The History Book Club discussion

This is a thread for Trivia, Humor, Jokes, Satire, Cartoons, Cartoonists, Comics, and Comedians. The sky is the limit.

Just remember, no self promotion please.

A farmer named Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside except for a pet dog he doted on. The dog finally died and Muldoon went to the parish priest saying, “Father, the dog is dead. Could you possibly say a mass for the poor creature?”

Father Patrick told the farmer, “No, we can’t have services for an animal in the church, but I’ll tell you what, there’s a new denomination down the road apiece, and no telling what they believe in, but maybe they'll do something for the animal.”

Muldoon said “I’ll go right now. By the way, do you think $50,000 is enough to donate for the service?”

Father Patrick replied, "Why didn’t you tell me the dog was Catholic?”

The Various Wonders of the World

http://www.wonderclub.com/AllWorldWon...

This dog is hilarious:

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100284...

Please feel free to add jokes, humorous stories, trivia etc to this thread; goodness knows with this economy we need a little humor now and then.

Laughlab ran a contest looking for the funniest jokes:


http://www.laughlab.co.uk/

Great Dance Routine by legends James Cagney and Bob Hope:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOoNOs...

Emerson has some good ones: (I like the one on success)

http://www.quotegarden.com/yearbook.html

"Write it on your heart, that every day is the best day in the year."

"Make the most of yourself...for that is all there is of you."

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

all Emerson

THE WORLD SINGS

Sit back and enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_i...

DID YOU KNOW? (interesting youtube video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2...

WHO WANTS TO MARRY A FOUNDING FATHER OR WOMAN


Select your match game.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proje...

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE
WHEN YOU'RE OLD
AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE

George Phillips, an elderly man from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.

George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?"

He said "No, but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me."

Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available."

George said, "Okay."

He hung up the phone and counted to 30.

Then he phoned the police again.

"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot them." and he hung up.

Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George, "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

(True Story) I LOVE IT!
Don't mess with old people

Here is a very clever and humorous way to honor your mother or grandmother or a mother you know. You simply have to provide the first and last name and their email address and they then get this very cute and very well done news announcement with video. Try it and you and the recipient will get a few chuckles.

Here is the link to sign up (it is free); don't checkmark the box to receive anything and you will not.

http://news.cnnbcvideo.com/taf.html?i...--

Here is a generic video presentation using the name Jane Smith:

http://news.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html...

What will happen is that "your mother's first and last name" will replace the first and last name of the sample video's Jane Smith. It is very clever. They will even send you a sample copy of the completed video.

Give it a whirl for the upcoming Mother's Day. I guarantee your mother will have a smile on her face and be laughing. They even have Obama giving her a congrats.

Oldesq wrote: "Message 15

Thanks Bentley- that is very clever!"

I thought it was and wanted to share it with all of you; every Mom deserves a laugh or two on Mother's Day. It is so easy to share the fun with your Mom or other great Moms you know.

By the way, Happy Mother's Day to you too.

Bentley

FOR FATHER'S DAY:

For those of you interested in doing something humorous for Father's Day; scan cafe can help you free of charge; they will scan a picture of your Dad onto a card which shows him in a porsche, climbing Mt. Everest, you name it AND THEY WILL EMAIL IT BACK TO YOU IN TIME,

Check it out right away if you want to take advantage of this fun offer:

http://www.scancafe.com/pages/fathers/

OBAMA AT THE "Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner in Washington".

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/poli...

ANDY ROONEY JUST PLANS ON STAYING HOME:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?i...

This is a very funny true story told by Justice Kennedy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8rJEP...

Chief Justice Roberts is very funny in this clip:

John Roberts on the Most Insignificant Justice Ever


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ze4f...

THIS IS A WONDERFUL STORY - THERE ARE SO FEW OF THEM THESE DAYS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/en...

FLIP: THE FOOTBALLING DOG: (PETER SHILTON OF THE DOG WORLD)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newst...

This really isn't humorous; but it is a good lesson in life to live for the moment so I will post this here.

SPECIAL THINGS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS:

He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk and the soft paper that it was wrapped in and then the box.

"She got this the first time we went to New York , 18 or 19 years ago. She has never put it on, she was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He placed the gift box on the bed next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died..."

He turned to me and said :

'Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion'.

I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.

I spend more time with my family, and less time watching TV.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.

I no longer keep anything in boxes if I want to use it now.

I use crystal glasses every day... I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.

I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.

The words 'Someday...' and ' One Day...' are fading away from my dictionary.

If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now...

I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning,
this nobody can tell.. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends. She might call old
friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favorite food.
It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.

Source: An email I received (written by someone but not the person emailing it to me - unknown source)

THE KNOWLEDGE WEB

Pretty interesting.

The Knowledge Web is the work of United Kingdom scientist, James Burke who is also an historian - he basically shows all of the interrelationships in history, events and people within his KW; fairly intriguing - six degrees of separation comes to mind

http://www.k-web.org/

Why is the Oval Office in the White House oval?

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha...

Who is the chief usher and why is this White House employee important?

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha...

Book about a chief usher's duties. etc.:



There is also the book by Irwin H. (Ike) Hoover called "42 Years in the White House". It does not appear to not be in goodreads. (Amazon link below)

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:m...

About White House Chief Usher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ho...

These are pretty humorous. They are transcribed sample actual customer tech calls:

The following are a number of transcribed conversations to technical support departments:
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Tech support: What kind of computer do you have?
Christine says: A white one...
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Customer: Hi, this is Maureen. I can't get my diskette out.
Tech support: Have you tried pushing the Button?
Customer: Yes, sure, it's really stuck.
Tech support: That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note.
Customer: No , wait a minute.. I hadn't inserted it yet... it's still on my desk.. Sorry....
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Tech support: Click on the 'My Computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer: Your left or my left?
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Tech support: Good day. How may I help you?
Male customer: Hello... I can't print.
Tech support: Would you click on "start" for me and --.
Customer: Listen pal, don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill Gates.
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Customer: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every time I try, it says 'Can't find printer.' I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can't find it...
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Customer: I have problems printing in red...
Tech support: Do you have a color printer?
Customer: Aaaah.....................thank you.
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Tech support: What's on your monitor now, ma'am?
Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me at Woolies..
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Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore.
Tech support: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?
Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer.
Tech support: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.
Customer:! OK
Tech support: Did the keyboard come with you?
Customer: Yes
Tech support: That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there another keyboard?
Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Ah...that one does work...
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Tech support: Your password is the small letter "a" as in apple, a capital letter V as in Victor, the number 7.
Customer: Is that 7 in capital letters ?
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Customer: I can't get on the Internet.
Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five stars.
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Tech support: What anti-virus program do you use?
Customer: Netscape.
Tech support: That's not an anti-virus program.
Customer: Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.
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Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screen saver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears.
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Tech support: How may I help you?
Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.
Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem?
Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I get the circle around it?
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A woman customer called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer:
Tech support: Are you running it under Windows?
Customer: "No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his printer is working fine."
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And last, but not least...
Tech support: "Okay Mickey, let's press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter "P " to bring up the Program Manager."
Customer: I don't have a P.
Tech support: On your keyboard, Colin.
Customer: What do you mean?
Tech support: "P".....on your keyboard, Colin.
Customer: I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT!!

Thought this was interesting..codenames used for Presidents, etc.

http://www.nndb.com/lists/050/000140627/

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS: NON FICTION

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/boo...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

A tourist couple driving through La Jolla start arguing about how to pronounce the name of the town. So they stop for lunch, and while they’re ordering they ask the cashier, “Can you tell us where we are? How do you pronounce it?” The employee replies, speaking slowly, “Burrrr-gerrrrr Kiiiiiiiiing.”

EVERY STREET IN NYC WALKED:

I am not sure how many New Yorkers are familiar with this web site; but this fellow walked and took photos of every street in Manhattan.

http://www.coffeedrome.com/bobwalk05l...

BOB'S WALK:

http://www.coffeedrome.com/walk.html

BOB'S WALK GALLERY OPENING:

http://www.juliewaltonshaver.com/Bob/

INTERESTING OLD POSTCARDS OF NYC:

The one of Bryant Park and the building across the street were before the Grace Building went up.

http://www.coffeedrome.com/earny.html

TOP TEN HOLIDAY GIFTS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3424025...

THE WRITER'S ALMANAC WITH GARRISON KEILLOR

CHECK IT OUT DAILY IF YOU LIKE IT

Every day Garrison Keillor presents interesting bits about various writers on their birthday (or on the anniversary of their death). You can READ and/or LISTEN to his daily reading - I have listed his url below:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

He also has some great archives worth listening to:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org...

These are some of the folks Keillor highlighted today:

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C.K. Williams

New York Times Article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/boo...

Keillor also highlighted James Joyce:

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James Joyce

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce

James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions.

James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. In spite of their poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class facade.

From the age of six Joyce, was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97). In 1898 he entered the University College, Dublin. Joyce's first publication was an essay on Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken. It appeared in the Fortnightly Review in 1900. At this time he also began writing lyric poems.

After graduation in 1902 the twenty-year-old Joyce went to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, teacher and in other occupations under difficult financial conditions. He spent a year in France, returning when a telegram arrived saying his mother was dying. Not long after her death, Joyce was traveling again. He left Dublin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid who he married in 1931.

Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916, a play Exilesin 1918 and Ulysses in 1922. In 1907 Joyce had published a collection of poems, Chamber Music.

At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved with his family to Zürich. In Zürich Joyce started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses, which was first published in France because of censorship troubles in the Great Britain and the United States, where the book became legally available only in 1933. In March 1923 Joyce started in Paris his second major work, Finnegans Wake, suffering at the same time chronic eye troubles caused by glaucoma. The first segment of the novel appeared in Ford Madox Ford's transatlantic review in April 1924, as part of what Joyce called Work in Progress. The final version was published in 1939.

Some critics considered the work a masterpiece, though many readers found it incomprehensible. After the fall of France in WWII, Joyce returned to Zürich, where he died on January 13, 1941, still disappointed with the reception of Finnegans Wake.

Today Keillor also highlighted Gibran:

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Kahlil Gibrán

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_G...

Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad; Arabic جبران خليل جبران بن ميکائيل بن سعد, January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Syria), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture.

Today Keillor also highlighted Morris:



Wright Morris

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_M...

Here is a write-up on Wright Morris from the University of Nebraska:

http://www.unl.edu/plains/publication...

Long regarded as one of the most gifted American writers, WRIGHT MORRIS was the author of over thirty-three award-winning books, among them the National Book Award in 1956 for his novel A Field of Vision. His most recent novel, Plains Song won the 1981 American Book Award for Fiction. He is the author of seventeen other novels, several collections of short stories, books of criticism, and a number of photo-text books. Black Sparrow Press has reprinted Writing My Life (1993) and Three Easy Pieces (1993). The University of Nebraska Press has brought out several titles in handsome reprint editions. Despite his many books and awards, widespread popularity eluded him during his lifetime. Stephen Goodwin, in The Washington Post Book World, said, "No writer in America is more honored and less read than Wright Morris." Geoffrey Wolff, writing in The New York Times Book Review July 25, 1976), explains Morris's reputation this way: "Perhaps [the lack of:] response to his work is less mysterious than it is regrettable. For Morris has no single voice, nothing like the kind of assertive style that marks a paragraph, wherever it is found, by Stanley Elkin or Saul Bellow or Vladmir Nabokov. And this is his grace: he will not be a star; he allows all ties to be subsumed by the matter at hand, the object under his care. As as there are so many objects in his junkshop, in the world, so are there many voices. ..." Walter Allen, writing in The Modern Novel (EP Dutton, 1964), says, "Wright Morris is one of the liveliest talents in the American novel today, and of his dozen or so novels one could scarcely pick out any single one as absolutely typical of his work. But he is always a formidable technician, able to bring past and present together in a single moment of time, and a writer in whom the bizarre, the pathetic and the comic exist cheek by jowl...." And in his Wright Morris (U of Minnesota P, 1968), Leon Howard writes, "No other American novelist has approached him in the rich variety of his raw materials and in the ability to keep them raw enough to seem real while they are being handled with an art as sophisticated as that of Henry James." For many years, Morris and his wife, Josephine Mary Kantor, made their home in Mill Valley, California. He was born in Central City, Nebraska on January 6, 1910 and died in April 1998.

"I am not a regional writer, but the characteristics of this region have conditioned what I see, what I look for, and what I find in the world to write about."

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/...

Nebraska National Register Sites:

http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpr...

Today Keillor also highlghted E.L. Doctorow:



E.L. Doctorow

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Do...

Edgar Laurence Doctorow is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of The Book of Daniel in 1971 that he obtained acclaim. His next book, Ragtime, was a commercial and critical success. As of 2006, he held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University. Doctorow's personal papers are held by the Fales Library at NYU.

Doctorow was raised in the Bronx, New York, by parental folks of second-generation Russian Jewish descent. At the Bronx High School of Science, he excelled in art making. Doctorow was a voracious reader and continued his education at Kenyon College where he studied with John Cro…more [close:] Edgar Laurence Doctorow is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of The Book of Daniel in 1971 that he obtained acclaim. His next book, Ragtime, was a commercial and critical success. As of 2006, he held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University. Doctorow's personal papers are held by the Fales Library at NYU.

Doctorow was raised in the Bronx, New York, by parental folks of second-generation Russian Jewish descent. At the Bronx High School of Science, he excelled in art making. Doctorow was a voracious reader and continued his education at Kenyon College where he studied with John Crowe Ransom. After graduating with honors in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University before he was drafted into the army and assigned to Germany. He began his career as a reader at Columbia Pictures, moved on to become an editor for New American Library in the early 1960s and worked as chief editor at Dial Press from 1964 to 1969.

He delivered a commencement address critical of President George W. Bush at Hofstra University on May 23, 2004.


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E. L. Doctorow. (2007, October 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:41, October 22, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...

What a fun idea.

Yes, when you think about it...Keillor covers a lot of ground. You can listen to it daily on line, download it, add it as a podcast, print it out and read it on line. You can also follow all of the links that Keillor adds. And I love the oral reading of the poetry. We so seldom hear poetry read any more.

And the above authors are only the ones he covered on January 6th!

Goodreads got a nice plug on a local talk show this morning on KUOW (Seattle's NPR station). They were talking about technology and books and bookstores.

Wow..that is great...what was the gist of the conversation.

Thanks for the link to Writer's Almanac. I loved listening to this program when I lived in Tennessee. I haven't found it in St. Louis.

You are very welcome Don...this is a great little program..and you can listen or read it in various formats.

THE WRITERS ALMANAC:

JANUARY 7TH

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org...

JANUARY 8TH

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org...

KEILLOR highlighted two poets on the 7th and 8th.

First was a poet named Gary Snyder. Gary must be a favorite of Keillors because he has been featured many times before. Snyder was part of the Beat Generation.

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Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder

Modern American Poetry:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/...

Poetry Foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archi...

Poets.org:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/167

You can look inside google:

Mountains and Streams Without End:

http://books.google.com/books?id=CH7U...

Some of Snyder's poems:

http://tjweb.org/poetry/snyder.html

Literary Kicks:

http://www.litkicks.com/GarySnyder/

Interview:

http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/snyder...

Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SXDe...

Gary Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 for Turtle Island.

Gary Snyder is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since the 1970s, he has frequently been described as the 'laureate of Deep Ecology'. From the 1950s on, he has published travel-journals and essays from time to time. His work in his various roles reflects his immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has also translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. As a social critic, Snyder has much in common with Lewis Mumford, Aldous Huxley, Karl Hess, Aldo Leopold, and Karl Polanyi. Snyder was for many years on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, and for a time served on the California Arts Council.

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Gary Snyder. (2007, October 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:36, October 19, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...

The second poet highlighted was Jeremy Voigt.

Jeremy Voigt

This was the first time it appeared that Voigt was featured on Keillor's program.

One thing that is so great about "listening" to Keillor's program is that you get to listen to Keillor actually read the poems.

I did not find as much about Voigt who I believe is a young poet in comparison to Snyder. But I did find Arbutus which seems to be published by him.

http://www.arbutus.net/

Keillor also featured writer Isabel Allende.

Isabel Allende

Here is Isabel's Allende site:

http://www.isabelallende.com/



Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...

UC Berkeley has readings of poetry called Lunch Poems. In March, 2009 - Gary Snyder did a reading of his poems. He certainly is older now; but still a good story teller while he reads his poems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVZxJ...

Synopsis: (UC write-up)

Born in San Francisco in 1930, world-renowned poet, essayist, and environmentalist Gary Snyder has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for Turtle Island. Snyder has traveled widely and lived for extended periods of time in Japan, where he studied and practiced Rinzai Zen. He is currently a professor at University of California, Davis.

Gary Snyder: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Riprap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zoMNp...

Synopsis: (UC Write-up)

Fifty years ago this Fall a small press in Kyoto, Japan published an English language book of poems, Riprap, by an unknown, first-time poet and UC Berkeley graduate student, Gary Snyder. It was, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, one of the books that launched the Beat Generation. It was also the most important book of American nature writing since John Muir's The Mountains of California in 1890, a pioneering work in the brief history of the American Buddhist sensibility, and a set of poems that combined freedom and elegance in a way that opened up new pathways in modern poetry. Join us in celebrating this landmark in American literature and in the cultural life of California.