Sunday, December 26, 2021

American Rust: A Book about the Destruction of the American Heartland and the people in it.

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  Philipp Meyer is a talented writer. “American Rust” is his first book.   Allegedly.   Because a ‘first book’ doesn’t include all those tho...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Paramount TV Series "1883" (The Bad Old Days of the West)

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  The Paramount TV series “1883” is worth a look if you like realistic westerns. It’s supposed to be a prequel of the contemporary western s...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

GIVEN “COLD” GUN, ACTOR ALEC BALDWIN KILLS CINEMATOGRAPHER HALNYA HUTCHINS

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 UPDATE:  The whole mystery of this tragic occurrence lies in answering one question:  What came out of the barrel of the gun Alec Baldwin f...
Monday, October 18, 2021

SEPTA Passengers Watch and Take Video While Woman is Raped on Moving Train

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                            Fiston Ngoy:  Philadelphia Train Rapist (Alleged)  UPDATED INFORMATION:  The DA with jurisdiction over the case ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

The Silence of the Laundrie Parents

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  Much has been written and reported about Gabby Petito’s murder.   There is no need to extensively revisit what is largely known.   She was...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Samantha Josephson Thought She Stepped Into an Uber Cab, Not a Murderer's Vehicle

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  You’re tired after a night of carousing in a bar with your friends. It’s about 2:00 a.m. and you want to go home. None of fellow students ...
Monday, July 5, 2021

“My Brilliant Friend” was a book before it became a TV series.

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  You’re supposed to read the book before you watch the film (or the series) but I didn’t like the book  or thought I didn’t like the book a...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Lina Wertmuller's "The Basilisks" (restoredI) and She's Just Not Into Me.

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 I saw one of Lina Wertmuller’s films a few decades ago when I was crushing on my teacher, an attractive, intelligent   California socialist...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

AND THEN SHE WAS GONE, by Lisa Jewell (Reviewed Audible Version) Anthony Ventre

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  AND THEN SHE WAS GONE   I finished listening to the audio version of Lisa Jewell’s “ And Then She was Gone .” It’s a full 10 ½ hours of ...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Germany: Ready to Jab at a Moment's Notice

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Germany is out in front in the race to stop Covid-19.  The country expects to start immunizing people against the disease before the year en...
Monday, October 26, 2020

I Voted Early and In-Person in New York

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  I voted for President Trump   early and in-person yesterday in New York so I’m positive my vote won’t end in a ditch, a drainage flume, or...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Poetry & Hip-Hop

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Sometimes I think writing poetry is taking the easy way out.   I think most people will agree that it is   easier than writing novels or n...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Poetry Express: Why Do Some Poems Take Up More Space Than They Should?

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The Paris Review emails me a daily poem.   Some of them I get but many of them I don’t.   It’s not that I don’t like poetry but sometimes...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Short Storyland: "Witness" by Jamel Brinkley

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Jamel Brinkley Perusing Twitter I saw someone posted a tweet complaining of disappointment endings to short stories.  I thought it was fair ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

First They Come for the Symbols: Fight over Columbus Statue in South Philly's Marconi Park

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The Antifa Taliban who are everywhere shouting at the top of their lungs for the defunding of police departments should take a loo...