Reads of the Week, and Why

As a recurring segment I'm going to tell you some places you ought to visit and why I like them.

Success Warrior's Blog:  I've known him for a very long time.  What he's doing is extracting himself from crushing debt and sharing the techniques and lessons he learns along the way.  It's a program filled with common sense and obvious results.  I'm following along in my own life, eliminating my debt, and putting myself on a track for success as well. 

On that note, I took Medium to see Pan's Labyrinth this weekend and one of the trailers we sat through was for this fascinating movie, Maxed Out.  "Filmmaker James   Scurlock takes us on a journey deep inside American debt, where everything seems   okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. He shows how the   modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of "preferred   customer" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting   richer." I think this is a must-see for Success Warrior.

Tim Mulcahy: Tim's both a great writer, and in my writer's group. He's creating a web-based epic story, the next logical step from a novel. What this means is that detailed descriptions, interesting asides, and back story are optional to read, and not cluttering the action of the scenes.  Hyperlinks take you to supplemental episodes and scenes.  It's a fantastic story, by the way, and you won't expect the ending. 

Tim also has a new story published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.  The story, Speedbumps on the Road to Recovery, was recently reviewed at Tangent Online: ". . .a fun little story of our times. Arnie Campbell is a businessman out of therapy after having a nervous breakdown.  His in-head Scheduler helps him keep track of his many meetings and calls in true near-future, sci-fi style.  The story has a good message, delivered with humor."

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The Angry Young Man: If there's one message I wish I could convey well in my writing, it's that mixture of clever sarcasm told in terms of current culture. Reading The Angry Young Man is like a experiencing a conversation between David Lynch and John Waters, it's rich and bitter, enlightening, hopeful, but will scorch you like a lit burner if you aren't careful. 

I met The Angry Young Man once in real life at a bar in Minneapolis.  He's as smart as his writing, the kind of guy you know always gets the joke before you do. 

Axial Tilt: While he hasn't been updating his blog much recently, this is the place to go when you want insight into the newest global warming and physical science news. John, the author, is careful and brilliant, and a great singer as well as a pretty decent softball player I'm told.  It's a good blog, but bug him to keep it updated.

Besides Axial Tilt, he's responsible for assembling some of the best science visualization pages on the internet.  For example the Hurricane Visualizations and Tsunami Visualizations he assembled are the number one search results on Google in their categories.

Ravings of a Semi-Sane Madwoman: This is the site to go to for your daily dose of indignation. It's all things horrible being done in or by America in our name.  Every time I visit the site I'm stunned by stupidity, angry with the hubris, and ready to scream.  That's why she's mad, and not completely sane.  Rose does a great job with the news and slices right to the heart of the problem.

- rick, loving the internet.

Comments

[a rose is a rose]

thanks for the shout out rick.