They've always provided advice on when to engage in certain activities. Hey! We're talking things like the best time to plant zuchini. Like there's a bad time, no matter what you're going to be up to your neck in them. But I digress. Here are some good dates in September to do these things, according to the OFA.
Well, aren't these two just turned out perfectly for an afternoon of wilderness hiking. That'll go well. Anyway we actually have St Nicholas Magazine, some issues older than the one pictured here. Mary Mapes Dodge of 'Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates' fame founded the magazine in 1873. Looks like Jack London was a regular contributor, and here are some of the illustrators she used: Arthur Rackham, Frederic Remington, N. C. Wyeth, and Howard Pyle . Classy. And fond of snappy dressers.
No wondered he invented audio recording technology. These people are really in need of something to do. Were you aware that the earliest recordings were not what they played on the gramophone? Then you obviously haven't read the original Dracula novel! In it Renfield's doctor records his observations on metal cylinders, using an 'Edison Speaking Phonograph'. The cylinders wore out quickly so they fell out of use. But they didn't get past Bram Stoker. These aren't really the Edisons, by the way - I just thought the picture was amusing. The invention was real though, and you could get more details in Edison's biographies. And come on, read Dracula. I promise it's an excellent book.
I'm too old to say 'rock', so it doesn't really matter if they do or not. What matters is that we can aid you in fulfilling your desire to play in some kind of bizarre retro/emo/Weird Al kind of band. Or maybe just solo at a few polka parties. As befits an instrument that has reached this level of popularity, we just have one book on it. Is one enough? Wait! We also have the Zordan Piano accordion junior method Chart . Now you're set.
I hate high gas prices too, especially since it's driving up the cost of stuff like chocolate and doughnuts. But our parents remember a time when you got as much gas as the government allowed and that was it. During World War II rationing books were issued and determined your allotment. Then there was the energy crisis of the '70's. Because the United States supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, OPEC stopped exporting oil. There was a real shortage. In some states, drivers with an odd number at the end of their license plate number could buy gas only on odd-numbered days. Drivers with an even number could buy on even-numbered days. A different kind of bad news.
Now doesn't this make you hungry all over? How many of you got one of these? Not me. I got a pink plastic refrigerator instead. The door opened so I guess it was pretty cool. But we all wanted Easy Bake Ovens and across the nation mothers were heard to say "We all ready have a perfectly good oven". Well, did the oven have tiny pans? And light bulbs that never got hot enough to do any damage? And little cake mixes? Did it? Huh? The answer was no, but we still didn't get our Easy Bakes. Mothers can have such a practical streak. If you didn't get the toys you wanted either here's the book for you. But you don't have to sulk if you don't want to.
Really? for the first day of school in Des Moines? Or does Cher have a granddaughter in town? So what did they really wear to school in the era in which this poor child obviously had to wear her older sister's hand-me-downs? Glad you asked! These books are really fun to look through.
Your grand opus is all written and a thing of beauty. What now? The Writer's Market is a good source to check if you are unpublished and would like to remedy that situation. First of all it provides the basics that you need to provide to your potential publisher. Do you mail the whole book, or a synopsis or a chapter? Then you want to know where can you find: a list of literary agents; a list of book publisher and the kinds of books they are looking for; and a list of magazines that includes what they buy and what they pay. The Writer's Market answers (most) all. Definitely worth a look before you entrust your baby to strange hands.
It's Bad Poetry Day! Whoohoo! Get out those crayons and write! I don't have much information on it but Thomas and Ruth Roy of Lebanon, Pennsylvania apparently didn't have anything better to do one day and here we are. How does one write deliberately bad poetry? I mean the 'Roses are Red' variations hardly seem to qualify. Ahem. Allow me.
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