I found a potentially useful tool at least for those of us who love words. It's Wordie , described as Flickr without the pictures. It...

A woman lived with her mummified aunt for a year, according to a Reuters report . It's almost like the tale of Miss Emily Grierson, thou...

...maybe it's a good idea not to write about one you committed. According to news accounts , Krystian Bala has been convicted of a murd...

I haven't seen the new Kevin Bacon thriller Death Sentence yet, but reading about it led me to an item I thought I'd share - Brian ...

My senior portrait is a lie. It features a me with a haircut far shorter than I wore it in those days. I had to get it cut before they put ...

I've waited for a while for the fine, fine day that Tony Carey's " A Fine, Fine Day " would turn up on iTunes . Recently I...

Did anyone else have flashbacks to Little Britain after seeing yesterday's news conference with Sen. Larry Craig ?

An interesting article from Wired contends video game horror surpasses Hollywood horror these days. I need to check out BioShock that he...

I suppose it's been out on DVD about 15 minutes now, so you may have seen Vacancy if you care about dark thrillers . If not, check it o...

A friend, at an office where they do cool things like have movie outings, was going to one of the said movie outings this afternoon. "H...

When I was writing comic book scripts for Roland Mann under the Silverline banner, he had me work in what was then--and possibly still--call...

The radio-drama style adaptation I did of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds is now available on iTunes and via audible.com . It's kind o...

I guess it's a sign of audience transition as much as anything, but it's a little sad and a little perplexing to read about ABC'...

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Some free verse or just choppy prose. I don't write poetry much these days. Judge tenderly of me. In A San Francisco Bookshop I saw a ma...

I was on the road and listening to the radio yesterday when David Was came on to discuss the re-release of an album , Famous Blue Raincoat ...

I had the thought, as many people did somewhere amid one of the kinetic chase/fight sequences. But it was Christine who articulated it as we...

In an article called The Truth About Denial for Newsweek , Sharon Begley reports: Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded ...

Charles suggested--and Kate seconded, I think-- that a great high concept idea might be a battle between Wayne and Stewart . My thoughts...

Dean Koontz recently released a podcast regarding his new novel, The Good Guy , and he notes it's one of several high concept books he...