In book one of Meeting Dennis Wilson, we met the three main characters: 16-year-old Margo LeDoux, who has a crush on Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, and who decides that she's going to try to meet him... the narrator, Brian Pressley, Margo's best friend, and his girlfriend, Christy Kelly, who decide they don't want to go ALL the way, but just "some of the way..". and Margo's boyfriend Scott, who declares that Margo "better not send" a letter to Dennis Wilson "or else." ("Or else what, Scott? What?") In book two, the plot thickens as we meet Margo's softball catcher Tara Longbaugh, whose...

In books one and two of Meeting Dennis Wilson, we met the characters: 16-year-old Margo LeDoux, who has a crush on Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, and who decides that she's going to try to meet him... the narrator, Brian Pressley, Margo's best friend, and his girlfriend, Christy Kelly, who decide they don't want to go ALL the way, but just "some of the way..". Margo's boyfriend Scott, who declares that Margo "better not send" a letter to Dennis Wilson "or else." ("Or else what, Scott? What?")... Margo's catcher Tara Longbaugh, who might have a connection that can get Margo closer to...

"They were all terrible sight readers in (Duke Ellington's) band. Ellington's sidemen didn't learn Ellington's music by reading it. They got it by playing every night." Billy May, jazz arranger Q: "How did you learn to play the saxophone?" Lester Young: "Just picked up the m-----f---er and started playing it " "A lot of the boys didn't read music, but they had a good mind-- we called it a good ear. All we wanted to know was how did it sound... wasn't nothing written down." Louis Armstrong Many of the greatest musicians of the last hundred years learned music "outside of the academy: " with...

..".There were ads on campus: 'Models wanted for nude and semi-nude posing for a national adult magazine.' And I kind of pushed it to the back of my mind, but then there started to be this controversy about it on campus, and there was an article about it in the local paper, and I was actually quoted: 'I don't think I could ever pose for something like that.' But I already had written the number down and was carrying it around with me, and I'd come close to calling a bunch of times, but chickened out. "Well, then I was talking to a friend of mine, Maureen, and she said 'I'm thinking of doing...

Over 120 children's book reviews written by avid five-year-old reader Eva Kelly, with help from Max Harrick Shenk (author of the novels YOU DON'T THINK SHE IS and MEETING DENNIS WILSON). Each book review has a descriptive blurb from the publisher and a picture of the book cover along with Eva's thoughts. A great resource for book lovers and a gentle piece of satire. EVA SAYS... So this girl Eva lives in Vermont. And she really likes reading. And she likes BOOKS too, which is two different things, kind of. Anyway her mama, who's this girl named Maura, marries this OTHER girl named Tanya, and...