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• Aussies mixed about carbon-capturing ‘snow-cone’ machine

  By Editor on September 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AYERS ROCK, AUS – This vast island continent, which endured devastating wildfires from 2019 to 2020 that burned more than 10 million hectares of land and killed over a billion animals, is set to participate in a United Nations’ program… Read More ›

• Rampage leaves splattered victims, questions in wake of violence

  By Editor on June 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  PITTSBURGH – After an extreme dieter ran over several overweight pedestrians this week, members of this shocked community wondered if there were any connection between the victims, besides obesity. “It just doesn’t make sense,” said Tina Ward, 35, a dog… Read More ›

• Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice

  By Editor on March 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›

• ‘Pow!’ soda disrupts consumers’ reality

  By Editor on March 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City Growing up, I enjoyed orange soda and feared spiders, and both feature prominently in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s first science-fiction novel, Orange City, which offers a second chance for felons and outcasts… Read More ›

• Shirking duty leads deputy to rosy hell of disappointment

  By Editor on February 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›

• Bar soap helps users ‘escape’ constraints of pandemic lifestyle

  By Editor on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›

• Name your favorite bands!

  By Editor on January 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book review: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, Grove Press, 448 pages It’s time for a music test. Name your top-five rock bands. Here are mine: The Rolling Stones The Velvet Underground… Read More ›

• Thread of optimism weaves tales of climate heroes

  By Editor on January 19, 2021

  

  Book Review: Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet Rod Taylor, Odyssey Books, 284 pages The assault to the environment currently underway by global warming continues to have noticeable impact on Los Angeles, where I live, in which blazes surrounding the… Read More ›

• There’s no business like show business

  By Editor on December 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Out of Frame Anthologies Jack Lothian, S.J. Sims, Rhiannon Robertson, Sarah Witt Oneiric Roper, John Morgan Risner, 179 pages Living in Los Angeles, I witness no shortage of artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other creatives whose eccentric tendencies and… Read More ›

• Mystical science to transform barren planet to paradise

  By Editor on November 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Dune Frank Herbert, ACE, 884 pages For science-fiction fans, Frank Herbert’s Dune was often introduced during a high school or college English class. For anyone with an interest in the fate of humanity, the 900-page tome became required… Read More ›

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