https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3wjmQxrL4A Overcast is a novel I wrote and published in 2014. Above is a six and a half minute slide show I made depicting, mostly, the setting of the novel. Overcast: a novel's mixed media event is something I created after I'd published the novel. I did it for fun. Because I could. The novel tells … Continue reading OVERCAST: A Novel’s Mixed Media Event
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The Infinite Jest: Now More Than Ever
Back in 2013, I think it was, I joined an online reading group to read Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel that blew the minds of readers and critics alike. It's still doing that! The Infinite Jest is now more than ever. Because I've been seeing YouTube videos from many BookTubers claiming the novel is … Continue reading The Infinite Jest: Now More Than Ever
AFC Championship Game in Colorado
It’s January 25, Sunday, 11:30, 2026; and the AFC Championship game is in Colorado and so am I. I’ve come home. However, my stuff’s still in hell. Err, I mean Kansas. Additionally, it’s cold outside! Eighteen degrees with some snow flurries floating down. I’ve decided to stay home in my new, near empty apartment. No … Continue reading AFC Championship Game in Colorado
Pluribus: “The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.”Smash or Pass?
Pluribus is a new series on Apple TV (I've watched it on Amazon Prime) with the premiss: "The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." It explores the question of Free Will versus perpetual joy. At first, I would have kicked it (passed.) Because I thought it disjointed, with a confusing opening. … Continue reading Pluribus: “The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.”Smash or Pass?
A Marvelous Fall Frenzy: MLB Playoffs, 2025
The Marvelous Fall Frenzy of 2025 will indeed be that. Because Major League Baseball has again changed the playoff format this year. Because the competition for eyeballs/clicks/viewers/consumers/money is, like everything else - greater than ever. One quarter of the way through the 21st Century and everything is in hyper-drive. Which is, I think, not good … Continue reading A Marvelous Fall Frenzy: MLB Playoffs, 2025
Movies, movies, movies: for the Dog Days of August
Yes, it's that time of year and I've got a suggestion: Movies, movies, movies for the Dog Days of August. Lately I've been chillin' on my couch because it's so damn hot outside (even in the woods.) There was a fourteen day stretch where I never left my apartment, not for a moment. Granted, I … Continue reading Movies, movies, movies: for the Dog Days of August
Hick-hop: Smash or Pass?
Hick-hop: smash or pass? Hick-hop is a music genre. I just found it out on a road trip to SoCal with my niece and grandniece. That makes two in the last few months. Yacht Rock being the other. However, I knew the songs that make up the genre of Yacht Rock. I just didn't know … Continue reading Hick-hop: Smash or Pass?
The Sun Also Rises: a review 2025
AS one thing leads to another I decided to re-read Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, written some 100 years ago. In some ways it is terrible writing, in others, amazing. The Sun Also Rises is about nothing and everything. Maybe the best way to talk about the book is by way of the six elements of story. … Continue reading The Sun Also Rises: a review 2025
Weekend at the Movies: No Heroes Here
I spent a weekend at the movies and found no heroes. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the films. However, view at your own risk. Let's get into it. Four Movies I watched were: Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) Basic Instinct 2 (2006) The Tribes of Palos Verde (2017) The Girl on the Mountain (2022) All these … Continue reading Weekend at the Movies: No Heroes Here
Book Event Saturday
This Saturday, June 15th, there will be a book event - featuring yours truly selling and signing copies of my book, Election 2016: The Great Divide, The Great Debate. The event will be at The Brodie's leasing center's clubhouse, 2311 Park Centre Drive, Westminster, Colorado, 80234, from 10am to 2pm. It's the day before Father's Day. I'm … Continue reading Book Event Saturday