![]() ![]() I don’t think comedy writing was his strong suit. ![]() ![]() At first they were apprehensive because they connected him to “The Twilight Zone,” but within five minutes in my dad’s presence, they felt comfortable. I guess she was out a little longer than he expected so he was up there for quite a while. My mother had to go out for something and he decided to crawl up in the hole and hang upside down like a bat waiting for her. I guess there was a hole in the top of the trailer, which was like a window vent. When my parents first got married they lived in a trailer on campus. My mother used to say “stop laughing, you are only encouraging him.” I had no idea that your father was such a funny guy who would do impressions, jokes and even wear lamp shades to get a laugh. Serling recently talked about her father and her memoir by phone from her home in Cayuga Heights, N.Y. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now all they had to figure out was how to engrave the concrete and attach it to the books.Īfter multiple engraving attempts left the concrete broken, Bolger asked Lasercut Plus to experiment with laser cutting until they ended up with the results you see here – something the company had never tried before. This left them with book covers boasting rough edges – perfect for the tactile effect they were going for. Living for these types of challenges, Bolger’s press maintenance team cut the Durock sheets down with a power saw (ensuring that they would be breathing dust for the next month). Strolling through Home Depot, Bolger’s engineer discovered large sheets of Durock cement board, which is often used as a subfloor or wall base beneath tile. ![]() ![]() Inspired by French design firm Murmure’s years-long dabbling in blending printing and concrete, Bolger was challenged to not only create concrete covers for the awards book, but also to add engraved titles to the front cover, too. Designed by Dress Code and produced by our friends at Bolger, this 188-page (plus cover) book underscores its celebration of the “impact” that its Young Guns Award winners are making by tucking their bios in between covers…made of concrete! And as it turns out in the case of this book of Art Directors Club ‘Young Guns’ Award winners, inspiration can even be as close as your nearest Home Depot. 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Brown's Hollywood career began in L.A., where he was for that year's Pro Bowl all-star game. ![]() ![]() The depths that Leo sunk to in his attempt to destroy Diana’s life are horrific. You learn of his death in the first sentence of the book) The Letter is about the slow rebuilding of a life in the aftermath of abuse. Diana’s life and confidence have been shattered by her now-deceased husband, Leo. I like those books too, but it was nice to go down a different track for a change. It’s refreshing to read a novel in which the heroine isn’t a high-flying power-duchess, taking on the ton with a snap of her fingers. Granted, I wouldn’t necessarily want to see abuse depicted in my romance novels either, but with the character of Diana, Sandra Owens does a fantastic job of portraying someone whose life has been rattled by abuse. ![]() ![]() So as I was reading The Letter, I kept remembering a blog post I had stumbled across a while ago in which that blogger listed the things that she didn’t want to see in the romance novels she reads. Whew! It took me forever to read this book, The Letter, by Sandra Owens, but not for any lack of wanting to, believe you me! The Letter is exactly the kind of book I would devour in a matter of days, under normal conditions, but like fate keeps the hero and heroine, Michael and Diana, apart for years, so fate kept me apart from The Letter. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a daytime serial - a “soap opera”, in common parlance - but one that built its stories not around adulterers, secret children, and long-lost evil twins, but rather vampires, witches, ghosts, Frankensteinian monsters, warlocks, werewolves, zombies, and even more things that go bump in the night. ![]() It was a thirty-minute show that came on five days a week, late enough in the afternoon that most kids could catch it if they came straight home after school. ![]() ![]() ![]() This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.įirst published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. ![]() ![]() His mother committed suicide rather than face the unspeakable horror. The son was born on the cusp of whatever has happened-apocalypse? holocaust?-and has never known anything else. The father dimly remembers the world as it was and occasionally dreams of it. Foraging through the wasteland are a father and son, neither named (though the son calls the father “Papa”). A great fire has left the country covered in layers of ash and littered with incinerated corpses. Where much of McCarthy’s fiction has been set in the recent past of the South and West, here he conjures a nightmare of an indeterminate future. ![]() McCarthy ( No Country for Old Men, 2005, etc.) pushes his thematic obsessions to their extremes in a parable that reads like Night of the Living Dead as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. Even within the author’s extraordinary body of work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drizzt's lust for battle increases and he begins to wonder if he is truly different than any other dark elf, and if he loses the last of his companions he wonders if he will succumb to drow nature. This ends up in an unlikely teaming up with none other than Drizzt and Breunor. To their dismay, the more they uncover about the ancient dwarven kingdom, the more they see they can't stop it on their own. ![]() In their search for treasure and magic, the enemy drow and dwarf pair inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting inhabitants of Neverwinter-a catastrophe large enough for Jarlaxle to risk his own skin and money to stop it. However, Jarlaxle and Athrogate discover it first. In this title, Drizzt joins Bruenor Battlehammer on his quest to find the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: said to be rich ancient treasure and arcane lore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And sometimes China’s strategy beats America’s. In response, China has accelerated its own efforts to develop its technological industry and reduce its dependence on external imports.Īccording to Dan Wang, a technology expert and visiting scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, China’s tech competitiveness is grounded in manufacturing capabilities. U.S.-led sanctions have imposed unprecedented limits on Beijing’s access to advanced computing c. Over the last few years, the United States has moved to limit China’s technological rise. Only FP subscribers can submit questions for FP Live interviews. ![]() ![]() In comedy horror film, gallows humor is a common element. Author Robert Bloch called them "opposite sides of the same coin". Edgar Allan Poe put humor and horror on the same continuum, and many nineteenth century authors used black humor in their horror stories. Shortly after the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, comedic parodies appeared. Horror and comedy have been associated with each other since the early days of horror novels. The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next" and its premise was based on mischief typically found during the holiday Halloween. ![]() ![]() Hallenbeck cites the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving as "the first great comedy horror story". The 1948 film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a comedy horror film, in that it pairs the comedy duo Abbott and Costello with the Frankenstein monster.Īuthor Bruce G. ![]() |