Learned Something Cool Today
Today I spent basically 7 hours at the computer wrestling with a script. I took breaks to make tea, visit the bathroom to unload the tea, pace around the house, but mostly I was at my desk thinking and typing. Where does this scene really go? Would it work better...
Violence and Video Games
As people have probably noticed I have become addicted to video games. I have an X-Box 360. I belong to X-Box Live. I post on the Bioware Social Network. I've written a Mass Effect fanfic story. And I ended up in an interesting debate/discussion with two couples...
New Wild Card Story
There is a new Wild Card story available for free over on Tor.com. It's written by Daniel Abraham who is a brilliant writer, and features that lovable cut-up Bugsy. You can find it here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/01/when-we-were-heroes I hope you will all go...
Yet Another Mass 3 Effect Rant
I'm sure this won't be the last rant I make about this damn game, but as I was working on crafting an "alternative ending" that leads into my ME story another piece of out and out idiocy in the ME3 ending as written occurred to me. The Star Brat goes on about how...
Something Beautiful to Enjoy
Here is Fuego XII in his amazing freestyle performance at the WEG in 2010. He's an Andalusian rather than a Lusitano, but you get a real sense of the Spanish horses and how the good ones move and look. Fuego Wows the Crowd
Jack Reacher
Thursday night I acted like a teenager instead of a responsible adult, but damn it was fun. The evening began with dinner at The Shed, one of Santa Fe's famous Mexican restaurants -- best red chile in town. My companion was Ty Frank, one-half of James S.A. Corey of...
Almost Makes Me Believe
I really shouldn't try to listen singing when I'm working. A human voice will pull me out of the work. Particularly when it is counter tenor, David Daniels singing Che Faró Senza, Euridice. It is sublime. If I were the least bit religious I would call it the...
Skyfall Script
While I was freezing at the barn I had this realization of just how good the SKYFALL script actually was. For some reason I was thinking about the moment where Bond tells the old family retainer, "Some men are coming to kill us. We're going to kill them first."...
Head Shaking
Well, the Violence Against Women Act has died in the GOP controlled House of Representatives. Why was the inclusion of lesbians, immigrants - legal or otherwise, and native Americans so offensive to these people? Now millions of women will be beaten, in danger,...
What I’ve Always Suspected
Gardner Dozois sent the link to this article to an on-line group to which I belong. It's about how hearing a story affects our brains, and it is so cool. So when a child asks, "Tell me a story", you are doing more than just entertaining them. It's actually creating...
