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October 23, 2015
Funky Friday: Clinton In the News
Been hearing a lot about a certain Clinton testifying before Congress for something or other. Pretty sure it’s not this Clinton, though.Filed under: Codorus Press, Cool Images, Music, Scott B. Pruden, video Tagged: Benghazi, Congress, fun, funk, Funkadelic, Funky Friday, George Clinton, Give Up the Funk, Hillary Clinton, HRC, humor, music, Parliament, scott b. pruden, […]
October 6, 2015
Novel No. 2’s Soundtrack Takes Shape
Call me an overachiever. It’s not enough for me to just imagine characters and settings and plot and all the tasty ingredients that typically go into a novel. No, I’ve got to go the extra mile and imagine what those characters are listening to, what music might be playing the background of a given scene […]
October 2, 2015
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Spoiler Alert: This post relates to a political issue. If you would prefer not to hear what I have to say, please move along. Thanks! Another mass shooting. Another “quiet loner” armed to the gills and packing a gripe about … something. Another 10 people dead for doing nothing more than existing in particular place […]
September 28, 2015
Here’s to a Surreal Start to Your Week
Time and space are funny things. I know this sounds like a Dr. Who quote, but stay with me. For example, It never seems to take as long returning from a distant destination than it does getting there in the first place. Get head down in work you love and it almost seems you can […]
September 25, 2015
Thoughts Upon Turning 47: Embrace the Thing You Love
As of today, I’ve spent 47 years roaming this earth (or at least various parts of the United States) with the rest of you, trying to figure out how this life thing is supposed to work. And here’s a little something I’ve learned along the way: If there’s something that you’re good at, something at […]
September 21, 2015
Monday Motivation: Keep Things Groovy and Weird
I always got the feeling when I was working in the full-time office world that – despite the diverse and disparate personalities that surrounded me in the newspaper business – I was always considered one of the worker bees who was a little … off. Former co-workers can render their own opinions on this, but […]
August 28, 2015
Funky Friday: To Boldly Booty Shake Where No One Has Booty Shaken Before!
Today, the Prime Directive is to get down.Filed under: Scott B. Pruden
August 12, 2015
My Rhode Island Geek Brothers and Sisters, You Have Failed PR 101
First off, I’d like to go on record as saying that I was a big ol’ geek long before I was a journalist, and I have the well-worn science fiction paperbacks, 1980s vintage D&D dice and former subscription to Starlog magazine to prove it. But I sit here, at 46, as both (geek by birth, […]
July 13, 2015
Happy (Slow Going) Monday!
Summers for the freelancing parent mean two things – more time enjoying the warm weather and time off from school with the kids, and more late nights working on all the assignments that normal people would be doing during the daylight hours. The result is some groggy mornings, particularly when the work to be completed […]
July 6, 2015
In the Wake of Charleston, Waiting for Tomorrowland
Wow – what a weird couple of weeks. A few major Supreme Court decisions that permanently turned things in the U.S. in a dramatically different direction, preceded by the tragedy of the Charleston, S.C., church shooting. The day of the shooting was hard for me. So hard for me that by 11:30 a.m., I had […]
