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The Hilarity of Road Rage: A Pseudo-Confession

An old man with a bad toupee got out of his SUV and chased after my car while I drove away laughing the other day. Does that make me a bad person?
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I should probably elaborate.

Its a weekday afternoon on a stretch of route 57 that switches back and forth between forty and fifty MPH speed limits as weaves through clusters of residential and agricultural zones. I make it a habit of riding the speed limit on this road, with the cruise control set. I'll admit that a b...

CBS Refuses to Run Gay Commercial, Claims Victim Status

CBS refuses a SuperBowl ad for gay dating site ManCrunch , an ad that simply shows two guys in football
[image error] Image via Wikipediajerseys sitting on a couch suddenly making out after their hands touch in a snack bowl. This decision comes on top of the controversy surrounding their approval of an anti-abortion ad featuring SuperBowl athlete Tim Tebow.

The reason that CBS representative James Hibberd gave:

"After reviewing the ad - which is entirely commercial in nature - our Standards and Practices

MacMillan and Whine: The Futility of a Crusade Against Digital Book Piracy

At the Digital Book World publishers conference being held this week in New York City, Macmillan president Brian Napack took the stage as guest speaker to call for his fellow publishers to take up an aggressive fight against digital book piracy, encouraging them to coordinate in a series of lawsuits and anti-piracy legislation. His goal, clearly stated, is to stop the spread of sharing copyrighted intellectual materials over the internet.
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Where have we heard t...

Book Review: Dark Entries by Ian Rankin

There had been talk for awhile about Tartan Noir crime novelist Ian Rankin taking on the character of
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Constantine for Vertigo, the prospect of which had a lot of Rankin and Constantine fans alike excited. Now that the waiting is over, the final product has turned out to be somewhat underwhelming. Rankin knows how to write, and his take on paranormal detective John Constantine is well within line with what regular fans would expect. But when it comes to the actual story, ther...

Unwanted Books Review: Smart Guys

I've recently decided to start reading and review some of the less popular books on my online trade lists. Think of it as the Land of Misfit Books; titles that I don't seem to be able to give away, despite the instant access to millions of readers.


The first book I've chosen to showcase is the young adult romance novel Smart Guys . This book has been sitting on my trade list at PaperBackSwap.com since 2006 without a nibble, despite having had other books from the Crosswinds series requested...

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Today on my Author Site: A quick mention about my recent radio show appearance...

It was here that I was invited to appear as a guest on Father Scardo’s Altered Hours show, airing Thursdays from 1PM to 4PM. Father Scardo acted as host from behind his mixing board alter, bedecked in his trademark bloodstained smock, while his enigmatic sidekick DJ Cheezy assisted in the background, his identity consistently masked by a series of view-obstructing objects and a mysterious cloud of noxious smoke.span

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I made a blog post today on my author site about a recent speaking engagement:

This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to act as the Guest Speaker at the January General Meeting of the Science Fiction Association of Bergen County (or the SFABC, if you're into the whole brevity thing…). I was invited by the group's president, Philip De Parto, after meeting him at last summer's BookNJ event at the Paramus Public Library. Out of the over ninety authors at the BooksNJ gathering, I was one of...

Avatar Review: Is "Not Bad" Good Enough?

Just posted a new film review over at the MovieSucktastic blog. Why don't you go on over and take a look. You know you want to.

Avatar Review: Is "Not Bad" Good Enough?

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Publishers Scramble to Horde e-Book Profits

Librie eBook Reader" style="border:none;display:block" width="180" height="240">Image by Josh Bancroft via FlickrThe old-school publishing companies have been waging an ongoing battle on multiple fronts these days, all of them with different aspects of the same mortal enemy: the dreaded e-Book.
And they thought self-publishing was becoming a pain in the ass.
There has been a lot of news regarding

Santa Clause Does Not Equal Economic Recovery

Wow! So inventories and sales didn't drop as much as we expected! And China is exporting more toxic lead-painted toys then anticipated to our crowded bargain-basement department stores! On top of that, people are apparently buying more flat screen televisions and iPods during the biggest consumer shopping season of the year, ignoring crushing debts and skyrocketing food and utility costs in a