Posts Tagged: Star Wars

   
Father’s Day is almost upon us, but it doesn’t get the level of attention on the fuss-o-meter as Mother’s Day.  The florists and chocolatiers are quiet during this time, as are the pole-dancing studios, the boudoir photographers, and the air duct cleaners (Amazon had some funky Mother’s Day ideas for me this year). What to get the man…

   
  Welcome to Watercooler Wednesday, where the water is above-average, the topics are bubbly, and the company is sparkling.  Today’s topic: Tech-y Belly Laughs ‘Cause it’s better to laugh than to worry about world domination through smartphones       1 Conan O’Brien’s take on the iPhone:   2. Speaking of phones, here’s an “out-of-this…

   
In terms of puzzle and suspense, most of us consider mystery stories primarily “Whodunnit” in nature.  However, a lot of mysteries also thrive on the pursuit of the “MacGuffin.” What the heck’s a MacGuffin? The MacGuffin is an object everyone in the story wants, and are racing around to get.  Alfred Hitchcock made the term…

   
Welcome to Watercooler Wednesday, where the water is above-average, the topics are bubbly, and the company is sparkling. Now that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) has begun, many crazy people writers are willingly disrupting their lives, sneaking peeks at their WIPs during their day jobs, imposing upon testy patient family members, and imbibing large quantities…