James Pyles's Blog, page 52
June 30, 2021
How a Tweet on Trying to Prevent “Zoombombing” Got Me Suspended on Twitter
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi Yesterday, I put up a tweet on twitter questioning the security of the app Zoom and a link to a source I found on LinkedIn showing how “zoombombing” was used for anti-Semitic purposes. Today, I found I was suspended from twitter […]
June 29, 2021
“The Wild Magic Bundle” is Coming Your Way!
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi As some of you may know from reading my blog, my short story “No Place Like Home,” which is loosely based on the ending of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, is featured in Blackbird Publishing’s fantasy anthology Magicks & […]
June 23, 2021
Hugo Admin Team Members Resign, But Why?
Over the past several years, I’ve watched WorldCon repeatedly implode. Well, not exactly. It imploded in 2018 in a very spectacular way. WorldCon 2019 didn’t exactly implode, but then again, Jeanette Ng’s “acceptance” speech of the John W. Campbell award (now renamed “Astounding”) was her long awaited stab at a long-dead science fiction icon which […]
June 17, 2021
How to Become “Famous” at your Day Job
With more people getting vaccinated and COVID restrictions easing off, I’m back at the brick and mortar office part time. I could be back there full time, but it’s more convenient for me to have a hybrid schedule that I can control, and my employer is very gracious. Anyway, I do tell anyone at work […]
June 13, 2021
Review of “Wonder Woman 1984”
I finally found the movie Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) as a DVD at my local public library and saw my opportunity to view and review it. I’d read quite a few reviews already so I had a pretty good idea what to expect. There were a lot of people disappointed at the “woke” aspects of […]
June 11, 2021
Book Review of “Leviathan Wakes,” the First of the “Expanse” Series
I just finished reading the 2011 science fiction blockbuster Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (really Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). It’s the first in the nine-book Expanse series and is the basis for the television series The Expanse. In the future, humanity has spread out from Earth and colonized Mars and the Asteroid […]
June 3, 2021
I’m Featured in “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2021”
I made the list of Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2021. The blurb at Amazon says: In the second annual Who’s Who of Emerging Writers compiled and published by Sweetycat Press, the bios of 128 writers worldwide are included, along with seven essays by professionals in the writing field that should be of interest to […]
May 31, 2021
Film Review of “Blade Runner 2049”
I finally got around to watching Blade Runner 2049 (2017) last night on DVD. At 2 hours and 44 minutes long, I felt it was too long. Yes, there was a story to tell, and it’s a good story, but if this is the theatrical version, then the studio allowed director Denis Villeneuve to indulge […]
May 24, 2021
The Conclusion of “Woman Under Repair” is Now Available to Read for Free
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi Part 3 of Woman Under Repair is now available in the fifth issue of The Green Shoe Sanctuary. You can also find Part 1 and Part 2 on that page. This is the conclusion to my short story about Mikiko Jahn, […]
May 17, 2021
“Woman Under Repair Part 2” Now Available to Read for Free
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi As promised, today in the current issue of The Green Shoe Sanctuary (find links to parts 1 and 2 here), the second part of my short story Woman Under Repair is available to read for free. Now that Mikiko’s rebuilding is […]
