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To Project And Swerve, Usurp The Law

When I was working in Americus, Ga., some days, part of my duties was to go to the Americus Police Department, American Fire and Emergency Services, Georgia State Patrol Barracks and the Sumter Couty Sheriff’s Office and look through the daily logs for any arrests or major incidents of concerns. Most of this stuff IContinue reading “To Project And Swerve, Usurp The Law”

An ‘Ashley Madison Affair’ Some Might Not Want To Remember

In college, one of my writing professors told us to beware of certain literary magazines as they’ll inform us they “accepted” your submissions but they may need some pay for publishing. I even decided to do it sending off some mediocre items and thus getting told it had been “accepted.” I knew it was notContinue reading “An ‘Ashley Madison Affair’ Some Might Not Want To Remember”

You Are Now About To Witness The Strength Of Street Knowledge

By the time N.W.A., a rap group out of southern California was ready to release its album Straight Outta Compton, America was heavily divided among racial barriers that hadn’t been seen in many years. The failure of the Ronald Reagan Administration had been obvious with the collapse of the American Middle Class, the Iran-Contra AffairContinue reading “You Are Now About To Witness The Strength Of Street Knowledge”

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence

I hadn’t heard of Sam Peckinpah in 1988 when I saw Extreme Prejudice on HBO one night. I wasn’t even 10 and I remembered the climax as Nick Nolte as a Texas Ranger gets into a shoot-out with his old friend played by Powers Boothe who is now a drug kingpin south of the border.Continue reading “‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence”

No Good Marketing For Disability Pride Month So It’s Mostly Overlooked

When it comes to LGBTQIA Pride Month or Black History Month, the stores can market it for their own gain. Clothing and apparel as well as other items can line the shelves throughout those months in hopes of being sold. But there’s really no way to market a disability. July is Disability Pride Month. OnContinue reading “No Good Marketing For Disability Pride Month So It’s Mostly Overlooked”

‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures

A movie like Anaconda should have been a disaster. It should have been the type of bad movie a studio makes that bombs so spectacularly executives who greenlit it come to work the Monday after only to find their parking spots painted over. Yet, it didn’t. For a cheesy B-movie like movie released in theContinue reading “‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures”

‘Muscles & Mayhem’ Carries A Lot Of Weight

The use of the word “Unauthorized” in the Netflix docuseries Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators leads me to wonder the legitimacy of the phrase. Because it seems they got a lot of authoritized people to speak in the documentary. Granted, they can’t interview Samuel Goldwin Jr. because he’s been deceased forContinue reading “‘Muscles & Mayhem’ Carries A Lot Of Weight”

‘Women Talking’ And Not Much Else

Sarah Polley often makes movies a lot of other filmmakers wouldn’t make. Her directorial debut Away From Her was a completely different (and honest) movie that looked at Alzheimer’s and the effects on a married couple that didn’t have the Lifetime/Hallmark sentiments other movies did. That being said, Women Talking, for which she won anContinue reading “‘Women Talking’ And Not Much Else”