When I worked at the newspaper in Wagoner, Okla., a suburb of Tulsa, an elderly woman would wonder around the town usually on cold and/or rainy days offering to sell crocheted items so she could “get home.” Then, she’d cry crocodile tears. She came in at least two or three times when I was atContinue reading “‘Scamanda’ Too Repetitive And Avoids The Really Hard Questions”
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Willy’s Wonky Event One Year Later
If a picture ever captured something more perfectly, it was taken at Willy’s Chocolate Experience one year ago in Glasgow. A young woman, wearing a green wig, with a bored look on her face standing next to what looked more like a meth lab than a world of pure imagination. The event had been advertisedContinue reading “Willy’s Wonky Event One Year Later”
‘Bitconned’ Worth Its Weight
While watching Bitconned, the documentary on Netflix, about a cryptocurrency scam, I had to stop it to double-check I wasn’t watching a mockumentary. Everything about it seemed to preposterous to be based on a true-crime case. But it’s the real deal Holyfield. Centra Tech was a cryptocurrency formed in south Florida in the 2010s byContinue reading “‘Bitconned’ Worth Its Weight”
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