I didn’t get a blogger press pass to see Serenity like some of my more connected comrades in the blogosphere, so I shelled out six bones to see the movie on the IMAX/Ultra screen here in Columbus.
And, by the way, if you have one of these screens in your town and have not elected [...]

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One of the great things about being a writer is that I can take real life urges and politically incorrect statements and put them into the mouth of a character just to see how those around him (or her) would react given what I know of the characters’ histories or pscyhologies.
But how much would you [...]

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You are a Social Moderate (43% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (61% permissive) You are best described as a:
Centrist

Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

This is an excellent little experiment, although I’m not quite sure I agree with the results. [...]

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This is part one of my conversation with Jason Patterson about art, spiritual awakening and the nature of true intelligence.
Jason and I worked together as entry level grunts in a customer service call center about five years ago. We used to have the most in-depth conversations on philosophy and individual freedom during our coffee breaks. [...]

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This article discusses the assessment that one of the biggest gaps in the local, state, and federal responses to Hurricane Katrina.
When first responders arrived in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest dangers they faced was their inability to communicate with each other.

My cousin Terry is one of the community leaders in the [...]

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My aunts and uncles are in their seventies. My mother was born almost 30 years after my youngest aunt was born–she was a surprise to say the least.
So my aunts and uncles are much more like grandparents than they are aunts and uncles. And my maternal grandfather was a wonderful son-of-a-bitch. He [...]

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…and sometimes I think that’s one of the reasons why the mainstream media focuses so much on the national politics–to obfuscate the true acts of pilfering that go on in front of our eyes every day on the way to work, going shopping, or taking our kids to the park.
Consider this letter from a Cleveland [...]

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This is madness!
There has been a rampant plague in the online game WarCraft which has killed tens of thousands of characters on two of the game’s servers.
The plague came from a group of characters touching a cursed corpse and other players found ways to spread the plague through pets that wandered into different areas.
Maybe one [...]

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And mission successful.
For those of you new readers who didn’t catch my post the first time around about my initial experiences participating in a fantastic creative writing project that was sponsored by The Columbus Dispatch (my city’s proud paper) titled Create-A-Classic Novel; the project was seven novels to be written chapter by chapter in sequential [...]

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Social change on a massive scale happens in one of two ways–through War or Art.
I define War as any aggressive act that is meant to secure space: ideological space, geographical space, space for resources, or space to procreate.
Acts of war always lower the living standards of those around you, even if [...]

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