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BP Top Ten…

BP Top Ten…

As strange as the timing may seem, British Petroleum (AKA #BP for you #TwitterHitters) has just recently released it’s list of Top Ten Movies and TV Shows of all time.  You may recognize a few of these or you may have already seen them an be inspired to see them again, either way, enjoy(don’t forget [...]

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Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

Former Poet Laureate of the United States.  One of America’s finest.  Subtle, smooth, almost  hypnotic.  He sneaks up over your shoulder, past intellectual barriers and feeds the world some “Biggie-size” imagery and meaning.  He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov. He was [...]

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A. E. Stallings

A. E. Stallings

Poetry: A.E. Stallings A.E. Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax (2000). Her verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, was published in 2007. She lives [...]

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MVP:  Werner Herzog

MVP: Werner Herzog

WERNER HERZOG REQUIEM FOR A DYING PLANET “Mr. Herzog has become one of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers.” — The New York Times While music has always played a significant role In the films of visionary director Werner Herzog, it is the extreme larger-than-life narratives of his movies, often blurring the boundaries [...]

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Hot shot:  Edward Albee

Hot shot: Edward Albee

Edward Albee has defined modern American theater for nearly five decades with his provocative, controversial and groundbreaking plays. Lauded as one of the eternal innovators in American drama, this three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner challenges his audiences with stories that express the bone-simple, shattering truth of the human experience, perhaps best exemplified by his 1962 masterpiece Who’s Afraid [...]

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Jake La Botz…

Jake La Botz…

Blues musician finds a home on the internet. LOS ANGELES, CA — Since the age his hands could reach around the neck of a guitar,  and probably even before that time, jazz blues prodigy, Jake La Botz has been amazing music fans all over the world. From Jake’s site (go listen):  Jake La Botz was conceived [...]

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A DOG’S TALE

A DOG’S TALE

CHAPTER I My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian.  This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself.  To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing.  My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, [...]

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THE $30,000 BEQUEST

THE $30,000 BEQUEST

by Mark Twain CHAPTER I Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each [...]

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Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

Former Poet Laureate of the United States.  One of America’s finest.  Subtle, smooth, almost  hypnotic.  He sneaks up over your shoulder, past intellectual barriers and feeds the world some “Biggie-size” imagery and meaning. If you’re learn something from someone who know what they were doing you can’t go wrong with a large does of Howard…

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All aboard! Leaving the station.

4/10/03 Part One: He noted, “Some planes leave at dawn,” Some trains leave at noon, Some planes lift off right on time some leave way to soon. Part Two: “The making of the in-flight movie is based on actual events.” So for All aboard Who are leaving the station, May your trip be grand. For [...]

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