#David Borgenicht

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Muppet Fact #847

When Harvey Kneeslapper's laugh became too painful on Frank Oz, the character was retired.

Source:

Sesame Street Unpaved. David Borgenicht. Hyperion Books. 1998. 134.

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The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) "This book is narrated by death. Not a god of death, not some kind of herald of it, the abstract concept of death itself. And death permeates the entire story. The book begins with our protagonist, a young girl living smack-dab in the middle of Nazi Germany name Leisel Meminger watching her younger brother Werner die on their way to their new foster home, and it only gets worse from there. Leisel continually strives to save herself and others from the inevitable destruction and end that awaits them, predominantly, of course, by stealing books, but also eventually by harboring a Jewish man named Max Vandenburg, and it is consistently not enough. I'll spare you most of the details in the hopes of you reading it yourself, but the book ends with our protagonist's home being bombed and the deaths of her foster parents and the boy she loves. Leisel herself dies of old age decades later, and death's final words to her (and arguably to the readers themselves) are "I am haunted by humans"."

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht) "A handy little manual that shows all the ways that you can survive the worst possible situations. And now that you have the Leitner edition, you'll be putting those skills to good use almost constantly, as every deadly thing described in those pages begins to manifest in your life."

The Cold Equations (Tom Godwin) "The Cold Equations

The story of a pilot who finds a girl stowed away on his spaceship, which is delivering lifesaving medicine to a distant frontier world. The fuel had been carefully measured out, the weight precisely calculated -- and none of it accounted for the stowaway. There is only one way to complete the mission. The numbers are merciless."

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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (1999)

Text: Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht -- Art: Brenda Brown

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Books I've Read So Far This Year - 5/1/24

Melting Stones - Tamora Pierce

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

Battle Magic - Tamora Pierce

Under the Skin - Michael Faber

Trickster's Choice - Tamora Pierce

A Nest of Nightmares - Lisa Tuttle

Trickster's Queen - Tamora Pierce

Ladies' Night - Jack Ketchum

First Test - Tamora Pierce

Ring - Koji Suzuki

Page - Tamora Pierce

Spiral - Koji Suzuki

Squire - Tamora Pierce

Loop - Koji Suzuki

Lady Knight - Tamora Pierce

Birthday - Koji Suzuki

Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce

S - Koji Suzuki

Wolf-Speaker - Tamora Pierce

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell - Nathan Ballingrud

Emperor Mage - Tamora Pierce

The Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks

The Realm of the Gods - Tamora Pierce

Come Closer - Sara Gran

Terrier - Tamora Pierce

The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Paranormal - David Borgenicht

Bloodhound - Tamora Pierce

You've Lost a Lot of Blood - Eric LaRocca

Mastiff - Tamora Pierce

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix

Tempests and Slaughter - Tamora Pierce

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THE CLASSIC TALES OF BRER RABBIT by David Borgenicht Don Daily Book || autradingpost || eBay

[smithqjohns]

🤓What books did you read in 2023? I’ve seen people say things like “I normally read way more books” and it comes across in a way that I don’t want to come across, so I’m not gonna say that, that’s how great I am. A handful of these I read with/to my kid. (*Asterisks denotes my favorites and the ones that I recommend most.)

1. The Action Hero’s Handbook (2002) by David Borgenicht and Joe Borgenicht (6.1 stars out of 10)

2. Adventure Time, Volume 2 (2013) by Ryan North (6.6 stars out of 10)

3. *All You Zombies (1959) by Robert Heinlein (9.5 stars out of 10)

4. And He Built a Crooked House (1941) by Robert Heinlein (6.5 stars out of 10)

5. Attack on Titan (2012) by Hajime Isayama (7 stars out of 10)

6. *(The) Best of Dear Abby (1981) by Abigail Van Buren (9 stars out of 10)

7. *Beyond Lies the Wub (1952) by Philip K. Dick (8.5 stars out of 10)

8. Bone in the Throat (2000) (5 stars out of 10)

9. *Bossypants (2011) by Tina Fey (9.6 stars out of 10)

10. *The Grapes of Wrath (1939) (9.8 stars out of 10)

11. (The) Hoboken Chicken Emergency (1977) by Daniel Pinkwater (6.3 stars out of 10)

12. How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995) by Thomas Cahill (6 stars out of 10)

13. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (2015) by Tobias Wolfe (6.9 stars out of 10)

14. Lights, Camera, Accordion: Eye-Popping Photographs of Weird Al Yankovic, 1981-2006 (2022) (7.9 stars out of 10)

15. Lullaby (2003) by Chuck Palahniuk (7.5 stars out of 10)

16. *A Long Way Down (2006) (8.1 stars out of 10)

17. *Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2004) by Chuck Klosterman (9.6 stars out of 10)

18. Take Me With You (2018) by Andrea Gibson (7.5 stars out of 10)

19. *Spy x Family 1 (2019) by Tatsuya Endo (8.4 stars out of 10)

20. Spy x Family 2 (2019) by Tatsuya Endo (7.5 stars out of 10)

21. *Theft By Finding - Diaries 1977-2002 (2017) by David Sedaris (10 out of 10 stars)

22. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (4.9 stars out of 10)

23. Until I Find You (2005) by John Irving (6 stars out of 10)

24. Zeroville (2007) by Steve Erickson (6.4 stars out of 10)

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What Cookie Monster Really Eats on Sesame Street

If you grew up watching Sesame Street, you probably remember the lovable blue Muppet who had an insatiable appetite for cookies. Cookie Monster was always munching on chocolate chip cookies and making a mess with his crumbs. But did you know that those cookies were not real cookies at all? In fact, they were something else entirely. According to David Borgenicht’s “Sesame Street Unpaved” (via…

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: The Classic Tales Of Brer Rabbit.

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Shelf Confidence BPC

April 27: Be Prepared

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

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Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, the youngest of four children. His father was a prominent composer and conductor with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, who lost his appointment when the Nazis took power in 1933. Kahn was sent to live with his grandmother in Frankfurt, while his father, stepmother and his siblings emigrated to the U.S. Kahn’s grandmother recognized his talent and paid for private art lessons.

When he was twelve, Kahn’s grandmother arranged for him to stay with host families in England for a year, until he was able to join his family in New York.Kahn graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York, did a one-year stint in the Navy in 1945, then returned New York, where he studied painting at the New School with Stuart Davis. T

he G.I. Bill allowed him to continue his studies with Hans Hoffmann, at the Hans Hofmann School. Kahn worked as Hofmann’s studio assistant for two years and then transferred to the University of Chicago Hutchins Program, where he completed his BA in less than a year.

Kahn first exhibited in New York at a group show in 1947, curated by art critic Clement Greenberg. In 1955, Kahn was represented by the Grace Borgenicht Gallery. His work was included in a show at the Whitney Museum called Young America 1960: 30 Painters under 36.

In 1957, Kahn married painter Emily Mason, the daughter of painter Alice Trumbull. The Kahns had two daughters, Melany, and Cecily, a painter married to artist, David Kapp. Kahn was a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was an honorary trustee of the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, where he spent summers. Kahn worked in his New York studio the rest of the year.

Wolf Kahn died in March, 2020, at age 92.

Kahn’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and other galleries and museums in North America.

http://www.wolfkahn.com

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Muppet Fact #434

The first guest star to appear on Sesame Street was James Earl Jones.

Sources:

Sesame Street Unpaved. David Borgenicht.1998.

Sesame Street. Episode 0002. November 11, 1969.

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The Black Phone (Joe Hill) "Thirteen-year-old Finney is kidnapped by a man named The Grabber. Trapped in a basement room, the boy's only hope may lie in a mysterious disconnected black phone hanging on the basement wall. The phone rings at night with the whispers of the kidnapper's previous (and now dead) victims."

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht) "A handy little manual that shows all the ways that you can survive the worst possible situations. And now that you have the Leitner edition, you'll be putting those skills to good use almost constantly, as every deadly thing described in those pages begins to manifest in your life."

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Worst-Case Scenario Survival: How to Escape From a Mountain Lion

This is the first installment of our new series: Worst-Case Scenario Survival.

1. Do not run.

The animal most likely will have seen and smelled you already, and running will simply cause it to pay more attention.

2. Try to make yourself appear bigger by opening your coat wide.

The mountain lion is less likely to attack a larger animal.

3. Do not crouch down.

Hold your ground, wave your hands, and shout. Show it that you are not defenseless.

4. If you have small children with you, pick them up--do all you can to appear larger.

Children, who move quickly and have high-pitched voices, are at higher risk than adults.

5. Back away slowly or wait until the animal moves away.

Report any lion sightings to authorities as soon as possible.

6. If the lion still behaves aggressively, throw stones.

Convince the lion that you are not prey and that you may be dangerous yourself.

7. Fight back if you are attacked.

Most mountain lions are small enough that an average size human will be able to ward off an attack by fighting back aggressively. Hit the mountain lion in the head, especially around the eyes and mouth.

Use sticks, fists, or whatever is at hand. Do not curl up and play dead. Mountain lions generally leap down upon prey from above and deliver a "killing bite" to the back of the neck.

Their technique is to break the neck and knock down the prey, likewise rushing and lunging up at the neck of the prey in order to drag the victim down while holding the neck in a crushing grip.

Protect your neck and throat at all costs!How to Avoid an Attack

Mountain lions, also called cougars, have been known to attack people without provocation; aggressive ones have been reported to have attacked hikers and small children--causing serious injuries.

However, most mountain lions will still avoid people. To minimize your contact with cougars in an area inhabited by them, avoid hiking alone and at dusk and dawn when mountain lions are active.

P.S.

This is an excerpt from Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht's The WORST-CASE SCENARIO Survival Handbook.

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Hey there! Here is another book review for you. This time I talked about "The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel" by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht. It was a quick fun read and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes preparedness, unusual books, or wants a more expanded idea of handling travel situations.