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November 11, 2014
The Eleventh Minute of the … Have You Forgotten Yet?
Perhaps if we take a moment to remember that today is Veterans-Armistice-Remembrance Day; that at eleven past eleven this morning in 1918 The War to End All Wars ended; and then take another to really read Siegfried Sassoon’s poem – written in the trenches – we would stop churning out veterans. HAVE you forgotten yet? … For the […]
October 31, 2014
Halloween Thoughts From William Hanlin’s World
In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine-cones lay–the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled-up skeleton; And scores of such. Some start as in dreams, And comrades lost bemoan: By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged– But the Year and the Man were gone. When William […]
October 29, 2014
Lucky Break
The Antares rocket blew up on the launch pad yesterday, causing millions in propert damage but thankfully no casualties. Dozens of scientific experiments destined for the International Space Station were destroyed. Except ours …. A one in a million shot, it worked out against all odds. Our experiment: the effect of the explosion of tons […]
October 28, 2014
Ebola, the Eastland, and Government
I think its safe to say governments, particularly in the form of the lower houses of law-making bodies, are usually reactionary, very rarely proactive. For the simple reason that being reactionary is a very public way of ‘solving a problem’ while proactive measures are pretty damn hard to trumpet after they work. “Hey, the bill […]
October 19, 2014
A Litigator, A Psychotic Kitchen Supervisor, and A Memoir
Why now? Why this moment to pull the trigger on a memoir that ostensibly could have been written four years ago? Why so damn resistant to the advice of award-winning, best-selling authors? Why so resistant, period? Questions I’ve been asked repeatedly over the last month or so. My standard reply is “Hey, it feels right, won’t […]
October 16, 2014
Santa’s Prison Poem
Santa was about 5’3″, round, jolly in the ‘the-nicer-I-am-the easier-they-fall’ professional conman sense, perfectly bearded with a prodigious mustache that twirled up in perfect Snidely Whiplash fashion, and smart enough to turn any circumstance into a profitable venture. Any. He graduated from Providence College about fifteen years before me, was a practicing Catholic who fully agreed with Tom […]
October 1, 2014
A Tale of Two Tales
Here’s the deal – a chunk of The Hanlin Series was written in prison. No, prisons – ten in five states over four and one half years. Most readers know this, I’ve told a few, it’s mentioned – albeit somewhat obliquely – on my ‘About Me‘ page, a few other places . . . then […]
September 20, 2014
Nobody Learn No Nothing . . .
But goddammit, this round is on me Nobody learn no nothing from no history ~Gogol Bordello, Ave. B There’s a story out here, pretty horrible story at that: a superpower gets involved in the Mid-East because of vital national interests; forms and supports a local government; finds itself overextended around the world; walks away from […]
September 11, 2014
Writing the Hanlin Novel(s)
I had the idea for the Hanlin novels years ago. Somewhere between lasting through Ted Turner's Gettysburg (worst cameo in movie history, by the way) sitting riveted by the first 22 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, visiting Litchfield Connecticut's town green, and …. Well, a few other influences … I ended up writing it through […]
September 10, 2014
Yup, It’s Out!
The Ceremony of Innocence,Volume One of William Hanlin's Civil War is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle ….. The special signed copy/deal is also still available …… All comments and questions are welcomed. Posted with BlogsyFiled under: Stuff
