Terry Kilburn, the son of a London bus driver, was 11 years old when he was cast as Tiny Tim in the 1938 adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Kilburn starred in a few more films before hitting a growth spurt and finding himself unemployed. He transitioned to directing and...
So court cases were pretty much based on testimony and what the medical person said happened to the body. Secondly, we have to understand the politics of the frontier. The OK Coral gunfight happened 15 years after the end of the Civil War. Southerners were still smarting and unwilling to...
In a city where tornadoes are a way of life, this is pretty significant when you consider the one in question happened some 42 years ago, destroying numerous neighborhoods, schools, and nearly all the old-growth trees in Cherokee Park. There are entire websites dedicated to this tornado and...
Then, in late November a wonderful thing happened–Apple invented the iPod. In a split second this little white box with its massive 4gb (HA!) hard drive turned those 15 minute walks into the most highly anticipated stretches of my daily routine. I’d spend the better part of the ...
In 2012, the beloved and greatly mourned Palestinian singer Reem Banna publicly declared her dedication to a Free Syria and denounced the silence of the world in the face of the “most criminal and backward regime of the Arab world”, the Assad regime. Following is her declaration in Arabic,...
The film In the Heart of the Sea follows that story – what happened to them after the ship sunk? Well, weeks in a lifeboat with nothing but each other for company and no food… Then we have the many, many post-apocalyptic stories, starting with Soylent Green, in which overpopulation ...
So I checked around looking for a place I could take some instruments and go write for a few days and I happened upon this cottage in the foothills of Virginia and the people that owned that land were kind enough to let me come up. I brought some guitars, recording equipment, and ...
Doing beak like that with a kid at your mums, paramedics, ya shoulda thought about that one, heart stopper, BOOM! CLEAR! What happened to Richard? All I can see is gear… At six months to the day since my last post. There’s no real stellar significance to that though. I just stop...
Miles Davis played the biggest gig of his career when he brought his groundbreaking new Bitches Brew band to the 1970 Isle of Wight Music Festival, still the largest ever music event to take place in the UK. Jon Newey was there to witness this historic w
your choice of image for the post… 😀 Reply UH Cool, thank you! This is concise and immediately useful. I read other articles about this online that were way too long. So tldr happened. 😉 Reply Tim Shank Thanks for the tip. I plan on using the shorter line length at the...