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2013? Bring it on. To hell with superstition! | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Bring it on. To hell with superstition! Never mind fiscal cliffs, or the fact that the real danger isn’t a Mayan-style apocalypse. But a nuclear one. With the Doomsday clock last set at five minutes to midnight. For more than a few of us, the big threat is the year ahead, 2013. Perhaps 85 percent of the world’s office buildings. Just like the elevator numbers. Urban Legends guru on the About.com.

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Characters | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Great-grandniece of Jonathan Stone, the narrator. Tireless student of previrtual media, the inky old paper kind. Jon Stone, the narrator:. Image) to work as a mentor. The real estate tycoon in the title a massive ex-bricklayer with two missing fingertips and a huge, rickety building housing IRS and CIA bureaucrats. Friends with President Eddy Bullard. George McWilliams, the editor:. Vassar-educated ...

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The Solomon Scandals, a quirky D.C. newspaper novel, gets its due at book-signing Jan. 18 | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Lsquo;Solomon Scandals’ book-signing Jan. 18. Categories: The Solomon Scandals. Decades before the ABC-TV series. Existed in manuscript form—a quirky look at a darker side of D.C. that you can’t see on the screen right now or read about in the standard bestsellers. Rather it’s about a small-time reporter, a bricklayer turned federal landlord, shenanigans at the General Services Administration. Film,...

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‘Gatsby: My Story’: A book review | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Lsquo;Gatsby: My Story’: A book review. Categories: Washington area life. Nick Carraway and your English lit professor got it all wrong. A madman’s gunshots did not kill the hero of The Great Gatsby. Published 90 years ago on April 10, 1925. So—with the exception of the 21st-century diplomatic update—goes Gatsby: My Story. 8216;s daughter from Alabama. Faring no better in Spindler’s sequel is Daisy,...

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Chapters 1-3 | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. By Rebecca Kitiona-Fenton, Ph.D.,. Of the Institute for the Study of Previrtual Media. Just what to make of my great-great-uncle’s. When Aunt Erica first told me of them, I did not know what to anticipate—they might, for all I knew, have been about whaling. I almost expected to read of harpoons and blubber boilers. Lingered on in gargoyled apartment buildings. Civil War widows still breathed. Ran on...

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Uncategorized | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Bring it on. To hell with superstition! Never mind fiscal cliffs, or the fact that the real danger isn’t a Mayan-style apocalypse but a nuclear one (with the Doomsday clock last set at five minutes to midnight). For more than a few of us, the big threat is the year ahead, 2013. Perhaps 85 percent of the world’s office buildings lack marked […]. Scandalous Halloween ostracism (G-rated animation).

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‘Scandals’ paperback and e-book bundled for $16.95 at re∙reads | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Lsquo;Scandals’ paperback and e-book bundled for $16.95 at re reads. Categories: The Solomon Scandals. A new local bookstore and Twilight Times Books. Publisher of The Solomon Scandals. Are teaming up to offer the e-book version for free, in major digital formats, for customers who buy the paperback from the store (price: $16.95). The bundling deal will be limited to the first eight buyers. Vulture’...

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Media | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Want Kent State II? Then pander to Donald Trump. A few thoughts for the media. Ohio National Guardmen killed Bill Schroeder, an ex-Eagle Scout, 46 years ago today, at Kent State University. As a reporter for The Lorain Journal, his hometown daily, I covered the death of this ROTC cadet. Do you realize what America was like back then? Searching for Wooden Watermelons is a sweet indie flick about a br...

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Greener pastures for Rashad Young, Alexandria’s $266.5K city manager: D.C., beware | The Solomon Scandals

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The DC. newspaper novel, the media,the Washington area, tech and other surrealism: David Rothman at large. Greener pastures for Rashad Young, Alexandria’s $266.5K city manager: D.C., beware. Categories: Washington area life. Hired at $245K and now paid $266,508 a year, is leaving. As Alexandria’s city manager to become city administrator for D.C. In my hometown of 150,000, Mr. Young has been pulling down a bigger salary than that of Vice President Joe Biden, paid $230,700. Their salaries, like Mr. Yo...