Date: Monday, October 4th, 2010
Word of the fossick (FOS\ik); to search for any object by which to make gain
Image via WikipediaWeight: 221 poundsGoal: lose 100 pounds in one year duration
Pounds to lose: 89 poundsWaist Size: 48 inches
Rowing Duration: 77 minutes, and 44 seconds
It's back to Monday and once a week, I hope to provide you with some grammar insight. Today, I'm starting my very first grammar lesson, (who would have ever thought that I would be doing this?,) which is intended to not only help you, but to help me, yes, I need help with grammar, there are so many rules and exceptions that one needs to constantly refresh his and her self with the rules of grammar. Here goes nothing: What is a preposition?
Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence. A good way, and easy way, to remember this, is to always think of any word that best describes the relationship between an apple and a caterpillar. For example, if I could draw an apple, and a caterpillar, I would then place the caterpillar on top of the apple. Please try to picture this image, and then ask yourself, what way describes the relationship between the caterpillar and the apple?, and hopefully you would/will conclude that the caterpillar is/was above the apple. Above is the preposition. Hope that helps, (you see, the grammar lesson wasn't that difficult,) and there will not be another grammar lesson for a whole week!!!!!! PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL NOT BE TESTED ON THIS LESSON, SO RELAX, AND KEEP READING!!!
Yesterday, Sunday, turned out to be rather nice after all, really, it was a sunny, beautiful, bright and blue Sunday afternoon, hope today holds up equally beautiful. I rowed after all, yup, in the afternoon instead of taking my usual, wonderful nap, I rowed and I stayed on Cruella for 77 minutes and forty-four seconds. That was pretty good, considering that the rowing was accomplished in the afternoon, so how about that sports people?, or other people keeping track of my exercise program!!! I hope today turns out to be just as rewarding.
Image via WikipediaWolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina, wherever that is, where his mother was a successful real estate speculator, (everyone's getting into real estate these days,) and his father was a stone carver (so butch!) Wolfe studied at the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Dialectic Society, Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and an actor with the Carolina Playmakers. Thomas Wolfe received his Masters in playwriting at Harvard University. Even if they would accept me, I do not want to be a cliche and attend Harvard. Unable to sell any of his plays, Wolfe found his writing style was more suited to fiction than to the stage. Thomas Wolfe took a temporary job teaching at New York University, (where I'm thinking of going to study film and/or acting, but that's another story, so many other stories,) but left after a year for Europe to continue writing. Europe is an inspirational place to do writing, or paint, or even just wander around.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, including "Look Homeward Angel," plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. Thomas Wolfe is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Thomas Wolfe's books, written during the Great Depression, depict the variety and diversity of American culture.
On a 1937 trip to the West, Wolfe was stricken with pneumonia, (I, myself have had four pneumonias) complications arose, and Thomas Wolfe eventually was diagnosed with miliary tuberculosis(??????) of the brain. Wolfe was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, but the attempt at a life-saving operation revealed the disease had overrun the entire right side of Thomas Wolfe's brain. Without regaining consciousness, Thomas Wolfe died three days later.
Despite Thomas Wolfe's disagreements with Maxwell Perkins, the aforementioned prominent editor and Scribner's and Sons, on his deathbed, Thomas Wolfe wrote a deeply moving letter to Mr. Perkins. In the letter, Wolfe acknowledged that Perkins had helped to realize his work and had made Thomas Wolfe's labours possible. In closing Wolfe wrote, "I shall always think of you and feel about you the way it was that Fourth of July day three years ago when you met me at the boat, and we went out on the cafe on the river and had a drink and later went on top of the tall building, and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life and of the city was below."
After Thomas Wolfe's death, two further novels, "The Web and the Rock" and "You Can't Go Home Again" were published posthumously, editorially mined out of the October Fair manuscript by Edward Aswell of Harper and Row. Thomas Wolfe was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, NC beside another famous writer, O. Henry.
Now, back to brief blurb on Sean Penn, (whom I believe is one of the better actors of today) playing Maxwell Perkins, the most famous literary editor in publishing history. Sean Penn, (who is noted as a rather miserable and violent human being, talented nonetheless,) will star in a film called "Genius," telling the story of literary editor Max Perkins who worked with legendary authors like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. River Road Enterprises producer/financier Bill Pohlad will finally direct the drama after many others have tried before.
Image via Wikipedia Pohlad hasn't directed a feature since 1990 (something called "Old Explorers"), so this seems like a risk, but he's been in the business as a producer (he's worked on films like "Brokeback Mountain" and "Into the Wild") long enough to know what's going on, even if his vision hasn't exactly been prominent on-screen. Previously, directors like Michael London and Lawrence Kasdan have been attached through various incarnations, but it never got off the ground. This has more sure footing because Penn and Pohlad have a history not only with "Into the Wild," but other recent soon-to-be-released films starring Penn like "Fair Game" and "The Tree of Life."The story comes from A. Scott Berg's biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which chronicles the life and work of the eccentric editor as he found him at the Scribner publishing house in New York overseeing some of literature's most famous works from the best of the best authors (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Vonnegut, etc).
The bulk of the story will deal with Perkins relationship with a younger Thomas Wolfe, (notice how I'm able to bring blurbs full circle, well that takes a special talent, don't you think?,) with lots of cameos from other known literary types. It doesn't sound like the most thrilling of stories, but if directors have been trying to get it off the ground for awhile, there's got to be something worthwhile in the story. Sound good? I bet Sean Penn ends up the recipient of three Academy Awards (Oscars), yup, you heard/read it here first!!!!!!
The bulk of the story will deal with Perkins relationship with a younger Thomas Wolfe, (notice how I'm able to bring blurbs full circle, well that takes a special talent, don't you think?,) with lots of cameos from other known literary types. It doesn't sound like the most thrilling of stories, but if directors have been trying to get it off the ground for awhile, there's got to be something worthwhile in the story. Sound good? I bet Sean Penn ends up the recipient of three Academy Awards (Oscars), yup, you heard/read it here first!!!!!!
Topics coming soon:
Sex (didn't I talk about this; I have to check my other posts to find out for sure!)
Television
Blogging
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