Our Top 10 Songs from The Cult looks at one of the great rock bands formed in the 1980s. The band broke onto the scene in 1984 with their first Dreamtime album. However‚ the band’s second album served as their breakthrough record. That album entitled Love was released in 1985. Two years later‚ the band would release an album proving even more popular than its predecessor. The album entitled Electric would become a massive seller for the band. However‚ two years later‚ in 1987‚ The Cult released the album Sonic Temple. That album would turn the band into a household The post Top 10 Songs From The Cult appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Our Top 10 Diane Warren Songs list includes a successful songwriter and producer. She is an Emmy‚ Golden Globe‚ and Grammy Award winner. She has been nominated for Oscar Awards but never won. Her songs have sold over 250 million copies worldwide. She is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She is the first songwriter in history to have seven hits by different artists on the singles charts. She is considered to be one of the most influential songwriters in music. Diane Warren was born Diane Eve Warren on September 7‚ 1956. She enjoyed listening to music when she was The post Top 10 Diane Warren Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A newly discovered giant dinosaur species may be the closest relative of Tyrannosaurus rex‚ and could even represent the moment that the genus experimented with a huge body. The new species was recently described in the journal Scientific Reports by paleontologist Sebastian Dalman and his colleagues. It was a mighty carnivore that lived in North America […] The post Newly Discovered Giant Dinosaur Species May Be Closest Known Relative of T. rex appeared first on Good News Network.

If you’ve ever wondered how to gather your furry friend’s urine for a vet visit‚ you’re not alone. It might surprise you that collecting a cat’s urine can offer invaluable insights into their health. Our guide is designed to simplify the process‚ helping you obtain that crucial sample with minimal stress. Keep reading—your kitty’s wellness...

The post How Odd Behavior Defines Felines: Olga’s Strange Ways by Christopher Bays appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it‚ but all of these articles were assigned‚ contracted and paid for‚ so they aren't considered public domain. However‚ we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article‚ then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Hi‚ I’m Christopher! Read my introduction to learn more about me and my silly Russian Blue cat‚ Olga. After spending too much time viewing cat videos‚ you may be envious that your cat can’t play the piano‚ ride on top of a robotic vacuum‚ conduct an orchestra‚ or join you when you go hang gliding. Influencer felines have set a high bar‚ and it’s better to appreciate your pet’s unique traits rather than train them to best the top cats online. Although Olga isn’t a show cat or internet star‚ her odd behavior keeps me entertained and confirms that cats benefit their owners’ mental health. Where’s my constant attention? Misbehaving for Attention Cat owners understand that bored felines can be destructive‚ and Olga usually takes out her aggression on my blinds‚ doors‚ and antique furniture when she wants attention. She doesn’t dive into the blinds as often anymore‚ but she’ll sit on the windowsill and use her head to knock the blinds‚ which are pulled up halfway so she can see outside‚ into the window when I ignore her. When Olga wants to make a bold statement about being neglected‚ she’ll slam the bedroom door. She wiggles between the door and the wall to open it slightly‚ gets on her hind legs‚ and pushes forward with her front paws. She can open it by grabbing the door handle and pulling it back‚ but sometimes‚ she gets frustrated and whines for help. If she wants to play when I’m using my ancient fold-out desk‚ she’ll paw the brass drawer handles or lick the varnish. I push her away when she licks the wood; she’s never done it compulsively‚ but she’ll lick the headboard of my bed if I sleep too late. It’s louder than you would think and sounds like someone is trying to disassemble the bed. She also likes to climb around her favorite chair like a jungle cat when I enter the room. It signals that she wants me to throw a paper ball for her to play with or chase the three-pronged plant holder toy. I’m ready to play! Leading the Way One of her unusual habits that has nothing to do with boredom is leading the way to her food bowl. After I wake up‚ she ensures that my priority is walking to the kitchen to fill her bowl. She walks in front of me slowly and whines if I veer off the path to hit the light switch or grab the TV remote. If I walk in front of her and move away from the kitchen‚ she hits me on the back of the leg. How far can I slide without falling? Sleeping in Unusual Positions Like every cat‚ Olga has a preferred position to sleep‚ but although she’s intelligent‚ she is unaware of gravity. She’s always on the verge of falling when she curls up in my lap or on the edge of a chair. She likes to live (sleep) dangerously and picks the edge of the bed or chair instead of the middle. Fortunately‚ she doesn’t fall very often‚ but even if she did‚ I don’t think it would convince her to adopt a safer sleeping position. The post How Odd Behavior Defines Felines: Olga’s Strange Ways by Christopher Bays appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it‚ but all of these articles were assigned‚ contracted and paid for‚ so they aren't considered public domain. However‚ we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article‚ then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com.

You know that guy who starts to tell a story‚ then something he’s said sends him off on a tangent‚ then that sends him off on another tangent‚ then he remembers what he’s supposed to be talking about and pulls himself back there—until he boings off on another tangent? That’s John Keel. I have to hand it to Mark Pellington. He took this rambling‚ barely focused‚ somewhat incoherent book and turned it into a pretty tight little horror film. He gave Keel/Klein a fictitious wife to fridge‚ teased out the main line of the Mothman story‚ conflated a large number of characters and concepts‚ and kept a few of the more evocative images‚ notably the dream of the floating Christmas packages‚ and of course the collapse of the Silver Bridge. Keel’s ally and wingman Mary Hyre‚ the journalist of a certain age and a certain weight‚ becomes slim blonde Connie the helpful cop‚ and the many confused and confusing “contactees” as Kell calls them are conflated into the tragic Gordon. Keel’s narrative‚ originally published in 1975‚ is only tangentially about the disaster that befell Point Pleasant‚ West Virginia on December 15‚ 1967. It serves as a jumping-off point for a whole range of theories and obsessions. The Mothman‚ as Keel claims to have named him‚ is an ancient concept‚ he says; the thirteen months to the day between the first alleged encounter and the collapse of the bridge become for him the year of the Garuda‚ the giant bird of Hindu myth. Keel believes that there is some kind of overriding force‚ intelligence‚ whatever‚ that controls humans and their history. This force manifests itself in whatever form humans are ready for or inclined to. He cites a broad collection of examples‚ from medieval dancing mania to angels and devils to assorted cryptids‚ notably “hairy monsters” and giant winged creatures. And‚ for the twentieth century‚ UFOs. Keel is openly scornful of what he calls “ufonuts‚” people who believe in extraterrestrials and declare that various aerial phenomena are spaceships from other planets. That’s nonsense‚ in his view. It’s all the same thing‚ the same force or power‚ feeding the human imagination and feeding on it. He doesn’t know what it is‚ or why‚ or how it exists. All he knows is that it does. He doesn’t believe in belief‚ either‚ except he believes in his theory of “ultraterrestrials” (as set forth in a later volume‚ The Eighth Tower). He’s a follower of Charles Fort‚ aka The Man Who Invented the Supernatural. Forteans as they call themselves are students of the unexplained‚ but they’re also proud skeptics. They may want to believe—but they want proof. Which they will devote their lives to accumulating. Keel is convinced that whatever these ultraterrestrial forces are‚ they’ve singled him out for particular attention. He packs his book with examples of weird things that happen to large numbers of people‚ many of whom come to him and tell their stories. During the Year of the Garuda‚ these center (more or less) (sort of) around Point Pleasant‚ but they go back years or decades and jump ahead to later events and examples‚ and they wander all over the world and sometimes (maybe) (possibly) (or not) off it. The Mothman is just one manifestation of the general weirdness. He’s larger than human‚ all grey‚ with a wingspan of some ten feet‚ and huge‚ glowing red eyes. He can easily keep up with a car speeding at seventy-five miles per hour. He can be aggressive‚ as when he attacks and scratches the speeding car‚ or he may simply appear in the sky‚ or in a yard or a field or on top of a doomed bridge. People who see him often feel an overwhelming sense of fear and terror. He’s one of a number of paranormal beings who show up around the same time. Keel makes frequent mention of another kind of humanoid‚ often referred to as Men in Black‚ but they can present as female and they may wear other kinds and colors of clothing. They drive cars that aren’t quite right: vintage models that look and smell completely new‚ and they may be wearing vintage clothing that looks as new as the cars. They may appear in different outfits and different forms of transport—flying saucers‚ for example—but most of them have a distinctive look. Their skin is very tan or looks sunburnt. Their faces are quite pointed in the nose and chin‚ and their eyes are Asian. Their fingers are exceptionally long‚ and they frequently wear very thick-soled shoes. They have a robotic way of speaking‚ ask reams of apparently disconnected questions‚ and seem to have trouble breathing our air. Witnesses who have been visited by the Men in Black stop talking about what they saw. Just stop. Completely. Except Keel‚ who publishes his evidence and experiences‚ and cites multiple examples of attempts to silence him. Both the Mothman and the Men in Black possess hypnotic powers. People who meet them may lose hours or days of memory‚ suddenly coming to miles or hours or even days away from where they started. That’s the standard UFO abductee story‚ but Keel doesn’t believe that’s what it is‚ any more (or less) than if they’ve been taken away by the fairies. It’s all the same thing. What does it mean? Keel doesn’t know. He only knows that he’s been swept right into the middle of it‚ and whoever or whatever is orchestrating it‚ it watches him constantly. It knows what he’ll do before he knows he’s going to do it. He can’t hide from it. He can’t keep any secrets. It runs up enormous phone bills‚ impersonates him to friends and colleagues‚ and plays constant games with him‚ tricking him into going places and doing things for reasons that he never manages to understand. The book starts off on a note of Fortean skepticism‚ but the language and the tone become almost feverish as he goes on. By the end he’s piling example on example‚ story on story‚ theory on theory‚ until there’s no way to tell what’s objectively real and what’s the product of his imagination. He’s as much a victim of whatever power this is‚ as any of the contactees he interviews or claims to try to help. John Klein in the film gets closure and‚ apparently‚ the girl. All Keel gets are more questions and a rising ride of confusion. There’s no Hollywood ending‚ just a mystery that he never manages to solve. Judith Tarr has written over forty novels‚ many of which have been published as ebooks‚ as well as numerous shorter works of fiction and nonfiction‚ including a primer for writers who want to write about horses: Writing Horses: The Fine Art of Getting It Right. She has a Patreon‚ in which she shares nonfiction‚ fiction‚ and horse and cat stories. She lives near Tucson‚ Arizona‚ with a herd of Lipizzans‚ a clowder of cats‚ and a pair of Very Good Dogs.

The solitary nature of the act of reading has never stopped our love of reading from proving inherently social. Readers connect with stories‚ and those stories in turn connect people in new ways. There’s a unique glimmer when two readers realize they share a literary connection‚ which can spark a passionate discussion about a story they both love. Book lovers manifest their passion in countless ways—look to the proliferation of Booktok for a macro example. Then there’s Goodreads and Storygraph‚ social media platforms built around a communal admiration of the written word. On a more granular level‚ there are book clubs and buddy reads‚ both great ways to share in the joy of reading with others. I’ve dipped my toes into many of these waters—including a short stint with Booktok (I got the hell out after a few months)‚ occasional buddy reads‚ and a weird fascination with Goodreads (I like it when the number goes up‚ okay?). But one method of making my reading hobby more social really clicked for me in the past year: book trades. I am quite literally 100% certain I am not the first person to think of and/or do this‚ but I wish to share it with you in case it fits your unique reading habits as well as it does for me. Introducing the BOOK TRADE. Is it a book club? A buddy read? No‚ but it draws inspiration from each of these‚ lowering the stakes and fueling the ever-growing proliferation of word-of-mouth book recs. The book trade first surfaced as a viable plan for me when I discovered many of my reader friends had wildly different tastes in books (revolutionary‚ I know). Despite there being only a sliver of overlap in our respective Venn diagrams‚ I’d notice friends reading books I had never (1) heard of at all‚ or (2) wanted to read‚ and it made me curious. I reached out to three such friends and proposed book trades. I selected a book for them to read‚ and they did the same for me. We agreed on a deadline (a few months) by which we both had to read our selections. Here’s how it shook out. Book trade 1: Cole reads A Court of Thorns and Roses; Sarah Reads Mistborn: The Final Empire Book trade 2: Cole reads The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Stacy reads The Lies of Locke Lamora Book trade 3: Cole reads A Thousand Splendid Suns; Sher reads The Long Way to a Small‚ Angry Planet On the off chance anyone reading this follows my book-related work either here or at The Quill To Live‚ they’ll likely notice these books are decidedly off the beaten path when it comes to my usual reading preferences. I’m a high fantasy‚ big sci-fi kind of guy‚ and these books—a literary fiction‚ a romantasy‚ and a historical fiction—fall far enough outside of my usual wheelhouse that I normally wouldn’t have considered diving in. And that’s exactly the point. The reason I love book trades so much. They broaden two horizons at once‚ and often in different directions. In some cases‚ this broadening was by just a smidge. I didn’t like A Court of Thorns and Roses one bit. I like Evelyn Hugo more than ACOTAR‚ but not by much. Still‚ both books served as a notch in my literary utility belt‚ and I’m glad I read them—it’s always good to get a new perspective and something to discuss with readers who love different styles from the ones to which I gravitate. Sarah‚ for her part‚ was an excellent sport. We argued at a friend’s wedding over the worldbuilding of Sarah J. Maas’s series. I explained that I look for huge worlds with diverse cultures and deep magic and lore. Sarah‚ for her part‚ responded that Maas’s series has all of that‚ and I struggled to articulate the difference between ACOTAR and my typical epic fantasy reads. Until Sarah read Mistborn‚ that is. She loved the book and even went on to finish the series. She also said‚ and I quote‚ “I can see myself reading all of these” when I sent her my Cosmere reading order. We both emerged with a new understanding of an unfamiliar subgenre and while those understandings were different—mine an acknowledgment that this particular book didn’t hit the sweet spot for me and hers that epic fantasy can have many of the things she loves in a story—we both grew as readers. Next‚ a brief pit stop to discuss my book trade with Stacy. (I am just now realizing all three traders had names starting with “S.” I wonder if that is cosmically significant somehow. Anyway…) Stacy assigned me her favorite book‚ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I give Stacy all the props in the world because she took my less-than-glowing reactions to the book like a champ. Though I didn’t like it‚ I did gain a better understanding of Stacy as a reader. She has read a whole bunch of my recommendations‚ including a deep dive into the Cosmere. She often criticizes epic fantasy (even when she generally likes the book) for taking “too long to get going.” As a fan of big ol’ books with hundreds of pages of worldbuilding‚ I never understood exactly what she meant. And then I read Evelyn Hugo and it clicked. The book launched directly into its story within a few pages‚ and the hooks were in‚ even if the result was (by my estimate) lackluster. I still enjoy the long sections of lore in my books‚ but I can tailor my recommendations to Stacy much better with this lesson learned. I can’t comment on Stacy’s reaction to The Lies of Locke Lamora yet because she has yet to read it. Stay tuned! Finally‚ we come to Sher. If the measure of success is how much each person liked their book‚ then this book trade was a home run. Sher loved The Long Way to a Small‚ Angry Planet‚ regularly texting me updates and jokes and questions about it. Readers who recommend books to friends know that unique spark of elation that comes with positive feedback about a book you love. I returned the favor while reading A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ a gorgeous book about two Afghan women whose lives are interlaced by tragedy. I left my book trades feeling eager for more. I’ve tried book clubs; they didn’t stick. One (at work) featured memoir after memoir; I couldn’t do it. Book trades reinvigorated that distinct sense of sharing something you love with someone else and learning more about them in turn. I hope anyone who loves book clubs‚ buddy reads‚ or any other social reading-related events will continue doing them‚ of course. But if you’re a reader who hasn’t found something that clicks like book clubs do for others‚ give book trades a try! You might be surprised by what you find. Cole Rush writes words. A lot of them. For the most part‚ you can find those words at The Quill To Live. He voraciously reads epic fantasy and science fiction‚ seeking out stories of gargantuan proportions and devouring them with a bookwormish fervor. His favorite books are the Divine Cities Series by Robert Jackson Bennett‚ The Long Way To A Small‚ Angry Planet by Becky Chambers‚ and The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.

With the recent release of some of the big Persona games on Microsoft’s Xbox console‚ Atlus is now not just locked to PlayStation. So is Persona 3 Reload coming out on Xbox Game Pass? Now that Xbox has a say in which Atlus games come to its console‚ can we expect Persona 3 Reload to arrive on its subscription service? Persona 3 Reload: Is it on Xbox Game Pass? Rejoice‚ Xbox Game Pass subscribers! Persona 3 Reload is luckily arriving on Xbox Game Pass for its release on February 6. This Persona 3 remake will not only be available to purchase on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One‚ but it’ll be on Game Pass day one. For PC Game Pass users‚ you will also be able to play Persona 3 Reload on PC‚ as well as through the Cloud. You should still be careful‚ because it may not always stay on Game Pass. Just recently‚ the Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden remasters were taken off of Game Pass. Screenshot: Atlus Related: Is Perso...

Monopoly GO has released the Cold Snap milestone event for us to enjoy another 50 rounds of rewards. Let’s get started! Full list of Milestones and Rewards for Cold Snap in Monopoly GO Below is a complete list of all the rewards for the Cold Snap Milestone Event in Monopoly GO. Note that cash rewards vary from player to player‚ so I can’t give any values. Excitingly‚ this event will also reward Flowers for the Gardening Partners event! MilestonePoints RequiredRewards125Green Sticker Pack2207 Peg-E Tokens34025 Free Rolls445Cash515090 Free Rolls64010 Peg-E Tokens75015 minutes of Rent Frenzy855Green Sticker Pack965Cash10375220 Free Rolls116015 Peg-E Tokens1275Cash1390Green Sticker Pack148020 Peg-E Tokens1510010 minutes of Cash Grab16850475 Free Rolls17100Orange Sticker Pack18110Cash1912090 Free Rolls2011535 Peg-E Tokens211‚300700 Free Rolls22150Pink Sticker Pack23160Cash2417555 Peg-E Tokens25200Cash262‚000900 Free Rolls27275Pink Sticker Pack2830010 minute...