Hard-boiled Dreams of the World http://joecrubaugh.com/blog A dissident twist of reality... Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:51:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Lifting the Veil http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/10/07/lifting-the-veil/ http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/10/07/lifting-the-veil/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:34:17 +0000 JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/?p=1622 Lifting the Veil is a must-see documentary by Scott Noble, with great visuals and intelligent interviews, featuring Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, John Pilger and a host of others. Democrat, Republican, these parties are all part of the same corporate ruling system. As the film makes clear, the two-party U.S. political system is being played like a [...]]]> Lifting the Veil is a must-see documentary by Scott Noble, with great visuals and intelligent interviews, featuring Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, John Pilger and a host of others.

Democrat, Republican, these parties are all part of the same corporate ruling system. As the film makes clear, the two-party U.S. political system is being played like a Stradivarius by the richest half percent of the country. Here’s a list of players to reference as you watch:

The Wolves: The Republican Party
The Foxes: The Democratic Party
The Chickens: you and me

Lifting the Veil from S DN on Vimeo.

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]]> http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/10/07/lifting-the-veil/feed/ Reading Frenzy Review of Terminal Departure http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/08/06/reading-frenzy-review-of-terminal-departure/ http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/08/06/reading-frenzy-review-of-terminal-departure/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:49:44 +0000 JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/?p=1619 Book aficionado RayneeDaze has posted a review of Terminal Departure: A Cleo Matts Novel on her Reading Frenzy blog:

Terminal Departure is a wild ride… Well written and full of action and adventure you won’t want to put it down because you have no idea what’s going to happen next.

Read the complete review: Review of Terminal Departure.

Terminal Departure is available at the following links:
Kindle edition
Nook edition

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]]> http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/08/06/reading-frenzy-review-of-terminal-departure/feed/ Five Star Review from Two-Fisted Blogger http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/08/02/five-star-review-from-two-fisted-blogger/ http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/08/02/five-star-review-from-two-fisted-blogger/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:14:01 +0000 JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/?p=1614 Dude-lit book reviewer Hank Brown at Two-Fisted Blogger was gracious enough to review Terminal Departure, and he’s given it a 5-star review on Amazon:

Crubaugh has written a page-turning gigglefest involving competing secret and pseudo-secret government agencies, germ warfare conspiracies and alien abduction. This is one of those indie books that overcomes the stigma of poor editing, amateurish prose, etc. It’s quirky and laugh-out-loud funny…

Read the rest of his review here: Terminal Departure by Joe Crubaugh.

Terminal Departure is available at the following links:
Kindle edition
Nook edition

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]]> http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/08/02/five-star-review-from-two-fisted-blogger/feed/ The Prince and Breast Milk Cheese http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/07/31/the-prince-and-breast-milk-cheese/ http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/07/31/the-prince-and-breast-milk-cheese/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:51:13 +0000 JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/?p=1610 For Sample Sunday, I’m sharing a stand-alone chapter (chapter 17) from my new book, Terminal Departure: A Cleo Matts Novel.

You can read the entire chapter here on GoodReads: The Prince and Breast Milk Cheese.

Washington Crossing the DelawareTo set up the scene, the chapter opens with the book’s antagonist, CIA agent Roman Demetrio, monitoring the interrogations of four plane crash survivors. While he and an Army general watch the process via closed-circuit monitors, they discuss the black man in the famous painting by Leutze: Washington Crossing the Delaware. If you can’t immediately spot him in the painting, read the chapter exerpt–it explains the whole story.

The characters also discuss something I’ve found strange in our culture since I first wondered about it years ago: Why are most adults ok with consuming milk from a filthy cow, but the idea of drinking milk from their own species turns their stomach?

Apparently, some others have wondered about this irrational reaction, too.

Earlier this spring, New York University graduate student Miriam Simun created an art display, The Lady Cheese Shop, in which she enlisted the help of three nursing women to provide connoisseurs with a variety of samples of human breast milk cheese.

Also earlier this year, Icecreamists, an ice-cream parlour in London’s Covent Garden, offered human breast milk ice-cream for sale. Store founder Matt O’Connor had this to say:

It’s pure, it’s natural, it’s organic, and it’s free range — and if it’s good enough for our kids, it’s good enough to use in our ice cream.

But, not everybody agrees. A few days later, local government officials confiscated the ice cream. Their reasoning? They were responding to two complaints from the public over whether a shop should be selling edibles made from other people’s bodily fluids. But they’re ok, as villain Roman Demetrio asserts, with consuming the bodily fluids of “a sh*t-splattered cow?”

To quote Kurt Vonnegut, “…and so it goes.”

As always, you can find the rest of my novel at the following links:

Amazon Kindle: Terminal Departure: A Cleo Matts Novel.

B&N Nook link: Terminal Departure: A Cleo Matts Novel.

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]]> http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/07/31/the-prince-and-breast-milk-cheese/feed/ Any Publicity is Good Publicity http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/07/04/any-publicity-is-good-publicity/ http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2011/07/04/any-publicity-is-good-publicity/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:38:09 +0000 JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/?p=1551 I’ve posted the second chapter of my new book Terminal Departure: A Cleo Matts Novel: Chapter 2.

Update: Third chapter available Chapter 3.

The complete book is now available here:

Get the Kindle edition.
Get the Nook edition.

(You can also read on your PC by downloading the free Kindle for PC app or the free Nook PC app.)

We’ve all heard the old adman’s adage that any publicity is good publicity, so I guess I should appreciate the following review from Westboro Baptist Church. ;-) (Make your own fake sign photos here: Says-It.com.)

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