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  From Reid Cunningham: "A wrong turn and Google maps routing me through an industrial park on Manchester NH resulted in me stumbling across a trove of old medium and heavy duty trucks.  My favorites were these F-8's, and I got some pictures of some other old haulers.   My best guess is they are Read more of this blog post »

When I was 18, I moved from Texas to New York City to study at the American Musical & Dramatic Academy. It was all I ever wanted…or so I thought. Growing up in Texas in the 80s, I had this picture in my head of what a performing arts school would be. There was the movie and TV series Fame, and in my

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I was feeling nostalgic, so I bought all the issues available on Kindle of KID COLT, OUTLAW, one of my favorite Western comic books when I was a kid. The first one I read, eager to see if it held up, was #106, with a cover date of September 1962. The cover art is by Jack Kirby with inks by Dick Read more of this blog post »

In Every Man for Himself and God Against All, filmmaker Werner Herzog wrote:

Then in one of the Dr. Fu Manchu films, I noticed something the others hadn’t seen. In an exchange between goodies and baddies, one egregious villain on Dr. Fu Manchu’s side was picked off on a rock. He tumbled down into

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I can’t talk about this. Not in public, at least. If you’re a really close friend, and you’re local, and we’re face-to-face, and we have the time, maybe. But then, it’s still hard. It’s too much. Too fresh. Too painful. I’m too sad. I’m heartbroken. I’m ashamed. I’m racked with guilt and suffering a

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Generally speaking, I had a great time at secondary school. This was the Manchester Grammar School, then part of the state school system as a direct grant grammar school. The only part of school I truly hated was sport. This was nothing new. My junior school had rather strange underground changi Read more of this blog post »

This Friday, author Richard C. White will be journeying to Southfield, Michigan, to appear at Penguicon, the sci-fi and open source convention being held at the Westin Southfield-Detroit.

Rich will be promoting his sci-fi steampunk novel On Wings of Steel: The Darkside Chronicles, Book 1,

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“Dad, can I go to a movie tonight?” It was 9:30 p.m. on a Friday. I asked my 17-year-old son who he was going with, and he told me he was going alone. I didn’t want him to be alone, so I asked if I could join. He smiled and said that would be fine, adding that it would be anime (knowing that anime w

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Day 5 of a planned 12 day long range patrol, to recce an enemy route along a major ridgeline, deep inside the jungle of a country’s border in Asia.

It’s early morning and time to get ready for a “stand to”…out of my hammock, dressed, kit on, basha packed away, and sat on my Bergen before first light

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I’ve been hearing the term slow burn a lot lately when it comes to books. I knew what slow burns meant in terms of romance, but I hadn’t considered the concept of slow burn when it comes to other genres.

A slow burn story is a narrative technique that focuses on gradual tension, deep character develo

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[The Blaine Amendments purported to do exactly what Town of Greece rejected: permit "generic" expressions of religion but not expressions of specific religious beliefs.]

Town v. Greece v. Galloway (2014) presaged the Court's turn towards history and tradition in the Establishment Clause context. The

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Movies often cast the devil as a fun-loving troublemaker—mischievous, maybe, but basically harmless. That’s a far cry from the way he’s described in the Bible! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg takes a closer look at the identity and strategies of the Evil One.

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 I’ve been submitting/self-publishingstories for just over twenty years.  Ithink at first, I just kept track of things in a notebook, but I eventuallydecided to make an Excel document to keep track of everything.  I had the story’s title, where I submittedit, when I submitted it, when I heard back, Read more of this blog post »

Los cuatro años deeste gobierno, el primero de derecha desde el de Augusto Pinochet, van a ser –ojalá--parecidos al período 1986-90 de ese gobierno. Aunque no creo que las medidas liberalizadoras,privatizadoras y tributarias vayan a ser de la misma profundidad. Por ejemplo,el ministro de Hacienda

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There are many ways I think of words. One is as a cinema that comes together to form art that become words on a page that creates a picture in your mind. In this spotlight of one of my series I’m bringing you into the cinema insider…

Here’s one of my series.

The Right Choice
Genre: Contemporary
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Blaze in the City is an MM MPreg shifter romance featuring a firefighter alpha dragon shifter who moves from a toxic small town to find the life he longs for in the big city, the single father omega who catches his attention thanks to a little help from Fate, his little boy who dreams of becoming Read more of this blog post »

Behind the Music at Saturday Night Live: Vocalist & Guitarist Christine Ohlman

Christine Ohlman – “The Beehive Queen” – is a powerhouse vocalist best known as the featured singer with the Saturday Night Live Band, a role she has held for more than three decades.

A National Blues Hall of Fame inductee

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A little something from Darrington Press in the mailbox. I backed the Classpacks Kickstarter, which are “Everything you need to play a Daggerheart character—from level 1 all the way to level 10—ancestry cards, community cards, subclass cards, and all the cards from the two domains each unique class

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This week's teaser is from Love and Lust, book 5 of Pain and Pleasure Taren Murdoch considered himself the luckiest man alive. He had a good life—one could say blessed and he worked hard to maintain that life. Taren was married to a wonderful, kind man, Ian, he’d do anything for. While not wealthy, Read more of this blog post »

COLOR BY BRETT BREDDING





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It’s a little warmer than yesterday, but I am so draggy today, sunshine or no sunshine.

Case in point: I spelled “sunshine” wrong at least five times.

How, you may ask. Well, I’m creative.

Maybe this cup of coffee will do it. We can only hope.

So far, not great but we’ll do our best.

Last night I had som

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Being a Texas author, here are pictures of some of the bluebonnets. Not as many bloomed this year, and they seem to prefer the rocks over the grass. I’m guessing because of less competition with other weeds, especially the clover.





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Thomas McKean http://www.dsdi1776.com/ signers-by-state/thomas-mckean/

Thomas McKean was 42 years of age when he signed the Declaration of Independence. A lawyer by trade, McKean had married twice and had 11 children. He died in June of 1817, meaning he also saw the War of 1812, also against the Brit

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Pranjal Drall and SamuelMoyn

There they goagain. The litigation over Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthrightcitizenship has so far followed a familiar script. And liberals, especiallylawyers among them, have played their appointed role, as if there were noother—even in the age of an openly r

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I shared this reflection from Hunting Magic Eels during Lent three years ago, making a connection between Celtic Christianity and ascetical practices. This is a point often missed in discussions about Celtic Christianity and Lent is a good time for a reminder.
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Front Entry to my home in Hawai’i

I will arise and go now,

and go to Innisfree.

W.B. Yeats, “The Isle of Innisfree” (1888)

Innisfree Gardens

August’s golden dawn 

whispers

Innisfree, park you pay.

…

Cup Garden

fills tranquil

to brim.

…

Sunshine and shadow 

point fingers

woodsy sculpture.

…

Komo

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I’m also triggered by the phrase “scientifically accurate.”

Congratulations to everyone who has waited in a long airport security line over the past week: You’ve finally gotten Congress’ attention.