I'll be speaking and signing books at St. Johns on October 3rd, drop by if you can
HERE'S MY NEW BOOK AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AND AT BARNES AND NOBLE
This is a book of short stories taken
from the things I saw and heard in my childhood in the factory town of Ansonia
in southwestern Connecticut. Most of these stories, or as true as I recall them
because I witnessed these events many years ago through the eyes of child and are
retold to you now with the pen and hindsight of an older man. The only
exception is the story Beat Time
which is based on the disappearance of Beat poet Lew Welch. Decades before I
knew who Welch was, I was told that he had made his from California to New
Haven, Connecticut, where was an alcoholic living in a mission. The notion
fascinated me and I filed it away but never forgot it.
The collected stories are loosely
modeled around Joyce’s novel, Dubliners (I
also borrowed from the novels character and place names. Ivy Day, my character in “Local Orphan is Hero” is also the name
of chapter in Dubliners, etc.) and like Joyce I wanted to write about my
people, the people I knew as a child, the working class in small town America
and I wanted to give a complete view of them as well. As a result the stories
are about the divorced, Gays, black people, the working poor, the middle class,
the lost and the found, the contented and the discontented.
Conversely
many of the stories in this book are about starting life over again as a result
of suicide (The Hanging Party, Small
Town Tragedy, Beat
Time) or from a near death experience
(Anna Bell Lee and the Charge of the
Light Brigade, A Brief Summer)
and
natural occurring death. (The
Best Laid Plans, The Winter Years, Balanced and Serene)
With
the exception of Jesus Loves Shaqunda, in each story there is a rebirth
from the death. (Shaqunda is
reported as having died of pneumonia in The Winter Years)
Sal,
the desperate and depressed divorcee in Things
Change, changes his life in Lunch
Hour when asks the waitress for a date and she accepts. (Which we learn in Closing Time, the last story in the
book) In The Arranged Time,
Thisby is given the option of change and whether she takes it or, we don’t
know. The death of Greta’s husband in A Matter of Time has led her to the
diner and into the waiting arms of the outgoing and loveable Gabe.
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.
Contact
John:
MYWRITERSSITE.BLOGSPOT.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
In 1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and two sisters entered Connecticut’s foster care system and were promptly split apart. Over the next ten years, John would live in more than 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 compelling story will make you cry and laugh as you journey with this child to overcome the obstacles of the foster care system and find his dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/
http://amemoirofalifeinfostercare.blogspot.com/
In conversation the game is to say something new with old
words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along step by
step using every time an old boulder yet never setting his foot on an old
place. Emerson
To view more Emerson quotes or read a life background on Emerson
please visit the books blog spot. We update the blog bi-monthly emersonsaidit.blogspot.com
In the end
I want my heart
to be covered
in stretch marks
— Andrea Gibson
Photographs I’ve taken.....
Sleepy donkey in Old Town San Diego
A Turning
Point For Soda Taxes? In Illinois, Big Soda May Not Win Battle Against Levies
On Sugary Drinks
By Elizabeth Whitman @elizabethwhitty
The idea that sugar should be
taxed is at least as old as America. "Sugar, rum, and tobacco are
commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life” and thus were “extremely
proper subjects of taxation," Scottish economist Adam Smith wrote in The
Wealth of Nations, published in 1776. More than 200 years later, a tax on sugar
is at the heart of a war between public health advocates and the beverage
industry that has played out in cities across the country.
To date, most proposed taxes on
soda, sweetened juices and other sugar-added beverages in the U.S. have been
rejected after coming under fire from the deep-pocketed beverage industry. But
that dynamic seems to be changing, as more public health advocates and elected
officials embrace taxing soda as an important tactic in combating America’s obesity
problem. The battle against Big Soda has recently turned to Illinois, which may
soon see soda taxes passed in both the statehouse and in Chicago’s City
Council. If those proposals become law, they could mark a turning point in
efforts across the nation to curb the consumption of sugar-laden drinks and
take on America's expanding waistline.
“They’re going to fight to the
bitter end,” Alderman ¬¬¬George Cardenas of Chicago’s 12th Ward, who proposed
Chicago’s most recent soda tax as well as a previous, unsuccessful version in
2012, said of the beverage industry. “We have to put our best argument forward
that taxing soda saves lives.”
Cardenas has estimated that his
proposal would rake in $134 million a year in revenue that would fund public
health initiatives. The tax itself would be levied at a rate of one cent per
ounce on drinks with more than 5 grams of “caloric sweetener,” or any type of
sugar that adds calories, per 12 fluid ounces. A 12-ounce can of Coke has 39
grams of sugar, or more than 9 teaspoons of sugar.
State legislators in Illinois
have proposed a similar but separate state-wide tax, one that has its
supporters optimistic. “We still think it’s got a very good chance this year,”
Elissa Bassler, CEO of the Illinois Public Health Institute, a non-profit based
in Chicago, said of the bill, called the Healthy Eating Active Living, or HEAL,
Act. An ongoing budgetimpasse in Illinois’ Legislature could actually improve
the odds of a soda tax being passed because lawmakers are looking for new
sources of tax revenue, Bassler said.
The proposals draw primarily on
two wells of inspiration: tobacco taxes in the U.S., and soda taxes in Mexico,
where a nationwide tax on sugar drinks of roughly 10 percentwent into effect in
January 2014. Advocates of soda taxes view levies on tobacco as a rousing
success story that could pave the way for a slimmed-down and healthier nation.
“It reduced consumption
considerably,” Roberta Friedman, director of public policy at the Rudd Center
for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut, in Hartford, said
of tobacco taxes. “It worked beautifully. It’s one of the major public health
victories that we’ve had in the United States.”
Why A Soda Tax Matters
Solid scientific evidence points
to sugar—sugary drinks chief among them—as a key culprit not just in expanding
waistlines but also in rising rates of diabetes and other diseases. In 2010,
nearly half of all the added sugar Americans consumed came from sugary drinks
like soda, sweetened fruit juice, sports drinks, energy drinks and iced teas.
One decades-long study has found that drinking sugar-added drinks can change
genes in a way that increases a person’s risk of obesity.
Since the 1970s, Americans have
more than doubled their intake of soda and sugary drinks, to the detriment of
medical spending. In 2012, the direct and indirect costs of diabetes in the
U.S. added up to $245 billion. Costs of medical care related to obesity were
estimated at $147 billion in 2008, according to the Centers of Disease Control
and Prevention.
In Illinois, 29.4 percent of
adults are obese, while 35.3 percent are overweight,according to the CDC.
Statewide, 22 percent of adolescents drink soda on a daily basis.
A tax of one penny for every
ounce of a soda might seem inconsequential in the vast puzzle of how to contain
America’s obesity crisis. But economists have calculated the impact of taxing
sugary drinks and predicted that it can decrease consumption considerably, with
tangible effects on human health. A 20 percent increase in the price of such
drinks could, on average, reduce intake by 37 calories per day, which would add
up to 3.8 pounds per year for an adult. Rates of adult obesity could drop from
33.4 to 30.4 percent with such a price increase, and the weight loss would be
even greater for children, according to a 2010 study published by the Economic
Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Illinois stands to benefit even
more from such a tax, one county's research has predicted. If a
one-cent-per-ounce tax were imposed on sugary beverages, the number of obese
youth would drop by 9.3 percent and adults by 5.2 percent, one study, published
in 2011 by Illinois’ Cook County Department of Public Health, found. Overall,
185,127 fewer Illinoisans would be obese, and the state would save $20.7
million in medical costs related to diabetes and $150.8 million in spending on
health issues stemming from obesity.
Cardenas said hearings for the
tax proposal were slated for mid-September, and Chicago’s City Council could
decide on it as early as the end of the month. If passed, it would take effect
at the beginning of 2016.
Illinois' statewide HEAL Act would
impose the same penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, with the anticipated $600
million in annual revenues funding Medicaid expansion and community wellness
initiatives. It was introduced last year merely to rev discussion on the topic,
Bassler said. It was reintroduced in January, but because no budget has been
worked out, it still awaits decision in the General Assembly.
How To Tax Soda
Technically, 34 states and
Washington, D.C. currently have taxes on soda ranging from under 2 to 7
percent. But these are sales taxes, which are markedly different from the
excise taxes proposed in Chicago and Illinois and that have been imposed in
Mexico and Berkeley, California. Sales taxes don’t appear on an item’s price
tag – the tax is added at the cash register. “You might or might not know that
the beverage you bought was taxed,” Friedman said.
Excise taxes, on the other hand,
are imposed on beverage manufacturers, with the idea that they will pass the
extra cost to retailers, who then transmit it to consumers. Theoretically, an
excise tax raises the actual sticker price of a bottle of sweetened iced tea or
fizzy soda enough to make customers think twice before buying, though whether
this all works as planned is still up for debate.
In Berkeley, for instance, two
economists have found that less than half of the penny-per-ounce tax was passed
to consumers, possibly because distributors and retailers were absorbing the
added cost. In Mexico, however, soda prices have risen by even more than the
amount of the tax itself. The tax of one peso, or roughly seven cents, per
liter, amounted to about 10 percent, but researchers have found that the actual
price of soda actually rose by about 12 percent.
Although taxes on soda in theory
decrease consumption, the real impacts of the idea are relatively untested. For
instance, how much of the costs are actually passed to customers remains
unclear, Claire Wang, an associate professor at the Mailman School of Public
Health at Columbia University in New York who has researched the impacts of
excise taxes on soda, said. But the taxes in Berkeley and Mexico will help
provide answers to those questions. “We’re going to see a lot more data coming
out of these two places,” Wang said.
Whether taxes on sodas and sugary
drinks can actually curb obesity and improve public health has yet to be proven
true, in part because so few of these taxes actually exist, and the ones that
do have been in place a relatively short length of time. One studypublished in
2011 suggested that although soda taxes might help curb soft drink intake for
individuals, on a broader scale, they "may not have a substantial effect
on population weight."
A key element of excise taxes on
sugary drinks is also that revenue tends to be dedicated to health-related
initiatives, such as education on nutrition and exercise, or community exercise
spaces. Public health advocates have grown to embrace this two-pronged approach
of excise taxes on soda: Jack up prices to drive people away from sugary drinks
and toward lower-calorie alternatives, and launch educational initiatives or
develop infrastructure to improve a community’s health with the funds raised
via those taxes.
“At the end of the day, we want
to fund wellness programs and anti-diabetes and anti-obesity programs. That’s
the whole game here. Not just taxes,” Cardenas, the Chicago alderman, said.
In the past seven years, 23
jurisdictions in the United States have weighed initiatives, including excise
taxes, to curb sugary-drink consumption, according to the Center for Science in
the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.
The Soda Industry Pushes Back
The companies that manufacture
sugar-laden drinks have insisted that sugar and soda have been wrongly vilified
as the culprit in America's obesity crisis. Coca Cola has gone so far as to
fund scientific research that draws such conclusions, instead promoting the
idea that Americans’ lack of exercise, not their poor diet, is responsible for
such obese or overweight children and adults, a recent exposé by the New York
Times laid out.
Soda companies have spent more
than $106 million since 2009 on lobbying and advertisements against anti-sugary
drink initiatives, a recent analysis of lobbying expensive reports and ballot
initiative disclosures by the Center for Science in the Public Interest showed.
When a soda tax was proposed in
2014 in San Francisco, soda companies spent more than $9 million to defeat it,
compared to the $255,000 advocates shelled out to promote it. Advocates of a
tax in Vermont have pushed for a soda tax since 2010, but Big Soda has directed
more than $1.8 million against the effort in the last five years, so far
successfully pushing back against it. In Berkeley, the industry poured $2.4
million into fighting an excise tax proposed there—and lost, despite having
vastly outspent the tax's supporters, who put $900,000 toward the cause.
In Illinois, groups like the
Illinois Coalition Against Beverage Taxes, whose website domain is registered
to the American Beverage Association, the industry’s primary lobby, have
countered the tax by arguing it will kill jobs and hurt families. The leader of
another industry group, the Illinois Retail Merchants association, a non-profit
that hasallied itself previously with the American Beverage Association, penned
an opinion piece in the Chicago Sun-Times Tuesday calling the proposed soda tax
“ burdensome” and a policy that “would strike a huge blow to employment and
local businesses in an already volatile job market.”
Asked about the industry's
prospects of defeating the Illinois and Chicago soda tax proposals, Jim Soreng,
executive director of the Illinois Beverage Association, which represents
bottlers, distributors and employees of the soft drink industry in the state,
said by email that polls had showed “Americans oppose taxes on beverages by
large margins.”
The beverage industry is already
struggling to shore up a weakening soda market, with the steady decline of soft
drink sales over the last decade. Its war against soda taxes may be an effort
to counter that, but as cities or states continue to propose soda taxes, the
beverage industry may find itself stretched thinner and thinner.
“It’s easy if you’re just playing
defense in one jurisdiction,” Jim O’Hara, the director of health promotion at
the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and co-author of the center’s
recent report on the beverage industry’s spending, said. As more communities
push for soda taxes, “they are having to play defense on multiple fronts,” he
said of the beverage industry. “I think it’s going to be harder for them to
succeed.”
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS
EDITORS.....................
GOOD WORDS TO HAVE………………..
Shill: To act
as a decoy (as for a pitchman or gambler) to act as a spokesperson or promoter. Although some who shill are legitimately employed to extol the
wonders of legitimate products, this was not always the case. In the first
documented uses of the word shill, in the early 1900s, it was more likely that
anyone hired to shill was trying to con you into parting with some cash.
Practitioners were called shills (that noun also dates from the early 1900s),
and they did everything from faking big wins at casinos (to promote gambling)
to pretending to buy tickets (to encourage people to see certain shows). Shill
is thought to be a shortened form of shillaber (an obscure noun synonymous with
shill), but etymologists have found no definitive evidence of where that longer
term originated.
HERE'S SOME NICE ART FOR YOU TO LOOK AT
....ENJOY!
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving the mark. Michelangelo
Pierre Bonnard was one of the Nabis, a group dedicated to exploring the expressive elements of two-dimensional compositions. Along with his friend Edouard Vuillard, he helped pave the way toward non-representational art in the twentieth century.
Bonnard was known for using areas
of flat colors in close harmony to create quiet intimacy in small-scale
paintings. This painting, “Two Dogs on a Deserted Street,” is 13” by 10”. How
do you feel when you look at this street scene? What do you think causes that sensation?
What do the two dogs look as if they are doing on the street? Why might they be
there? Have you taken a picture of your pet on your street?#Streets #ArtAtoZ
Pierre Bonnard, "Two Dogs in
a Deserted Street," 1894, oil on wood, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.3
HERE'S PLEASANT POEM FOR YOU TO
ENJOY................
How Many Nights
by Galway Kinnell
How many
nights
have I
lain in terror,
O Creator
Spirit, maker of night and day,
only to
walk out
the next
morning over the frozen world,
hearing
under the creaking snow
faint,
peaceful breaths...
snake,
bear,
earthworm, ant...
and above
me
a wild
crow crying 'yaw, yaw, yaw'
from a
branch nothing cried from ever in my life.
Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[1] and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".
SCULPTURE THIS AND SCULPTURE THAT...............................
Walhalla Memorial. Regensburg Germany.
People taking pictures of people:
I'm an amateur photographer, I
travel a lot so some years ago and I noticed that everywhere I went there was
someone taking a photo of someone else. It's part of the human condition and I
think it’s fun so I started snapping pictures of people taking pictures.
DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY...........................
Want 'sustained happiness'? Get religion, study suggests
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey
The Washington Post
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology by researchers at
the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the
Netherlands found that the secret to sustained happiness lies in participation
in religion.
The church appears to play a very important social role in keeping
depression at bay and also as a coping mechanism during periods of illness in
later life," Mauricio Avendano, an epidemiologist at LSE and an author of
the study, said in a statement. "It is not clear to us how much this is
about religion per se, or whether it may be about the sense of belonging and
not being socially isolated."
Researchers looked at four areas: 1) volunteering or working with
a charity; 2) taking educational courses; 3) participating in religious
organizations; 4) participating in a political or community organization. Of
the four, participating in a religious organization was the only social
activity associated with sustained happiness, researchers found.
The study analyzed 9,000 Europeans who were older than 50. The
report that studied older Europeans also found that joining political or
community organizations lost their benefits over time. In fact, the short-term
benefits from those social connections often lead to depressive symptoms later
on, researchers say.
Although healthier people are more likely to volunteer, the
researchers found no evidence that volunteering actually leads to better mental
health. Benefits could be outweighed by other negative impacts of volunteering,
such as stress, Avendano said.
The researchers noted that it is unclear whether the benefits of
participating in a religious organization are connected to being in the
religious community, or to the faith itself
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
DON'T YOU LOVE POP ART?
THE ART OF PULP
WE NEED PAID FAMILY LEAVE FOR AMERICANS
This company shows paid parental leave doesn’t have to just be
for white-collar workers
The hospitality industry is among the least generous to hourly
workers when it comes to paid time off, but Hilton is trying something
different.
By Lydia DePillis
In the rash of American companies
to roll out generous parental leave policies over the past few weeks — Netflix!
Goldman Sachs! Adobe! Microsoft!— Thursday's announcement that McLean,
Va.-based Hilton Worldwide would be giving new mothers 10 paid weeks off and
fathers two weeks off got little press. Just another company seeking to jump on
the PR bandwagon, one might conclude, perhaps laudable but not especially
noteworthy.
Actually, though, Hilton was
unusual. Most of the companies expanding their paid leave benefits are in
finance or tech, seeking to attract and retain a highly-skilled female
workforce. Netflix, now famously, didn't extend its new unlimited leave policy
to the bulk of its hourly workforce.
Hilton, on the other hand, has a
lot of non-white-collar workers. Of the 40,000 people the new policy will
cover, 75 percent are hourly, which usually means the lower-paid jobs in
housekeeping, catering, and customer service that can be very physical.
Returning to that kind of position after childbirth is harder than coming back
to a desk job, and lower-earning workers don't have as much of a financial
cushion to take time off if it's unpaid, so the new policy could really make a
difference.
Hilton's choice is also
interesting because there's less of a business case for extending maternity
leave benefits to this kind of worker; the market is not as competitive for
low-skilled jobs, so it's less of a factor in attracting top talent. That's
partly why the percentage of workers with access to all kinds of time off in
the hospitality and food services industries is lower than any other — three
percent of workers get paid family leave versus 12 percent on average, for
example.
Matt Schuyler, executive vice
president of human resources for Hilton, says he hasn't calculated the extra
expense of offering the new benefit. He knows the company will incur costs, but
he also expects the move to pay dividends.
"Two phenomena are going to
occur," Schuyler says. "We’ll probably retain more of our workforce.
And number two, we’re going to have workers who are even more enthused about
servicing their guests, because they’re working for an employer who cares about
their well-being."
Of course, there are some reasons
for skepticism. First of all, the new benefit won't apply to the 20,000 Hilton
employees who are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Many of those
contracts already provide for either short-term disability or partially paid
maternity leave. That mitigates the cost increase for Hilton, at least until
the unions that don't have that benefit in their contracts ask for parity when
the agreements come up for re-negotiation.
Second, the company already
offered partially paid maternity leave for a shorter period of time, depending
on the position. So the increase isn't as dramatic as it sounds at first.
And finally, the policy only
covers workers at facilities Hilton owns or manages. That's a small fraction of
the 4,134 hotels owned by people who license the Hilton name. Schuyler says he
can't dictate the employment terms of Hilton's franchisees, which inherently
limits the new policy's reach. Some franchisees may follow Hilton's lead, but
since most customers don't make the distinction between company-owned and
franchised locations, there's no public pressure to do so.
The other important aspect to
consider is what happens to the rising political push for paid leave mandates
when companies like Hilton start to demonstrate that offering such policies is
possible even for companies with large hourly workforces. On the one hand,
Hilton now has less of an incentive to oppose such mandates, and others in the
sector may follow suit in order to compete for employees. On the other,
business lobby groups tend to use such actions as an argument that new laws
aren't necessary. Like those franchisees we were talking about.
"We celebrate Hilton’s
decision as another great example of how our industry values the employees that
make American hospitality such a success," says Chip Rogers, chief
executive of the Asian American Hotel Owners Alliance, one of the largest
associations of franchisees in the country. "No government mandate was
necessary. This should serve as a perfect illustration for lawmakers and
bureaucrats alike; the owners and employees of the hospitality industry work
quite well together.”
The Chamber of Commerce hasn't
put much energy into opposing paid leave laws lately, mostly because there's
little danger of anything happening on the federal level before the 2016
elections, despite some indication of bipartisan support for such a measure.
"We, of course, have no
objections to any company providing a paid leave benefit consistent with their
business needs and resources, but this does not bolster the case for mandating
such a benefit across the board in a way that many employers would not be able
to meet," said chamber spokeswoman Blair Latoff Holmes.
Lydia DePillis is a reporter
focusing on labor, business, and housing. She previously worked at The New
Republic
I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS
“Greatness Passes By”, Bergen, Norway
THE ART OF WAR...............................
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
John Madden
"Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the
field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the
biggest guys on the field."
"If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and
the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown."
"In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback
has to throw the ball."
"He would have scored a touchdown if he hadn't been
tackled right there."
"Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same
time."
"To get more yards, it's best to move the ball from the
line of scrimmage down the field."
"Usually the team with the most points wins the
game!"
"Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offence, you're
always going to be talking about his offence."
"Here's a guy who when he runs, he moves faster."
"When you have great players, playing great, well that's
great football!"
"Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . .
If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty,
life experience provides the balance."
"If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say
that's a double loss."
"When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go
where you want it to."
"Well, when you're playing good football, it's good
football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing
good football."
"The defense should be expecting a run or a pass
here."
"They'll score if they can just get into the
endzone."
"You can't win a game if you don't score any
points."
"I always used to tell my players that we are here to
win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose."
"See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught
that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands."
"He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that
guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on."
"Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember
all the times I got stung by a bee."
"The best feeling is watching a real football game,
because the games they show in the movies aren't real."
"There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for
these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to
the water or vice versa."
BLOGLAPEDIA’S
BLOGS
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
for the blog of it
http://architecturefortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
THE ARTS
Art
for the Blog of It
http://artfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Art
for the Pop of it
http://artforthepopofit.blogspot.com/
Photography
for the blog of it
http://photographyfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Music
for the Blog of it
http://musicfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
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)
http://albumartsocheesyitsgood.blogspot.com/
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)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
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
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
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/
FROM LLR BOOKS. COM
Litchfield Literary Books. A really small company run by
writers.
AMERICAN HISTORY
The Day
Nixon Met Elvis
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Nixon-Met-elvis/
Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Letters-Children-1903-1918/dp/
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND CIVILIZATIONS
The Works
of Horace
Paperback 174 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Horace-Richard-Willoughby/
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Epictetus-Golden-Sayings
Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
Paperback 420 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quo-Vadis-Narrative-Time-Nero
CHILDRENS
BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young children. By consent of the author,
this play may be performed, at no charge, by educational institutions,
neighborhood organizations and other not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an American treasure and this
little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens to be very small, by
pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the pumpkin patch on
Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance to prove that just
because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here is the point that I
found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size doesn't matter when it
comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I think children need to
hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is a ongoing lesson isn't
it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
http://www.amazon.com/OLANTERN-PORCHLESS-PUMPKIN-Halloween-Children
BOOKS
ON FOSTER CARE
It's Not
All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the books
contents
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Foster-Kid-no-matter-what
From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age seven through seventeen, in
foster care. Over the course of those
ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and concerned people told me, "It's
okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good people meant to encourage me,
and I appreciated their kindness then, and all these many decades later, I
still appreciate their good intentions. But as I was tossed around the foster
care system, it began to dawn on me that they were wrong. It was not all right to be a foster kid.
During my time in the system, I was bounced every eighteen
months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a boy's school and to a group
home before I left on my own accord at age seventeen.
In the course of my stay in foster care, I was severely beaten
in two homes by my "care givers" and separated from my four siblings
who were also in care, sometimes only blocks away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to wait to age out, although the
effects of leaving the system without any family, means, or safety net of any
kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived in poverty for the first part
of my life, dropped out of high school, and had continuous problems with the
law.
Today, almost nothing
about foster care has changed. Exactly
what happened to me is happening to some other child, somewhere in America,
right now. The system, corrupt, bloated,
and inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a system that was originally a
compassionate social policy built to improve lives but is now a definitive cause
in ruining lives. Due to gross
negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what the foster care
system builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care has become our
epic national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have lived through
it.
Yet there is a suspicion among some Americans that foster care
costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and is at odds with a satisfying
life. Others see foster care as a part
of the welfare system, as legal plunder of the public treasuries.
None of that is true;
in fact, all that sort of thinking does is to blame the victims. There is not a single child in the system who
wants to be there or asked to be there.
Foster kids are in foster care because they had nowhere else to go. It's that simple. And believe me, if those kids could get out
of the system and be reunited with their parents and lead normal, healthy
lives, they would. And if foster care is a sort of legal plunder of the public
treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are doing the plundering.
We need to end this
needless suffering. We need to end it
because it is morally and ethically wrong and because the generations to come
will not judge us on the might of our armed forces or our technological
advancements or on our fabulous wealth.
Rather, they will judge
us, I am certain, on our compassion for those who are friendless, on our
decency to those who have nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to
make our nation and our world a better place.
And if we cannot accomplish those things in the short time allotted to
us, then let them say of us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of foster care and here's how to do
it. We have created this book so that
almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to the world. You have the power to improve the lives of
those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people,
as good, decent and generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster care,
in their name and with their money, they would stop it. But, generally speaking, although the public
has a vague notion that foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete
picture. They are not aware of the human, economic and social cost that the mismanagement
of the foster care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in this work, you can help to
change all of that. You can make a
difference. You can change things for
the better.
We can always change the future for a foster kid; to make it
better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up (or tweet out) because it's
your country. Don't depend on the
"The other guy" to speak up for these kids, because you are the other
guy.
We cannot build a future for foster children, but we can build
foster children for the future and the time to start that change is today.
No time
to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
Paperbook 440 Books
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir
BOOKS ABOUT FILM
On the
Waterfront: The Making of a Great American Film
Paperback: 416 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Making-Great-American-Film/
BOOKS ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Elliott-ODonell
HUMOR BOOKS
The Book
of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
http://www.amazon.com/book-funny-interesting-things-people
The Wee
Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS ABOUT THE 1960s
You Don’t
Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The Wee
Book of Irish Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The Wee
Book of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A Reading
Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The Book
of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets and
Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The Life
of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What they
Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago
Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The Mob
Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The Mob
Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The Life
and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las
Vegas Organized Crime
The Mob
in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files
Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The Life
and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The Mob,
Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The Bioff
Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The New
York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The New
York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The
Russian Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The
Threat of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized
Crime/General
Best of
Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best of
Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The Mob
across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The US
Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The Mob
Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The Book
of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The Mob
and the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The Last
Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four More
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High and
Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Fishbowling-Last-Words-Dutch-Schultz-ebook/
American Shakespeare:
August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The Seven
Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT OF
CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Informal-History-Fairfax-Police/
McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-Virginia-Short-Informal-History/
THE QUOTABLE SERIES
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Emerson-lessons-quotes
The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-John-F-Kennedy/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The Quotable
Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The words
of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet, and writer was born on January
6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in what was then part of Ottoman
Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In 1895, the family immigrated
to the United States when Kahlil was a young man and settled in South Boston.
Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a member of the avant-garde
community and became especially close to Boston artist, photographer, and
publisher Fred Holland Day who encouraged and supported Gibran’s creative
projects. An accomplished artist in drawing and watercolor, Kahlil attended art
school in Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a symbolist and romantic style. He
held his first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Day's
studio. It was at this exhibition, that Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who
ten years his senior. The two formed an important friendship and love affair
that lasted the rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell influenced every aspect of
Gibran’s personal life and career. She became his editor when he began to write
and ushered his first book into publication in 1918, The Madman, a slim volume
of aphorisms and parables written in biblical cadence somewhere between poetry
and prose. Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931, at the age of 48
from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Kahlil-Gibran-artwork/
The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The Art
of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Groucho-Marx-Devon-Alexander
