I'm thinking tf going out to see "Sucker Punch" tomorrow. Don't know if I'll go at night or try a matinee. Matinees us...

I recently had occasion to take a sort of personality evaluation thing on-line, and one result really threw me for a loop. It scored me very...

I think I'm figuring out why I felt I had to write things out in such detail last night. I never really worked through my grief over my ...

I spent all night working out my bile below, went to bed at 6, tossed and turned until 8:45 or so with maybe an hour of real sleep in there,...

If you don't want to read almost 4,000 words of autobiographical whining and angst, pass this one by. Seriously, things will get ugly. I...

Firefly -- cancelled in less than a season. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles --cancelled after two seasons. Dollhouse --cancelled af...

I saw this Barbie at work and immediately thought of Van Halen. Not that I think she looks like any of the women in the video, but somethin...

Okay, not really, but it feels like it. I don't know if it's the weather breaking or a larger change in my attitude, but the last fe...

So on Monday night, this blizzard rolls in. So I had to miss work on Tuesday, because though my car was in the garage, the snow outside was...

This story is making the rounds now, that an art historian is making the startling claim that the model for the Mona Lisa was actually a ma...

Finally took the plunge and published Death Wave for the Kindle. It's a tale of adultery, betrayal and revenge set in the days of the G...

But they don't give his actual name. Man Survives Fall .

Went to the launch party tonight for my friend Eilis O’Neal’s The False Princess . It’s her first novel, so it’s a special occasion. I haven...

I usually steer clear of politics in the blog, because it raises my blood pressure and loses me friends. For instance, I stayed quiet when p...

Just testing the widget Super Movie Monday - Superman III, Part 2

So it's been a slow January for posts here, as I've been concentrating extra-hard on Hero Go Home . I'm worked ahead for two wee...

Was off-line for several days, but I'm back now. It's weird coming back after a few days away. On the one hand, I've gotten the ...

This week's chapter in Hero Go Home was a hard one to write. As the story has been serialized, I've been made more aware week by we...

This is not really a look at the year in any depth. More just a reflection that, my lack of submission to publications notwithstanding, I pr...

Cross-posting this to Hero Go Home as well, because a lot of what I'm talking about applies there. I'm starting off the year feelin...