BillHeise | September 11, 2010
This post is my take on Jim Cramer’s encounter with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show last year. I’ve had this floating around unfinished for a long time, and I thought I’d never publish it. But after taking the summer off, I wanted to get back in the swing of things and found this. If [...]
BillHeise | September 9, 2010
Found this on the Internet today. It’s a story about a “How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” class being offered at the University of Baltimore. The newly-installed course will study film, comics and a full range of topics connected to Zombies and Zombie Survival, although it will probably sneakily make students learn about story telling [...]
BillHeise | September 6, 2010
Okay, I admit it, I never particularly liked Linda Ronstadt when I was in high school in the 70s. She was an arena rock star, singing songs like Blue Bayou, which I can appreciate more in my old age than I could have when I was young strippling: But her roots were in country music, [...]
BillHeise | September 6, 2010
I found this article by Robert Reich on the web today. In the article, he complains: “Face it: The national economy isn’t escaping the gravitational pull of the Great Recession.” That’s because the real problem has to do with the structure of the economy, not the business cycle. No booster rocket can work unless consumers [...]
BillHeise | September 1, 2010
BillHeise | September 1, 2010
I used to go to the drive-in a lot in high school and college, and the most disturbing movie I ever saw in my life was I Spit on Your Grave. I must have seen the movie five of ten times (I used to go to a lot of movies). Of all the movies I [...]
