Archives for January 2021

The past 5 years we’ve been conditioned to -need- facebook and twitter. It’s an addiction more than anything scrolling through there. Very little actual business gets done, even if you think you’re doing it. It’s a distraction. It’s always been a distraction, and the truth is at the end of the day if you get […]

In 2017, SFWA President Cat Rambo worked overdrive to destroy my career in science fiction publishing. I’d come out with an article demonstrating conclusively by the numbers that women don’t need a “leg up” in publishing, that the industry is dominated and controlled by women, and Rambo violated SFWA rules by using their account to […]

Some days it’s hard to find a blog topic, especially when the political noise is cluttering everything and making it very hard to focus on cultural items, but the lesson of all of it is — a lot of things are out of our control and we just have to keep working on what we […]

Last night I started reading Popeye by E.C. Segar, one of the earliest heroes in comics and maybe the first humor strip that had a continuing building narrative. The plotlines are simple, but there’s an elegance to them at the same time. The characters are wide-eyed, joyous about everything even their failures, excited for strange […]