Rebirth: Year-end 2009 Same Song Titles

This article is a tweaked version "Year-end Fun-AT-tix and More Same Song Titles" that Blogger pulled in May because of some citation links that had been ok in late 2009. ... I decided to improve the article by revising the citations, but also inserting YouTube hyperlinks to artists' videos. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Rearview Mirroring TX Towns

Every 10 years, Texas school district boundaries require verification, for which Texas Education Agency (TEA) is in charge of delineating the borders. I looked back at eye-catching town names I had run across while having worked as a “mapping technician”. Information came from Texas' 254 counties and approximately 1030 school districts.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/09/rearview-mirroring-tx-towns.html and comment there, please.

Rear-viewing Year of Blogging

Looking back over a year of blogging (36 articles), with details of the journey and stats of my compilation table.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/08/rear-viewing-year-of-blogging.html and comment there, please.

Some Wordplays Placed in the Wicked Play (and Other Wicked References)

Wicked was written by Gregory Maguire in 1995 as a prequel-type story to L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. In Maguire’s story, three of the main characters bear little resemblance to how they appear in Wizard.

• Galinda (Glinda)—the Good Witch—is vain, self-centered, and rather ditzy.
• Elphaba—the eventual Wicked Witch of the West—is misunderstood and can’t seem to catch a PR break.
• Elphaba’s sister Nessarose—the eventual Wicked Witch of the East—is "tragically beautiful" at the start.

In 2003, Wicked became a Broadway musical and won several Tony awards in 2004. The book and musical greatly differ …


[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2009/10/some-wordplays-placed-in-wicked-play_30.html.]