January 20th, 2010

Donate To The Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort

If you have not donated to help the cause in Haiti, you can do so by going to you local Starbucks across the U.S. and Canada. The Starbucks Foundation will join your support by donating one million dollars (U.S.) to the American Red Cross in support of this effort.

LINK

UPDATE:

Hey all

Lee here, Dandy’s Manager. Our booking agents organized this Starbucks Haiti Relief donation drive with proceeds to The Red Cross. There are many other charities doing good work as well if you want to donate but don’t have a Starbucks near you or for any reason have political concerns in donating to The Red Cross. For more info on charities that might better appeal to your ability to donate please check out http://www.charitywatch.org/

Lee

GOTHMAN

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January 18th, 2010

Morgan’s Run

If you like stories about horrible things happening to good people…well then you have problems.  Or an amazing sense of humor.  I certainly will not be continuing this book but I have flipped thru to see if she lightens up.

Nope.


This book is a Kafka-esque excercise in injustice, a subject I already know plenty about and hopefully will never have to learn much more.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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January 11th, 2010

The First Man In Rome

If you dug the miniseries ROME then I highly recommend you find this book.

The First Man in Rome focuses mainly on the rival factions of the Roman senate during the republican years (circa 100bc) and the meteoric rise of Gaius Marcus who was repeatedly named “The First Man in Rome” due to his success as a general during the African revolt and then for defending Rome against the German hoarde.

There’s plenty of “common man” soap opera to keep it, well, common, but damn Colleen McCulloch really did her homework. You’ll learn a lot about how Rome worked as well as how they could eventually bungle it so badly that even an uncouth tribe of filth from the backwaters of europe could finally bring down the eternal city.

But that’s a story for another book…

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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