Friday already? It has been a very busy week. The next weeks are likely to be busier. For the last few days I’ve been busy with so many things. The runup to Taos Toolbox, the master class in writing that I’ll be running for the next two weeks. The quarterly organizational meeting at the karate […]

Over on her blog, Cat Valente lets Lost have it with a multi-barrel chain gun. It had me hopping up and down and clapping my hands with glee, it did. Lost is a science fiction show. Now, they haven’t wanted that label from the beginning. First, they assured us that everything had a real-world explanation […]

It occurs to me that if you show these parodies in a certain order, they even have a plot. Hearing that Hitler parodies are being removed from YouTube, Stalin makes his move: Hearing that Stalin is moving in on their action, the Hitler parody writers react: And now— just because I feel like it— Hitler […]

Let’s say you’re a cop. You’re in pursuit of a serial killer. The killer knows you’re after him and has already trashed your house and tried to murder a member of your family. What do you do?A. Surround your family with guards.B. Get your family out of town and to an undisclosed location where the […]