It’s been a long autumn, what with hip replacement and all the deadline pressure and stuff, and my birthday is happening around now, and so I decided I deserved a really nice birthday present.   Maybe something I’ve always wanted. It so happens that I’ve wanted a Porsche since I was about eight, and ever […]

While recovering from surgery I binged, mainly continuing my exploration of Spanish TV with Money Heist (Casa de Papel, “House of Paper”)  I do like an intricate caper, as my Maijstral books demonstrate, and this is probably the longest caper ever filmed, something like sixteen hours of television originally split into two seasons.  (One crime over […]

For those of you on the Western Slope, you might want to mosey over to Vail on 6PM on Monday for a science fiction symposium being held at The Sebastian Vail, 16 Vail Rd, Vail, CO 81657.  Along with me, the symposium will feature this near’s Nebula novelist Rebecca Roanhorse, Emily Mah, and Jack Mitchell. Because […]

Xfiniti, my phone company, dug up my ground line the other day, I assume by accident. I suspect malevolence, however.  My ground line now consists of nothing but splices.  The phone company has cut my phone line so many times that I have to assume it’s deliberate.  I mean, why would a public utility repeatedly […]