Congratulations to vel veeter for being the first to BINGO on July 17. Welcome to the cbr13bingo August check-in! Put some sunscreen on and grab a beverage for hydration. There are 28 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 168 reviews. This post is a place for you to ask … [Read more]
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The Count by Franklin Rosenstein
It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and … [Read more]
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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here. I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them. For though their … [Read more]
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Testing is the Bane of Our Existence by Thomas Tomlinson
But what is this on the chest? I took it up, and held it close to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something … [Read more]
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Franklin Rosenstein is Dead by Mary Westenstein
Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the … [Read more]
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The Count of Monte canned beans by Franklin Rosenstein
As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, … [Read more]