21 June 08

Big Dog

It's a bit past its interwebs shelf-life, but footage of the quadruped robot known as Big Dog is worth a look if you missed it the first time...

23 June '08

Upcoming Pubs

It's a bit early for the announcement, but my Tobias Wolff Award-nominated short story The Love Life of Tigers will be appearing in the Spring '09 issue of the Bellingham Review...

12 July '08

Summer Speed

This is turning out to be the summer of badminton. I'm ridiculously competitive when it comes to badminton, which doesn't result in any sort of ego gratification. As my friend and sometimes-business mentor Harvey Bravman says: "You can't really say you kicked the shit out of someone on the badminton court..."

20 June '08

Bella Stander: Publicity Goddess

I initially scoffed when my former agent Marly Rusoff suggested I attend a publicity seminar for authors. My reasons for scoffing were fueled by ego and insecurity (sides of the same coin, of course)…

22 July '08

Eclectica, Attack of the Show

Two quick bits of news today: My travel essay The Not-So-Lonesome Highway is available on Eclectica, and next week I'll be posting an informal interview with media icons Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn...