War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Hello, this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — instead of the usual news-based post on some near-pertinent something-or-another (I do love hyphens), this is another plea to buy my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,” self-published last March by OutskirtsPress. My author’s page at Outskirts is here. Most importantly, the Amazon/Kindle page…
In the near-onslaught of news cycles full of doom and woe this past week, I overlooked a nifty, positive note that brought a chuckle — the prophecy from “Community” of six seasons and a movie apparently will come to pass. One of my most escape-binge sources right now, “Community” in its prime is a heartfelt,…
In the flash of time, there’s always room for pleading a case for literary sympathy — one more time a request to purchase my novel on Amazon. Self-published in March, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona” is a tale of what it’s like for a middle-aged man to tumble down Alice’s rabbit hole in real-time.…
Here we are, shamelessly and audaciously without an ounce of any marketing savvy, crying for you as readers of this blog — that handful of sad intellectuals off the vast InterWebs — to buy my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,” self-published last March by Outskirts Press. Although set in the genre FICTION/Romance/Fantasy, “Corona”…
As half the year has glided by seemingly in a flash full of shit news and real-life weirdness, I need to escape the wiles and worries of the nowadays and drown myself in some ‘rain-prominent‘ music, tunes awash/heard in a near-zero precipitation zone. Here in California’s Central Valley — and probably the whole state, including…
As we wait for the reported appearance of Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to the nit-witted, nefarious Mark Meadows, to testify live before the Jan. 6 committee hearing, expected to start in about an hour, let’s jump on a personal subject for a second or two. My recently self-published novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,”…
Hot and getting hotter this noonish-time Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — weather the weather. And a way to handle the weather of news and weather itself (drought and summer) is TV shows/series that allow for an escape from all the shit that’s making us feel shitty, anxious, and distraught with the way this…
(Illustration: ‘John Dean nears the end of reading his 245-page prepared statement before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 1973′ — image found here). In context of this month’s 50th anniversary of the clumsily-botched burglary at DC’s Watergate — June 17, 1972 — I came across this interview this afternoon at…
End of another weekend, and close to the end of a month, plus, close to the heat of summer — not so bad outside this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, warmish, but breezy enough to be comfortable. Next week, though, a rolling-thunder heatwave is expected, maybe triple-digit temperatures by Tuesday/Wednesday. In rebellion against…
As we approach the midterms, the biggest obstacle in the way of democracy being upheld is the real rule of journalism — tell the actual, f*cking truth. A nifty, right-on piece directed at the root matter of journalism, which I originally missed/overlooked with all the other shit filling the in-box of the nowadays (h/t tweet…
