Archive for: June 2007

I finished a story! Finally! This may not seem to be a big deal to many of you, but I haven’t finished anything since the first draft of a story (still unrevised) a year ago, and only two …

There’s a school of thought that every new crime novel needs to hit the ground running. You need a gun on page 1, a shot on page 2, and a body on page 3. I don’t subscribe to …

I finally found out the reason why: it was because of the National Guard.

Actually, I guess it’s a little more complex than that. But ultimately, a National Guard unit is why the National D-Day Memorial is in Bedford, Virginia, my …

I finally saw Terry Gilliams Brazil the other day, only 20-odd years after it came out. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while - as evidence, I’m still thinking about it three days later.

Brazil tells the …