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NORAD’s Santa Tracker Began With A Typo And A Good Sport : NPR

It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup’s secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. And it continues to this day – every year you can track Santa through NORAD.

Portugal and the World of Tomar… (12/6-12/11)

Week two started on Tuesday with a late start, for me. I was out of the house at 10am and decided to try one of the several Hop on/Hop off bus tours in order to get to the big sites easily. Unfortunately, we’re in the off-season so the bus schedule for the line I chose […]

ZEN PENCILS » 193. JACK KIRBY: Hero worship

Always a big fan of Zen Pencils, and this time he’s taken on the words of Jack “King” Kirby  (there’s a great YouTube documentary about him which starts here). It’s a great place to get inspiration on a Sunday morning. Source: ZEN PENCILS » 193. JACK KIRBY: Hero worship

Disappear

Here’s an audio version of my short story “Disappear,” from the collection Las Vegas Noir.  The collection features stories from the likes of Vu Tran, Pablo Medina, John O’Brien, Felicia Campbell, Bliss Esposito and Lori Kozlowski, among others. If you like it, you can get the whole audio book here or the print/Kindle versions here. No […]

Just clowning around…Lisbon (11/28-12/5)

Almost two years ago, through a weird series of connections and circumstances, I ended up teching a clown show called Aga-Boom, which was performing in the Vilnius Comedy festival. Long story short I became friends with the principles, Iryna and Dimitri (and Jesse, who is also in the show and with whom I have many […]

Just clowning around…Lisbon

Almost two years ago, through a weird series of connections and circumstances, I ended up teching a clown show called Aga-Boom, which was performing in the Vilnius Comedy festival. Long story short I became friends with the principles, Iryna and Dimitri (and Jesse, who is also in the show and with whom I have many […]

Rest in peace, little friend…

“The thing about owning a pet is they don’t live as long as we do.” Last week I wrote about the problems Laika was having and what the doctor had said. The follow-up, naturally, was a different doctor at the same clinic said something completely different. It’s like no one talked to each other, no […]

“The 13th Car” in Alterna-Teas

My latest short story, “The 13th Car,” is included here in this collection of wonderful steampunk stories. So happy to be included amongst such great stories! Feel free to go and grab yourself a kindle copy and if you like what you read, please leave a review. And hey, if you’re one of them people […]

My latest short story, “The 13th Car,” is included here i...

My latest short story, “The 13th Car,” is included here in this collection of wonderful steampunk stories. So happy to be included amongst such great stories! Feel free to go and grab yourself a kindle copy and if you like what you read, please leave a review. And hey, if you’re one of them people […]

Earth Rise | David Magazine

Man Had to Go to the Moon to Appreciate the Majesty of the Bright Blue Marble Floating in Space that We all Call Home. Source: Earth Rise | David Magazine My latest in David Magazine. I’m pretty happy with this one. Give it a read and see what you think.