Today I'm going to talk about small talk--that is, short conversations people often have with strangers they meet, such exchanges occurring at bus stops, on buses, on a waiting line, almost anywhere that strangers gather close together. As a matter of fact, these short conversations are a ...
Karen Page really does somehow think that Frank Castle isn’t the scum of the earth, and even though we know her Freudian excuse is that she murdered Wesley and she’s trying to excuse her own crime inwardly, there is no reason that they wrote her as a Punisher Stan in season two. Do...
I wrote the back cover “blurb” for my new book and I was really happy with it. It was funny, it described the story accurately, and I thought it would make people want to read the book. Hey, I got my start writing advertising copy while I was in college. I can do this stuff....
She would not like to be with a blind husband for the rest of her life, so she to marry him. Her boyfriend left in tears and a few days later wrote a to her, saying, "My dear, take good care of your eyes. they are yours, they were mine." This is how the human brain often...
Robin Sloan wrote. “But ‘sensible’ is another word for predictable, overused and boring. My intention here is to produce something unexpected.” I’m unconvinced that writers awarded the Nobel Prize have much to fear from AI. Their work, and that of countless other novelists, short story ...
The Earth Abides Project, also known as Don Scott's blog about everything about George R. Stewart. There is no substitute. Of course, Don wrote the standard biography of Stewart, described elsewhere in this website TheWikipedia pageabout Stewart ...
writer Nicole Givens Kurtz, and many more. Edited by Jesse J. Holland, distinguished visiting scholar in residence at the U. S. Library of Congress who edited the Marvel anthologyBlack Panther: Tales of Wakandaand wrote the novelization of the graphic novelBlack Panther: Who Is the Black ...
Singer, actor, and activist Andra Day will take the Super Bowl LVIII stage Sunday to perform what is known as the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." The song was written as a poem in 1900 by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson and was used as a rallying cry during the...
Pros: Gabbard could stake a claim to being the youngest female candidate in the field. Her military service in the Army National Guard coupled with her practice of Hinduism would give her a colorful and unique story for voters looking for something different. Cons: Her secret meeting with Syria...
1 hits to his name with and without The Beatles, but Paul set an unbreakable record when he wrote “Live and Let Die.”Paul McCartney | Bettmann/Contributor Paul McCartney set an unbreakable record with an Oscar nomination for “Live and Let Die”There was one Beatles song Paul never ...