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Jeff Parker at Bumbershoot Festival Seattle 2008
Jeff Parker reads from his novel, Ovenman, accompanied by Seattle musician, Lesli Wood. Video recorded by Matt Brown.
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Adam Braver on November 22, 1963
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An interview with writer Adam Braver about his new novel, "Nov. 22, 1963" (Tin House Books). Braver is the author of the acclaimed novel "Mr. Lincoln's Wars" and other works.
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2009
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Video of Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, July 12-18, 2009
Steve Almond on Africa by Toto
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Author Steve Almond deconstructs "Africa" by Toto as part of Tin House Magazine's 10th Anniversary celebration, held July 16, 2009.
Tin House 10th Anniversary
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On July 16, 2009, Portland's own Literary Arts celebrated Tin House Magazine's 10th Anniversary with an event featuring an all-star line-up of American authors. Hosted by Colson Whitehead, the evening included performances and readings by Aimee Bender, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, Dorothy Allison, and Steve Almond, a dual interview with Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen on the monstrosity of imag...
How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
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Edward R. Murrow interviews author Robert Paul Smith and illustrator Elinor Goulding Smith in their home on Murrow's show Person to Person.
Possum Living Part 3 of 3
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A short documentary of Dolly Freed, author of the 1970s cult classic Possum Living.
Possum Living Part 2 of 3
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A short documentary of Dolly Freed, author of the 1970s cult classic Possum Living.
Possum Living Part 1 of 3
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A short documentary of Dolly Freed, author of the 1970s cult classic Possum Living.
Her mom looks like a man! I didn’t know there were as many transgenders back then.
We live pretty close to the same way and we have made it a hobby so it’s part of our enjoyment instead of spending money to save it. Lol
When i was 5 i heard Dad tell Mom he was having trouble making eands meet. So i emptyed my Piggy bank n went to the butcher n asked for a $1.37 worth of "ends meat" so he put it in hamburger this was 1958, n i went up to my Dad n said now u dont have to worru now u have all the ENDS MEAT u need. He hugged me n said at least one of my kids care about his poor old Dad. The next day everyone had a couple hamburgers except Mom who spit it out cause she hated me n gave her burgers to the fair haired one she resented me n never wanted anything to do with me.
When i was 5 i heard Dad tell Mom he was having trouble making eands meet. So i emptyed my Piggy bank n went to the butcher n asked for a $1.37 worth of "ends meat" so he put it in hamburger this was 1958, n i went up to my Dad n said now u dont have to worru now u have all the ENDS MEAT u need. He hugged me n said at least one of my kids care about his poor old Dad. The next day everyone had a couple hamburgers except Mom who spit it out cause she hated me n gave her burgers to the fair haired one she resented me n never wanted anything to do with me.
decades ahead of her time. this came out around the time the Whole Earth Catalogue came out, gave hope to many, and gave rise to a lot of what we are seeing now.
Very impressive Dolly ❤
The wheat part was very cheap back then!
This book was incredibly influential to my upbringing. I would not be who I am today without this book. Not a doubt in my mind.
Prepper princess ❤
I was in 8th grade when this came out and always liked it. I had to recently learn this song for a gig which lead me down a short Toto rabbit hole. I realized how cool the guitar parts are, how fun this is to play, and was reminded how much I liked it. I never paid attention to the lyrics until now and found this hilarious.
When I was a boy I found the book "How to Do Nothing with Nobody" in the children's section of the library. Smith had dedicated the book to "(I can't remember the name), Who Ate My Spinach."😀
She's so beautiful because of her humility and intelligence. She just glows! I love it.
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍
She ended up working for nasa
Was so curious and interested in gardening etc, but I can’t help but feel very sad for the unfortunate animals, and did not expect to see a turtle assassinated. 😔
Can we appreciate how people were polite and noce back then?
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 and not that degenerated spoiled bunch of crap we see today . . .
I love how the whole family gets along despite being so different.
Well, they work. But for THEMSELVES
Mr. and Mrs. Smitty are cool.
What if she needed emergency surgery? How would that be paid for? Curious.
-> cash reserves ! As simply as that . . .
I am a meat eater, but seeing the turtle still moving made me feel sad. I am thinking he missed the head when he shot?
I am actually having a hard time shaking it off, it was very sad to witness.
What they spent for one year wouldn't even pay my water bill now,,,, of course the city is adding minerals to the water for me to keep me healthy. All the chlorine and floride I can drink for no extra charge.
How do they pay for the house though?
In the book she describes buying a foreclosure for cheap at a sheriff's sale and making it livable.
I'm here via Prepper Princess. Dolly sounds incredibly intelligent and well spoken. I'm glad to see her hold her own against Merv's snarky attitude, as young as she was. It doesn't surprise me she went on to NASA.
Same! Ordered Dolly’s book
It's the lyrics that spoils Toto's music!
Could Closed Captioning be added to this?
never understood why people dont like this song
I am hard pressed to think of a song I dislike more than "Africa" by Toto. It may be some kind of genetic wiring short, or it may be common sense which causes every muscle in my body to tense and a desire to smash whatever is producing the noise, but either way, it happens. There are only two things I can think of which come close to causing such mind-bending agony. They are: Any song from Steve Winwood's "Back In The High Life" album, and when people toss a weighted burlap bag full of helpless kittens into the river.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
PLEASE scroll down the comments if you need a laugh, toto fans are so fucking funny with their defenses
POES!
Here during this pandemic
Very good. Why didn't Toto just take another 10 minutes on lyrics? It's a catchy song with meaningless lyrics as this guy points out
Catchy? Yah, like COVID 19, or herpes.
I love the dynamic of the relationship between dolly and her father. So respectful, funny and loving.
Even though I am a prepper I learned a lot from Dolly.
This is what Peter Sellers did with A Hard Day's Night. ruclips.net/video/zLEMncv140s/видео.html
It is a hoot … at first. But with these things I’m never sure what irritates me more: tourists who gush on and on about their magical Africa trip or the “woke", white folk who get such a kick out of reprimanding them. The former are merely expanding their limited horizons after all while the latter risk the "Rabbit Hole of Wokeness". Also, don’t know how many folks are aware of Steve’s CV. He was the Boston College adjunct who resigned to protest the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker. Apparently all those years he was sharing his wit with the undergrads, he was just fine and dandy with the Jesuit institution’s rather conservative approach to minorities. Just one example: bcheights.com/2018/02/11/citing-agreement-foundation-bc-will-not-change-name-yawkey-athletic-center/ Besides, I still think it’s a catchy toon ;)
Wait wait wait, you mean to tell me this fella once expressed an unpopular view on a totally unrelated subject? Well, then I guess we oughta stop paying attention to anything he says!
@@leelandry5362 Yawn.
Oh please haters he’s joking around. He’s not actually hating on the song.
not cool - had my hopes up that somebody was going to call out this crap song and restore my faith in humanity.
I had never heard of Possum Living until last week. I happened upon the book in a thrift shop and I bought it. Thanks for posting this documentary - it's so nice to see the actual people from the book.
This is bad writing.
Dolly went to work for NASA
My favourite comments are those of people who say "could you do any better?" NO. We couldn't, but as humans, we critique things, and it's a normal thing to do. If we didn't critique stuff, it would be a boring world. Most reaction channels are way better than normal channels.
This guy is not funny. Like Toto cares what this loser thinks about this song. This song is awesome. It’s not “I blessed the rain down in Africa.” It’s “Africa.” Id like to see him make a better song.
Happy Birthday is a better song.
I really don't understand the hate for 'Africa'. I haven't come to understand it any more from hearing this either. The lyrics just use the usual devices which lots of other songs and poetry also use. I'm not a Toto fan but I've never got it. 'Do They Know It's Christmas' is so much worse and more offensive, and Paul Simon's entire 'Graceland' album was composed by exploiting African musicians.. I've also never seen this song as having anything to do with development or foreign aid issues, and I don't really think it has. Africa the continent is not just about imperialism and exploitation, and seeing it in that way is patronising and stereotypical.
The hate for this song is simple: it's awful and has no redeeming qualities.
Does this guy remind anyone else of Will Ferrell?
The video sucks because the song is constantly distracting you. And it's in a prehistoric resolution. If you can call that a resolution at all. Almost 10 minutes of pixels moving on your screen. I suppose there's someone standing there.
Too cynical to be intellectually viable. Too unfunny to be funny.
Awful easy to get by if you own a home. Half the drudgery is taken care of. Plus you don't have to carry everything with you and keep moving. So this is just ghetto living.
You have NO idea what you're talking about. If you actually read the book, you'd know that Dolly and her dad took over that house from renters who had neglected it so bad it was falling apart. They plastered the entire outside, because the brick was crumbling, BY HAND. With plaster they mixed themselves, trowel by trowel. They redid the plumbing in the bathroom, redid the cabinets which no longer worked, cleaned out all the garbage and the rats, and paneled it. Dolly did this when she was only 14 years old, and she learned how to do most of it by simply reading books on home repair at the local library. The whole point is that they took cheap housing and made it livable with their own two hands and almost NO capital. THAT is the meaning of Possum Living.
Thank you for posting!
toto fans have the best sense of humour
Surely Toto fans require a sense of humour.
What a waste of time!