![]() ![]() Since we last spoke, I have NOT been expelled. ![]() We'll get to the zombies later because the BIG news to start off with isn't mutant brain-eaters, it's that (drumroll, please!) I, Rafe Khatchadorian, have managed to stay enrolled at Hills Village Middle School for more than a minute. On a good day-like, a really good day-I look like this: Three weeks ago I didn't know a single person in Australia, let alone a zombie, and now I had a baying mob of the undead at the front door. It takes a lot to make that many Australian zombies mad, but I, Rafe Khatchadorian, had managed it in just a few short weeks. In a weird way, though, a small part of me was kind of proud. Call me selfish, but I want to keep as much of my blood as I possibly can, for as long as I can. ![]() ![]() Very specifically, they wanted my blood, which was a real problem. The seriously messed-up truth was that these guys wanted BLOOD-and lots of it. That hope faded quickly when they started chanting: "WE WANT RAFE! WE WANT RAFE!" It could be that the zombies had other delicious victims in mind besides the untasty and downright bony Rafe Khatchadorian of Hills Village. Despite the pitchforks, there was, however, one tiny ray of hope that I could cling to: maybe it wasn't me they were after. ![]()
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![]() Her lyrical writing rendered her not a mere translator of the natural world, but an alchemist transmuting the steel of science into the gold of wonder. But it was a scientist, not a philosopher, who levered this monumental shift in consciousness: Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964), a Copernicus of biology who ejected the human animal from its hubristic place at the center of Earth’s ecological cosmos and recast it as one of myriad organisms, all worthy of wonder, all imbued with life and reality. What we may now see as an elemental truth of existence was then a notion both foreign and frightening to the Western mind. ![]() “Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others,” philosopher Alan Watts wrote in the 1950s as he contemplated the interconnected nature of the universe. ![]() ![]()
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Upside down and with the tail inches above the sand, Horner righted the plane and flew home. Just feet above the ground, against the laws of physics and counter to his training, one last maneuver pulled him out of his dive. His fighter was pointing nose down, diving toward the sand, and the controls were not responding. ![]() What happened in the North African desert is something he can only explain as a miracle. In fact, Chuck Horner is alive and well and living in Florida. He died in 1962 on a routine training exercise in the Libyan desert. ![]() The Barnes & Noble Review Chuck Horner is dead. ![]() ![]() One of the most exciting days of my life was when I received a package in the mail that contained the signing sheets with Murakami's signature in silver ink on each page. Given that Kafka is so weird and surreal, I wanted the collages to be mysterious, layered with meaning, and have a heavily-textured, technicolor, psychedelic vibe. 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The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus, but Georgina's allies are suspicious. In fact, she's being forced to transfer operations.to Las Vegas. ![]() Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can't just hang up her killer heels and settle down to domestic bliss. The man has risked his soul to become Georgina's boyfriend. 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