As people increasingly live their lives through cell phones circuits, I’ve started a few posts about rich elements of life that seemingly get nudged out of the picture. Most of those posts were deep-sixed after waves of Luddite guilt, and/or the advice of a buddy which went somewhere along the lines: “We are where we [...]
I was driving from A-B after somewhat of a challenging day. Rather than turn on the radio in my friend’s car, I pushed in the cassette tape. A wonderful voice with a bit of a British flavor, started up mid-sentence, speaking of characters and places that were foreign to me. The prose was dense… a [...]
Putting together the BOOMERANG! prototype 20 years ago, one key feature was presenting a disparate mixture of content. Cultivating imaginative vehicles for different segments and subject matter was not the problem… the challenge was winnowing down the mix. One segment though was a cornerstone of every configuration: The kid detective.
As a boy I had [...]
