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Yesterday the book tour began. The Friendly Orange Glow releases on November 14th, but the tour starts sooner. The full national schedule is online and will be updated as needed. The radio and media interviews have already begun and...

Only in Seattle: Downtown railroad crossing stops traffic as wingless brand new Boeing jet airplane fuselages roll by…

Whenever I see a movie, and I typically see about 100 per year in cinemas, I make a note of it and jot down a "score" from 0 to 100 based on what I thought of the movie.

Hard to believe this track has only 113 listens on YouTube. Let's fix that. This is a great Flamenco guitar duo taking on Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand."

What goes unsaid in this excellent Jaron Lanier interview about the pernicious state of the Internet is the role the curation of angels, VCs, limited partners, and boards have had in setting the direction of--guiding the evolution of--the Net and...

Imagine a media organization that only reports what the President of the United States and his administration does, and ignores what he and his administration says. The news would be completely different. Let's extend this to Congress as well. Only...

Ever had a dream that skirts the boundaries of nightmare, wants to become a nightmare, but teases at skirting the boundary, just going on and on, with one of those really unpleasant antagonists who’s right out of some suspense thriller...

I have never understood the allure of the band that calls itself Pearl Jam. I didn't get it in the 90s, I didn't get it in the 00s, and I still don't get it. Nothing they have ever done or performed has ever "reached" me.

Scientific American story: "The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn't A Technology" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-best-technology-for-fighting-climate-change-isnt-a-technology/ Speaking of which . . .…

So far I've seen 103 movies this year in theatres. I figure I'll prolly see another 5 before the year's out. But we're far enough along in December I figured I could throw this list out there of my favorite...

Had no idea New Mexico had cicadas. They have been out in force for weeks, buzzing everywhere. They're all over our yard, though rarely seen, unlike my experience growing up in Maryland where the 17-year cicadas were so numerous, and...

And any fool knows a dog needs a home A shelter from pigs on the wing -- Pink Floyd

On Wednesday March 31st, my wife and I drove back to Amarillo TX (11 hours round trip again) to get our second Moderna vaccines. We'd gone out there on March 3rd for the first shots, after hearing that Amarillo was...

If he can have a 2021 Summer Reading List, I can have a 2021 Summer Reading List.