THE TITANIC GLORIA STUART KWIZ

November 20, 2014

Gloria Stuart, pictured here in a script conference with Boris Karloff, before agreeing to act the part of elderly Rose in James Cameron’s film, Titanic, insisted on: a. being allowed to bring a brace of ptarmigans onto the set. b. showing Cameron her collection of glass eyes. c. payment in uranium. d. 2 weeks paid […]

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RAW MATERIALS

November 19, 2014

Write a story about Davy Crockett including the following words: lance France dance pants ants toboggan

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THE HOOFED FIEND

November 18, 2014

The last student trickled away, leaving the hoofed fiend alone in its classroom. So that’s it then, thought the hoofed fiend. It’s over. Retirement. I’d almost like to go back and do it all again. But no, I suppose it’s time to burn my torch in other fields. It looked around the classroom one final […]

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INCIDENT ON A MOON

November 17, 2014

The night is pierced by a shaft of light rising from the barren landscape of the moon. You suit up and leave the ship to investigate. Trudging over a rise, you arrive at the perfect circular hole in the ground from which the beam of light towers away into the black sky. Moving closer, you […]

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OVERHEARD AMONG THE TREES

November 16, 2014

‘If you don’t go to school, how will you ever become a fence post?’

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TREE CUBS

November 15, 2014

A pair of fluffy tree cubs stick close to Mom for protection from the storm.

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THE UNITY BLAKE SILENT MOVIE KWIZ ANSWER

November 14, 2014

She wrote tilt reminders in tiny letters on her left wrist.

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THE UNITY BLAKE SILENT MOVIE KWIZ

November 13, 2014

Unity Blake, tragic orphan in the excellent silent melodrama Stella Maris, was: a. ,among other things, run over by a toboggan. b. constantly having to remind herself which way to tilt. c. hid between scenes behind a giant vat of grapes. d. wept when given a gumdrop by Mary Pickford.

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POETIC POEM

November 12, 2014

when posing as a perfume bottle the aztec princess quakiatl wondered if she’d been that sage pursuing life upon the stage

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JAMES THURBER ON THE SHORT PIECE WRITER

November 11, 2014

He is not afraid, or much aware, of the menaces of empire but he keeps looking behind him as he walks along darkening streets out of the fear that he is being softly followed by little men padding along in single file, about a foot and a half high, large-eyed, and whiskered.

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