Can you believe it's been over 3 years since the AmazonFail incident where my very own blog was ground zero? Amazon was not anti-gay then and certainly not now as CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has generously donated 2.5 million dollars to the Washington United for Marriage campaign to pass referendum 74 which will legalize same sex marriage in ( Read more... )

Some of my favorite movies about dads:


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So I decided to delve into a whole new blog. However this new one will have nothing to do with writing or publishing. In it I will talk about my other passion: Western movies. I will try to update it each week with an entry about one of my favorite Westerns. First up is John Ford's masterpiece, The Searchers, complete with pictures and a trailer. ( Read more... )

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Three months ago, 14-year-old Jonah Mowry posted a video on Youtube. He just wanted to express to the world how much pain he was in over being bullied, but that he wasn’t going to let it get the best of him. Last night the stars lined up and the video went viral. I watched as tens of thousands of comments were posted, most in support, but many ( Read more... )

Well I did something that I almost never do. DNF. That stands for "did not finish" and yes halfway through, I gave up on the book I was reading. No, I won't reveal the title because I've no desire to sabotage sales for this self-published book. Needless to say, it seemed obvious that the author didn't bother with having it edited as sentence ( Read more... )

Now this is the kind of moviemaking that really gets me excited with anticipation. A brand new movie shot it black and white...and...wait for it...SILENT! Most people of my generation have never even bothered to sit through a silent movie, but I've watched a lot of them: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Douglas Fairbanks and so on. I ( Read more... )

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Just watched the movie An Education. I know it's a couple of years old; I had always planned on seeing it from the time it was nominated for all those Oscars but I'm just now getting around to it. I love period British drama (not to mention the very handsome Peter Sarsgaard and one of my favorite British actresses, Emma Thompson) and this one is ( Read more... )

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