Where in the World?

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Propagating my friend Marko’s travel meme… Five really interesting/beautiful foreign places I’ve visited: British Columbia Niagara Falls Taiwan Mexicali Hawaii (that’s a “foreign place,” right, Cokie Roberts?) Five countries that are high up on my List of Places I Want…

Classic Trek FTW

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“Let’s put it this way: Kirk kissed a lot of ladies, and none of them were his sister.” — Stephanie Reid-Simons, “Star Trek ain’t Star Wars, J.J.!” from armchaircommentary.com I, too, have my doubts about next year’s Trek reboot. Abrams…

Pulp Direction

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Today is the birthday of Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage (“The Man of Bronze”). Writer’s Almanac describes his formula for writing a 6,000-word pulp story: Dent wrote more than a thousand pulp fiction stories, all with the same formula,…