Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is worth reading, I find another book to review…. Continue reading
I’ve been tracking the news since it was embargoed. Glad I was able to connect with some of the usual suspects before I started the business trip I’m on. I struggle for things to say times like these, which of course makes writing less likely. I never met Mongo and… Continue reading
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is worth reading, I find another book to review…. Continue reading
If anyone hadn’t heard, he suffered a massive heart attack on Tuesday and passed away. Damn. I had figured him for an awesome second career in thriller writing. It can come for any of us, any time. Have your affairs and soul in order. 1 0 Continue reading
People associate Texas with cowboys and cattle, cotton and oil. Today Texas is high tech: the Telecom Corridor in Dallas, computers in Austin, NASA in Houston. Many think of it as a product of its land. Yet Texas has always been influenced by the sea. For 350 years the sea carried Texas… Continue reading
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is worth reading, I find another book to review…. Continue reading
Don’t know it you all have seen this. I saw it over at the legacy site and nicked it. I have been looking on the net for an actual flag. There are similar ones but this one has a certain something for me. 1 0 Continue reading
Ken – Earnest, sincere (pronunciation inscrutable) Chinese crap works right up until it doesn’t. Manufactured crap, electronic crap, diplomatic crap — it’s all the same. A building fell over in China on the same day the condo collapsed in Surfside, FL. While I know this to be true, you can… Continue reading
I’m in my ringside seat watch Chinese fireworks launched in honor of our Chinese administration. I expect to see a lot of red and gold. Oh and I’m sure there will be a salute to buggery. Here’s my favorite moment — when a an acrid pall of smoke blots the… Continue reading
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is worth reading, I find another book to review…. Continue reading