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RadioShack Refuses to Die!
Most of you reading this blog are probably too young to remember when RadioShack was cool. I know Ollie remembers because he even gave one of his characters a job at RadioShack, but most of you probably cannot remember the…
A Genuine Synthetic Life – Part 1
The title is much more entertaining if you read it aloud using your best Mr. Haney voice and pronounce it jen-you-wine. We have slowly but steadily been moving to a synthetic existence. Somehow we find this better than a real…
Book Review – Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
5 Star Review: Exquisitely written – thoughtful, honest, credible, and adventurous When I heard about Mr. Finnegan’s memoir, chronicling his lifetime of surfing adventures intertwined with his journey as a writer, I knew it would be one of the best…
Review – X-Men: Apocalypse
★★☆☆☆ Had I found an easy way to generate 2.5 stars I might have given X-Men: Apocalypse that rating. This wasn’t quite as bad a movie as 2 stars makes it sound. It also isn’t something you should leap to…
Did the New York Times Hack Trump Junior’s Email?
There has been much ado about the Russian email to Donny Junior. The New York Times appears to have been attempting to extort an interview from him threatening to publish the emails. What I haven’t heard anything about is just…
Who Owns This Dead Horse?
If you have never seen a ‘Dead Horse’ list then you must neither have a job nor pay even the slightest bit of attention to how people get elected or what they do once in office. In short, your brain…
Authors Helping Authors/Artists
My mom wrote this children’s book when I was a wee lad. I discovered the manuscripts and original artwork last summer. She asked me to assist her with a self published edition. Mom wrote “Harry The Helicopter Goes Skiing” when…