in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. When young Pearl's life was collapsing around her, she could always find comfort in her extensive collection of dragon memorabilia - but some youngsters are more fragile than others, and dragons can be deadly.īestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California.

Besides, the shining little spacecraft looked real cute hanging on the barn with the Christmas decorations.ĬOLLECTIBLE. So when some government scientists rudely demanded that the Shattucks turn over the UFO that crashed on their Texas ranch, the Shattucks became a bit obstinate. Country people in America are a fair but mighty independent bunch. THE TESSELATED TETRAHEXAHEDRAL YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS. until some odd little denizens of the city's subterranean tunnels showed him who was really in charge! Charlie Dimsdale was only a little man in the company that ran New York City's subways. But he should have remembered that it is not polite to be rude to a lady. Parkworthy had a score to settle with the telephone company, and he was a man used to getting his own way. OPERATOR ASSISTED CALLS ARE CHARGED AT A HIGHER RATE. Joining Case on the soundtrack are the Souvenirs, whose songs reportedly play at key moments in the film.Forget what you thought you knew about the universe and enter the fantastic world of master storyteller Alan Dean Foster. The Sam Raimi film stars Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, the great Keanu, and that Scientologist freak Giovanni Ribisi. Two Neko songs appear on the soundtrack to The Gift, out soon on Seattle’s Will Records (which means that Neko probably won’t get paid, at least not for several months).

Bassist Bill Herzog tells a Gnome Gnotifier that Case and Company will stop in Tucson for a spell to record with the fine, fine folks from Calexico.

The Chicago-via-Seattle crooner’s on yet another cross-continent dash with her Boyfriends, slated to reappear in town January 15 to open for the Jayhawks at the Showbox. Man, Neko’s everywhere in the news this week. Of course, you already knew about these records because they were in the Weekly‘s year-end lists two weeks ago. Writer Jon Pareles cited Death Cab for Cutie’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes, while Neil Strauss selected Mass Romantic, by Vancouver band the New Pornographers (featuring Neko Case). The Times has learned its way around the Northwest since then, as evidenced by last week’s “Worthwhile Albums Most People Missed” list, which included two of the best low-on-the-radar records to come from these parts in 2000. It’s been almost nine years since The New York Times misguidedly printed Megan Jasper’s “Lexicon of Grunge,” a hoax the Seattleite cooked up to mess with clueless media types (the Gnome’s favorite entry? “Swingin’ on the flippity flop,” which in Jasper-speak meant “hangin’ out”).

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