I had high hopes about my writing day today, the first where I get an extra two hours of afternoon. I got a smattering done, then realized Oh yeah, I still have to go to someone else's house to take a shower.So off I went, over the mountain and through the woods to my in-laws' before work. Tomorrow, in order to get more writing accomplished, I may ( Read more... )

The longer I live the more I see that if you really want an urban legend to survive the test of time, you have to make it as bizarre as possible. The more bizarre it is the more tenacious it hangs on in popular consciousness, and this is especially true if it's a political urban legend. And if it's really bizarre, it can cling so tightly that it ( Read more... )

At the beginning of 2007 I started the first of my unfinished novels, which I called the Navy Book here on LJ. The basic premise was that at the beginning of a war with Iran, a U.S. carrier task force gets zapped nearly a century into the future, into a time when much of civilization has been wrecked by multiple nuclear wars and exchanges. The ( Read more... )

Last week I wrote an article for Farmerphile about the Phil Farmer story "Riders of the Purple Wage" and how it was a take-off / send-off of James Joyce's books Finnegan's Wake and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Part of this process included re-reading select portions of both books.

In the case of Finnegan's Wake this was almost ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago someone (can't remember who after all this time, sorry!) tagged me for the Ten Weird Things About Me meme. Since then I've also seen it around here and there as the Six Weird Things Meme. Which one I do (or more) will depend on how many things I think of in the next few minutes; apologies in advance for any Weird Things ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail from time_shark a little while ago letting me know he was accepting my weird fantasy poem "Conjunctivitis of the Third Eye" for Mythic Delirium. Woo-hoo! Good week ( Read more... )

This strikes me as romantic the way Sting's song "Every Breath You Take" strikes me as romantic