I am currently in a project with my colleague Kim Hill, writing a book about foraging for wild foods in an urban environment. As an aside, I included the recipe for “That Creamy Green Sauce”, and as a public service, I’m excerpting that recipe here. Because you have lived too long without being empowered to
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I’m working on a project to create a writing device optimized for writing fiction. I figured one of the bigger reasons why I wasn’t writing anymore was the lack of a consistent writing platform. I’ve had some setbacks in the project, and compromises, and it’s not done yet, more on this project later. But the
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, typically a parking lot. When the sun sets, they swarm by the hundreds of thousands,
Central Texas Hunting Season Calendar 2018-19
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 going on, or maybe we’re between the split? Or is it okay to shoot at
Taxes Procrastination
I’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 about a week into the new year), but when I went to the IRS website
A Sudden Plethora of Podcasts
It 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 few episodes of a Space Squid podcast, and the beginning of the RevCast podcast. RevCast
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 ever. Since this was displayed onpage in a table format, I thought, hey, let’s export
Rooster Ale Recipe — Homebrew with chicken
Way 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 be a traditional beer made with a boiled chicken. The theory being that the protein
Rayguns Over Texas Now an Ebook!
Because we know that the literature of the future is best consumed through an internet-enabled device:
My Last Published Short Story
I’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 this will be my last published short story ever. Luckily, this is probably the most