A world in chaos. Terror attacks run rampant. Deportation is the hottest issue on a worried public consciousness as walls keep immigrants from interacting with native citizens. A documentary? A nightly newscast? A Trump political ad? Try Children of Men. Ten years after it hit screens, wowed critics and cemented the reign of the …
Author: Scott Bowles
As a Houdini wannabe — there’s gotta be a term there somewhere — I often find myself scouring YouTube for explanations of how magic tricks are performed. Some are genius. Some are painful. But all are, to some degree, a mirror. After a random question from a friend (“How do they levitate on the …
So rare, when sensation meets realization. How often do we hype up, only to be let down? Titanics sink. Hindenburgs blaze. Y2Ks fizzle. Super Bowls are rarely super. And you just know the new Star Wars is gonna suck. But somewhere, a pig is flying over its pasture. Somewhere, Satan is getting pelted with snowballs. …
Perhaps we were premature in declaring 2016 a banner year in sports. Apparently, a free agency has ruined athletics everywhere. Or so declared every blubbering bobblehead on ESPN after The Oklahoma City Thunder lost prodigious forward Kevin Durant to free agency and its sworn enemy, The Golden State Warriors. You would have thought George Washington were revealed a …
I recently came across a University of Indiana study that advertisers are increasingly turning to subliminal ads to woo millennials (who knew millennials had subliminal…anythings?). From sex to software, the study said, an Internet-fed generation increasingly relies on fleeting visual clues for information. The study wasn’t much of a jaw dropper: Journalism had to do a similar …
Between Donald Trump and Orlando and Brexit, the world appears on the verge of hating itself to death. But you gotta admit; it’s been a helluva year for sports. Consider: Peyton Manning retires after winning Super Bowl 50, and gives one of the all-time great farewell speeches. Made Ronald Reagan’s ‘The Gipper” speech …
What do the neighbors think? I wonder this almost every day, at the same hour of night, 10 pm. That’s when I’m most likely to blast my song of the day. Or repeatedly analyze banal scenes of some filmed silliness. Or dance. Practice card tricks. My geek flag flies at full staff most 10 pm.s. I could …
Another Sunday Mass. This time, a gay Florida nightclub, where 50 people were shot to death and another 50 wounded (by conservative estimate) today. There’s no reason to expect this shooting to unfold any differently than, say, the Sunday Mass in Charleston. The sane will say this needs to stop. The confederacy of dunces …
My name is Scott Bowles, and I’m a punctu-holic. It’s an inherited condition — from my mother’s side of the family. Dad was a legendary reporter, but he wouldn’t know punctuality if it broke his nose. He was unable to start a task until the 11th hour struck. He didn’t do taxes by April …
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