I’m currently paying $2.09 per gallon of gasoline, which is the lowest I’ve paid in a very, very long time— and which may, if you adjust for inflation, be the lowest gasoline price ever. Ten years ago, people were saying that we’d met, or even passed, Peak Oil, wherein the supply was just going to go […]

More music from Globalquerque, New Mexico’s annual celebration of music from all over the world. There were three stages going on at once, so I didn’t see everybody, and for several of the bands I only saw a few minutes.  Here are some of the highlights. Cimmarón was advertised as a cowboy band from Colombia, […]

So StoryBundle has a deal for you.  They’ve bundled six novels, each of them nominated for the Philip K Dick Award, and by Elizabeth Hand, Pat Murphy, K.W. Jeter, Gwyneth Jones, Lisa Mason, and Kathy Koja. These ebooks are completely free of DRM and can be read on any device.  And the best part is: you […]

Dish Network gave me a free premium channel the other week, and so I watched The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I.  Which was a kind of masterpiece, because in a film over two hours long nothing really happened. What’s going on is that the success of the Twilight films, in which the final volume of the trilogy […]