![]() ![]() It was a decades-long friendship-tender, moving, prodding, inspiring-sustained primarily through correspondence and characterized by brutal honesty, mutual admiration, and respect, revealing the generational and political differences each had to overcome in order to support one another's life. ![]() An important, groundbreaking book-two decades in work-that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing twenty-eight-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave, who, against all odds, as a lesbian black woman, became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and human rights internationalist) that critically shaped Eleanor Roosevelt's, and therefore FDR's, view of race and racism in America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This unique Wes Anderson feel can be felt throughout all his work, and some are more successful than others. Wes Anderson has no problem adding a quirky tendency to his films. Fox and the other animals in the neighborhood. The main driver of the plot revolves around the chase between Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, and Mr. Fox’s lawyer, Badger (Bill Murray), rabbits, and possums. Fox endangers not only his family and his marriage, but also those around him, which include a community composed of Mr. ![]() Fox gets a bit careless, and the three farmers he steals from, Boggie, Bunce, and Bean, eventually find out they’re being robbed. Fox is a charming character, but perhaps a little too witty for his own good. Fox (Meryl Streep) becomes pregnant, he cannot help but resume his bad habit. ![]() Fox promises to never steal from the farm again after Mrs. Fox (George Clooney), a fox who works as a newspaper columnist, but has a knack for stealing chickens from a nearby farm. Written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, the story revolves around Mr. Fox, is adapted from Roald Dahl’s children’s novel of the same name. Wes Anderson’s stop-motion film, Fantastic Mr. Fox is indulgent at its surface, but unravels itself to be a meticulously crafted story once its pyramid of layers is unpacked. As one of Wes Anderson’s best creations, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like slowly savoring a delicately crafted tarte. ![]() ![]() There is a note near the end which provides some basic facts to the story’s real-life setting. In 2007, she first attempted writing for young people. Then after becoming a mother, she tried her hand at articles, personal narratives, and short stories. ![]() She works in a library, teaches creative writing, and has written for twenty years. Below you can watch a video by the founder about the foundation, which provides scholarships to help young people in Kiberia receive quality education.īorn in England, Lois Peterson has also lived in Iraq, France, and the United States. Ten percent of the author royalties from the sale of The Paper House will be donated to Kiberia’s Red Rose School, Nairobi, through The Children of Kiberia Foundation. The above description comes from the back cover of The Paper House, a novel by Lois Peterson. ![]() Too poor to go to school, she makes a meager living for herself and her grandmother by selling things she finds at the garbage dump. Life is hard for ten-year-old Safiyah in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi. ![]() ![]() In the 1920s, three-wheelers were created for cross-country skiing enthusiasts to enjoy the sport to the fullest in the summertime. These were popular and mass-produced boards of the era. Till now, mass-manufacturing skateboards were not a thing, but then came the Roller Derby skateboards in the 1960s and the polyurethane-wheeled Hobie in the 70s. However, the first-ever skateboard came into being in the 1950s when artistic surfers tried their hands at making homemade boards. Later it evolved into the skeeter in the 1940s. However, the origin of the sport came from the invention of the three-wheeled scooter in the 1920s. The craze for skateboarding spread like wildfire in the 1960s. ![]() The History of Vintage Skateboards ( Image source) Some of the Vintage Skateboard Brands From The 80s.Features Of Highly Valuable Vintage Skateboards. ![]() ![]() ![]() The band hits the stage May 24 at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, New Hampshire, about 100 miles north of Boston, Foo Fighters' first tour since Hawkins' death.īeyoncé Renaissance tour set list: See all the songs on her nearly 3-hour show How did Foo Fighters introduce their new drummer, Josh Freese? Other songs performed from the event at the band’s Studio 606 included "Monkey Wrench" "All My Life," "No Son of Mine," and "The Sky is a Neighborhood." ![]() "A longtime friend" of Foo Fighters founder and frontman Dave Grohl and the rest of the band, according to Spin, Freese was among the drummers who joined the group and other musicians last year for two tribute concerts for drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died March 25, 2022.ĭuring Sunday's event, entitled "Preparing Music for Concerts" on streaming service Veeps, viewers heard performances of several songs from the band's upcoming album "But Here We Are." In addition to Foo Fighters' song "Under You," which hit streaming services Wednesday, the band played first single "Rescued" and new song "Nothing at All." ![]() Foo Fighters unveiled new drummer Josh Freese during a free live streaming show on Sunday.įreese, 50, is a session drummer who has spent time in bands such Guns N' Roses and Nine Inch Nails, and also joined the touring bands for Sting, Paramore and The Replacements. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book also has a short personal essay from the illustrator that talks about her anxiety and problems fitting into the crowd. ![]() Her cartoon drawings are adorable, clean and well drawn, she makes excellent commentary about the differences between products for woman and men and understands what it’s like to be a lazy, uninspired person just like me! I feel like we’re peas in a pod with the way we think, especially with our inner thoughts. I have so many favourite pages of this book but I think they best are the ones about irrationally buying all the books and the stupid clothes people make for women. Now that I’ve read this one, I am a Sarah Andersen follower. Andersen’s first collection, Adulthood is a Myth, won the Goodreads Choice Award 2016 for Best Comic or Graphic Novel so I was interested in reading this one and seeing what made her book win above all of the other fantastic comics and graphic novels nominated. ![]() Big Mushy Happy Lump! Sarah Andersen’s hugely popular, world-famous Sarah’s Scribbles comics are for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair, who are always down for all-night reading-in-bed parties and extremely exclusive after-hour one-person music festivals.īig Mushy Happy Lump is the second collection of comics by artist Sarah Andersen. Swimsuit season is coming up! Better get beach-body ready! Work on those abs! Lift those butts! …Um, or how about never mind to all that and just be a lump. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when I picked this up – because the cover doesn’t give much away – and knowing that the story of the Odyssey can’t really be told without a certain level of ick… I was worried. Even thinking about the art just creeps me out. ![]() I mean, at the far end of the spectrum, there’s Ren and Stimpy which gave me legitimate nightmares as a child. There’s a sort of… ickyness to it? It plays on slightly nasty details and it just… bleerrgh no. There’s gradations of it, but it’s currently most exemplified in Adventure Time. There’s a particular art-style I really, really dislike. So, why is it so fantastically brilliant? I’ll get to the Classics in a bit more detail in a moment, but for starters: the art. I need the next volume as soon as it’s available… which looks to be May this year *saves date in ‘phone calendar*. Not going to lie, this post is just going to be a stream of uninterrupted joy, because I loved this book without reservation. The way they write epithets, and twist the plot around the changes they’ve made. And the writers knew a thing or ten about the actual Odyssey. You remember all those half-formed misgivings I had about originality in The Wicked + The Divine? None of those here. And it’s an actually original, inspired re-write of the Odyssey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jocko’s examples of this idea in action mainly concerned personal development. That’s not true initially initially the discipline might be things you don’t want to do at the time, but the more you do things that you don’t want to do, the more you do the right things, the better off you’ll be and the more freedom you’ll have…” ![]() “If you want freedom, then you need to have discipline…the more discipline you have in your life the more you’ll be able to do what you want. Here’s how Jocko explained his book’s theme early in the discussion: I haven’t read the book yet, but I did listen to Jocko’s interview with the always-sharp Ryan Michler. He has a new book out and its title caught my attention: Discipline Equals Freedom. He recently wrote a business bestseller called Extreme Ownership and now does leadership consulting. He’s a former Navy Seal who was awarded a Bronze and Silver Star in Iraq while leading Task Force Bruiser: the most decorated special forces unit in that war. ![]() Jocko Willink is an intimidating looking man (see above). ![]() ![]() She has lived a hard life before the stories of the novels took place, having been born with an unusual talent that scared her parents, enough so that she was put through a mental health facility. She is, first of all, a 25 year old southern woman who works as a waitress in Merlotte’s Bar located in a fictional town in north-western Louisiana called Bon Temps. Sookie Stackhouse is the main protagonist of The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels or the more commonly known Sookie Stackhouse Series (By Charlaine Harris), several spin-offs or short stories of the series, and she is also the main protagonist in the television show adaptation of the novels, True Blood. The series grew into popularity, so much that today it has spawned many spin-offs and even a television show. The author, Charlaine Harris, spins her own a tale of the supernatural with creatures from myth and legend, an old idea with her own fresh new twist. ![]() ![]() The whole story revolves around its main character Sookie Stackhouse and is told in a narrative by its main character in the first person perspective. The Sookie Stackhouse Series (By Charlaine Harris) is a series of fictional books that was first published in 2001 and it is also known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels. ![]() |