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April 21st, 2011 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Tavia Gilbert
Tavia Gilbert is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, an Audie Award nominee, and a Parent’s Choice Award winner, and has performed over 100 full-length audiobook narrations. She makes her home in Portland, Maine, where she works on stage and behind the mic, producing, directing, and narrating audiobooks and full-cast recordings. She is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. You can find Tavia on line at taviagilbert.com About Audio Books: AA/JP: How did you get started in audiobooks? TG: I’ve been so lucky. I took a couple of workshops in animation and another in audiobook narration taught by Pat Fraley and Hillary Huber, and soon …
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April 15th, 2011 / By
Johnny Heller /
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FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol. 2 Number 7 By Johnny Heller MORE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD…..(actually this time it’s all here.) AIRPORT HAPPENINGS ….In New Orleans, a TSA gate security agent frisked a 6-year-old girl – actually patted her down – and the video of the event has gone viral on youtube.com and other sites that are whatever the hell “viral” is. The pat down leads to a number of troubling issues. Is there a terrorist plot to use little girls as bomb carriers or as actual bombs? Are “Hello Kitty” backpacks something to be suspicious of? And, of course, who screens the TSA screeners? Who gets to …
FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 NO. 6 A LOOK AT THE NEWS On March 15th, it was reported that a “white powdery substance” was found at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Law enforcement officers tested the substance and it determined it to be cocaine. Cocaine? In Florida? Really? Golly who would’ve thought there’d be cocaine so near Miami? Or Disney World? Maybe there are plans to build a new exhibit called Cartels of the Caribbean. Officers weren’t sure at first what the substance was. “Well it sure looked like cocaine but it could have been talc or perhaps powdered sugar,” said Sgt. Wendell “Dude” Schmidlap, speaking …
FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL 2, NUMBER 5 03/02/11 Blood, Sweat and Sweat It’s important to remember that we are only in the third month of the new year. That means that all the New Year’s resolutions you made and likely already blew off can still be revisited and reaffirmed with action and gusto. And verve. We mustn’t forget verve. The most oft repeated, oft subscribed resolution of all New Year’s resolutions – according to a scientific poll that I assume exists somewhere – is the resolution to hit the gym and get in shape. Let’s face it. Most of us are at the age where the two nicest …
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