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Floorsander

Floorsander

Blue collar background; white collar career. Midwesterner. Married since 1965. Two grown children. Started/owned/built/sold a business. Produced an independent feature film. Working on another. Center-right politics. Not religious. Semi-retired, looking for the next step.
  • Cincinnati and Scottsdale, USA
  • member since May 4 2009

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  • CrazyBlonde

    CrazyBlonde says

    HEY!
    Thanks for joining the "Sarah Palin" group I created.
    Please invite any of your friends who support her.

    Have a Great Day,
    CB :-D

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Thanx for the onfo on reading....

    Hey....in your info, your spoke of owning a Marketing Company? Well, I may be in need of your services. I have started
    a wonderful organization "Saving The Classics Inc." It's an Organization for the sole purpose of saving Jass history, and
    Music....Therefore consequently "Saving The Artist and his Music!" Time would ail to tell you of all of those things that
    "Saving The Classics Inc." Is gearing up to do....

    FYI, the Jass Restaurant / Music Store / Record Store we are in the process of creating. Then there is the Senior Citizen's / School
    of the Arts building that we are planning to establish. It's a combination "Retirement Home / Shool of the Arts. A place where the retired JASS MASTERS, ect, can both have a community to both....Live & Work....while they help the youth of today to......
    better understand the History, and the Therory of this Great Mucical Art Form.

    JASS!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Thanx or the befriending

    JASS!

    What are you reading?

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Drew G

    Drew G says

    I read Conspiracy of Paper some years ago as well. I remember liking it for the colorful characters and intriguing and I'm assuming well-researched plot. But I agree that I don't remember too much of a payoff. Okay, I'm gearingup for American Tabloid soon!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rimmsky

    rimmsky says

    Have not.Goes on my list.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rimmsky

    rimmsky says

    Halfway through Rain Gods. Even Democrats recognize good prose.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Justin M. Kolenc

    Justin M. Kolenc says

    Aloha! Thanks for your friendship. I wrote several screenplays when I was in high school, and nearly sold one on spec to Paramount for their Star Trek DS9 series. But then, "close" only counts in horshoes and hand grenandes. The last screenplay that I wrote was a very short film idea based on a strange encounter that I had in Hawaii. It was a look at the inner struggle between good and bad within an individual (me in this case). Never even tried to market it because it was more of a theraputic activity. I stick to blogging and book writing now, though screenplays were my first true love in the writing world. How about you?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Drew G

    Drew G says

    My program is indeed of the anonymous kind, though I struggle with some of its tenets. I have not read much Ellroy besides LA Confidential along time ago. But have been over the last few years been increasingly interested in the Power Brokers of the America post 1945. Especially JFK through Nixon and a bit beyond. I'm a sucker for the secrets of the CIA that I will never know, yet I search. American Tabloid just looks like its exactly what I've been looking for. I'll certainly check out your other suggestion.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rimmsky

    rimmsky says

    You are the first person in any group that I have seen write the word politics. I am center left-left. I used to be left-left-left, I dropped one in the process of aging. If I live long enough, who knows? James Lee Burke is one of my favorites too. One of many,

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • C. R. Wiley

    C. R. Wiley says

    Floorsander -- I suppose I was judging Outliers by a relative standard and not an absolute one. Gladwell is a popularizer -- he's not plowing new ground. ( At least that's not what I think he thinks he's doing.) As a popularizer he's pretty good -- he's accessible, easy to read and understand, and he can tell a pretty good story. I agree -- nothing new in his books.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • llachar

    llachar says

    Power and Plenty I am reading side by side with A Splendid Exchange. I have to say A Splendid Exchange is terrific and Power and Plenty is a little drier, slower going but good content.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • llachar

    llachar says

    yes I read a review about it in The Economist

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • llachar

    llachar says

    We both added "The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street" by Justin Fox within an hour of each other. Great minds think alike huh?

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • winterdreams86

    winterdreams86 says

    Judging from what I saw in the trailer the other day, I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment. :) I think it'll have a Jack London meets 28 Days Later feel.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Gabe G

    Gabe G says

    Thanks for the request. I'm willing to read Mailer, and maybe Kearouac. When I'm in a regular mood, I'd decline botht those writers. But when I'm in an exploratory mood, I'll give them a chance to dazzle :P

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • AuthorsandExperts.com

    AuthorsandExperts.com says

    It's great to be your friend on this site. I hope all is well in your life, :)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott C

    Scott C says

    sorry again on the read back....i need to read b4 i hit send! lol

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott C

    Scott C says

    Just in my spare time. I'm going for apps for events.......at the mo I'm doing one for T in the Park, a music festival in Scotland and another for an exhibition at our conference centre in Aberdeen. That one will e sponsored by my employer and will only ge me a pat on the back. Not exactly profitable but it's just a sideilne for when I've nothing better to do. It might me a buck or two if things go right but I'm just using it to keep my eye in.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott C

    Scott C says

    just read that back and it's shocking grammar....should read before I hit post! lol

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Scott C

    Scott C says

    Thanks for the tip.
    And yeah, it's a pretty cool job. Pays well but I love it and don't really care about the cash side.
    Would prefer to have my own company like it sounds like you used to but at the moment, programming iphone apps on the side is as much as I can manage.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )


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