Katowice, Poland, The Heart Of Prog Rock?

I really had not spent a lot of time considering Poland as a hotbed of musical creativity. In my historically challenged world it is the home of Lech Walesa, and not much else. Well it transpires that Poland is more than just the heartland of the worker revolution, it is the heart of Progressive Rock (Prog Rock in the trade). Prog Rock was very much a part of the British music scene in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

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Katie Couric To Leave CBS News - The World Yawns

I am sure that it was with a huge dose of indifference that many people read this headline news. CNN broke the less than earth shattering news in this rather short article.

Maybe I am just missing something, but when did Katie Couric report reality in news? She is/was/and always will be, just a corporate mouth piece. She does not care about the news any more than Jack the Ripper supported the plight of young prostitutes.

I say good riddance Katie. Of course it is not that

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Book Review: “The Night Monster” by James Swain

Eighteen years ago, as a patrol officer, Jack Carpenter responded to an assault call at the Sunny Isle apartment complex. He made several mistakes that fateful day in 1992 and didn’t stop the abduction of Naomi Dunn. That event haunted and shaped his career with the Broward County Sheriff’s Department.

 

These days he is divorced, his daughter plays for the Lady Seminoles of Florida State Basketball team, and he has been booted off the police force leaving him free to run a business investigating missing persons.

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Book Review: “Breathing Water” by Timothy Hallinan

The card game wasn’t supposed to be high stakes enough to attract the “Big Guy” but it did. A simple poker game undercover operation designed to net lower level casino cheats, has drawn “Khun Pan” one of the richest men in Thailand. Offended, he isn’t one to just let things go. A deal is struck and Raffery gets Pan’s permission to write his auto biography. He wants to do it without interference from Pan because as the French writer Balzac pointed out long ago, behind

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Book Review: Killer Career by Morgan Mandel

Attending the Love To Murder Mystery Conference in Chicago pushes Julie McGuire to make a latent dream become a reality. A lawyer in a growing practice with old friend, Dade Donovan, she longs to become a writer. She is also enthralled by the enigmatic mystery author, Tyler Jensen, the conference keynote speaker.

He seems just as enthralled with her and begins to pursue her in a variety of ways. As she looks to gracefully end her career in the law and her partnership with Dade, it

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Tiger Woods – The Pundits Score A Hole In One!

Tiger Woods may be an icon of the golfing community, but that does not put him above criticism from certain people. While us mere mortals can get into our car at 2am and proceed to smack it into a fire hydrant and a tree no one cares. In fact a good friend of mine (alas no longer with us) used to regale me of being in Boise, Idaho, late at night, drunk as a skunk and demolishing a couple of his neighbors mail boxes, but

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