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Jeff Stone

Good Bye To Gems and Rubble

Goodbye Gems and Rubble – Sort of Over the years I’ve written several hundred reviews. Many of them are posted here on the e-zine site, and many are posted at My Lovely Assistant. Many of the reviews I’ve written are still unpublished. I typically release them a few at a …

Be Who You Are . . . Even if it Sucks

Remember way back when (especially if you lived in California) . . . the peg-leg pant-fold was cool. For those who are fortunate enough to have blocked this tragic choice of self-expression from the front of the mind, basically, the fad was this: donning your best pair of Levi’s you …

Beware of the Yeah-Buts

Raise your hand if you want me to criticize you! I’m guessing nobody raised a hand. If I said, “raise your hand if you want me to critique you” I’ll bet more hands would go up. The problem is that most people mistake a critique for criticism. A criticism requires …