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Audio Podcast Novel: Pinocchio (Chapter 9)

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Per l’Italia!  More of our story!

This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.

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Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima

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BP and U.S. are Hiding Something in Gulf

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That’s a 21-inch pipe blowing oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s 5,000 feet underwater and it’s a doomsday hole. There’s something very strange about the information coming out of the Gulf oil spill. It’s minimal. Some scientists who have technology for precisely measuring the rate of flow from the pipe are being turned away from the spill area by BP and the United States government. BP didn’t even want the video to get released because they didn’t want anyone to know how much oil was leaking. They are still saying that knowing how much oil is coming out is irrelevant. Really? Some experts are trying to warn people that over 75 million gallons of oil have already poured into the Gulf waters. 75 million. That’s almost seven times the Exxon Valdez spill already.

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Animation: Fred the Button Finds a Friend

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Quirky Pictures conducted a workshop for children who animate at the Oxley Park Primary School in the United Kingdom. This one is the story of a button who sets out looking for a friend and finds himself on many adventures. The kids have done beautiful drawings and their voice work gives the whole thing the kind of gentle wit that only clever kids can invent.

Painter: Andrew Abbott

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One of my favorite sites is The Rumpus, an online culture magazine that covers literature, art, film, politics, sex, comics, music and generally excellent and useful ideas.  One of their writers, Julie Greicius, did a piece on a painter I’ve never seen before: Andrew Abbott.  I really liked his paintings as soon as I saw them.  They are harsh and beautiful at the same time.  I have no idea how much they cost or anything like that.  Probably a lot.  They’re really good and I imagine they are hanging in a lot of fancy living rooms right at this moment.

But his web site is plenty of fun for me and this guy can paint like some serious business.

Go visit Andrew Abbott’s paintings.

Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 18)

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A Princess of Mars

This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.

Chapter 18: John Carter, is a prisoner of a new Martian horde and he witnesses savagery like none he has seen before.

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Read by Alessandro Cima

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