I write things and talk about stuff. Sometimes I swim.
I hope the Gazette soon puts a moratorium on complaint emails from out-of-towners who receive tickets from speed cameras. This one really takes the cake. This guy says he was going to bring his company to Cedar Rapids, but not any more! Why? Because he was caught doing NEARLY 80 MILES AN HOUR THROUGH DOWNTOWN. The […]
In the days before electronic communication, you would be disappointed once a day when a highly anticipated piece of mail failed to appear. Now, you get to be crushed every time your Inbox rings.
I try not to let a winter season go by without shilling at least once for my favorite snow removal product, The Snow Wolf. As the picture shows, it in essence is a wheeled snow shovel, enabling you to push and lift far more snow than with a regular shovel. It changes the back-breaking labor […]
Now that blizzards seem to be happening about every thirty-six hours, you don’t hear quite so much about this. Thank God.
If the purpose is to make me long for the days of receiving email from Nigerian princes and friends trapped in Copenhagen, mission accomplished.
Based on the trending topics in my news feed, here are what appears to be the most important cultural items and touchstones of 2013 that should go in the new Cedar Rapids Convention Center Time Capsule: A picture of what I had for lunch yesterday. Beyonce lip syncing “America The Beautiful.” A cute kitten Another cute […]
This copy of “The Mote in God’s Eye” was in the very first lot of books I purchased when I joined the Science Fiction Book Club as a fourteen year-old. Historical Note: Kids, in the Stone Age (pre-Amazon), if you didn’t live in a town with a good bookstore or library, mail-order book clubs were […]
My friends Rob Cline and Lennox Randon have each published a debut novel in the last couple of weeks. I’ve read them both, and even though I happily admit to being prejudiced, they are both great reads. Now, I see that Amazon is recommending them to me! Please allow me to do the same to […]
The U.S. may not be building a Death Star, but it appears Kirkwood might be.