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Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | yesterday
Joey Heatherton It could have been at the Sam Houston Coliseum, Palm Center, Gulfgate Mall or the Telephone Road Drive-In. But Tom Jacobs nor myself could actually remember the first time we met, other than five years ago, when he hired me at the Pearland Journal … see more. See also: joey heatherton today | brooke [...]
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear Mr. Inman: My daughter is reading John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as I did at her age in high school. I vividly remember seeing on TV in the late 1960s or early ’70s a production of it that followed the novel to the letter, including all the profanity the book contained. I [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad Bowl" or "Salis" -- gang shorthand for a city now defined most of all by ferocious...
Feral Jundi (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I found this article to be fascinating. Partly because this is a social experiment of the highest order, and partly because the proof in the pudding for COIN, is to be able to apply those principles to ‘other than war’ insurgencies. So this is a test, and if they can actually get it to [...]
the sad red earth (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A year and and nearly two weeks ago, Julia and I left Los Angeles to travel the country by motorhome and do research for our book on contemporary Native American life. Thursday we returned to L.A., not home quite – because we’ll be setting wheels to road some more, intermittently, throughout the next year – [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons.
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Academy of Science, San FranciscoThis is the cafe, it's a really beautiful modern building.
The Times-Journal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Fort Payne High School English teacher Adam Comeens does things a little differently for his classes.
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The BBC recently looked at how reading classic literature can help those in prison from reoffending. From the piece... Mr North says literature also helped addicts and other sick people. He said: "Literature is an incredibly broad thing and heals all of us all the time. "We're interested in how you deliver it in a highly charged way to get a result." Mary Stephenson, formerly writer...
Yorkshire Soul (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Muir Woods National MonumentThe home of big trees.Really big trees.
Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The contents of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue , are beginning to leak out. Amongst the revelations, Palin claims she was hushed-up from speaking on election night and the McCain campaign slugged her with a $500k legal bill.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
John Steinbeck's Journal of a Novel is a book I've kept on every desk I've written at for the past 10 years. I've rarely opened it when I'm not working on a book, and never when I'm writing well. But on those days when the engine room of a first draft feels claustrophobic or static, when the words have turned brittle and the whole endeavour seems either pointless or ridiculous, that's when I'll reach...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
John Steinbeck took a trip around the country in 1959, and wrote it up in Travels with Charley | In Search Of America , 1960. I put up a quote last night. Here he describes meeting a family of French Canadian temporary workers (really!) in Maine “In due course these people told me quite a bit [...]
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
John Steinbeck: “I’ve seen many migrant crop-picking people about the country: Hindus, Filipinos, Mexicans, Okies away from their states. Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season. It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans [...]
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