FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL.7 No.6

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 7 NO. 6 AWARDS/ACCOLADES AND WHATNOT By Johnny Heller There are lots and lots of awards out there that the serious award hunter can aim for. In time and with dedication, one could easily have a house full of awards that could be used to brag to friends or to hold open doors or to keep papers from flying off one’s desk due to breezes (likely caused by people quickly leaving your award filled home). Today many school children are given awards for having successfully shown up to the school where they are supposed to be anyway. If you play on a primary school …

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 6 NO. 5

July 14, 2014    by Johnny Heller ON JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER We try, most of us, not to make snap judgments. We like to believe that we are open-minded and willing to give our attention to an idea or notion that – on its face – seems suspicious.  We may not be open to stupid ideas like selling automatic weapons to psychos without a background check, but most ideas we are willing to hear out. Unless we hear that the idea, story, book, movie, notion comes from the brain of someone society has branded as politically incorrect or plain evil. I recently auditioned to narrate a wonderful book …