I can't not believe in the future, because if I don't, what's the point of doing anything?

Let's face facts here: you've tried hard. You've tried very hard. And it's not working. We feel it would be in your, and everyone else's, best interest if you just stopped now. Quit. Backed off. Let it go. It was good while it lasted though, wasn't it? The adulation, the crowd, the applause? But, unfortunately, you're just not good enough to last. ( Read more... )

this is how it's done.

Wow. Amazing speech.

RIP Arthur C. Clarke

I'm poised, hung, on the precipice of the moment between asleep and awake. Currents are floating by, ideas, sounds; it's all there, if you know where to look. The moon is smirking at me, and I am having THOUGHTS. ... Strange days, yes. We're here, aren't we, just standing here, waiting for something, some thing. Music from another room, themes, ( Read more... )

I would just like to take this moment to thank David Bowie. Because, really, one should every so often. So: Thank You David Bowie.


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I've finished a short story. It's called "Composite."

Read it, if you like. Let me know what you think.

I was 9/15 in my Oscar picks this year. Damn technical awards kept me from doing even better. Anyway, NO COUNTRY won a bunch, so I was happy.

In other news, the world still turns, the air is still cold, my band is better than yours, the Bandit Queen has stolen me, and baseball season starts soon. All is pretty right with the planet.

Robots and Racecars: better than Spoons for Adam and Desoto Jones, almost as good as Quick Step John, and a second place prize and $200 richer.

PS. Vengeance!

PPS. Robots and Racecars: Saving or ruining lives since 2006.

PPPS. VENGEANCE!

"It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era - - the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and ( Read more... )