For the last couple days I’ve been watching a new water well being drilled on my property, so I’ve had to hang around and throw circuit breakers, and otherwise make sure the house didn’t burn down.  The result is that my self-publishing efforts got a boost, mainly because there was nothing else to do but […]

The art collective Kreativiteket has created a Silly Walk Zone in the border village of Ørje, Norway. I was tempted to begin this post with “Following in the silly footsteps of Monty Python . . . ” but something restrained me. This is from the country that gave us Lillyhammer.  What’s going on up there?

Recently I’ve encountered two counterintuitive, if not outright heretical, arguments about history and culture. The first belongs to New Mexico’s own Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill, both biologists, who have marshaled evidence to support their theory that culture, including political culture, is a function of the disease pathogens infesting your particular neighborhood.  If you have […]

. . . at a great big ol’ war. Which is all by way of saying that my novella “No Spot of Ground,” featuring the Civil War adventures of Edgar Allan Poe, is now available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.  It will appear on other forums presently. And it’s only $1.99!  Less […]