Even KISS has a tribute band these days, and KISS isn’t even dead. (Except creatively, maybe.) (And if I know anything about KISS, they have a PIECE of aforesaid tribute band.)I’ve never had the urge to see a tribute band, even for bands I like. Beatlemania remains an enigma— I’m not sure why anyone would […]

Here another whole week has gone past, and just because I have been somewhat preoccupied with world financial crisis and the prospect of sleeping under bridges, I haven’t yet mentioned how much fun I had last weekend. I was at Globalquerque, our yearly festival of world music, and it was terrific. My hands-down favorite performer […]

My sometime drinking buddy Allison Barrie has posted an article about MALINTENT, which despite its rather sinister name is a scanner that will read the evil intentions behind even the most innocent pair of blue eyes. “So here’s how it works. When the sensors identify that something is off, they transmit warning data to analysts, […]

I’d like to take time out from the current world financial meltdown to talk about publishing, and how and why it totally sucks. This article from New York states it very well, although for some reason it concentrates on best-sellers, and the heart-rending stories of newly-minted writers who got seven-figure advances for their first novels, […]