In the beginning of Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code, super-duper “code breaker” (because symbologist just doesn’t sufficiently cover his mad skills) Robert Langdon’s phone rings in the middle of the night. A voice introducing itself as Maximilian Kohler tells Langdon to come to his lab immediately. Langdon hangs up…
they did it again. pikerpress has another of my short stories on their website this week. it’s a two-part story called “the accident.” the second part will be there on or about monday, april 20. i like titles like that, but i think i already wrote that on a previous post. anyway, here are two…
hey, i’m finally published – sort of. it’s an “e-zine,” an online magazine called Piker Press, and a literary one at that. my story, “the sweeper,” which can be found elsewhere on this blog, will be the march 16 cover story. about a month after that, another short story of mine will appear as a…
(see end of entry for an update) i don’t watch much television, maybe only three shows: some sports, the daily show with john stewart, and i often watch house, but only because my girlfriend is watching it and i’m in the same room. although the character of gregory house is very interesting, it still comes…
this isn’t really going to be much of a book review because elmore leonard isn’t really my favorite writer. i’m not saying he isn’t a good writer, but i am saying that his type of story isn’t on my list. he’s into violent, masculinity-proving, knuckle-busting, testosterone-testing kind of fiction, and i’m not. however, because someone…
there have been just a few too many job cuts recenty. bus boys, home depot, the healthcare industry, ibm, microsoft, ford, pfizer, gm, citigroup, the nba, mlb, and the list goes waaaay toooo on. but here’s my suspicion: what if some of these job cuts aren’t necessary? what if some of these companies really don’t…
Bleachers by John Grisham There’s a commonly known formula, or at least it’s commonly known to me, that lies in almost every John Grisham novel. Either the government, a nationally feared law firm, or a conglomerate of a company is doing something wrong, usually doing it to regular people. Nobody can stop them, nobody except…
here is yet another example of studies that don’t realize that they make no sense. this is from the auto insurance industry. Where Accidents Occur Most Miles from home – Percentage of accidents 1 mile or less 23%2 to 5 miles 29%6 to 10 miles 17%11 to 15 miles 8%16 to 20 miles 6%More than…
i can end the centuries of debate about creationism, which has recently been semi-renamed “intelligent design,” versus evolution. answer these two questions, and you’ll have your answer. 1. according to the bible and the book of genesis, god created man first. then he attempted to create another living thing that would make a good partner…
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