This island is full of clones. I have only been stranded here a few days and I have figured this out. On the third day, the island’s figurehead is rounding up all of the residents for a convocation and a feast. As we make our way from the beach toward the meeting place, I see […]
365 tomorrows via B^2 (tags: essay fantasy fiction geek literature publishing magazine scifi writing todo)
Moving in? A housing inspection. Haven’t we been in this house before? Felt its dangers? Felt its terrors? We wander halls that should be familiar as faces that are familiar but neither quite synchronize with memories lost or found. The carpets beneath our feet are ratty and reek but hold up under a scrutinizing eye. […]
In the bedroom, we watch the news; generals chase down that Revolutionary Homer Guevara. Interviews. Scenes of the troops. Sound of gunfire. The gunfire is so terribly close. The generals are dead and the revolutionaries are coming after us. Perhaps they believe that we are the soliders? The generals? Perhaps it is not the revolutionaries […]
The X-Files: The Complete Collector’s Edition Amazon correctly recommends: The X-Files: The Complete Collector’s Edition. Maybe it’s because we’ve been re-watching the series lately but our interest has been seriously rekindled. And what a handsome collector’s edition.
Do You Read Too Many Blogs? via Lifehack.org :: includes a system that about sums up my approach to reading blogs and other news sites (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, occasionally, probationally) (tags: blog essay todo) PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat via New York Times (via /.) :: !?!?!?!?!?!? (I know “in vitro” […]
Bring in the spring good and proper: kayaking and grilling with homemade barbecue sauce.
First and foremost: an uncritical read of this book will leave you feeling cynical and a bit cheated. It ranks up there with E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene 1. It would be very easy to find yourself getting defensive about the material presented in here; especially if you believe humans to be some special […]
Subversion for Writers I’ve heard of doing this before but never really got around to setting it up. This looks like a thorough redux and worth checking out. (Perhaps it’s time to try this again.) (tags: Mac OSX productivity subversion writing tutorial)
A gorgeously shot historical drama featuring Roy Scheider? An outward naval base is attacked during events leading up to Pearl Harbor. You know instinctively that the attackers must be Japanese but they film features them all as Soviets. They sweep in with their planes and fast attack boats and lay waste to their base. Scheider’s […]