At present my life seems to be interesting, but only when it’s October. This was my fourth weekend in a row doing something different and engaging. This last weekend was the homecoming celebration for the New Mexico Instute of Mining and Technology, where Kathy works. This celebration is known as “Forty-Niners,” a name dating from […]

Apropos our earlier discussions, it’s the David Milch School of Screenwriting.“Hi there. I’m David fucking Milch. You may remember me as the creative tour-de-force behind Deadwood, a critically acclaimed HBO series that ended prematurely so that I could launch John From Cincinnati. Some people say that was like ending Seinfeld in season 3 to jump […]

Jeremy Lassen sent me the cover for my next novel, Implied Spaces. Pretty eye-catching, ne?

Saturday night was spent at the Enchanted Skies Star Party. Traditionally this has been held at a nearly-inaccessible ranch in the Magdalena mountains, but this latest was held at the Camino Real Heritage Center, a remote state monument. I was able to drive to it in my car rather than having to take a shuttle […]