A billionaire Republican megadonor has purchased a "sizable" stake in Twitter and "plans to push" to oust CEO Jack Dorsey among other changes, according to new reports, raising the prospect of a shocking election-year shakeup of the dominant social media platform that conservatives have long accused of overt left-wing political bias.
This book is a collection of adapted humour inspired by other writers, interspersed with some original texts and a handful of philosophical views, mostly wrapped in humour.\nJack is back, and blacker than black. With hysterical reports of people around the globe dying whilst idly reading his previous books, curiously both of them men, and with countless women complaining of uncomfortably close shaves, the Vatican, the World Health Organisation, and the #MeToo bandwagon, are now locked in a three-legged race to ban this book and prevent another pandemic. Or to use today's parlance, to stop it going viral. So, why not buy a few extra copies for your family and friends, and even your enemies, while you still can, and spread the word...
The results from the 2024 solar eclipse observers were mesmerizing.
Ripperologist JON REES explores the Jack the Ripper suspects named in the McNaughten Memoranda in 1894.
Découvre les 43 meilleures idées pour lutin de Noël (2021). Ces lutins taquins te feront rire et te surprendront à coup sûr. Bonne chasse!
Washington D.C. 1942
The real world is full of the kind of coincidences you'd dismiss as bad writing if you saw them in a movie.
One kind of negative book review is exceptionally painful – the one made by another author. See also: [ef-archive number=2 tag=”lists” ] Claire Fallon from Huffington Post has jus…
Novelist Jack London is born. His classic definition of a scab: someone who would cross a picket line and take a striker’s job: “After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He ha…
The first phone from Andy Rubin's Essential will launch "exclusively" with Sprint. That doesn't mean you're out of luck if you use another carrier, though.
A gag order prohibiting the former president from making critical comments about the federal prosecutors was paused earlier this month.
As opposed to an expert in one thing (I-shaped) or a “jack of all trades, master of none” generalist, a “t-shaped person” is an expert in at least one thing but also somewhat capable in many other…
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Ahead of Game of Thrones's return, Michael Hogan picks the beastliest brats
I don’t have to get married or subscribe to anything I don’t agree with because the society, family, friends or TV said so. I stopped drinking and finally quit smoking. I stopped looking for a mate to solve my issues.
What change could we bring about if we first established a basic foundation that centers on recognizing the ultimate goal is, to tell the truth? And what if the only assumption we dared to make was that of believing the other person is intentionally truthful and substantively informed?
Last April I did a blog post about some foil numbers that I picked up at Paperchase in London many years ago. You can read it here. Each letter had a British inspiration to go with it. Number seven was the Rupert Annuals. Here are some of the annuals that I have collected over the years. I didn't realize that a lot of my posts over the last couple of years have so much in common with the spirit of the Rupert Annuals, they really have been an inspiration to my work. Throughout this post I will have links to previous posts that tie in with each of the images that I have chosen. Every year at Christmas beginning in 1936 a new annual is published. The front and back of this annual is from the 1960 edtion. I love fireworks and I love an artists depiction of the exploding fireworks as well as his/her interpretation of the fireworks casings. Guy Fawkes Day is on the fifth of November and has made an appearance in one of the annuals. The very first "a little tour of my brain" blog post was about fireworks. This illustration is from the 1958 annual. The covers of the annuals have characters and situations from the stories appearing in a vignette. This is the cover of the 1958 Rupert Annual. The 1984 annual has this page of the residents of Nutwood where Rupert and his family live. We are in the 21st century but Rupert resides in the 1930's. This literary and artistic device gives way to some great mechanical inventions, almost "Kiddy Steam Punk". Besides these characters Rupert visits Father Christmas, the imps of Spring and Autumn, Jack Frost, mermaids and mermen and other creatures under the sea, as well a host of other characters from around the world on a regular basis. The way that I think about the characters that I create has been greatly influenced by the annuals. They are from an ongoing cast and their interaction is very important to the pieces I create. I know and understand who they are and what they will do and say. This 1976 Rupert annual shows an airship with a flying saucer styled structure hanging underneath it. Rupert is always dressed in his yellow and black trousers with a red sweater. After each story are games, puzzles and activities. This 1972 annual has a game with pictures of leaves and their corresponding fruits or nuts that you must match. The British picnic, this time held on tropical shores. There are two cakes, jam tarts, and fresh fruit, all to be washed down with hot tea. There are two posts about pastries for you to check out - Cakes, Cookies, and Pastries and Cakes and Pastries - Inspiration Results. This annual is from 1975. Rupert often goes to exotic locales in his adventures. The clever device of having Rupert perpetually in the 1930's makes the locales that much more exotic. You may want to check out another post that I did in the little tour of my brain series called "Far Off Places". The conjurer and his daughter, Tigerlily, live in a Japanese pagoda in Nutwood. This illustration is from the 1976 edition. I love stage magicians so much that I did four posts about them - Le Plus Grand Cabaret Du Monde, Magic Apparatus, and Stage Magicians, Kellar, Thurston, andStage Magicians, Assorted Posters This cover is for the 1974 Rupert Annual. A perfectly normal winter day in Nutwood; snow on the ground, everyone making snowmen, Gregory the guinea pig on a sled flying beside Jack Frost to see His Majesty King Frost in his palace in the clouds. Every issue has an origami design for children or their parents to fold from a square sheet of paper. The directions for this paper water lily design appeared in the 1958 edition. The King of the Birds also lives in a castle in the clouds. Rupert has visited him in various stories. This is the 1977 cover for the Rupert Annual. I know I have used this phrase before but I love paper crowns, party hats and noisemakers. The illustrations for this story appeared in the 1978 edition of the annual. Visit my post about party hats and noisemakers here. The costumes for the characters are wonderful. The attention to detail is another of the characteristics that draw me to these books. The landscape in this 1978 annual and all of the annuals is realistic. The fantasy is grounded in the real world. This illustration from the 1978 Rupert Annual shows fairground rides at a funfair. There are three posts that I did earlier this year about fairground rides and architecture - Wowie Zowie! Carters Steam Fair, Midway Rides at Centreville Amusement Park, Fairground Architecture and Midway Rides and one post about country fairs, Country Fairs, Metchosin Days, and the J-O-Lity Fair. The endpapers of the annuals are as interesting as the rest of the book. This is from the 1976 Rupert Annual.
This is an art print made on 12" x 16" heavyweight glossy stock. It has a thin white border around the edges. Each print is hand-cut and individually signed by the artist. ***A perfect decoration for your classroom or gift for the teachers and book-lovers in your life!*** The original drawing was done freehand with pen & marker. I cut the prints by hand from 12x18" stock, so they may have an extra centimeter or two of length at the top or bottom, which may need to be trimmed if you plan to frame them. Please keep in mind that these are art prints, not mass-produced posters, so they may contain minor imperfections. Each one is made by hand, with love, by the artist who originally created the illustrations, with no third-party involvement or corporate nonsense. If you have any questions or concerns, please never hesitate to reach out! :) And be sure to check out the other prints in my Authors series!
This is your wake-up call to stop pronouncing it "BEE-YORK".
The latest of our once-private behaviors to go viral? Biting those we love.
If there is a single point of agreement in the posthumous literature on Chaim Soutine, it is that the Lithuanian-born Jewish artist is surrounded by legend.
In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in […]
A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.
