Why Do I Hate The Bee Gees? It’s Walt Disney’s Fault!
This came up in Twitter last night: Why do I hate the Bee Gees? Simple, it’s all Walt Disney fault. During the disco craze of the 1970s, my parents gave me a portable cassette recorder for my birthday...
View ArticleEssay eBook Excerpt: The 1970’s Hells Angels
This is an excerpt from my new 3,635-word essay ebook, “Death At A Hell’s Angels’ Funeral: Driving Past The Memories,” now available at Amazon and Smashwords. One evening, not long after my brother...
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The Shakedown Behind The DOJ Apple/Publisher eBook Antitrust Lawsuit
The Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the major publishers for conspiring to force Amazon to sell ebooks at higher price points than $9.99 USD. This is ironic—and...
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Obsessive Lego Behavior In Silicon Valley
Some of the most obsessive people in Silicon Valley are the toy collectors who stock their cubes with hundreds of Star Trek or Star Wars action figures that cover every square inch of counter space....
View ArticleBritish Drunkenness On USA TV Wasn’t A Crime
If you’re plastered at the U.S. Open golf tournament in San Francisco while wearing a British stocking cap and making bird calls before an American TV audience, it helps to be British with a slight...
View ArticleThe Jungle Bird Saga Continues
After appearing at the U.S. Open with his signature bird call to protest deforestation, Andrew “Jungle Bird” Dudley apologizes for what happened in a CNN interview. He was also interviewed at 99designs...
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Young Children Out Late At A Batman Shooting
Among the victims killed at the midnight showing of “Batman: The Dark Knight Rising” in Aurora, Colorado, were a three-month-old baby and a six-year-old boy. A father lost track of his four-month-old...
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GOP 2012 Convention Supports Strip Clubs
When Republicans hit Tampa, Florida, for their 2012 presidential convention in late August, they will drop their hard earned money on the strip clubs, spending three times more than Democrats—$150 USD...
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Shredding The Papers Of My Late Father’s Life
After my father died from lung cancer three months ago, I went up to Sacramento County to clean out his trailer home before putting it into storage. Seven boxes of nick-knacks, dishes and paperwork was...
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A Bloody Summer In San Jose
San Jose Mercury News I’m not sure if San Jose is turning into the Old West or the next Oakland with seven people murdered—some in broad daylight—in the past week. The 31st homicide took place last...
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