Jaq Greenspon's Blog, page 57
April 18, 2015
The GOOD Friend
Got a new piece of fiction published today in Shroud Magazine. It’s a tale of rock and roll, the price of fame and what you do for your friends. It’s a bit of an adult read, so keep it until after the kids go to bed. You should head over to Amazon and download a […]
April 15, 2015
Review: The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh the things you thought you knew… Winston Groom let’s you know in this incredibly well-researched book looking at the lives of three of aviation’s greatest heroes: Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Lindbergh and […]
April 2, 2015
DAVID • Know: Building Community
DAVID • Know: Building Community. My latest piece, about the building of a Vegas Jewish community.
DAVID ��� Know: Building Community
DAVID ��� Know: Building Community. My latest piece, about the building of a Vegas Jewish community.
March 29, 2015
Review: Ex Machina
What makes us human? This is a question long posed by science fiction literature and films and Ex Machina��is the latest to take a stab at answering the unanswerable. The plot itself is simple. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a programmer working for a Google-like search engine company called BlueBook. He wins a company wide lottery […]
March 28, 2015
Self Worth
“For years, he always had a safety valve in the back of his troubles. He always had the comfort of the old chestnut, ‘I’m worth more dead than alive.’ That was his last call, his safe passage in case all other options failed him. When the time came, though, turned out he wasn’t worth all […]
March 20, 2015
ARTS: Neil Gaiman on getting hooked on handwriting – Tulsa World: ARTS
ARTS: Neil Gaiman on getting hooked on handwriting – Tulsa World: ARTS. Over the past few months I’ve gotten two beautiful fountain pens: One for Christmas and one as a “Thank You” for a favor done. I bought myself a nice case for the two of them and they live in my bag, for use��when […]
March 18, 2015
Review: Undrastormur
Undrastormur by Roger Eschbacher My rating: 4 of 5 stars With Undrastormur, Roger Eschbacher again ventures into the YA territory from his Dragonfriend series – well, not the same world but certainly aimed at the same demographic: Pre-teens just discovering their grown up fantasy worlds. With this novella, we are introduced to Eirik, the teenage […]
March 14, 2015
Be Yourself, unless….
I know they’re jokes, but I recently had a weird, knee jerk reaction to those posts on social media saying “Be Yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.” You can replace Batman with any number of other things, from pirates, to fairies, to unicorns to any of a multitude of other superheroes. […]
March 11, 2015
Podcasting…?
So I’m thinking about podcasts. These are the democratization of ideas and thoughts, right? Anyone who thinks they have something to say has an open platform in which to say it. This is the digital version of Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park. It doesn’t really matter if you’re right or wrong, no one is fact […]
