Pillow Fights and Couch Forts

Pillow Fights and Couch Forts

The world is stealing my ideas. Okay, technically I didn’t invent the Professional Pillow Fight League, but it does sound exactly like the sort of nonsense I would put in one of my stories, right? In previous novels, I came up with the Future Carnies of America,...
A Better Day Job

A Better Day Job

French physicists have more fun than you and I. You see, they’re not burdened by the mundane pursuits of other physicists. Instead of trying to find new energy sources, applying quantum mechanics to daily life, or solving space travel, they are hard at work...
Renovation Probation

Renovation Probation

I’m feeling discombobulated. In fact, our whole house is discombobulated. My dog is stressed. My wife is restless. And everything is piled in corners. The US Department of Home Renovation forced us at gunpoint to rip out our carpet and replace it. I bet you...
The Big Potato

The Big Potato

Put Cyprus on your list of Must Visit Places. I know I have, now that I’ve learned they have a monument to rival the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It’s called The Big Potato. That’s not a typo. The town of Xylophagou (also not a typo)...
Death Cooties & Alluvial Deposits

Death Cooties & Alluvial Deposits

A while back, I proposed that we needed to rename COVID. I felt “Mandalorian Death Cooties” was a much better title. It sounds exotic and menacing. COVID sounds like either the rec center at a small private college or the answer to some calculus question I...