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What’s the Big Rush?

Feb 11 1

My Beautiful Wife and I finally watched Ron Howard’s Formula One movie, Rush. Honestly, I’ve had zero desire to see this movie.  Let me recount the ways I didn’t want to see Rush. Ron Howard. Meh. Talented guy, but I parted ways with him when he took on the Dan Brown books. I’m sure it […]

The Marlboro Man has Died. Again.

Jan 28 1

Eric Larson, one of dozens to wear the mantle of “Marlboro Man,” has passed this mortal coil. He began smoking at the age of 14, and the bastard still had the temerity to die at the age of 72, square in the middle of the life expectancy for his generation. Fifty-eight years of puffing fire, […]

Dark Angels

Jan 21 0

Show of hands: Who all is reading about The Black Widow potential Olympic bomber and thinking this Jack Ryan shit was all more entertaining when it was fiction?  Wow. I got a bad feeling about this one, Riggs. Why is it that when you are waiting on the most important things in your life, time […]

The Persistence of Memory

Dec 17 3

Give the boy his props. Over at Nathan Bransford’s place today, he has a long, beautiful, and circular piece on the new permanence of transient things. He references fleeting childhood memories that are now a search string away from re-realization with your adult eyes. Stuff you never thought you’d see again that can be summoned […]