Taxes and Tea Parties

By On April 14, 2009 · 2 Comments

Every April, every­one has taxes on the brain, even if they’ve taken care of things months ago.  Yes­ter­day was America’s “Tax Free­dom Day.”  In the­ory, that’s the day that the nation has earned enough money to pay off our tax bur­den.  Awfully late in the year, isn’t it?  It’s actu­ally ear­lier than it has been […]

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Self Publishing and Alternative Media

By On April 11, 2009 · 2 Comments

At last, I’ve reached the end of the Imagi­Con brain­storm. This is the con­clu­sion to my ear­lier arti­cle about pub­lish­ing options.  Typ­ing and shar­ing each of these has been great fun, and hope­fully I will get many more oppor­tu­ni­ties to learn like crazy and share it with the world.

When­ever I hear […]

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“Culture of Availability”

By On April 10, 2009 · 4 Comments

Renny Glee­son artic­u­lates beau­ti­fully my feel­ings about the cur­rent cul­ture sur­round­ing cell­phone usage.  I freaked out the other day when  my kids were pre­tend­ing to text each other in the mid­dle of an oth­er­wise nor­mal make believe sit­u­a­tion. It’s very com­mon for some­one to bless me out because I tend to take my time […]

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Big House and Independent Publishing

By On April 9, 2009 · 1 Comment

I have decided that these two posts will be the last of the Imagi­Con inspired posts.   I learned so much while I was there, and was exposed to excit­ing new ways of look­ing at many top­ics I love, but the past two weeks have been too busy for me […]

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Neko Case at Workplay

By On April 8, 2009 · 3 Comments

This week­end I saw Neko Case in con­cert at Work­Play, which is a really cool venue by itself.  The build­ing is a con­verted ware­house, and the peo­ple at Work­Play have made it very ver­sa­tile.  The con­cept is a place for cre­ative peo­ple to come to work and to play, so they […]

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Love to Killa Str25

By On April 7, 2009 · 6 Comments

(If you don’t know Killa, this won’t make much sense.  He’s one of my RS buds who is going through an awful time right now.  I don’t know all the details, but even if I did, they’re not mine to tell.  I’m sim­ply mak­ing a place where every­one can send out their good vibes to him.)

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Science in Science Fiction

By On April 3, 2009 · 3 Comments

At Imagi­Con last week­end, one of the pan­els was on the role of true sci­ence in sci­ence fic­tion.   It was a very inter­est­ing panel of South­ern sci­ence fic­tion authors.  Despite their dif­fer­ences in back­ground, the panel got along well.

Allan F. Gilbreath started out the group.   He’s a novelist, […]

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April Fools’, Cabbages, and RuneScape

By On April 1, 2009 · 1 Comment

My April Fools’ Day was mostly tir­ing.  I’m still play­ing catch up from my week­end at Imagi­con.  My sleep pat­terns are return­ing to nor­mal, and I actu­ally am back to work­ing out com­pletely.  Yes­ter­day, I was one day late fin­ish­ing Day 30 of my yoga chal­lenge and did 140 pushups.  Today I decided […]

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