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16 Days

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Remain . . .      

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Top Ten ways to get defriended from Facebook

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

As it would turn out, my little poll/slash/experiment/foray into the psyche of vox populi yielded a plurality of votes for the Facebook Defriending option. I knew that was going to happen. Here’s why. Raging about my fellow man’s unwavering interest … Continue reading →

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Okay, so the Facebook barn-burner is going to wait until tomorrow

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So here’s the deal.  I’m as needy, cloying, wheedling, annoying and beholden to a swift undercurrent of interpersonal histrionics as the next guy. Also, I want be seen. But really. This article is part of my crude attempt to get … Continue reading →

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Flannery O’Connor can wreck a perfectly good ape-suit caper

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Leave it to my friend Steve to start me down Flannery Avenue this late in the game.  Officially, this is my first story of hers I have ever read.  I’m sure that is appalling to some, and I simply can’t … Continue reading →

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On starting my own show . . . or, er, maybe not

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So, when I actually made my film on the McCloud River, I built a whole array of jibs, steady-cams and cable-runners to accomplish the pseudo-epic shots I got with my GoPro. Now, I just need a mount for my iPhone … Continue reading →

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Tapping the famous on the shoulder

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So . . . I’ve got a few famous friends out there that, for some odd reason or another, manage to associate with me against their better judgement, despite the fact that I bring nothing to the game except for … Continue reading →

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Liebster Award: answered, and passed long

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Okay, I’ve gone through the list of questions posed to me by Minah, at SeoSundays.  I say me, but really it was me, along with ten other bloggers.  That, of course is what I’m going to do here in a … Continue reading →

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All Sons & Daughters Redux, and a brief word about the songwriting process

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Reasonably soon, I’m going to explore the bedrock beliefs that drive my involvement in music, the parameters I believe music has, its true purpose, and how every attempt by anyone with nefarious worldviews using it only succeed in poisoning the … Continue reading →

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The ever-sliding scale of traffic (also known as “This TARDIS is gratuitous”)

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I’ve no idea how to even begin to parse the weekend traffic. Either Saturday is abysmal as a matter of form, or it is an atrocious statistical outlier.  But writing about GK Chesterton was supposed to cause at least a … Continue reading →

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Hopeless 

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

“Take a look out that window. Eden’s not burning. It’s BURNT.” —Reign of Fire Some years ago—actually probably 15 years ago, I heard the Reverend Larry Booker preach a message called “When I Was In My Right Mind.” In short, … Continue reading →

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