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B.C. orcas' rare beach-rubbing behaviour caught on video
Amateur video taken Wednesday shows an orca family in shallow water rubbing themselves on stones
WOW! what a phenomenal experience!
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A great tongue in cheek comedy 'Airplane' (1980)
"Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
Olive Penderghast In Easy A
“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
I was a big sci-fi fan as a teenager, especially the works of Isaac Asimov. Most of his book covers were by an artist named Chris Foss. Check out his work here:
http://www.chrisfossart.com/
http://www.chrisfossart.com/
First and foremost I go for authors I know and love. That makes sense as one pretty much knows what to expect and can pretty-much guarantee a good read (not always, admittedly. The late horror writer James Herbert went through a period of writing some stinkers before he got his mojo back on track!)
The blurb on the back of a book DOES influence whether I'll read a book or not. If the synopsis grabs my interest from the off I'll have a go at reading the book. I have 'found' some amazing authors that way. Equally I have bought some utter crap, but that's the risk one takes.
I suppose I am a genre reader: I love crime fiction, thrillers, GOOD horror (there is some amazingly bad stuff out there!) and that sort of stuff. On the other hand I enjoy biographies and autobiographies and true crime stuff.
On a more immediate note: I really like the sort of stuff one finds on sites like SS. There are some very talented writers who submit their work to these sites and that body of work deserves to be read and acknowledged. That's what brought me to SS in the first place, more to read than to submit. It is always entertaining, whether for good or bad
The blurb on the back of a book DOES influence whether I'll read a book or not. If the synopsis grabs my interest from the off I'll have a go at reading the book. I have 'found' some amazing authors that way. Equally I have bought some utter crap, but that's the risk one takes.
I suppose I am a genre reader: I love crime fiction, thrillers, GOOD horror (there is some amazingly bad stuff out there!) and that sort of stuff. On the other hand I enjoy biographies and autobiographies and true crime stuff.
On a more immediate note: I really like the sort of stuff one finds on sites like SS. There are some very talented writers who submit their work to these sites and that body of work deserves to be read and acknowledged. That's what brought me to SS in the first place, more to read than to submit. It is always entertaining, whether for good or bad