What’s better than having a superhero hail from your hometown? Having the coolest man alive hail from there. Ah yup. Well, a character he plays, at least. Thank you Marvel for the shout-out. The good people of Huntsville, Alabama, home…
TraveLink – Antarctica Pt. 3
The Drake – Heading Out We are late leaving Ushuaia. A storm is passing through and the Port is closed because of high winds. That translates into 15-20′ swells in The Drake and headwinds gusting to 90km/h on Day One.…
TraveLink – Antarctica Pt. 2
Our Antarctic adventure begins on 6 December with our arrival in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We’ll cover that and Ushuaia next post. We chose Silversea & Silver Explorer voyage 7824. The Silver Explorer boards 123 passengers and 119 crew. There are…
TraveLink – Antarctica Pt. 1
I’m a big history buff in general–but not so much when it comes to treaties. If I was, I’d be a huge fan of one of the most successful treaties in the history of mankind. A living and active treaty…
Quoth the Raven, Ever Noir
“The most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic.” Those are the words of the late Roger Ebert, critic, historian, journalist,…
Remake, Reboot, or Rest in Peace? Dollhouse
Dollhouse was called “The best action show on network television.” It was. They said “The Actives are all young hot women.” They weren’t. Fans complained “Fox is marketing this thing like it is Cathouse.” Fox was. Picture the ‘Eliza Dushku…
What’s All This, Then?
No, this isn’t a travel blog and I’m not a travel writer. I know, two posts in a row mostly kinda sorta more or less no more mkay more than a little focused on travel. One was supposed to be…
TraveLink – Lucerne
Lucerne was just another in the long list of places that Samuel Clemens beat me to. No matter. Read his comments in A Tramp Abroad, and the recommendations of PlanetWare for sights to see. Mr. Clemens surprisingly fails to mention…
TraveLink – Hawaii
Samuel Clemens was not perfect. But he embodied many of my writerly goals and ideals. He was the arch to my amateur; the consumate to my clumsy, the major to my… you get the drift. He traveled, observed, recorded. His…
Happy Noniversary
To my love, my life, best friend, wife. Muse of muses, editor, conspirator, audience and focus group. Beta reader, critic, devotee, advocate, antagonist. Comfort, mainstay. Compass. Because of you, of us, future me doesn’t hate me. Love you, babe.