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Michael Boehm
Michael Boehm
Pacifica, CA
Member since: Dec, 2007
Last login: 02/20/2010
Last update : 02/16/2010
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About Me

  • I am a writer of commercial fiction, historical fiction, and the occasional foray into genre.

M_Boehm's Blog

  • Eat, Pray, Love... then cash the check

    November 1, 2009

    •  The recent societal bent towards navel-gazing has apparently reached its zenith with "Eat Pray Love," Elizabeth Gilbert's pseudo-memoir of self-discovery and seeking enlightenment.  Or perhaps it was a shallow grope for the best-seller lists and Oprah's couch.  Either way, it worked; her book has been on the best-seller lists for over two years now.   But reading about this book ...
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  • Oceanside Life

    May 19, 2009

    • My wife and I bought our first house a year ago on the rocky, blustery, chilly hiltops overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  The house was a solid, relatively new affair, remarkably similar to the mass-produced split-level suburban McMansions in which I had spent many hours of my youth: visiting friends, going to parties, and groping my way awkwardly towards sexual maturity.  This characteristic both ...
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  • Assuming assumption of race and racism

    May 14, 2009

    •  The polarization of America's news media was supposed to have ceased with the dawn of the Obama era.  With Fox on the right and CNN on the left, the media establishment was racing away from the center faster than the Milky Way fleeing from the Big Bang.  The presidential election was supposed to bring about a new era of bipartisanship and bridge-building.  From reading the medias' web ...
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  • Oprah's Surprising Apology to Author

    May 13, 2009

    • The most unexpected mea culpa in the world has just been made public.  Oprah Winfrey has apologised to James Frey for the torture-rack treatment she gave him on her show.  Frey is the author whos book, A Million Little Pieces,  described his descent into a drug- and violence-fueled hell of his own creation, and his efforts to drag himself back from the precipice.  Oprah publicly lauded it ...
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  • Stacey's is Closing

    January 18, 2009

    • Welcome to the new post-literate America.  Stacey's, the largest, oldest independent bookstore remaining in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced yesterday that it is closing its doors due to financial difficulties. This gives yet another data point to the ongoing trend of closures in the Bay Area.  Cody's, A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, and Printers Inc have all pre-deceased Stacey's, ...
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  • Ben Franklin

    Ben Franklin expressed a similar sentiment: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

  • Update April 22, 2009

    I don't usually comment on my own blogs, but this is directly relevant.

  • Too true

    I have been saying this for years...

  • Evangelicals and "God's Will"

    I was raised Catholic, but I missed out on all the hatemongering that seems to be all the rage in religious circles these days.

  • NaNoWriMo Yes!

    Yes, I am participating in NaNoWriMo this year.  I've done it the past two years, and I did manage to reach 50K last year, just barely. 

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