Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Nov 4, 2009, 10:48 am
I saw Big Bird on some morning show a coupe of years ago when Sesame Street was having some other anniversary.  The show’s host asked Big Bird what it was like being on the air for 35 years-and...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Nov 3, 2009, 7:39 am
What if. . .Raiders of the Lost Ark was a 50s film serial? Who would be best suited for the role of Indiana Jones? How would his villains translate to this era? What would the film’s musical sco...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Nov 2, 2009, 9:01 am
You can buy the Twilight fanatic in your house an Edward Cullen or Bella Swan Barbie doll. The dolls are modeled after Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart — the actors who play the on-screen lo...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Nov 1, 2009, 10:33 am
Afghan run-off presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has withdrawn from the November 7 run-off election against incumbent president and United States Puppet Ruler Hamid Karzai. The Afghan run-off ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Nov 1, 2009, 6:06 am
Spilers Within I read a book on writing one time that advised you take a common story and make the villain the hero. My first thought was The Wicked Witch of The West, it appears that this was also ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 31, 2009, 10:58 pm
I live in the great state of Texas and there has been a bit of hubbub recently about a series of tickets written by the Dallas Police Dept for being Non-English Speaking Drivers-which is against the l...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 30, 2009, 10:31 am
Ink Stains has a lot of Halloween Quotes and images of old Halloween Greeting Cards. Always good to see someone who loves a holiday so much. Ink Stains is a very cool blog, though it does bring out ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 29, 2009, 4:24 pm
When NBC made the brilliant move of putting Jay Leno in the last Prime Time slot-every week night-this was just the latest sign that they no longer wanted to pay writers to work on shows like Law & Or...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 27, 2009, 11:51 am
Top Secret Recipes is a collection of copy cat recipes-or clone recipes as author Todd Wilbur calls them. There are several books in the series and all of them are fun. The Top Secret Restaurant Rec...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 25, 2009, 11:38 am
A couple of years ago I read a book by Graham Kerr of Galloping Gourmet fame. He talked about working in a Tasting Lab and how he and his fellow cooks would add more and more salt and more and more s...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 24, 2009, 10:27 am
Wrongcards.com is possibly the most curious ecard site on the web. Offering a wrong card for every occasion, you may find here greeting cards with a unique freshness and originality.-wrongcards Wrong...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 23, 2009, 11:18 am
News Corp., one of the co-owners of the site, has confirmed the rumor that it intends to start charging fees at some point-most reports say Hulu will start charging a user fee in 2010. The Wife found...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 22, 2009, 11:43 am
“I feel your pain. I accept your anger. And I pray for you all to have some measure of peace and comfort,” James Arthur Ray wrote Tuesday on his blog-comments were turned off on the posts ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 21, 2009, 11:15 am
Technorati has a new look and feel to it-though everything is still green and it looks mostly as it did last time I paid any attention to it. Well, except for one thing-Blogs relating to “http://ww...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 20, 2009, 10:00 pm
Fangland starts off with a TV show producer on her way to Romania to interview a criminal mastermind.  Along the way she meets a fellow Southern Girl from Dallas and finds out that the criminal is no...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 20, 2009, 12:02 pm
A blog (a contraction of the term “weblog”) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 19, 2009, 10:02 am
Spoilers Within At the end of last season, Erica was left without the benefit of her new Therapist, Dr Tom. She betrayed his trust, and he decided that he didn’t want to be her therapist any l...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 18, 2009, 11:38 am
The History Channel’s Life After People is a fun show with a lot of cool effects and an interesting trip to the area near Chernobyl. Life goes on and the History Channel wants us to believe tha...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 17, 2009, 10:21 pm
My all time favorite pumpkin carving designs come from the master pumpkin carver Scott Cummins. His pumpkin carving designs are more works of art than the average jack-o-lantern of days gone by. Pum...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 14, 2009, 10:52 am
Filippa Hamilton believes she was fired from Ralph Lauren for being too fat-I think she was fired for being too old. At 23 years of age she is no longer the prototype of the super hip and trendy whit...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 13, 2009, 8:11 pm
One of the best parts of going to a Sci Fi Con in the good old days was seeing the Original Star Trek Blooper Reel. That was back in the dark ages before everything was on YouTube or just tacked to t...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 13, 2009, 7:20 pm
Congratulations, President Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.  The Nobel Committee hands out th...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 12, 2009, 5:33 pm
Showtime’s Dexter is a great show-there is something about a serial killer being a good guy that appeals to my darker nature. Of course, Dexter is a good guy-he only kills bad guys. Not that t...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 11, 2009, 7:40 pm
Michael Pollan, who wrote the brilliant book In Defense of Food, is one of the commentators in Food, Inc. Also on hand is the thought provoking Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Sprinkled ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 11, 2009, 10:12 am
Now I should know better. I was fiddling around and killed my blog a couple of days ago. This was bit depressing. But I thought, maybe it’s a sign. And since I had to work anyway, there was ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 8, 2009, 9:52 am
I have always had a mild fascination with The Green Fairy. Absinthe was a forbidden fruit for so long, but now it can be found and bought legallyin the Untied States. St George Spirits sells an Ameri...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 7, 2009, 5:24 am
Stargate Universe starts with a flash to the past-to The Last Starfighter, where a boy was chosen to be a warrior because he was good at a video game. The kiddo here is named Eli Wallace, which is al...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 6, 2009, 10:31 am
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac-Henry Kissinger, one of the creepiest fellows in history who bragged about is sex life. David Letterman started off his monologue with a number of half jokes about r...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 5, 2009, 10:12 pm
Following in the fabled footsteps of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, ESPN Magazine has The Body Issue. Several covers featuring naked, semi-nude, and generally shiny athletes flexing their pro...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 5, 2009, 5:13 pm
What if Harry Potter had been written by Charles Dickens instead of JK Rowlings? You’d get something like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. This is a heavy tome that is not served well by it...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 5, 2009, 12:49 pm
You know, I kind of miss Terrel Owens. I know he was past his prime and he is going downhill fast, but at least he was someone Coach Cupcake and Tony Romo could blame when the Dallas Cowboys just thr...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 4, 2009, 2:28 pm
Parade Magazine has a story this week about How Spiritual people are. One of the interesting bits is that 24% of respondents put themselves into the category: “spiritual but not religious.” I wo...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 3, 2009, 7:30 am
The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz is another of my favorite type of travel books-the Anti-Travel book, in which all the horrors of living in Paris are reveled in wonderfully colorful language....
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 2, 2009, 10:06 am
The Little Black Book of Online Business is an odd little volume-it is a printed book filled with link pages.  The subtitle says 1001 Insider Resources Every Business Owner Needs.  The website for t...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 1, 2009, 11:08 am

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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Oct 1, 2009, 9:55 am
The National Parks-America’s Best Idea is the latest film from Ken Burns. Like everything Ken Burns has done, and will ever do, it is nothing but a pale shade of The Civil War. The Civil War i...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 30, 2009, 8:27 am
Home is heaven and orgies are vile But you need an orgy, once in a while. Ogden Nash A number of people seem to be shocked that the normally pure and wholesome Britney(where’s my underwear?)S...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 29, 2009, 8:34 pm
Well, I’ll be honest-I could care less about paid ads or robo droppers or whatever the latest complaint is about. Entrecard was sort of fun and I did find a lot of interesting blogs, lots of od...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 29, 2009, 4:19 pm
About twenty years ago, more or less, I applied to the Cooking School at El Centro College in downtown Dallas. I listened raptly as the instructors talked about the handful of rich and famous chefs t...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 29, 2009, 9:07 am
The Wife has made a couple of videos for a You Tube contest and she has had a bit of fun doing it. I have helped a little, but have not been bitten by the Directing bug myself. But that could change...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 28, 2009, 9:21 am
No Reservations is a great show. But it’s only a great show because of Anthony Bourdain. I have been known to watch travel and food shows and say-in all humble honesty-I COULD DO THAT SHOW!!! ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 27, 2009, 3:05 pm
One of my blog buddies is a bit of a curmudgeon who likes to think about failure and how most of us are not going to reach our goals in life. From time to time I go and comment on his blog and he com...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 26, 2009, 11:24 pm
The Naughty Kitchen is an Oxygen Network show about a posh restaurant in Dallas with a new Executive Chef. Chef Blythe Beck’s style is to be cute and bubbly and foul mouthed. There is a lot of...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 22, 2009, 11:13 am
A Perfect Mess tells the story of how a little disorder can be a good thing. With side trips into Chaos Theory, Compulsive Hording, Professional Organizers, and the Evil That Martha Stewart Does-this...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 21, 2009, 11:04 am
The Google doodle for HG Wells 143 birthday features walking UFOs made famous in War of The Worlds. I like the whole Google obsession with flying saucers, but then, I am pretty easily amused. HG Wel...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 20, 2009, 2:32 pm
spoilers within While season 1 of Fringe clearly looked like the X-Files, Fringe Season 2 goes ahead and declares itself a sequel to The X-Files. With two nods to Chris Carter’s X-Files in the...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 19, 2009, 10:18 pm
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones-Shakespeare-or someone using that name. Interred With Their Bones is the story of a lost Shakespeare play and the ques...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 17, 2009, 9:34 am
Kanye West, the new poster child for rude and obnoxious knuckleheads the world over-has inspired a new website-kanyelicio.us. The site’s sole purpose is to make Kanye West insult a website, any...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 17, 2009, 8:14 am
It’s impossible to think about Mary Travers without thinking of Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow and the 1960s. They were some of those people who were fighting the good fight, and seemed to want ...
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Jon H. posted an article on If You Write It - Sep 16, 2009, 7:25 am
Spoilers Within Penn & Teller Get Killed came out twenty years ago. As far as lame movies being used as star vehicles go, this is not quite as bad as Clam Bake, and a lot better than anything Larry ...
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