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Detective James Arthur Ray Investigates Sedona

Anorak News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

New Age guru, motivational speaker, and Spiritual Warrior James Arthur Ray isn’t stopping his crusade for the truth...

Hair (not the musical)

BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

The Independent reviews the latest book by Juliet Barker Conquest: The English Kingdom of France . The article begins with a reminder of Juliet Barker's previous Brontë work: The books that first brought Juliet Barker renown were moving studies of the Brontës' lives and letters, and an immense life of Wordsworth. Her reinvention as a medievalist with her last book, Agincourt, seemed extraordinary,...

Books

jillysheep (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

I am pursuing my interest in the gender war - not that I like that way of describing it because to me it isn't a war. I'm currently reading Gender and the Media by Rosalind Gill which I am finding fascinating even though it is really an academic text. It's about how the way different sections of the media portray gender so it's not just about women but about men and masculinity and about what is apparently...

Reading and Writing Podcast interview

lying for a living (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Hear me speak! Yes, I can string two sentences together extemporaneously! You can listen to Jeff Rutherford’s interview with me, recorded at ThrillerFest in New York — talking about Stephen King, The Memory Collector, women who write thrillers, and other scintillating topics. Reading and Writing podcast interview.

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Hollywood

Time to Write (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

I just finished reading “The Disenchanted,” a fictionalized version of the time a young Budd Schulberg (the author of the book) spent with F. Scott Fitzgerald toward the end of the latter’s life. Fitzgerald, broke and suffering from alcoholism, took...

Luan Ranzetta

Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

The oddly named Luan Ranzetta was a pen-name used on a series of four science fiction novels published by Digit Books in 1962-64, all uniformly bad as SF and not especially good as novels. The SF Encyclopedia sums them up as "routine sf adventures, which focus on alien invasions and great disasters".The author behind the name—Luan perhaps an anagram of Luna, which was thought to be...

The Letter V

Zeigen (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sorry, every other letter in the alphabet, you’re fired. The letter V has completely dominated popular culture. Vvvv vvv vv, V vvvvv, vvv vvvv vvvvvv vv’vv vvvv vv vvv vv “v.” In the collage, roughly from left to right: Supermodel Anne V (Sports Illustrated photo), wearing a v-neck bathing suit, from her 5-year SI run. Actress Morena Baccarin as [...]

JELL-O Puddin' Poppers

Dartman's World Of Wonder (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

I happened to be going through various posts from the past and I came along the Bill Cosby - Silverthroat post that I did way back in the first year of the blog. One of the comments left on that post wanted to know if I had the album where Cos talked to kids about drugs. It came at an ironic time as my wife and I recently listened to that album this past summer. Not to mention that the Cos has been...

West is a Sexy Place in "Best of the West 2009"

NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton, foreword by Rick Bass University of Texas Press, 268 pages, $19.95 Best of the West 2009 is a welcome revival of anthology series that ran from 1988 through 1992, collecting outstanding stories set in "the Wide Side of the Missouri" that previously appeared in literary journals....

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Hamas Wants Britain to Make Amends for Crimes Against Palestine, Noam Chomsky, James Jones, Google, Tomgram

baithak (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Hamas Wants Britain to Make Amends for Crimes Against Palestine By Stuart Littlewood - London - Hamas marked the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration by recalling the misery of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) and insisting that European states in general and Britain in particular make amends for the crimes committed against Palestine. Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle' By...

Monte (Peace In Our Time)

NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

– David Kirby Once I got a postcard from Joyce Carol Oates, whose novel Unholy Loves I had reviewed favorably, and on it (the card) she wrote, "I think you must be a fellow Canadian," and I figured, well! That's me, all right: the Mounties, Wayne Gretzky, Margaret Atwood. . . . It wasn't until years later when I found the card again while cleaning up some old files that I saw she had...

Actual photographs from 1910

Making The Arsenal (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

MAKING THE ARSENAL is a novel – the diary of a football journalist in 1910 who is given the job of covering the story of the collapse of Woolwich Arsenal, its take-over by Fulham and its re-birth as a new club. But the story is more than just football – it is a story about life [...]

Talent will out: Sunday Post column on the Jedward phenomenon

Tom Morton's Beatcroft (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

In My View, Sunday Post, 8 November Talent, said the writer Stephen King, is a blunt knife that has to be delivered with enormous force. Success, said force having been delivered, may or may not follow. Very good books, even books discounted to within a millimetre of break-even, can fail miserably to be snatched from those supermarket shelves. Pop music is a whole different kilo of sprouts, however....

Friday Firsts (on a Sunday)

Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

This month Wendy supplied us with a list of first lines and asks which books we’ve read and which would make it to our tbr list on the basis of the first line. Bold = the books I’ve read Pink = tbr pile 1. Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride...

Juba in a jam, Tariq Hyder, Focussing on killer's religion, CIA & Prisoners, 21 Poets, Robert Fisk,

baithak (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Juba in a jam - Salva Kiir's controversial remark regarding the possibility of secession just shows that the southern Sudanese will not opt for unity at any cost, surmises Gamal Nkrumah Pakistan's terrorist surge - Cutting off the money supply to terrorists and diversifying economic and military aid are key to winning the battle for Pakistan, writes Tariq Osman Hyder . Without adequate multinational...

Abercrombie clothing history!

abercrombiefitch | 06/11/2009

Their yield. Abercrombie&Fitch were all kinds of sports lovers. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. has existed since the 1900’s. The group shaped retail generous and expedition clothing and it was notorious all around the United States. The guests owned a six stores and trendy menswear. The name of Abercrombie is said to its unique and the sold designer menswear for the A&F Company! Today as buyers experience...

Seductive Vampire

wposteruk | 15/10/2009

This tutorial will show you how to look like a haunting vampire. Inspired by Anne Rice's beautiful vampires. They're evocative, bewitching, desirable and haunting. Read Interview With The Vampire..... La suite... ( more... )

The colour of my childhood

jeta | 02/10/2009

We have another new year almost untouched by our faults and failings and yet there is always hope in all our lives. Some hope for material gain, some for better health, some for a better world system of things and a few of us (although we too are a dying 'breed') hope for that so important information that means so much. At 64 years, perhaps you may think I should be content with what I have achieved,...