I only read Glen Duncan's book, 'Death of an Ordinary Man', because we didn't have 'I, Lucifer' at the bookstore. I was looking for a copy of the latter because The Real Tuesday Weld used the title for one of their albums, calling it a soundtrack for the book ( Read more... )

It's been quiet around here. Not just me, my friends page sometimes goes a full day with nothing new. And since I'm updating more often, that may mean others will too. A theory that I'm getting from the book "Emergence" that I'm reading at work right now, which got me really excited about slime mold today. BOTTOM-UP SELF-ORGANIATION, BABY ( Read more... )

1. Jillian's: Best place in Indy to fuck up some zombies while you drink Jack Daniels ( Read more... )

Updates for June ( Read more... )

About a year ago, I wrote this entry about my adventures with mantids. Featured that day was a Wheel Bug I had hoped to pit against a Praying Mantis. Do you capitalize insect names? Who can think of such things at a time like this ( Read more... )

I used to desperately love a show on Mystery! called "Touching Evil". The episode that sealed the deal for me was in the third season, when one of the main characters was killed in the last few minutes of a two-part episode. I was shocked. I had never seen a death so well done or so startling on television before ( Read more... )

The idea that our sun might be part of a binary star system isn't exactly new, but it doesn't get less exciting with age. How could you not get the heebie-chills thinking about a nemesis star that maybe, just maybe, causes mass extinction every 26 million years? You have to, or you have the imagination of a pancake.

So this article made me cheer a ( Read more... )

"I haven't had this much fun since I rejected the concept of God!"

When I was nine months old, my grandpa sent me a letter for Saint Patrick's day. He was the first to advise me to die in bed at the age of 100, of a shotgun blast from a jealous husband.

Dying at age 84 in a plane crash after a lifetime of testing aircraft is a pretty good one too.

Flashing in the Gutters has been good to me, so I've written a couple more pieces since the last time I posted their site. I don't generally write with a specific magazine/site in mind (bad decision). Below is the beginning of a story written with another magazine in mind, this time "Strange Horizons". Tell me what you think so far ( Read more... )