“Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it...”

-Mephisopheles, Doctor Faustus, Act I, Scene 3, by Christopher Marlowe

Some of you might know about my objections to the Harry Potter series. They are numerous and varied, but the biggest one is the fact that characters conveniently forget obvious solutions to problems or information they'd been explicitly told just a few chapters before*. I don't know if I'm just weird this way, but I have a real beef against ( Read more... )

I know I mentioned this last week, but my newest CD, Doctor, Captain, Dovahkiin, Chief, is finished, mastered, uploaded, and released on CDBaby, Amazon, and iTunes!

• To buy from CDBaby, click HERE!
• To buy from Amazon, click HERE!
• To buy from iTunes, go to the iTunes Store in your iTunes app and search "Eben Brooks"

The track list is as follows:

1. The ( Read more... )

Hey, caprine! Remember those jokes we use to tell about OCD people getting high and alphabetizing their books by spine color?

Apparently, PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO THIS ON PURPOSE!


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It's not official, but scientists at JPL and NASA have taken to calling one of the major features on the surface of Pluto . . . Cthulhu.


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My friend Keith R.A. deCandido (yes, that Keith R.A. deCandido, aka kradical) recently had a bit of a financial snafu that required him to create a GiveForward campaign asking for help to meet expenses. That campaign was a success in substantially less than 24 hours. I myself contributed a small amount-had the campaign lasted until today (pay day) it would ( Read more... )

I need a name for a part of the brain. Trick is, it's a part of the brain that doesn't actually exist in the real world ( Read more... )

The purpose of these idea logs is to make my brain "sweat". That is, to give it a good workout, just like a physical workout, so that my problem-solving, brainstorming, and creative skills become easier. These ideas, loosely related to some kind of theme for each list, are supposed to only be ideas where I know what the first step is. I might not ( Read more... )

I've had very good feedback on my story "First Contact". So much so that I'm considering trying to find a magazine or an anthology to submit it to ( Read more... )

Being a writer, I write. Most of it is in my head and never sees paper (or pixels, as the case may be), but it's writing nonetheless. Keeping the muscles toned, as it were.

Well, today, when thinking about a potential conflict, this exchange popped into my head (with due credit given to Winston Churchill, Bessie Braddock, and Mark Rogers*):

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