John Newmark

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Writer, Research Admin, Father, Husband, Geek Banner: Famous cloned sheep, Dolly. Stuffed and on display at National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Photograph taken in 2023.

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Two submissions are in red indicating that they have been pending longer than the average for that publication. One of these has been pending for 64 days, the other 39) Four submissions in black. Two pending for 1 day, two for 0. Busy weekend for me.
Cup of coffee and coffee beans.
Frosty Limerick There are two ways the Earth may expire: Be it by ice or be it by fire. Compare hatred with ice – That end will suffice Equal to the flames of desire.
Image of African Goliath Beetle on a hand illustrating size.
Cover for The Pitt [Byrne, Gruenwald, Buscema, Drake]
Linda McCarteys HOME COOKING QUICK, EASY, AND ECONOMICAL VEGETARIAN DISHES FOR TODAY
Cover: DARK HEARTS AND TATTLETALES A COLLECTION BY POE'S SPARROW JANE GWALTNEY
Cover: MARGARET TRUMAN BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MURDER IN THE SMITHSONIAN MURDER IN THE SUPREME COURT Who would commit murder in the country's most sacred hall?
Cover: BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON MARTHA GRIMES THE DEER LEAP HER WIT SPARKLES, HER PLOTS INTRIGUE, AND HER CHARACTERS ARE ABSOLUTELY UNFORGETTABLE
Cover: The Female Man Joanna Russ "A wonderfully inventive novel, this interplanetary exploration of feminist inner space, this sophisticated, playful fantasy book is, of course, all about reality." -Phyllis Chester
THE ACCIDENTAL DEMON SLAYER BIKER WITCHES BOOK 1 "Fabulously Fun" —THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANGIE FOX
Maud Martha - A Novel Gwendolyn Brooks
Cover: New York Times Best-selling Author Isabel Allende City of the Beasts Secrets are hidden in the heart of the Amazon..
Book Cover Penguin Classics EDITH WHARTON The Custom of the Country
JEAN FRITZ George Washington's Breakfast
Cover: LAURA INGALLS WILDER Little House in the Big Woods
Cover: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Cover for Birds of Prey #67 “Girls Rule & Boys Drool”
Cover Star Trek The Next Generation The Devil’s Heart A NOVEL BY CARMEN CARTER
Book cover Signet Classics Frankenstein MARY SHELLEY
Cover for: THE HUNGER GAMES New York Times Bestselling Author SUZANNE COLLINS
A DELL YEARLING BOOK Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Judy Blume
Cover: TOMMY & TUPPENCE THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY Agatha Christie BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS
Cover for Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?
Book cover for Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Cover for The Mummy by Anne Rice
Catholic magazine cover promoting “Saint of the Week” St. Francis Xavier. Letters SFX in background with image of St Francis centered covering some of the F. It’s impossible to tell if it’s an F or E.
Cover for Deryni Magic by Katherine Kurtz
Book cover for The Host
Book cover for People of the Book
Cover for To Kill a Mockingbird
Book cover for The Lottery
Cover for Goblin Market
Book cover for The Sparrow
Book cover for A Wrinkle in Time
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER PARABLE OF THE SOWER
Book cover of China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F McHugh
DO NOT BE DAUNTED BY THE ENORMITY OF THE WORLD'S GRIEF. DO JUSTLY NOW. LOVE MERCY NOW. WALK HUMBLY NOW. YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO COMPLETE THE WORK, BUT NEITHER ARE YOU FREE TO ABANDON IT. Pirkei Avot
Freedom BY LANGSTON HUGHES Freedom will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want my freedom Just as you.
Now we Are Six when I was one, I had just begun. when I was Two, I was nearly new. when I was Three, I was hardly me. when I was Four, I was not much more. when I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think Ill be Six now For ever and ever.
ON THIS DAY: JAN. 28, 1986 THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER EXPLODED 73 SECONDS AFTER LIFTOFF FROM CAPE CANAVERAL, KILLING ALL SEVEN CREW MEMBERS
O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair are thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my Dear, Till a'the seas gang dry. Till a'the seas gang dry, my Dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun: I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only Luve! And fare thee weel, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile!
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics, Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has both read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms.
1 THE WHITE HOUSE (d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
To an Undiscerning Critic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sure, there are times when one cries with acidity, 'Where are the limits of human stupidity?' Here is a critic who says as a platitude, That I am guilty because 'in ingratitude, Sherlock, the sleuth hound, with motives ulterior, Sneers at Poe's Dupin as very "inferior"' Have you not learned, my esteemed commentator, That the created is not the creator? As the creator l've praised to satiety Poe's Monsieur Dupin, his skill and variety, And have admitted that in my detective work, I owe to my model a deal of selective work. But is it not on the verge of inanity To put down to me my creation's crude vanity? He, the created, the puppet of fiction, Would not brook rivals nor stand contradiction, He, the created, would scoff and would sneer, Where I, the Creator, would bow and revere. So please grip this fact with your cerebral tentacle, The doll and its maker are never identical.
Good Bones Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I'll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
Social Media post: Neil Renic NC_Renic Writing a book is just like reading a book except the book hates you 1:28 PM - 10/8/24
10 Reasons Your Dog's Hair Cut Costs More Than Yours... 10. Your hairdresser doesn't wash and clean your rear end. 9. You don't go for 8 weeks without washing or brushing your hair. 8. Your hairdresser doesn't have to give you a sanitary trim. 7. Your hairdresser doesn't have to clean your ears. 6. Your hairdresser doesn't have to clean boogies from your eyes. 5. You sit still for your hairdresser. 4. Your haircut doesn't include a manicure and pedicure. 3. Your hairdresser only washes and cuts the hair on your head. 2. You don't bite or scratch your hairdresser. (At least, I hope not) And the Number 1 reason your dog's haircut costs more than yours... 1. The likelihood of you pooping or peeing while your hair is being cut is extremely slim.
Headline: GIZMODO A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks By AJ Dellinger Published January 9, 2025
Social Media post. “My Nest doorbell automatically locks the front door when it sees a face it doesn’t recognize.” Image of person wearing What Would Gowron Do tshirt. With Nest software identifying Gowron as unidentified face.
1,500-MILE WINTER STORM SET TO BLANKET PLAINS & EAST COAST IN SNOW AND ICE (image of area impacted is pink and phallic shaped)
FAVORITE TALES OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM 55 short stories and sketches from the Old Country— including the wonderful tales of Tevye and his daughters that became Fiddler onithe Roof. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY BEN SHAHN
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris) Victor Hugo
Winter’s Tale Mark Helprin
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent VanGogh A powerful self-portrait: The artist’s intimate letters to his brother Edited by Irving Stone