Thursday, April 26, 2012

Angela's Ashes

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Last week I read ANGELA'S ASHES, the autobiographical memoir by Frank McCourt, finding myself among what seemed like a tiny minority of ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Story Springboards Part 2: The TV Shows FRINGE and ROYAL PAINS

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Part One of this series is a Guest Post on Art Heists by a writer who is also a  fan of the TV Series White Collar, It Takes a Thief, etc: ...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Ethics on the Titanic

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Last week I finally watched TITANIC, which one of our sons had urged me off and on to watch. It truly is a gripping movie, despite being ove...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Believing In Happily Ever After Part 7 - The Writer's Lifestyle and Voice

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Part 6 (which has a link to part 5 which links to previous parts of this series) is dated April 10, 2012: http://aliendjinnromances.blogsp...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Trademark Scams

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For those who own trademarks, please be aware that you will receive through the mail a great many highly convincing scams ...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Flying Cars Again

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This one, apparently, will actually become commercially available in the near future: Terrafugia Transition It will cost you over $200,000, ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Believing In Happily Ever After Part 6 - The Writer's Lifestyle and Happily Ever After

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Part 5 of this series is: http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/02/believing-in-happily-ever-after-part-5.html On this blog, I...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012

The New "Buried Alive"

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The May 2012 issue of DISCOVER magazine contains an excerpt from "The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadav...
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Rebuttal to Cracked.com

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I just came across a rebuttal to the article, cited in my last post, about "5 Ways Men Are Trained to Hate Women": Misogyny This b...

Are Men Trained to Hate Women?

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Here’s an essay on Cracked.com about “5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women”: Cracked Now, this is a satirical website, so there’s obv...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

The Education of an Action Romance Hero

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Officially,  the 2005 film titled SAHARA is described thusly: --- Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

No Laughing Matter

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It was with great dismay that I read law professor Stuart P. Green's NYT opinion piece titled   When Stealing Isn’t Stealing   http:/...