I have a book for sale on Amazon! Well, it’s an e-book, but still I HAVE A BOOK FOR SALE ON AMAZON!! And, for the low, low price of 99 cents (USD). So, go buy it now!! What do you mean you want to know a little bit about it before committing ninety-nine of your …
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We should get to know each other
If I normally include a video at the end of a blog post and call it “related video”, but this post starts with a video and the post is about the video, therefore does it follow that the posted video is “unrelated”? Yeah, don’t waste too much time trying to parse that last sentence because …
My school project
As I have alluded earlier, I don’t believe we Canadians tell our own stories enough. Or, when we do tell them they’re assumed to be fiction? One of the stories we don’t tell is about Canadian’s aiding young American men who were avoiding the draft and deserters during the Vietnam War. As part of my …
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Okay, I love cars. When I was a small child I slept with cars, not my unnamed Teddy bear. For brief periods I was a car. That would be a whole other blog post. As a person who loves cars, at some point you will try to fix something on the car yourself. As a …
Ten things I learned from the Jack Benny Show
Who? Jack Benny was a mediocre vaudeville performer who made a jump to a new medium and became a star. The is a source of endless fascination for an ejournalism student. Why? Because I love radio shows. No, I don’t mean Howard Stern, because he’s just mean. I mean, well, The Jack Benny Show, Duffy’s …
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Little Women II – This Time It’s Personal
Okay, I get it: work, in an of itself is virtuous. The products of work can be damned, the work is the important stuff. Further, anything other than work is bad, possibly evil. If, somehow, some way, there is no work to be done, apparently an awful state of being, then, the next best thing …
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Another Inconvenient Truth
I just finished reading Al Gore’s latest book, The Assault on Reason. The book is about the deteriorating state of democracy in America, how it got that way and how to fix it. It is an excellent, thoughtful read. There are a couple of things from the book that are relevant to Canadians. The first …
So Long and Thanks for all the Quidditch
I have just finished reading the latest J.K. Rowling novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was a fun read and a fitting ending for the Harry Potter series. It was especially nice of her to include an epilogue which tells of the characters’ lives nineteen years after the end of the events related …
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Trying to Read
My beloved Palm T|X came with, among other things, a copy of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I got the T|X model Palm because it has a very large screen, at least by …