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Book Darts

These things are pretty cool.  Little tin arrows that clip onto a page so you can mark a line.  A post it tab or a scrap of paper would do, but a little refinement never hurt anyone. 

Random Book from the Shelf: Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

Bruce Campbell needs to write more books. Not more memoirs. More novels. I think this one was generally ignored because it felt like it might be a just another autobiography. But Make Love the Bruce Campbell way is one of the funniest books out there. Like I said, it’s fiction, but the plot still revolves […]

Random Book from the Shelf: The Icarus Agenda

The Icarus Agenda was the first Robert Ludlum novel I read. My uncle had given me the paperback and I tore through it. I don’t remember most of the specifics. I’m sure there was a revolver with silencer and a “big car with a powerful engine.” And there was undoubtedly a well-funded secret society up […]

Random Book from the Shelf: Where Eagles Dare

I’ve got several of Alistair MacLean’s books on my shelf: Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, The Partisans, When Eight Bells Toll, Ice Station Zebra and a few others. While I enjoy his books, he has the very rare distinction of being one author where the movies were better. He joins Ian Fleming in […]

Pinch me, Pikachu

Dragon Con was unbelievable. This was my first time to attend and my first time to have the opportunity to appear anywhere. It was surreal. That’s the best way I can put it. I got to sit on panels next to authors that people have actually heard of and talk about how to write fight […]

My son is also named Bort

The toy companies have got me almost figured out. They keep hitting me right in the nostalgia. Look at these new Simpsons toys. There’s a Homer in the line. And a Moe. But the others are Poochie and the theme park robots from Itchy and Scratchy land that run amok a la West World. One-off […]

Maybe one more edit

I’m pretty much your standard grumpy old man when it comes to the changes Lucas made to Star Wars. Yay! Enhance Mos Eisley. Yay! The Millenium Falcon taking off. Why does Boba Fett sound different? That’s not the right song! I didn’t sign on for this! I can admit that the unannounced changes upset me […]

Project: Thunder Moose

Canada had a missile program in the early 50’s. The name of that program was Project Velvet Glove. As an attempt at subterfuge, I get it. With a name like that, any foreign operator would naturally assume it was a secret program to develop new mitten technology. But, as a Canadian, I find it embarrassing. […]

Coffee for Writers

Coffee for Writers As a service to my fellow authors, copywriters, bloggers, late night night novelists and blue-collar creatives, I have taken it upon myself to test many brands of coffee and report back to you my findings.  For this service, I ask nothing, but know that some of the links below are affiliate links. […]

Tiny Texas Tradition

I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. CRKT Minimalist Bowie I picked this minimalist bowie up from CRKT because I thought would be good to have while paddling around the lake. It’s a neck knife […]