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The Demon of Brownsville Road: A Pittsburgh Family’s Battle with Evil in Their Home by Bob Cranmer and Erica Manfred Berkeley mass market pb, 2014 $9.99, ISBN: 978-0-425-26855-1 appendix, 8pp b&w photo insert

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Well made book, physically, with a striking sepia cover, soft paper, and clear typesetting. Well-written book; the ghost writer Erica Manfred, an experienced journalist and essayist, does a very good job of delivering Bob Cranmer’s story of a haunting and … Continue reading →

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Eschaton’s Fate by Gene Stewart, From Out of the Dark anthology, Robert N. Stephenson, editor, Altair Publishing, Jan. 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Eschaton’s Fate by Gene Stewart

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The picture that got me banned from FB

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Gene Stewart

They allow images of grotesque violence. They allow hate speech, racist speech, and calls for the rape, torture, and murder of women. They allow calls for acid to be thrown in the faces of women who won’t put out. They … Continue reading →

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Where DID I Put My Code Keys?

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Gene Stewart

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-government-researchers-think-we-may-be-living-in-a-2d-hologram /// More science, and increasing numbers of scientists, agree on this every year, and it’s beginning to worry me because I think I’m a glitch. More seriously: Information system, they postulate. Reminds me of VALIS. Vast Active Living Information … Continue reading →

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Schlöß Falke

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Falke, the Baron Schreier’s castle, technically a schlöß because it locks several mountain passes, sits on a mountain peak three thousand meters in altitude, surrounded by wooded slopes, plunging river ravines, and rocky cliffs. Its estate extends into three valleys … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Tarantella: A Plea for Culture Change

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Gene Stewart

If you inform yourself of climate changes, you clearly see the pattern compressing and worsening. Yes, it’s always changed, but never this steeply this fast, and never with such consequences. It is not inevitable to collapse a stable system. That’s … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 7, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Black Dahlia & White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates Ecco/Harper-Collins hardcover, 1st edition 274pp ISBN: 978-0-06-219569-2 A Review by Gene Stewart Although arguably there is but a hint of werewolf in only one of these eleven dark, gleaming tales, readers … Continue reading →

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A Band That Does Not Hide Behind Its Music

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Gene Stewart

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Posted on June 10, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Inflation is up, the guy in the middle Is getting screwed by the balance of cost Economy slowing, death-rate increasing, Hungry kids dying, everything’s lost. Nobody lives when living is torture, Nobody wants to live in pain. Generation, malcontent, evolutionary … Continue reading →

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Lucky Me

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Primary voting day; puts me in mind of other votes and their supporting demographics. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, his sequel to The Shining, won this year’s Stoker Award. It is about the little boy Danny’s subsequent life in which … Continue reading →

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