All because I was Entered in the Alien Bride Lottery…Ĭaptured for the Alien Bride Lottery: I refused to be in the Bride Lottery-so now I’m a runaway bride. I only hope I can avoid catching the eye of one of the giant, rainbow-hued brutes whose mission is to protect Earth-and who can claim me as a mate. And no matter what, getting drawn in the Lottery means you have to compete in the Bride Games. Most of the lottery-drawn women come back to Earth every year and resume their lives as if nothing changed. I mean, why not? The chances are astronomical that your name will get chosen to be one of the hundred or so women who get shipped off to space every year.Īnd even if your name is drawn, the odds are slim that you’ll match up with an alien who’s looking for a mate. You can also accept extra entries for legal infractions-instead of paying a parking fine, for example, you can request an extra entry. But it takes only one.Įvery unmarried female human over the age of 21 gets entered once a year. Get the complete first season of the Alien Bride Lottery in this collection!Įntered in the Alien Bride Lottery: There are a million ways to end up in the Alien Bride Lottery.
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Introduction Twenty-five years ago, a remarkable book was published entitled The Manipulated Man. All we have to do is smile at some geek and he'll buy us drinks and dinner."-Overheard conversation "Half the job is in the discovery the other half is having the courage to present the findings.”-Galileo "A woman's body is her fate.”-Old AdageĬontents Introduction Manipulating Woman, Manipulated Man A WOMAN'S SCAM DISHONEST WHORES SEXUAL POWER TRUELOVE MARRIAGE MATING BEHAVIOR SEXUAL SLAVERY MAN ON THE STREET Isn't It Romantic PARADISE LOST ROMANCE DEFINED THE PRICE OF LOVE THE LOGIC OF LOVE A TRUE GENTLEMAN LIAR, LIAR WHY CHICKS DIG JERKS MAN ON THE STREET I Am Woman, Hear Me Whore (The Failure of Feminism) SEXIST SOCIETY RADICAL, MAN HISTORY LESSON STATISTICS DO LIE X-RATED "F" IS FOR FAILURE MAN ON THE STREET Whore-Ror Stories What Women Can Do THE FEMALE TO DO LIST What Men Can Do THE MALE TO DO LIST "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we are in love.”-Sigmund Freud "When my girlfriends and I go out at night we never take any money with us. The former “Daily Show” correspondent had planned to do a book of short fiction next, but thought it might be worthwhile “to do a book of drawings between my two ‘real’ books.” “Point Your Face at This,” out last week, is 250-plus pages of Martin’s simple line drawings. “I’ve got notebooks full of drawings some of them are jokes, some are just shapes.” He started integrating easel drawings into his stand-up and his two-season Comedy Central series, “Important Things With Demetri Martin.” He also included simple sketches in 2011’s “This Is a Book,” a collection of personal essays, short stories and one-liners that made the New York Times best-seller list. “It became a game for me that’s really similar to writing jokes,” Martin, 39, says. “So my drawing has not really evolved very much.” When he dropped out of New York University’s law school to become a comedian in the late ’90s, Martin picked up doodling as a diversion from crafting material for his stand-up act. “Then I stopped, maybe in sixth grade,” Martin says. Like most kids, Demetri Martin used to doodle during class. Abrams using too much lens flare, and then our CEO-he has a Ph.D. “I was having a discussion by the water cooler where I was working several years ago, and we were talking about an arbitrary topic to me: the Star Trek reboot,” Klein says in a phone interview with Paste. A conversation about its dangers catalyzed Klein’s idea for the novel. Teleportation may be cliché trope in science fiction, but the tech’s ramifications are terrifying. Until Klein’s protagonist, Joel Byram, gets duplicated. In fact, it’s the “safest form of transportation.” In the 21 years since its commercialization, no human has ever been “maimed, altered, vanished or otherwise mistreated” by teleportation. Freight teleportation has existed for decades, and-thanks to tech advances made after the Mona Lisa accident-human teleportation is now possible. Set in 2147, the “techno-thriller with a love story at its core” (as Klein labels it) is set in a future in which genetically engineered mosquitoes have curbed global warming and AI engines pay people who help them act more human. Klein’s debut novel, The Punch Escrow, kicks off by describing how “teleportation killed the Mona Lisa.” And it only gets crazier from there. Bigger than saving Dumbledore,” thinks Owen, marveling at the chance to prevent the death of a beloved character). As the concept demands, self-awareness plays a big role in the narrative, and the interplay of text and metatext is one of its most entertaining aspects (“This would be huge. After Owen offers Bethany a possible way to find her father, she agrees to take him into Kiel’s book on the condition that Owen not interfere with the story. Bethany isn’t interested in giving Owen a tour: she’s busy looking for her father, a fictional character who disappeared into a book when she was young. When Owen discovers that his classmate Bethany can jump into fictional worlds, he’s desperate to enter his beloved Kiel Gnomenfoot series. Not only has the government consistently supported pervasive racial discrimination by America’s financial institutions and real estate industry, but in fact the government initially mandated much of this discrimination, and undoing housing segregation requires first understanding and accepting this fact. While most Americans assume that their country’s pervasive pattern of racial segregation is the de facto product of individual decisions and market conditions, Rothstein argues that this is incorrect: American residential segregation is de jure, a product of unconstitutional policies. In The Color of Law, historian Richard Rothstein’s central argument is that, from the 1870s to the present day, federal, state, and local governments in the United States have systematically and intentionally segregated American cities. Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with a reading that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. The Fry Chronicles Quotes Showing 1-30 of 81 The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the hugely successful The Fry Chronicles, brilliantly read by Stephen Fry himself. “There’s a man came from the lake.”Ĭhapter 9. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.Ĭhapter 3. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough's remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Floodis an absorbing portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.Īt the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. The Johnstown Flood: The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating “Natural” Disasters America Has Ever Known Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, begins by making a convincing case for the relevance of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Plato, Hume, Kant, Descartes, and others have approached its central themes. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how toĪpproach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed themselves most forcefully on human consciousness. Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. That Greenblatt came across this book while in graduate school is a wonder, for it had been scourged, scorned or simply fallen from fashion from the start, making fugitive reappearances when the time was ripe, but more likely to fall prey to censorship and the bookworm, literally eaten to dust. It was a dangerous book and wildly at odds with the powers that be through many a time period. More than 2,000 years ago, Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things, which spoke of such things as the atomic structure of all that exists, of natural selection, the denial of an afterlife, the inherent sexuality of the universe, the cruelty of religion and the highest goal of human life being the enhancement of pleasure. Shakespeare’s Freedom, 2010, etc.) makes another intellectually fetching foray into the Renaissance-with digressions into antiquity and the recent past-in search of a root of modernity. |