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quire a decision such games should be decided on the field in a sudden death format with no limit on the time to be played until the game is finished those games will have dramatic finishes you can be sure posted by x curmudgeon at 4 06 pm 1 comment monday november 16 2009 fun at the miami book fair we had a great time at the miami book fair international this past weekend the photo is of our landstrike booth in the heart of the street fair a four block area of downtown closed off for nothing but books vendors who d been there many years said the crowds were down this year that may be so but there were plenty of people strolling through especially saturday afternoon and why not we had three straight days of outstanding weather sunny blue sky low humidity temps in the upper 70 s low 80 s we learned a little about landstrike too turns out it s a big hit with teen boys some of whom evidently were in disaster mode due to the release of the mega disaster movie 2012 we had plenty of interest from all ages races creeds and sexes but the teen boys were drawn to our booth like flies to honey our favorite was a sixth grade latino boy who dragged his mom all the way back from the fair exit as they were leaving so he could purchase the book when it turned out mom didn t have any cash and so had to call dad to come over as well the boy started reading the book while waiting by the time the transaction was done he was well into chapter one and looked like he d be reading it every step of the way as his family left the fair we were pleased to see so many boys interested because it s a difficult group to get to read anything so if you ve got a teen boy on your holiday gift list and he s a reader of action adventure books consider landstrike the paperback is available on amazon com and bn com for about 15 we also found that quite a few adults preferred to download the book to their kindle readers they took our card and sure enough we had a nice little spike in kindle downloads over the weekend overall we enjoyed the fair our neighbors all selling their books were a terrific group and helped each other out when they could one downer however was the five author solutions ass booths around the corner from us author solutions is the parent for a group of self publishing companies including our publisher xlibris as we discussed in a prior post xlibris and other ass companies pushed some of their authors into ridiculous packages costing 4000 10 000 in which they were required to purchase a couple hundred books and then give them away at the fair not only were these packages huge rip offs for the authors but they pissed off just about every other legitimate seller at the fair many fairgoers suddenly thought they were going to get free books from everyone unfortunately for the most part you got what you paid for at the ass booths we picked up some of the free books and while a couple were not too bad several were completely unreadable if the miami book fair is going to attract quality exhibitors in the future it will need to make a choice ban ass s free book scam that rips off unsuspecting authors or turn the whole thing into a freebie fest and just forget about the fair s reputation posted by x curmudgeon at 4 53 pm 2 comments wednesday november 11 2009 montgomery co gets smart turns out there is some good news out there montgomery county has adopted a plan to encourage denser car free growth along it s mass transit corridors reversing a long standing policy that has contributed to sprawl and intensified traffic problems there as the washington post explained in its story on the matter most suburban growth plans including montgomery s until tuesday discourage development in congested areas including those near public transit and encourage construction in more sparsely populated communities on the theory that new developments should arise where traffic is still tolerable anyone who s lived in the washington d c metro area for the past 25 years can tell you how poorly that theory has turned out washington is a sprawling city with developments stretching in all directions over a radius of at least 30 miles traffic is worse than ever with little prospect of improving and open farmland and forest around the city has all but disappeared arlington county which has the advantage of being small and having no large open space to speak of has pioneered smarter development of denser projects near mass transit hubs we can t say it s exactly car free over here but arlington has grown and continues to grow more smartly when we moved to the washington area in 1980 montgomery county and fairfax too had quite a bit of open farmland now the largest crop in both those counties is townhomes much of the development in both those counties has been done in a way that they feed into major highways without creating the necessary connections for local residents on short trips to by pass those thorofares thereby contributing to congestion it s interesting to visit europe where many cities and towns have very strict zoning regulations that prevent sprawl and preserve the countryside those towns and cities seem to end abruptly unlike american cities which seem to go on forever gradually diminishing to smaller developments that sooner or later get absorbed by larger ones if europe had american style development laws there d be no countryside left montgomery s decision is a good step in the right direction washington s outer rim of counties need to consider some similar steps to rein in unmitigated sprawl posted by x curmudgeon at 8 35 pm 1 comment off to miami with the off year elections over and depressing with the days getting shorter and the weather getting crappy we haven t been inspired to write much of late this weekend however we ll be in warm sunny miami promoting our book landstrike at the miami book fair international we ll have a full report when we return or maybe while we re there if you re in south florida come see us wish we could also report on one or two golf courses down that way but we ll be working all weekend maybe next trip posted by x curmudgeon at 4 22 pm no comments wednesday november 04 2009 thank you indeed posted by x curmudgeon at 4 05 pm 1 comment now gop has to solve intractable problems republicans in virginia cruised to a big victory last night after a decade long losing streak it was a bad night for democrats erasing several years of hard fought gains in the house of delegates and giving republicans control of the coming reapportionment process while part of the blame goes to creigh deeds for running a poor campaign there is plenty of blame to go around first history was never on the democrats side this time around not since 1973 has the party in power in the presidency won the virginia governor s mansion still that s not enough to explain a landslide 59 41 drubbing governor tim kaine who s real job of late has been dnc chairman can take part of the blame democrats have held the governor s mansion for the past 8 years yet virginia s main problems have been pretty much the same especially for the past 4 years true those problems are largely in the domain of the legislature but try telling that to voters another factor is exhaustion after the obama victory in virginia democrats worked hard for obama to carry virginia and give it two democratic senators and a majority democratic delegation to the u s congress with george bush gone there just wasn t the enthusiasm among democratic voters this time around as reflected by turnout meanwhile conservatives who were lukeward to john mccain last year are now energized while mcdonnell co managed to avoid the kind of divisive campaigns that their predecessors have waged i e appealing to hard core conservatives at the expense of moderate independents nonetheless deeds was a big factor as evidenced by his loss even of democratic leaning fairfax county it was clear throughout the campaign that deeds had no real understanding of northern virginia he lacked the sophistication of a mark warner or jim webb or tim kaine whereas mcdonnell for all his truly conservative views still projected that sophistication you can blame terry mcauliffe in part for this had he not jumped into the race and yes we did support him in the primary although we always had big reservations brian moran would have won and done much better in nova probably preventing the loss of at least three legislative seats there is a silver lining in all this however with their sweep of statewide offices and their large majority in the house of delegates republicans now have to prove they can govern it won t be easy their party is still badly divided between myopic small county cultural conservatives who could give a damn about northern virginia s growth problems and more practically minded pols who realize they have to solve problems if they want to continue in office with the far right punishing anyone who even thinks about raising taxes mcdonnell will find his options severely limited the logical way to fund transportation improvements is to raise gasoline taxes those taxes are low in virginia and have not kept up with the inflation of gas prices mcdonnell says he has a plan to improve roads without raising taxes but his plan won t work the bottom line is that it takes revenue to build roads apart from transportation the commonwealth faces a dire budget situation that will be painful to resolve although an improving economy nationwide will help mcdonnell will again face tough choices with very limited options finally the culture warriors on the right will no doubt push mcdonnell cuccinelli and their brethren in the general assembly to enact unpopular laws that will reignite the left unfortunately democrats are still faced with the nasty prospect that mcdonnell and his cronies will control the upcoming reapportionment process which will make all that more difficult for democrats to gain legislative seats in the coming decade democrats now need to find some new leadership at the statewide level we hope that out of chaos strong new leaders will emerge posted by x curmudgeon at 9 25 am no comments tuesday november 03 2009 terrible night for dems in virginia pretty disastrous night for the democratic party in virginia although it doesn t look like the gop will pick up as many house of delegate seats as they might have more a reflection on the top of the ticket tomorrow we ll analyze the silver lining in this election posted by x curmudgeon at 9 16 pm no comments monday november 02 2009 nfl should boost prostate cancer research and awareness now that october s over we miss all those splotches of pink in nfl football broadcasts you see october is breast cancer awareness month pink of course is the breast cancer ribbon color and those breast cancer folks really know how to do up publicity they had nfl players wearing pink shoes hats ribbons patches they had refs wearing pink stripes looking just like the candy stripers of yore at hospitals they even had the white house adorned with a huge pink ribbon you d think breast cancer was the only one with a month ribbon and color but it s not it s just that the other cancers haven t caught up in the market for attention now we have nothing against raising awareness of and research on breast cancer but we think the nfl s priority on pink was a bit misplaced you wouldn t know it but september also a big month for professional football was prostate cancer awareness month prostate cancer has a ribbon too it s sky blue you d think pro football would get on the prostate cancer bandwagon at least as much as for breast cancer after all the nfl is quite literally sponsored in large part by the penis viagra and cialis ads compete for attention for men with erectile dysfunction which can be caused or contributed to by prostate problems then there s all the ads for flomax for men who have trouble peeing because of a benign enlarged prostate not to mention that the audience for pro football is just a little skewed toward men and all the players are men prostate cancer is pretty deadly killing an estimated 28 000 men each year breast cancer deaths among women are higher at about 45 000 so where was all the sky blue and prostate cancer awareness in the nfl in september there wasn t any unless you re a carolina panthers fan whose colors include sky blue pink in october is fine but if the nfl is going to promote breast cancer awareness it ought to at least put prostate cancer on the same footing posted by x curmudgeon at 4 12 pm 3 comments newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom landstrike terrifyingly realistic landstrike s fan box landstrike on facebook blogs we like bacon s rebellion barticles belly of the beast blognet news virginia blue commonwealth blue dog blueweeds craig s musings daily whack job forbard howling latina johnny camacho monkey girl not larry sabato nova middleman random acts of insensitivity the direction the 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