![]() The only problem: Ashly and Anthony grew up but their all-time favorite video game didn't. Several console generations later, Metal Gear Solid is still often touted as the series high water mark. Before they co-created the hit web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, before Anthony was lead writer of Borderlands 2, before Ashly lent her voice to Saints Row IV, Towerfall, and Adventure Time-Ashly and Anthony Burch were just a brother and sister who shared a weird obsession with Solid Snake and his 3D debut, Metal Gear Solid (1998).Īnd why wouldn't they? Hideo Kojima's attempt at creating the Playstation's greatest game featured groundbreaking stealth mechanics, a gruff and hunky leading man, a brilliantly claustrophobic setting, tons of cinematic cutscenes, shocking fourth wall breaks, and terrifying bosses. ![]()
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![]() Though as much as we might use the term “familial relationships,” in effect we’re talking genealogy. These ties serve to make for some of the story’s most complex interactions, and hence, some of the tautest situations and dialogue. Be it your classic sibling rivalry, a character acting out to get their parent’s attention, or in-fighting between family members or amongst cousins to inherit money, land, a title, or a company, the notion of familial links is strong. No matter the type of crime fiction, familial relationships are often the key factor in understanding why a bad deed is committed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every book is a quotation and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by historical figures, the group manages to humiliate a nitpicking teacher through the use of a secret tape recorder (known as Operation "Code: Nixon"), infiltrate the cool-girls' club ("Code: Queen Elizabeth") and stage a passive resistance to tedious note-taking ("Code: Gandhi"). When Clouds proposes to Chris and a select group of classmates that they can change their school world for the better with a little revolutionary zeal, everyone gets into the act. Which is fine with Chris, who, quite frankly, is tired of tyrannicalteachers, cool-girl cliques and boring work. With his shock of red hair, his disarming manner and an opening greeting of "Good day, fellow proletariats," this transfer student to Laverton Junior High looks ready to shake the boredom from his adopted Grade 8 class. ![]() ![]() The historic Odeon Theatre in Mason Texas where the world premiere of the Disney movie Old Yeller was held Disney’s film version starring San Angelo native Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk and Dorothy McGuire followed the next year. His first book, The Fabulous Empire, was a moderate success when published in 1946, but it would be Hound-dog Man, released a year later which established his reputation in literary circles.įive more books would be released before Old Yeller (his favorite) was published in 1956. The Gipson family soon included two sons: Mike born in 1940 and Beck in 1945. ![]() Newspaper work was never his forte, but it greatly increased his pool of personalities for later use. Also, he had begun selling short stories to pulp Westerns and slick magazines such as Collier’s and Look. He moved to San Angelo where he worked at the Standard-Times and soon married Tommie Wynn. Frank Dobie, yet he quit school before graduation to become a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. ![]() ![]() Gipson left home to attend the University of Texas at Austin where he encountered folklorist J. His hardscrabble upbringing never embittered him because he knew a fellow could always retreat to the natural world of creeks and critters. A boy and his dog participating in an Old Yeller look alike contest at event in downtown Masonīorn in 1908 to humble, farming parents, he grew up with a brother and four sisters (Stella also became a writer). ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosie tidies the garden and visits with a fellow teacher. Chipper, the gym teacher, with his equipment and then practices driving his bus route. They unpack the classroom library, set up the art corner, and decorate the classroom with a banner and the rules. Peanuts as they spend the day before school starts getting ready for the year. The animals will be the big draw for readers: Who could resist two squirrels shopping for school supplies while pushing a tiny grocery cart? Or the pair at the picnic table nibbling peanuts in front of the swings and slide on the playground? (The author’s note will be of particular interest to readers who are curious how Rose captured these photos.) The story that goes with the pics tells of Rosie, a teacher, and her friend Mr. The latest in Rose’s series snaps her backyard squirrels (and one chipmunk) against school backdrops. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And who knew how much longer I had left, anyway? What if I was expending the precious remnants of my soul on soccer? Here I was, standing like an idiot on a muddy field, while Lend was away at college. "GREEN!" Carlee held out a hand and helped me up. However, the more Miss Lynn shouted it, the less I liked it. ![]() It seemed like such a cute last name when Lend made it up to fake my legal documents. "Get off your butt and get back in the game!"Īh, Green. I was pretty sure that Miss Lynn had a deeper voice than my boyfriend. ![]() A familiar face, framed by long, dark hair, leaned over me. How mortifying.Īt last, blessed air filtered through. They had to start working at some point, right? Bright spots danced before my eyes and I could just see my obituary: Tragedy Strikes During Soccer. But why was I looking at the sky? Maybe it was connected to my sudden inability to breathe. I braced for impact.Īnd then I marveled at the clear blue autumn sky. The girl I was supposed to cover (a creature so hulking I swear she was a troll) charged toward me, steam practically flowing from her nostrils. We were playing soccer-without shin guards. Why had I ever wanted this? What was I thinking? Working at the International Paranormal Containment Agency might have been close to indentured servitude, and sure, I had some nasty run-ins with vampires and hags and creeptastic faeries, but that was nothing compared to the danger I faced now. My hand twitched at my side, reaching for the pink Taser I knew wasn't there. I was going to die a horrible, gruesome, painful death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note A4 Editions are only available for delivery within the UK. To order the play in this format, simply select the 'A4 Spiral-bound' option above. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Francesca Rossi (Illustrator) 3.9 (244) Hardcover 8. ![]() This play is also available as an A4 Edition, offering spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes. Packing in more than fifty unforgettable characters, this imaginative version of Around the World in 80 Days was written for an ensemble cast of eight, but can be performed by a much larger cast – making it perfect for any theatre company or drama group looking for a high-spirited adventure. Laura Eason's celebrated adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel was seen at the New Vic Theatre, Stoke, and Manchester's Royal Exchange before receiving its London premiere at the St. The fabulously wealthy Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers his life's fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days.Īlong with his hapless valet Passepartout, he sets out on a dazzling escapade that takes him from the misty alleys of London to the exotic subcontinent and on to the Wild West as they race against the clock on a dizzying succession of trains, steamers, a wind-propelled sledge and an elephant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following site selection of the Union soldier’s new cemetery, state commissioners determined that a fitting ceremony must inaugurate the reburial process. That issue would have to await the end of the war. Considering that the war still raged, little thought was given to the Confederate dead in their temporary graves. ![]() Mortified, several Union states representatives banded together to create a soldier’s cemetery into which the Union dead could be reinterred with proper ceremony and respect. Within weeks of the battle, torrential rainstorms and foraging animals had opened the thousands of poorly dug, shallow and temporary battlefield graves. Gettysburg had been the costliest civil war battle to date with more than 53,000 casualties including 10,000 Union and Confederate soldiers killed and mortally wounded. The question remained, however, how could he do it. The nation’s hopes for a speedy end to the war had to be tempered and the president knew it and he wanted the country to know it. On JPresident Abraham Lincoln celebrated the nation’s birthday with double Union victories, one at Vicksburg, Mississippi and the other at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This is Michael Kelly, a Park Ranger at National Mall and Memorial Parks interpreting the Gettysburg Address. ![]() ![]() Yungman’s life is thrown into chaos-the hospital abruptly closes, his wife refuses to spend time with him, and his son is busy investing in a struggling health start-up. ![]() And one day, a letter arrives that threatens to expose it. He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all that he knew behind. Every day for the last 50 years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath’s General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. ![]() A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to build come crumbling down.ĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() “In this wonderful memoir, actor Grant charts her life from a childhood in New York City through her performance in Shampoo and beyond…Whether recalling the traumas of her first marriage to screenwriter Arnold Manoff or sharing entertaining memories of her famous friends, Grant does so with a with a lively, approachable tone. When she was jubilant after winning an Oscar for her supporting role in Shampoo, we know it when she was disgusted, as when a television network canceled her series without telling her, we know it, too and, of course, when she was dismayed and bewildered and depressed when she couldn’t find work during her 12-year blacklisting, we know it for sure….An excellent show-business autobiography."- Booklist, STARRED review “No-holds-barred…Grant doesn’t make us read between the lines here it’s all right there, on the page. ![]() ![]() While she may prefer to be coy about precisely how long it’s lasted so far, I Said Yes to Everything serves as evidence that it’s been long enough to give her a meaty, multifaceted and compelling story to tell.”- Jen Chaney, The Washington Post ![]() “The elegant theater and screen actress bares all of her insecurities and regrets…But there’s also an intimacy and directness in how she shares-including numerous dishy, behind-the-glam anecdotes….Grant has lived a long, full life. ![]() |