Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Nest of Worlds by Marek S. Huberath - (Originally published in Poland in 1998 this is the first edition in English available this year from Restless Books) Imagine a world where your social status is determined by the color of your hair and where you must move to a new continent every 35 years. In that... Continue Reading →
Bear Is Broken by Laclan Smith (2013) - Leo Maxwell lives in the shadow of his older brother Danny, the most successful and possibly most hated defense attorney in the San Francisco area, and his father, currently serving a life sentence for the murder of their mother. In both cases he both loves and hates... Continue Reading →
(From My Shelves is an occasional series of posts about books, movies and music that hold a special place in my heart and on my shelves) College is the time when you go away and discover a universe that you never knew existed. At least it was for me. My vision of social interactions, music,... Continue Reading →
Short Sentence - A Crime Short Story Collection from Bloomsbury - (2013) - Start with a short story written by an established author in the field. Then challenge other authors to pick the idea and go their own nefarious way with the concept. That's the idea behind "Short Sentence". In this case there are five... Continue Reading →
The Sacred Cipher by Terry Brennan - (2009) - Hidden inside a sealed room in New York's historic Bowery Mission is a cipher that promises to threaten the stability of the world even after centuries. An unlikely band of experts will gather in Jerusalem to try and find the truth. Assuming they can find it... Continue Reading →
The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward - (2014) - To most Americans the words "The Profumo Affair" probably mean nothing. You would have to be a follower of English political history or a student of Cold War espionage to know it. In the early 1960's it was a political scandal that rocked the Conservative government... Continue Reading →
Some Of The Best From Tor.com 2012 Edition - Tor is a great name in the world of scinece fiction and fantasy. This is an annual collection of short works from some of their authors. So it's really a best of the best collection and that's exactly the way it reads. You'll find one part... Continue Reading →
The Great Movies by Roger Ebert - The first of a series of books by my all time favorite movie critic. Before he died he added two more to the series. Ebert offers relatively brief (couple pages each) commentaries on movies that he thinks belong in the top tier of films. He admits right off... Continue Reading →
So this is 2014? Nice. So far, at least. Let's get started this year with some thought about why we do what we do and what we are going to do this. This blog will continue to be "home base" for my radio show "The View From the Phlipside" (now airing M-F at 8 AM... Continue Reading →
The primary function of this blog is to support and promote my radio program of the same name. A radio program where I virtually NEVER review books, movies, music, et cetera. So why write reviews here? There are two primary reasons: The first is purely functional. I had originally tried publishing the scripts individually to... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 