The Grolier Club - Home 11 Yearbook Photos That Musicians Wish We'd Never Seen Every once in a while, I write down a piece of advice I'd like to pass on to my kids one day. (In fact, these pieces of advice may soon form an 11Points list.) The addition that sparked this list: Take each yearbook photos as serious as life or death. ... The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who would later become his wife, to sing. At the time the couple were lovers, although MacColl was married to someone else. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972. History[edit] There are two conflicting accounts of the origin of the song. Ewan MacColl himself made no secret of the fact that he disliked all of the cover versions of the song. Roberta Flack version[edit] Other recorded versions[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Quarrington, Paul; Doyle, Roddy (2010). External links[edit] Superseventies.com - with quotes from Roberta Flack and information on the song's background
Read These Seven Books, and You’ll be a Better Writer Donald Miller I used to play golf but I wasn’t very good. I rented a DVD, though, that taught me a better way to swing, and after watching it a few times and spending an hour or so practicing, I knocked ten strokes off my game. I can’t believe how much time I wasted when a simple DVD saved me years of frustration. I’d say something similar is true in my writing career. • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield: This book is aimed at writers, but it’s also applicable to anybody who does creative work. Pressfield leaves out all the mushy romantic talk about the writing life, talk I don’t find helpful. • On Writing Well by William Zinsser: Zinsser may be the best practical writing coach out there. • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott: Before becoming a literary superstar, Anne Lamott taught writing, and Bird by Bird is the best of her advice, broken up into chapters. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell: On Writing, by Stephen King: Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury:
Problem Gambling 5 Awesome Sci-Fi Inventions (That Would Actually Suck) Remember all those Star Trek gadgets you wished you had because they looked so cool? Well, it turns out looking cool is about all they'd be good for. Here's five inventions that will be available some day ... even if nobody wants them. As seen in:Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Back to the Future II, Futurama, The Jetsons ... it's actually kind of difficult to list sci-fi that doesn't feature some variation of the flying car. Why we thought we wanted them: First, we don't mean some kind of sissy half-plane, half-car hybrid that some people will try to tell you is a flying car. Of course, once you learned to drive you wanted one even more. Why we were wrong: Well, guess what: They're not gonna let you do that. No, you'd have to fly according to a wussified autopilot, along pre-set pathways. That's not even the worst part. Even worse, even a minor crash with another flying car could send both vehicles plummeting to the ground while you scream in terror.
Getting Ideas for Article Writing Writing articles is not that difficult if you have good ideas to write about. An idea becomes good material for an article if it is something new or if it is presented in a fresh manner. The writer must see his subjects from all angles. An important thing to remember in writing is, “Show it, instead of just saying it.” Jot it down.Keep a notebook or a pad handy in which you jot down anything that suggests even part of an idea to you—phrase, a character, a locality, a plot, a lyric, a tune, a scene, a title, etc. Open your senses.Listen, look, taste, smell, feel, and be aware. Read.Read as much as you can about anything in every field, since all the experiences of life are source materials for the writer. Don’t let your critical sense cancel your creativity. Know and care about the subject you’ve chosen to write about. Don’t be dull.Here’s a tip for writers of business communications. Don’t be afraid to use something colorful if it illustrates a fact.
What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP The 15 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Bootleg Toys Like elves in Santa's workshop, bootleg toy makers around the world are busy cranking action figures and games for all of the world's children. Only these will be sold by street vendors and dollar stores, at a fraction of the price of official toys. Of course, to get around copyright laws, these manufacturers in China and elsewhere have to, let's say, tweak things a bit. If you'd like to wind up watching a Cracked mini-series about Jedi School click here. Yes, it's RobertCop. The beauty of this is that when tweaking the name for their bootleg knockoff toy, they could have went with "Robo" anything and it would have made perfect sense as a toy. Robert is a good officer, but he almost never murders an entire warehouse full of drug dealers. That's awesome because it doesn't in any way explain why he is made of metal. Three. Darth Vader -- Star Knight Source: BootlegActionFigures.com Still, the inclusion of Boba Fett in a sidecar could have saved this. Source: i-Mockery Super Transformable Tomas
Chekhov's gun: a useful plot device. By Glen C. Strathy Chekhov's Gun is a plot device whereby you introduce an item in the first part of your novel that doesn't seem important to the story at the time, but takes on greater significance later on. The principle was expressed by the great Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, who said that if you put a gun on stage in the first act of a play, it should be fired in the second act. According to some sources, he also expressed this in the negative form as: don't put a gun on stage in the first act unless you intend to have it fired in the second. Some writers try to follow this dictate very rigorously and avoid mentioning any object unless it will play a major role in the story, but that is really taking things too far. I believe Chekhov used the example of a gun because a gun isn't just any object. So if you do draw attention to an object, your readers will expect this object to appear again. Here are several ways you can employ Chekhov's Gun: 1. Mrs. 2. 3. Chekhov's Gun vs.
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Role Playing Games - Free Multiplayer Online Games Astro Lords is an MMORPG/Strategy set in a sci-fi universe. Players control an asteroid, construct and upgrade buildings and fight with others to gain control over the Oort cloud. The game can be played on iOS, Android and desktop devices. Players might be positively appalled by the lack of character customization, but that is more than compensated by the fact that eventually you can move your base, perhaps towards the members of your alliance, or the enemy if you feel you can gain an edge. Astro Lords is definitely a promising title, but the strategy elements could very well be executed better. See Videos Free, with option to pay for additional features. Play Astro Lords now!
50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45.