Machine Gun Kelly — play this when I’m gone — inspired Jake Frew’s 2020 pandemic video.
Jake Frew is a master video creator. Right now he’s on a road trip to meet and collaborate with other video editors he admires.
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I loved a song by Girl in Red, the indie pop music project of Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven Ringheim. The music dictated everything I put into this fan video.
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Book #13 in the Joe Pickett series.
Joe Pickett always liked Butch Roberson—a hardworking local business-owner whose daughter is friends with his own. Little does he know that when Butch says he is heading into the mountains to scout elk, he is actually going on the run.
Two EPA employees have been murdered, and all signs point to Butch as the killer.
Soon, Joe hears of the land Butch and his wife had bought to retire on—until they are told the EPA declared it a wetland—and the penalties they charged Butch until the family was torn apart by debt.
Finally, it seems, the man just cracked.
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Mountain Pine Beetles are native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. …
As of May 2013, the Pine Beetle is aggressively devastating forests in all 19 US-American western states and Canada …
These insects are thriving as average temperatures increase. Dead and dying trees make good fuel for fires.
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When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, DC Smith is flown out to decide if it was an accident, a suicide, or … MURDER.
Like the first two books in this series, I find DC Smith very appealing. Smart. Passionate. A superb detective.
I enjoyed his efforts at trying to pass the annual physical so as not to be turfed out of the Force for old age.
But like the first two books in this series, an interesting premise is developed too slowly for my liking.
AND is DC Smith so consistently incompetent with the many interesting women who seem to throw themselves in his path?
I’m often critical of Elon Musk. Turned off by his egomania.
Disappointed in his juvenile comments from the bully pulpit of Twitter. One of the richest and most powerful men in the world attacking and mocking people who are unable to fight back.
I’m disappointed that a guy who claims he doesn’t care about money is so reluctant to pay more in taxes though his businesses have received billions of dollars in tax subsidies.
That said, I admire almost everything else. His work ethic. His companies, especially Boring and Starlink.
Elon Musk does much more good for the world than bad. He’s scientific and well aware of the risks of climate change. He calls for a carbon tax. Musk endorsed Andrew Yang and expressed support for his proposed universal basic income.
Though the headlines shout that Elon is a “free speech absolutist”, Musk himself says Twitter must abide by the laws of each nation. I doubt much will change in terms of Twitter policy in Canada or the USA.
In fact, I’m guessing Twitter will be better for me with Musk as owner.
Warren had me watch this recent interview. Elon defends his life and ethics quite well.
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Each book in the Cork O’Connor series has gotten better, so far.
Mercy Falls is #5.
Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call — only to become the target of sniper fire.
Soon after, he’s called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls. The victim is Eddie Jacoby, a Chicago businessman negotiating an unpopular contract between his management firm and the local Indian casino. …
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The two incidents are somehow connected. But how?
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is the best anti-war song I know. Pete Seeger called it “one of the world’s greatest songs.”
Remind yourself that old men of privilege and power like Putin send young men to needless deaths.
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It was written by Scottish-Australian Eric Bogle in 1969.
Very entertaining.
Book #11 in the series about Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett.
Each book is based around one big issue in Wyoming. This time it’s wind turbines.
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it’s his wife, Missy, who is arrested.
Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn’t know what to do—especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin.
But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl’s death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. …
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An award winning Crime Book of the Year, Entry Island is excellent.
Detective Sime Mackenzie travels as part of an eight-officer investigation team. Sime’s destination lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Only two kilometres wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of around 130 inhabitants – the wealthiest of which has just been discovered murdered in his home.
The investigation itself appears little more than a formality. The evidence points to a crime of passion: the victim’s wife the vengeful culprit. But for Sime the investigation is turned on its head when he comes face to face with the prime suspect, and is convinced that he knows her – even though they have never met. …
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