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Musical Folly

Living In Fear

by Richard

Right at this moment, I’m living in fear. Terrible fear. Zippy the Monkey Boy is, you see, running loose in Europe. Well, not exactly loose — he’s with a tour group from his school — but he’s over there with no experienced adult supervision.

And by experienced, I mean someone more than willing to pull out [...]

Freaky Friday: Online Ostracism

by Richard

Most of the time, being a bully means abusing someone (normally) smaller than you, either physically, emotionally or verbally. Still, there is another, much more subtle form of bullying. It’s called ostracism, which means ignoring someone, casting them out of the group, and it can have a decidedly detrimental effect on the self esteem of [...]

Dude Review: Under The Dome

by Richard

I can’t believe I’m about to write the following sentence. Stephen King’s latest doorstop of a novel, Under The Dome, is ponderous, predictable and, worst of all, boring. And this is coming from one of the biggest Stephen King fans on the planet. Heck. I even read From a Buick 8 and liked it, but [...]