Harold Flashman’s astonishing adventures begin in the early 1800s with his expulsion at age 17 from Rugby School (named after the town, not the sport) for drunkenness. It’s a bawdy, dark comedy that would never past muster in this politically correct era. The man is too much of a scoundrel, and his many sins include […]
This is yet another entry I found in a “Best Steampunk Books” list that didn’t actually fit the genre. 14 , appropriately published in 2014, is a sci-fi mystery centered on a hundred-year-old apartment building in Los Angeles and the eccentric tenants that inhabit it. The main character is Nate, a thirty-something single guy who […]
Having focused on steampunk for the last few years, I was astonished that I hadn’t run into this book before. Homunculus was published in 1986 before steampunk became all the rage in the 2000’s. It won the Phillip K. Dick award for best original paperback in 1988. Many steampunk books are modern-style novels that happen […]
In 2016, after the surprise victory of the Orange Interloper, I was invited to participate in a Donald Trump sci-fi anthology by fellow writer George Donnelly. I had fun writing my contribution, though the majority of the stories therein were unmistakably anti-Trump in tone. MAGA 2020 & Beyond, published in 2017 by Superversive Press, is […]
Some people say that there’s a ratio to find circumference But it’s a number that never stops, oh no. Some people want try find all the digits How long is it? I’d like to know So here we go… again 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923 etc. etc. Pi wasn’t found in a minute The Egyptians thought that it was […]
Today I’m posting some pictures I took on Friday in downtown Glendale, AZ, with all the trees lit up. Every year around this time they have a festival called Glendale Glitters with vendors selling foods like hot chocolate and caramel apples. We had thought the vendors would be there on Friday night, but they weren’t; […]
Doctors say that laughter is one of the greatest stress relievers and Lord knows, these days we need that. So when you have the chance to get not one, but dozens of great laughs for only 99 cents, you get it. It’s much less than the price of a latte at Starbucks. But surely, […]
