Monthly Archives: September 2006

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone with day-job work these past few days. It’s like the rest of the world ceased to exist for a time. Didn’t read any of my normal message boards or other web pages, watched … Continue reading →

My daughter called us at home on Saturday night. She was on the deck at her Halifax apartment listening to the Rolling Stones playing at the Commons a couple of blocks away. We could hear them loud and clear over … Continue reading →

Last night’s session with the Citizen’s Police Academy took me to downtown Houston, fourth ward, where the SWAT team is headquartered. The building is unassuming, a former fire station, very cramped. It houses the Tactical Operations Division, which includes SWAT, … Continue reading →

I turned in a 3000-word essay that I’d been asked to contribute to an upcoming project. I worked on it for a couple of weeks off and on, and I ended up with something that served the purpose, provided the … Continue reading →

It’s a dark morning. Lots of late-night rain with promise of more. I don’t mind—I like rain, and so long as it stays within the confines of our ditches and levees and I don’t have to stand out in it, … Continue reading →

Turned in my CD column this morning. I got a little late-breaking news about the novel King is working on now to shoehorn in at the last moment. You could wait for #57 to come out, or you can read … Continue reading →

Thou Shalt Not is now available for order from Dark Cloud Press or Shocklines. It’s an anthology of horror and crime fiction where someone breaks one of the Ten Commandments with dire, deadly, or disastrous results. My story is called … Continue reading →

I think I finally have my Cemetery Dance column for issue #57 under control. These things take a long time to write. It’s basically a work in progress for the two-to-three month span between issues. Then, as deadline approaches (this … Continue reading →

I had no idea that speedometers registered your speed while you were going backwards. I realized that they did whilst going forty mph in reverse in the passenger seat of a police car. That realization was followed by abruptly being … Continue reading →

Watched a few movies this weekend. Proof, starring Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow, adapted from the stage play Paltrow starred in over in England. Hopkins is a brilliant mathematician who suffered from schizophrenia in his twenties, with occasional lucid periods … Continue reading →