nonsense verse –A type of verse in which meaning or sense is subordinate to sound. novel –A relatively long fictional story with a complex plot and several subplots. Novels generally exceed 200 pages or 100,000 words. Paperback romances and some series novels are traditionally 128 pages, but...
Chris Difford also inadvertently named a song on ist’s Toothpick Bridge, the album we released in 2009. One night in 2007, chatting nonsense in an Italian kitchen, I was telling stories of my cult-bound childhood to the gathered throng. Mr Difford took a perfectly timed comic beat and o...
“The feeling of commiseration is found in all men; the feeling of shame and dislike is found in all men; the feeling of respect and reverence is found in all men; and the feeling of right and wrong is found in all men. “The feeling of commiseration is what we call humanity; the f...
One main aspect of the Metaverse is that your avatar and your virtual possessions have to be able to move seamlessly between different virtual worlds and experiences. If you couldn’t, it would just be a “Verse”, or more accurately, just a video game. Second Life, released in 2003, had...
Yes, it is a verse from the Bible (so Atheists and other non-Christians may believe themselves exempt), but it’s also the best law I know of for life. Just think of all the evil that would cease to exist if we as humans – ALL humans (WITHOUT qualification or equivocation) – tr...
12. A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6) by Diana Gabaldon 13. The Christmas Pig by J.K. Rowling 14. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse #1) by Christopher Paolini 15. Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate* 16. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon* 17. Indian ...
John’s stories and verse ranged from standing in for Donny Osmond one night to travels in Albania and North Korea, the latter connection ultimately leading to catchy singalong ‘DPRK’, the Village People’s ‘YMCA’ reworked. Props also included his phone for poems he couldn’t remember so...
It’s been a wild ride, with so many hard-to-believe moments that I created aglossaryto keep track of the people, places and things of the chudoverse. I’ve also watched plenty of his rallies, for many of the DC-area chuds attend them and livestream from the audience. (The dirty ...
Often, in the first run-through of a verse in a Rush song, Peart would play a fill in a certain way (and because it was Peart, it would be a good fill). On the second verse, he’d usually play it a little differently. He’d omit a drum hit, for instance, so there’d be ...
In the entrance area, there was a Christmas tree as well as a beautiful diorama of the throne room from the 1987 live action movie, staffed with a mix of Masterverse and Classics movie figures as well as custom versions of characters that never had an action figure in their movie forms ...