Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
This is a tough week. Work is close to burying me at the moment and a variety of issues cropped up this week as well. My job, in fact, is one of the regular hurdles I need to clear in this weight loss effort. I work in Youth Ministry and junk food is virtually unavoidable.... Continue Reading →
No Dawn For Men - James LePore and Carlos Davis (2013) - "MI-6, knowing that something potentially devastating is developing, recruits scholar and novelist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien to travel to Germany to find out what this might be, using the German popularity of his children’s novel THE HOBBIT as cover. Joining him there is... Continue Reading →
Easy Rider (1969) - The story of two free spirited drug dealers who think they've made the "big deal". On two brand new motorcycles they head for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. A classic "road" movie, Billy (Dennis Hopper) and "Captain America" (Peter Fonda) meet everyone from hippies at a commune, to an alcoholic lawyer... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract... Continue Reading →
There are days when life just gets hard. I've had days when it was hard because of BIG, SERIOUS problems and other times when it's hard because of an overwhelming burden of little, stupid problems. Recently it's been mostly the second category. Have you ever walked into a swarm of midges or lake flies? Tiny... Continue Reading →
Ok, so this is something I've never reviewed here before - an audio drama. At the same time I am a long time fan of the old school radio dramas so the concept is pretty familiar. You see, boys and girls, once upon a time there was a world that not only didn't have the... Continue Reading →
The Rockin' Chair by Steven Manchester (2013) - This is the story of the family of Alice and Big John McCarthy. It is a touching story of a family that has never mastered the art of being family. When Alice dies patriarch John finds himself without the buffer of his beloved wife between himself, his... Continue Reading →
Yeah, baby! We made it to a milestone weight this week despite some additional weirdness and hurdles. Needless to say my eating was extremely limited early in the week following oral surgery. The good news was that by the next day I had no swelling and no pain. By the end of the week I... Continue Reading →
Exodus (1960) -Following World War II the push for a Jewish homeland moved into high gear as Holocaust survivors attempted to leave Europe and return to Palestine. Here a group of 600 Jews are smuggled out of one of the British detention camps on Cyprus to a tramp steamer re-named "Exodus". Their goal is to... Continue Reading →
Be The Monkey - Ebooks and Self-Publishing - A Conversation Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath This is a different kind of book about the new different kind of books. Eisler and Konrath are successful authors who are making money (even serious money) by publishing digitally. The book is the record of a live... Continue Reading →
