HBO’s “Game of Thrones” is one of the few TV shows that is actually better than its source material. Have you seen it? It’s a festival of bare butts and broadswords, full frontal profanity and major characters dying horribly on a weekly basis. Gratuitous? Absolutely! And rollicking fun for the whole family! I watched […]
For your listening pleasure
And now for something fiction-related: One of my stories is now available as a podcast. Remember podcasts? They were those sound files you could get on the Internets and listen to on a device called an “iPod.” Apparently that’s still a thing, even if iPods are not. A few months back I was contacted […]
A little history lesson
You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say: Today I will clean out the garage. (Apologies to Charles Portis.) So I spent most of Friday ineffectually moving stuff around in an attempt to organize it. The garage did look tidier for a time, mostly because most of the crap […]
Going postal
When’s the last time you wrote a letter? I feel comfortable asking that because for me, it was only about an hour ago. (Never mind that it had probably been more than a year since I’d last done it.) I wrote to thank Mom for putting me up during my recent visit to Montana, […]
It’s a seller’s market
When you start getting unsolicited offers from people wanting buy your house, I’d say the market has definitely turned around. We got this letter in the mail yesterday, with no return address. Gerald, it’s clear, is talking about a top-dollar offer. You can tell because he has spared no expense in his property acquisition […]
We return now to the blogster’s navel
The Olympics lasted 17 days and I managed to view about 15 minutes of it, nursing a glass of wine in a seafood restaurant in Panama City. It was women’s curling, Switzerland vs. China. I didn’t notice who won. Then my grilled grouper arrived. Like the curling, it was unremarkable. See, this is why […]
Coming soon to a newstand near you
Today the mailman brought three copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. It’s the big March/April double issue. Naturally, I ignored all the stories in it except for the one that starts on Page 159: “Lost Horse Road.” That’s the one I wrote. It’s not the greatest story ever told, but it’s always nice seeing […]
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