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For the last bit of Future Worldbuilding, lets talk about culture.  Specifically, Pop Culture. This is a hard thing to do at all, let alone get right: predict where music, […]

“You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.”       -Star Trek, Next Generation, as said to Wesley Crusher. Prometheus opened this weekend– which, […]

“Kids, you tried your best, and failed miserably. The lesson to learn is: never try.”-Homer Simpson In case I’ve not made this clear: I am a straight, white, upper-middle-class, non-religious*, […]

I had the opportunity to watch Haywire this week, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring the impressive Gina Carano.  Now, I won’t make more of this than it is: as […]

So, it’s more or less been a year since I decided to write in this blog twice a week every week.  And what do you know, a year later, I’ve […]

I’m not a big fan of the Schwarzenegger Conan the Barbarian, but there’s a scene that sticks with me, even though I haven’t seen it in over twenty years.  At […]

This past weekend I went to see “Anonymous“.  Afterward, I found this bit from the New York Times review spot on: “Anonymous,” a costume spectacle directed by Roland Emmerich, from […]

OK, the title may be a bit of exaggeration.  But it’s not much of one.  See, writing a novel is something of a marathon, and on some level, you don’t […]

An online associate of mine is having their book published by a brand-new small-print publisher.  As in, their book is going to be that publisher’s first book.  Now, I’m not […]

I have a strange fascination for “Locked in a Box” horror movies.  Or thriller movies, more correctly.  In my personal definition, thrillers are movies where deaths and terror are happening […]