Muttered Asides
By ice rivers
The usual as collected in 2023
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Completing the Vigil With Muttered Asides
If I were to engage either artificial ghost writers Casper or Jasper, I would want to test them first. It's pretty clear that Ice has a great...
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Roy Buchanan in Central Park
He did a lot but he could've done a lot more if he hadn't fallen off the wagon and hung himself in a jail cell. I guess that's why they call it the...
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Blanchett is Tar
I'm not sure exactly how to classify the movie Tar . It's kind of an unsolved mystery both with its generic classification as well as within the plot...
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Winking
I'm a winker not a "wanker". When it comes to punctuation, air quotes stand for winks. If you catch my drift. If I'm walking through the mall and I...
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Digging Digression
"But you digress....." Of course I do. I'm a digressionist not a novelist. I'm not about plot or characterization or decision making or conflict. I'm...
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Don't Shoot the Piano Player (HGWT recap)
Prologue..... "as long as we're betting. Jim, let's make it worthwhile...the piano player and the eight thousand dollars he lost against the girl."...
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Type Monkey Type
Yesterday's filler was much fuller than it had any sane mathematical right to be. Look at the god damned odds Pretty sure it was a one in a two...
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Due Dilligent Exploration
As part of due diligence as a writer, I'm investigating Artificial Intelligence. The first product that I became aware of is called Jasper. I sent a...
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- 57 reads
The Kids Are In Town
After thirty five years of teaching English, I consider myself adept at generating and directing discussion and as you can imagine, I'm also a...
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Superb Slump
JR is in a slump. The fans in the fantastic stands rarely understand the mechanics of a slump. JR is a veteran. He's been in the game for ten years...
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SoMethiNg Else
My memory is not the problem. It's something else. According to Dr. Salvatore Timpani, if you are concerned about memory loss than you do not have...
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Timmy
Some folks claim that when baseball fans remember the golden years of baseball, they are usually the years when the fan was 12 or 13. Bob Matthews...
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The Belzer Effect
Richard Belzer died yesterday. I have a fond memory of Richard. My memory stretches back 20 years to the first time we ever took Mary to New York...
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Changing Cleopatra's Nose and Every Thing Else.
One of my idols, Stephen Jay Gould wondered what would have happened if it had been raining instead of sunny when the earth came into existence? Thus...
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Through a Sad Window
Call Joe or maybe Harry. Look through the window. I had no idea but many other people knew. After all this time. Nobody told me. Lynn broke the news...
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Exercising Independence
Let's talk about reading speed and speed reading. Speed reading seems to suggest that we read too slowly and need to pick up our velocity in order to...
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Confronting The Elephant Head in the Room
I was afraid of the Eastman House even before I was terrified by my first movie at the house, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. We had visited the place a few...
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Deskwork
I'm an institutional guy. I spent 55 consecutive years sitting at school desks or looking at others sit in those desks. Many a desk contained a heart...
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Think Twice...It's All Right
Yesterday, I reread 1984 for at least the tenth time although it's been at least five years since my last read. Once again I found myself having to...
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A Fan of Pal
I've always been a fan of George Pal, especially his direction of War of the Worlds and When World's Collide. Last night I caught a film that he...
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Two Elephants not in the Room
Speaking of elephants in the room or in this case not in the room brings me to last night's academy awards. The whole show was shaded by the absence...
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The Sound of Approaching Elephants
Before leaving the subject of elephants inside or outside the room.... I suggested that Avatar be in a category of its own. Back in 1929, the Academy...
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Watersheds
Yup, Celtic, 1928 was the watershed moment for silent films. although I'm not sure what a watershed is. At first, I thought it was a flush toilet...
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Teddy Bear Picnic
I was born in 1946 before the popularization of teevee. We were the first family on our block to have a television. Up until that time, I was all...
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Praying to Find Another Lost Wallet
I'm well known for losing my wallet and panicking when I do so. The panic doesn't help in the search for the wallet which of course when I find it,...
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Scrabble Stalemate
My wife is a world class Scrabble player. She plays on line regularly and enjoys the competition. She likes to win. I'm not bad at Scrabble myself...
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The Secret of the Golden Pen
We all have our secrets. Writers have secrets too. I'm gonna locate my darkest secret and then I'm going to dump the truth on you and you'll think I...
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Crispy Bacon Bomp
Bomp, Bomp, Bomp Bomp Bomp, Ba, Bomp. Bomp, Bomp Bomp Bomp, Bomp Thus begins Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple. You know you know it. Everybody knows...
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- 37 reads