FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 3 NO. 4 NEWS, OBSERVATIONS AND RANDOM THOUGHTS Pyongyang, NK…North Korea recently demonstrated that they are ready to take their rightful place among Nations willing to screw up on a grand scale. With the world watching with baited and – in many cases – bad breath, the North Koreans test fired a ballistic missile that they hoped would prove that they were capable of firing a ballistic missile. They proved only that they cannot – as yet – do much better than most grade school rocket enthusiasts with a science kit, some matches and an M-80. While the North Koreans insisted the rocket was …
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April 27th, 2012 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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Hardcover: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl Published February 2012 by Random House Publishing Note: This is both a review of the hardcover edition of The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, self-purchased copy, and a review of the Audiobook, also self-purchased. The Book: I admit, freely and wholeheartedly from the get go, and in the interest of full disclosure, that I have a full-on literary crush on Matthew Pearl. He had me at “The.” However, that being said, if I’d never been lucky enough to be familiar with Mr. Pearl’s work prior to The Technologists, I’d make it my goal to become familiar now. In the aftermath of the recently climaxed Civil …
FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol. 3 No. 3 Where’s Cockup? Being A Celebration of the Life and Times of An Unsung Audiobook Pioneer. It is easy for we lucky few in the Audio Narration business to forget our forebears. Why, in these heady days that social pundits are already calling the golden era of audiobook narration, what care we for those whose hard work and dedication to the craft of not spitting while speaking made our magical lives possible? Sadly, it is too easy for us to forget the early pioneers of our industry. Yet who can blame us? We get invited to the best parties where hosts lure …
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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 …
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