Edward M. Wolfe's Blog

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The Confederate Flag: Should We Get Rid of It?

Guest blog from an old friend, J.J. Johnson.

Okay, so what’s wrong with me? If I watch enough news, I should be out there with my black brethren yelling, screaming, and looking to burn every free waving set of Stars and Bars I run across. So what’s wrong? Shouldn’t I be offended as well?

In a way, yes. I am. And here’s why:

I had ancestors who fought on both sides of that war – which was anything but civil.

Surprised?

Yes, in Northern Mississippi in fact. Cousin against cousin. One man t...

The Cereal Saga

Excerpted from: Ascending Bastard:An Autobiography

The Cereal Saga

The first place we lived where I actually knew the name of our street, was Kearn Street. I was six or seven when we moved there. Prior to this, we lived not far away where I have a few scattered memories of coming home from school and watching Speed Racer on channel 52, which was a UHF channel. My older sister Linda once fell backwards in a kitchen chair, hit her arm on an electrical plug and got shocked. My little sister was...

Fiction & Fears

Writers are frequently advised to write what scares them. Stephen King says that’s where he gets his ideas. A giant spider, a killer clown, a haunted hotel, and so on. In my case, the scariestthing in the world is watching our country and the people in it losing their minds and turning into rabid hate machines. Everyone wants their way, and the people who want things another way are the enemy! They’re not just people with a differing opinion, or people you find disagreeable. They are the frea...

Book Review: Cantal’s Revenge

Cantal’s Revenge by John Zanetti

Brilliant sci-fi author and master world-builder John Zanetti has published a new novel, and it’s the kind that will take you so far into the future that the culture is completely unrecognizable, and yet it will become utterly real to you the longer you stay there.

Cantalina Frieze is a mostly ordinary girl with modest ambitions. She wants to be an historian like her father. She’s intelligent, capable and attractive, and wants to be a good daughter and citizen...

Book Review: My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell

My Big [Theory of Everything]This could’ve been great if Campbell hadjust been able to say what he wanted to say. But instead of doing that, he decided that he knew the landscape of every potential reader’s mind and proceeded to terraform those minds, then landscape them, then construct a proper nursery where his ideas would have a chance to take root and grow.

I have never read a book where an author talks so much about what he’s going to tell you, and does so little actual telling.

If you d...

Let’s Get Some TVs

I wrote this shortly after the Rodney King riots, so the references are specific to that incident, but the general principle still applies today.

(Sung to the tune of Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing” (I want my MTV)

Now look at those Honkies, that’s the way they screw us

They knock the shit out of our Rodney King

That ain’t justice – that’s the way they screw us

Let’s get some TVs and some shit for free

Now that ain’t justice – that’s the way they screw us

Lemme tell ya – them cops sure dumb

They bea...

Book Review: The Gardener Who Could See

Every once in a while, you come across a book that is so different that it stands apart from all the books that are so much the same. Sometimes such books become bestsellers, and sometimes, sadly, they live unnoticed and largely unknown; gathering dust on a library shelf until one lucky day, a reader picks it up and gets a huge unexpected surprise.

I just read one of those books. It was just recently self-published by an author that I like. He writes really well with a nice, clean style and n...

An unexpected surprise

Every once in a while, you come across a book that is so different that it stands apart from all the books that are so much the same. Sometimes such books become bestsellers, and sometimes, sadly, they live unnoticed and largely unknown; gathering dust on a library shelf until one lucky day, a reader picks it up and gets a huge unexpected surprise.

I just read one of those books. It was just recently self-published by an author that I like. He writes really well with a nice, clean style and no...

Would You Please Stop Writing, Please?

A review of RaymondCarver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

I’m usually not comfortable with writing a scathing book review, but in this case, the author is dead, so I’m okay with it. I wrote the first part of this review before I had finished the book, then the second part after.

Part One

I’ve read five stories so far in this book of short stories and I want to write what I’m thinking long before I’ve reached the end of the book, so this is like a pre-review; my first impressions t...