The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Narrated by Gideon Emery Published by Recorded Books At A Glance: Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is. What the Goose? The good...

For Valentine’s Day this year, I surprised my wife1 with a date to the The Loretta Paganini School of Cooking Valentine’s Dinner for Two.2 Sabra and I had always been very curious about the classes and events offered by the school, a local Chesterland establishment, and we both were very much looking forward to the evening’s dinner and festivities....

How do you follow-up a story like the last one? Seriously! I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around it. Why? For the first time, I broke 100 visitors on my site in one day! Now, that may seem like small peanuts to, well, everyone. But for me, for my personal blog site, that’s a milestone I never really thought I’d hit. As I explained to my lovely...

Our story begins on the morning of Sunday, January 31. As I recall, it was a fairly nice looking day outside, despite the snow covering the grass outside our window. I glanced at the clock and realized that I had better get out of bed and get ready for church or we would be late again. Ah well. I rolled out of bed, when my lovely wife informed me that she had been...

Sherlock Holmes (2009) Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Mark Strong. Directing: Guy Ritchie At A Glance: In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, Sherlock Holmes sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his...

A new year has come, and over the last few weeks I’ve been pondering 2009. And I’ve come to one simple conclusion… 2009 was a year of relative stagnation for The Bearded Goose. I feel that I’ve accomplished very little, and I haven’t really progressed or grown over the course of those last twelve months. Don’t get me wrong,...

Well… we’ve reached, and passed, the halfway mark through this surprisingly warm month of November in the year of 2009. And while much has been accomplished already, very little of it is related to the activities I thought I’d try my hand at. As a reminder, you can always head back to the post I wrote back on the first. How have I fared in these...