1. Increase regulations on businesses , making everything they do more expensive and more burdensome, including hiring. 2. Use the EPA...

So I bought a heavy punching bag. Back before I moved out of Casa Estrogen, I went the Road House route by stuffing one of my old Army duff...

I've been having new computer fever for a while now. Part of it was just that I got a little extra money together, and like this article...

So I'm currently working way too few hours at my job, which means I'm trying to find other ways to make money. Got a bunch of watch ...

Wow, hard to believe that it's been almost a month and a half since I posted here. Just goes to show how much mental effort goes into th...

Within the last couple of weeks, we've lost two legends of the comics world, co-creators of iconic figures who were largely overshadowed...

Well, turns out the proofing process on Createspace takes a while to complete, so Hero Go Home might not be ready in time for Christmas. My ...

Although it's still under review, I thought I'd let you know now that, very soon, you can own an actual physical printed version of ...

We all have ups and downs. Riding through a down period right now. Not depressed like I was the last couple of years, just stuff collapsing ...

So the other night, we're doing our weekly role-playing game, and efamar gets this text alert. Everyone sort of pauses, because this nev...

Here it is, after midnight. I'm supposed to get up at 5 in the morning, as I do every morning that I work, but I stay up till past midni...

Today, I channeled the ghost of Arch Oboler and wrote what seems at first blush like an almost note-perfect Lights Out . The funny thing, of...

So last night we had a gaming session, and though not a lot seemed to happen, I came away from it pretty happy. It's tough with a new ga...

The new story launched today. I'm not worked nearly as far ahead as I'd like, but it has taken me a while to get into the rhythm of ...

In the party supply section at Target, they have boy pinatas and girl pinatas. Boy pinatas, we're all familiar with: hit them hard and c...

Had an impromptu bad movie night the other night. We watched the 1980 horror film, The Children . And yes, it is still wretchedly bad. But...

I've finished a first draft of this year's radio script and am now looking for voice volunteers. Details are on Hero Go Home here .

There's a thread running over on Codex about themes in writing, with basically two camps developing: one side that basically says, ...

Cracked.com is funny in a way that Cracked , the magazine (which in my youth was always just a lame Mad wanna-be), never was. Sometimes the...

So the other day, I'm at work, standing near the front doors. And there are these two teenage girls standing sort of huddled together lo...