This is one of a series of essays written on recently republished works.  This one is about City on Fire (newly available in ebook form via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords).  Since City on Fire is a sequel to Metropolitan, it might be best to start with the three big essays I wrote on […]

I haven’t seen the Avengers movie yet.  But I know how I want it to end. How I want it to end is not with the 35-minute action scene that I know is actually there, the kind where CGI goes toe-to-toe with CGI, and CGI wins.  I’ve seen enough of those for a lifetime.  Those […]

Being at the Secret Site last week, along with some remarks from friend of the blog Ralf, have set me thinking about life on the margins. Those folks on that mesa-top pueblo lived there for several generations at least, and got by.  They planted crops with a digging stick, and they had to irrigate them […]

DorjePismo was right, the Mystery Picture was a Native American structure, or what’s left of one. In fact it was probably a kiva, an underground ceremonial structure.  At any rate, it was the largest room in the small, mesa-top pueblo. I won’t say where we were, except that we were roughly in the Four Corners […]