September 7, 2017 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: The screen is dark.  Eerie and oddly dissonant music begins to play. The screen remains black.  At two-minutes and fifty seconds the music stops, followed by six seconds of silence over the blank nothingness before the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM logo fills the screen as the symphonically ascending chords and … Continue reading 2001: A Space Odyssey of Transcendent, or Transcendental, Evolution? →

August 23, 2017 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: On August 21, 2017 the narrow line of a solar eclipse’s shadow cut a path of totality right through the middle of the United States, dividing north from south.  If one believed in signs from the heavens they could make a pretty good case of an astronomical pairing … Continue reading Crossing the Line: Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West →

August 10, 2017 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: The 2016 Presidential Election was quite the spectacle. During the primaries we watched Donald Trump go politically-incorrect Rambo on sixteen milquetoast Republicans whose names I can’t recall right now.  During the Democratic Primaries, Bernie “Santa Claus” Sanders kept winning state after state; yet the superdelegates all fell into … Continue reading Cliché Series # 3: Dissimulators Dispersing Disingenuous Dangers →

August 8, 2017 by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: Growing up in a small Midwestern town in the fading light of Norman Rockwell's America, I came of age during the saccharine seventies amid the cannabis-crammed rock and roll arenas that were, seemingly, counter-weighted by endless replays of ABBA and The Bee Gees within the Frequency Modulated atmosphere … Continue reading A Battle Hymn: The Anthem Against the Inappropriately Entitled →