We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 7: Firestarters, the Final Verse

"We Didn't Start the Fire," Part I
Part II: British Beatlemania 
Part III: Julie S. Howlin
Part IV: Firestarters Podcast
Part V: Firestarters Podcast Continued
Part VI: Firestarters Podcast Continued Some More

[Verse 5]

Birth control, 

Ho Chi Minh

Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, 

Woodstock

Watergate, 

punk rock

Begin, 

Reagan, 

Palestine

Terror on the airline

Ayatollahs in Iran

Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, 

Sally Ride

Heavy metal suicide

Foreign debts, 

homeless vets

AIDS, 

crack, 

Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores

China's under martial law

Rock and Roller cola wars

I can't take it anymore...

O. Henry Audiobook "Art and the Bronco" for Sale at Walmart and Everand (Scribd) Now

 

In the mood for a Western? Stream Art and the Bronco by O. Henry, a Western short story available now on Kobo (Rakuten, Walmart) and 

Walmart/Kobo Link: kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/art-and-the-bronco-1
Everand/Scribd Link: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/906020046/Art-and-the-Bronco

Here's a sample:

That's my campfire from this past weekend, by the way. The husband and I stayed at a camper in Niles, Michigan. 

Back in Print (eBook): Oliver's Famous Clam Chowder

Back as a standalone e-book: Their vampire friends insist that werewolf couple Natalie and Matthew really must try Oliver's famous clam chowder. When the wolf pair meets the vampire chef, though, it's Oliver himself who's on the menu.

Heat level: Spicy. This is a male-male-female erotic romance.
Ending: Happily-for-now. This story continues in "Oliver's Good Night Kiss."

Oliver's Famous Clam Chowder is available for 99 cents at the following ebook retailers:

Apple Books
Barnes and Noble
Everand
Kobo at Rakuten
Smashwords
Tolino
Vivlio

If you prefer the audiobook format, get it for $1.99 at Apple Books.

Would you like to listen to a completely free short story on YouTube? Sample Grimm's Fairy Tales with the spookiest story in the collection, "The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was." Unlike Oliver's Famous Clam Chowder, which is definitely for adults only, the Brothers Grimm's folk tale is appropriate for most ages. Adults listening with young children should be aware that it mentions death, ghosts, and corpses. 

When the audiobook drops, all 60+ tales, in one collection, will also be 99 cents.

We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 6: Firestarters, Part III (of IV)

"We Didn't Start the Fire," Part I
Part II: British Beatlemania
Part III: Julie S. Howlin
Part IV: Firestarters Podcast
Part V: Firestarters Podcast Continued

Part VI: Firestarters Podcast Again is as follows.

Hemingway,

 

Eichmann

Stranger in a Strange Land

Dylan,

Berlin

Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia

British Beatlemania

Ole Miss,

John Glenn

Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul,

 

Malcolm X

British Politician sex

J.F.K. blown away

What else do I have to say?

[Chorus]

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it...

Back in Print (eBook): "Herbert: A Romantasy" by Erin O'Riordan

Available now as a stand-alone erotica ebook: "Post Op" by Erin O'Riordan. 

Liv Stenke prefers to keep a level head when it comes to romantic entanglements. When she meets the mysterious, and occasionally downright weird, Dante Sugar, all of her usual reservations are overcome. 

What exactly is Dante's deal, though? Is he even human?

eBook on Apple Books
eBook on Smashwords
Barnes and Noble

Rakuten Kobo

Tolino

Vivlio

Heat level: Steamy. 
Ending: Happily-for-now.

"Herbert" previously appeared exclusively in The Erotica Anthology. Read a sample here. 

Back In Print (eBook): "Post Op" by Erin O'Riordan

Available now as a stand-alone erotica ebook: "Post Op" by Erin O'Riordan. 

Dr. Maggie Keller is a respected surgeon and a good girl. So why can't she stop thinking about her patient Joey and his beautiful boyfriend Max?

Heat level: Steamy. This is a guy-guy-lady menage erotic romance.

Get the ebook for 99 cents on Smashwords!

Also available, and also 99 cents, on Kobo at Rakuten (for iOS and Android), at Apple Books and at Barnes and Noble

And also available at Everand and Vivlio 

We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 5: FireStarters II

Joseph Stalin, 

Malenkov

Nasser

and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, 

Campanella

Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn,

Juan Peron

Toscanini,

Dacron

Dien Bien Phu Falls,

"Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein,

  
James Dean

Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett,

Peter Pan

Elvis Presley,

Disneyland

Bardot, 

Budapest, 

Alabama, 

Khrushchev

Princess Grace

Peyton Place

Trouble in the Suez

We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 4: FireStarters Podcast

Happy Saturday, people of the books. My husband and I went to Terre Haute, Indiana, to do a small plumbing repair at a business this morning. On our way, we stopped at the Oasis Diner in Plainfield. 

On the way back to Indianapolis, we heard "We Didn't Start the Fire." At that moment, I suddenly remembered that which I'd completely forgotten when I originally posted that Billy Joel-themed post:

That's right: FireStarters podcast, the podcast that went over the references in "We Didn't Start the Fire." How could I have forgotten this podcast that I used to listen to regularly? 

The podcast ran for 120 episodes, and that would be a lot of content to cover in a single blog post, so for now, we'll look only at the first verse. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more FireStarters!

[Verse 1]

Harry Truman, 

Doris Day

Red China, 

Johnnie Ray

South Pacific

Walter Winchell, 

Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, 

Richard Nixon

Studebaker, 

Television

North Korea, 

South Korea

Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs,

H-Bomb

Sugar Ray,

Panmunjom

Brando,

The King And I,

And The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower,

Vaccine

England's got a new queen

Marciano,

Liberace

Santayana goodbye

[Chorus]

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

Short #HistoricalFiction Audiobook for #Summerween: Rhapsody in Blood

Stream "Rhapsody in Blood" now on Spotify.

For fans of historical fiction and readers of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, this vampire fantasy features fictional versions of blues singer Bessie Smith and composer George Gershwin. Vampire Bessie senses that George is not long for this world and offers to pass on her dark gift to him.

ZombieBoy

August 1, 2018: 32-year-old Canadian model, artist, and actor Rick Genest, known as Zombie Boy for his numerous bone- and viscera-themed tattoos, dies from an accidental fall from an icy balcony where he has apparently gone to smoke a cigarette. (Bummer August)

My screen capture, fair use