First Other Worldly Novel No Longer Obsolete, Unfortunately
For the past four years of having a decent human being serve as our US president in real life and subsequently in my Other Worldly novels, I’ve worried that as time goes by, the first book, Alienable Rights, would become somewhat difficult to relate to because it features a maniacal moron in the White House […]
Lamentable Election Leftovers: Those Regurgitating a Dem “Messaging” Gravy Train Can Stuff It
The election is over and so is Thanksgiving and I can thankfully say that pundits and pontificators stuck on the “Here’s what was wrong with the Democrat’s messaging” post-election gravy train should stuff it. No more second helpings and regurgitation of righteous ridiculousness, please. You’ve made your money and your point and it was lacking […]
As If Republicans Would Welcome ET Aliens Piloting UFOs
A post seen last week on Bluesky truly resonated with me: Trying to act like a functioning adult while my soul is busy filing a mental complaint against humanity. That’s pretty much what my Other Worldly novels are, a complaint against humanity. My literary reality primarily depicting humans as the problem, not extraterrestrial beings. Yet […]
Blue Sky With A Few Clouds
Recently on social media I learned of an apropos Scottish word that I definitely must use in my next Other Worldly novel: dumfungled. Of course diabolical spellcheck doesn’t like it. But I do, so I added it to my online dictionary to avoid the unrelenting annoyance of having it flagged by computer programmers who aren’t […]
Not Giving Up: The Catharsis of Writing
I read something on Facebook yesterday that was uncanny, as my Other Worldly novels’ protagonist Rowan Layne would say. I wanna move to Mars and hang out with aliens. I’m tired of humans. Literally the very focus of the seven novels I started writing seven years ago this month and began publishing in early 2020. […]
Gutless Bezos: Democracy Dies in A Billionaire’s Bank Vault
Billionaire Jeff Bezos became owner of The Washington Post in October, 2013. In failing to traditionally endorse a presidential candidate, it only took the greed-mongering coward eleven years to destroy the legacy of Katherine Graham. Fuck Jeff Bezos. As someone said on social media, “I thought ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was a warning, not a […]
Nevada’s Pigpen Project Belongs in the Big Pen
This week a rightwing group calling itself Pigpen Project—you literally can’t make this stuff up—voluntarily dismissed its three lawsuits filed in late September seeking to remove approximately 30,000 voters from Nevada’s rolls before the November election. The Pigpen punks caved on this latest attempt, among many since July, to subvert Nevada’s election process for several […]
Honeycrisp and Bittersweet: On Writing a Novel Series
I finally got around to reading an online Writer’s Digest article I’d flagged from a month ago, which turned out to be both fun and reaffirming as I make final preparations to publish my next Other Worldly novel, Aliens Watch, and begin bittersweet drafting of the eighth and final story of the series featuring Rowan […]
Immunity Brief: Smackdown of SCOTUS As Tweets Become Sweet Evidence
Finally finished reading Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s 165-page well-deserved and sublimely executed pushback to the atrocity wrought by SCOTUS known as U.S. v. Trump. In what’s referred to as the October 2 immunity brief but is officially called the Government’s Motion for Immunity Determinations, DOJ pulls no punches with eviscerating language and brutal brevity. To […]
Scandal TV Series: Scarier Than Reality?
Perhaps I picked the wrong time to binge watch a TV series I hadn’t seen before, but I thought I was diverting my psyche from the stress of the current presidential election turmoil. Joke’s on me. Because Scandal is deemed a drama political thriller series and they weren’t kidding. First off, did anyone watch this […]