The Eclectic Chapbook

  • Firestorm Over Boca U -

    James Tracy is a tenured Media and
    Communications professor at FAU in the
    land of the shopping zombies, Boca Loca . . .

    Apparently, Tracy has dared to suggest on his blog that alternate theories of what happened in the Sandy Hook mass shooting are possible. [...]
  • A Breezy Browse -

    Alex Harvey has written a feature piece about singer/song writer Tom Waits for the LA Review of Books describing the life Waits once had in Los Angeles which informed the kind of songs he was writing.

    # Thomas Pynchon will debut his new novel called Bleeding Edge this [...]
  • Strangers In The Night -

    . . . shoobee shoobee doo . . .

    Some of the people you see on the streets here in South Florida may be your neighbors, but some may be just passing through. Some may be roofless, while others may be enslaved. Appearances can be misleading.

    An elderly man was catching a [...]
  • Novelist Gets Slammed -

    The Saudi novelist Turki al-Hamad has been arrested by KSA authorities for emitting provocative tweets.

    It appears (albeit at long distance) that Prince Nayef, who has been serving as Interior Minister lately, may have been pressured by prickly religious elements to go after Perceived Insults to Islam.
    [...]
  • The Case of The Naked Roofer -

    It's raining men!
    Hallelujah! It's raining men!

    Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood is seeking TIPS concerning the beating death of Dylan Thomas Tharp, whose nude body was found on top of the Peabody Auditorium on November 3rd.

    Chitwood is convinced that somebody out there knows [...]
  • SoFlo Paper To Be Orphaned?

    Sun Sentinel parent company, Chicago-based Tribune, is undergoing a makeover as a TV organization poised to sell off its newspapers, according to Reuters.

    It's anyone's guess whether a prospective buyer would be interested in buying the Broward-oriented print publication set in the context of a literacy rate reputed to [...]
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