1st Books of Vampire Series
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter – Guilty Pleasure – 1993 – Laurell K. Hamilton Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse) – Dead Until Dark – 2001 – Charlaine Harris Queen Betsy (The Undead Series) – Undead and Unwed – 2004 – Mary Janice Davidson The Dark Ones – A Girls Guide to Vampires – 2003 – Katie [...]
Some Thoughts
100 Days It’s not the first 100 days nor the last 100 days that are important. The important days are the ones in between. Our Country Whether or not we agree or believe in the the things that our county does, we believe in our country. Writing Writing is easy, making a living writing is [...]
Top Songs in the US – 1973
By 1973 music was moving in a direction where songs were more suggestive and Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye held many suggestions. The 6th best song of 1973 was one of the biggest hits in the long career of Marvin Gaye. Even though 1972 was a big year for Elton John his first [...]
Tanya Tucker Turns 50
Tanya Tucker seems to have been around forever, she had her first hit record on 1972, but on October 10 2008 she just celebrates her 50th birthday. She was born on October 10, 1958 in Seminole Texas. The young Tanya Tucker appeared in a bit part in the film Jeremiah Johnson. It was while the [...]
The Summer of Love Ends
On October 7, 1967, those who still remained in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco staged a mock funeral, “The Death of the Hippie” ceremony, to signal the end of the the Summer of Love that began earlier in the year. The summer of 1967 is commonly known as the Summer of Love. Thousands of [...]
Random Thoughts
A Thought Sometimes when you live life in the fast lane, you just have to make that extra effort to take your foot off of the gas petal and move to the slow lane. A Season At times the game may be over after the first inning, but sometimes it takes 163 games to make [...]
And Now for Something Completely Different
Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuted on BBC TV on October 5, 1969. The sketch comedy show was the first step to fame for the comedy group and its members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. All who was involved in its conception and its writing. The show brought [...]
A Ball in Space
It was on October 4, 1957 that the Soviet Union took the first step in what has been called the US-USSR Space Race. It was on that date that they put Sputnik I into Earth’s orbit. The first artificial satellite was 58 cm or 22.3 inches in diameter. This is just a little over twice [...]
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