Thanks to George A. Romero and his cult classic Night of The Living Dead, Zombie for most people conjures up a revenant with a taste for human steak tar-tar, but before that movie zombie was entirely a different
monster, one that evoked images of rituals in the dead of night, tropical winds, and a slavery that reached beyond the grave. Continue reading
2/13/12 Headache started in the evening while watching a film. Took 1 dose fo treximent and went to bed early. Awoke the next moring feeling better.
Sunday morning my sweetie-wife and I caught a matinee presentation of the movie, The
Woman In Black. Starring Daniel Radcliff in his first staring turn post-Harry Potter, The Woman In Black is a rational ghost story, going as to even be set in Victorian England, which might be considered the ultimate period for ghostly tales.
So now I will babble about problem in the left and in particular the ‘Occupy Movement.’ I am, at heart, a person who likes to find solutions. One of the joys I get from crafting a story is finding the solutions to the unique puzzles that each story presents. I dislike complaining just for sake complaining. If there is a problem, sure bithcing about can help identify it, and help motivate others to help solve it, but bitching in itself never solves a damn thing, and in my unhumble opinion the Occupy movement is little more than a giant bitch session. Continue reading
2/11/12
Had a migraine attack in the early afternoon hours. Took a dose of Treximet and napped for 90 minutes. Headache subsided.
There’s no doubt now that Rick Santorum has become the latest, last, Not-Romney to capture to attention of the conservative base. This I think will swing the next couple of contests from arguments about who funded what and who spent what to the social conservative issues of gay, abortion, and contraceptives. Continue reading
The third book of the Parasol Protectorate series opens with a disgraced Alexia, once again in her mother’s home, living with her step half-sisters, exiled from Woosley Castle and her love husband Lord Conall Maccon.
Desperate to clear her name, Alexia delves into the nature of the soulless and the roguish
history of her late father. Pursued by assassins and vampire of ill repute, Alexia’s quest takes her across the continent until she is confronted by Italians armed with pesto. With solutions to former mysteries becoming mysteries in their own right, Alexia discovers that there is more to her father and herself than she had suspected. Continue reading
So I’m now two weeks into my experimentation with the writing software suite, Scriveners. I’m just about to start actual prose composition for chapter one of Command and Control and discovering in the process just how much the tool can change the writer and his process. Continue reading
Just when I thought the Republican Primary race had settled down to the terribly boring, utterly predictable, and fatalistic finale end game, Rick Santorum goes and proves that the ‘Not Romney’ votes still has life. Continue reading