Jennifer Love Hewitt – “The Client” Promos

Jennifer Love Hewitt – “The Client” Promos, 05 more images after the break...

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Older Woman

On the women older

Older woman will never accuse you of what you stole her best years, because they are until you've already stolen by someone else.

Older women run faster, because you always wear comfortable shoes.

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Bird Feeding — Video

Top 10 Biggest Losers of Season 2010 — Before and After

01. Patrick House

Starting weight: 400 lbs.
Finale weight: 219 lbs.
Lost 181 lbs., 45.25 percent

The 28-year-old sales rep from Vicksburg, Miss., won “The Biggest Loser” and took home the $250,000 prize.  This season’s “Biggest Loser” and winner of the $250,000 grand prize, Patrick, joined the show after hitting his personal rock bottom. He lost his job, he was forced to borrow money from family members just to make ends meet and he felt certain he would die young. Patrick has since transformed his life by losing an impressive 181 pounds and has put all of those worries behind him. ee the amazing transformations and pounds shed by the contestants, which included four players who started the show at over 400 pounds. 09 More after the break...

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SurLaLune Book Club: January and February

  

Okey dokey then.  The voting ended up with a tie so I was forced to resort to ye olde coine toss as predicted. The results are that we will be reading Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce for January.  February will be My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer.  Yes, it is a shorter month for a longer book but my thinking is that we can start the longer book in January and have time to finish it before the end of February so I didn't argue with ye olde coine.

And then because it came in third and I want to read it, A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz will be the read for March 2011.  This one has been really, really burning up the internet with positive reviews.

Here's the official list:

January 2011: Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
February 2011: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer
March 2011: A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

We'll resume voting for the next titles after that. If we make this work! I hope it works...

The next question is do we want to actually have a chat for the book club or simply set up a conversation on the SurLaLune Discussion board or elsewhere?  I know there are other ways to meet and chat but I haven't investigated them yet.  I am more concerned about schedules.  No one visits this site at the same time. Live conversation is nice, but we will probably get more participation if it is simply a running conversation over a week....also allows people to think and come back with new thoughts, too.

From "CCU student wins Paul Rice poetry contest"

From CCU student wins Paul Rice poetry contest, a press release:

Haleigh Woodlief has been named the winner of the ninth annual Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series Contest for her poem, “The Princess.”

The poem is based on the classic fairy tale, “Sleeping Beauty.” “I’ve always loved to read retellings of fairy tales,” says Woodlief, a junior English major from Myrtle Beach, “but I didn't actually have an entire poem planned out until I wrote the first line: ‘Tell me whose trumpet sounds when the princess has been vanquished …’ I began to wonder what exactly may have happened if the story had been true.”

As the winning poet, Woodlief will receive a $100 gift card to the CCU bookstore and 25 copies of the broadside, which will be produced by the end of the semester in an edition of 100 numbered copies.

To acquire a copy of “The Princess” broadside, contact Dan Albergotti at 843-349-2420 or via e-mail at albergot@coastal.edu. A requested donation of $1 per copy directly supports the the Paul Rice Poetry Broadside Series, created by the CCU Department of English in memory of the late Paul Rice, a poet, CCU English professor and songwriter who died in 2004.

Congratulations to Woodlief! And isn't nice to know that some judges and contest rules aren't opposed to being inspired by fairy tales? We're looking at you, National Book Award. (See those rules again.)

Fables #100

Fables #100 was released on December 8th and I failed to write about it then.  It is always a big deal for a television series to reach 100 episodes. Now Fables has achieved similar success with its hundredth issue of the series. Of course, we didn't doubt it would reach the 100th issue with the many special issues and spin-offs, but it's nice when all becomes reality. I admit a partiality for the Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love.
Vertigo's official description is thus:

Written by BILL WILLINGHAM and MARK BUCKINGHAM; Art by MARK BUCKINGHAM, BILL WILLINGHAM, CHRISSIE ZULLO, JOAO RUAS and STEVE LEIALOHA; Cover by JOAO RUAS

In this fantastic 100-page issue, it's time to put an end to Mister Dark once and for all, and time for the Fables to return home to Fabletown. For that to happen, one of the Fables agrees to take on the Dark Man in single combat! It's big, it's epic, and if you live in New York City, you may want to take a quick vacation when this issue comes out, because things are going to get wrecked!

In addition to the larger-than-life main story, we have a FABLES prose story written by Mark Buckingham and illustrated by Bill Willingham! We have an All-Star Burning Questions section that will knock your socks off (seriously, innocent people are going to lose some socks here). We have a puppet theatre created by the unstoppably creative Mark Buckingham, a FABLES board game, sequential stories painted by Chrissie Zullo and Joao Ruas, and even more surprises in this square-bound behemoth celebrating this award-winning Vertigo series!

You can probably still find these collectable issues at local comics and bookstores. A few issues are also available through various sellers on Amazon.

Fables has really spurred fairy tale interest in some unusual genres.  I am thrilled with the series success.  I admit I was skeptical when it was first announced all those years ago now, but the good news is that both Fables and SurLaLune are going strong all this time later. Congrats to Willingham the series creator and the rest of the creative gang behind the series.