So you’re wondering: Wow, if David Hasselhoff is doing a musical (see previous entry), who’s the next out-of-work television star do a musical? Here’s the answer to your question: a list of ten television stars who need a musical boost to their career!
And that’s not all! You can play, too. Just add a comment describing the Televison Star Musical you would like to see. Maybe, if I get enough comments, we’ll give away a prize for the best one.
So, without further ado, here’s the list:
Still haven’t read Dan Brown’s best-selling novel,The Da Vinci Code? Thinking about giving into peer pressure? Well, here’s some things to consider before you pick up the book:
Consider, for a moment, the top ten writers of world literature who should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature but were not.
Criteria:
First, the author must have been alive and publishing when the prize was presented (no William Shakespeare).
Second, the author must have produced more than one work (no Harper Lee).
Third, I’ve tried to eliminate those authors that might still win the prize (Chinese author Mo Yan, for example).
First awarded in 1901, there have been 102 Nobel Prize Laureates with no award given in the years 1914, 1918, 1935, and between 1940-1943. Click here for a complete list of the Laureates and to learn more about the Nobel Prize.
Click the link below to see the list. (Feel free to comment, criticize, or suggest your own authors.)
Someone suggested I include numbered lists in my blog. People like numbered lists! she assured me.
We live in an age of numbered lists. Seven tips on dealing with allergies. Ten reasons why the ‘80s were great! Five ways to balance your budget.
Frankly, I dislike numbered lists. My dislike goes back to Composition 101 where I was taught that using numbers in an essay is a sign of weak writing, a crutch for the intellectually disorganized. Numbers hold the reader’s interest by force, rather than seduction. A truly talented writer, I was taught, can present his information logically and creatively without having to rely on numbers.
Not so today. We are awash in a sea of information and we want that information served up in bite-sized pieces that can be sucked down and digested faster than an Egg McMuffin.
So—for those who don’t have the time to make or even eat breakfast, I’m adding Top Ten Lists to my blog. Let’s just say it’s an experiment in the convenient, and maybe as much for me as anyone else.