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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, March 5, 2024, or: Another Birthday (My 61st!)…New England Weather Woes…A Novelist’s Progress…and Log-In Issues on Facebook
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Blogging, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Madison (NH), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Social Media, Weather in New HampshireLate Morning, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s another chilly and gray early spring morning here in Eidelweiss, the section of Madison, New Hampshire that I now call home. Currently, the temperature is 35°F (2°C) under cloudy conditions. With humidity at 93% and the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 1…
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Tuesday Tidbit: Play the Plan a Film Festival Game with Me!
A fun little social interaction game that I saw on my Facebook timeline! (Grammar Rules: You can, if you like, use movie titles that begin with an article, e.g. “a” or “the,” and use the next word in the title if you like. In my case, I used “A Little Romance” for my “L” title…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 27, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second (Trouble in the Tropics Edition)
Mid- to Late Morning, Sunday, August 27, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hey, everyone. Wow. So, it’s the last Sunday in August 2023. It’s also the last Sunday of the Summer of ’23 – meteorological summer, anyway. And since I live in the Sunshine State, naturally it’s hellishly hot, humid, and not very inviting if you –…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Marketing-Averse Author Makes an Unexpected Sale on Twitter!
I’m not – as you can tell – a natural salesperson. That’s why I never got hired in the retail industry when I looked for jobs at the Miami International Mall – the closest major mall to my former home in South Florida – when I was young. Hell, I couldn’t even convince the publisher…
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On Blogs & Blogging: My Blogger Blog Hits the 1M-Pageviews Milestone Despite MAGA Fans’ Attempts to Muzzle It
If you’re familiar with the genesis of A Certain Point of View, Too, you may recall that this blog was the unexpected consequence of a grievous act of censorship on the part of both Facebook and a handful of Trump supporters back in March of 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was being mishandled and…
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On Trump-Era Politics: Flags, Pledges, Memes, and Damnable Conservative Lies
“One of the hallmarks of the Trump era is the alacrity with which intelligent people embrace stupidity.”― Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump Over the past few years – and certainly during the 2020 Presidential election process – Facebook and Twitter users have noticed a flood of…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, January 5, 2022, or: Playing Whack-a-Mole with Ads from ‘Patriot’ Groups on Facebook
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. It is a cool winter day – by Florida standard, at any rate. Currently, the temperature is 74˚F (23˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 71% and the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 4 MPH (6 KM/H),…
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On Contemporary America: Conspiracy Buggery, Social Media, and the Gabby Petito-Brian Laundrie Saga
Conspiracy Buggery Unless you have been stuck out on Gilligan’s Island or don’t pay attention to any news, you no doubt have heard about the Gabby Petito/Brian Laundrie case. You couldn’t have missed this story otherwise; the tale of a twenty-something couple (she was 22, he was 23) that set out in July in a…
A Certain Point of View, Too 