Monday, June 18, 2018

CONFIRMATION COVER REVEAL!


7/16/18 The time of...CONFIRMATION. Less than one month now and my new novel is available!

Saturday, June 16, 2018

Hail Satan! Lucifer Returns!


OK, so I feel like digressing now and again, writing about some of my favorite TV shows and films. And my very favorite, just for its audacious premise, is FOX's - or formerly FOX's - "Lucifer." The devil himself as a crime-fighting hero? I think it's probably one of the best high-concept ideas that was ever on television. I had been meaning to read the Neil Gaiman graphic novels the show is based on and I think I will get around to it very soon. Perhaps while I wait for "Lucifer" to return on Netflix.

Fox had axed "Lucifer" a month ago, but the show's devoted fans started a #SaveLucifer social media campaign immediately. I did my part in retweeting it, of course, and now I'm ecstatic to see that Netflix just stepped in and saved the show. Read an article about it right here. 

It does keep raising interesting questions about the validity of the TV ratings system and how best to gage audience preferences in the era of new media technologies. Or whether science fiction and fantasy shows should even be attempted on the four main broadcast networks. Sci fi and fantasy have been thriving on cable and streaming services for years now, so perhaps all future productions like this that think way outside of the box and past the stale old lineup of the usual cop shows, lawyer, shows, doctor shows, and sitcoms should head straight for cable and streaming.

But now I'm just excited to see the devil back on TV!

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Please let this be a joke! Please let this be a joke!


Hmm...so a friend of mine recently shared this link to a story about the latest in Flat Earth thinking and Flat Earth conspiracy theorizing. Apparently the flat Earth model is not enough to accommodate Australia. The giant pancake flying through space - or whichever model whatever group of Flat Earthers choose to believe in - would not be big enough to hold the Australian land mass. Thus we get this conspiracy theory that Australia is really an invention by the great global - pun intended - conspiracy. So Australia does not exist, so say these yo yos. Got that? Australia has been invented by NASA and all the people who claim to be from there are actors all in league with the conspiracy and just pretending.

Oh, boy! Need we say more? Life in the 21st century.

This is almost as wonderfully deranged as the conspiracy theory about Finland not existing. Yup, I just ran across this the other day. Check out this link to the story. Finland is really a Russian/Japanese hoax concocted after World War II.

"But wait!" you might say. "So what about all the hundreds of years' worth of recorded history referring to Finland? How about all the people who've been to Finland? Or the ones who claim to be from there? Or couldn't you just get on a plane or a ship and just travel to Finland?"

Recorded history? Recorded by whom? "They" can make up the fake books! In the hidden printing plants of the Illuminati and the Bilderbergers.

People from Finland? Actors! Just like the Parkland and Sandy Hook crisis actors.

Flying or sailing to Finland? The airlines and cruise ship companies - all in on the conspiracy - are actually taking you to Sweden where an army of Swedish actors are then pretending to be Fins.

Ah, the great derangement of the 21st century. This makes my job of deprogramming college kids who are open minded to garbage like this even more...well, at least colorful.