Paul Ryan and his supporters are trying to sell their spending cut and lower tax program and they’re getting booed at town hall meetings. They’re finally cutting into people’s pockets who can’t defend themselves. They thought they were doing what … Continue reading
This may be social suicide, but I’m going to say it anyway. I don’t like zombies. Not too thrilled with vampires, either. I mean—hell, they’re dead. Dead. And motivating. The contradiction alone is… I am tired of zombies, though. And … Continue reading
From time to time, here and there, someone brings Ayn Rand up as some kind of role model. Lately it’s even in the national news, thanks to the Tea Party and an apparently not very good film of Rand’s seminal … Continue reading
I completed a massive rewrite the other day and sent it out. When I say massive, I mean big, a whole novel. There’s a lot riding on this and I find myself fidgety and on edge in a way I … Continue reading
For whatever reason, I put 32 images in each of my online galleries. Don’t know why, I just do. No cosmic significance, it just worked out that way when I started, so I’m sticking to it. That said, I have … Continue reading
This is very cool. This is the promo video for the next generation of privately-built low-earth orbit heavy lifters, the Falcon Heavy from SpaceX. What I like about this is, basically, it’s a commercial for a spaceship. Appropriately weighty music … Continue reading
Sort of. I have just completed a marathon session (about four weeks straight) of disassembling and revising a novel I thought I’d completed years ago. The rewrite came at a request. I may have news, but not now. That’s for … Continue reading
There’s a scene from that marvelous film, The Dead Poets Society, in which Robin Williams playing teacher John Keating has a brief conversation with Mr. Nolan, the headmaster of the school played by Norman Lloyd, about the purpose of his … Continue reading
…this is an important test of the new camera. How well does it do without color? There are so many controls built into the camera itself, that I can virtually forgo Photoshop—at least until I learn all the ins and … Continue reading