For more than ten years now I’ve been going to see the purple martins. Every summer, from around the second week of July until the second week of August, the purple martins form a roost in a conspicuous urban location,…
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An Unofficial Public Google Calendar for Texas Hunters If you’re like me, sometime during mid November or late December you lose track of exactly which animals you can legally take a shot at. There’s the duck season that might be…
Continue readingI’ve had the folder with all my tax documentation sitting on my desk for months now. I had intended to do them early in January (I’m the guy who hands out the W-2s at my job, so everybody got them…
Continue readingIt seems like one day your podcasting days are behind you, and then the next you’re practically swimming in podcasts. I both consumed and produced podcasts way back in the early days. Along with Steve Wilson, we put together a…
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This summer I was tapped by the Armadillocon programming committee to participate on a panel about zombie movies. For some reason I did a modicum of research before the panel and I discovered the Wikipedia list of all zombie movies…
Continue readingWay back in the day, when I first started doing homebrew, I made a batch of “Cock Ale.” This was a recipe I found in the back of an ancient and dog-eared public library book on homebrewing, which purported to…
Continue readingBecause we know that the literature of the future is best consumed through an internet-enabled device:
Continue readingI’ve not been writing a lot recently, for a number of reasons. Another symptom of how much I’ve checked out of the writing lifestyle is the conspicuous lack of self-promotion for my last published short story. It’s not unlikely that…
Continue readingIt’s only one day left to fill out ballots for Hugo nominations, those of us who are WorldConnners. Here’s some suggestions. These are basically just people I know, but you can be certain that they absolutely deserve a nomination. I…
Continue readingAs my Grandfather approaches his 90th year, his writing career is kicking it up to the next level. Here’s an interview with him where he talks about his prior career and his writing process.
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