Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Have I ever told you about my first real short story? In the fall of 1987, several events collided to convince me that I could (and should) be a writer. The first was a curious epiphany while watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for the fiftieth time or more on videocassette: if Kirk [...]

I have satellite radio in my car, one of the greatest inventions of humanity. Of the hundreds of channels, though, I use only a handful; if one doesn’t have a song I want, I move in descending order from the 80s to the 90s to the 70s to First Wave to Classic and then finally, [...]

So much for keeping readers fascinated with my oft-updated Web 2.0 content. You’ll be happier with this blog if you imagine it as a series of unreliable letters traveling across the sea from a distant, uncivilized colony–maybe in the 18th or 19th century. Sometimes I’m just busy chopping firewood or identifying some strange new species [...]

I was amazed to discover last weekend that Cracker Barrel is now carrying my collection Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby! as well as the June 2008 issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. I guess nothing helps a plate of biscuits and sawmill gravy go down quite like some of my homespun country wisdom. (Actually, everyone was in [...]

Like watching grass magically appear? I mean the kind in your yard, not the type your roommate scores? If so, come watch the thrilling journey from this… …to this… …in my sodding Flickr gallery.

I’ve been feeling very odd lately. I’m enjoying writing more and many other things less. I’m not suggesting that I’m ascending to some artistically pure luminescent form of life above all human concern; I’m just not excited–pleasantly or not–by some things that used to distract me. Video Games. I’m hard-pressed to find a game–even among [...]