Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Trump Announces He's A Very Sad Man: The Onion is funny because it's true. A Brazilian Man Showed Up At His Own Funeral. I wonder if he made mental notes…
Adaptation and Atlases.
This would normally be relegated to a "pondering" post, but I wanted to post David Mitchell's Wall Street Journal column about the adaptation of his Cloud Atlas. If you somehow missed Cloud Atlas, do yourself a…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Apparently at least five states have tried to solve redistricting problems by placing all their crazy people in one district, thus allowing them to elect the best crazy person they…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
My Dad just entered hospice (at home, not at a facility), which makes this news about former Presidential candidate George McGovern hit extra hard. I saw the King Tut exhibit…
Gather Round Kids and I’ll Tell You A Tale
Click the link below and you'll hear me spinning a yarn and taking audience questions at Third Place Books in Seattle last night. Listen to it. Live it. Love it. Incorporate…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
It's been a strange week here in Shangri-La. Strange and expensive. The reading tomorrow will come as a great relief, at least once I'm done. I've been rehearsing. Being myself…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Today I'm mostly pondering the 41st anniversary of the day I started breathing independently. It hasn't been a particularly interesting birthday thus far, but anything would have been better than…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
The disruption of a dead fuel pump and fuel relay put a huge dent in the pondering end of my business. But though I'm certain that there's another giant car…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
To take my mind off of mounting car repair bills, here's what I'm pondering: Tom Tomorrow encapsulates almost everything that bothered me about the first J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie. True, much…
My Novel Shamelessly Exhibiting Itself
Seriously, though, thanks to Third Place Books for hawking my tawdry wares. I do encourage any of you reading this to stop on by there next Friday at 6:30pm, where…