Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music Mary Jo Bang: On Learning, Self-Discipline, and Taking the Road Less Traveled Although the world at large knows Mary Jo Bang primarily as an award-winning poet, her biography is full of unexpected twists. She has earned no less than five degrees—a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University, a B.A. in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London, training as a Physician’s Assistant at St. Louis University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University—and she has worked as a commercial photographer, a research assistant to a geneticist, a welfare caseworker, a sweatshop garmet worker, a writer, and a teacher, among other things. Drawing on the richness of these many incarnations, Bang has published six books of poems to date, including The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Louise in Love, The Bride of E, and Elegy, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award. Do you remember the first thing you read that stirred the writer’s desire in you? And how did you learn how to learn? So, how did you go about becoming a “writer?”
Goblins 540 - "Sham Paris": An Entire City’s Stunt Double | Strange Maps Legend has it that hardly anyone turned up for the opening night of Jean Giraudoux's (1) play La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu. Taking the billboards for the play too literally, Parisian theatregoers thought it had been cancelled. True or not, it’s tempting to read this anecdote as a tribute in reverse - even more sublime for being unintended - to the original ruse that ended the Trojan War. The beleaguered Trojans tricked into hauling that wooden, warrior-filled horse inside their unscalable walls - this is the Odyssean Moment: that seminal turning point in military prehistory, when obfuscation and deception joined high courage and brutal force in the human arsenal of war. In 1917, the spirit of Odysseus moved the French high command to construct a wooden decoy of their own. In that early, primitive stage of air warfare, the proto-Luftwaffe’s payload consisted of single, hand-thrown bombs. The original legend reads: […] a plan for a sham Paris in the forest of St.
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Tumblr Chimera (mythology) The term chimera has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative or implausible. While there are different genealogies, in one version the Chimera mated with her brother Orthrus and mothered the Sphinx and the Nemean lion (others have Orthrus and their mother, Echidna, mating; most attribute all to Typhon and Echidna). The Chimera finally was defeated by Bellerophon, with the help of Pegasus, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. Robert Graves suggests,[10] "The Chimera was, apparently, a calendar-symbol of the tripartite year, of which the seasonal emblems were lion, goat, and serpent." Pebble mosaic depicting Bellerophon killing the Chimera, from Rhodes archaeological museum In Etruscan civilization, the Chimera appears in the Orientalizing period that precedes Etruscan Archaic art; that is to say, very early indeed. Graves, Robert, (1955) 1960.
Apple Pie Egg Rolls – Miss in the Kitchen Apple Pie Egg Rolls I saw one of the Food Network stars making apple chimichangas and thought I had to have some for myself. I bought flour tortillas and apples, and then I used the flour tortillas for tacos. Still wanting some kind of fried apple pie dessert I used the egg roll wrappers I had in place of the flour tortillas. I know, I know frying dessert just makes it more sinful, but these are totally delicious. UPDATE: I did an interview with the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper and they made a video of me making these Apple Pie Egg Rolls! Apple Pie Egg Rolls Ingredients: 1 tablespoon butter 3 cups apples, peeled, cored, and diced 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 5 egg roll wrappers vegetable oil for frying for garnish: 1 tablespoon sugar mixed with 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon Cooking Directions: In a medium size pan, melt butter, add apples, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Serve with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce, it’s good! Enjoy! Miss
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