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chantireviews · 2 months

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Valentine's Day 2024 - SWEET READS From Chanticleer with all the Genres of the Heart

Will your book be our Valentine? At Chanticleer we love Romance Books and we love to show it off with our Chatelaine Awards! We’re currently working as hard as we can to get out the Finalist List for those Awards, and you can see the Semi-Finals for them here! Who will win? Only time will tell. However, right now we just want to celebrate some of the romantic books we’ve been able to discover.…

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the12thnightproject · 2 years

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Dear kitsune and O.ED, No matter how early I go to bed, I still end up waking at the same... getting late for school... What to do ? At this rate I might get an award for "yearly late comers" 😭.

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Dear Late For School,

It has been said that tardiness is inversely proportional to interest in the activity. Thus, it may be possible that your inability to arrive on time implies that your institution of learning is, shall I suggest, dull? If that is not the case, then telling yourself that you want to be on time, in order to prevent what our dear chatelaine colloquially calls “FOMO,” may be enough motivation to arrive on time.

Alas, it may be true that your school is boring. If that is so, then try one of the following methods of rising earlier:

Suspend a bucket of cold water over your sleeping area, and rig it to douse you in the morning. This has the added bonus of combining your morning shower with your wake-up routine.

Get a cat. Train them to expect food a half an hour prior to the time you wish to rise.

Enlist a friend to serenade you at your desired wake-up time. Should you not have such a friend, there is a certain Wild Child living in Azuchi who is considered to be quite the vocalist. Let us know if you are interested in contracting his services and Hideyoshi would be more than happy to send him to you.

Additionally you might try pointing out to your school authorities that their coursework/lectures are uninteresting, which in turn may result in expulsion, therefore negating the need to get up in the morning.

Best of luck,

The Kitsune

Postscript: Do seriously consider option three. The Kitsune can assure you that the Wild Child’s volume is such that his morning yodels can rouse even the soundest sleeper.

Curious about the O.E.D.'s opinion? Go to @lorei-writes to find out what he had to say.

#ikemen sengoku #mitsuhide akechi #ikemen mitsuhide #ikesen mitsuhide #samaurwise advice #ikesen #ikemen series

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kathleenstoneauthor · 3 months

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Thrilled to announce that HEY JUDE has advanced to the semi-finals of the Chanticleer International Book Awards in the Chatelaine Awards for Romantic Fiction category!

Thank you all for your continued support! My readers mean the world to me, and I hope to make you proud. 🍃

#Chanticleer #HeyJude #BookAwards #romance #RomanticFiction #DeafCharacters

#Chanticleer HeyJude romance BookAwards DeafCharacters RomanticFiction

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playitagin · 11 months

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1944-Capture of U-boat

World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

The action took place in the Atlantic, approximately 150 miles off the coast of Rio De Oro in Western Sahara, Africa. U-505 was detected by sonar and, after depth-charge attacks by Chatelain in which the submarine’s rudder was jammed, its auxiliary rudder controls disabled, and aft compartments were flooded, the boat surfaced and was taken under naval gunfire. Convinced that the submarine was about to sink, the commanding officer, Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant) Harald Lange, ordered his crew to abandon ship, during which the standard scuttling procedures were only partially carried out. As its crew was being picked up, U-505 was boarded by U.S. Navy personnel from Pillsbury led by Lieutenant Junior Grade Albert L. David, who secured sensitive materials and succeeded in closing scuttling valves and disarming scuttling charges (David was later awarded the Medal of Honor for the intrepidity and gallantry of his actions).

Flooding was contained and the submarine’s diesel engines shut down. U-505 was taken into tow and, after a concerted damage control effort that eventually succeeded in recharging the boat’s batteries and bringing it to its proper trim, was brought into Bermuda on 19 June.

#Jun.4.1944 #Captured U-boat #history today

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rebeccavoszphlebotomycareers · 1 year

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WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s

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jamesmurualiterary · 3 years

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Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2021 winners announced.

The winners for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2021 were announced on Friday, October 15, 2021 The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, named for US African American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, honour the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award for fiction, nonfiction and poetry was the first national award…

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#Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards #Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2021 #Marcia Chatelain #Rachel Eliza Griffiths #Rita Woods

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blackswaneuroparedux · 4 years

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In the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room.

- Clarissa Spancer Churchill Eden, Countess of Avon, on the Suez War 1956

Clarissa Spancer Churchill Eden, Countess of Avon turned 100 on 28 June 2020.

When she was born Lloyd George was Prime Minister and her uncle Winston Churchill was Secretary of State for War and Air. Her father Jack’s parents were Lord Randolph Churchill and the beautiful Jennie Jerome. Her mother was also a beauty, Lady Gwendoline Bertie. As an only daughter Clarissa felt over-loved and smothered.

Clarissa was never much interested in politics. Self-contained and silent as a girl, she would say, ‘I only spoke when I had something to say’. She made her debut with Deborah Mitford and Pamela Digby, but wanted more and was tutored by famed Oxford philosopher, Isaiah Berlin and Lord David Cecil.

She then joined a heady milieu of artists and writers - Lord Berners, James Pope-Hennessy, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, Greta Garbo. Her life was like an early volume of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. Evelyn Waugh and Duff Cooper were hopelessly in love with her.

But at 32 years old she went from High Bohemia to High Politics on maarrying Foreign Minister Anthony Eden - a surprise to many in high society. The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Evelyn Waugh protested that Eden had a wife still living. Much of Waugh’s moral outrage was down to personal jealousy and his unrequited love for Clarissa. Eden had indeed been a loveless marriage to his first wife Beatrice but in 1950 they finally divorced, and in 1952 Anthony married Clarissa.

Anthony Eden was no slouch as he sailed through Eton and, like many of his generation, he served in the First World War losing two brothers killed in action along the way. Eden himself served with distinction in the trenches and front lines of that bloody war. At the age of 19, he was the youngest adjutant on the Western Front and by 1918 because of his conspicious bravery, at the age of 20, Eden became the youngest brigade major in the British Army. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for her war time service. After the war, he studied Oriental Languages (Persian and Arabic) at Christ Church, Oxford, starting in October 1919. At Oxford, Eden took no part in student politics, and his main leisure interest at the time was art. Eden was in the Oxford University Dramatic Society and President of the Asiatic Society. Along with Lord David Cecil and R. E. Gathorne-Hardy he founded the Uffizi Society, of which he later became President. Possibly under the influence of his father he gave a paper on Paul Cézanne, whose work was not yet widely appreciated. Eden was already collecting paintings.

Eden read the writings of Lord Curzon and was hoping to emulate him by entering politics with a view to specialising in foreign affairs. He went into politics and became an MP at the age of 26 years old. In Parliament he quickly made a name for himself and was already being talked of as a future Prime Minister. He was gently mocked for his fussy self-image and was often regarded as the best-dressed, best-looking politician of his time - although one rival rival said of him, “half- beautiful woman; half- mad baronet’.

Clarissa was deeply in love with Anthony, and he with her. But she wasn’t quite prepared for the high stakes of politics as her husband climbed the greasy pole of political advancement. Eden was deeply ambitious and he eventually became Foreign Secretary in 1931.

Clarissa recalled, ‘My first visitor was the wife of the head of the Foreign Office, Lady Strang, who came to tea….I did wonder what I had got myself into when her opening remark was ‘I hope you are not going to denationalise steel – it is doing so well’ I had previously had no views about steel’

Within 3 years, Anthony at last achiecved his life’s goal and became Prime Minister, having at last succeeded Clarissa’s uncle, Winston Churchill who stepped aside for the younger Eden. Was she the most beautiful cultivated chatelaine of No 10 since Catherine Walpole? Many did then and many think so today.

A gall-bladder operation gone wrong and the debacle that was the Suez Crisis made for a short and unhappy time for Eden as PM and a trying time for Clarissa. She was famously quoted as saying ‘in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room’. This was said in a rare political speech at Gateshead on 20 November 1956, but picked up and widely reported.She later regretfully conceded that “drawing room” was perhaps an unfortunate metaphor.

Nevertheless the Suez War took its toll and Eden eventually found his health broken. His stellar political career lay in ruins as Haorld Macmillan plotted behind the scenes (a fact that Clarissa never forgave him for). Eden resigned in 1957 and in 1961 accepted an Earldom (of Avon). Both Anthony and Clarissa enjoyed 20 leisurely years between Wiltshire, Stratford, Paris and the Caribbean.

Her main loves are art and opera, she loved to travel and, though not one for discomfort, she would endure any amount of it to find an obscure chapel in Serbia. In later life she took up sub-aqua swimming, happily enjoying life in deep waters. Though she read serious classics, she took an unexpected enjoyment in soap operas like Dallas, greatly entertained by the antics of J. R. Ewing and Cliff Barnes with their huge Stetson hats, talking about their “Daddies”.

A great many people bored her and still do, but she takes a wry enjoyment from that. I heard an anecdote from a friend that once after a dinner, when she said, “I think we have exhausted the social possibilities of this evening, don’t you?” - a more elegant way of saying it was time to go.

In many ways Clarissa remains a reminder of a nobler age of Britain and who embodied many of the values that made Britain so great before the sunset of its empire and the dawn of counter culture of the Modern Britain of the 1960s. She has always remained enigmatic person, the soul of discretion but fiercely devoted to her loved ones. Above all, she has been a woman of substance in control of her own destiny.

#clarissa #countess of avon #clarissa spencer churchill eden #quote #femme #beauty #nobility #aristocracy #britain #society #culture #politics #history #icon

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toongrrl-blog · 4 years

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Karen Wheeler Playlist Part Six

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“Johnny Get Angry” Joanie Summers

Karen just wants Ted to show he cares (or to know he cares), he doesn’t seem to be bothered up much, one wonders if he even had the passion for the Reagan Revolution that took place earlier in the 1980s or even as a member of Nixon’s “Silent Majority” because he doesn’t seem to get angry or hot and bothered, the guy doesn’t care when he isn’t bemused. At this point Karen wants the caveman sung about in the song she must have listened to in her youth (also look for the k.d. lang cover). Speak of the devil....

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“Miss Chatelaine” k.d. lang

The famously butch k.d. lang femmes it up for performances of this song that refers to the Canadian homemaking magazine award of the same name (an award she won in real life). A Chatelaine is the owner of a chateau (along with her husband) and is used to refer to both the matriarch of a large estate (and even a sewing accessory used in the 19th and early 20th centuries). Like Karen, k.d. is wondering how she got here, how did the androgynous cowgirl from Alberta and a vivacious and intelligent babe end up representing an aspirational image for homemakers? Also I can see k.d.’s look in the video being her wedding day look.

Fun Fact: The magazine even published pieces by The Handmaids Tale writer Margaret Atwood which just makes the viewing of Karen’s “I’m glad you stood up to those shitheads” speech to Nancy in Season Three.

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“Ones On The Way” Loretta Lynn

It’s hard to find something for Karen from the Coal Miner’s Daughter (she seems to be more appropriate for a Joyce Byers playlist) but I found one about a Midwestern homemaker who laments the lack of access to the Pill, her far from glamorous life away from White House glitter and the jet setting of Jackie O and Liz Taylor, the career mobility of Raquel Welch and Debbie Reynolds, and the that the changes demanded by the Women’s Libbers marching down Fifth Avenue hadn’t made it to Topeka where she is juggling the multiple needs of young children and the last minute plans of her husband who brings his army buddies home. Despite Karen clearly planning the number of pregnancies, one could see her listening to this song and thinking “I hear you sister” while Ted snores on his Laz-E-Boy, Nancy helps Mike with his campaign in D&D, and Holly was barely a glint in her parents’ eyes. By 1983, Karen is a bored and frustrated housewife for whom it feels like the progress made by women like the Joyces and Ives Sisters of the world feel light years away.

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“You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” Dusty Springfield

It’s been told to be that Dusty Springfield seems to be a singer that Karen would enjoy listening to and her mournful, passionate vocals match Karen’s personality. Karen is also refusing to be categorized, at least she’s backing up Nancy’s desire to be taken seriously for the investigative and writerly gifts she brings to the table and Dusty was a woman who refused and fought against being categorized. All women who deserve to be seen for their natural, messy, beautiful glory.

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“Confident” Demi Lovato

Another woman of passion and song. Like another period piece beauty queen (Joan Holloway), Karen is a very strong, vivacious, intelligent woman who has never been taken seriously for her brains and doesn’t see why they should choose between their lipstick and their brains and they also refuse to make themselves smaller for the men around them (or even if they do, they manage to shine past the mens’ lack of sparkle). Unlike Joan, Karen has two daughters, who she will surely teach to not back down in the face of shitheads.

#Karen Wheeler #StrangerThings #playlist #character playlist #1960s music #joanie summers #1990s music #kd lang #1970s music #loretta lynn #Dusty Springfield #Demi Lovato #2010s Music

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chantireviews · 1 month

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The 2023 Chanticleer Int'l Book Award Finalists for Fiction!

Give a huge round of applause to all of the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards (CIBAs) Finalists! Every tier of the CIBAs is an important one, though few manage to rise this far in the ranks. For our Fiction Authors, this post has links to all of the Finalist Awards for the 16 CIBA Divisions we have for fiction. We will have a separate post for Non-Fiction and one more post for the Shorts Awards and…

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myrecordcollections · 4 years

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Virgil Thomson has distinguished him-self over the years as one of the United States' most Influential and lucid musical fig-ures. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger during the early 1920's, Thomson both studied and taught at Harvard, built a considerable repu-tation as an organist In Boston and served for fourteen years (1940-54) as Music Critic of the New York Herald Tribune. His composi-tional style has been consistently witty and diverting, leading many musicians to com-pare him to Erik Satie, the famous French musical parodist of an earlier generation. The Etudes as a whole represent Thomson's wish to provide twentieth-century pianism with an array of exercises exploiting contemporary technical problems much the way the sets of Chopin and Liszt served an earlier repertoire. The Ten Etudes consist of diverse character pieces each set within a specific, often popular, musical idiom. Although not composed in their published order, the etudes as a set display a remarkable unity, owing in large part to judi-cious contrasts in pacing and tonality. Thomson's sense of humor is omnipresent, noticeably in his initially disguised quotation of "Drink to me only with thine eyes" in Tenor Lead, his generous use of Double (even triple and quadruple!) Glissandos, and his sug-gestion (through repeated open fifths) of "cowboys & indians" midway through the circle of fifths tour in Ragtime Bass. Thomson elicits special sonorities through manipula-tion of the sostenuto pedal in the middle of Repeating Tremolo and manages to tantalize both theorist and pianist alike by his exploi-tation of "forbidden" parallelism in Fingered Fifths. Although technical problems abound throughout the Ten Etudes, nowhere are the difficulties more intense than in Fingered Glis-sando where each measure-long pattern involves alternating the hands in different five-finger positions. In coaching this author through the Etudes and Portraits Mr. Thomson likened Tenor Lead to "a down-home Missouri choir: don't play it like a — — Viennese!" In addition, he noted that the polytonal Parallel Chords was, in essence, "a broken-down, out-of-tune New Orleans player piano—bang the hell out of it!" Although the Nine Etudes do not dis-close as apparent a tonal unity as the preced-ing set, they nevertheless evidence as wry a humor and as imaginative a demonic sense of technical invention as the Ten Etudes. In The Harp the piano cleverly simulates such famil-iar harp effects as arpeggio, glissando, bisbi-gliando, harmonics, and "pres de la table" sonorities. In addition to the superimposi-tion of groups of four beats over three in Pivoting on the Thumb and the ultra-dissonance of the impassioned Chromatic Double Harmonies, certain etudes pose as severe aural as digital hurdles for the pianist. In Alternating Octaves a bitonal inverted canon (in G-flat and G major) is reversed tonally midway through the etude; in the canonic Double Sevenths the pianist must resist the temptation to Interpret the disso-nances as "sloppy octaves" and "correct" the "mistakes," In Chromatic Major Seconds, per-haps the most difficult of all nineteen etudes, the pianist must learn to accept both the unusual sound and feel of the thumb playing precisely in the middle of the cracks between the white keys. Such pieces may justifiably be considered "etudes for the ear" as "etudes for the fingers." In the arch-form (ABCBA) Broken Arpeggios Thomson Inten-tionally "overpedals" the C section to reflect the implications of the etude's programmatic subtitle while in the last measure of the final etude the pianist must "reach into the piano and strike with flat of hand, pedal down:' thereby emulating the resonant slapping of the guitarist's hand across the strings of his instrument, Throughout both sets of etudes the composer gravitates from works requir-ing strict "mechanical" execution (Repeating Tremolo, For the Weaker Fingers, Oscillating Arm, Parallel Chords, With Trumpet & Horn) to those of a more expressive nature. Since 1927 Virgil Thomson has written over one hundred instrumental "Portraits" of friends and acquaintances: such personali-ties as Carrie Stettheimer, who spent twenty years building a doll house which is now in the Museum of the City of New York; Maurice Grosser, who in turn painted a por-trait of Virgil Thomson (reproduced on the cover of this album) and also devised the sce-narios of the Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein operas, Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All; Ramon Senabre, a Catalo-nian painter; Lise Deharme, a French poetess; Nicolas de Chatelain, a Russian painter; and as etudes Briggs Buchanan, an archeologist and Thomson's constant corre-spondent since their college days, and Sylvia Marlowe, the well-known harpsichordist. Each portrait was composed in front of its subject and at one sitting. The cross-section of Portraits featured in this album is drawn from his published volumes for piano solo. Picasso's presence seems well reflected in the juxtaposition of greatly contrasting motifs in Bugles & Birds while An Old Song discloses a lyric side of Thomson not always encountered in his music. Cantabile maintains this lyricism in an elegant one-to-three-voice linear construction while Alternations features quickly changing moods and pat-terns. The programmatic qualities of In a Bird Cage are easily identifiable while the hilar-ious succession of apparent non sequiturs in Catalan Waltz reminds one not only of Satie but of Poulenc, and perhaps also of Mozart's "musical jokes". ARTHUR TOLLEFSON Although still in his thirties Arthur Tol-lefson has recently celebrated the silver anniversary of his American concerto and solo recital debuts. Holder of the first Doc-tor of Music Arts degree In Piano ever awarded by Stanford University, he has already earned an enviable International rep-utation both as a performer and teacher. After early studies with Rosina Lhevinne, Egon Petri, Paul Badura-Skoda and Adolph Bailer, Mr. Tollefson, In 1975, was chosen from a stellar field of candidates to become one of the youngest departmental chairmen in the long and illustrious history of North-western University's School of Music, During the past decade, he has combined significant concerto solo engagements with critically acclaimed recital debuts in London,

#Arthur Tollefson #Classical Piano #Virgil Thomson #1978 #Classical #Neo Classical #Piano

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surejaya · 4 years

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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL - CBC - CHATELAINE - QUILL & QUIRE - THE HILL TIMES - POP MATTERS A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political--from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities. With deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott provides a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future.

Download : A Mind Spread Out on the Ground More Book at: Zaqist Book

#book #zaqist #zaqistbook #books #epub #kindle

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kathleenstoneauthor · 5 months

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If you know me at all, I’m not a morning person. So I’m blown away by waking up another day to some amazing book news:

The CHATELAINE Book Awards 2023 Short List for Romantic Fiction — HEY JUDE! Bring on the semi-finals! ☀️

#HeyJude #ChatelaineBookAwards

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hotforwalt · 6 years

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WWTD 168 - The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes: Good Guy, Bad Driver

As students head back to school after summer vacation, our hosts are heading back to Medfield Collage along with Dexter Riley, Schuyler, Dean Higgins, Girl and the rest of the gang in Disney's THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES. But like students in a 8:30AM lecture, Vicky, Nolan and Jill are having a little trouble focusing on this movie's particular brand of hijinks, and wind up going on some detours into Game of Thrones, Canadian women's magazine Chatelaine, the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, and Austin Powers to name just a few.

Download the episode.

#we want the d #podcast #disney #movies #comedy

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maybelleboma · 3 years

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Mimi Fawaz to host TotalEnergies final draw in Cameroon

Award-winning Nigerian Mimi Fawaz to host TotalEnergies final draw in Cameroon Nigerian-born multiple award winning journalist and broadcaster with BBC Africa and BBC Sports, Mimi Fawaz and Cameroon acclaimed TV and radio legend Leonard Chatelain will host the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations final draw on Tuesday night, 17 August 2021. The draw will be live at 19h00 local time (18h00…

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mschmdtphotography · 3 years

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In America (Wayfarer Trilogy Book 3)

In America From Amazon: 2016 Chanticleer Media’s Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neighborhood boy, the love of her large Italian family, and serious dreams of singing in Hollywood. But the course of true love—nor the journey to finding one’s true self—never did run smooth. In America follows the story of Marcella, the…

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