So there’s this Internet meme of people posting their own homemade videos of themselves dancing to or otherwise enjoying Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy,” and there were six young Iranians who made a video and put it up on YouTube.  In part they did it to counter negative stereotypes about their country. “To tell the world […]

One of the “lost stories” I wrote ages ago has finally seen print!  (Seems like I’ve been reading from this one for years now.) It seems like decades ago that John Joseph Adams wrote to see if I’d contribute to an anthology of Weird West stories.  I’d never written a weird western before (“The Last […]

It’s still coming down hard, so we’re sticking to the lodge.  Terrified that someone was going to pitch headlong down the steep outdoor stairs, and that their survivors would sue me naked, I sent everyone out this morning to sweep clear the stairs and walkways.  Even though more snow is falling, I have done my […]

So . . . what do I have in common with J.D. Salinger and James Patterson and Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen Colbert? (Besides a loyal following who view me as a god, I mean?) We— and a whole lot of other folks— are now caught in the middle in yet another battle between Amazon and […]