FOR THE HELL OF IT #3 12/31/10 The last day of the year! The third blog of the year! Fortunately, like you, I can contain my excitement. It’s been pointed out to me that I missed some significant stories in my last blog so I shall return to the subject of peering at some of the stories that caught our attention in 2010. Understand that not all the musings here will be about the major stories – just the ones I feel like chatting about. So here goes. 1. Airport Security. Underwear bombs. Shoe bombs. Breast milk container bombs… We sure have a lot of terrorist nutters looking for inventive …
FOR THE HELL OF IT by Johnny Heller No.2; 12/24/2010 As we head to the end of another year (a year that stood out only because no other year has ever been named 2010 in my lifetime) I think it important that we take a look back and see just what we managed to live through. So without further ado here, in no particular order, is my take on some of the significant happenings of the past year. The end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the US Military has to be considered a top story regardless of your personal take on homosexuals, the military or on news stories. No …
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Written by Louise Penny, Narrated by Ralph Cosham -An audio book review- Jo Anna Perrin I arrived slightly out of sync to Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache/Three Pines series. I started with her fourth novel, A Rule Against Murder, and thence thoroughly hooked, happily retreated to the first book in the series and worked my way forward. If you are unfamiliar with Penny’s well crafted series starring the intelligent and empathetic Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and the absolute confection of the town of Three Pines and its quirky inhabitants, I suggest you give her a listen. The sixth installment, Bury Your Dead, is in my opinion, the most brilliantly …
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Check out Susan Dunman’s Reading at the Speed of Sound for her audio book review and accompanying podcast of The Fat Man written by Ken Harmon and narrated by Johnny Heller. The podcast includes comments by both the author and narrator! BUY CD BUY DOWNLOAD
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