To keep myself from writing too many depressing political posts in my blog in a row, I’m going to break things up by posting a few videos. First off is a video I came across independently via Galleycat and Whatever. It shows us that, indeed, Tom Cat are serious cat. Read more…
Just to let everyone know, my book trailer for Prophets has been posted on Bookscreening.com which is a great site if you’re interested in book trailers. I appreciate them putting it up. I’ve also put up the home page for Prophets, along with the trailer.
I’ve made the point before that I believe that it’s the economists who deserve the bulk of the blame for the current crisis, those practitioners of the black arts in the Federal Reserve and in our major financial institutions are the ones with the blood red ink on their hands. Read more…
Just a note on a little experiment I am doing. One of the useful bits I got from Context (aside from reminding various people that I still exist) was a talk on effective blogging given by Toby Buckell. One of many points he made was the idea that regularity was Read more…
Prophets comes out in March 2009, and in advance of it coming out I have made my first attempt at a book trailer. The images are from NASA, a godsend for folks looking for spectacular royalty-free sfnal imagery. The music comes from Kevin MacLeod who runs a great music site Read more…
There are a lot of authors who could take a tip from this book trailer. (Thanks to the Smart Bitches)
This video is making the rounds, so I figured why not? Somewhere in my heart, I really hope this is a satire. . .
Rick Griffin was a psychedelic artist who did a lot of posters as well as underground comics, back in the day. Stuff like this:Note the little guys in the lower right? They’re kind of a motif of his. Apparently, someone at Coke started smoking the same stuff.
Occasionally you discover that the time is just right for something. Things just bubble up in the common consciousness, suddenly bombarding you with some concept or image that pervades the ether and suddenly you’ve discovered that collective humanity has crossed some cultural Rubicon and it becomes literally impossible to imagine Read more…