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March 21, 2015
About TSRA: Just Who Is The Story Reading Ape?
HERE YE…HERE YE…READ ALL ABOUT IT:
Just WHO IS Chris The Story Reading Ape??
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March 20, 2015
A taste for the dramatic: the grand monuments of Kensal Green
Great pictures and history of The Monuments of Kensal Green from Flickering Lamps Blog
A taste for the dramatic: the grand monuments of Kensal Green.
March 19, 2015
Barbequing: St. Louis Style
Okay, I usually distance myself from politics. Everyone has an opinion and that can be good. I try to voice my thoughts in my writing.
That is what I’m doing now.
Just who in the h e double l does the EPA think it is wanting to regulate backyard Q’s in St. Louis, Missouri?
Car exhaust is one thing but a barbeque fire is totally another.
Cooking a pork steak over a slow fire of briquettes can be close to a religious experience.
Picture this: It’s a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. It’s a cool, sunny day…maybe a few wispy clouds floating gently past. The coals in the pit are white but the grill is cool. Ever so slowly the meat cooks as the smoke exits through the chimney.
You sit in a lounge chair, sipping a beer while listening to your favorite baseball team.
Your neighbor asks, “What’s the score?”
You toss him a cold, frosty Bud and say, “Six to three in the bottom of the seventh, us.”
Getting out of your chair, you slide the lid back and check everything. The coals look good and it is time to turn the meat and open another beer, when you realize they just pulled the starter for a new “Lefty Reliever.”
Your wife, boyfriend, or whoever, brings you a pan full of “Maull’s” Bar-B-Que sauce.
Taking a can of Coke from the cooler, you pour the contents into the sauce and place it on the grill to heat up.
Twenty minutes later, the pork steaks are ready to simmer in the sauce while all the neighbors wished that they were friendlier to you. They know they could just light their grill but the food never is as good.
By the time the game is over (and the Cardinals win) you and your partner sit at the patio having a dinner that cannot be bought at any Bar-B-Que joint.
Hey, EPA, are you hungry yet??
If not I can keep going.
St. Louis is heaped in heritage and backyard BBQ’s are one of them, along with baseball and beer.
You guys at the EPA need to get into your backyard, and get a life. Have a couple of cold frosty ones, talk to your neighbors over the fence and eat a pork steak, or a burger and hot dogs.
Above all, RELAX. That is what eating BBQ is all about.
I rest my case…
March 18, 2015
111 Publishing » Book Marketing on a Shoestring
111 Publishing » Book Marketing on a Shoestring.
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March 17, 2015
No-brainer – by Author Ailsa Abraham
#Read about Guest #Author Alisa Abraham on #ChrisTheStoryReadingApe’s blog!!
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
No-brainer
[image error]Thank you so much for letting me come back to babble at you, Ape. The chimps are taking good care of me so I’ll just sit here and witter on about writing while you finish off the peanut banana cake I brought, eh?
Ask most writers what they wish they had more of and the answer would probably be TIME. I was like that myself until a few months ago. I suffered from terminal author-distraction and even a bird sitting on the window-sill would get more attention than the deathless prose I was supposed to be finishing, or even worse, editing.
All that changed when, due to circumstances with which I will not bore you (still good at grammar, though) I suffered a bit of brain damage. Well, rather a lot really. Don’t get me wrong. I can dress myself and function fairly normally but as well as now…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Celtic Woman – Danny Boy
Here’s to all of the Irish men and women…even to those that aren’t today!! Wear your green and enjoy!! :)
March 16, 2015
Grá mo Chroí – Celebrate St Patrick’s day… Free on Kindle!
FREE on March 16th, 17th and 18th!! Check it out!
Originally posted on Daily Echo:
[image error] Grá mo Chroí
Love Stories from Irish Myth
Ali Isaac & Jane Dougherty
I would like to thank Sue Vincent for inviting us (Jane Dougherty and Ali Isaac) to talk about Grá mo Chroí. So here goes, in time for the Saint Patrick’s Day binge.
For the tiny handful who are not fluent Irish speakers, the title means ‘Love of my Heart’: the collection of retellings Ali Isaac and I put together being of some of the great love stories from Irish myth.
Why did we do it? Because we love the rhythm and the language of these stories, written, or rather told, so long ago, in the pre-Christian era before the shadow of Christian purity fell upon Irish culture and expunged many of the legends of inappropriate material. Women, of course, being anathema to the Christian Church, ended up with the short straw in many of the later versions…
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March 15, 2015
March 13, 2015
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