Your Own Drummer!

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith on success
Quote from Quotations Book

How many times have you found this quote to be true? I have found this to be true many times that to be successful at whatever it was that I was doing I needed to be mine own person, stay true to my own values and march to the sound of my own drummer.

Judge Orders April Trial!

Finally justice may be served. A judge has ordered an April trial for the man accused of the brutal slayings of Jennifer Hudson's family. It has taken 3 years to finally get to this point.

To read full article click the following link:

Judge: April trial for man charged in brutal slayings of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's family - Yahoo! News

Not Surprised by American Idol news.

I have to say that I am not too surprised by this American Idol news. It seems as though the ratings for this season were not very good. I do not think the show has anything new to show us. It  has been on a long time and it seems like it is never the really good performers who get choosen in the end anyway (just my oppinion).
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"American Idol" debut hits sour note - Yahoo! News

A Very Strange Name In Deed!

Arrested man has an extremely strange name. Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is 30 years old pand was arrested on various drug charges. The most amazing about this story other the name he goes by is that this is not his birth name. He had his name changed from Jeffrey Drew Wilschke.Read full story here:  https://spn.sr/vK1

A Book Review of Ed King by David Guterson

I just finished reading Ed King, a novel by David Guterson, who is also the author of Snow Falling On Cedars. This was not something I was aware of when I got this book. If I had this knowledge beforehand there is a very good chance I would not have chosen to read this book.

After reading the first couple of chapters I realized that I was finding this book boring. The boredom happened in varying degrees and at about the time when I was ready to stop reading the book altogether it would pick up with the promise of becoming suddenly exciting. The fact that I found the story of Ed King boring is amazing because of the many ways the story mirrored the story of Oedipus, a character in a Greek tragedy who kills his father and marries his mother.

In this novel by David Guterson, Ed King is the illegitimate child of Walter Cousins, a mild mannered actuary, and Diane Burroughs, the sexy not legal British au pair who takes care of Walters children one summer while his wife is in a mental hospital suffering from a mental breakdown.

When Ed is born Diane leaves him on a doorstep, abandoning him in the hope that he will go to a good two parent home. This of course happens in due time. Ed lives life very much as other children do. He grows up, goes to school, participates in sports, etc. At a point in the story it is discovered that Ed King is a genius. He goes on to become an internet tycoon worth billions of dollars. Ed becomes an international celebrity and king of search who is moving through life toward a fate he may not be able to shape.

There are many issues this story deals with from infidelity to incest, from death to murder in a way that I have to say seemed very boring to me. I have to admit though that the end of Ed King asked some great questions. The type of questions that have you wondering about the great mysteries in life, right down to the last anagrams between Ed and his pilot.

As I think about it there may have been some messages or ideas that I can take away from this book that are actually very true. That may be the reason why I kept reading Ed King.

http://relijournal.com/religion/ed-king/