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Better yet – hug someone even if you don’t like them

I turned on MPR this morning as I was driving to Perkins for breakfast. The highway was empty near 9am and I found out why when I got to Perkins. Everyone had beaten me there. I heard a blurb which stuck in the back of my mind. Better yet –…

Roland HughesAugust 4, 2019January 26, 2021

Reviews

Review – Last Vegas

★★★★★ It’s difficult to find a Morgan Freeman movie I don’t like. It’s also difficult to put a bunch of big names in a movie and pull it off. I remember during the 1970s when At the Movies was on PBS and they kept commenting on how Hollywood studios kept…

Roland HughesAugust 4, 2019January 26, 2021

Publishing Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Submission Rules

This is one of those things which makes you go hmmm… A while back an email with a link to this arrived. Yes, the only thing you need to do is create a Web site for a book you’ve published and put on it an email address you look at…

Roland HughesAugust 3, 2019January 26, 2021

Reviews

Review – John Carter

★★★☆☆ What can I say? Walt Disney needs to take a page from the play book of the Chinese government. They need to take their entire marketing department outside, line them up against the wall and shoot just like the Chinese government did with the dude who took the bribe…

Roland HughesAugust 3, 2019January 26, 2021

Reviews

Review – Epoch

★★★☆☆ I remembered seeing Epoch when it first came out. Not in a theater, but as a rental when it was first available. My memory of it was something well done at the time and like any movie using tech I wanted to see how it had aged. We have…

Roland HughesAugust 2, 2019January 26, 2021

Reviews

Review – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

★★☆☆☆ As reboots go, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is not bad. I was a child when the first Planet of the Apes movies came out and saw them many times growing up. Back when the SyFy channel was a good thing, they used to have the occasional…

Roland HughesAugust 1, 2019January 26, 2021

Reviews

Review – Winter Passing

★★★☆☆ After watching Winter Passing on the STARZ network last night, I firmly believe that Zooey is quite possibly the most gifted actress her generation has spawned. Ed Harris delivers a phenomenal performance and the story line simply sucks you in for the ride. You forget you are watching a…

Roland HughesJuly 31, 2019January 26, 2021