Saturday, September 23, 2017
Dead to Begin With By Bill Crider: Review/Giveaway
Dead to Begin With By Bill Crider: Review/Giveaway | Kings River Life Magazine: We are excited this week to have a review of the latest mystery by Bill Crider, and an interesting interview with Bill. Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of Dead to Begin With. We also have a link to order it from Amazon, and from an indie bookstore where a portion goes to help support KRL.
How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire
How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire: “Mr. Chairman, I am against all foreign aid, especially to places like Hawaii and Alaska,” says Senator Fussmussen from the floor of a cartoon Senate in 1962. In the visitors’ gallery, Russian agents Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale are deciding whether to use their secret “Goof Gas” gun to turn the Congress stupid, as they did to all the rocket scientists and professors in the last episode of “Bullwinkle.”
I Miss the Old Days
American Actresses Who Defined the Hollywood's Golden Age in the 1940s: The 1930s and 1940s that marked by the Great Depression and leading into World War II is remembered as Hollywood's Golden Age.
As Well They Should Have
Children Used to Learn About Death and Damnation With Their ABCs: In 19th-century New England, the books that taught kids how to read had a Puritanical morbidity to them
Forgotten Hits: September 23rd
Forgotten Hits: September 23rd: The Strawberry Alarm Clock perform America's All-Time Favorite Psychedelic Song "Incense And Peppermints" on American Bandstand.
C. S. Lewis' 1937 Review of The Hobbit
C. S. Lewis' 1937 Review of The Hobbit: “The publishers claim that The Hobbit, though very unlike Alice, resembles it in being the work of a professor at play. A more important truth is that both belong to a very small class of books which have nothing in common save that each admits us to a world of its own—a world that seems to have been going on long before we stumbled into it but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him. Its place is with Alice, Flatland, Phantastes, The Wind in the Willows.
Friday, September 22, 2017
I Miss the Old Days
18 Year-Old Boxer Cassius Clay (Later Muhammad Ali) Wins Olympic Boxing Gold at the Rome 1960 Olympics: These were the games where one of the all-time sporting greats took his first steps on the international stage. A young boxer called Cassius Clay came to Rome intent on winning a gold medal, and left having taken a huge step towards becoming one of the most iconic figures in the history of sport.
Forgotten Hits: September 22nd
Forgotten Hits: September 22nd: The Beatles appear on the cover of "Time Magazine" … as a drawing … under the tagline "The Beatles / Their New Incarnation". It depicts The Fab Four in colorful outfits at a time that finds them in between their "Sgt. Pepper" and their "Magical Mystery Tour" projects.
Includes a couple of surveys, some nice photos, and a few songs to play.
Includes a couple of surveys, some nice photos, and a few songs to play.
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