Back in the good old days of the seventies, I was once handed a van full of teenage girls and told to drive them to Colorado and show them a good time. I was only sixteen at the time, but what the heck, I'd been driving for at least 5 months.… Read full post »

As the once-great nation of the United States sinks into a morass of corruption, fraud and deceit aided and abetted by the federal government at its highest levels, I can only take solace in Salon's daily dose of pablum and utter meaningless.

I once felt like I could get some dose… Read full post »

Okay, another post about Avatar. With the advent of CGI, the ability of the camera point of view to do astounding things not remotely achievable in real life has taken a huge leap into new dimensions of movie making.

Anyone who has seen the Matrix series, or almost any CGI generated… Read full post »

Just saw this movie last night. I thought it was great. Hands-down, a piece of movie history, beauty and amazing technology.

 I'm a sci-fi nut. I have high standards. When I see starships banking aerodynamically in SF films, my mind seizes up and for me the film comes to a grinding… Read full post »

I spent a few days relaxing at Lake Tahoe, post-Burning Man 2009, before returning to my home. One cannot imagine a dustier, more bedraggled state than exiting the festival into the real world.

Imagine thousands of people all around you, happy, creative, genuinely good people amongst whom you have sp… Read full post »

I wonder why I blog? I think there must be some underlying reasoning that if only the world would read my precious expositions I would be catapulted into immediate fame and a life of ease.

So, here I am, world. Send money!

Moving on, I'm fine tuning my lifestyle into what… Read full post »

I started this post a few minutes ago, wrote out some good paragraphs, and opened a tab to check spelling, returned to the blog and found it quite devoid of writing.

Nothing takes the starch out of you quite like that. The roll of the words, the click of the keys,… Read full post »

I've decided to start recording my thoughts on this journal for no particular reason except they rattle around in my brain all day so I might as well publish them.

I've been thinking about privacy. I wonder whether I should publish my identity as so many seem to do here and… Read full post »

Well, here I go dumping on the new Trek film. Of course everyone loves it. Shiny ships, lots of bling explosions, plot that's goes real fast with lots of upset people, romance, high drama plus it's 'Star Trek' again up close and real like the old show never was.

 Oh boy,… Read full post »