Category Archives: The Killing

Movies and TV, oh my

We saw Jon Favreau’s new film, Chef, last weekend. A cute flick. Favreau wrote, directed and starred as the chef who works in a restaurant owned by Dustin Hoffman. He gets into a social media tiff with a food critic … Continue reading

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Series come and series go

I finished revising the most recent short story and submitted it to the intended market. It’s one of those places that promises (and usually delivers on) fast responses, sometimes as short as 24 hours. Given that it’s been three days … Continue reading

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Rory and the Doctor

The power went off at 8:45 last night. No big deal—I was about to turn in for the night anyway. We went out into the street to make sure it wasn’t just us. Met a couple of neighbors that we’ve … Continue reading

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When 90 feels cool

That is a real capture of my weather app from my iPhone on Saturday afternoon. This is the first time in recorded history that Houston had a day over 105° in a month other than August. The humidity, at 24%, … Continue reading

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The Horror

The day after tomorrow I’ll be on my way to New Orleans for the World Horror Convention. I should get there just in time for the opening ceremony, where I will be talking for a few minutes about the Grand … Continue reading

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Little Orphan Sarah

It was fun seeing David Soul as a guest star on a Season 6 episode of Inspector Lewis. He played a visiting lecturer whose views on the genetic aspects of a criminal mind were controversial. It may be one of … Continue reading

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Books, Movies and TV

It was 100° the day we arrived in San Francisco, the tail end of a heat wave, but it moderated quickly after that. Most days the temperature was in the seventies and it was in the forties at night, which … Continue reading

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One card short of a full deck

My old message board seems to be toast. I moved it to a different server and it works there, so I can recover the data from it, but I can’t coax it into working on the existing server. I’m going … Continue reading

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Therapy

This week’s episode of The Killing was actually pretty interesting. It’s neat how they’re borrowing scenes from the Danish version and making them their own. The bit where the evidence is floored over has an analog in the original, but … Continue reading

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Seasons change

We had a very wet beginning to the year, but it didn’t take long for people to start thinking about drought again when it didn’t rain for a few weeks. We had a brief but loud thunderstorm in the middle … Continue reading

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