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Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) Film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

She received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. She is also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of Days of Wine and Roses, and as Catherine Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.

During the early 1950's she appeared predominantly in film but later moved to New York to study acting and seek stage and television work. She appeared in Twelfth Night, produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame; in Days of Wine and Roses with Cliff Robertson, presented by Playhouse 90 on October 2, 1958[16] (in the film version, their roles were taken over by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick); and in Winterset, presented by Playhouse 90 in 1959.

in the 1990's she made guest appearances on television shows such as Frasier, Matlock, State of Grace, and Will & Grace. Laurie also appeared in Cold Case and in a 2001 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Care", in which she played an adoptive mother and foster grandmother who killed one of the foster granddaughters in her daughter's charge and who abused her adoptive son and foster grandchildren. (Wikipedia)

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My Favorite Limestone Carving Pictures: the First Decade of My Online Magazine and Sculpture Gallery

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Winterset, Iowa. Airing of the Quilts Day, 2023.

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Winterset Hollow

Auth: Jonathan Edward Durham

Illustr: Maura OConnor

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Courthouse - September 2018 Courthouses are splendid examples of architectural styles through the years. They are also usually beautiful or at least impressive. This courhouse in Winterset, Iowa, is both. MWM

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Do you want a book with canon gay characters, adorable woodland creatures living a cottage core life? Boy, do i have the book for you. Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham. This book contains that and definitely nothing else:).

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it’s so important when you can hear the pedal of the piano or the organ

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You look different every time You come from the foam-crested brine It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale Am I yours? Are you mine to play with? Joking apart When you're drunk you're terrific When you're drunk I like you mostly Late at night, you're quite alright

But I can't understand the different you In the morning when it's time to play At being human for a while Please smile

You'll be different in the spring, I know You're a seasonal beast Like the starfish that drift in with the tide, with the tide So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own Your lunacy fits neatly with my own My very own

We're not alone

[celestialreadershaven]

Honestly, it's my favourite book ever!!

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The characters in this book are sooo going to get murdered. but at least the frog and the rabbit are a gay old couple

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Here is a review on my Storygraph I wrote of Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham. I did not like it very much </3

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Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham

I didn't realize when I started this book that the author, Jonathan Edward Durham, is responsible for a lot of funny, smart, and relatable tweets that I often see pop up on instagram. When I realized that, I felt equal parts of "that makes sense" and disappointment. Durham is still whipsmart in this novel, but he's also long-winded, which made me wish he'd written a book as tight as his tweets. It felt unnecessarily long, and every time the protagonist (spoiler!!!) was thisclose to death and had accepted it and was ready to go, he was saved at the last minute. This happened more than three times, and each fakeout made me care less and less about what happened to any of the characters.

I also had guessed a few events early on in the novel, so I didn't feel like this was anything particularly new. That said, I do think this would make for a pretty great movie, without having to read about all the mechanics of human and animal movement involved in the events that unfold.

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On the Road Flyer: THE KMJ Stoneworks Menu of Events and Services

Every good idea needs a catalyst to set it all in motion, and so, may I present the flyer that I intend to distribute on the road, as Kris and I take THE KMJ Stoneworks to The Great American Mid West

Every good idea needs a catalyst to set it all in motion, and so, may I present the flyer that I intend to distribute on the road, as Kris and I take THE KMJ Stoneworks to The Great American Mid West For twenty years I have had the pleasure and privelege of carving stone at a professional level, to the point that the results of my work are spread across the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond, right…

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Winterset, Iowa. Airing of the Quilts Day, 2023.

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Rating Books I’ve Read This Year So Far

(No one asked for this but in order to be free you must first be cringe.)

Of note is that these are all the horror genre because nothing else hits.

RING by Koji Suzuki

A hood classic of course. Loses some points because it starts at a crawl and doesn’t really improve from that pace for a good while, and the main character’s friend isn’t very likable (He’s not a token “annoying friend in a horror story” character, but I can’t explain him being unlikable without a slight spoiler)

8.5/10 A bit dated but I recognize that a lot of “tropes” hadn’t been done before and some of the parts about Sadako herself are just a product of the time and country from which the work originates. Solid and I completely understand how it laid the groundwork for a horror icon

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Cows by Matthew Stokoe: I miss the person I was before I read this. I will not be taking the plunge into “extreme horror” ever again and “splatterpunk” books are off the table. A lot of this is gross in the intrusive thought way and I don’t mean the meme intrusive thoughts but ACTUAL intrusive thoughts. I have a strong stomach so I never gagged or anything but honestly? If I respected books a little less I would’ve burned this after I finished reading it. Instead it sits on my shelf as a monument to never having to read it again. 😌 I suppose I cannot rate it just one way because it wouldn’t be fair

Enjoyment: -100/10 As someone who has seen REAL GORE and worse, I was “what the fuck”-ing the entire way through and felt genuinely dirty. Not in a “whoa, good horror!” way. In a “is the author okay?” way. Also I think the author hates fat people or at least his portrayal of the main character’s mother (named only as “The Hagbeast” for the entire book) certainly makes it seem so.

Dead Dove Principle: 10/10 “Well, I dunno what I expected.”

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The Vegetarian by Han Kang: classed as horror but it’s not scary, the horror is in how tragically sad everything is and makes really good use of Korean societal norms and taboos as a vehicle for it all. The arguments are genuinely infuriating due to both hypocrisy and an obsession with control because (spoiler) somehow your daughter scarcely eating due to gruesome nightmares is more shameful than trying to force feed her meat after she wouldn’t touch anything at the family dinner because everything on the table is animal products.

7/10 Starts slow but with the interest of taking place from the titular vegetarian’s husband’s point of view. The point of view of a man who hates his wife. Not that he would ever SAY he hates his wife, but whenever this man speaks about his wife it is only to talk about things he dislikes about her or things he’s ambivalent to but wishes she was more like other women about. By his own (internal monologue) admission this man is with a woman he finds so mediocre because he recognizes that he himself is MID. (If this is setting off red flags for you, the author is a woman.)

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Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham: Surprisingly not too graphic even though there is violence and of course death depicted. I actually appreciate that a lot because the story not dwelling on the manner of a death really does reinforce that while there is personal stake in it for the characters doing the killing, it’s not a thoughtless murder spree. It’s a hunt.

7.5/10 Main characters were likable even if it was a slow roll, only really picking up in the last act. Kills were…efficient. Antagonists were actually very sympathetic and while their anger is 90% misdirected I won’t say it’s misguided.

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

9/10 HOO BOY this one took me a good while. First, to work up the courage to crack it open. Then it was a slog to start because the entire prologue is just about Johnny Truant who is at certain points the weakest part of the story.

There’s lots of ado about nothing, I must admit I started skimming his sections the further in I got because, sir, this is a Wendy’s Drive-Thru. There’s only so many times I want to hear about your day drinking, doing drugs or getting your dick wet. (A lot of his later writings also read like they were written by a person who’s completely hammered.)

He is a vital part, however, because the book itself is practically an ARG and once you actually get into The Navidson Record proper, Johnny’s footnotes help kind of ground it, and LORD do you need grounding with how trippy things get.

Certainly not for everyone, not just because of the length and formatting, but because there’s layers to the suspension of disbelief required, and while I personally like media this dream-like, not everyone is going to enjoy that sort of thing.

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The Troop by Nick Cutter

6/10 This one was…really tame, to be honest? It took a LONG time for me to give a shit about any of these characters, (I honestly can’t tell if the characters are supposed to be likable) largely because the main cast is 4 teenage boys from a small town. And they act like it. I think I was supposed to feel sorry Kent because of how miserable he was in the end but…he acted like a teenage boy raised by a cop and it IS his own fault that he died. Ephraim was kinda my favorite of the group because he had probably the least egregious personality although Max was fine and Newton was just a fella.

(It does earn points for getting me to dry heave at the description of a character hacking up a “scallop of worms and mucus” and rolling it around in his mouth. Intrusive thoughts had me looping that imagery in my brain and I actually put the book down for a sec because I couldn’t stop gagging. I gagged while typing that out, too. Nice one.)

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Covered Bridge - September 2018 This bridge, called the Cutler-Donahoe Covered Bridge - is on a walking path in the city park in Winterset, Iowa. In the picture it appears listing to one side, but that is a quirk of perception caused by the fact that the roof is longer than the bridge covering and so the end pieces angle up toward the end of the roof. The bridge and the covering are actually in very good shape. MWM