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Pod Fest 67
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Pod Fest 67
Is it fair to modern day actors that streaming television keeps us connected to so many old shows. The experts say such watching introduces viewers to the quality of today's performances because acting styles change. Ok, let's turn things around. The personal stories of your past. Where many of us like to live. Are we being fair to ourselves when we're always coughing up the old times?
The best part of the plan is being available in a world that seems so cluttered. Which puts us in a place of can't be touched, too much to do and too many places to be.
FORCE OF NATURE is a well-researched and timely free verse novel on the life, inspiration, and impact of Rachel Carson. Carson is the naturalist, marine biologist, and author of Silent Spring, whose work is credited with bringing much-needed urgency and action to the global environmental conservation movement. Burg began writing Carson's story in response to her nagging worry over our ailing planet. As an intrepid researcher looking into climate change, she discovered it was impossible to research the environment without coming across the words and warnings of Rachel Carson: Man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Who was Rachel Carson? Where did she find her courage? How did she forge her path to define the global climate movement as we know it by writing Silent Spring? FORCE OF NATURE answers those questions and more in brilliant free verse written for young scientists, environmentalists, feminists, and students.
When nighttime eels like a 15 minute break. It hasn't always been this way. For many years I suffered from Setatephobia which is the fear of silence. Today my challenge is feeling like 8 hours of sleep is a 15 minute timeout.
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"Ali Smith's The Ballad of Speedball Baby is a sometimes-harrowing ride poetically described in neon prose. Ali takes me to places I've been myself as a fellow 'woman of the road' and rocked and rolled. She brings it all back home so vividly with humor, originality, and love-and 'oh-yeah-that-happened-to-me-too' truthfulness. Like the touring band's rite of passage: crashing in a stranger's house in Where-am-I? USA and barely escaping with your life and bass guitar.or bartending in an East Village dive bar. It's a special experience being a Woman in Rock, and as Ali's story unfolds, she'll bring you along for the trip of your life." -- Kate Pierson, the B-52's
A Stylist Magazine (UK) Pick of Best New Nonfiction
A Kobo Pick of Best Book of the Month in Biographies & Memoirs
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, darkly hilarious, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming-of-age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply.
As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents' toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to.
She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world-from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She's often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene full of addiction, violence, and misogyny-all while keeping her sharp wit and dark humor intact.
Rimmed with heavy black eyeliner and smelling faintly of cheap booze, The Ballad of Speedball Baby is a pulse-quickening, unpredictable ride through the '90s music scene-alternately terrifying, hilarious, and painfully evocative-as well as a love letter to the power of female solidarity
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