A Wealth of Wild Cards
This year will see the publication of a number of new Wild Cards books. Mississippi Roll has already been released: Up next will be Low Chicago June 12th the one and only time we will do time travel. The stories range from the prehistoric to the recent past and run...
Victor Milán — My Friend, My Mentor, and Ace
I met Victor Milán appropriately enough in a bookstore when he was nineteen. He had just returned from hitchhiking around Europe and I was working at the bookstore earning some money before I started law school that fall. Six feet two inches tall, bright blue eyes and...
Wild Cards Chatter
I wanted to let folks know that there are going to be able to find Wild Cards showing up in a lot more places and our web folks have some fun things planned. You can follow all the action here: https://www.facebook.com/WildCardsWorld/...
Is This It?
@LivingBlueinRed: "White rural America was cool with democracy until it was faced with the possibility of becoming a minority" @FrankConniff: "I don’t get it. Why would Trump prefer immigrants from Norway over immigrants from Haiti and African countries? What’s the...
Skating Past the Consequential
If you haven’t seen Thor: Ragnarok there are some minor SPOILERS and also a couple of SPOILERS about The Dark World in this post so read no further if you are dismayed by spoilers. Recently I had a similar reaction in two very different mediums within a few days of...
Political Musings on a Monday Morning
Here are my thoughts on the probable outcome of tomorrow's special election in Alabama. Roy Moore is probably going to win. I'd like to hope it will be a squeaker, but I fear that whatever the margin it will be a win for the sexual predator. And inevitably Democrats...
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Let me repeat that -- No good deed goes unpunished. Sadly that may come to pass as one major political party becomes ever more unmoored from basic decency and ethics and determined to place the retention of power over the retention and protection of our Constitution,...
Hamilton and Other Founding Fathers
So I saw Hamilton last night. And yes, there is a reason it won every Tony it could possibly win. And yes, I'm so glad I spent the money and bought a ticket. Because it’s L.A. and just getting anywhere is always a challenge I left the house at four o’clock to drive to...
Perfection the Enemy of Drama
I am a naif in the ways of Amazon so today a good friend, Sage Walker, was guiding me through how to look up Amazon rankings, etc. As you all know I don’t read reviews. If they are positive you get a swelled head. If they are bad it just makes you feel shitty and...
Star Trek: Discovery
I hoped but I feared. Then I watched and my fears were realized. While Star Trek: Discovery looks beautiful I found the teasing first episode to be disappointing. Not horrible just not good. A friend of mine who also works in the industry had the perfect word that...
