I’ve always found red dwarf stars fascinating. With all the initial focus on the G class sun-like stars in the search for life, the long-lived and numerous red dwarfs seemed to have an enticing promise. Most of them are too dim to be seen with the naked eye – adding to their mystery. It is... Continue Reading →

So, sometime last week, Sarah found this page of alleged advice to writers, produced by someone who is not a writer. The list of egregious faults in said page is truly mind-boggling, and I'm reliably informed that members of the Hoyt Collective invented new forms of swearing due to reading this. So don't come whining... Continue Reading →

There comes a time in the affairs of men – and women too.  PARTICULARLY women – when you find an object so wonderful, so resplendent, so … perfect, that even the most honest of us can’t help but say “oh, I want to steal that.” If the object in question is an emerald at the... Continue Reading →

I will be back with a post after lunch. I forgot a doctor's appointment this morning for my mother and have to leave the house in just a few minutes. I will, in the words of the Terminator, be back.

I come from two long lines of stiff-necked bastards, who fitted in to the established order the way Godzilla fits into the Bolshoi Ballet troupe (in a tutu, naturally), which is why my ancestors tended to go (mostly by their own volition) as far as possible from those who might like them to bow and... Continue Reading →