FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol.3 No.2

FOR THE HELL OF IT   VOL. 3 NO. 2       Open Letters to Public People To Newt Gingrich: Dear Newt, I hope its okay to call you Newt.  I know how prickly you can get but I’ve never known a person named Newt and I’d like to use it. You recently chastised John King of CNN and the national news media in general for beginning the South Carolina Republican debate by asking you about your relationship with your ex-wife and her claims that you wanted an “open marriage”. In fact you said you were appalled that he would begin a Presidential debate with “a topic like that?” Why?  Shouldn’t American voters …

FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol.3 No.1

FOR THE HELL OF IT  VOL 3  NO. 1 By Johnny Heller For the Hell of It has been getting lots of reader mail over the last year or two and I’ve decided to begin the new year by answering some reader’s questions in a section I call: ASK MR. NARRATOR (Please address all questions to ASK MR. NARRATOR by accessing the “comment” section at the end of the article.  As always, the editor and author reserve the right to edit all reader email or, as in this case, to make up all the emails entirely.) Dear Mr. Narrator, People always tell me that I have a nice voice.  I …

FOR THE HELL OF IT – Special Edition – ACX and Me-Part Deux

FOR THE HELL OF IT SPECIAL EDITION (Actual useful information involved. No, really…) ACX AND ME. PART 2:  SO, MR. HOITY-TOITY PRODUCER! WHADDA YOU KNOW FROM PRODUCING? By Johnny Heller                                                                   In our last lesson, we learned what ACX was and a little bit about how it works.  Remember that this is all coming to you from my perspective and my experiences. Your perspective and experiences may be different – but this is my blog so your experiences don’t count.   So there. Before I get too far along here, let me say that a few things have changed since I wrote the last blog.  Remember the part where I was whining …

Audiobook Review: Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

Only Time Will Tell: The Clifton Chronicles, Book  1 Written by: Jeffrey Archer Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox Publisher: Macmillan Audio, August 2011 Length: 12 hours, 41 minutes   Only Time Will Tell is the first installment of a five part sweeping and ambitious work of fiction that purportedly will cover 100 years in history, starting in Bristol after  the end of “the war to end all wars” World War I, and taking us to the dawn of World War II. The narrative is the intriguing life of Harry Clifton, with his humble and secretly burdened beginnings and  his family’s  intertwining fate  with the wealthy Barrington family. A multigenerational, …