Monthly Archives: June 2011

Film Crew Wants to Shoot My Bees

I received a request for a film crew to come and briefly shoot some footage of my bees for a TV movie. They want to have a couple who give away honey as favors at their wedding look at the hives. I would have the people on my property for about an hour one morning. […]

Don’s story is up at Hamilton Stone Review

You can read my cousin Don’s story, Sweaty Girls, at the Hamilton Stone Review. Hamilton Stone Review #24 Nonfiction.

My Brother Larry, Jamming with Bobby

I used to go to these Jams and play harp. This is from Bobby’s myspace page. That’s James White playing drums. JIMI HENDRIX DOWNSOLONG/KILLINFLOOR/REDHOUSEVOODOOCHILDNY Video by VOODOO CHILD NY – Myspace Video.

Neil Gaiman, Author supports an Onion Pulitzer

Here is a Neil Gaiman, a very good writer, demanding that the Onion be given a Pulitzer Prize. YouTube – Neil Gaiman, Author supports an #OnionPulitzer.

Cousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective Cellar – Jack Finney

Here is a nice short story by jack Finney. It is about a magical salt cellar or adjective cellar that lifts off the adverbs and adjectives from his stories and what was left was “the most crisp, sharp writing you’ve ever seen”. The story is very short, only 1000 words. I could use an adjective […]

Space Math

I updated my Space Math page. This is a bunch of calculators written in JavaScript. I wrote these about 8 years ago, when I was still learning how to code in JavaScript. Since then the site has been reorganized and the code has broken for mysterious reasons. Yesterday I updated some of the procedures. It […]

Fred Pohl Mention

One of my favorite SF writers, Frederik Pohl, has a nice blog which I check every day. I asked him recently about the The Trap Door Spiders, a New York City luncheon club for sf writers in the 1950s. Fred was supposed to have belonged. Members included Isaac Asimov, Fletcher Pratt, and Lester del Ray. […]

Cooper Union Engineering Building being torn down

I spent two very bad years in the engineering program at Cooper Union. It was not such a good time in my life. I spent the next 10 years recovering from this time. I eventually got a degree somewhere else, taught myself to program and made a good living in spite of my experiences at […]