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Fish Story

Posted on December 28, 2018 by admin

I am not a DC guy, so I went into Aquaman with a bit of dubiousness. We Boomers chose sides in the DC/Marvel rivalry decades ago and you either were fer or agin one or the other with a fanaticism … Continue reading →

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Netflix Updates

Posted on December 23, 2018 by admin

Daredevil: What more needs to be said about Season 3? Magnificent, perfection, Daredevil the way Daredevil was in Season 1 before Season 2 and the Defenders blew everything off track. Man. That classic Kingpin/Daredevil knock-down drag-’em-out in the last episode … Continue reading →

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And the winner is…

Posted on December 15, 2018 by admin

…no one. Not one person entered the contest for signed copies of the Ship Trilogy. Okay.

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What White People Do on Weekends

Posted on December 13, 2018 by admin

Attend homesteader conventions, of course, because nothing screams “White people are crazy” more than taking seminars on how to live without electricity, medicine, air conditioning, and basic civilization. So what was I doing there? That whole 12th Century peasant lifestyle … Continue reading →

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Free beer

Posted on December 3, 2018 by admin

Eehh! Caught ya! It’s actually free books, three of them, to be exact. I’m giving away signed copies of The Ship to Look for God trilogy. Now through 14 Dec, go here, fill out the contact form, and pray for … Continue reading →

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Stan Lee was my Father

Posted on November 13, 2018 by admin

Not in the Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker sense; more in the Max Perkins/Thomas Wolfe one. (Now THERE’s a literary reference that’s going to cause a Google scramble!). If anyone fired up my imagination and urge to write stories, it was Stan … Continue reading →

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Pudding Fist

Posted on November 4, 2018 by admin

They gave the Fist to Colleen Wing. Are you kidding me? Now, before you leap on your feminist high horse and give me all that I-am-woman-hear-me-Kiaa crap, understand that it’s not grrl power or anything like that which sparks my … Continue reading →

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Conflict of Interest

Posted on October 23, 2018 by admin

I  went to Capclave 2018 instead of Lost Weekend 10 because the two conflicted. And because I can’t hang. At least at Capclave I can go to sleep at a reasonable time and wake at a reasonable time and take … Continue reading →

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World Series Update

Posted on September 26, 2018 by admin

Figured it was about time I updated things, like several series I finished over the past few months: Daniel Suarez’ Daemon and Freedom. Daemon left me breathless. My goodness, talk about brutal and ruthless. Freedom, though, threw a great big … Continue reading →

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Harsh Mistress

Posted on August 3, 2018 by admin

The 49th anniversary of the first moon landing passed a few days ago with no fanfare, no notice, no interest. As has every single moon landing and its anniversary since about the time Alan Shepard whacked a golf ball into … Continue reading →

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