Key Information to Scan and Store–You’ll Regret Not Doing It
This is one of the basics of preparation, yet many of us fail to do this. Scan and securely store in cloud and on thumb drive the following documents. Then put the documents in a mobile, fireproof secure box. Make sure you scan BOTH sides of all cards Stored Scanned Cloud Documents […]
Spencer: Well written, well-acted. A Fantasy Based in Reality
I’m not in the royals and that whole kaboodle other than watching lots of documentaries about The War of the Roses and other historical documentaries, mainly because my wife controls the remote. We watched Spencer, a snippet of three days of imagined life for Diana Spencer based on the reality of her life. It shows […]
American Rust: Realistic, Gritty and Leaves You Hanging
I’ve been enjoying American Rust week after week as it came out. It’s not exactly a murder mystery because you learn who the killer is pretty early on. It’s more interesting in that it’s a group of character studies. Jeff Daniels anchors it as the sheriff in a western PA town; the kind of place […]
Publication Day: Shane and the Hitwoman
Today is the day. This was a labor of love for the characters from Agnes and the Hitman. It also helps resolve the relationship between Shane and Agnes. And introduce new possibilities. And it brings in a new character, Phoebe, the hitwoman, who has her own set of skills and quirks. Amazon Apple Nook Kobo […]
Condor—Season 1. Well done thriller series, reasonably accurate
We have to remember that Six Days of the Condor, the novel, became Three Days in the movie version. Now the concept has become a TV series and I watched the first season. The idea is updated, of course, with computers being key. A firm working for the CIA, technically part of the CIA, uncovers […]
The Hillsborough Soccer Crush
This is excerpted from The Green Beret Guide to Seven Great Disasters “There was no organised response there at all… There was nobody in charge, no plan, no organisation at all… There was no resuscitation equipment there… The scene was just absolute chaos.” BBC Commentator Des Lynam The Facts On 15 April 1989 at Hillsborough […]
The Forgotten Battle—Not Forgotten and Worth Watching
This new film from on Netflix might be billed as a Dutch version of Saving Private Ryan, but it’s more random than that. It’s billed as the story of three people who tragically interact, yet the reality is only two really interact, but that doesn’t matter. It’s more the story of how random war is […]
Crowd Crush is not a Stampede—Understand the Danger
A recent tragic event at a concern in Houston bring home the danger of being in a crowd. People want to blame those who were there, but I reality, crowd crush kills people who no longer have control over their situation. I researched a terrible example of crowd crush at a soccer match in Hillsborough, […]
The Boys: Brutal, Profane, But Realistically Portrays the “Superhero” Genre
Exploding heads? Overt misogyny including a forced blowjob? The C word as part of normal dialogue for one character? A whale gutted? Any of those turn you off, then forget about The Boys which turns the superhero concept on its head. The Supes are the bad guys here. Although they are billed as the good […]
For All Mankind: Alternate History Done Well
I binged For All Mankind not long ago and found it intriguing and interesting. It’s an alternate history of the moon race where the Russians get to the moon first and the US plays catch-up. The alternate history is interesting but not spectacular. Given that in this version it spurs both countries to put bases […]