![]() ![]() Previously, Wimsatt founded and ran the League of Young Voters (2003-2008) which organized 3000+ youth to create 300+ voter guides and impacted 29 state and local elections or pieces of legislation. ![]() He also runs ALL HANDS ON DECK: WIN AGAIN 2010, a voter engagement program targeting likely drop-off voters, focused in key battleground states and coordinates a 12 Week Plan to organize volunteers in the lead up the mid-term elections. Wimsatt runs The Field 3.0 Project, a community dialogue and documentation effort to envision the future and drive innovation in movement building. He has spoken at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and was named by Utne Magazine as “Utne Visionary” and to The Source Magazine’s “Power 30”.Īs a 2010 Fellow at Movement Strategy Center, Mr. He has written for Vibe, Chicago Tribune and is also the winner of the 1999 Firecracker Book Award for Political Non-Fiction. ![]() Wimsatt published five books including Bomb the Suburbs, and No More Prisons. Social entrepreneur, philanthropic consultant, journalist, and political organizer, Mr. With humorous story-telling and historical insight, Wimsatt lays out a provocative vision for the next twenty-five years of personal and historical transformation. It-s a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age, and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade. In PLEASE DON’T BOMB THE SUBURBS, William Upski Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America’s cultural and political movements from 1985-2010. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the early 1950s, he returned to California, settling for some thirty years in Santa Barbara, the area where most of his books were set. ![]() This novel would become the basis for the 1966 Paul Newman film, Harper. Lew Archer derives his name from Sam Spade’s partner Miles Archer, and from Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Macdonald first introduced the popular detective Lew Archer, the tough but humane private eye who would inhabit some twenty of his novels, in The Moving Target in 1949. After serving at sea as a naval communications officer from 1944-46, he returned to Michigan, where he obtained his PhD degree in 1951. He then changed briefly to John Ross Macdonald before settling on Ross Macdonald, in order to avoid mixups with contemporary John D. At this time, he wrote under the name John Macdonald, in order to avoid confusion with his wife, who was achieving her own success writing as Margaret Millar. While doing graduate study at the University of Michigan, he completed his first novel, The Dark Storm, in 1944. He began his career writing stories for pulp magazines. There he met and married the former Margaret Sturm in 1938. Born in Los Gatos, California, in the San Francisco Bay area, in 1915, Millar was raised in his parents’ native Canada, where he started college. ![]() Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction Kenneth Millar (1915 – 1983). ![]() ![]() ![]() Immediately following dinner, at 7 PM the four of us will head over to the Lincoln Park Barnes & Noble for the main event, readings, signings and an illegal amount of snark will be proffered for your sick amusement. As I'm not flying in until 2 PM, I'll have to entertain revelers with my Just-In-Town Sitz Bath. Two Carniepunk events for you Dallas folks! First up: the ladies of Fresh Fiction are hosting a dinner with myself, Nicole Peeler and Jaye Wells with our special guest Liliana Hart (author of ) at Maggiano's Little Italy at 5 PM. The usual.ĪND.there are tons of other authors who've contributed slices of their brains to Carniepunk, too! Including a group of folks I'll be hanging out with this week in Texas! If you're going to be in Dallas, Houston or Austin in the coming week, plan on checking out the following events! ![]() ![]() The carny element in this one takes a Mardi Gras approach, floats, dancing, dead bodies. If you like a little, or a lot, of horror in your urban fantasy, this is the story for you. Hormones are on short supply and surgeons are even fewer and further between. The Sweeter the Juice tackles that time honored question: what the hell is a drug-addicted pre-op transsexual gonna do during a zombie apocalypse. ![]() ![]() ![]() We deftly weave in between characters from before and the aftermath. There is a travelling theatre group with accompanying orchestra, a small settlement and an international airport terminal. This book followed groups of survivors after the break down of the world due to a virus. We follow a number of key characters from before the collapse and see how they fare in this brave new world Having read it now, I’m not surprised that I had to wait 12 weeks to get my hands on it and that there are 5 library patrons waiting in line for it after I’m done. My copy of Station Eleven was a book reservation. How do you feel that the reference points that remain can’t make you remember fine details.Do you try to forget the past because there are few remnants to remember it by. ![]() Are you wistful for the experiences you know you’ve lost but didn’t get a chance to participate in?.Do vague memories make you pine for the life before.So, so many questions and trains of thought: – Covid19 in this case for Station Eleven to resonate. You don’t have to be currently living in a pandemic. However you want to state it – it got into my head. Station Eleven made me think, reflect, contemplate. ![]() ![]() The idea that our thoughts can control our lives is a very powerful one and truer than many realize. "Rarely do members of the same family grow up in the same house." "We teach best what we most need to learn." "Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours." Probably my all time favorite. I have seen quotes from this book appear in many locations and use many of them myself when working with students. ![]() That always surprised me because I felt that most of the ideas contained here were quite Christ like. I remember that some factions of the Christian right were outraged that the book referred to a Messiah other than Jesus. The fact that the author kind of went a bit off the deep end does not bother me (although it did for a while!) ![]() ![]() I still believe the ideas contained here are timeless and profound. Not because the writing was so great but the thoughts contained in it were so close to what I was feeling as a 19 year old away from home and on my own for the first time. I believe this book moved me more than any other before or since. ![]() ![]() However, TEKWAR's biggest shortcoming is its lack of solid documentation. (Take it from me: go for the kneecaps and the head!) This inevitably leads to the annihilation of a whole city population as you gun everyone down to keep yourself alive. However, if you whip out your gun to return fire, the cops will start filling you with lead. For example, a Tek goon can unload a barrage of bullets on you and the city's police officers won't shoot back. TEKWAR's artificial intelligence is also feeble. You'll wonder why you bought a $3,000 computer to display circa-1978 graphics. In the Matrix level, which you can only access after you have captured all the TekLords, the simple and repetitive graphics are confusing and it is easy to get lost. The missions quickly become repetitive and tedious as you hop the subway over and over again, traveling from one section of the city to another in search of the Tek Lords.Īlthough the city scenes in TEKWAR are realistic and intriguing, the graphics are blocky and the movement of the characters is jerky and lifeless. ![]() As interesting as the premise sounds, the game just isn't that exciting. William Shatner, will debrief you on your mission objectives then, depending on whether you succeed or fail, he'll shower you with praise or threaten you with deep-freeze. ![]() TEKWAR is a typical first person shooter. What do you do when you're thrown into the middle of a city ruled by Tek Lord kingpins with an arsenal the National Guard would be jealous of? That's right, you blow the crap out of everyone in sight! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These desirable characteristics come from individual genes passed on during reproduction that determine how long a dog’s legs will be. Humans bred dogs over time to get them to display desired traits like short legs or long ears. They are all members of the same species but have different characteristics. For example, all dog breeds descend from wolves. Artificial selection is selective breeding to increase the chances of seeing desirable traits. Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth by discussing artificial selection. Dawkins is known for popularizing the theory of gene-centered evolution in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The Greatest Show on Earth is Dawkins’s 10th book and was generally well received, although critics noted that Dawkins argues for evolution with a such a fervor that he can be as dogmatic as his opponents. ![]() The book provides an easy-to-understand guide to biological evolution as well as a defense against creationist arguments, which claim that evolution is an unproven theory. First published in 2009, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution is a non-fiction book by British author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A delightful, entertaining story - with its rhyming story and ingenious die-cut pages, this is a book children will want to read again and again. Peep through the die-cut holes in this book to see if you can spy a shark. Is that really a shark? Turn the page and find out. Timothy Pope has a brand new telescope and hes testing it out in the park. Timothy Pope has a brand new telescope and he's testing it out in the park. Is there really a shark in the park? Go on, be brave, open the book and see! Timothy Pope, Timothy Pope, what can you see through your telescope? Read Or Download Shark In The Park By Nick Sharratt Full Pages.Ī sturdy board book edition of this bestselling story - perfect for the youngest readers to sink their teeth into! ![]() ![]() ![]() His overlapping disciplines are linked by a willingness to connect and enhance seemingly different parts to a larger, often spiritual, context.ĭouglas Dixon-Barker is a filmmaker currently based in Leeds. ![]() Victor Svedberg is an artist, graphic designer and musician from Gothenburg, Sweden. The artists will attempt to name god by locating and compounding a cache of automatic recordings of machine interactions, acting as sceptical doom-bringers. Clarke’s machine represents the slow death of all that we know, as in reality, it introduces the material conditions for imminent and unfussy world destruction. In this text, Clarke uses the machine as an allegory for mechanisation, mass production and resourceful human curiosity. Clarkes short story ’The Nine Billion Names of God’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later played straight with her aunt Libby's new date. Actually Not a Vampire: Subverted: Raven, at the end of the first book, comes to the conclusion that Alexander was mistaken for a vampire, and is immediately proven to be wrong.She can knock a spray-paint can out of a dude's hand and break said hand in the process with the best of them. ![]() There is also a comic tie in the series titles Vampire Kisses Blood Relatives. Vampire Kisses IX: Immortal Hearts (2012).Vampire Kisses VIII: Cryptic Cravings (2011).Vampire Kisses IV: Dance with a Vampire (2007).Vampire Kisses III: Vampireville (2006).Vampire Kisses II: Kissing Coffins (2005).Vampire Kisses is a series of books written by Ellen Schreiber.The series revolves around the relationship of a goth girl named Raven Madison and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander Sterling, and the conflicts they must overcome to stay together. ![]() |