So why was The Hounds of Baskerville a failure as an episode of TV?   A number of reasons.  First among them being that they violated a cardinal rule in mysteries.  They never gave the audience/reader the chance to see the answer.  It all came out...

As I've been struggling with this Old Mars story I had a realization -- I write short stories much more easily when they are set in a universe I have already created and where I have spent a lot of time. The other stories I've written for Gardner and George were set...

I figure enough people have played Mass Effect 3 by now that I don't have to put up giant spoiler warnings.  So, plunging in.  After I finished the game it asked if I wanted to keep playing.  I said yes, and it rolled me back to a point just before you...

Perhaps my expectation were very low, but overall I enjoyed this movie (up until the end).  It was wry and funny, and Will Smith is the most charming and charismatic man in the world.  Well, I guess it's a contest between him and Robert Downey Jr. as Tony...

I started my Mass Effect 3 story last night.  I knew the opening scene and several more beyond that.  The only thing that saved my from typing even later into the night was the discovery the battery on the laptop was in the red and I was too lazy to get out...

Last night I was a bit agitated so I listened to music and played solitaire and spent some time in my own held evaluating life and what makes it important.  Because I was fairly wired and anxious, and had slept very little the night before I opted for some sleep...

For all the lunatics who keep shouting about how this country was founded as a Christian nation, and how there should not be a separation of church and state please turn your attention to a couple of quotes from Jefferson -- author of the Declaration of Independence,...

Long ago a friend taught me that getting space and mass on a problem will often help you find the solution.  Driving to the Post Office did that for me today.  I had been struggling and struggling with this Old Mars story.  As I drove I realized I...

I was reading my favorite blog this morning, and came across this little gem.  Apparently 46% of all Americans believe the world was created 10,000 years ago, and that god made humans in their present form. Sometimes I despair.  Really I do.  How in the...

I wanted to see SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN because the director is someone my manager is interested in for a movie Ian Tregillis and I wrote based on his amazing Milkweed triptych.  Rupert Sanders is an extraordinary director, his work reminded me of Pan’s...