The Book Is At #bea15 But @dickflavin Isn't. Come July, #RedSoxRhymes Will Be Everywhere
The book is at #bea15 but @dickflavin isn't. Come July, #RedSoxRhymes will be everywhere
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All your #addictions taken care of in one stop. Also sold gas and had a beer distributor next door. I love #Pennsylvania #fireworks #lottery #cigarettes
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
The Splendid Splinter
‘The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,’ by Ben Bradlee Jr.
Charles McGrath in the New York Times Sunday Book Review calls “The Kid” “a hard-to-put-down account of a fascinating American life.” More from The Times: “The people at the Alcor cryonics facility, in Scottsdale, Ariz., would have us believe that Ted Williams really is immortal. They have his body there, the head severed from the rest, flash-frozen in a giant thermos-like tank and awaiting only the scientific advancement that will allow him to be thawed, resuscitated and rejuvenated.”
Apologies to all for the @thetonyawards overload that is going to happen tonight. @lindahollidayofficial can you let me know if Miss Mass has a good night?
Ted declines Harvard’s offer
Exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Unlike many professional ballplayers—probably most of them—Ted was embarrassed that he never went to college, or had no formal education beyond high school. In 1991, on the 50th anniversary of his .406 year, Harvard University wanted to give him an honorary degree, but he turned it down, feeling that he would have been out of place among the intelligentsia in Harvard Yard.
(PHOTO: Ted Williams at Boston’s Back Bay station, April 1939, arriving in the city for the first time. Boston Globe photograph.)
Important issue.
Cancer Votes Massachusetts was out last week at the U.S. Senate candidate debate in Springfield, MA, the third of four scheduled debates between Sen. Scott Brown (R) and Elizabeth Warren (D).
Cancer Votes volunteers and staff spent time talking with supporters from both campaigns about why cancer needs to be a national priority, and six volunteers and staff were able to attend the sold-out debate.
And Cancer Votes volunteer Pat Spain from North Andover gave several interviews to reporters, including one with NPR!
According to Cancer Votes staffer Patricia Mallios, volunteers and staff were able to meet a lot of people and many of them kept their stickers on during the debate and were interested in hearing about Cancer Votes.
Photos: Cancer Votes volunteers Ellen Croibier, Peter Levine, Pat Spain, Anna Nguyen, Nora Wallace and staff Patricia Mallios, Erica Concors and Whitney Thomas and supporters of both candidates.
Ivanka Trump instagrammed this photo of Arabella with the caption, “Through this stare you can almost hear Arabella imploring me not to make her go to school this morning!!” I have mastered that look, and this one here is clearly the work of an amateur.
Also, what does she have to complain about? She goes to a school that lets its students wear faux fur vests and riding boots. Does she not understand how lucky she is?
Oh, if there only were a Circus Library. My favorite thing about libraries? That they exist and are magical. My favorite thing about circuses? That they exist and are magical.
The Book of Speculation GIVEAWAY
The tumblr community has been hugely helpful during the long walk to publication. I’d like to give something back.
I’m giving away A Box of Speculation. It contains: an Advance Reader Edition of my novel, The Book of Speculation, a complete set of antiqued tarot cards (in their own box), and a hand-bound notebook in which you might start your own novel. Neat thing: the cards were aged and stained by me. Other neat thing: I bound, aged, and gilded the notebook in the same manner as the original manuscripts of The Book of Speculation. Pretty cool, no?
To enter, reply to this post or message me with your favorite thing about libraries, or your favorite thing about circus!
A winner will be chosen at random, and will be notified via ask box on 5/23/15!
And then this happened. We visited a 'big cat' rehab centre. This guy and his brother were nearly dead when they came to the centre. Anticipating your question, Erica Corsano, no I had all these clothes already.
Just some musings and electronic gatherings of an ink-stained wretch turned social media junkie. As JADAL says: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this organic message. I do concede, however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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