Writing, the poem thus seems to suggest, is ironically at once a tool of communication and a deeply isolating endeavor. Though readers shouldn't necessarily take the speaker of this poem to be Dickinson herself, the context of the poet's life could be helpful here: Dickinson was famously ...
The original Felix the Cat character balloon made its parade debut in 1927, but was destroyed after its post-parade release by a high tension wire in 1931. The Terrible Turk also was destroyed the same year by an electric sign. In 1932, Macy's Tom Cat balloon got stuck in the propeller...
Alaskan merchant Con Miller used to dress up as Santa Claus for the local kids every Christmas, so when he and his wife decided to open a trading post in North Pole, Alaska, in 1952, naming it Santa Claus House was a no-brainer. Inside the red-and-white building, visitors can buy Ch...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
I knew a guy just like Moth when I lived out in Montana. He used to be a bible camp counsellor every summer with a trunk full of booze so he could invite the older girls out to the parking lot. Once, he locked himself in a park restroom at midnight and I had to drive up to ...
It was a special birthday for all of us. We also wanted to make you happy. You still didn’t have words to express your feelings but everything else told us you were happy too. I remember you pulling me to give you sweets before the guests arrived. I had spoiled you so of course ...
Once there was a very rich, good king. Over the years, he grew weary and just wanted stress less, peace of mind. He went to a Guru and fell at his feet and said “Can you tell me how to remove this great burden of stress and worry from my mind”. ...
A great example of that would be the show that was canceled in 2000 after only one season but featured the talents of Jason Segel, James Franco, and Seth Rogan and is now considered a classic:Freaks and Geeks. However, nowadays thanks to DVD, Blu-Ray, and streaming platforms, you have ...
“A Christmas Prince,” its first attempt at a Hallmark-style Christmas romance. This tale of a young journalist who falls in love with a prince while researching a storywas dubbed “so bad it’s good” by many a critic, leadingto an explosion of memes,two sequels in as many years,...
“In retrospect, it’s clear that Bob was in the process of winding up a very large spring. I didn’t know then how much of that spring would be let loose in the coming months.”– Daniel Kramer On July 20th 1965, Bob Dylan, the star of the Greenwich Village Folk Boom, explode...