Santa Cruz, Kenneth Turan
Turns out Kenny’s reading from Never Coming To A Theater Near You was on Tuesday, not Monday. Here's a picture of Kenny and me, taken by his wife Patty Williams, a professional photographer (it shows)....
View ArticleEarly Spring in California
Back in 1978 we lived in Heidelberg for two years, and when we came home to pick up our stuff from a warehouse in Louisville, we heard the Beatles song, “Back in the USSR” on the radio in a Winn-Dixie...
View ArticleA Visit to the Mirrorbrane (in Santa Cruz)
Walking down the street, I was thinking, “What really do hypothetical thousand-times-as-capacious brain-like systems have that I don't have, walking down this street looking at the trees?” They can...
View Article“What Is Gnarl?” Video. Big Sur.
I was at Andrew Molera State Park and Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur the last couple of days. I put together some videos that I shot there this time plus some Big Sur video from two years ago to make an...
View ArticleResurgo. “Offer Fan” in JIM AND THE FLIMS
Yesterday I was out a favorite spot on Four Mile Beach, north of Santa Cruz. That forest fire they had inland has pretty much died down. I did a little routine that I’ve often done while working on a...
View ArticleFantasy and/or Science Fiction
This’ll be my last post of 2012. Lots of family coming to town, hooray. We had a festive lunch at the Fairmont hotel in SF this weekend. Dig the Xmas tree reflected in the grand piano. “Why can’t it...
View ArticleFull Summer. Home Stretch of THE BIG AHA.
I’m on the home stretch of my novel The Big Aha. Getting great support from my Kickstarter backers. Very stoked. I’ve been averaging 300 words a day for about a year, which means I’m up to 95,000...
View ArticleDelirium and “Stratocast.”
So last week I was in the hospital for hip surgery for three nights. I was really sad and anxious about going in there. Infection in my hip joint and they took out all the hardware, and I’ll be on...
View ArticleWriting “Return to the Hollow Earth”
I can’t quite remember where I first heard about the concept of the Hollow Earth. Early on, I read Jules Verne’s 1864 Journey to the Center of the Earth—I was a huge fan of Verne—but even as a boy I...
View ArticleRereading Gibson’s THE PERIPHERAL. Thoughts on Writing.
I just spent a week rereading William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral. Third time through. Mellowed out, lying on the couch, reading it on my Kindle, and highlighting passages that I liked…a nice...
View ArticleThe Wolfram Physics Project
My friend Stephen Wolfram has come up with a new fundamental theory of physics. He’s been meaning to do it for years. He sent me an introductory sketch or project announcement, entitled “Finally We...
View ArticleCosmic Cliff
Still flipping out on clouds after Sweden. One of those full-on “glory” sunrises here in Los Gatos, with those rays…odd looking split in the middle. Uncool to paint such scenes, I suppose, but might...
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