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Fries: The Movie
This movie of the history and story of fries around the world is based largely on my essay for the Chicago Literary Club. The film is now available for viewing of FREE on Peacock. I appear onscreen and a voice over in portions of the oil,. Quirky but fun and educational.
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Where do the offices go?
Where do the officesĀ go?
Since the Corona 19 virus pandemic became rife throughout the nation, the question has been increasingly posed as to what will happen, after itās over, to the millions who have involuntarily switched from working in offices to working from home.
Itās already clear that many who worked from offices for years will enter a changed world, where offices will often no longer be needed or availableā¦
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Fort Knox -- Where is all that Gold?
Fort Knox ā Where is all thatĀ Gold?
In the fall of 1966, I was briefly an armed security guard at the U.S. Gold Vault at Fort Knox, Kentucky. As a young soldier in Armor training, I marched the perimeter of the Gold Vault. The next year, I was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Armor and received two small gold bars for my shoulders along with the Presidential Commission of an Army officer. After serving as an operations officerā¦
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GOOD READING AVAILABLE NOW
My recently published book, Apple Pressings, is available now on Amazon in Kindle, soft and hardcover versions, as well as on Barnes & Noble.com, and other major book websites.
Below is a new review of my book by Chris Schultz, a talented journalist in southeastern Wisconsin.
Good luck, and good reading, as we all strive to survive and find some distraction from the virus scare.
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Fries!: The Movie coming soon
Fries!: The Movie comingĀ soon
FRIES!: THE MOVIE will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York between April 15 and 26 this spring. Produced in part by Chrissy Teigen, I contributed to the content of this new fries epic and was filmed in NYC for it last spring. Whether I survive the edit remains to be seen. The film should be shown nationally sometime in 2020 after the premiere.
Fries! The Movie,ā¦
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Yerkes Future Foundation to Own Yerkes Observatory
Yerkes Future Foundation to Own YerkesĀ Observatory
Joint Press Release ā Today ā University of Chicago and Yerkes Future Foundation The University of Chicago and the Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF) are pleased to announce an agreement in principle for transfer of ownership of Yerkes Observatory and related property located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin to the Yerkes Future Foundation. Over the next several months, both organizations will beā¦
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Trump's Bluff Called 100 Years Ago
Trumpās Bluff Called 100 YearsĀ Ago
There was an outspoken cultural critic and journalist active in Vienna early in the 20th century named Karl Krause, who William Getzoff of the Chicago Literary Club presented an insightful essay this past Monday. Krause was also known then as a powerful satirist and aphorist.
He could have been writing about President Trump today, when he said:
āThe secret of the demagogue is to make himself asā¦
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Fireplace Reading: "Apple Pressings"
Fireplace Reading: āApple Pressingsā
As cool fall weather descends, remember that it is Book Month, and a good time for some comfortable reading by the fireplace again. One suggestion is to read a book of āfascinatingā essays, as one review headline proclaimed about āApple Pressings,ā a newly published collection of essays that Iāve presented before the Chicago Literary Club over recent years.
In one essay titled: āRed, White, Blueā¦
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I'd Like to Buy the World A Coke
Iād Like to Buy the World AĀ Coke
Just over 22 years ago, members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra played a slow rendition of the eponymous melody, āIād like to buy the world a Coke,ā as the coffin of legendary Cuban-born Chairman of the Coca-Cola Company, Roberto Goizueta, was born down the aisle of Holy Spirit CatholicĀ Church in Atlanta.
I wasnāt there, but I did spend an enjoyable day a few years before spiriting Robertoā¦
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A Lincoln For Our Times...
A Lincoln For OurĀ Timesā¦
Robert Todd Lincoln was Abrahamās eldest son, and was incredibly successful as a Chicago lawyer and businessman (Chair of Pullman) in his own right. But he stayed away from politics like the plage, as I describe in my essay āDodging the Shadow of Greatness,ā in my new book Ā of essays presented before the Chicago Literary Club, āApple Pressings,ā now available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble andā¦
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Creators of āApple Pressingsā Confur Cider our curious 18-year-old cat at Applewood Lodge, "confurs" with author Chuck Ebeling, about their new book of essays, "Apple Pressings" which is newly availableĀ on Amazon Books.
SeaBell at Abbey Harbor, WI inĀ 2009
For Ordering NOW My new book of essays presented before the Chicago Literary Club is now available for ordering, in a paperbound edition.
New Book Coming -- APPLE PRESSINGS
New Book Coming ā APPLEĀ PRESSINGS
My first book will be published within the next month or so, and it is an anthology of my essays presented before the famed Chicago Literary Club in each of the 15 years I have been a member. Most of these were presented after club dinners at the aptly-named Cliff Dwellers Club, on the 22nd story, overlooking Grant Park and Lake Michigan.
The topics of the essays range widely: from fries, toā¦
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Where are the National Service Advocates?
Where are the National ServiceĀ Advocates?
Where is the DemocraticĀ party Presidential candidate who will advocate for a National Service program?
For example, a two-year National Service program for young men and women in their late teens could accomplish severalĀ important things:
1. Provide a workforce to help America restore its failing infrastructure.
2. Reduce youth unemployment by providing useful work in both the military and aā¦
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Equal Rights for Women?
Equal Rights forĀ Women?
Of course! Then why are 13 states still, after many years, refusing to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, which clearly establishes that men and women are born with equal rights. Letās do it, and this applies to both Democrats and Republicans who consider themselves to be good Americans.
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All There Is?
I wrote on why we should care about ādark skyā issues a few years ago for the local newspaper in Lake Geneva. Despite a modest recent upsurge in interest in space exploration, it still applies to our relationship with the dark sky.
Ā ALL THERE IS?
Driving northwest from Chicago, toward Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, as we begin to cross farmland, I notice domes of light pop up on the horizon. I soonā¦
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