This winter, in the tiny town of Tunbridge, librarian
Mariah Lawrence organized a virtual book club with a specific goal: connecting people of different ages through a shared love of stories. The
Tunbridge Public Library provided copies of a book, discussion prompts and art supplies to make a painting inspired by the story; participants were encouraged to find a partner or small group with whom to discuss the book preferably someone from a different generation. We had people from 8 years old to 80 years old in the group, and the perspectives were really beautiful, Lawrence said. The book in question,
A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry, follows a lonely wolf traversing the Pacific Northwest. While the story is geared toward children, there is darkness in it, too, and Lawrence thought it would appeal to all ages.
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The horror genre’s tropes are some of the most well worn in cinema you’ve got the jock, the stoner, the token Black character, and the virginal female lead. But contemporary audiences have begun to tire of these stereotypes. So here is a sampling of some new character tropes that any big-shot Hollywood dealmaker who is reading this is free to use, so long as they give me full credit and compensation.
The Young Republican
This Jacob Wohl look-alike, who wears pin-striped suits to school and has a portrait of Ben Sasse pinned up in his locker, offers a timely, insufferable element to any horror film. This character will be best known for grating observations about how the serial killer “is a classic Marxist, obsessed with taking something that he has no right to,” and that the real monster isn’t the giant, tentacled monster ravaging the town square but America’s obsession with P.C. culture.
Even worse, Noah continued, âitâs not like this happened in like 1992 and he could be like, âWell, it was a different time.â This was in 2019. If youâre a public official doing this kind of thing after the #MeToo movement, either you just canât help yourself, or youâre so dumb you shouldnât be in office anyway.â
The latest allegation has drawn more calls from fellow Democrats for Cuomo to resign, âalthough if these allegations prove anything,â Noah said, âitâs that Cuomo doesnât go away when you want him toâ.
Jimmy Kimmel
âIn the span of one month, Andrew Cuomo has somehow done the impossible: he made Bill de Blasio the second most hated politician in New York,â said Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night.
Today we had a very interesting Rando Texto where a woman sent us a message about how she accidentally hit her husband's car in the driveway and proceeded to make her 5-year-old lie about it.
Townshend farmer and author Lucas Farrell has won the inaugural Sundog Poetry Book Award for the blue-collar sun. Vermont poet laureate Mary Ruefle judged the.