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So I’m reading the morning papers and come across this little gem: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35781194/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/ And what I’m thinking? It’s a phone! A tiny little gadget so we can all blab blab blab to each other, or worse yet, text our lives … Continue reading →

So I haven’t seen Lars Von Triers’s Antichrist yet but will as soon as it hits DVD, and in the meantime, the wits at The Onion have shown what a Danish tourism ad would look like if done by Von … Continue reading →

Watching Public Enemies it was hard to shake the feeling that I was watching a poor man’s Coen Brothers film. Perhaps first I should admit I’m an unabashed Johnny Depp fan. He’s the one pretty-boy actor (well, maybe Leo DiCaprio … Continue reading →

Here’s the url to my review of Adam Haslett’s novel, Union Atlantic, which appears in the Dallas Morning News today. It’s a fast-paced read, a tale of creepy bankers, of which there seems to be no shortage in these times: … Continue reading →

So I’m always suspicious (being at heart a Smartass Skeptic) of movie blurbs and call-out quotes, but several people had told me how “scary” Paranormal Activity was, and I was home late, wanting a movie to escape into a scary … Continue reading →

I actually had two reviews appear on Sunday, one in Pennsylvania and one in Texas. I feel like I’m going coast-to-coast, almost. This one is about Matthew Flaming’s The Kingdom of Ohio, which appeared in the Dallas Morning News. As … Continue reading →

This review appeared in print yesterday. I did it as a favor for a Centre County Reads project, that chose Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as their 2010 book. It’s a hardboiled, gin-joint read, fun in part to glimpse the … Continue reading →

So I was offline for almost a month, spending the holidays in Colorado, no landline phone, no Wifi, no email, no mornings spent perusing The Daily Mail or any other mildly amusing waste of time. The air tasted cleaner. I … Continue reading →

So this is the best McCarthy interview I’ve ever read, more revealing than the one he did years ago in the New York Times to promote All the Pretty Horses: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html I like this quote: “I have a great sympathy … Continue reading →

Postcards from the Heartland: My second home (but first in my heart) lies in Custer County, Colorado, near the town of Westcliffe in a remote and lovely valley between two mountain ridges, the Sangre de Cristo and the Wet Mountains, … Continue reading →