E também…
Dá pra ver que o Cascão tem uma ou duas coisinhas pra dizer sobre os filmes preferidos dele, mas se for pra escolher só um, então teria que ser Star Wars.
Você tá olhando para o fã número 1 do Cosmoguerreiro! Ele é simplesmente o cara das aventuras espaciais, e, com todo o amor a Star Trek, mas a gente tá falando de Star Wars, mano! Não existe comparação.
O Cascão tem uma regra base no que diz respeito às trilogias: o segundo filme é sempre o pior.
Nenhum hate a todos os segundos filmes por aí, mas esse é sempre aquele com mais encheção de linguiça, falatório e construção de enredo. Mesmo que a Cascuda argumente que “um enredo bem construído é crucial para o filme”, o Cascão não aguenta, afinal “eu tenho TDAH, caramba!”.
Mas Star Wars é a exceção que confirma a regra, e o filme preferido dele da trilogia (a primeira trilogia, obviamente) é O Ataque dos Clones. Quer dizer, é o filme do Mestre Yoda!
E só mencionando de passagem que o primeiro crush masculino dele foi o Anakin Skywalker em A Vingança dos Sith. Nova conquista desbloqueada: Bissexualidade.
Você provavelmente pensou em De Volta para o Futuro, mas nem ferrando! O Franja não consegue nem falar sobre esse filme sem ficar com dor de cabeça, afinal “que tipo de mentecapto consegue pensar que viagens no tempo funcionam desse jeito?”. O filme todo é um monte de besteira! Eles nem abordam a questão óbvia das cisões crono-dimensionais que o Marty McFly criou durante a trama, e também…
O Franja tem sérios problemas com filmes de ficção científica que não são realistas. Sim, Marina, ele sabe o que a palavra “ficção” significa, muito obrigado.
A aposta mais segura acabam sendo os dramas históricos, afinal não dá para errar com o passado (ele espera). Alguém lembra que ele trabalha em um museu? Hello?
O filme preferido mesmo eu diria que é O Jogo da Imitação, a história do matemático Alan Turing, e como ele inventou o primeiro protótipo do computador, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
A Marina acha chato, mas tudo bem. Ela pode ficar desenhando enquanto o Franja assiste.
Quem lembra da edição 21 da primeira série? Aquela do País das Maravilhas?
É canon que o livro preferido da Marina é Alice no País das Maravilhas, do Lewis Carrol, e eu acho que o filme também!
Todo o amor do mundo à animação da Disney, mas ela ama de paixão mesmo a versão live-action de 2010, dirigida pelo Tim Burton. E a melhor parte, não tem nem como argumentar, é o Chapeleiro Maluco do Johnny Depp. O chapeleiro já era o personagem favorito dela no livro, imagine agora!
Sem falar no CGI, que é espetacular, com o Gato de Cheshire e as Flores Falantes! Ah, e Absolem, a lagarta azul estava simplesmente genial! Ou os figurinos! Os melhores sem dúvida são os das cortes das Rainhas Vermelha e Branca. E o contraste entre os dois reinos é soberbo!
Os filmes do Tim Burton sempre entregam. Ela poderia ficar fazendo análises da obra por horas.
O que veio primeiro: a paixão por RPG ou o vício em Senhor dos Anéis? O Xaveco realmente não sabe, mas de qualquer forma, esses filmes são demais!
Quem liga se cada filme tem umas três horas de duração? Você já reparou no worldbuilding? Na caracterização? Nos cenários? Se for por essa obra-prima ele consegue tankar três horas numa boa.
Ele também não entende o porquê das pessoas sempre preferirem a Trilogia do Senhor dos Anéis, a preferida dele sempre foi a do Hobbit. Não dá pra evitar, o Bilbo simplesmente é um protagonista mais maneiro que o Frodo! Tá certo que a primeira trilogia tem seus pontos fortes, como o Saruman debandando para o lado das trevas, ou a cruzada do Aragorn, ou também o arco de evolução do Boromir… Enfim, ele adora as duas trilogias.
O filme preferido do Xaveco, entre todos os seis, é O Hobbit: A Desolação de Smaug. É um filme incrível, não importa o que o Cascão diga!
Alguma coisa sobre o segundo filme das trilogias… honestamente ele não estava prestando muita atenção.
Você pensou em Truque de Mestre, eu pensei em Truque de Mestre, todo mundo pensou em Truque de Mestre.
É o filme do coração do Nimbus, e o melhor que fala sobre mágica de palco.
Ele assiste tanto que já sabe todas as falas de cor, toda a uma hora e cinquenta e cinco minutos de filme. O DC também, infelizmente, já decorou o script inteiro, afinal eles moram na mesma casa.
Montou vários truques inspirados nos do filme, e ficou feliz porque ele já conhecia o do espelho na caixa. Além disso, o Nimbus gastou um número absurdo de horas treinando para atirar cartas de baralho com tanta força assim. E daí que o DC sabe jogar estrelas ninja? Você já viu o que eu faço com um baralho?
Ele aprendeu a embaralhar cartas daquele jeito maneiro que o Atlas faz na abertura do filme.
Não assista filmes com o DC. Nunca. Jamais. Se ele te chamar para ir ao cinema, fuja correndo na direção oposta.
Flashbacks da edição 70, com o filme de seis horas do Palhaço e a Panqueca.
O DC sempre busca os piores e mais horrendos filmes alternativos odiados pela crítica, então não foi nenhuma surpresa quando, ao ser perguntado “qual o seu filme preferido?” ele tenha respondido: “Rubber, O Pneu Assassino”.
Por deus, não me perguntem como eu conheço essa porcaria de filme.
O enredo do filme é basicamente (adivinha) um pneu assassino. Literalmente, é a história de um pneu que mata pessoas com seus poderes telepáticos.
Eu me recuso a elaborar sobre.
Não assista.
#tmj#turma da mônica jovem#msp#cascão#franja#marina#xaveco#nimbus#dc#do contra#tmj headcanons#headcanons#filmes
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