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Watchmen Works
Watchmen is one of the best graphic novels ever created. It is a stand-alone work of art that really doesn’t need a sequel, movie, or television show. In fact, the creators were so opposed to the movie version a few years back that one of them asked for his name to be removed from the…
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Start Living a More Courageous Life Today
There are several types of courage; physical, moral, psychological, and everyday courage. It is important for us “to start living a more courageous life now” in all of those areas because “the more actions we take facing fear, expressing ourselves, and helping others, the easier and less stressful these actions become.” That’s because, “The more we…
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Chasing Content – January 2019
Let’s take a moment to shovel the snow, dig through the archives, and see what was happening here last year at this time. Read all of the posts from last January or just these highlights. Gizmo’s Lullaby My song, “Gizmo’s Lullaby” dropped a year ago and is available wherever you get your music. I wrote…
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Super Scrabble – Round 2
It’s time for another Scrabble story. My wife and I started playing Super Scrabble by keeping the game board set up and playing one word (or more) a day. It’s a similar concept to the correspondence games people play online. I used to play chess this way with my dad (Rest in Peace, Dad). This…
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The MIX(ed)TAPE 2 Charting on Year-End List
CJSF 90.1 fm posted their Top 100 of 2019 Chart and I was completely blown away to see The MIX(ed)TAPE 2 in the Top 10. DJ Hullewud and I released the second of our MIX(ed)TAPE series in October of 2018. We sent the album to all the college and community radio stations across the country…
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Let the World Educate You
“If you are a young person, open your eyes wide and let the world educate you to the fullest extent. (‘Ascend no longer from the textbook! warned Walt Whitman, and I warn it, too; there are many ways to learn that do no necessarily involve schoolrooms.) Learning is a life-long experience. You start learning the…
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Star Wars – Skywalker Saga Crashes
The original Star Wars trilogy is one of the best movie franchises of all time. It’s remarkable for the sense of wonder it instilled in its fans. It kick-started a wave of movies with incredible special effects and mythic storytelling. And even though those films are over forty years old, they still hold up. Unfortunately,…
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Dart Adams Drops Knowledge in The Book of Dart
Dart Adams is one of my favourite hip-hop journalists. Perhaps you’ve read some of his work on Poisonous Paragraphs, Bastard Swordsman, or Bloggerhouse. In the spirit of underground hip-hop. he has been dropping knowledge independently for years. He knows his stuff and is passionate about the culture. His work is meticulously researched and detailed. That is…
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Happy New Year, Bring on 2020!
I’ve never really been a fan of New Year’s Resolutions. If I want to change something about myself, I don’t wait. But for some reason, I started to list a set of goals every year on my blog and then never looked back at them. In fact, when I started this journey, I had to…
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The Ninth Doctor Still Travels with Rose
Doctor Who – Weapons of Past Destruction I read this book a few years back when I found it at the public library and I was really impressed. It reminded me of why I used to love seeing Chris Eccleston in the role of the title character. The artwork was amazing and Cavan Scott penned…