The Starving Theater Artist

So I went to TechShop -- sorry, "TheShop." (Idiots). And despite the calendar showing it was open, and even the tool reservation c...

I've mentioned that I rather dislike when a character in a historical novel starts going around inventing modern technology. I mean the ...

Skyrim  is still going strong. The energy is not just in the new Elder Scrolls Online. Some people, apparently, still want to life their alt...

I've been organizing my Kindle collection and adding even more history books (there's still several I really want to read that are e...

I think I'm there. I've enough idea of what is plausible in the politics and economy and so forth to get into the meat of the plotti...

Over an hour of practice yesterday. Put down ten bucks for a practice room and blew trumpet until my lips gave out. But they recovered; I wa...

This is the sort of post that really should have footnotes. But this is my blog, not my book; I'd rather blather on in a stream-of-consc...