The Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup, New Mexico kicked off their month long author’s festival (Visual Storytelling) with a talk by me on why your favorite book is so different from its movie.
I'm participating at the Jack Williamson Memorial Lectureship this Thursday and Friday. The linked video is a reading recorded for them to use over the course of the conference. I thought my patrons should have a crack at it too. If you're interested in the panels, talks, and other readings, here is a link to the event which is completely free and, this year, all online.
2021-04-20 23:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostIf you’re reading this, you know who I am, and what I and my family can do that most people cannot.
My dad was the first, nearly thirty years ago, trapped in a room with a raging alcoholic, about to be beaten yet again, when, suddenly, he wasn’t in that room. He was several blocks away in the town’s public library, his usual refuge from an abusive father, but not previously reached by teleporting. He called it jumping.
Mom was next. Ten years into their...
2021-03-26 21:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Means slipper in Italian. This version I make only has 4 ingredients (bread flour, yeast, water, kosher salt.) Apparently the original version has olive oil as well. It is a "high-hydration" dough, which means it is wet as a swamp, but I think that actually makes it easier to make.
I make sandwich-sized rolls (like above) or two big loaves, depending on my mood.
It makes unbelievably good Bacon, Lettuce, Onion, Avocado, and Tomato sandwiches (which I call BLOATers, though, t...
2021-02-23 00:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Three different nations have spacecraft visiting the red planet this month.
Congratulations to the United Arab Emirates, whose spacecraft Hope entered Mars orbit on February 9. Hope will study the dust storms and other Martian weather affect the speed at which Martian air leaks into outer space.
One day later, on February 10, China's Tianwen-1 joined the party. Besides being an orbiter, Tianwen carries a lander and robotic rover that will attempt touchdown in the Utopia Plan...
2021-02-19 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I bought this parka after freezing my ass off in January, in Canada, during the shooting of the IMPULSE pilot. Not only was it -13 degrees Celsius (8 degrees F,) we were three miles north of Lake Erie and twelve miles southwest of Lake Ontario. The humidity this adds...well, let's just say Jack Frost isn't nipping at your nose. He's biting your face off.
Just last week our highs were in the 50's with sunny dry days, getting down to freezing at night. Since Sunday, like the rest of the c...
2021-02-16 17:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post