Two Centimeters Forward, One Centimeter Back

June 29, 2013

This week has been full of really insignificant achievement. Time after time, I’ve started to accomplish some trivial task, only to have it take hours out of my day and prevent me from doing the stuff I actually want to do.  Like write. And then yesterday, just as I was buckling down to a job I […]

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New Wind

June 27, 2013

New Mexico author Emily Mah Tippets has done an interview with New Mexico writer Sally Gwylan, and is also giving away a free copy of Sally’s new book, A Wind Out of Canaan.  It’s a gutsy, beautifully written story that starts with child hobos in the Great Depression, and leads to alternate worlds, questions of […]

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Textbook: Deep State

June 26, 2013

A scene from my novel Deep State comes to life as Turkish police shoot down a protestor’s camera drone.  Apparently the video was taken on June 11. Before it was knocked down, the drone managed to capture part of the police assault on Gezi Park.  Here it is, complete with absurdly dramatic music.  (The actual […]

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Not Easy Being Green

June 26, 2013

Marvel Comics isn’t content, apparently, with conquering the world of cinema.  Now Marvel has its sights set on . . . romance fiction! What in the name of Millie the Model is this?  It’s double-barreled chick-lit, in the form of books featuring the romantic adventures of She-Hulk and Rogue. While I don’t know much about […]

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Glorious Archive

June 24, 2013

National Geographic has dug through their vast collection of unpublished photographs and made an amazing selection available online. You gotta wonder why some of these weren’t published in the first place.  

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Science Prison

June 23, 2013

My sometime student and terrific writer Kim Jollow Zimring has a great idea. (Inspired, by the way, by the legislator who opined that global warming was caused by wind farms, because the giant turbines stole the cooling breezes.) She suggested that everyone in this country be sentenced to Science Prison, and that the only way […]

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ACE

June 20, 2013

This coming weekend I’ll be at ACE, the Albuquerque Comics Expo, where I will be sharing the Convention Center with Neal Adams, Claudia Wells, Dean Stockwell, Nicholas Brendon, Chrissie Zullo, Larry Welz, and a host of others. My only program item will be a panel at 1pm, on the Star Wars Expanded Universe.  Not exactly […]

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Privacy

June 18, 2013

I’ve been considering the proposition that maybe privacy is a mid- to late-Twentieth Century concept that’s already proving obsolete. Up until the 20th Century there wasn’t any privacy to be had, unless you were some kind of hermit that lived by himself in the wilderness far away from any civilization.  (And even some hermits wouldn’t […]

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Two Surprises

June 18, 2013

So, a free election in Iran in which the liberal candidate won. And in Turkey, the prime minister is threatening to treat demonstrators as terrorists, calling for a new constitution, and threatening to send in the Army. The world is full of surprises, isn’t it?  

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Two Good Causes

June 15, 2013

Hey writers!  The Clarion Writers’ Workshop is having their annual write-a-thon beginning June 23.  You write, and other folks pledge money depending on how much you write during the six-week period.  Everybody benefits, because you get something  written, and Clarion earns a few bucks.  Check it out! A few years ago, I attended Launchpad, the […]

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