Mags is patient zero. Her contagious laugh carries across the largest, most crowded room. Her smile has been classified by the World Health Organization as a Category B Infectious Biological with an R0 value of 17. Not sure where she…
Winter Writeaway
What A week secluded in a cabin far from the intrusions and distractions of Real Life. Where A cabin far from the intrusions and distractions of Real Life. Seriously, What? A few years ago my wife gave me one of…
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…
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…
No Such Thing
…As bad publicity. In 1946, Kirkus Reviews described Halldor Laxness’s Independent People as “A sprawling, unselective, overlong… A bleak and bitter book, with little to interest or attract the American reader.” In 1955 Laxness took home the Nobel Prize in…
Scratch!
What’s a seven-letter synonym for ‘Awesome’? Mitch Resnick and MIT’s Scratch. 37 million projects can’t be wrong. Yeah. You read that right. That’s Thirty-seven and six trailing zeros before the decimal. So yeah, awesome. Scratching your head? You can learn…