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First autumn/winter holiday done and gone, slip this one on educating our youth in before the next one creeps up on us.

Transcript on the blog!

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Hey all! Happy Halloween!

I wrote this story years ago for a spooky story contest (which I won!). Then, two years ago, I expanded on it for a longer work called Haunted Houses, which I wrote for the National Noviember Writing Month activity (NaNoWriMo). I've lifted it from that longer work and reworked it into a stand-alone for this episode.

That music you hear in the spooky sections is the theme song I composed for a short animated work I'm forever working on called Tijeras (Scissors). I probably should just write that story out and record it as well.

As always, you can read this over on the blog.

No tricks this year, have the treats at home!

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Hey all!

Quick look at the movie Shirley. Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed it. Don't think you'll know until you've seen it, so be prepared to either love / like / hate / dislike the next 107 minutes of your cinema experience!

Transcript on the blog.

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It’s been bumping around in my head for months, I’ve even alluded to it in earlier discussions, especially when I speak of Covid-19 as a social disease. I’ve even had a feeling of the concept coagulating or setting like Jell-o in my mind over the last couple of days as I engage in the single-theme conversations that fill in time between meals, work, personal projects and disconnect. Last night, in another context, I saw the idea again and even more clearly. For now, and I think I’ll be changing this, I’m going to call it “selfish impatience”, though I kind of like how that sounds.

Transcript available on the blog.

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Now, isn't that a curiosity-raising title?

The articles mentioned in the episode can be read here and here.

The transcript can be read here.

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Looking for a "light" "based on real events" scandal flick to waste away an hour and a half of your Saturday or Sunday? Check out Bad Education (I still haven't set the format for movie titles....). Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney give us a kind of characture of how not to steal money from a school system, and I take advantage of the review to go on about school systems -- two in one!

Transcript can be had on the blog!

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That title sounds a little legal or constitutional, doesn't it? School kids have been back in the classrooms (and sent back home!) in Spain for a couple of weeks now and I go on a bit on some of the justifications given for the necessity of getting them back behind their desks (and the new plastic shields!).

If you want to read it (or need to translate it to your language!) check out the transcript on the blog.

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This one is out of left field, so not going to even give you a written clue. Just listen, and shut it off if you can't get to the end, that's all!

Transcript of part of this week's episode on the blog.

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Bob Woodward's new book, "Rage", will soon be in our hands. Its publication seems to have brought up some journalistic ethics questions that I've got an opinion about and that I share in this episode of radio revel.

You can check out the transcript on the blog.

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Not sure how this one ended up turning into a diatribe on stupidity, I think maybe because I tried to describe my experiences outside of my home in exterior reality (previously known as "Old normal with mask" and currently looking for a new moniker). Since I spend so little time outside of the safe haven of my house and patio, there wasn't much to describe. And the other just slipped into the conversation. That's how those things go sometimes. Would have happened if I hadn't scripted it as well.

Transcript on the blog!

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