I’m not a real big Starbucks fan. Their coffee is okay. I don’t have real strong opinions about them. But about fourteen years ago, for about a day, I decided to form a strong opinion about Starbucks. Continue reading
No Time To Die Review: Bond Comes Full Circle
The Daniel Craig era of Bond films is over, and there’s no question he changed the franchise more than any actor since Connery. Of course it was also the work of writers and directors, who constantly had to redefine a Cold War character. In the span of five films, we saw the rebirth, new life, and passing on of an icon: 007. The last of these films brought the story arc full circle.
Variants of Benedict Cumberbatch: Published in Weekly Humorist
Weekly Humorist happily published my listicle:
Variants of Benedict Cumberbatch We Expect to See in The Multiverse of Madness
Including:
Benefit Lumberjack
Bedouin Stumbled Back
Bona Fide Cougar Snatch
and more…
In Memory of My Uncle, Lyn Shrader
It’s always something, isn’t it?
Sometimes what makes it hard to lose someone is that you lose them slowly over time. Their health and their memory are taken long before they are. Lyn Shrader was a man with such a strong and vibrant soul that even as his mind faded in his last years, the memory of the man he was persists loudly today.
When 2+2=22
“You may have a reason why two and two should make five, but they will still make but four.” -Samuel Johnson
We all know, if we’ve even so much as heard of Orwell’s 1984, that a totalitarian government can brainwash its citizens into believing that 2+2=5. Well, maybe it could happen. It would actually be very hard to accomplish. The novel is an exercise in imagining the power of language to erase and impose.
And while Orwell’s ’84 does an astounding job at creating a world alien and familiar where the state has coerced us to accepting any lie imaginable, the truth is that it doesn’t have to take an all-powerful oligarchy to do so. Continue readingThe Startup Wife: A Review
“No one wants to be married to the guy who thinks he’s going to save the world.”
I bought a book on my Kindle after hearing an interview with the author on NPR, and it may have been the first time I’ve done that. I know nothing about the world of startups, but being one of billions of people hooked up to them, I catch a whiff of that culture all the time. It seeps into anything and everything. Just one passage intrigued me enough to read it through. That book is The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam. Continue reading
Two Poems In the Modern Poetry Quarterly Review
Happy Monday, readers!
This week two of my poems are appearing in Modern Poetry Quarterly Review:
“Amazzacaffè”
and
“Cobbler Gnomes”
You can read them, and other poetry, by clicking here.
How I Never Forgot: 20 Years After 9/11
It’s not hard to believe that twenty years ago I walked into my high school German class to hear a classmate tell me that a guy flew a plane into the twin towers. I’m not hard on myself for laughing at first, because I instantly thought he meant some idiot who couldn’t fly steered his tiny plane into the building—it’s sad, but the kind of story we might chuckle at. Then they told me the rest of the story. This was no accident, and there were many deaths, and more to come in the following hours. To be honest, I didn’t feel furious or scared or heartbroken. Just shocked. What? This? Why? Continue reading
This Is Your Shot: 6 more reasons to Immunize
1. Yes, the Coronavirus can linger in your penis and make you impotent.
So get pricked or it will get your prick. Read here. Continue reading
Ten Things The Bible Tells Us About Public Health
When in doubt, turn to scripture. Christians have done so for ages when faced with difficult choices about personal and public health. Here are 10 messages given to us from scripture about public health.
CALEB COY 