Our friends at Fox News, in the person of writer John Brandon, are interested in the end of the world.  They asked me how it could be done.  I told them. They quoted me a lot, along with John Barnes and a number of prominent scientists. Want to know how the world ends?  Check it […]

We’ve spent the last couple nights at the Globalquerque music festival, featuring three stages of mad fun entertainment from every corner of the globe— and I’ll post about all that later—  but I thought I’d mention the act that was the most fun: Oreka Tx. The name is Basque, and I won’t venture a guess […]

In what might have been the world’s first double-blind study, Benjamin Franklin, Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, and a group of elite French scientists examined the scientific claims of Anton Mesmer  . . . at the express command of Louis XVI, no less.  (That Dr. Guillotin’s humane execution machine later separated both Lavoisier and Louis from […]

Saw an interesting Paris Review interview with French slipstream author (and Lovecraft scholar) Michel Houellebecq.  I was interested in part because the guy’s process is so different from mine. I wake up during the night around one a.m. I write half-awake in a semi-conscious state. Progressively, as I drink coffee, I become more conscious. And […]