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Firefighters hold ceremony for new truck
Newstreamz San Marcos —
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San Marcos firefighters welcomed a new fire apparatus to Fire Station No. 2 by reviving an old fire service tradition of pushing the old engine out by hand and pushing the new one in.9 hours ago -
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Sirens of Titan
Celsius1414 —
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As part of my anniversary-themed 2009 book list, I re-read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (30th - 1979) and Sirens of Titan (50th - 1959) over the last couple of days and was noticing some similar themes and reminiscent imagery between them. Lo and behold, via Wikipedia : In a 1979 interview released in ...18 hours ago -
OHares WWII Diary: A Final Glimpse at a Time When We Were "Prima"
Lehigh Valley Ramblings —
Authority: 138
These are the final entries from my dads brief writing career, a diary which he started almost immediately after being released as a German POW. My father was a complicated man, and I considered him a cold bastard much of the time. These diaries, and some other letters he wrote to his own " mommy and daddy ," opened ...1 day ago -
OHares WWII Diary: Half-Starved Soldier Worries About Brother in South Pacific
Lehigh Valley Ramblings —
Authority: 138
This is the latest installment from my dads short-lived diary, penned shortly after his release from a German POW camp. In these entries, my eighty pound and half-starved father worries about his brother, Art, who was then serving in the South Pacific. Uncle Art was wounded shortly after my fathers posts, but not ...2 days ago -
Whatever happened to Lasse Hallström?
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type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js">No one bats an eye when actors fall from toplining movies into the direct-to-video slough; with theatrical release down 14% from last year, its becoming increasingly common. (Not even a Bruce Willis cameo can save you.) But what does it mean when ...2 days ago -
OHares WWII Diary: Still No Word About Dresden Firebombing
Lehigh Valley Ramblings —
Authority: 138
This is the second in a series of entries from my fathers recently-discovered dairy. He kept it about a week after his release from a German POW camp. This second post, like the first, is strictly present tense. Yet just three months before, my dad and writer Kurt Vonnegut had ringside seats, as POWs, to the ...4 days ago -
The Real Slaughterhouse-Five
Barbara Shoup —
Authority: 109
Sixty-five years ago today, Kurt Vonnegut was captured by the Germans, setting in motion the experience that would eventually morph into his greatest novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Two years ago today, I had the privilege of talking with the late Bob Kelton, who shared that experience with him. My friend, Joan, had ...4 days ago -
Uneven Exchanges in Writing and Yoga
Get Lost With Easy-Writer —
Authority: 117
First off, I found this great quote on censorship."All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say lets get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned ...6 days ago -
OHares WWII Diary: "We are Being Looked After Like Pet Children by the Russians"
Lehigh Valley Ramblings —
Authority: 138
Writer Kurt Vonnegut s letter home, written soon after his release from a POW camp, was published here early this week . Believe it or not, my dad was the real writer back then - he even kept a diary for a few days. Unlike Vonnegut, he sheds no light on what had actually happened to him as a POW. He provides no ...6 days ago -
Contrast Podcast: Festive Fifty (34-50)
Muruch —
Authority: 422
You can hear the voices of both Muruch writers Brendan and Vic in the first installment of Contrast Podcast’s Festive Fifty . Brendan introduces “King of the Dogs” from Iggy Pop’s Préliminaires and Vic intros “Nice Very Nice” by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier from Ice-9 Ballads , which is on ...1 week ago -
what to be
nature calling —
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• "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - From "Mother Night" by American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) •1 week ago -
Todays Pop Five: Steve C.s top cat books (that arent about cats)
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed —
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The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Todays contribution comes from Steve C. in Hudson, Texas:1 week ago -
Bad Movies Done Right — Counting Down the Hits
Inside Pulse Movies —
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Teaching children to count can be a tough task. Sometimes kiddos can’t seem to grasp the ideas behind long division or basic trigonometry no matter how hard adults attempt to disguise the lesson as a catchy Schoolhouse Rock! song. Instead of leaving a child’s mathematical education in the hands of a Sesame ...1 week ago -
A Christmas Present From Kurt Vonnegut
Lehigh Valley Ramblings —
Authority: 138
A biographer has asked me for information concerning the friendship between my father and author Kurt Vonnegut . My brother, a pack rat, produced a letter that Vonnegut wrote to his own family, not long after he and my dad were released from a POW camp at the end of WWII. In many ways, this three-page letter is his ...1 week ago -
Muruch’s Best of the Decade: Albums
Muruch —
Authority: 422
In addition to my usual year end lists , I’ve also compiled Best of the Decade lists . Following are my favorite albums that were released between 2000-2009… Muruch’s Best of the Decade: Albums 25. Muse: The Resistance This is one of those albums that has classic potential, and I expect to move its ...1 week ago -
E-book rights for older books become newest battleground in publishing
DailyFinance —
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Filed under: Company News , Technology , Media Any publisher worth its salt will tell you that the real money in the business doesnt come from the current bestsellers by Stephanie Meyer and James Patterson, but the backlist: that deep catalog of books that were published years ago. Titles like J.D. Salingers 1951 ...1 week ago -
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Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes —
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Responses to the closing of Kirkus Reviews : Horn Book editor Roger Sutton on the magazine’s children’s book coverage: “What Kirkus did was to treat books for children and adults the same in the same publication.” Carolhoda Books editorial director Andrew Karre : “[T]here is no circumstance ...1 week ago -
Cramming three weeks worth of work into one
The Word Trade: An Evolution —
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Yeah! The holidays holly daze are here. No, not really, “yeah!” And, bah humbug I started saying “holly daze” a decade ago, gankers. Folks, I do not have the holly daze spirit. It’s been a wonderful year, it’s been a rough year. What’s more, it’s not over yet. Before the New Year dawns, we’ll ...1 week ago -
Muruch’s Top 15 Albums of 2009
Muruch —
Authority: 422
It’s that time of year again! Following are my Top 15 Albums of 2009. As usual, I tried to balance the order of the list between what I personally perceive as artistic merit (quality of songwriting, vocals, and instrumentation) and basic listenability (how many times I played the album throughout the year). I’ve ...1 week ago -
"Tillie The Artist Dog" Causes Chaos On Conan [Clips]
Jezebel —
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A dog named Tillie who "creates art" will go down in history as one of the least cooperative talk show guests of all time. Tillie is actually a performance artist intent on making a mockery of both art and television. Tillie is a Jack Russell terrier who loved to scratch on the floor. In 1999, her owner, Bowman ...2 weeks ago
