My first attempt at recording a podfic is "A Broken Man & The Dawn." The author, who goes by the name n_nami on Archive of Our Own, graciously allowed me to make this recording. I'm no professional. But I couldn't shake the notion that I didn't only want to reread this fic, I wanted to listen to it.
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What is "coastal cowgirl?" It's a trendy aesthetic that combines effortless beachy style with traditional Western style. In Disney terms, it's been described as the fins-and-pearls aesthetic of The Little Mermaid meeting Jessie the Cowgirl from Toy Story 2.
Please note that even though it has "girl" in the name, the gender label on an article of clothing is merely a suggestion. You do you.
Coastal Cowgirl is trendy on Amazon in July 2024, so here are a few ideas if you're into this fashion. For inspiration, let's start with the unofficial cowpoke anthem of the year.
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Links in this post are affiliate links and if you make a purchase after following one of these links, I may earn a small commission. Very small. I've earned about $10 since I started posting Amazon affiliate links last year. These are only some of the categories of deals you can shop on Prime Day, July 16-17, 2024: Reading, Groceries, Movies, Music.
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Of course, a huge part of Prime Day is back-to-school deals. Getting the kids ready for summer to end? Amazon has everything you could possibly need.
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Read 2023's Bummer July post here.
July 3, 1999: Musician/artist Mark Sandman, perhaps best known as a member of the band Morphine, collapses while playing a Morphine show in Palestrina, Lazio, Italy. He is pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The 46-year-old’s fatal heart attack is thought to have been triggered, in part, by the extreme heat of the day.
July 5, 1932: Z. Smith Reynolds, an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, dies of a gunshot wound. Three other people are inside the house with Reynolds at the time: Reynolds’s wife Libby Holman (a noted Broadway singer/actor), Holman’s personal assistant Ab Walker, and friend Blanche Yurka. A party has taken place at the home earlier and all of the witnesses are drunk when the shooting occurs. It’s unclear if Reynolds died by suicide, accident, or murder. Holman maintains she was too drunk to remember what happened that night. She and Walker are indicted on murder charges, but the Reynolds family insists that the charges be dropped.
Here is a post about July 6th specifically.
July 12, 1979: Singer Minnie Riperton dies of breast cancer. She’s 31 years old.
July 12, 1996: Multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Melvoin, at the time touring with the Smashing Pumpkins as a keyboardist, dies of a heroin overdose. He’s 34 years old.
July 12, 1997: The bodies of Lela and Raymond Howard, a couple from Texas who’ve been missing for over two weeks, are found in their Oldsmobile about 350 miles away from their home. The couple had been making their annual visit to the Pioneer Days fiddle festival on June 28th when they apparently become disoriented and lose their way, ending up near Hot Springs, Arkansas. No foul play is suspected; their deaths are apparently accidental. The Oldsmobile is found at the bottom of a ravine with Lela at the wheel.
Raymond was 88; Lela was 83. They’d married 11 years earlier after each had lost their previous spouse. The incident inspired the Fastball song “The Way.”
July 14, 2015: Arthur Cave, the 15-year-old son of Australian musician Nick Cave and English fashion model and designer Susie Bick, dies after sustaining a brain injury in an accidental fall from a cliff in the family’s home of Brighton, U.K. Arthur has used LSD before the accident. He’s survived by his twin brother Earl.
July 15, 1958: John Lennon’s mother Julia Lennon is struck and killed by a car while walking home.
July 17, 1959: At 3:10 a.m., Billie Holiday passes away under arrest in her hospital bed. Her death comes from heart failure and fluid in her lungs brought about by a failing liver. She’s 44 years old.
July 17, 1967: 40-year-old jazz saxophonist John Coltrane dies of liver cancer. Although he has been sober for the last 10 years of his life, earlier struggles with heroin and alcohol use may have contributed to his cancer.
July 25, 1984: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, the first artist to record “Hound Dog,” dies of a heart attack and liver disease at age 57 in Los Angeles.
July 26, 2015: Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies in a hospice care facility at the age of 22. She had been in a coma for the previous six months after being found unresponsive in her Georgia home by her fiancé, Nick Gordon. Brown was discovered face-down in her bathtub less than three years after her mother died in a bathtub at a hotel in Los Angeles. Eerily similar to her mother’s passing, Brown was found to have been intoxicated with alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription drugs, and other substances when she apparently drowned in her bathtub.
July 29, 1974: Cass Elliot dies of a heart attack. Years of heroin abuse and cycles of rapidly gaining and losing weight have weakened her body. Cruelly, urban legend will afterwards contend that she died by choking to death on a ham sandwich.
P.S. All of my ebooks are free at Smashwords during July 2024.
