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Team Cap

Posted on May 9, 2016 by admin

  Of course. I’m an American. So’s Cap. We both believe that: (a) the individual is more important than the group; (b) the natural law trumps the statutory; and (c) government, even at its most wonderful, is evil. That being … Continue reading →

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Lose 5 Pounds!

Posted on May 5, 2016 by admin

…on the too-sick-to-eat-anything diet. Man. There I was minding my own business, when this virus walked up and sledgehammered me. Left me feeling like this: I couldn’t make it to Ravencon last weekend because of it. I couldn’t make it … Continue reading →

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It. Is. Finished. Part Deux.

Posted on April 3, 2016 by admin

I said The Ship Finding God was done. It is. Or, was. And now is. For reals. I did the first set of edits, then sent the draft off to Angela Souders, who is a ghost hunter and author and … Continue reading →

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Not that Ludwig

Posted on March 27, 2016 by admin

I have a bunch of photos from the trip to Germany back in December, like these from Ludwigsburg Palace, which is about 30 miles…or kilometers or whatever the hell it is…south…or east or whatever the hell it is…of Heilbronn. Nice … Continue reading →

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19 Movies in Three and a Half Days

Posted on March 6, 2016 by admin

  This weekend I am recovering from last weekend, which was Lost Weekend V, a film festival put on by the Winchester Film Club at the Winchester Alamo. It is the fifth such film festival that Andy Gyurisin, Force of … Continue reading →

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Los Chermans

Posted on February 25, 2016 by admin

I did not know I had a German family until a few years ago…well, as a present and ongoing fact, I mean. I was adopted as a baby and raised ‘Murican, and supposed there were family members back in my … Continue reading →

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Farpoint, the sequel

Posted on February 14, 2016 by admin

Today was the first full day of Farpoint. And it was…slow. Real slow. Okay, well, that’s a picture taken before it opened but, tell ya, it didn’t feel much busier throughout the day. It seemed like attendees were studiously avoiding … Continue reading →

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Farpoint, Day 0

Posted on February 13, 2016 by admin

I am at Farpoint again this year because I like it. Intimate it is, cozy, demonstrated by the reading I did to an audience of exactly one. Hey, that’s one more than I had last year. I got there at … Continue reading →

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Downturn Abbey

Posted on February 2, 2016 by admin

This is the last season of Downton Abbey. Thank God. It has had, in my opinion, five seasons too many. The first season was bloody perfect, just perfect. I loved it. I’m a fin de siècle kind of guy because … Continue reading →

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Heil-bronx

Posted on January 18, 2016 by admin

My German family lives mostly in Heilbronn, which is an industrial city about 40 miles from Stuttgart. Some of the family lives in Schwaigern (in which there are no restaurants), but they’re outliers. Heilbronn’s the family seat. Heilbronn’s a somewhat … Continue reading →

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