Category Archives: PubWages Staff

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Is it vain to wear contact lenses?

Is it vain to wear contact lenses? Are people who wear them trying to improve their appearance or their vision? This is a question that comes up quite often when a teenager first thinks about switching from glasses to contact … Continue reading

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My tribute to John Lydon is in the YouBloom Quarter Finals

My song Johnny Rotten’s Still My Hero has made it through to the quarter finals of the YouBloom Music Awards I am proud to say. The song is a tribute to John Lydon, who formerly fronted the outrageous punk rock … Continue reading

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Therapeutic Essential Oils for Beginners

Therapeutic Essential Oils for Beginners Therapeutic essential oils offer a wide range of benefits with more and more people realizing this amazing truth. With the health care concerns we have come to embrace more natural prevention and treatments. Nature provides us with everything … Continue reading

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The Reviews Are In: From Up on Poppy Hill

Studio Ghibli released its new film From Up on Poppy Hill  (コクリコ坂から ) this July. It’s been a while since From Up On Poppy Hill premiered in Japan, and the reviews are in.  Those of us back in America still … Continue reading

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Rubber Ducky has had plenty of media coverage

Rubber Ducky is a song of mine that proved to be so popular back in the early ’70s that it had a cult following, although I personally hated it. Rubber Ducky is a really silly song and not the sort … Continue reading

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Johnny Rotten’s Still My Hero is in the YouBloom Music Awards

Johnny Rotten’s Still My Hero is currently entered in the YouBloom Music Awards song contest but it was originally recorded back in 2002. It is a tribute song to John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, and his former band The Sex … Continue reading

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Editorial Policy and the Search Engines: Who Decides What is Spam?

Recently I was involved in a discussion with some internet colleagues about the relative merits of two sites for writers. I am not writing this editorial in order to run down or disparage either of those sites, even though they … Continue reading

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For California Pubbers: Replace Amazon with Barnes & Noble

Recently, due to tax legislation passed under an emergency measure in California, Amazon dropped all its California affiliates. This has put a lot of online writers in a state of reduced income. What’s a California pubber to do? Well, when … Continue reading

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An Interview with Julia Hanna

Julia Hanna, otherwise known as Sweetbearies here on PubWages, is a prolific writer and artist. Last night I had the privilege of doing a video interview with her on Skype. Even though she is in California and I am in … Continue reading

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Bard of Ely has a new entry in the YouBloom Music Awards

My song Mañana recently got through to the semi finals of the YouBloom Song Contest, so a big THANK YOU to everyone who voted for it and helped it get there! Sadly though Bob Geldof and the team of judges … Continue reading

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