In which I change the plot of “Avatar” by less than 15% and improve it at least 250%

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

I keep coming back to “Avatar” in my head. Partly because new people in my life keep seeing it and then asking me what I think. They do this for a couple reasons: 1) I’m the avowed hard-core sci-fi buff of my crowd, and; 2) I write.
I was initially going to write three reviews of [...]

Our (possibly) scary future: two data points

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Mark Helprin: wonderful author, total tool

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

The cure for panic is action

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Learning to hunt — Newsweek gets it wrong… and insults a whole bunch of us in the process

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

TV, video games, art, artistry, craft and the answers to all your questions.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Dr. Bartle goes off (with my slight addition)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008