http://johnwcassell.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by John Cassell en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:34:59 GMT 2009-12-30T23:34:59Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977938612 Amazon by virtue of what might be called an energetic 'author outreach program', particularly during the "amazon shorts" phase, has managed to become the gathering place for many unknown but highly talented . . . Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:58:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977938612 John Cassell 2009-12-09T10:58:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977908224 My copy of Jack Engelhard's SLOT ATTENDANT came this afternoon.  As I was reading another truly engrossing novel at the time and NEVER read more than one book at a time, I set myself the modest goal . . . Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:55:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977908224 John Cassell 2009-11-19T10:55:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977902471 Jack Engelhard's long awaited novel SLOT ATTENDANT is now in print and for sale.  My copy is on its way to me.   The reason I mention this is because I believe there may be some extremely . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:41:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977902471 John Cassell 2009-11-16T05:41:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977895806 HAPPY VET'S DAY, GUYS!! In these times of fear and uncertainty, the efforts through the generations by the men and women of America who paid with their lives or their bodies and minds for the wrong-headed . . . Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:22:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977895806 John Cassell 2009-11-11T13:22:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977846851 No dichotomy is 100%....all you have to do is contemplate a molecule to know just how perilous our existence really is.  After all, if whatever keeps those electrons orbiting around those neutrons . . . Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:04:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977846851 John Cassell 2009-10-10T03:04:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977742230 I used to like google. Their book partner program is fantastic...I have gmail.   I NEVER routinely load updates...they have crashed my computer, frozen it, slowed it down...etc more times than . . . Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:30:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977742230 John Cassell 2009-07-19T06:30:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977735143 All literary insiders know and respect Jack Engelhard.  The crisp prose, the incomparable dialogue, the fast-paced story line, the authentic, fascinating characters and maybe most of all, the ability . . . Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:27:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977735143 John Cassell 2009-07-12T06:27:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977732500 JULY 8, 1962 .... my mom took my brother and me on a train trip around the country.  Looking back on a rather full life I truly doubt any event was more significant.   As we eagerly . . . Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:59:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977732500 John Cassell 2009-07-08T22:59:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977722576 MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD.   I loved many of the Jackson Five hits....have several of these CD's to this day, and play them when in nostalgic moods. I wondered at the time what kind of childhood . . . Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:09:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977722576 John Cassell 2009-06-27T00:09:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977713962 For the most part there is no justice.  For years I stood in courtrooms and watched little guys caught with excessive alcoholic content in their blood at roadblocks to which they drove in a safe . . . Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:47:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977713962 John Cassell 2009-06-17T22:47:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977683959 The metallic, robotic copper was at it again this morning....waking everyone up..... "slow to twenty-five"....over and over again. Today though, I am happy to report, our local drivers . . . Sat, 16 May 2009 05:49:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977683959 John Cassell 2009-05-16T05:49:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977680304 Today was a red letter day for the federally funded idiots in my home town...   "Slow to twenty-five..."   The voice intruded on my dreams.  I'd only been . . . Tue, 12 May 2009 03:35:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977680304 John Cassell 2009-05-12T03:35:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977674053 REMEMBERING MAY 4, 1970   By   John W. Cassell   Thirty-nine years have passed since the day all the mistrust and hatred abroad in the United States at . . . Tue, 05 May 2009 05:17:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977674053 John Cassell 2009-05-05T05:17:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977673112     DARK DIAMOND TWILIGHT: The last coal load out from Energy Fuels mine; Florence, CO; January 26, 2001: A Short True Story   It's January 26, 2001...a massive snow storm is on the way . . . Mon, 04 May 2009 06:33:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977673112 John Cassell 2009-05-04T06:33:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977668846 Jack Engelhard very wisely says that "if the reader is aware you're writing....you've failed, just as if the audience is aware you're acting...you've failed." Any of us . . . Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:51:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977668846 John Cassell 2009-04-29T02:51:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977664331 as of this evening...Apr 23...this book is now available on kindle.....paperback coming soon!!! For the better part of forty years....Dan Cole was a burglar, a convict, a stone alcoholic, a drifter..... . . . Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:44:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977664331 John Cassell 2009-04-23T22:44:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977660056 I was going to write a casino sequence once upon a time....Jack Engelhard is the king of that genre....    Indecent Proposal   and DEADLY DECEPTION are truly masterpieces in that field...the . . . Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:05:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977660056 John Cassell 2009-04-19T10:05:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977653166 Jack Engelhard, author of     The Girls of Cincinnati   and the world famous novel    Indecent Proposal  wrote a blog daring to suggest by metaphor that the current . . . Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:20:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977653166 John Cassell 2009-04-11T17:20:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977646261 Jack Engelhard has released another literary masterpiece.  GIRLS OF CINCINNATI is now available in paperback at amazon.com   It has been available for some time on Kindle.  That's . . . Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:43:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977646261 John Cassell 2009-04-04T12:43:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977641241 While the Anglican Church [the Church into which I was born and bred] has been more interested in the sexual preference of its bishops*, joyful when they are not "straight" and . . . Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:35:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977641241 John Cassell 2009-03-30T10:35:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977631739 No further comments are necessary as this was all predicted a year ago.  We all know what we all think and there is no further need to rehash the hash of our thoughts.  To my gather friends . . . Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:58:48 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977631739 John Cassell 2009-03-20T09:58:48Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977616548    The World Outside the Window       In several blogs over the past three years and on other platforms I have stated my opinion that some of the best writers around . . . Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:32:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977616548 John Cassell 2009-03-07T06:32:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977614320 Since becoming a cripple, I try to have as little to do with the real world as possible...aside of my family, my friends, my scooter "Liberator" and my casino.  Yet at least once a year . . . Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977614320 John Cassell 2009-03-04T19:20:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977593948 So some informer or spy caught Michael Phelps smoking pot....  By the time all the holier-than-thou crowd gets finished with him, he will be out millions of dollars a hell of a lot of hard work . . . Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:35:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977593948 John Cassell 2009-02-13T23:35:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567989 Recently I received one of those forwarded emails.  I was about to delete it when the title caught my eye: "Soon they will be gone".   Curious, I checked it out.  It was from an Army . . . Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:02:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977567989 John Cassell 2009-01-19T17:02:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977564055 Those interested in developments in the world of literature frequently visit the PaperCuts blog of the New York Times.  Conveniently located witihn miles of all those failing traditional publishing . . . Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:01:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977564055 John Cassell 2009-01-15T17:01:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977554693   It's all over now.  Even my birthday, which I spent throughout my young adulthood driving deserted highways, or waiting for connections in bus and railroad stations, which always was . . . Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:19:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977554693 John Cassell 2009-01-06T10:19:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977551376 Perhaps "nightmare" is a bit harsh.  I use it because those who take them seriously to the point of remembering them the following New Year's are often discouraged by how quickly . . . Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:04:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977551376 John Cassell 2009-01-02T21:04:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977543239 There has been much comment recently on the collapse of the traditional New York publishing houses. Followers of this blog know that I've felt that their surrender to the likes of the clintons . . . Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:13:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977543239 John Cassell 2008-12-23T09:13:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977534487 Volume Three: the Triumph of Malaria by John W. Cassell, author of the newly released politico-military adventure thriller    Uncertain Paradise: 1973: The Latter Days  , as well . . . Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:51:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977534487 John Cassell 2008-12-13T18:51:34Z