On Writing: Gustave Flaubert

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CDO (In the Right Order)

Dephying the Laws of Physics — Now FREE on Amazon!

3/28 thru 4/1

“And sometimes Bass even rhymes.” ~Hank Longfellow

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JetBlue jumping off runway nine
Climbing east on the last red-eye
One mind’s crossed, another dreams
But nothing’s ever as it seems

Lightning spikes the midnight sky
A heartland pierced with a hundred lies
Thunder feared but never heard
Our feelings tossed in a gale of words

Sometimes right, often wrong
Often lost, but sometimes found
We fell in love and fell out again

Wings without wind,
Love without sin
Never looking back behind
Racing down the centerline

Airbus floats into a misty dawn
A final approach to a coming down
Boston harbor blooms into view
Three thousand miles away from you.

Sometimes right, often wrong
Often lost, but sometimes found
We fell in love and fell out again

Wings without wind,
Love without sin
Never looking back behind
Racing down the centerline

Dephying the Laws of Physics Page on Amazon

 

 

Clear and Present Dangers……Charles MacKay

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

~Charles MacKay

Sons of Liberty Flag

March 22, 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britian passed the Stamp Act. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists.

 

Yak Shaving Gallery, 2023

 

Finding friends with the same mental disorder…priceless

The Darknet: Murder by Munchausen Book #2 — $.99 on Amazon

3/20 thru 3/26

It was the case of a lifetime……but then it went sideways on her. The suspect Maddie put behind bars might have been crazy but it turns out he was innocent, and now she finds herself in the Artificial Crimes Unit hunting a serial killer from two hundred years ago and a madman breathing life back into him with modern technology. Worse yet, she’s partnered up with Jake, her former lover.

When androids are hacked and reprogrammed into hit men, Maddie and Jake investigate and track down the the cyberpunk hackers. But now, an evil genius is using droids to recreate the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.

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“The author certainly took this book up a notch from its predecessor…[an] enjoyable cruise through gory crime scenes, killer robots, and a clever villain who always seems to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.”  – Frank Frission Reviews  – 5 Stars

 

 

 

Clear and Present Dangers……Lois Lowry

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”

~Lois Lowry

Irish Flag

March 17, 2023 — St.Patrick’s Day

Yak Shaving Gallery, 2023

 

Ventriloquism for Dummies…

Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Part 1 was an interesting discussion of the Cognitive Revolution(speculative as it is) and the ascension of Homo Sapiens over the Neanderthals. But moving into the “Agricultural Revolution, Harari got kind of deconstructive, with a long, boring takedown of the Declaration of Independence seemingly to prove that Sapiens all live in different worlds of our own ideas that have no substance, no physical reality, no ultimate truth, and therefore no real existence. And then true to form the author follows with sub-chapters like The Cult of the Free Market and Capitalist Hell, claiming that “We may not like Capitalism, but we cannot live without it.” Now, I’m not really into Post Modernism. but if it quacks like a duck…I think I’ll skip the rest of Harari’s works. (2 of 5 Stars)

 

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