The Latest from Scratch Writing
The Scratching Post: Look! I'm Using My History Degree!
Well, it only took a few decades, but I'm happy to report that I'm finally putting my college history degree to good use.
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Quantum Soup: The Library That Survived the Fire
There is something especially cruel about a book that survives a catastrophe but cannot survive being read. You can protect it, catalogue it and put it somewhere safe. The one thing you most want to do might destroy the reason you saved it.
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Bingham's Notebook: The Berkeley Years: Before the Gold Box
Before Lawrence Bingham built the Gold Box, before Malcolm Kane became one of the most consequential figures in the hidden history of The Midas Files, and before Eva Bingham became inseparable from Larry’s story, there was Berkeley.
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Noodles On The Loose: Hal's Bar & Grill
Looking for great chicken wings in Pittsburgh? Noodles heads to Hal's Bar & Grill in Ross Township, where the wings are delicious, the atmosphere is lively, and everybody seems to know somebody.
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Bingham's Notebook: Chapter 9: Peace Accords | The Midas Protocol
Hank Raglan returns to Unalco unsure what the Rosebud fight will cost him. Benny arranges a meeting that produces a handshake, though Hank’s doubts remain. These reusable components explore the chapter’s uneasy peace and the workplace pressures that make it possible.
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The Scratching Post: Fairway Thirteen — A Ghost Story Inspired by Pittsburgh's North Park
I've been having a lot of fun lately experimenting with animated storytelling.
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Cool Filmz: Eight Men Out and the Trouble with Losing on Purpose
Throwing a baseball game sounds easy enough until you ask somebody who has spent his whole life trying to win to go out there and do it. That was what interested me most about Eight Men Out when I reviewed it for Cover-Ups.com on May 10, 2007. The gamblers, the money and the conspiracy got me in the door. Watching the players struggle with what they had agreed to do was what kept me watching.
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The Weapon That Learned To Swim: A Brief History of Torpedoes
Before the torpedo became a sleek metal predator packed with sonar, guidance software and enough engineering to make a Victorian inventor weep, it was basically an underwater bomb with ambition.
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Bingham's Notebook: Midas Protocol - Chapter 8 - "Caroline's Choice"
Caroline Friday’s elective becomes the doorway into the Bingham murder investigation. Her question about the death penalty wins Bill Murdock’s attention; her choice of Rusty Gibb’s case brings her into the mystery that will shape her future.
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The Scratching Post: Oktoberfest, Corndogs and Showing Up When Nobody Is Watching
It was one of those weekends that seemed to disappear almost as soon as it started.Friday turned out to be a lot of fun. The rain held off, and I made it down to Canonsburg for the Oktoberfest celebration in Washington County. Saturday brought another good time as we celebrated a milestone birthday for a close friend we affectionately call Hollywood.
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- The Funny Newz: Alien Abduction and Organ Processing Centers Drawing Fire for Heavy Water, Electricity Use
- Alien Real Estate Mogul Rarf Nangork Quietly Buying Up Earth, Insists He Has No Plans to Flip Planet
- Cool Filmz: Déjà Vu and the Fun of Chasing Yesterday
- Quantum Soup: The Quantum Thermometers Reading Nuclear Fingerprints
- Bingham's Notebook: Jack Barons and The New Year's Hat In The Midas Protocol - Chapter 7 - "Hank's Apartment"
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