Locked-in syndrome
Last night’s episode of House reminded me of the French movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was inspired by a French editor who suffered a catastrophic brain episode and ended up completely paralyzed except for one eyelid. His mind was unaffected, so he was effectively trapped inside his body. That movie started out, [...]
Another one gone
I hear via a grapevine that the book review editor at the Houston Chronicle has been let go. No word yet on what that means for the book review section that appears as part of the Sunday Zest supplement. Maybe the reviews will go to all freelance contributions. Hopefully they won’t vanish altogether.
I worked on [...]
The heat is on
It’s almost April and we have the heat running. It’s going to be down as low as 40° tonight. In Texas. A cold front stormed through late yesterday afternoon–there were reports of hail in some areas, variously reported as golf-ball sized and soft-ball sized. We didn’t see any of that around here, though. We’ve had [...]
Being Critical
For the first time in I don’t know how long, we are actually ahead of the average monthly rainfall. The last few days have seen considerable rainfall in the area. Water was sluicing out of the drains that remove water from the roof of my office building yesterday afternoon. It was like watching a geyser [...]
Cheap storage
I’m pretty good about backing up work in progress, and doing occasional mass backups of my documents, but not as good as I should be. I have a “Sky Drive” on Windows Live where I upload material so there’s an off-site backup as well. I finally decided it was time to get an external hard [...]
The Road Less Traveled
Sometimes TV shows test my patience. Though I like The Mentalist, they shouldn’t resort to passing off things that can’t pass muster if you think about them for a few seconds. Sure, a GPS system will let you get to a spot to within about 50 meters or so, but the latitude and longitude values [...]
Why is it always Walt?
Some years I hardly travel at all, and others I’m on the road more than I care to think about. So far I have trips planned (or already taken) for four of the first five months of 2009. Among my destinations: Chicago, Austin, San Diego, and Halifax.
Because House was a rerun last night, I got to [...]
Madness
This post has nothing to do with basketball. I have no interest in the sport, either at the pro or the college level. I think I’ve attended two games in my life, a Texas A&M game when I lived in College Station briefly and a Rockets game many years ago. I find the sport monotonous [...]
Musical chairs
My four-day training session ended yesterday at 4:15, so I promptly got into my car and drove back home. I’m glad my iPod was working again, as the music made the time fly by. Listening to the radio is okay, but I like listening to complete albums better, especially when I’m cruising down the highway.
I thought [...]
Fly Ajira — the friendly skies
Day three of training. One left to go. My butt is turning square, I think.
Tonight’s Lost was interesting. After a couple of weeks of mandatory backfill, we finally get to the good stuff. Seeing Sawyer stepping up to the plate and taking a leadership role is nice piece of reversal, especially during his domestic scene [...]
About
Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
