When I was working at an oil company as a teenager, I thought it was the height of folly to have your business based upon the luck of finding an oil pocket. That's all it was. This nothing little oil company stumbled around Alaska and found the motherlode and became a top 5 global player. What became Atlantic Richfield, then Arco, and then BP Arco. We had pictures of the old skyscraper (Richfield Tower) in downtown LA. There were these... Read More
Doing well on Spell Talker. I've said many times I would make more $$$ if I wrote faster. That's the paradigm of self-publishing: crank out books and wallpaper the internet. But I just can't do it. As I sit around and let stories marinate in my subconscious, I always come up with hooks that, IMHO, make the product vastly better. There's a lot of happy accidents in writing if you have the time to allow for accidents. I had mentioned... Read More
Being a creative is a pretty hard life. I'd guess about three times a week, I look around and tell myself, "I'm living the dream." Because I have a strong suspicion, based on vast amounts of historical data, that I won't be able to maintain this lifestyle forever and I'll look back on these years fondly. I'm a member of SFWA. When people ask what it is, I generally say it's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy writing group that has George R. R.... Read More
YOUR ALASKAN MALAMUTE DOG SHANDAEL'S SASQUATCH IS 5 YEARS OLD TODAY! On behalf of AKC Reunite, we want to wish SHANDAEL'S SASQUATCH a Happy Birthday! Purebred show dogs have the breeder name in front. And I don't think they were particularly happy with "Sasquatch" as a name. Pretty weird it's been 5 years. It was damn hard for the first couple, when he was just a ball of muscle and fur and energy and didn't give a shit about doing... Read More
I used to love going to the movies. Los Angeles celebrates film like no other place. Back in the 90s I would frequent a little run-down revival house without AC and with cloth seats that would show 32mm film of classics. It was called the New Beverly and apparently a lot of people used to go there. I'd see celebs now and then, but probably didn't recognize a million or so. Tarantino eventually gave them a ton of cash to... Read More