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Ill-Advised Brief Statement From a Distant Corner
Woodrow Wilson censored the media and put political enemies in jail. Despotic fascism. Ah, but he was low-key and not a blathering lunatic, so we tend to forget. Besides, the fascist right normalizes such extremism. It was 1953 when Harry … Continue reading
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Tagged America, boiled frog, democracy, dictatorship, extremists, Fascism, vote
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Best Southern Gothic Novel In Ages
Darling by Mercedes M Yardley BlackSpot Books, 2022, POD trade pb 291pp, illustration motif throughout ISBN: 978-1-64548-119-5 A Review by Gene Stewart Superlative Southern Gothic, the best of its type I’ve ever read. The physical volume is beautifully published. It … Continue reading
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Harsh Words From A Buried Box
Some snarls, growls, and facts to be faced without fear. It’s not that you write, it’s that you publish that matters. In the digital age this leads to a torrent of amateur work that floods the market, gluts the browsers, … Continue reading
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Electronic Voice Phenomena & Me
In 1976 I was in Gelnhausen, Germany listening to AFRTS radio as I was writing one afternoon about local and regional alchemists, having visited a few of their haunts. On came an interesting segment about EVPs, a topic I’d not … Continue reading
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Decoding “Classic” TV
A percipient commentary by John Oliver regarding Dick Wolf’s Law and Order empire revealed how propagandistic and unrealistic it is. Diane Neal, who played an assistant district attorney on the show, chimed in to concur a few days later. It’s neither … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, Bonanza, Decoding TV, Dragnet, Green Acres, Mayberry, propaganda
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Be Amazed
Remakes are easier to get funded because they have a proven record. That has traditionally been what has driven Hollywood to keep producing retreads. Same story, new cast. What’s been happening lately differs because X-gen and later directors who grew … Continue reading
Freedom of Expression Blues
Glad to hear Rushdie’s off ventilator and on the mend. His life is changed drastically once again due to hate. All our lives are changed once again. It’s appalling. As a writer I’m for free expression and peaceful discourse. Murder … Continue reading
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Obverse Obsessions
An artist named Stoneham painted The Hands Resist Him, a painting called ‘haunted’ that sold for $150,000 on eBay. It shows a creepy boy and a large female doll standing in front of a set of French doors, with hands … Continue reading
Detecting Patterns
Given my missing eye and intubation rasp, I could play Squint, a mob boss who cornered the market for glasses and is taking care of business by eliminating opticians who can’t see the lay of the land. My tag-line: ‘I … Continue reading
Why I’m So Old
Years ago, having published short fiction for more than a decade, in scads of magazines (remember them?) and anthologies, I’d begun writing novellas and novels. Some of my novellas began appearing, notably in the War World Series of military sf … Continue reading →