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Author Archives: Bob Evans
A brief look down memory lane
The other day I had the urge to look upon my childhood home. Now, that home is in another state that happens to be located on the far side of the North American continent from where I currently reside. This being the 21st century those things were not insurmountable problems. What was more of a problem was that I had no idea of the address.
After consulting with my brothers and sisters, they were able to give me the data I needed in order to not only find it on google maps, but see it through the google map street view function.
Fright Night (1985) vs. Fright Night (2011)
A few weeks ago a couple of friends and myself sat down and watched on Blu-ray the remake of 90’s vampire flick, Fright Night.
I had seen the original film during its first run in 1985 and while I didn’t haste the film, nor did I love. My friends were more favorably inclined towards the original. Continue reading
Why should I vote for the Republicans?
I know a number of people who do not approve of the Obama presidency, and I can tell you that stating it that way is as mild as it gets. IT has been interesting watching them shift from potential Republican nominee to the newest acceptable nominee candidate as the field shrinks and their prefer choice is eliminated.
There is no doubt that when the election rolls around many of these friends will walk into the voting booth and pull, punch, mark, or otherwise indicate that their selection is for the Republican candidate.
What I wonder is if any of these people, or anyone else out there who has been really animated against the current administration, can argue for me why we should vote for the Republicans, without mentioning Obama or democrats? Can they make a positive case for their side, instead of a case based upon, “The other guys are worse?”
p.s.
For what it is worth I consider Obama to be a merely mediocre president. He could have done better, he could have done more, but I don’t consider him to be the abject failure that some paint him to be, or the sainted hero people wanted him to be.
Headache Log
1/23/12 20:04 started developing a headache. Took 1 dose of treximet.
Sunday Night Movie: The Eiger Sanction
Last night movie-wise I was certainly in an odd mood. My potential selections, based on time constraints, ranged from the light hearted, (The Hudsucker Proxy) to the serious genre film, (Village of The Damned) thru the blockbuster (Jaws) to what I finally settled upon, 
1975’s espionage thriller, The Eiger Sanction.
This was the fourth time that actor Clint Easton had stepped into the director’s chair on a film. In the decades that have followed Eastwood has been nominated several times and has won the Oscar for Best Director. While The Eiger Sanction is a good film, it’s not up to his recent standards.
Eastwood plays Dr Jonathan Hemlock – we never learn is that is an assumed name or not – a government assassin, now retired to teaching art as a college professor. When the Agency has need for an assassination or ‘sanction’ requiring Hemlocks unique skill set, they ruthlessly press him back into service. Continue reading
Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and the politics of hatred
Mitt Romney’s career as a venture capitalist has become a point of attack by his political enemies, both Republican and Democratic.
His supporters have fallen back on the defense that these attacks are about class warfare, envy and a hatred of success. It is an understandable, if misguided defense.
I have sympathy for the people trying to defect this line of attack. This is an emotionally very charged and very effective line to use against Mitt Romney, but why is that? Are these charges generated by class envy, by people who are jealous of Romney’s success and vast fortune? Continue reading
On writing Men and Women characters
One of the perennial questions is can men write believable and credible women characters? (It is rarely asked if woman can do the same for male characters, the answer is generally assumed to be yes, but that’s a little afield from where I want to go in today’s essay.) I have an author friend, NYT bestseller and all, who feels that she has never encountered a well written female character emerging from a male writer’s prose. I know other women readers who are quite the opposite, adoring some male writers for their depiction of females.
(If you want to start an unending argument at an SF convention, in a mixed audience, praise Heinlein’s female characters. You will ignite women passionate on both side of that questions.) Continue reading
And Now another Elimination from Republican Idol
Thursday Gov. Rick Perry of Texas announced his withdrawal from the train wreck that is the Republican Nomination process for President of The United States of America. I remember before Perry got into the race, when Bachmann was the surging anti-Romney, and many people we thinking that there was a Perry shaped hole in the field. Evidently Perry thought so as well. He leapt into the race, shot to the top like a rocket, and turned out to be a firework and not a single-stage to orbit craft. A quick flame out, and a few attempts to reignite his engine failed, Perry has now crashed, leaving a crater where his ambitions once stood. Continue reading
SNL, during a political season, actually funny.