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The Brag Blog
The following is not one of my thrice-weekly regularly scheduled blogs: I haven’t been writing much lately, and that’s unfortunate because I have three suspense novels originally written back in the...
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May 2013 Bring You Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity
2012. It was a hell of a year, but it’s finally over. What good can be said of this past year? Well, the Mayans blew it, and SEAL Team Six didn’t. If that’s not at least two things about which to...
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Interesting Aircraft — The ???
Last Friday I showed you an interesting aircraft that calls El Paso ‘home.” That was the Super Guppy. Here’s another. Let’s see just how good your aircraft recognition is. And the first person to...
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Congratulations to Frank Van Haste
McDonnell 119 / McDonnell 220 Yesterday I ran an aircraft identification contest with pictures I took of the one-of-a-kind McDonnell 119/McDonnell 220 business jet. The prize for correctly identifying...
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A Very Famous Estate Called . . .
. . . Well, we’ll get to that answer on Friday. As for now, let us see how good a guesser you are. As you may have deduced by now, Ursula and I have left Casa Wicker and our two kitties Max and Pooh...
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The Estate of Ian Fleming: GoldenEye
The name of the estate is GoldenEye. It is located on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. The person who gave it the name GoldenEye was Ian Fleming. The character Ian Fleming made famous over the...
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Unions Are Obsolete? The New York 12 — Part 3
Today is the third installment of but one example why we still need labor unions in this country — in both public and private sector. As before we shall continue with our Game of Clue to uncover who...
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Unions Are Obsolete? The New York 12 — Part 4
Outraged yet? You should be. Tomorrow concludes our five-part series. In the meantime, here is Part 4: * * * In the Library with Miss Scarlett and Her Smoking Gun Late that afternoon came the...
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Unions Are Obsolete? The New York 12 — Part 5
Today concludes our lesson on the importance of unions in today’s workplace environment, with a focus on public-sector unions in particular. If you don’t belong to a union, you should consider it. If...
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Indentured Servitude is Alive and Well in the U.S.
An Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) Take it from a former controller who has in his 34 years in the business worked at some pretty busy facilities under less than ideal conditions with obsolete or...
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Channeling Charles Berlitz
According to the captain the MS Ryndam just a short while ago entered the infamous Bermuda TriaFiled under: Author, Humor, Travel, Writing
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A Little Christmas Eve Humor
From Christmas Eves past: A little humor I previously blogged. Read in order for continuity of the story: If Edgar Allan Poe Had Written A Christmas Carol (Humor) A Spillane Christmas Carol...
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My Latest Interview
My latest author’s interview is up and available for reading. Fellow author Matt Posner was asked by another fellow author André Jute to interview me for André’s blog Kissing the Blarney. André also...
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Happy Halloween — The Apollyon Particle
The Apollyon Particle — A Halloween Tale of Terror Time for this year’s Halloween Story. If you enjoy it, please “Like” it below and spread the word. If you don’t, keep your mouth shut or suffer the...
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Holiday Repeat — If Edgar Allan Poe Had Written A Christmas Carol (Humor)
Be sure to catch the Mickey Spillane-inspired sequel to this tale on Christmas Day: A Poe Christmas Once upon a snowstorm dreary, through which I trudged all weak and weary, Past many a quaint and...
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Holiday Repeat — A Spillane Christmas Carol (Humor)
On Wednesday I presented an old piece I wrote for the now defunct El Paso Manuscript Club’s annual Christmas Writing Contest for the year 2000. It was a poem written in the style of Edgar Allan Poe,...
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Intellectual Property Theft? You Decide!
There is a website that has lately taken a liking to my travel-related posts. So much so that they’ve been using an automated skimmer and reposting them, taking credit for the post, and not linking...
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I Guess I’m Having a Sale
Decisions by R. Doug Wicker Amazon appears to have put my Publishers Weekly reviewed novel Decisions on sale to $2.99 from its listed price of $4.49. Don’t ask me why or for how long, but if you order...
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Don’t Buy Decisions Just Yet — Let’s Make It a REAL Sale!
The Globe — now only 99¢ for a limited time Decisions — now only 99¢ for a limited time Since Amazon decided to place Decisions on sale, I decided to go a step further. I just revised the Barnes &...
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For You Last-Minute Fathers’ Day Shoppers — The 99¢ Sale
Just a quick reminder for all you last-minute shoppers — Kindle and Nook editions of Decisions and The Globe are still on sale for only 99¢ each. Decisions (Caution for language): Donovan Grant lost...
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