The Giants season is lost, plainly. Whether they win or lose the rest of the way is meaningless. So, yes, it makes a certain amount of sense to see what they have for the future. Eli Manning is aging... though this year's failures are hardly his fault, given the injuries to the wideouts, the lack of a running game, and the porous offensive line ( Read more... )

I spent some time in LA the week before Thanksgiving, as mentioned below in my "City of Angels" post. Meetings, meetings, and more meetings... along with some get-togethers with old friends ( Read more... )

Another Thanksgiving has arrived.

One of my favorite holidays.

Here's hoping all my friends, fans, and readers are having a great day. I have a lot of things to be thankful for, and you are one of them.

Gobble gobble.

I have a love/ hate relationship with Los Angeles ( Read more... )

Brady is eighteen months old. Son of my nephew Jeff. Which makes him my great nephew, I guess. And me a great uncle. A grunkle ( Read more... )

The cottonwoods are turning in Santa Fe.

Always a glorious sight, at one of my favorite times of the year in the Land of Enchantment.


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Hey, hey, hey, Wild Cards fans. Good news. We're only a couple of weeks away from the release of our latest all-new all-original mosaic novel: MISSISSIPPI ROLL, the twenty-fourth volume in the overall series and the first book in what we're calling the 'America Triad.' LOW CHICAGO and TEXAS HOLD'EM will be following in due course ( Read more... )

I am not the man you think I am.

I am not the man I thought I was.

Day before last, I spent the afternoon with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, taping a segment for his television series, FINDING YOUR ROOTS.


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The first SF convention (as opposed to a comicon) I ever attended was the 1971 Disclave in Washington, D.C. The first person I met at the con was Gardner Dozois, who was working the registration table when I walked in. When he wasn't volunteering at cons, Gardner was the slushpile reader for GALAXY... and the very same guy who had fished my story ( Read more... )

Damn.

Jon Snow has gone lame.

https://www.punters.com.au/news/jon-snow-out-of-melbourne-cup_163670/

There goes my plan to wager my entire fortune on the Bastard of Winterfell.