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The Desire for Indenpence
We’re now approaching the two year anniversary for when California, in a fit of insanity, granting my license to drive. I have had multiple permits while owning motorcycles – and somehow an event would take the motorcycle away before I I could be fully licensed. The last two years have been good. I haven’t hit anything, and I have managed to avoid a couple of truly frightening collisions. (Nothing on the road with myself behind the wheel has dissuaded me on iota from that dream of fully automatic cars and no human drivers.) Continue reading
A New Project
By the end of this week I expect to complete my latest SF short story, a dark little piece titled, at least for now, Lady Jane. With that story wrapped I’m going to tackle one of my challenges for this year, a non-genre story. Continue reading
Sunday Night Movie: I Walked with a Zombie
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
Headache Log
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.
Movie Review: The Woman In Black
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.
The Occupy Movment
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
Headache Log
2/11/12
Had a migraine attack in the early afternoon hours. Took a dose of Treximet and napped for 90 minutes. Headache subsided.
Additional political thoughts
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
Book Review: Blameless
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