A Clash of Kings Book Review

I was a huge fan of the first novel in the A Song of Fire and Ice series, so I eagerly began reading this the second book in the series, A Clash of Kings, as soon as I could. What carried over from the first book to this was Martin’s crisp writing and the sweeping […]

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March 28, 2012 at 3:38 pm | Books | No comment

My latest toy/hobby/creative outlet

Behold my latest toy! That’s right, I bought a guitar! As I told my wife, this is probably going to be as close to a mid-life crisis as I will ever have. Back in my long-haired youth, I played guitar and loved it. Somewhere in my early ’20’s, I got the idea that I would […]

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March 10, 2012 at 6:58 pm | Music | No comment

Not Quite a Revolution: Deux Ex: Human Revolution Review

Let’s get the history out of the way. The original Deus Ex game, published in 2000, was a flawed masterpiece, a revolutionary video game that took the context of a first-person shooter game and added elements of role-playing games, open world sandboxes and cinematic narrative to create a truly original game. It’s 2003 sequel, Deus […]

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January 21, 2012 at 7:46 pm | Video Games | No comment

Wear the Black: Why Wikipedia is Going Dark

Hopefully, you’ve heard the news about Wikipedia. Today, January 18th, Wikpedia is taking its entire Internet encyclopedia offline in protest of the two Congressional bills worming their way through the festering guts of our crumbling legislative body: the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate. Both bills are […]

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January 18, 2012 at 3:04 pm | Politics | No comment

Up the Rebellion: The Windup Girl Book Review

At its heart, The Windup Girl is a book about rebellion. In subtle and some not so subtle ways, everything and everyone involved is in some way rebelling against something else. The titular character rebels against the genetic programming that compels her to be subservient to humans. The foreign calorie companies attempting to strike up […]

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January 17, 2012 at 8:25 pm | Books | No comment

Tales from the Bridge Chronicles Released!

It’s been a bit longer coming than I thought, but I’m happy to announce that the eBook-only short story collection, Tales from the Bridge Chronicles, Volume 1 has been released! The collection is a compilation of the short stories that I’ve released on the Tales site (found here), as well as short stories that have been published […]

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January 2, 2012 at 6:54 pm | Books | No comment

A Long Road: Altered Carbon Book Review

My initial thoughts on Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon were that the book would be right up my alley. A noir-inspired cyberpunk action story with a hardassed protagonist? What more could I ask for? The book is full of interesting ideas about a futuristic society where death is a temporary condition so long as your stack […]

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December 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm | Books | No comment

How Citizens United Creates Consequence-Free Lying

I’ve written before about the atrocity that is the Citizens United decision. You know the one, the Supreme Court decision that equated political advertising dollars with free speech, granting corporations the same free speech rights as individuals. I’d like to give you an example of how this decision is starting to poison the already poisoned […]

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November 7, 2011 at 11:08 pm | Politics | No comment

High Def Nothingness: Zero History by William Gibson Book Review

I am a huge fan of William Gibson’s work. His Sprawl and Bridge trilogies have influenced my work a great deal, as anyone who has read my novels can attest. Moving his Bigend novels back to present day, of which Zero History is the third in the series, sounds like a bigger deal than it […]

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October 22, 2011 at 5:32 pm | Books | No comment

Cliche Jamboree: American Horror Story TV Review

I have never watched an episode of Glee, I’m proud to say, nor was I a fan of the FX drama Nip/Tuck. The new FX horror drama from the creators of both those shows, American Horror Story, began this week. The show has been heavily promoted on the network and elsewhere, with much of the […]

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October 8, 2011 at 6:42 pm | Movies & TV | No comment

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