Author: Craig Zablo

10 Incredible Facts About Ernest Hemingway

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Almost everyone knows a bit about Ernest Hemingway.  He was a famous writer and one that many consider the greatest writer of all time.  Hemingway fought in the war, loved danger and was a “man’s man”.  He committed suicide.  Pretty much sums Hemingway up, right?

Maybe not.

Listverse presents 10 Incredible Facts About Ernest Hemingway that live up to the title.   For example…

  • Hemingway used to beat up people for James Joyce!
  • Hemingway hunted sharks with machine guns.
  • While a war correspondent, Hemingway went rogue and repeatedly led troops into battle.
  • He got into a fist fight with Orson Welles!
  • Late in life Hemingway believed he was under government surveillance… and he was.
  • Hemingway was a KBG agent!

From Wired: Frank Miller is Back (and Not Sorry)

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I’ve been a Frank Miller fan since his days on Daredevil over 30 years ago.  I followed Miller as he created Ronin, Dark Night Returns, Electra, Sin City and more.  In recent years Miller’s output has been sporadic at best.

I was hopeful that with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For  hitting cineplexes around the world that we might see more of Frank Miller’s Sin City yarns.

Since reading Sean Howe’s profile of Miller for Wired: After His Public Downfall, Frank Miller is Back (and Not Sorry), and seeing the accompanying photos [not the one above, it is probably five or six years old] of Frank Miller, I am still hopeful for more comic work from him, but even more importantly I hope that Frank Miller is physically okay.

Doomsday Speeches: If D-Day and the Moon Landing Had Failed

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Can you imagine how much different the world might be today had D-Day failed or had or first attempt to land man on the moon ended in tragedy?

The Atlantic recently posted General Eisenhower’s and President Nixon’s prepared Doomsday Speeches: If D-Day and the Moon Landing Had Failed.  The article by Dominic Tierney is well done and definitely worth a read.