Wiki Wednesday ~ June 25, 2008

Over at Verbatim, Karen has a great little game for Wednesday’s.  Wiki Wednesday!  Time to learn something!
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!
Here’s what I got this week:

Toby Morse is the vocalist for hardcore punk band Fight Staras well as one of the vocalists for Hazen Street.

Morse started his music career by being a roadie for hardcore punk band Sick Of It All. Sometimes, when there was no opening act, Morse and others would perform a song, “My Love is Real”. From that, fans encouraged him to give it a try, and H2O formed out of that. They became part of the New York hardcore scene.

In 2004, Morse started collaborating with David Kennedy, best known for being in Tom Delonge’s side-project Boxcar Racer. Out of this came Hazen Street, which included Toby’s friend Freddy Cricien, of another New York hardcore band Madball, as a co-vocalist. Toby also started a clothing line called Straightedge o.g. or S.E.O.G.

Toby resides in Los Angeles with wife Moon and their son Maximus.

Wiki Wednesday ~ June 18, 2008

Over at Verbatim, Karen has a great little game for Wednesday’s.  Wiki Wednesday!  Time to learn something!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!

Here’s what I got this week:

Laurence Mark Wythe is a British composer, lyricist and writer, principally becoming known for his 2006 musical “Tomorrow Morning” which received a premiere production directed by Nick Winston, produced by Hilary Williams. The production was at the New End Theatre in London and starred Emma Williams, Stephen Ashfield, Alistair Robins and Annette McLaughlin. The original cast album is available on the Dress Circle label. In 2007 “Tomorrow Morning” will be featured at Theatre Building Chicago’s Stages Festival of New Musicals directed by Tom Mullen.

Wythe is emerging as one of the UK’s foremost young writers of new musical theatre. His other shows have been CR7 – Cancer Control Force for Cancer Research (Earl’s Court, NEC, QE2 Centre, SECC and various venues around the UK), A Tragedy of Errors (Cambridge Summer Mussic Festival & Theatre Street Performing Arts, South London), Jack Dagger (Greenwich Theatre Musical Futures workshop, Roll on the Day (Bridewell Theatre workshop).

Wiki Wednesday ~ June 11, 2008

Over at Verbatim, Karen has a great little game for Wednesday’s.  Wiki Wednesday!  Time to learn something!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!

Here’s what I got this week:

Spriggans are legendary creatures known from Cornish faery lore.

Spriggans in folklore

Spriggans were grotesquely ugly, found at old ruins and barrows guarding buried treasure and generally acting as fairy bodyguards. They were also said to be busy thieves. Though usually small, they had the ability to swell to enormous size (they’re sometimes speculated to be the ghosts of the old giants).

Certainly their disposition was poor, and they caused mischief to those who offended them. They sent storms to blight crops, and sometimes stole away mortal children, leaving their ugly changelings in their place.

Images of spriggans

A sculpture of a spriggan by Marilyn Collins can be seen in Crouch End, London, in some arches lining a section of the Parkland Walk (a disused railway line). This sculpture was the inspiration for Stephen King’s short story “Crouch End”, where a stylised rendition of the sculpture is described. The sculpture is sometimes mistaken for the Green Man or Pan.

Wiki Wednesday ~ June 5, 2008 (a day late)

Over at Verbatim, Karen has a great little game for Wednesday’s.  Wiki Wednesday!  I thought I would start playing along.

Time to learn something!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!

Here’s what I got this week:

Herb Mageeis a Division II men’s college basketball coach. He is currently in his 40th year at his alma mater, Philadelphia University. During his lengthy coaching career he has amassed an impressive 855-339 win/loss record. He ranks fifth all-time as a men’s college basketball coach. He ranks second to Don Meyer for most wins among active men’s coaches.

As a five-foot-ten inch, 150-pound college player, he scored an amazing 2,235 points, leading his team to 75 victories. Magee was a two-time All-American and drafted by the Boston Celtics, but chose to pass up the NBA for a college coaching career.

Now in his 39th season as head coach at Philadelphia University, Coach Magee is ranked 8th all-time in NCAA coaching victories with over 800 wins. His career includes twenty-one post season tournaments and a NCAA Division II National Championship.

His exploits as a coach have not gone unnoticed, as his list of awards and achievements can attest. The Kodak District Coach of the Year in 1993, Magee was also tabbed New York Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year that season and again in 1994. In addition, he has been honored as regional Coach of the Year four times, national Coach of the Year twice, and Co-Coach of the Year in the Mideast Collegiate Conference twice. He was also inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.

Herb Magee has coached over 30 1,000-point scorers and 10 All-Americans. For over thirty years, he has been nationally renowned as a shooting instructor in demand at basketball camps and clinics and he has tutored professional ball players from the Pacers, Kings, Nets, Spurs and 76ers. One player who Magee has coached is Sebastian Telfair. He ranks third behind Steve Alford as one the top three shooting coaches(Dave Hopla, Steve Alford, Herb Magee) in the USA. He has released two popular videotapes/DVDs.

Magee played his high school basketball at Philadelphia’s famed West Catholic High, where his teammates included former Philadelphia 76ers Head Coach Jim Lynam and former St. Joseph’s coach Jim Boyle. Magee received a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Philadelphia University in 1963 and a Master’s in Education from St. Joseph’s Universityin 1969. Magee and his wife, Geri, live in Berwyn, PA.