http://milescity.com/forums/posts/?fid=16 Posts from the MilesCity.com Arts, Poetry & Literature Discussion Forum en-us Copyright © 1998-2010 MilesCity.com. All Rights Reserved. webmaster@milescity.com Sun, 19 May 2013 03:58:33 UTC 10 Hand-coded goodness http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/291277/Ice Age Lion Man Is World’s Earliest Figurative Sculpture By Martin Bailey 31 January 2013 http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ice-Age-iLion-Mani-is-worlds-earliest-figurative-sculpture/28595Hal NeumannSun, 3 Feb 2013 06:22:24 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/291277/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/287711/ [This message has been edited by MomTeacher (1/9/2013)]MomTeacherMon, 7 Jan 2013 19:47:12 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/287711/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277054I wish the Art and Heritage Center was surrounded by Dr. Maurice Ralph Hilleman park. Great web site. The place looks fantastic.StoneWed, 17 Oct 2012 01:43:41 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277054http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277034That is very nice. I especially like the dog sleeping on the floor in the gallery. :cool:Gunnar EmilssonTue, 16 Oct 2012 22:11:25 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277034http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277026Thanks Joe! I'm pretty proud of it, myself :)SheenaTue, 16 Oct 2012 21:49:49 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277026http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277004very nice!EMSGraphicsTue, 16 Oct 2012 20:13:27 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/#277004http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/Did you happen to notice the new web site for the art center? It's spectacular! http://www.waterworksgallery.org Really nice work, Sheena Martin. You've just stepped up Miles City's game in an important way. Thanks so much. :cool:Joe WhalenTue, 16 Oct 2012 15:22:07 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/276942/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/270500/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7ibPk37_U&feature=autoplay&list=PL5EDF5A12BE6394F4&playnext=2 Black and white bleakness and French.Amorette AllisonFri, 7 Sep 2012 03:02:24 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/270500/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/270079/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY A fond memory of my childhood, both in book and cinema form.Amorette AllisonTue, 4 Sep 2012 20:40:48 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/270079/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/231362/#267225[DELETED - SPAM]Ralph WardTue, 21 Aug 2012 11:45:39 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/231362/#267225http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263287I'm going to be there, as well! :)Lady BexodusTue, 31 Jul 2012 23:32:22 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263287http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263285I am going, hope you are also!Mrs. MTue, 31 Jul 2012 22:55:48 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263285http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263217I tried to get the book done before tonight and just didn't quite make it. I'll be there anyway!!gypsykimTue, 31 Jul 2012 19:17:18 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263217http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263197An exciting event for Miles City! Be watching today's Miles City Star for an in-depth author interview and event preview.Hannah NashTue, 31 Jul 2012 15:51:04 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#263197http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#260623Wish I could attend! This book was wonderful!Sarah SteinTue, 17 Jul 2012 14:42:15 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#260623http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#260538Oh goodness! Thank you for noticing. The event is still scheduled for TUESDAY, July 31st.Hannah NashTue, 17 Jul 2012 00:10:46 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#260538http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#260384Um... the 31st is a Tuesday. O.oJessica CulverMon, 16 Jul 2012 07:35:28 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/#260384http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/Miles City's Own... The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth Book Talk + Signing Saturday, July 31st 6:00pm Miles City Public Library Author website: http://www.emdanforth.com The Miles City Public Library is proud to host Miles City native and highly-acclaimed author, emily m. danforth for a book talk and signing. Refreshments provided afterwards. Copies of "Miseducation" will be available for purchase at the event. Reviews and Accolades for "Miseducation": “Rich with detail and emotion, a sophisticated read for teens and adults alike.” -Kirkus Reviews *starred review* “The story is riveting, beautiful, and full of the kind of detail that brings to life a place (rural Montana), a time (the early 1990s), and a questioning teenage girl.” -Publishers Weekly *starred review* "Describing a book as "important" is a compliment, but it can also seem to detract from its literary quality - as if its significance is more about its message than its sentences. The Miseducation of Cameron Post is indeed an important book - especially for teens growing up today in communities that don't accept them for who they are. But it is also a skillfully and beautifully written story that does what the best books do: It shows us ourselves in the lives of others." -Malinda Lo, NPR For more information on this event, please contact the Miles City Public Library (1 S 10th St, 234-1496). Thank you for supporting your local library!Hannah NashSat, 14 Jul 2012 21:22:29 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/260162/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#256459Little guys did a great job, liked it a lot. [SPAM -- LINK DELETED]Catherine PetersonFri, 22 Jun 2012 05:02:19 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#256459http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#2451511984 and Animal Farm are his best known works, but Orwell was first and foremost an essayist - if you read nothing else by him, you must read the following: Politics and the English Language http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm Shooting An Elephant http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/ Charles Dickens http://www.george-orwell.org/Charles_Dickens/0.html Homage to Catalonia is good as well.BridgierTue, 10 Apr 2012 16:03:16 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245151http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245147I too am enjoying the free classics on Kindle. I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, which somehow escaped my English degree. Also burned right through the Hunger Games trilogy recently for a very inexpensive price. Now I'm reading War Dogs, about military canine units. I really like browsing Amazon books and then having one to read the second I purchase it. But being the word nerd I am, I also have 3 library-of-the-old-school-variety books (Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller, How to Cook Your Daughter by Jessica Hendra, and Chore Wars by James Thornton). Thanks for posting about 1984; I never finished it a few years ago, but think I might try again.Sarah PetersonTue, 10 Apr 2012 15:39:30 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245147http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245082For books I love--like T.H. White's The Once and Future King, the most fabulous book series in the history of bookage--I like a real book. For stuff like murder mysteries and re-reads, I am enjoying my cheap Kindle. I can make the text BIG and at my age, that is worth the money alone!Amorette AllisonTue, 10 Apr 2012 03:03:18 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245082http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245077I got a Kindle for Christmas this year (the e-ink one, not the wanna-be ipad) and it is fantastic. I miss having the book on my shelf after I read it, but it's a much better way to read than the dead tree versions IMO. Also, I can put it on the visor of my feed pickup and it doesn't get beat up nearly as much as a book would.Levi FormanTue, 10 Apr 2012 02:35:40 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245077http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245061to wound the autumnal city. So howled for the world to give him a name. The in-dark answered with wind. All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because in six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you’ve held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute. = = = Opening lines, page 1. Samuel R. Delany, DHALGREN (1977). = = = Over the years I’ve come to realize that this is one of the most important books I’ve ever read. It gave me my pause/cause to question the cultural norms/bounds that one embraces while growing up in Eastern Montana. Started me to thinking that different most often means nothing more than different.Hal NeumannMon, 9 Apr 2012 23:43:03 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245061http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245060Actually, the new version of Pride and Prejudice with Zombies in it, is quite good. Well, maybe not that good...but its good enough to read on an airplane. http://www.e-reading.org.ua/illustrations/126/126760-cover.jpgGunnar EmilssonMon, 9 Apr 2012 23:35:36 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245060http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245052make that book worms not bug worms LOL...howdyMon, 9 Apr 2012 23:09:28 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245052http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245051Pride and Prejudice is a doosey. I was told once by a particularly pretty girl, almost sarcastically, to read it. I preferred the lines of Poe a bit more.MilesCity.com WebmasterMon, 9 Apr 2012 23:07:28 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245051http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245048I have my original Kindle and last night downloaded the app for Kindle on my Asus laptop...really great...now I have two :-)...I am a huge fan of Kindle for many reasons, not the least of which is what Amorette just mentioned, a lot of the classics are free downloads...you can adjust the font which for an elderly person like myself is great...Many advantages to Kindle helping out us bug worms..howdyMon, 9 Apr 2012 22:57:22 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245048http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245042The original D.O.A. is great. The remake in the 80s sucks. Steve and I have Kindles (insert registered trademark symbol here) and I have been rereading the free classics. Pride and Prejudice really is hysterical.Amorette F. AllisonMon, 9 Apr 2012 22:32:01 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245042http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245039Apparently D.O.A. is public domain now, so it's all over the Internet ... [youtube]3fMDJ6pwSfo[/youtube]MilesCity.com WebmasterMon, 9 Apr 2012 22:20:58 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245039http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245037I haven't read the book yet, not sure I actually want to since I know it's a true story, but the line left dangling, "That letter was addressed to me." kinda of left me thinking of that old film, D.O.A., where the dude stumbles into the police station to report his own murder.MilesCity.com WebmasterMon, 9 Apr 2012 22:03:59 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245037http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245033I read that book Levi. Not for the faint of heart.StoneMon, 9 Apr 2012 21:32:10 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#245033http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244921Wow, that gave me a chill. Thanks, I'll have to check it out.MilesCity.com WebmasterMon, 9 Apr 2012 03:31:08 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244921http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244919I read Animal Farm but never finished 1984. I don't remember why. As far as openings to books go, I think one of the best in a non-fiction book is the beginning of "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and yes it's a true story. [quote]One November morning in 2004, Theo van Gogh got up to go to work at his film production company in Amsterdam. He took out his old black bicycle and headed down a main road. Waiting in a doorway was a Moroccan man with a handgun and two butcher knives. As Theo cycled down the Linnaeusstraat, Muhammad Bouyeri approached. He pulled out his gun and shot Theo several times. Theo fell off his bike and lurched across the road, then collapsed. Bouyeri followed. Theo begged, "Can't we talk about this?" but Bouyeri shot him four more times. Then he took out one of his butcher knives and sawed into Theo's throat. With the other knife, he stabbed a five-page letter onto Theo's chest. That letter was addressed to me.[/quote]Levi FormanMon, 9 Apr 2012 03:08:45 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244919http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244904That probably has to do with the agonizing torture. Heinlein would be another good read, a bit more difficult and time consuming than Orwell or Bradbury, but worthwhile none the less.MilesCity.com WebmasterMon, 9 Apr 2012 00:59:09 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244904http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244901It starts off pretty good, but I remember it drags a bit towards the end. His essays however, are things of beauty.BridgierMon, 9 Apr 2012 00:22:48 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244901http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244887http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/0.htmlhowdySun, 8 Apr 2012 21:45:15 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/#244887http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." ... Not the best opening line, but one of the best damn ever. And if you pick a random page ... like, I dunno, let's say 147, you end up with stuff like this ... [quote]’You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out. Did I not tell you just now that we are different from the persecutors of the past? We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out. The command of the old despotisms was ”Thou shalt not”. The command of the totalitarians was ”Thou shalt”. Our command is ”Thou art”. No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against us. Everyone is washed clean.[/quote] Or perhaps page 23 as another ... [quote]Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.[/quote] Hmm? Give it a read if you haven't. It's a masterpiece from 1948.MilesCity.com WebmasterSun, 8 Apr 2012 20:30:33 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/244872/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/36635/#239527I am currently reading Moby Dick, as I've never read it. Pretty interesting so far, I have to say. [link deleted - spam]DaisySibylSat, 3 Mar 2012 08:46:01 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/36635/#239527http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239455/http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home/sub=altarpiece For those of you who love Northern Renaissance ArtAmorette AllisonFri, 2 Mar 2012 23:24:59 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239455/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239255Cool video. Those people have too much time on their hands.Levi FormanThu, 1 Mar 2012 22:22:42 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239255http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239238You are correct on that, Mr. McRae. [This message has been edited by Gunnar Emilsson (3/1/2012)]Gunnar EmilssonThu, 1 Mar 2012 21:28:03 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239238http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239143>I am often disappointed when I open new threads on mc.com. Gunnar-- You must have been disappointed with the recent thread by Richard regarding "thongs" too.Jack McRaeThu, 1 Mar 2012 14:16:16 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239143http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239106Damnit. I thought for sure Dave Schott was linking us to a "Robert Plant bends, finally agrees to a 2012-3 100+ Dates Led Zeppelin Reunion Tour" internet story. I am often disappointed when I open new threads on mc.com.Gunnar EmilssonThu, 1 Mar 2012 03:34:13 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239106http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239102Fly it indoors.Amorette AllisonThu, 1 Mar 2012 03:20:45 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239102http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239041I have a buddy with one of these (although quite a bit larger). I can barely keep it off of the ground and out of trees, much less do something like that. Great link.D. RiceWed, 29 Feb 2012 21:27:44 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239041http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239024That is so cool. Getting that many quadrotors to work together is very difficult. Lot of planning required. Thanks for sharing!Richard Bonine, Jr.Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:18:45 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/#239024http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk&feature=youtu.be I love those little guys. I bet life will be fun in a world ruled by quadcopters.Amorette F. AllisonWed, 29 Feb 2012 20:09:23 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/239023/http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/238289/#238406Gene, Happy Birthday!!Lynne Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:30:39 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/238289/#238406http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/238289/#238403Thanks to all of you...it has been a wonderful day, from those of you who made it special for me and via all of your acknowledgements! BLESS YOU ALL!!Gene LarsonSat, 25 Feb 2012 04:07:15 UTChttp://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/238289/#238403