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Saturday, May 16, 2015

An Exultation of Sports: Nine Iconic Films

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There are lots and lots (and lots!) of movies about sports, and many of them reside in my DVD collection. But every once in a while, a movi...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Indomitable (Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge)

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Teaser from Ken Cummings' memoir  Meant to Be Here (I am helping him write it.) On the way back to Santa Rosa by car [in 1967], w...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The Luggage Problem in Ferguson and Baltimore

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As hypochondriac Joe Banks prepares to go off on his epic trip of self-discovery in Joe Versus the Volcano , he meets a strangely-intense...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Repression and Bloody-Mindedness

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Review: The Radleys by Matt Haig Matt Haig tells us right up front that "vampire" is " a provocative word, wrapped in t...
Monday, May 11, 2015

A Badly Written Account of a Bad Career

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Review: Inside the Spam Cartel by “Spammer-X” With cyber-terrorism trending in the news, and a recently-purchased stack of “obsolete...

A Mother’s Day Garden: Sweet, Beautiful, Nurturing, Fertile and Seductive

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Review: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan This interesting treatise is a four-part examination of mankind’s interaction with pl...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Green and Blue Survival (Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge)

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Northern California, even in a drought, has a wet winter. The frogs begin their mating calls in moist December, and sing through January...