Help to Enroll in the ACA
As some of you may know I had major surgery last week. There was a strong possibility that I had cancer and the only way to be sure (an attempt to do a biopsy had failed) was to remove the offending organ from the body. I spent a night in the hospital, and I have...
The Skunk Works Strikes Again
Oh Holy Fuck! If this works the world changes. Go and check this out. Skunk Works Fusion
Games and The Madonna & Whore Problem
My friend Eric Kelley came out to N.M. to visit and to attend Bubonicon. He's a very fine writer, but also a gaming geek and fellow Mass Effect fanatic. He's the Garrus to my Shepard, and a real BFF. While he was visiting he played through part of Citadel and that...
Random Thoughts and Apologies
I know, I know. I've been a real stranger at my own blog. Blame it on the surgery and trying to work while recovering from said surgery. If I'm going to write it ought to be on a book that is due February first and a proposal for a new space opera series. I've...
Setting the Hook
I’ve been gulping down the first season of PERSON OF INTEREST. I discovered the show over the summer between seasons one and two, got hooked and watched all of season two. Then I had to go back and see how it all started. How did Harold and Mr. Reese become...
Musings on Forbidden Planet
Okay, I said I would try to organize my thoughts, and explain why I found Forbidden Planet to be less then thrilling when I saw it again at the grand opening of George R.R.’s wonderful, refurbished Jean Cocteau. Let me start by saying that I don’t think the...
Why The Outrage?
I’ve been following the outrage over A-Rod’s use of performance enhancing drugs, and I still don’t get it. They keep saying that the records are “tainted”, and this is not a true test of athletic prowess. There is this sense that The Babe didn’t need no stinkin’...
Phillipa Continues to Rule
So Library Journal has weighed in with a very nice review of BOX OFFICE POISON. I am baffled by the reaction to these Linnet Ellery books. Is it just because I broke the urban fantasy trope by having the supernaturals be in positions of real power and authority...
Falling Skies – My Guilty Pleasure
While recovering from food poisoning, and with a completely whacked out sleep cycle I ended up watching all the banked episodes of the TNT show FALLING SKIES. I've liked this show from the beginning. Yeah, it's another alien invasion story, but it looked great, I...
Now This is Clever
“An Olympic boycott might not be the best way to go. Instead, let's turn the Winter Games into the gayest games in history. Let the Russian police, if they want, arrest every athlete, every coach from Europe, North American, Australia and other forward-looking...
