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The Annus Horribilis Project

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Annus Horribilis is an ongoing literary project which aims to collect true "worst day" stories from people all over the world. The culmination of the project is to be the publication of a book containing the best three-hundred and sixty-five stories. Although a unique undertaking in its own right, Annus Horribilis has something in common with the creative tradition begun by people like Dave Gorman insofar as the actual process of collecting different elements under a common theme and relaying them back to the public in a humorous way is just as much a part of the project as the end result.


Popularity

The Chelmsford Weekly News reported in March 2007 that over two-hundred people had at that point contributed to the project, with entries being sent from "all parts of the English-speaking world, including America and Australia."[1]

According to information previously released in myspace bulletins, the Annus Horribilis profile is viewed over a hundred times daily and receives submissions at an average rate of five per day.

The Edge magazine has begun a monthly feature on the project, reporting its progress and printing a different worst day each issue. It quotes Stephen Moles, the creator of Annus Horribilis, as saying that "people clearly have a lot to get off their chests."[2] This explains a large part of its appeal: it is not only fun, but a cathartic process for everyone who participates.


Promotion

When it first began in late 2006, the Annus Horribilis Project was promoted through various public events in the south of England which involved people dressed as beaten-up leprechauns miming worst days and distributing leaflets. Most of the subsequent promotion has been online. The primary point of reference for the project is a myspace profile(www.myspace.com/annus_horribilis)which puts some of the best worst days on show as blog entries.


The Book

The book containing the best three-hundred and sixty-five stories will be arranged to resemble a diary with each story assigned to a different day of the year. Since each account is written as a first person narrative, the book should read from start to finish like a diary written by one single person. The submissions exhibited thus far are largely comical, detailing instances of embarrassment, inconvenience or physical pain. The book is likely to have exactly the same feel, but with "some drama for good measure."[1] No date has yet been given for publication.


The Creator

Annus Horribilis was created by the artist Stephen Moles who first made a name for himself with his controversial performance poetry. He is best known as a published writer, but his artistic activity also extends to acting, directing (film and theatre) and performing live music. Annus Horribilis can be seen as a natural development of his previous work, all of which is characterised by a dark sense of humour and a love of experimentation. A mission statement of sorts on his website describes his art as "tragicomic" in nature.[3]


Sources

  1. ^ a b Chelmsford Weekly News, 15th March, 2007.
  2. ^ The Edge, May Issue, 2007.
  3. ^ http://www.tragicomicart.8k.com, 3.

Counternut 00:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Ritter Photo

Ben Ritter is a photographer living and working in New York City. He has contributed to international publications including Vice, MTV.com, House and Garden, The Sentimentalist, and 34 Magazine. Some notable subjects include Beck, Fergie (Black Eyed Peas) Ok go! Rapper Jim Jones, New Found Glory, Rufus Waiwright, Katharine McPhee and Peaches. www.benritter.com [edit] Sources

http://www.gawker.com/artists/ben-ritter.php

Sources

66.108.63.18 01:40, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dancin' Gabe


Chopper Girl

Chopper Girl is a white gangsta rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. Her style is firmly rooted early 1990's Memphis/Horror Rap made popular by Memphis artists such as Al Kapone, Gangsta Pat, Triple Six mafia, Skinny Pimp etc., with a touch of "classic" Gangsta Rap such as N.W.A., The Geto Boys and Gangsta NIP. She has collaborated with Al Kapone, Skinny Pimp, MC Mack, K-Rock, Tom Skeemask and Nasty Nardo. She has released one full length CD in 2004 called Dirty Dolla$ as well as a DVD of the same title. She is also a member of a rock group called The Memphis Babylon that plays heavy covers of her rap music. She is married to renowned memphis artist Scott Taylor from the Grifters who also plays guitar in her group Memphis Babylon. She is renowned for having a gold grill, as well as a video called Still Buck featuring Tom Skeemask.

Sources

http://www.myspace.com/dachoppergirl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quANjbo5jSY http://www.memphisrap.com/community/interview.php?op=PrintReview&id=5 http://music.aol.com/artist/chopper-girl/573525/discography

75.65.24.82 02:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Russ Hogue


Alpha (student game project)

Untitled submission


Christian Vandal


Anthony Bass: Magician


Egret (experiment)


bejawada gopal reddy


George Mavrotas

George Mavrotas (born April 4, 1967 in Athens) is a former water polo player from Greece. Mavrotas has played 511 times for the Greek team (national record for team sports) and he is among a few water polo players worldwide that has participated in five Olympic Games just one behind the sport legend Manuel Estiarte. His major career achievements is the second place in the World Cup of 1997 as captain of the Greek national team, and the first place in the European Cup also in 1997, with his club Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni. In 1999 he participated in the world selection team. He is a member of the [Hellenic Association of Olympic Winners]. From 2003, he is member of the Greek Anti-Doping Organization. Mavrotas is now following academic career in the [School of Chemical Engineering] of the [National Technical University of Athens] with expertise in Operational Research.

Sources

Helenic Association of Olympic Winners (http://www.olympionikes.gr) Hellenic Olympic Committee (http://www.hoc.gr) NTUA’s Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (http://liee.ntua.gr/gm)

147.102.223.238 13:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roman Adamov



Eszter Várady

Eszter Várady (full name in Hungarian, including husband's name: Kovátsné Várady Eszter), born 10 May 1953, is a contemporary Hungarian writer of fiction, novels and short stories. Up to now, most of her books have been published under pseudonyms (like for example Peter East, Peter Eastborough or Esther G. Wood). However, in most cases she she gave some hint and let appear her real name as the "translator's" or "co-publisher's" name (see for example this book presentation, where she is mentioned as "fordító", that's translator: entry on www.libri.hu). Alongside writers like István Nemere or Magda Szabó she belongs to the most known and most popular contemporary writers in Hungary. But in comparison with them and despite her popularity in Hungary, gathered in the last decade, up to now her works haven't been translated into other languages. However, this is going to be changed soon, as she is supported at present by the German Steinke-Institut (a German academy dedicated to languages, education and culture and founded in the memory of German writer Udo Steinke), which will, in cooperation with the Steinke-Journal, translate some of her works and promote her in Germany. The most known works of Eszter Várady are "Villámcsapás", "Az örökös", "A hasonmás", "Túl a halálon", "Boldogság életveszélyben" and her recent work "A férfi, aki tetszik nekem", most of them published as "Esther G Wood".

Sources

www.varady-eszter.com some books on libri.hu published as "Esther G. Wood" link at Steinke-Journal to Eszter Várady

Peter Basel

Peter Basel is a well known highschool basketball coach on Long Island in New York. He is currently a gym teacher in the Half Hollow Hills SD. He is the basketball coach for the Half Hollow Hills High School East Boys varsity basketball team. Pete is known for his phrases such as "how many times do you wanna go up and down in 10" or "we can go up and down all night". Pete has a temper problem on the court when calls go against him, and "Big Mac" Golden gets thrown out of games on the last game of the season. Pete was nicknamed Air Basel, during the 2005-2006 season when the facklers and super dupper luper trooper played in the Thunderdome. Team dinners at applebees and fridays are always fun. Running out of the chinese buffet all 20 of us and getting license plates written down...priceless

LOVIN SENIORS 06

Sources

newsday.com/sports/highschools/longisland/basketball

24.46.163.62 15:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Zords In Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers


The Thom Hartmann Program

The Thom Hartmann Show is a weekday radio show on the Air America Radio network hosted by Thom Hartmann. Thom Hartmann's national program, syndicated by Air America Radio, and on the air live daily since March 2003, is carried on radio stations across the USA, daily from noon to 3 pm ET. It is also broadcast 7 days a week on Stream 146 on Sirius satellite radio and weekends and evenings on the "Air America" channel on XM satellite radio, and streamed live on the web from RadioPower.org, WhiteRoseSociety.org, www.airamericaradio.com, and CRN Digital into cable systems in 29 states (click here to hear the program live).

He replaced Al Franken on the network, live noon-3 PM ET, on February 19, 2007.

He has been hosting a local talk show in Portland, Oregon since 2005 on KPOJ, an affiliate of Air America Radio and owned by Clear Channel Communications. The local show, 6–9 am PT with co-host Heidi Tauber, precedes his national program; Hartmann does 6 hours a day of live talk radio, 5 days a week. Following the departure of the Air America network's The Al Franken Show on February 15, 2007, Hartmann's program automatically replaced Franken on most Air America affiliates. [2] However, not all affiliates picked up his show when Franken's show stopped. Most notably, XM Satellite Radio elected to carry Ed Schultz in lieu of Hartmann, despite XM having an exclusive deal to carry Air America content. [3]

There is a new wave of fans who refer to Hartmann as Thom "The Hitmann" Hartmann, a tribute to former wrestling superstar Bret "The Hitman" Hart. They feel that Hartmann is a voice for the people, and that he "stands up to the bad guys and fights for law, order, and justice" similar to the way his near-namesake took on rasslin' bad guys in that ring.

Sources

66.75.248.51 17:03, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Paypa Boi Entertainment (this company should be on wikipedia this company is from esham's camp)


Awards

John has recieved the Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding news coverage, the Gordon Sinclair Award, various RTNDA awards for special events coverage, and the Conestogo College Honourary Alumni award.


Sources

http://www.grandmagazine.ca/grandmagazine/jan2007/grandmagazine_070104111314.html http://www.southwesternontario.ctv.ca/documents/press/News%20-%20RTNDA%20Awards.pdf http://www.keeners.com/cariboo/about.html http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.phpindex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=7&view_directory=1&pi=3425 http://www.ontla.on.ca/committee-proceedings/transcripts/files_html/2006-12-13_T021.htm

Andrewmatlock 18:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TheZander is a guy who made a website and has been famous for years, he has won greatest person of TheZander.Com awards and many others

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71.227.52.117 18:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Black Widow (Canadian Film 2005)

Black Widow, a "Film Noir Musical " from Toronto Ontario, featuring the Candian Singer/Songe writer Sarah Slean. The film is about on the murder case of Evelyn Dick, and her tie in with her husband.


Black Widow

Whig Theory

The Whig Theory was the prevailing view of the Presidency in the 19th Century, rejected by some presidents such as Andrew Jackson who saw himself as the “people’s tribune”. It states that the power of the Presidency is limited to the express terms of the Constitution and that the role is primarily administrative.


Sources

Dr. Susan P. Fino, PhD. of Political Science, Wayne State University. http://blackboard.wayne.edu/courses/1/PS_1010_0701_001/content/_1421339_1/dir_!54686520507265736964656e637920315f66696c6573.zip/The%20Presidency%201_files/frame.htm 69.14.178.12 19:51, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glennys Farrar

Prof. Glennys Farrar is the Director of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at New York University.[1] She received her Ph. D. in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1971, breaking the gender-barrier in physics at Princeton in the process. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and on the faculties of the California Institute of Technology and Rutgers University before moving to NYU in 1998. Her current research involves ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays.

Sources

[1] http://cosmo.nyu.edu/glennys_farrar.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-energy_cosmic_ray

74.73.88.51 20:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Gluck

Dr. Marion Gluck specializes in the treatment of hormonal imbalances using bio-identical hormones. These are individually tailored by a compounding pharmacist using only hormones that are biologically identical to the patient’s own hormones, posing no threat to the body. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Dr.Gluck spent her childhood in Israel and Austria before beginning her education in Sydney, Australia. She started her medical training in Hamburg, Germany in 1970 and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Hamburg Ministry of Health in 1978.

Yawngasm

A clinical side-effect of taking clomipramine (an tricyclic antidepressent) where the patient experiences a "spontaneous orgasm while yawning." This unusual side effect, which affects both males and females maybe considered adverse or beneficial. Yawngasms strongly influenced adherence.

Sources

Lehne, R.A. (2007) Antidepressants, "Pharmacology for Nursing Care" (6th ed., pp. 335). St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier


68.35.68.52 22:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]