I missed posting a couple of days this week. Since last Wednesday, when that good news arrived, I’ve been a little…disoriented. I suppose that happens when your world suddenly changes, and I’m finding out that it takes more than a few days to adjust to a radically altered reality. I’ve spent a lot of time […]

This coming Friday, *Star Trek: Enterprise*, the sorely misconcieved prequel to the original *Star Trek* series, will air its final first-run episode. What went wrong — with *Enterprise* and *Star Trek* in general — has been a hot topic among the writers I know. Being a closet Trekkie and having co-written an episode of *Next […]

Bright Eyes on the Tonight Show. The song is called “When the President Talks to God.” You have to see and hear this to believe it was allowed to air on network television. Thanks to Mark Evanier, who posted the link on his “news from me” blog.

My friend Chuck Carter has just opened a new blog titled “Shaking Off the Myst”. Chuck is a phenomenal digital artist, who was one of the designers of *Myst*, arguably the first megahit computer game. Chuck and I *almost* got to work on a couple of projects together a few years ago, but they fell […]

While America wallows in the story of the runaway bride, something a little more important has been going unreported in the broadcast media. The *Los Angeles Times* did cover it, though, on April 24TH: …in impoverished southeast Missouri, nurses at a family health clinic stash drug samples for patients they know won’t be able to […]

Like many of you, I’m sure, I marvel at the breadth and sweep of Grant Morrison’s new *Seven Soldiers* project — seven four-issue miniseres, bookended by extra-length prologue and epilogue chapters, all released over the span of about a year. And that’ s not even the total of Grant’s output for the year. Incredible. How […]

For most of the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve been alone. Tonight, for the first time in a very long time, I noticed. I figure that’s probably a good sign.

You need to get a “day pass” to Salon to read this entire article: Salon.com News | The atheist It’s an interview with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. The day pass is free. You just have to sit through an ad. And it’s worth it. I think Dawkins qualifies as one of the bravest men on […]

The *Hard Time: Season 2* #3 script is finished. Next week, the editor of the book — the ever-forbearing Joan Hilty — and I will engage in our ritual monthly gladiatorial match over plot points, characterizations, speech patterns, and what does and does not constitute gratuitous obfuscation. As if *I* would ever obfuscate gratuitously…!

Abou t ready to stumble off to bed, entering the land of fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff the land of leaning on the keyboard wtihout realizing. I am plagued with gingivitis and an unknown skin-devouring condition I call, alternately, Poogroch Circles and ‘The Cysts that Don’t Exist”, at least no Las Vegas dermatologist believes they do. The […]