Let us if
we must have great actions make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity
and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air until it eclipses the
sun and moon.
300 quotes from Emerson
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view more Emerson quotes or read a life background on Emerson please visit the
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What Love is…..
I
love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they
read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I
love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. Maya Angelou
To:
nycplaywrights_group@googlegroups.com
nancymcclernan@gmail.com
Greetings NYCPlaywrights
“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of
the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.” L.M. Elliott
Hudson Warehouse: Henry IV Part
I
Sunday, June 21, 2015
6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
This event repeats every week
on Sunday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 6/4/2015 and 6/28/2015.
Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span
of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland
against the Douglas late in 1402, and ends with the defeat of the rebels at
Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
in Riverside Park
West 89th Street and Riverside
Drive
Manhattan
Location Details: North Patio
Cost: Free
Contact Email
hudsonwarehouse89@gmail.com
http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2015/06/21/hudson-warehouse-presents
***
PLAYWRIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES ***
STELLA
ADLER NOW ACCEPTING FULL-LENGTH PLAY SUBMISSIONS
Seeking new, full-length
ensemble plays for young actors with casts of 7-10 roles that have a majority
of female characters or gender neutral characters. One play or more may be
selected for a student production (this is a curricular project for full-time
acting students). Plays must be new, unproduced works and require minimal set,
props, costumes.
***
We are currently accepting
submissions for the 2016-17 Reva Shiner Comedy Award
"Full-length" plays
will have a complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to
2 hours 15 minutes (135 minutes).
Plays submitted must be
unpublished at the time of submission. Plays that have received developmental
readings, workshop productions, or productions at small theatre companies are
acceptable. No scripts with previous productions at major regional theaters
will be accepted. Once entered, subsequent activity does not change the
acceptability of the script.
Each submission must include a
synopsis (1 page or less) including the cast size. A separate page should
include a brief bio of the playwright, and production/development history if
applicable.
***
All For One Theater, an NYC
based solo theater production company, is now accepting submissions for their
Works-in-Progress program.
All For One’s Works In Progress
series provides an outlet for solo shows in progress to receive outside help in
their development. AFO will help connect solo show artists with directors and
other collaborators as needed to help develop their work and present a reading
in front of an audience, AFO community members, and industry professionals to
receive feedback.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION on
these and other opportunities see the web site at http://www.nycplaywrights.org
***
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Time Out NY: The complete guide
to Shakespeare in the Park in NYC
Every summer, the Public
Theater produces a beloved New York democratic tradition: Shakespeare in the
Park, presented for free at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
There’s nothing quite like hearing the Bard’s immortal words performed
outdoors, with a backdrop of natural splendor and the Belvedere Castle looming
in the background like the world’s most impressive set decoration. But
Shakespeare in the Park’s popularity means that tickets aren’t easy to come by.
Only the most perseverant will be able to secure seats. Here’s our guide to
navigating the system.
What is Shakespeare in the
Park?
Created by the late Joseph Papp
in 1962, the Public Theater's series offers free, large-scale productions of
works by William Shakespeare (as well as the occasional musical or
non-Shakespearean drama). The productions often feature some of the most
talented actors of our day. Past casts have included including Meryl Streep,
Kevin Kline, Al Pacino, Blythe Danner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, George C. Scott
and Denzel Washington.
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/shakespeare-in-the-park
Visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/nycplaywrights_group.
New
Yorkers
Edward
Field
Edward Field (born June 7, 1924) is a poet and author. Field
was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York,
where he played cello in the Field Family Trio, which had a weekly radio
program on WGBB Freeport. He served in World War II in the 8th Air Force as a
navigator in heavy bombers, and flew 25 missions over Germany. He began writing
poetry during World War II, after a Red Cross worker handed him an anthology of
poetry. In 1963 his book Stand Up, Friend, With Me was awarded the prestigious
Lamont Poetry Prize and was published. In 1992, he received a Lambda Award for
Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992. Other honors include the
Shelley Memorial Award, a Rome Prize, and an Academy Award for the documentary
film To Be Alive, for which he wrote the narration. He received the Bill
Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2005.
Everywhere
else in the country, if someone asks,
How are
you? you are required to answer,
like a
phrase book, Fine, and you?
Only in
New York can you say, Not so good, or even,
Rotten,
and launch into your miseries and symptoms,
then
yawn and look bored when they interrupt
to go
into the usual endless detail about their own.
Nodding
mechanically, you look at your watch.
Look,
angel, I’ve got to run, I’m late for my…uh…
uh…analyst.
But let’s definitely
get
together soon.
In just
as sincere a voice as yours,
they
come back with, Definitely!
and
both of you know what that means,
Never.
Best gift for fathers would be paid family
leave
Janet Walsh
For $45, you can get some cool
Father’s Day gifts: a grilling set, a Swiss army knife and even some baby
carriers. But consider this: for 45 cents per week, New York fathers could have
something far more precious — paid family leave.
A bill to establish a state
paid family leave insurance program made headway in New York this year. This
bill would provide workers in New York state with up to 12 weeks of paid leave
per year to bond with a new child, care for a seriously ill family member or
address certain issues arising from military service. If this program is
adopted, workers would receive two-thirds of their average weekly wage while on
leave, up to a cap. The benefit would be financed solely through employee
payroll deductions of up to 45 cents per week.
The U.S. is an outlier on this
issue. A 2014 International Labor Organization report found that out of 185
countries, only the United States and Papua New Guinea lack paid leave for new
mothers under law. Paid paternity leave for fathers is also on the rise, with
at least 71 countries guaranteeing it.
The U.S. Family and Medical
Leave Act enables workers with new children or family members with serious
medical conditions to take unpaid leave, but about 40 percent of the workforce
is not covered. There is no national law on paid family leave.
Despite this federal gap,
states are starting to craft their own paid family leave insurance programs,
with great success. California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island now have paid
family leave programs, funded by small worker payroll contributions. A few
states, including New York, offer temporary disability insurance programs.
In states without such
programs, paid family leave is up to the whim of employers. Only 12 percent of
U.S. private industry workers have paid family leave benefits.
Research shows that family
leave insurance is good for employers, the economy, public health and equality.
In a 2011 survey on the California program, most employers reported that paid
family leave had a positive effect or no noticeable effect on productivity,
profitability, turnover and employee morale.
In sum, if you’re looking for a
good gift for Father’s Day, start by backing paid family leave.
Janet Walsh is deputy women’s
rights director at Human Rights Watch and author of “Failing its Families: Lack
of Paid Leave and Work-Family Supports in the US.”
Good for families and
businesses
'Death and Mr. Pickwick' a novel rich
enough for Dickens to steal
By Mike Fischer, Special to the
Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Death and Mr. Pickwick. By
Stephen Jarvis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 816 pages. $30.
How can I convince you to lose
yourself in first-time novelist Stephen Jarvis' magnificent, 816-page
"Death and Mr. Pickwick"?
Perhaps by reminding you that
"The Pickwick Papers" — the greatest phenomenon in literary history
and, during its first century, the world's best known book after the Bible —
was an equally big book by another rookie novelist named Charles Dickens?
If, that is, Dickens really
deserves being remembered as the creator of the legendary Samuel Pickwick,
whose famous image — round and bespectacled head, big belly, black gaiters — is
even recognized by those who have never read the book describing his picaresque
travels around England.
Calling Dickens' authorial
claim "the greatest literary hoax in history," Jarvis weaves a
staggering amount of research into a gripping, fictionalized presentation of
his emphatically non-fictional argument: Dickens stole both the concept as well
as various scenes and characters in "Pickwick" — including the fat
man himself and his three companions — from Robert Seymour, the caricaturist
who illustrated this serialized novel's first two issues.
When the young and relatively
unknown Dickens was approached about providing text to accompany Seymour's
illustrations, Seymour was a famous caricaturist — we'd say cartoonist —
drawing every third political caricature in Britain, along with hundreds of
illustrations satirizing everything from Shakespeare to sporting life.
Three days after the only known
meeting of Seymour and Dickens — between publication of the first and second
parts of "Pickwick" in April 1836 — Seymour shot and killed himself.
Examining Seymour's surviving
artwork and life while poking holes in the shifting and contradictory accounts
by Dickens and his allies of how "Pickwick" began, Jarvis leaves
little doubt in my mind that for all Dickens' undeniable genius — and I'm on
record calling him the "greatest English novelist" — Seymour had much
more to do with "Pickwick" than Dickens ever admitted.
Watching Jarvis make his
compelling case is reason enough to read "Death and Mr. Pickwick."
But that account doesn't begin to describe this novel's breathtaking shape and
scope.
Much like Mr. Pickwick and his
book, that shape is round, full and apt to wander off on long tangents; if
you're looking for a tight story, this novel isn't for you.
Many of those tangents involve
the real-life sources for the interpolated tales in "The Pickwick
Papers" itself. One illustrative example: The jarring story of a pantomime
who drinks himself to death is reborn in Jarvis' novel as the slightly
fictionalized story of Joseph Grimaldi and his alcoholic son, both famous
clowns in the early nineteenth century.
That story is in turn entwined
with Seymour and Dickens' immersion in the same period's vibrant culture,
featuring a huge cast of colorful characters — from bootblacks to philandering
prime ministers — worthy of any Dickens novel.
Jarvis devotes particular
attention to the publishing business, packing his account with real-life cameos
involving printers, woodcutters and engravers as well as publishers, editors,
writers and illustrators, at a time when London teemed with stores selling
books and magazines — and when people eagerly queued up for the latest
installment of "Pickwick" as it was released each month.
In a novel that often mirrors
"The Pickwick Papers" while expressly invoking Borges' "Pierre
Menard, Author of the Quixote," all of this comes our way through
discussions between two contemporary men: an older one who has spent his life
amassing a trove of Pickwickian material and a narrator, "employed to
produce the work which I lay before you now."
Unlike Dickens' treatment of
the ill-fated Seymour, this younger writer pays continual homage to his
companion. And like "The Pickwick Papers," they both pay homage to a
vanished age of eccentrics — extending back through the Age of Johnson to
Cervantes — when neither the novel nor life were as moralistic, rule-bound or
plot-driven as they would become.
"It is the lie of novels,"
our narrator tells us toward the end of this wild ride, "to pretend that
life has plot. The truth of life is like 'Pickwick': that one thing just
follows another." In this exhilarating novel — so boldly backward that
it's actually forward — Jarvis stakes a winning claim that we need more novels
like it.
The Pickwick Papers
For a free copy of The
Pickwwick Papers go to this site
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/580/580-h/580-h.htm
The Posthumous Papers of the
Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first
novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer
following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens'
novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete
volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took
over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert
Seymour had committed suicide.
Written for publication as a
serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely-related adventures. The
action is given as occurring 1827–8, though critics have noted some seeming
anachronisms. It has been stated that Dickens satirized the case of George
Norton suing Lord Melbourne in The Pickwick Papers.
The novel's main character,
Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, and the founder
and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the
quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other
"Pickwickians" (Mr Nathaniel Winkle, Mr Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr
Tracy Tupman) should make journeys to places remote from London and report on
their findings to the other members of the club.
Their travels throughout the English
countryside by coach provide the chief theme of the novel. A distinctive and
valuable feature of the work is the generally accurate description of the old
coaching inns of England
Its main literary value and
appeal is formed by its numerous memorable characters. Each character in The
Pickwick Papers, as in many other Dickens novels, is drawn comically, often
with exaggerated personality traits. Alfred Jingle, who joins the cast in
chapter two, provides an aura of comic villainy.
His devious tricks repeatedly
land the Pickwickians in trouble. These include Jingle's nearly-successful
attempted elopement with the spinster Rachael Wardle of Dingley Dell manor,
misadventures with Dr Slammer, and others.
Further humour is provided when
the comic cockney Sam Weller makes his advent in chapter 10 of the novel. First
seen working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough, Weller is taken on by Mr
Pickwick as a personal servant and companion on his travels and provides his
own oblique ongoing narrative on the proceedings. The relationship between the
idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller has been
likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
Other notable adventures
include Mr Pickwick's attempts to defend a lawsuit brought by his landlady, Mrs
Bardell, who (through an apparent misunderstanding on her part) is suing him
for breach of promise.
Another is Mr Pickwick's
incarceration at Fleet Prison for his stubborn refusal to pay the compensation
to her — because he doesn't want to give a penny to Mrs Bardell's lawyers, the
unscrupulous firm of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg. The generally humorous tone is
here briefly replaced by biting social satire (including satire of the legal
establishment). This foreshadows major themes in Dickens's later books.
Central characters
Sam Weller and his father Tony
Weller (The Valentine)Samuel Pickwick — the main protagonist and founder of the
Pickwick Club. Following his description in the text, Pickwick is usually
portrayed by illustrators as a round-faced, clean-shaven, portly gentleman
wearing spectacles.
Nathaniel
Winkle — a young friend of Pickwick's and his travelling
companion; he considers himself a sportsman, though he turns out to be
dangerously inept when handling horses and guns.
Augustus
Snodgrass — another young friend and companion; he considers himself
a poet, though there is no mention of any of his own poetry in the novel.
Tracy
Tupman — the third travelling companion, a fat and elderly man who
nevertheless considers himself a romantic lover.
Sam
Weller — Mr Pickwick's valet, and a source of idiosyncratic
proverbs and advice.
Tony
Weller — Sam's father, a loquacious coachman.
Alfred
Jingle — a strolling actor and charlatan, noted for telling
bizarre anecdotes in a distinctively extravagant, disjointed style.
Supporting characters
Joe
—
the "fat boy" who consumes great quantities of food and constantly
falls asleep in any situation at any time of day; Joe's sleep problem is the
origin of the medical term Pickwickian syndrome which ultimately led to the
subsequent description of Obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
Job
Trotter — Mr Jingle's wily servant, whose true slyness is only ever
seen in the first few lines of a scene, before he adopts his usual pretence of
meekness.
Mr
Wardle — owner of a farm in Dingley Dell. Mr Pickwick's friend,
they meet at the military review in Rochester. Joe is his servant.
Rachael
Wardle — the spinster aunt who tries in vain to elope with the
unscrupulous Jingle.
Mr
Perker — an attorney of Mr Wardle, and later of Mr Pickwick.
Mary —
"a well-shaped female servant" and Sam Weller's
"Valentine".
Mrs Martha Bardell — Mr
Pickwick's widowed landlady who brings a case against him for breach of
promise.
Emily
Wardle — one of Mr Wardle's daughters, very fond of Mr Snodgrass.
Arabella
Allen — a friend of Emily Wardle and sister of Ben Allen. She later
elopes with Mr. Winkle and marries him.
Benjamin
"Ben" Allen — Arabella's brother, a dissipated medical
student.
Robert
"Bob" Sawyer — Ben Allen's friend and fellow student.
Mr
Serjeant Buzfuz — Mrs Bardell's lawyer in legal dealings with
Mr Pickwick.
I am not a fan of public
politics and I’m actually a fairly conservative person but Sanders is the only
guy out their in the Presidential candidates field who is saying what needs to
be said and is focusing on the things that need to be done.
7 Things Bernie Sanders is Saying on the
Campaign Trail
Kate Scanlon
Here are seven positions Sanders has taken
on the campaign trail.
1. During a campaign stop at
Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 12, Sanders told the crowd he
wanted “to talk about what real family values are.”
“My Republican colleagues talk
a lot about quote-unquote ‘family values,’” Sanders said. “What they mean is
opposition to a woman’s right to choose, opposition to women getting
contraception and strong opposition to gay rights. And on all of those issues I
strongly disagree.”
2. During that same stop in
Iowa, Sanders expressed support for mandatory paid family leave.
“Let me be very clear. It is
not a family value to force the mother of a newborn baby to go back to work a
few days after she gives birth because she doesn’t have the money to stay home
and bond with her baby. That is not a family value,” Sanders said. “That is an
insult to everything that I know about what family is about.”
3. At a town meeting in Keene,
N.H., on June 6, Sanders told the crowd he wants to address the “growing gap in
wealth” and “income inequality” in the United States.
“We live in a nation which is
the wealthiest nation in the history of the world but almost all of that wealth
rests in the hands of a handful of billionaires and that is something that has
got to change,” he said. “The issue of wealth and income inequality is the
great moral issue of our time. It is the great economic issue of our time, it
is the great political issue of the time and we are going to address it.”
4. Sanders wants to eliminate
tuition at public universities.
“As president, I will fight to
make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially
lower interest rates on student loans,” Sanders said at his campaign launch in
Burlington, Vermont, on May 26.
5. Sanders also said at his
campaign launch that he wants to raise the minimum wage.
“The current federal minimum
wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage and must be raised. The minimum wage
must become a living wage—which means raising it to $15 an hour over the next
few years—which is exactly what Los Angeles recently did—and I applaud them for
doing that. Our goal as a nation must be to ensure that no full-time worker
lives in poverty,” Sanders said.
6. He wants to “establish pay
equity for women workers.”
“It’s unconscionable that women
earn 78 cents on the dollar compared to men who perform the same work,” Sanders
said at his campaign launch.
7. He wants a single-payer
health care system.
“The United States remains the
only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care for all as a
right. Despite the modest gains of the Affordable Care Act, 35 million
Americans continue to lack health insurance and many more are under-insured,”
Sanders said at his campaign launch.
Kate Scanlon is a news reporter
for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders
Program.
Ontario company hires 'happiness engineers'
for employees
Amy Legate-Wolfe, CTVNews.ca
@AmyLegateWolfe
An Ontario video game company
has recently hired "happiness engineers" dedicated to doing just
about anything to keep employees happy.
Big Viking Games in London,
Ont., hired the "engineers" to create a low-stress work environment
in a high-stress industry.
The company settled on Jaime
Pearse for one position, who couldn’t believe her luck.
"Happiness engineer is the
best title in the world. I always want to engineer happiness," Pearse told
CTV London.
Their arsenal of happiness
includes daily catered lunches, a soft-serve ice cream machine, and even
puppies.
"It's hard to be sad when
you’re surrounded by so many great things," said human resources manager,
Ana Ivanic.
That's exactly what Albert Lai,
co-founder of Big Viking Games, was aiming for.
Lai believes the company has
created a work environment everyone will want to be a part of. He then hopes it
will attract the best people for every position in the company. Those people
will then design the best products, and create more profits.
His theory seems to be proving
itself. In April, the company was named one of the top 10 medium business
employers in Canada by the Great Places to Work Institute. This year it was
also named one of Canada's top employers for young people by Top Employer
Magazine.
For employers who feel they
don’t have the funds to create such an extravagantly stress-free work
environment, Lai guarantees a return on the investment from the employees they
hire.
"Can you afford not to do
it, and be successful? We cannot afford to have anything less but stellar
people working with us."
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no
actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a
light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” Laini Taylor, Daughter
of Smoke & Bone
From Othello
(Othello speaks)
Visit our Shakespeare Blog at the address below
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
It is the cause, it is
the cause, my soul, -
Let me not name it to
you, you chaste stars! -
It is the cause. Yet
I’ll not shed her blood;
Nor scar that whiter
skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental
alabaster.
Yet she must die, else
she’ll betray more men.
Put out the light, and
then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou
flaming minister,
I can again thy former
light restore,
Should I repent me: but
once put out thy light,
Thou cunning’st pattern
of excelling nature,
I know not where is that
Promethean heat
That can thy light
relume. When I have pluck’d the rose,
I cannot give it vital
growth again.
It must needs wither:
I’ll smell it on the tree.
Ah balmy breath, that
dost almost persuade
Justice to break her
sword! One more, one more.
Be thus when thou art
dead, and I will kill thee,
And love thee after. One
more, and this the last:
So sweet was ne’er so
fatal. I must weep,
But they are cruel
tears: this sorrow’s heavenly;
It strikes where it doth
love.
I’m trying to teach myself Spanish and this is
what I learned today……..
Quemar (keh-mahr')
to burn
Example
1. Cada vez que
intento hacer arroz con gandules, quemo el arroz.
Every time I try to make rice with pigeon peas, I burn the
rice.
GOOD WORD TO HAVE
Parse audio pron \PARSS\ To resolve (as a sentence) into
component parts of speech and describe them grammatically b: To describe
grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection and
syntactical relationships 2: To examine in a minute way: analyze critically.
Parse comes from the first element of the Latin term for "part of
speech," pars orationis. It's an old word that has been used in the
schoolroom since at least the student days of King Edward VI of England
(1537-1553).
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
THE BOOK OF FUNNY, ODD AND INTERESTING THINGS THAT PEOPLE
SAY
Compiled by
John William Tuohy
Facebook Updates
I
wish my money would have sex in my wallet and multiply
Without
nipples, breasts would be pointless
Yesterday
I had a headache, got rid of it while drinking a bottle of wine and today I
have even a bigger headache...Irony
Jesus
Mite Of Walked On Water. But Steven Hawking Runs On Batterys ;]
Nobody
is perfect,I am nobody,therefore I'm a perfect.
When
pulled over by the police and asked if you know why you were pulled over. The
correct response is not, "How long have you been following me?" True
story, he let me go, and laughed.
I
got a degree in psychology to better understand the women I put in therapy.
Woohoo...
I still fit in the same pants from high school, I look like the Incredible Hulk
after he changes, but WOOHHOOO!
Im
happy. I wanna jump in a cab yell at the driver, " LOSE THE COPS AND I'LL
GIVE YOU $200, GO, GO, GO".
the
cops pulled me over and tried to give me a speeding ticket... i told him
officer im chasing my dream
I've
tried driving without texting, eating or gettin baked but it was so boring I
fell asleep at the wheel. wow...Thanks, Oprah.
I
mustache you a question, but I'll shave it for later.
I
have an oven with a 'stop time' button. It's probably meant to be 'stop timer'
but I don't touch it, just in case.
Diplomacy
is the art of saying "Nice Doggie.." until you get hold of a rock in
your hand...
To
wrongs don't make a right, but two rights make a u-turn.
I've
said no to alcohol for years but it still won't listen.
Some
people turn to God. Me? I turn to vodka. Im still guided by a spirit.
Remember:
some days yo are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
Susan
is going to make her own brand of beer called Responsibly. I'd get free
advertising from competitors - "Please drink Responsibly".
decided
to burn lots of calories today so I set fire to a fat kid.
Dont
you wonder why people look back at the same spot when they trip over it? As if
the sidewalk is going to talk back/laugh at them.
A
guy knocked on my door today asking for a donation for the local primary
school's swimming pool. I went away and came back with a cup of water... Is
that wrong?
Has
been sick lately and her doctor told her to get plenty of fluids and plenty of
rest! So now she drinks till she passes out.
Not
every flower can say love, but roses can. Not very plant survives thirst, but a
cactus can. Not every retard can read... but look at you having a go!
Facebook
is like jail, you sit around waisting your time, changing your statues, and
getting poked by people you dont know.
They
call them the "Homeless" now....when i was a Kid they called them
"Hobos" or "Bums"...........Next Year it will be
"Outdoorsmen"......I think they should call them
"Hygiene-Impaired Professional Squeegee Technicians."
On
the Bus today i was sitting Across from a Really Beautiful Girl and I kept
thinking to Myself, "Please don't get an Erection, Please don't get an
Erection" ......................... but She Did.
I
was just Washing my Hands in the Mens' Toilets, when I thought to Myself
....................."I should Probably be using the Sink."
The
only thing I Hate worse than Holding her Purse ............... is when it
Doesn't Match what I'm Wearing.
I
can Tolerate Kids a lot better after some Alcohol ....................
seriously, they are Way more Amusing once you get a Couple Beers in them.
Since
it Started Snowing all the Girlfriend has done is Look through the Window
.............. i guess it's Time I let her Indoors.
I
think the Hardest part of Watching a Woman Change Clothes ............... is
trying to Balance yourself on the Tree Branch with only One Free Hand.
The
Chinese government has released their own verson of Facebook, it's called the
Yellow Pages!!
Humans
and Dolphins are the Only Mammals that have Sex for Pleasure
....................... which Explains why i have been Banned from Sea World.
I
just Invented a Machine Gun that shoots Pennies .................... now She
will see that i am not the Only One Afraid of Change!
Was
walking Home with my Blond Friend last night and i said, "OMG look at that
Dog with One Eye" She immediately put her Hand over her Eye and said,
"Where, Where?"....
If
you were Stranded on a Desert Island with only 1 Twilight Movie
............................. how would you Kill Yourself?
I
made a Chicken Salad for Lunch ........................ little Peckerwood
didn't even Eat It.
The
Most Beautiful things in this World can not be Seen or Touched ................
at least according to this Stupid Restraining Order.
Motivation
alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a
motivated idiot.
Do
you ever just look at Someone and "Why" is the only Thing you can
come Up With?
Those
Prudes in the Nudist Colonies need to take some Notes from the Girls in the
Leper Colonies ....................... Over there, EVERYTHING comes off.
Everybody
loves Pot Brownies ................... so i bring Crystal Meth Cupcakes and suddenly
i'm the Weirdo?
My
Doctor said the signs of an Allergic reaction are Getting Flushed, Breaking out
in a Sweat, Heart starts beating rapidly and you find it really Hard to Breathe
............ well, so much for Exercise then.
My
computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
Be
nice to the people who smoke. Every cigarette may be their last.
I
am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up.
Statistically
speaking, around 165% of people exaggerate.
Statistically
speaking, 8/6 people have trouble computing fractions.
Why
can't chickens cross the road without their motives being questioned.
Good
morning.... I see the assassins have failed.
If
you must be taken for a ride, it may as well be in a good car.
Used
to be schizophrenic. But now both of us are fine.
I’m
everything you're not.
I
let the dogs out.
Issha
vingtrou blewi thth espaceb ar.
Would
rather check his Facebook, than face his checkbook.
Just
got a grip of reality, and is choking it to death.
Is
not spoiled. Is not, is not is not!!!!
Is
swearing to drunk that he is not God.
Is
making some changes to his life. Leave a message, and if I don't get back to
you later, you're one of the changes.
Bigamy
- One wife too many. Monogamy - Same thing.
If
you try and don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
Why
won't you understand me like my iPhone does?
I
woke up on the wrong side of Facebook this morning.
Why
is the newspaper far more interesting when someone else is reading it?
We
can all keep secrets. But the people we tell are not very good at it.
My
girlfriend must have had 61 boyfriends before me. She calls me her sixty second
over.
rejecting
your reality and replacing it with his own.
Be
nice to nerds. Chances are, you will be working for them.
Is
experiencing life at the rate of several wtf's a minute.
My
wife said I'm too immature, and if I don't grow up it's going to erect a
barrier between us. Ha ha ha ha, erect.
People
living in stone houses, should not throw glasses.
TEIAM
- problem solved.
Never
questions authority, he annoys authority. More effect, less effort.
Progress
is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
The
trouble with suggestions is that they often come from other people.
Oh
Lord, give me patience, and GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
Today,
so far you have failed to impress me. I am, however, willing to remain open
minded.
I
always give waiters a tip, but they never seem to appreciate my advice.
Some
days... You just don't have enough middle fingers... ya know?
.....
has a theory that the world would be a safer place if everyone were forced to
take IQ tests and had to display their results as warnings to the population.
Do
not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
People
say that things happen for a reason. So when I hit you up side the head,
remember I had a reason.
….feels
like getting some work done...and so he is sitting down until the feeling
passes.
….used
to play sports. Then she realized you can buy trophies. Now she's good at
everything.
...Has
advice for the day: If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin
bottle: Take two, and KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN
...is
CELEBRATING CAPS LOCK AWARENESS DAY
I
resolve to work with neglected children. (my own).
...is
color blind and trying to solve a Rubik's cube... This could take a while...
Have
you ever had a fly or small bug land on your computer screen and your first
reaction is to try and scare it with the cursor?
Do
you know what really makes me smile? Facial muscles.
I
hear there is scientific proof that birthdays are good for you... the more you
have the longer you live.
I've
always wondered if film directors wake up screaming "CUT! CUT!
CUUUUUT!" when they have nightmares.
Top
Tip Of The Week: When going through airport customs and you are asked "do
you have any firearms with you?" do not reply "what do you
need?"
….is
a disaster waiting to happen
In 1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two
brothers and two sisters entered
Connecticut’s foster care system and were prompltyl spilit apart. Over the next
ten years, John would live in more then ten foster homes, group homes and state
schools, from his native Waterbury to Ansonia, New Haven, West Haven, Deep
River and Hartford. In the end, a decade later, the state returned him to the
same home and the same parents they had taken him from. As tragic as is funny
complelling story will make you cry and laugh as you journey with this child to
overcome the obsticales of the foster care system and find his dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John William Tuohy is a writer
who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood
University. He is the author of numerous non-fiction on the history of
organized crime including the ground break biography of bootlegger Roger Tuohy
"When Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy" and "Guns and Glamour: A
History of Organized Crime in Chicago."
His non-fiction crime short stories have appeared in The New Criminologist, American Mafia and other publications. John won the City of Chicago's Celtic Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short story fiction work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of 2008.
His play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a public performance at the Actors Chapel in Manhattan in February of 2007 as part of the groups Reading Series for New York project. In June of 2008, the play won the Virginia Theater of The First Amendment Award for best new play.
His non-fiction crime short stories have appeared in The New Criminologist, American Mafia and other publications. John won the City of Chicago's Celtic Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short story fiction work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of 2008.
His play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a public performance at the Actors Chapel in Manhattan in February of 2007 as part of the groups Reading Series for New York project. In June of 2008, the play won the Virginia Theater of The First Amendment Award for best new play.
Contact
John:
MYWRITERSSITE.BLOGSPOT.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
BLOGLAPEDIA’S
BLOGS
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
for the blog of it
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THE ARTS
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Art
for the Pop of it
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Photography
for the blog of it
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Music
for the Blog of it
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Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
Art (Photographic arts)
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Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
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FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
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The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
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Good
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http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And
I Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the
Foster Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
HEALTH
Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
http://mevsdiabetes-bloglapedia.blogspot.com/
HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
http://whateveryoudodontlaugh.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A
Big Blog of Irish Literature
http://abigblogofirishliterature.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
Blogable Robert Frost
http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
http://holdencaulfieldblogspot.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And
I Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York
Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/