Steven Helmer Publications

Synopsis: This non-fiction(?) book discusses a popular political conspiracy that suggests the United States government began poisoning birds in the late 1950s so they could be replaced with sophisticated bird-shaped drones designed to spy on the American public. As a result of this, all birds are now robots. Review: I am still waiting for some books on my library hold list and since it's going to be very cold the next couple of days, went in search of something else to read in the meantime. I came across Birds Aren't Real and since I am always open to listening to a conspiracy theory, checked it out. According to my Generation Z daughter, this is a conspiracy theory I shouldn't take too seriously, and it's mostly just being spread around the internet as a joke. However, after getting through the book with relative ease, I'm going to say it was a surprisingly intriguing concept. OK, just so we're clear, I'm not hopping on the fake bird bandwagon. I'm a...

before Hollywood and our government changed it into a movie about ballerinas? At least that's what my dream last night revealed to me (though I'm a bit fuzzy about some of the details now that I'm awake). In hindsight I probably shouldn't have trusted Homer Simpson to deliver the original film to Canada, where we intended to show it. Sometimes I wonder if Sigmund Freud would have quit psychiatry if he had me as a patient.