I am attending a media event hosted by Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses. It’s an annual thing that I have attended before, and she remembers me. She says that this year she is starting an online cookie business, featuring different kinds of cookies that she baked herself from family recipes, as well as some she invented herself. She brings out a ( Read more... )

I am in the Old Man’s War universe, on a diplomatic team that negotiates deals with alien races. We are on a mission to meet with the Sorvath, who look something like Groot, except they’re not plants.

My boss is agitated because the Sorvath are very formal and have very strict requirements, and he wants to butter them up by presenting them with ( Read more... )

I am signing up to work for the CIA. Again ( Read more... )

I am going to a local arts center to attend a seminar called “How To Start A Tank”. The flyer claims that the instructor will demonstrate how a tank works and how to operate one. I’m fairly sure I know what to expect, as I’m assuming it’s similar to starting and operating an armored personnel carrier, which I learned how to drive in the Army. But ( Read more... )

I am an agent employed by a covert US organization so secret I'm not even sure what it's called.

My assignment involves monitoring a North Korean national who is traveling around Asia trying to locate and infiltrate an R&D facility which is designing an advanced virtual reality pod - sort of a cross between a hibernation chamber and a holodeck. My ( Read more... )

FULL DISCLOSURE: I wrote this dream down a couple of years ago, but never got around to posting it. Given Neil Peart's recent passing, I thought there's no better time to share it.

I am on a motorcycle road trip with Geddy Lee of Rush. We’re riding around a hilly area, with winding roads. It’s nighttime and it’s raining pretty hard, and occasionally ( Read more... )

I am in an episode of The X Files, tagging along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate strange events occurring in a grocery store in Stockholm. The store is part of a national chain of grocery stores, which operates under several different brands targeting different clientele (upper market, deli, import brands, etc).

Mulder and Scully ( Read more... )

I am in Singapore, sitting on a street corner listening to “Freewill” by Rush in my headphones and trying not to play air drums to it ( Read more... )

I am staying in a hotel that is outfitted with lots of TV screens in the public areas. They are all tuned into the US presidential election - it’s Election Day and the voting has just started. The big news story is that Donald Trump is having some kind of dramatic public meltdown over new allegations of sexual harassment.

I am taking a lift down to ( Read more... )

I am on a business trip covering a major telecoms event. Every year the organizers book some entertainment for the last night of the conference. This year’s entertainment: Rush ( Read more... )