tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800474528179920312024-03-12T18:40:50.586-07:00JJ's BlogReviews and Observations from a freelance resident of Sin City
www.jjwylie.comJJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-40384757754637414762020-11-11T10:19:00.002-08:002020-11-11T10:19:47.221-08:00YOU ONLY GET 2<p> Fast, cheap, or effective: you only ever get 2!</p><p>It's a truism that I've seen proven over & over & over.</p>JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-39440851930372535612020-10-07T18:22:00.001-07:002020-10-07T18:22:07.491-07:00Ideology<p> How much inhumanity does your ideology allow?</p><p>As I get older, I get less & less tolerant of the excuse of pragmatism for inhumane actions.</p>JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-3979315262547991242020-09-30T17:08:00.004-07:002020-09-30T17:08:47.667-07:00PRIORITIES<p> There's all of us.</p><p>Then there's each of us.</p><p>Then there's everything else,</p><p>in that order.</p>JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-68185755410845401452020-09-29T16:13:00.002-07:002020-09-29T16:13:13.726-07:00STUPIDITY & BRUTALITY<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Stupidity & brutality are never news.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They are weather.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They happen everywhere, all the time, differing only in local circumstance.</p>JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-8742674493396535522020-09-29T16:02:00.000-07:002020-09-29T16:02:13.094-07:00TRUTH & LOVE<p> Truth & love are the bedrock values of any ideology worth a damn.</p><p>They are my core values.</p><p>By truth, I mean reality as it is, not as I wish it to be.</p><p>By love, I mean the selfless regard by which we must interact & cooperate.</p>JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-10700496721898818902020-08-15T21:12:00.003-07:002020-08-15T21:13:33.216-07:00Bloodsucking Vegas: a vampire noir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004IEAAGI&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_4eloFb892WRVE&tag=jjwylie" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="387" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T_9RIazgUqE/XziyHjKaaGI/AAAAAAAAfz4/b99hd5MVyBIEGIRD4pIHTzcJO3SigVZfQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/B004IEAAGI.01.L.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>I wrote a vampire novel a while ago. It's called <a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004IEAAGI&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_4eloFb892WRVE&tag=jjwylie" target="_blank">Bloodsucking Vegas: a vampire noir</a>, and it's set in Las Vegas, my hometown.JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380047452817992031.post-47985201441088896112020-08-15T21:03:00.003-07:002020-08-15T21:13:59.140-07:00Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B0141ZP1XK&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_R6koFbNHFJ2EA&tag=jjwylie" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAA0W7HGOPw/XzivrbFS8mI/AAAAAAAAfzs/ZE6UUN5wC7Qfbrovz7hZSq2EXt55f-B6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/411tYmdF7zL.jpg" /></a></div><p>Clinton Romesha's <a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B0141ZP1XK&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_R6koFbNHFJ2EA&tag=jjwylie" target="_blank">The Red Platoon</a> is one of the best books I've read in a long while.</p>JJ Wyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209403518921278347noreply@blogger.com0