Summer Reading
With vacation coming up, I need to make sure I have sufficient reading material to occupy myself between excursions into the water. Typically in a week I'll read three or four books, and I try to...
View ArticleThe Mailbox
My neighborhood, like many, has a set of deed restrictions - a list of Thou Shalt Nots that the Neighborhood Association hopes will keep property values at attractive levels. Some of the more amusing...
View ArticleI Want My MTV!
In the 1980(ish) when my family got cable TV, there weren't really that many channels - WTBS from Atlanta, WGN from Chicago, ESPN, a few movie channels, and...not much else that I can remember. Before...
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Retro
I distinctly remember the afternoon of my 13th birthday. I bolted home from the bus stop, because I knew that waiting for me at home was The Most Awesome Video Game Experience Ever! The object of...
View ArticleCripes!
No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth, nor have I been eaten by a sharktopus. The previously mentioned job change occurred a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't adapted to the new schedule as...
View ArticleTwo Months! It’s Been Two Months Since I Posted?
OK. Unacceptable. I didn't realize how much changing jobs would eat into my writing time. I have to do better. In the reasonably near term, I hope to get a new book review posted, write up a new movie...
View ArticleI Haven’t Cross-Posted From James McGrath In A While…(Take Two)
(NOTE: To anyone who noticed that I posted this, then unpublished it - when I re-read it this morning, I realized I had left out a significant portion of what I intended to say. Sorry 'bout that.)...
View ArticleThat’s Offensive!
(The following post, or parts of it, have been bouncing around in my head for a couple of weeks. It hasn't come together the way I hoped it would, so I'm putting it out there in the hope of sparking...
View Article2012 Books, and a Recommendation
So I've been trying to read a lot this year. So far, I've been fairly successful. In an effort to fill space before my Super Mega Awesome Cinco De Mayo movie review, I'll summarize the books that I've...
View ArticleThoughts on Aurora
(This post was initially composed the day after the shootings in Aurora. A week and a half has taken just the smallest bit of the edge off, but not much. I'm posting this to get some things out of my...
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