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Mel C Thompson Biography & Facts
Melvin Thompson (October 5, 1932 – February 5, 2009) was an American college basketball player and coach. He was the head coach at The Citadel from 1960 to 1967. Born and raised in Richmond, Indiana, Thompson played college basketball for Everett Case at North Carolina State University. Following a semi-pro playing career, he was named an assistant coach at The Citadel in 1959, then assumed head coaching duties when Norm Sloan left for the University of Florida coaching job. In his seven seasons as head coach of the Bulldogs, Thompson compiled a record of 67–96. He was fired after an 8-17 season that would become the subject of author Pat Conroy's 2002 memoir My Losing Season, in which Conroy described Thompson as a mentally and emotionally abusive coach. Thompson was named to the 1975 'Silver Anniversary Team' by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in recognition of his basketball career. He died on February 5, 2009. Head coaching record References External links Coaching record at basketball-reference.com . Discover the Mel C Thompson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mel C Thompson books.
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The Waste Basket
Mel C. ThompsonLike countless millions before me, I was quite fascinated with Eliot's "Wasteland," and his "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and I sought to do a kind of tribute and parody of it...
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The Third Diamond
Mel C. ThompsonFans of the Triple Diamond Sutra had no way of knowing that the third book has been missing from the print version and appears a short chapter in other books. But this is the first...
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Joseph Smith The Twenty-Fifth
Mel C. ThompsonJoseph Smith The TwentyFifth, a new Mormon prophet, emerges in Salt Lake City, much to the displeasure of the official LDS church. He brings with him a cadre of Apostles, not the l...
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When Publishers Stalked The Earth
Mel C. ThompsonInstead of just publishing another volume of poetry, the author decides to tell the stories of the illustrious publishing personalties he met with and tell how they affected his li...
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The Gaslite Motel
Mel C. ThompsonA crippled, anxietyridden, precocious, apostate youth minister leaves his ministry to become a motel desk clerk in a sometimes tacky / sometimes upscale tourist motel in suburban O...
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American Wage Slave
Mel C. ThompsonWage Slave is born deformed to a family of heavy drinkers. His mother is a paranoid schizophrenic. He is mentally ill and disabled, but he is can't afford good enough doctors to ma...
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The Scroll of Hi Nu
Mel C. ThompsonA Zen student announces that the ordinary rigors of conscientious Zen practice are impossible for him, and he confronts his teacher with the need to become instantly enlightened. T...
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Tales of Slot Machine Bodhisattvas
Mel C. ThompsonYou are always in some combination of medieval Japan or modern Los Angeles. At every turn there is someone leading you either to the highest transcendent state or into inexcusable ...
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Heavy Slumming
Mel C. ThompsonAn indigent poet is forced out of his rentcontrolled, basement tenaments in San Francisco and is driven to the far East Bay. However, he still occupies both the urban and suburban ...
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Harbor Boulevard
Mel C. ThompsonOur protagonist hears from his friends in Costa Mesa that a kind of personalitycult leader is currently trendy among the higher social circles of Orange County. Because he views hi...
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Tales of Zen Buddhist Scoundrels
Mel C. ThompsonSensei, a man accused of laziness, malingering, sexual misconduct, alcoholism, blasphemy and depression, wanders in a netherworld somewhere between modern Los Angeles and ancient K...
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Vaporware
Mel C. ThompsonMel C. Thompson brings the struggle for power, technology, money, sex and meaning right home to Silicon Valley, to the very streets he himself has been walking for thirty years try...
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The Search For The Third Diamond
Mel C. ThompsonA handsome, successful young man who has it all is driven to boredom by the lack of challenge his life poses. Meanwhile, an elderly, homely, socalled monk, stumbles through his pre...
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Edmonton And Other Poems
Mel C. ThompsonAn anxietydisordered poet sedates himself with multiple glasses of chardonnay and boards a nonstop flight from SFO to YEG and writes two cycles of short, spontaneous poems as he sc...
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The Acid Trips of Saint John The Divine
Mel C. ThompsonSaint John, a bipolar saint with multiplepersonality disorder, and his sexcrazed pagan priestess, Helen, have quite a romance going on. Athenodorus, a perenniallysingle islandresor...
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Living The Zine Life
Mel C. ThompsonGood luck meets an otherwisedoomed poet who was all but certain to perish on the streets of San Francisco. By sheer luck, he falls in with a group of poets whose psychological and ...
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Confessions of A Beta Male Orbiter
Mel C. ThompsonA lustcrazed religious teenager is slowly driven to distraction by the hot babes that inhabit his evangelical, Texas youth group. Unable, due to his strict adherence to chastity, t...
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The Universal Proclamation of Cultural Rights
Mel C. ThompsonDid you ever get into an argument about Cancel Culture and didn't know what to say? Did you ever think something was wrong with Cancel Culture but no one could tell you exactly wha...
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Santa Monica Girls
Mel C. ThompsonEddie Smith, a passiveaggressive careerfailure moves from Orange County where he faces social oblivion and flops into Santa Monica hoping to merely postpone doom. But the fates dra...
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Antiheroes In Palestine
Mel C. ThompsonA naked Jain holy man is brought back from the ancient past, and a halfdiscredited Los Angeles Zen monk is transported from the future. They arrive at Joshua's military encampment ...
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Platform City
Mel C. ThompsonIn a desperate attempt to avoid too much scrutiny, the Cayman Islands pretends to be searching for oil. They build dozens of massive oil rig platforms under the pretense of having ...
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Diary of A Suburban Zombie
Mel C. ThompsonMany of these stories are perfect reading for Halloween, but they are also good genre fits for goth, punk, or those who like the more gentle side of horror. The work contains an as...
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The BVI Express
Mel C. ThompsonTropical islands, supermodels, gangsters, hackers, poets, taxevaders, prostitutes, spiritual seekers and money launderers. This play has it all. This results in copious amounts of ...
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Reconciliation Island
Mel C. ThompsonDid you ever want to take over a country but didn't know how? This short play serves as a brief beginner's guide on how to start your own banana republic. Now everyone can have the...
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Drinking Jokes
Mel C. ThompsonBreak the ice at any party with this fun book one oneliners and short jokes. The first section is all drinking jokes that everyone can relate to, and the second section is a massiv...
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The Epic Journey to The Great Palace of Non-Judgment
Mel C. ThompsonGuilty Sinner has a problem with his homeland. His homeland could have been some version of Orange County in the 1970s or the Bay Area of today. It's an inhospitable place, an emot...
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Winnipeg
Mel C. ThompsonAn American poet and tourist takes a nineday trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fueled by coffee, beer and sugarladen desserts, he obsessively crisscrosses this minimegacity by bus; and, ...
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The Book of Offerings
Mel C. ThompsonIn twentyeight paragraphs, a reallife American polytheist shares his daily practice and minimalist teachings in the hope that it will help plant the seeds of tenthousand new religi...
