The Night Bookmobile

The second time I saw The Night Bookmobile it was another chance encounter. Something wonderfully odd happens to people who have huge bestsellers-they kind of lose their minds.  Stephen King, James A. Michener, and J.K. Rowling all decided that having a base of reader meant they could crank out stories with millions of words.  Other writers have decided that this means they have been touched by God and need to do a bit more preaching than they used to.  And some decide to explore other mediums besides the boring world of the novel. Audrey Niffeneggerwrote one of my all time…

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Eureka-The Statue is Made of Bronze!

The Syfy Channel has a handful of first run series, the best of which at the moment is Eureka.  This is the story of a small town of super geniuses who didn’t want to live in Area 51 and the poor sap who ends up being the town’s Sheriff.   The punchline of almost every episode of Eureka is that the idiot Sheriff is the only one to see the obvious solution to whatever earth ending problem the super geniuses have created that week. The new season opens up with a collection of Previously on Eureka clips, the most interesting…

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