by Dan | Feb 23, 2022 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Books
Thanks to old friend and colleague Allen Greenberg, who recommended me to his friend Mike Consol, I wound up recording an hour-long interview yesterday for Mike’s Novelist Spotlight podcast. So if, like most Americans, you’re thinking “It’s...
by Dan | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog, Random Xarking
I shut down my mobile bike-repair service about six years ago, which meant my bicycle-technology obsessions quickly lost most of their intensity. But there was a lot of innovation going on in the bike industry when I got my start in the early 2010s, and by the time I...
by Dan | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
WHEN the spirit swells my breast I love to roam leisurely among the green hills; or sometimes, sitting on the brink of the murmuring Missouri, I marvel at the great blue overhead. With half closed eyes I watch the huge cloud shadows in their noiseless play upon the...
by Dan | Jan 23, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
I kept waiting to read a column devoted to this observation, and maybe it’s out there and I just haven’t seen it. But since I haven’t, here goes: The best thing about President Biden’s inaugural address was that he called out Republican lies...
by Dan | Jan 8, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking, Uncategorized
Pass a law that grants the Federal Communications Comission power to review “public-interest news and commentary” programming for its “stewardship of facts,” regardless of whether the programming is broadcast over the air or transmitted via...