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A terrific idea for the holiday, from Marijean: The idea behind this site is to gather favorite Thanksgiving recipes, ideas and memories of family and friends — so we can all share them easily and access them online in a living, changing cookbook and holiday planner, contributed to and collaborated on together. I’m interested in [...]
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Why movie vampires always break all the vampire rules. – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine "It's a familiar scene to anyone who knows vampire movies: the part where the vampire (or vampire expert) turns myth-buster and explains what vampires are really like." Ideas and Trends – Fossils Are Fine; a Live Beastie Is Better [...]
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A CvilleWords reader asks: I just went through my kids books this weekend, and I have two boxes of mostly hardback children’s picture books appropriate for kids under 8. Any suggestions of where I could take them so they can be utilized by other kids? Excellent question! My first suggestion: Your local domestic violence program [...]
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Vice Magazine – THE DARK LORD OF LOGOS Interview with a man who has drawn more than 7,000 black-metal band logos: "Will you stab me with a cursed, ruby-encrusted dagger if I say that I think you’re inspired by the Art Deco and Art Nouveau eras? "No…." He's created his own school of calligraphy, called [...]
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Picked this up from Language Log: The analysis indicates that the author of http://cvillewords.com is of the type: INTP – The Thinkers The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between [...]
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Are you Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times 'Authors Holly Black ("The Spiderwick Chronicles") and Justine Larbalestier ("Magic or Madness" trilogy) announced yesterday, with no small degree of glee, that they will be editing a zombies versus unicorns anthology for young adults.'
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Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck: Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.com "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light™, extends his purview to motion pictures with this week’s release of Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage, an inspirational holiday pastiche based on one of his paintings." Wow, I didn't think there was enough substance to a Thomas Kinkade painting [...]
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The Name Generator – A Name Generating Tool for Authors "Our name generator can spit out over 463 billion different first and last name combinations…." via the lovely and fascinating BookofJoe.com
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Podcasts from the University of Oxford via VeryShortList.com BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Dead Parrot sketch ancestor found "An ancestor of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch has been found in a joke book dating back to Greece in the 4th Century…." Read the whole thing — there's some knee-slappers in there. Tip o' [...]
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Review: The House of Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh | Books | The Guardian "Alexander Waugh's eminently readable, meticulously researched account of the Wittgenstein madhouse might have speculated a bit more on how this background helped to shape the most celebrated of all the Wittgensteins. It certainly casts some light on Ludwig's extraordinary contradictions." L. Ron [...]
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