Sheeeee’s Baaaaack!

Or to paraphrase Ronald Regean, “There he/she/it goes again.”
This time it’s another gratuitious mention of The Rubester’s name in an item about a totally unreleated story in SFist. I’m not going to rehash this case for you. As thinking adults you can probably find out all about it on the internet.
Suffice to say SFist’s [...]

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Renewable Bimbo Energy

One of the features I like about USA Today is its inclusion of those little graphy charty filler things thrown in almost as an afterthought. Usually you’ll find them stuck way down in a corner of a page where you might easily overlook them. To bad. Some of them are interesting and relevant.
Today’s USA Snapshot [...]

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Vacation Time in Hawaii

Did you read today’s Matier & Ross? Seems Gav and Jen spent the Memorial Day weekend in Hawaii rather than attend Memorial Day services at the Presidio. I wonder what they did in the islands? Skin dive?
Why would the mayor of a major American city that has been a focal point of military-related activities for [...]

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A Professional Analysis of Nicholas Spark’s “True Believer” in Three Installments

Final Installment of my Professional Analysis
(Cont’d from Installment II)
Well, in the end, Jeremy and Lexie shop for a home in Lexie’s small town. It’s almost anti-climactic after learning that the sterile Jeremy has impregnated Lexie without benefit of marriage. If I were Lexie, I’d file a lawsuit against Jeremy for plain lies and his physician [...]

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The Rubester

As I predicted in a previous post (The Monica Effect) and alluded to in numerous comments on other blog sites, the name Ruby Rippey-Tourk will live forever in the annals of famous (or infamous) mistresses.
Today (May 29, 2007), a flurry of activity highlighted her name once again. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Matier & Ross [...]

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A Professional Analysis of Nicholas Sparks’ “True Believer” in Three Installments

Installment II
(Cont’d from Installment I)
To pick up Sparks’ tale, despite Jeremy’s brashness, he turns out to be a sensitive and caring soul. We learn that his plans once included a career as a college professor and that he has total recall. God, I hate people with total recall. You can never win an argument [...]

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A Professional Analysis of Nicholas Sparks’ “True Believer” in Three Installments

Installment I
I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Sparks’ “True Believer.” I don’t know why I decided to read it. I haven’t read a romance story since Classic Comics’ treatment of “The Count of Monte Cristo.” Actually, Sparks’ story is the first romance novel I’ve ever read. My usual fictional fare used to be Western stories with [...]

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