![]() ![]() In 1963, Topham was replaced on lead guitar by Clapton, whom McCarty called, “very ambitious and very dedicated. We used to go and watch The Rolling Stones … so we gradually brought up a repertoire and we formed a group.” “Three of the guys were from Kingston Arts School, they were art students, and me and Paul Samwell-Smith were from a grammar school. “We were all in the Southwest Landon area and we used to hang out at a pub in Kingston,” McCarty said. “We’ve got all in there, and we do some blues covers, ‘Train Kept a Rolling,’ ‘Smokestack Lightning,’ ‘Drinking Muddy Water,’ so it’s a pretty good show.”įormed in 1963, the lineup saw McCarty on drums, Keith Relf on vocals and harmonica, Chris Dreja on rhythm guitar, Paul Samwell-Smith on bass and Top Topham on lead guitar. ![]() ![]() “You’ve got the grandparents and the grandchildren who’ve all got their Zeppelin T-shirts on, so they know all about The Yardbirds,” longtime drummer Jim McCarty told WTOP. Imagine replacing Eric Clapton on guitar by bringing in Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in the same band together! That’s the story of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band The Yardbirds, who bring psychedelic blues-rock to Rams Head in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday. WTOP's Jason Fraley previews The Yardbirds at Rams Head in Annapolis (Part 1) Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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![]() I was home one day reading it and my mother was ironing in the other room. I was in high school when we were assigned to read the play. ![]() It also is connected with a beautiful and beloved experience in my life. This has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare plays and without doubt the one I have read most often and then have read bits pieces more often. See: List of Shakespeare’s play’s I’ve read and commented on COMMENTS ON JULIUS CAESAR However, I will keep a separate page listing each play I’ve read with links to any comments I would make of that particular play. ![]() At this time I have no idea how the project will go, nor if it will actually lead me through the entire corpus of Shakespeare’s plays. Thus I began with The Two Gentlemen of Verona. I wanted to go back, start with something not too serious or challenging, and work my way through the whole corpus. I hadn’t read a Shakespeare play since 1959, 50 years ago! But I had read nearly all of them in college. ![]() General Note: In January 2009 I decided that I’d like to go back and read all the plays of William Shakespeare, perhaps one a month if that works out. ![]() Book review - JULIUS CAESAR William Shakespeare ![]() ![]() In no time they are off the main highway and lost. And their driver, refusing to wait for another adult to replace their chaperones, sets off again with only the kids and a hidden bottle of booze in tow. Their adult chaperones contract food poisoning on the way back and must be dropped off at a hospital. This time will be like no other trip they've ever taken. And unbeknownst to his sister, Jake continues his one-man letter-writing campaign to the Governor, pleading for clemency for their mom.Īlong with an assortment of nervous, angry, and damaged kids, Jake and Shoshona take a community-provided school bus four times a year on the long overnight journey through New York State to visit their mother in jail. Both have found their own ways to cope: Shoshona has become a bossy mother figure Jake, who is a budding comic book artist, has created an alter ego named Jakeman. “Jake and his sister Shoshona have been under foster care since their single mother was arrested for possession and trafficking three years before. ![]() ![]() ![]() This man is maimed, shot, beaten, stabbed, and eventually killed. Eleven-year-old Malcolm and 16-year-old Alice try to save her from a kidnapping and a flood, and from a mentally unstable man who constantly stalks them. The main character in His Dark Materials, Lyra, is a baby in this story, but still has an important part to play. You don't have to read the first trilogy to follow this book, but it really helps. Parents need to know that The Book of Dust, Book 1: La Belle Sauvage is the first in what author Philip Pullman calls an "equel" trilogy that matches up with his trilogy His Dark Materials. Some smoking of cigarettes and pipes by adults.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. A teaspoon of wine is given to a baby when she needs to be quiet for her own safety. Eleven-year-old Malcolm is tempted to take a sip of one fancy drink. Many scenes where adult patrons drink and in academic circles where everyone is offered wine or hard liquor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It was very difficult for me to not be judgmental,” she says, laughing, “which is a basic tenet of that field.” She switched to English and began picturing an academic career. She briefly considered concentrating in anthropology, but one introductory class changed her mind. “My freshman year I got a B, and I’d never gotten even an A- in high school, and my parents were like, ‘Good for you! Take it down a notch! Have a good time for once!’” With time, she learned to temper her competitiveness and immerse herself in the academic experience. She started two days after 9/11, and still recalls the palpable sorrow hanging over fellow students, many of them East Coasters. Shipstead says she entered as an “aggressive” high-school graduate, but the environment caused some culture shock. Harvard was a clearer path: her father attended the College, and her mother the Graduate School of Education. Her mother, she says, sometimes suggested otherwise, “Like, ‘Well, maybe…you’ll be a writer one day,’ and I was really resistant to that idea.” ![]() The current Los Angeles resident-born in Orange County, but peripatetic for a few years in-between-remembers reading as having a more prominent role in her life than writing. It may seem odd that Maggie Shipstead ’05, whose third novel, Great Circle, arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. ![]() ![]() In his Discworld Series, Terry Pratchett, one of Britain’s best and funniest authors created a true delight of modern fiction. ![]() The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett (The Discworld Series)Ĭarnegie Medal Winner: 2002 (The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents) Published: 1996 | World Fantasy Award Nominee: 2012 (A Dance With Dragons), 1997 (A Game of Thrones) | British Fantasy Award Nominee: 2012 (A Dance With Dragons), 2006 (A Feast for Crows)Ģ. An immense, incredible work of epic fantasy written by a hugely talented author who has created an effortless, enchanting read that is rich, rewarding and completely enthralling. ![]() A Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire)Ī Song of Ice and Fire is the history lesson you wish you’d had in school. ![]() Click on a book title to read the full review. The 100 fantasy books that we - and other readers - simply cannot recommend highly enough books that we've all loved reading. ![]() ![]() When the list of things a subject didn’t do is longer and more interesting than the things he did, that subject’s biographer faces a mighty challenge. He trimmed his eyelashes to help him better see the ball. He signed autographs with extraordinary patience. He hit a baseball better than almost anybody ever born. He grew up poor in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania. Now, here are some of the things Stan Musial did: He didn’t support his teammate Curt Flood when Flood challenged baseball’s oppressive reserve clause, paving the way for players to become free agents. ![]() He didn’t take a stand, one way or the other, when Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947. ![]() He didn’t sleep with a Hollywood actress. 400, hit in 56 consecutive games or smash 500 home runs. Here are just a few of the interesting things Stan Musial, the great slugger for the St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book! It’s no surprise that I’m completely obsessed with this series and J. Now, Bella must help her lover overcome the wounds of his tortured past, and find a future with her… Goodreads But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist’s thirst for vengeance against Bella’s tormentors drives him to the brink of madness. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion-until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society.īella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. Renowned for his unquenchable fury and sinister deeds, he is a savage feared by humans and vampires alike. Of these, Zsadist is the most terrifying member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.Ī former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other – six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read About My Home Town and CIA’s Use of Literature To Promote Perversion Here Did I mention I grew up in a satanic cesspool, run by CIA, masquerading as a cute little town, and our neighbor worked for a defense contractor? You can read about our neighbor’s daughter, CIA’s promotion of perversion through books, and a transcript of a programming session under MK-ULTRA below. My dad read Shogun in the 1970s, and I remember feeling intrigued by the hardback two-volume set our neighbor lent him. Read More on MI7’s Use of Literature To Promote Perversion Here Through papers, books, and tv, the New World Order programs us. ![]() They use literature to control how we think, dream, feel, and act–and they don’t call miniseries, like the blockbuster into which they made Shogun, programs for nothing. Like the control of all media, not just the news and propaganda, the Book of the Month Club, the New York Times, and the literature itself were part of CIA OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD. The book was a major best-seller, the Book of the Month Club mailed it to our houses, and the New York Times wrote rave reviews. When I was a boy, everyone read Shogun by James Clavell. ![]() ![]() These flashbacks gave us more backstory for Duncan as well as information about Ellie and her connection to Zack Wells. There were also a few flashback sequences in this one, but not nearly as many as in the first volume. Again, it started with a bang and then continued in a fast pace. I really enjoyed the storyline in this volume as well. One student runs out of the house, while the other, “Zack Wells,” is just a bit too interested. And by cramming, he means literally shoving textbooks into their heads after opening them up with the key. Unfortunately the siblings don’t keep the key to themselves Tyler brings two friends from school over to help them cram for a test. Bode shows what happens to his siblings and finally gets them to believe all the other paranormal things he had tried to tell them. After searching the house, he discovers that this key doesn’t open a door… it opens up a person’s head! And when their heads are open, it is possible to put things in as well as take things out. The death is hitting Kinsey very hard, and even she isn’t sure why. ![]() ![]() This volume begins with the death of a teacher at the Locke siblings school. ![]() 2: Head Games by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez 2: Head Games was amazing.Ĭlick here if you missed my review of Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft. I am SO glad that I checked out both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of this series from the library at one time so I could immediately jump into this second volume after finishing the first. ![]() |