The Social Network

Before The Social Network movie came out, I had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg.  I certainly had never heard of the many other people who went to battle with him over the billion dollar empire that Facebook has become.  And even now, just a couple of hours after watching The Social Network, I couldn’t tell you who any of these other people are.  Other than the fact that two of them were twins with weird last names who rowed in the Olympics. But I did like the movie.  There is something just flat out amazing about the idea that some…

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A Slight Trick of The Mind by Mitch Cullin

The Sherlock Holmes we met in A Slight Trick of The Mind is a 93 year man that walks with two canes and seems to be losing what is left of his once great mind. It is a sad tale that is soaked with nostalgia for the days gone by when Holmes could solve a crime just by looking at the mud on a shoe’s heel or listening to the twang of an accent. Holnes still cares for bees and still roams around the world. He visits the site of the Hiroshima Nuclear Attack and marvels at the steel skeleton…

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