Neil walks over to Cane and helps him up after he broke down with worry over Lily. They go talk to the doctor who tells them he hopes to have an answer for them soon. Cane looks at Lily through the window of her hospital room door and looks devastated as Lily lie there with […]

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I enjoy a good thriller, and I was very much looking forward to Sheldon Greene’s latest novel Prodigal Sons, and I was not disappointed, it is a cracking read from cover to cover. Sheldon has two prior books under his belt Lost And Found and Burnt Umber. He has developed into an author with a […]

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I greatly enjoy stand-up comedy.  I usually go see a live comedy show from a nationally known comic artist every couple of months or so.  I don’t go to many open mikes, although some of my friends have been pressuring me to start performing at them.  Suffice it to say that comedy is a pretty […]

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“This film is a trip”
There came a time in my life when I was ok with simply admitting when I don’t “get” something. I stopped pretending to understand certain music, writers or artists simply to seem cool and hip. Therefore I can easily say that although I liked THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, I […]

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“A Christmas Carol beats the dickens out of other 3-D films.”
The Halloween pumpkins are still warm from their candles and our thoughts have yet to turn to turkey and stuffing yet A Christmas Carol is already the talk of this weekends movie releases. I would have a big issue with that if not for the […]

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When Blaze Bayley left Iron Maiden in 1999, or rather was unceremoniously dumped, it all depends on your viewpoint, his future looked questionable. Was Blaze another casualty of the world of music, just another artist banished to the netherworld of the ‘has been’. Well, indeed for a while it did seem that that was a […]

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As a long time Al Stewart fan I could not wait to listen to this CD. When it arrived, the hundred other projects that I am working on immediately got put on hold. In seconds I had the package torn open and the CD on the player.
Uncorked will no doubt be a huge hit with […]

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Period dramas are the types of movie that you do if you are Keira Knightly or if you want to be taken seriously as a candidate for a movie award.  Some of them are genuinely good, but the vast majority of them are just an excuse for people to dress up in poncey outfits and […]

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I’m not much into magic or magical anything.  That eliminates most fantasy writing, a lot of video games and a host of other things.  The one exception I do make is the novels and novellas of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the father of Magical Realism.  Also, I like the Force and the mystical power that guides […]

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I was not surprised when Fox first said that they would be making several sequels to the original movie in this series.  It was a truly delightful movie and they have done a great job of keeping each new movie exciting.  They do this through making each individual story compelling and by introducing new characters […]

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If a scary movie is all about making you jump, that’s just stupid.  Anything can make you jump, so that doesn’t take intelligence or anything else other than an understanding of timing.  I went to a haunted house last week for Halloween, a huge one that took up an entire warehouse building along with numerous […]

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Lily and Cane wake up in each others arms and they don’t want breakfast. All Lily wants this morning is more of what she got from him last night.
Chloe confesses to Chance about Billy’s kiss and she tells him that she blew him off. She says he knows she is serious so she wants to […]

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It Was a Monopoly Game Run Amok
“Pink Slips and Parting Gifts” by Deb Hosey White is a work of fiction.  It says so on both the front and back cover of the book.  But if it is a work of fiction, why does the story seem so familiar?  Perhaps it is because there is no […]

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Lily eats Halloween candy for breakfast but when Cane hands her medicine to her, he holds onto her hand. He apologizes to her. She can remember the way he is looking at her as the way he used to look at her. She tells him she misses him looking at her like that.
Lauren has to […]

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This book caught me a little off guard, while it is billed as a self help guide dealing with personal finances, it is actually a far wider ranging work with very strong Cristian underpinnings.
This is Jessica Psalidas’ second foray into the book, her first was the award winning Everlasting Purity, another Christian themed work.
Financial Purity […]

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Real Cops is most definitely billed as fiction, however Steven Billings did spend 24 years of his life involved with Law Enforcement, he spent time as a patrol officer, jail sergeant, and also patrol sergeant. I suspect that more than one of the tales that are related in this wonderful book have some anchor in […]

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I like books that provoke the reader into considering the world around them, The Human Food Factor is most certainly a book in that category. I think I will start this review with a quote from the final pages of the book:
In the workings of Nature, 99% of all problems, work themselves out
Yes that is […]

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Victoria walks up to Billy and slaps him in the face and tells him this is her way of saying thanks jerk and then she marches out of Jimmy’s. Kevin is amazed calling that simply awesome. Billy tells Kevin to go rob a bank or something but Kevin says there is no way he is […]

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As a young child I use to love going on family vacations but for us a vacation was going with my Dad during the summer holidays where ever he was working. He was in construction and during the school year he stayed out of town while Mom stayed home with us. When I was a […]

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Prateln, Switzerland December 13th ‘08
One of the criticisms leveled against Blaze Bayley when he was the vocalist for Iron Maiden was that the register of his voice did not work well with some of Maidens earlier material. According to the newly released biography Blaze Bayley – At The End Of The Day, Iron Maiden refused […]

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Life as a rock star is at best a precipitous one, todays shining light is tomorrows long forgotten history. A couple of years ago I set out on a quest, for no better reason than I could. My mission was to track down as many of my music favorites from the 70’s and 80’s as […]

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Sharon has some flashbacks as she hands out Halloween candy about how they took her family to the haunted house on Victor’s private jet. Victor had transformed it for the kids.
Victor goes to talk to Ashley and Abby about him leaving town going to a rehab clinic in Belgium. Ashley tells him that Victoria and […]

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The Assault On Private Property Rights – And How We Can Fight It
The subject of Eminent Domain is at best a thorny one. Alas, far too many people have no idea what the term even means, and no clue how it might one day affect them on a personal level. Regardless of where you live, […]

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Do real private detectives read detective novels? Do police officers read crime fiction? I wonder because, as a practicing attorney, I don’t usually read novels dealing with lawyers. Even when written by attorneys, story-telling seems to require shortcuts. Perhaps unnoticed by the average reader, those shortcuts can leave me incredulous, even […]

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Victor wakes up in bed and is happy to find Nikki there with him with her hand resting on his chest where she can feel his heart beating. Victor tells her he is so grateful for the gift of life and that she is going to Europe with him. She tells him someone has to […]

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Education is at best a thorny subject. I grew up going though the English Grammar School system in the 1960’s, every subject had been de-humanized to the level where everything was boring and seemed to have little connection to the real world. Math was reduced to problems involving what would happen if you turned the […]

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Over the years the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has strived to present truly great collections of music for both audiences in the UK and abroad. Whether they’re performing classical works or covering famous film scores, listeners can be fairly confident that whatever the orchestra puts out will be worth a few listens. This latest album, which […]

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After striking a well-appreciated chord with audiences everywhere in the highly praised Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the voice of Neil Patrick Harris is in almost as high demand as the actor himself. And last week in a special episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave & The Bold Harris’s voice made an impressive appearance […]

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When it comes to lighthearted Hollywood comedies and rom-coms, one composer seems to be the Luke Wilson of film scores. Over the years, Rolfe Kent has scored more than 40 films, mostly comedies (Wedding Crashers, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde) and light-hearted dramedies (The Matador, Election, Sideways - for which he was nominated for a Golden […]

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I first came across Jennifer Swanson when she published Penny & Rio – The Mysterious Backyard Meeting, a child’s book for sure, but one that was exceedingly well done, you can read my review here. She contacted me recently to let me know that the second book in the series was now being published, Penny […]

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