I recently became aware of a new version of The Fog. I revere John Carpenter’s 1980 version as a horror classic, along the lines of Carpenter’s The Thing or Halloween. I know that everything has been done before, but how long is Hollywood going to subsist on remakes? I think in the 80′s Hollywood discovered [...]
Yeah, I’m a bit behind schedule on my writing. I should be around half way done by now (it’s been 14 days, so a little less than 50%, really) but I’m not discouraged. I’ve always done the majority of work the closer I get to my deadline. Here’s a picture to illustrate what I mean. [...]
The wife and I drove to Raleigh’s RBC Center last night to see Green Day in concert. Traffic was painless; there was only a 5-10 minute delay when we got to the RBC Center itself. The radio station we were listening to on the way up mentioned that Billy Joe (the lead singer) recently had [...]
She was an American writer and poet best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.Born in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey, her early life was marked by tragedy. She lost her mother when she was five years old and her uncle, Martin Rothschild, went [...]
Hilarious look at a young JPS obsessed with finding meaning (or lack of it) in food. Read the article here. October 4Still working on the omelet. There have been stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow, like stone. I want to [...]
Starring Ethan Hawke, Angelina Jolie, and Kiefer Sutherland. “Taking Lives” is a “thriller” about a profiler from D.C. traveling to Montreal, Canada to help the police out on a serial killer case. I don’t want to give too much of the plot away, but Ethan Hawke delivers a decent performance and Kiefer should have been [...]
Science Fiction Dangerous Visions (short stories, series) ::: Edited by Harlan Ellison et al. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ::: Douglas Adams Inherit the Stars ::: James P. Hogan The Diamond Age ::: Neil Stephenson Number of the Beast, Stranger in a Strange Land ::: Robert A. Heinlein Dune (series) ::: Frank Herbert The [...]
I added a Fortune Cookie thingy on the sidebar. I copied a bunch of quotations that appealed to me: philosophical, inspirational, humorous. There may also be some secrets accidentally revealed. If you see such things, ignore them. Fnord. I’m going to grab some lunch and then get started on writing for today. I should figure [...]
The Henrico County school system in Virginia was just looking to retire some old, used laptops, and this is the thanks they get: [url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/computer.frenzy.ap/]CNN Article.[/url] Apparently the opportunity to get an iBook for $50 is worth crushing a child’s stroller, driving your car through a crowd, bashing people with a folding chair, and urinating on [...]
The blog has been moved. If by some bizarre chance you had the old Blogspot URL bookmarked (my wife maybe), please delete that and bookmark this fresh new URL. I’ve left a redirect up on the old page which should bring you here automagically, but Blogspot kind of leaves a subtle odor. You probably want [...]