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POPSSanta Claus vs. Krampus... TO THE DEATH! (By yours truly) More: These stories involve strong language, violence, sexuality, drug use both recreational and spiritual, and fairy-tale subjects on the darker side of the "Bruno Bettelheim" scale , the ones where bad & lazy servants gets tarred and feathered, and the wicked are forced to dance themselves to death wearing red-hot iron shoes. Disney has been driven from the building. This page will serve as a central list for links to the the collected stories as I finish them and their links go live. Not sure how many it's going to take, but I know how it ends for sure. I also, from time to time, blog about the writing process . As with any journey, getting there is most of the fun. Hope you'll take this one with me. As with any journey, getting there is most of
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POPS"The Gift of the Magi & O. Henry I have not heard of this story or seen anything about it since I saw it as a child. It made me cry then and it does now. The story indeed tells of the genuine self-sacrifice of true love.
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POPSHistory as the Monster and the balm of Gilead
History is the monster. And there is no escape. You can't talk your way out of it--at every step we're confronted by our own laziness. It warps our stories, reduces beautiful and complicated narratives about race, sports, agency into cartoonish fairy tales. It's sad. I always thought that what we needed in this country wasn't so much cash payments, but some respect for history. Not history as an excuse for hamburgers, hot dogs and chips, but history as a way of understanding who we--despite ourselves-- really are. And for African-Americans, history really is the balm in Gilead. I think a lot of us can come to some peace, can come to understand that whatever happened to us, there are limits on what anyone can do to make it right, and while those limits have to be pushed, some of this we're going to have to carry ourselves. And then with a even broader sense we can understand that our suffering is not singular, that it isn't the only suffering.
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POPSKids to Meet Marx in School
These two books have now become the basis for a new documentary, entitled The People Speak, to be aired December 13th at 8pm on the History Channel. The trailer portrays the documentary as a collage of compelling one-person readings, told through the words of “ordinary” people who have struggled throughout American history against oppression. Produced by Zinn, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Chris Moore, the documentary appears to be cloaked, ironically (given Zinn’s admitted socialist agenda), in many of the traditional ideas that were behind our founding. The verdict is still out on the doc, but it is not for the books that inspired the film as well as the educational initiative associated with it. Perhaps due to their one-sided perspective of America’s past, Zinn’s history books have largely been limited to colleges and universities, until now. In the press release announcing the broadcast, HISTORY introduced a partnership with VOICES Of A People’s History Of The United States, a no
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POPSBrian Froud: Portrait Painter Of Faery More from the site: Brian's deep involvement with folklore and myth began during his art–student days, when he came across a book by Arthur Rackham in his college library. This master illustrator evoked the wonder of childhood with fey and richly animate landscapes, re–awakening Brian's interest in fairy tales and their imagery. He began to study the folklore of Britain, and then the tales of other lands — fascinated by the ways the magical traditions in all cultures shared common roots. When he left college, he spent five years working in the field of commercial illustration in London, but he continued to paint mythic images and to develop a distinctive style of his own. In the mid–Seventies, Brian's early mythic art was published in Once Upon a Time (a survey of modern English illustration) and collected in The Land of Froud, both from David Larkin's Peacock Press.
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POPSNukes Will Save Us and Are Clean - the Tooth Fairy Is Real! Who or what would you trust to keep spent nuclear fuel safe from leaking or getting into the hands for more than 50,000 years, 50 years, even 5 years? We have tons and tons of it here in US and still do not have a 50 year, 100 year, 500 year or whatever year solution. Grin - how about your backyard?
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POPSThis Probably Frightens Theists A basic tenant of proselytizing is to nab them when they are young. In that way, your particular doctrine has more of a chance to "stick". How much more generous and respectful to allow a child to discover the vast variety of ideas and learn the best methods to use to make sense of them and when they are mature enough to come to a conclusion the mindset is truly theirs. Yet caution is needed. Children should also be taught to be able to discern truth from lies, reality from fairy tales, and propaganda from reality. Not an east job.
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POPSAnd he ends with Pascal's Wager I run into people like this quite frequently. They're not necessarily bad people, except for their bigotry and prejudice. Yet I'm continually amazed at the breadth of their ignorance.
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POPSFlipping Property: 3 Reasons Why It's Great in Today's Recession / ESNIPS http://myrealestateinvestmentsecrets.com Flipping Property: 3 Reasons Why It's Great in Today's Recession. Flipping property is one of the best real estate investing strategy that you can do during a recession. Are you ready to find out why? Watch this video now! If you want to learn more, feel free to drop by at our website at http://myrealestateinvestmentsecrets.com where we give away a free real estate investing e-course.
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POPSSafety nets for the rich More: Enough! Goldman Sachs is thriving while the combined rates of unemployment and underemployment are creeping toward a mind-boggling 20 percent. Two-thirds of all the income gains from the years 2002 to 2007 — two-thirds! — went to the top 1 percent of Americans. We cannot continue transferring the nation’s wealth to those at the apex of the economic pyramid — which is what we have been doing for the past three decades or so — while hoping that someday, maybe, the benefits of that transfer will trickle down in the form of steady employment and improved living standards for the many millions of families struggling to make it from day to day. That money is never going to trickle down. It’s a fairy tale. We’re crazy to continue believing it.
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POPSFairy Tales older than previously thought more: Contrary to the view that the tale originated in France shortly before Charles Perrault produced the first written version in the 17th century, Dr Tehrani found that the varients shared a common ancestor dating back more than 2,600 years. He said: “Over time these folk tales have been subtly changed and have evolved just like an biological organism. Because many of them were not written down until much later, they have been misremembered or reinvented through hundreds of generations. “By looking at how these folk tales have spread and changed it tells us something about human psychology and what sort of things we find memorable.
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POPSTourist poo 'killed rare shrimp' on Uluru The shrimp goes through it's life cycle ( from egg to layer of eggs) after the hollows on the rock fill with water from rain. Not so sure about the toiletry habits being the problem but numbers climbing the Rock increased dramatically in the sixties. Still no toilet at the top, as far as I know. Bits of the Rock are still being sent back by ailing people who have taken them illegally.
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