Old Enough to Know Better

  If Samuel L. Jackson had played the character Dave in the movie 2001,  can you  imagine how that conversation would have gone with Hal?   ...

A comment on a FB thread about cherry-picking martial arts techniques brought this up. People want to get a neato move they can plug into ...

These days, I frequently order things online, and recently I had such a pleasant experience I want to mention it. I found some funky vitami...

My most serious gym-rat days were the year I turned forty. Had a decent home gym, free weights, multi-station machine, rower, stair-stepper,...

  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008 Heavy Movie Music In discussing The Day the Earth Stood Still and Bernard Herrmann's wonderful orche...

  Slept late, because the dream was so interesting I wanted to see where it was going. Scientists somehow came up with what was essentially ...

So, the martial art that I practice is usually referred to simply as “silat,” but it has a longer and more specific name: Pukulan Pentjak ...

  A t hread about this on a friend’s page. Rather than inflict it on his feed, I will offer a link here. I can remember hearing The Shadow o...

From time to time, I get some interest in the rights to do other media based on my novels. Generally, this goes to TV or screen rights, some...

Humor is one of the most subjective of concepts. That which will make one man laugh hysterically can make another cry; a knee-slapper can be...

Went to the weight room today, first time in fifteen months. Not as if I have been a complete slug the whole pandemic, but I know I have los...

  So, we had a couple of buddies over to lunch, and after some boiled shrimp and beer and hummus, we sat down to play music together. Just a...

  Writers sometimes get asked the question: Which of your books is your favorite? Some writers offer one up; some — include me mostly  here ...

     

  Speak ill if you will of Apple’s iOS system, iPhone and iPad and all, but when it comes to using a song for a ringtone? They would really ...