Week of February 16, 2026
Primitive War stars Tricia Helfer.
Here’s a rundown of my week.
Primitive War
Primitive War stars Tricia Helfer as a Russian scientist who did something to help create dinosaurs during the Vietnam War. Tricia doesn’t show up until about halfway through the movie and when she does it’s to help some confused U.S. soldiers escape a tyrannosaurus rex.
Or something.
I dunno.
I was drinking a lot of beer while watching it, and the movie was really bad, so I wasn’t paying that much attention. The dinosaur special effects were decent enough, but the action scenes were spectacularly lame (CGI gun fire and wounds anyone?), and the acting was even worse. And again, Tricia doesn’t show up until pretty late in the movie and her Russian accent reminded me a lot of the old Bullwinkle cartoon (Moose and squirrel!).
This concludes my take on Primitive War and Tricia’s luring me into watch a pretty bad flick.
Augustus McRae
As it’s only a matter of time before Social Media trolls from Indonesia and Nigeria start posting AI rendered pictures of Robert Duvall in Heaven with Charlie Kirk, Rush Limbaugh, or that woman who was killed on the subway or at an alternative Halftime Show featuring celebrities who would never agree to perform at such, I have decided to create my own pic. This is Harambe, JonBenét Ramsey, and Augustus McRae in the afterlife which makes about as much sense as the aforementioned.
Take that trolls!
Betamax VS iPhone
The iPhone is to VHS as other phones are to Betamax.
Get with the program Beta people! I’m tired of you not being able to receive the pictures and PDFs I send you.
Random Quote
Summer is a gift that goes away. - The Final Score by Don Winslow.
Taro at LMC
I lived upstairs from a guy named Taro in the dorm at Lon Morris College.
He was from Japan. He could read and write English wonderfully but had issues speaking it. No matter what you said to him, he would reply, “Yes. Uh, no. Can you say again?” You could ask Taro, “What’s up?” and he would reply, “Yes. Uh, no. Can you say again?” You could ask how his classes went and he’d reply, “Yes. Uh, no. Can you say again?” You could ask if he wanted a beer and he’d reply, “Yes. Uh, no. Can you say again?” The only thing I didn’t understand about this reply was how it worked with his girlfriend as she was American and spoke no Japanese. You’d see Taro and his lady friend together and they’d be laughing and having a great time, yet he could literally say nothing other than, “Yes. Uh, no. Can you say again?”
I guess love conquers all.
Including the ability to only be able to reply or ask, “Yes. Uh, no. Can you say again?”
This serves as another story from my life and as the answer to the question, “Gayne, how do you come up with such weird stuff for your books?”
Cártel de Acuña En Español
The misadventures of your favorite semi-retired writer and the cartel he works for are now on Kindle in Spanish!
Red Tetralogy
Red Tetralogy: Red Frontier Books 1 – 4 is now available at Amazon!
Four complete books with over 700 pages of non-stop action / adventure.
Reviewers had these words for Red Frontier Books 1-4:
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