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markrhunter (61)in #coronavirus • 5 years ago
No, Wiping Doesn't Stop a Virus
Let's get to what seems to be the important question, first: No, I don't know why people are hoarding toilet paper. It's not that kind of virus. There's so much…
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markrhunter (61)in #humor • 5 years ago
Emily's magic: New Book Cover!
Okay, so I already revealed the cover to More Slightly Off the Mark once, but this time we really, really mean it. We thought the original was a little imbalanced, so Emily added…
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markrhunter (61)in #love • 5 years ago
It's Our Sheets and Pottery Anniversary
I can't tell you what I got my wife for our eighth wedding anniversary, because it hasn't arrived yet, and she sometimes reads my blog. And by "it hasn't arrived yet" I mean as…
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markrhunter (61)in #indianabeach • 5 years ago
Indiana Beach ... Gone For Good?
Here's the interesting history of the "Riviera of the Middle West": For several years I got Indiana Beach tickets through my work, and would take my kids, and sometimes…
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markrhunter (61)in #books • 5 years ago
Because it’s there?
I have a Mardi Gras themed book wallpaper! No, I’m not going to Mardi Gras, and I don’t celebrate it. Why do you ask? Guess I’ll just use it to shout out our website.
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markrhunter (61)in #books • 5 years ago
book review: The World War 1 Triva Book, by Bill O'Neill
I wanted to get away from all the anger and destruction going on in the world today, so I went looking for some light, fun reading. I chose World War 1. Nobody ever claimed I…
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markrhunter (61)in #writing • 5 years ago
Red Is For Ick, or: How icky is that title?
I've been kidding myself with the name of one of my novel manuscripts. It's not that I was in love with the title: I was more in love with the possibilities the title…
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markrhunter (61)in #valentine • 5 years ago
On Valentine's Day, Be Meme
I was going to write a loving Valentine's Day salute to my wife, otherwise known as sucking up. But I got sick, also known as every freaking holiday and anniversary, so instead I…
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markrhunter (61)in #valentine • 5 years ago
Free Humor Anthology for Valentine's Day
Yes, I posted about My Funny Valentine last week, but that was before I found out the e-book version will be free from now until February 14th. That's a heck of a buy, by which I…
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markrhunter (61)in #celebrities • 5 years ago
Celebrity Death Knell
Orson Bean, Robert Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Mary Higgens Clark, Freddie Silverman, Kobe Bryant, Jim Lehrer, Terry Jones, Edd Byrnes, Buck Henry, Gene Reynolds ... pauses to catch…
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markrhunter (61)in #humor • 5 years ago
A Little Snow Goes a Long Way
Everybody complains about the weather forecasts, but nobody wants to get a meteorology degree and see if they can do it better. It's an axiom. I assume. I'm not sure, let me…
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markrhunter (61)in #myfunnyvalentine • 5 years ago
Yes, guys--they're doing Valentine's Day again this year.
I was going to lay off the shameless self-promotion this week, but then I remembered ... this. Coming off the big SportsBowl weekend, it takes many men a few days to recover…
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markrhunter (61)in #writing • 5 years ago
Scooby Doo meets The Thin Man
This was lost in my blog drafts--it was actually written several months ago, then forgotten! It's interesting to me, because in it I speculate on a novel project I'd just started…
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markrhunter (61)in #books • 5 years ago
99 cents for no campfires, so don't be fussy
This may seem an odd time of the year for this, but I've been working on a novel set at a horse campground in late April, so to me it fits right in. In conjunction with it…
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markrhunter (61)in #writing • 5 years ago
A Short Short Story Update
I wrote awhile back that one of my short stories, "Grocery Purgatory", was bought and would be published soon. Sadly, the publisher suffered a death in the family, and the story…
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markrhunter (61)in #writing • 5 years ago
Any book is better with horses, and dogs, and The Wizard of Oz
I've already worked into my novel-in-progress three atrocious puns, three references to The Wizard of Oz, two more to Harry Potter, two horses, and ... well, just one dog, but…
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markrhunter (61)in #books • 5 years ago
Lost in the Amazon
I noticed recently that if I went to Amazon.com and searched for "Mark R. Hunter", I did not come up first. In the Kindle store, the first six hits didn't have "Mark R. Hunter"…
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markrhunter (61)in #humor • 5 years ago
The Good Parts of Being Sick
Yes, yes, I know--how can we come up with anything good about being invaded by nasty little sickness bugs? Well, it's like this: Everyone around here is getting sick lately…
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markrhunter (61)in #outlander • 5 years ago
Book Review: Outlander
You may have heard of Outlander, a little tale of time travel and kilts that spawned, oh, several dozen sequels, and a TV series that's headed into its sixth season. Being a fan…
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markrhunter (61)in #newyear • 5 years ago
New Year's? Are They Doing That Again?
Oh, yeah, New Years ... we're doing that again this year. And after a century of waiting, we'll be back into the Roaring Twenties, so there's that. The Teen years? As with the…
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