Pros and cons of living far away from family
I am recovering from a nine-day vacation to visit family in Alabama. “Vacation” is a misnomer here. I slept poorly
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Month: July 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter stuntman Igor Tsai puts action back into movies
(Igor Tsai practicing a stunt on the set.) (Hal Foster appears in the Baltimore Post-Examiner under a partnership with Tengrinews of Kazakhstan.
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Can I Wish It for You?
Can I wish it for you The life you wanted Could I be there too? And not where I am
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State police upgrades to $7M next generation 911 system
The Board of Public Works approved Wednesday the State Police’s purchase of a $7.1 million advanced 911 system which could allow citizens to call, text or even tweet for help.
The State Police, which handles about 3% of the state’s crime calls, will not only be on the cutting-edge of technology, they’ll have, well, technology in the 21 barracks where 911 calls are answered on standard telephones.
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I was once a film snob, full of it, and proud of it
Oh yeah – saw that film – don’t bother. Hate that film. Whoever said he could act was seriously disturbed?
Read moreRiding the Feather River Route (1991)
I completed a 12-hour, 354-mile run up the Feather River canyon in the Sierra Nevada and through the Black Rock
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Fireworks ignite fashion
Fireworks to me mean another opportunity to make a stylin’ statement. That’s exactly what I did to celebrate the Fourth
Read moreNot all millionaires are the same: wealth vs. income
The national Tax Foundation got into a bit of a blogging bout with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office Tuesday over what the foundation saw as misuse of its tax figures. But another problem with the blog was its use of figures about millionaires. It confuses the 157,000 households with liquid assets of $1 million with the 7,000 or so households which have income of $1 million a year.
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