Monthly Archives: July 2009

Critters

I am a lousy copy editor. I can’t see the errors that I make in my own manuscripts. I have noticed from teaching that a programmer has difficulty finding his own bugs where another eye will spot them easily. I think writing is like this. I joined Critters.org because three or four editors suggested that […]

Psychic Predicts Earthquakes

I just read in a local paper about a psychic that is predicting “Serious earthquakes will strike in Pearl River and West Nyack in a decade”. I live in West Nyack. We are not on a fault line, although a minor fault line passes 20 or so miles north and west of us. We get […]

Jack Vance in NY Times

Check out this loving tribute to Jack Vance, a great SF and Fantasy writer. I was surprised to learn that he is still alive and cooking. I did not know that he was still writing and I took the recommendation of a friend and ordered one of his recent works from Alibris.com. I read a […]

Rejects Coming Back

I had as many as 7 stories waiting in slush piles last week, but the quick editors are starting to come back. One was a form letter from futurismic on a real clunker that I rewrote and sent out again. I have more ideas on how to fix it, so when it comes back I’ll […]

Tolkien Images

In 1965 or 66 I bought the Ace editions of the Lord of The Rings. I bought the second two books, but the Fellowship was backordered and I had to wait a month for it. My friend, neighbor, and fellow reader, Randy, borrowed The Two Towers and, to my horror, read it without first reading […]

Timescoop by John Brunner (1969)

I am guessing that John was able to get a hold of some good drugs and worked his way out of the mid sixties funk that he was in. This is a much more enjoyable book than the last few by Brunner. My Review: Timescoop by John Brunner (1969)

Why I Hate Disco

I came of age in the late 1960s. I listened to the birth of hard rock on vinyl records with phonographs I made myself out of old TV sets. I learned to play guitar and I grew my hair long. We were on the verge of something great in those days, and we had the […]

Stella Maeve in Runaways

Stella is currently filming Runaways, a film about Joan Jet’s first band. She is playing the part of Sandy West, the drummer. Stella can actually play the drums a little, as her father is a jazz drummer and gave Stella lessons. Stella is costarring with some major personalities that I, of course, have never heard […]