Earlier this month, a 59-year-old Gaston, NC convenience store clerk handed an RBC Bank teller a note demanding $1. He did this because he needs medical care, which he hopes to get in prison. As Diane Turbyfill wrote in the June 16 issue of the Gaston Gazette, James Richard Verone had exhausted his savings when […]
Published at Technorati With apologies to director J. J. Abrams, “Super 8” is a producer’s film … Spielberg by the book: Flawed but sympathetic characters banding together to overcome formidable odds … Personal differences among sympathetic characters worked through … Life-affirming climax … Brisk, heartwarming, good looking, family friendly, and love, not math, established as […]
Three unrelated topics today … 1.) You’ve heard of “wilding,” I’m sure, a term that came into general use during the 1989 Central Park Jogger trial. People involved in wildings – the perpetrators, not the victims – enter a psychotic flow state, as I understand it. Mob mentality. It’s a bad thing. There’s a wilding […]
