A FILM AMERICANS WON’T BE SEEING (maybe) by Leigh Lundin It disappoints me when I read about movies that won’t be shown in America, films like Adam Curtis’ The Power of Nightmares that a nation isolated like ours could learn from, but ‘deciders’ think otherwise. Normally, these films sell in virtually every territory around the […]

WWJW by Leigh Lundin What do you do if your religious beliefs conflict with your Bible? Most Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Muslims would say you get right with God, but if you’re Andrew Schlafly, you rewrite the Bible to suit your own notions. Really. I’m serious. I couldn’t make this up. I’ve tried not to […]

WHEN WORDS AREN’T ENOUGH by Leigh Lundin I’ve been thinking about word play this past week. I found one little quiz surprisingly difficult: Name three English words beginning with ‘dw‘. Initial Mistake Several days ago, Deborah asked us to name something about ourselves no one else was likely to know. I answered about a fraud […]

PROFESSIONAL TIPS – Robert Heinlein by Leigh Lundin Hugo winner Robert A. Heinlein was one of the classic writers nurtured by Astounding Science Fiction’s renown editor, John W. Campbell. He was a difficult writer for many people, thought by the left to be right wing and thought by the right to be left wing, and […]

NEWS at 11 by Leigh Lundin I bookmark interesting news items that may (or not) relate to writing, words, crime, or nothing at all, but simply catch my fancy. Over time, some are no longer topical and fall off my list and others work their way into longer articles. Some find their way into potluck […]

THOMAS CARLYLE by Leigh Lundin Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, historian, and satirist, pivotally influenced English literature, but there’s an important lesson of his that stands out in the literary world: Make backups! Back up your data. Back it up to a CD, a DVD, a keychain flash drive, but make backups. Back up frequently. […]

MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND by Leigh Lundin Someone in the UK with nothing better to do (or possibly dreaming up an internet article) came up with a list of odd and interesting place names, a few that might be censored if tried on today.[1] Some simply sound fun: Funzie, Affpuddle, Barton in the Beans, Besses o’th’ […]