The palazzo here has been pretty good to me and ended up being my second real blog. The first one is long gone in the Geocities Purge of a couple of years ago and the third one (a joint effort with my good friend Rob) is fallow and static at this point. LiveJournal has been a good place to be while all that's been going on ( Read more... )

I just read a profile of Roger Ailes in this month's Esquire magazine, and I'm struck by a couple of things ( Read more... )

I'm not linking to the news from the Arizona shooting incident. You can find that on your own ( Read more... )

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So, it's been six weeks since I came over and said anything ( Read more... )

Good evening, London ( Read more... )

This is the same post that went up at www.jasonarnett.com last night. Slightly edited for clarity.

I mentioned in several tweets (and here at the ol' LJ) that I was writing a 'very cool story'. I can tell you now that it's a new series for Actionopolis but there's an official announcement coming later on as to the title and content of my work so ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been here in almost a month. There's a ton going on, alongside the normal routine of my day job's kicking into high gear in the second week of August.

If you're looking for a few more details, you should click over to JasonArnettdotcom. I said pretty much everything I needed to say there ( Read more... )

Patricia Neal has passed away. Any SF fan of any kind of stripe knows that she was the girl in the original (and BEST) version of The Day the Earth Stood Still. I don't have anything else to say about Ms. Neal, except that I would stop to watch her if she was on screen and I'm sure I'll continue to do that. Her voice was something else ( Read more... )

I'm warming up writing this in preparation for tackling the second draft of a story. I don't know how long it'll be or how much sense it'll make but it's a thing, an exercise, that is akin to an athlete stretching...

- Interesting Wines: We've been drinking Middle Sister of late and have really enjoyed the two that've landed on our dinner table ( Read more... )