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The Writing Isn’t The Hardest Part

WRITING A BOOK ISN’T INTIMIDATING! Formatting a book across multiple non-standard fucking e- and print platforms, each with their ever-changing proprietary issues, using an app that has its own proprietary issues that won’t play well with everyone is FRUSTRATINGLY Intimidating! This isn’t an issue that’s been going on for years, but for well over a decade and – like the ever more awkward…

My Nephew’s dog, Cool, gets “fixed” tomorrow. One of the workers at the vet sure as shit didn’t help matters with her glib attitude. My sister’s family got the dog as a pup from my nephew’s high school friend, whose own dog had her first and last litter. Cool got his name the way all pets do, it just seemed to fit. When they took Cool to get his first shots, the people at the Vet clinic said…

Pretending You’re An Atheist

At a restaurant back in 2007, a friend who I’d long known and only known as a Christian, regaled us all at the table with his secret confession: He was once a devout atheist. Atheism was his former belief and science was his faith and article of worship. Being the only other person at the table who was openly known to all as an atheist, I scoffed. “You were never an atheist, then.” I said. He…

The Two Sides of Todd McFarlane

Me at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con

First, there is the side of Todd McFarlane that Jim McLauchlin knows and has dealt with for decades,

NEWSARAMA

Now let me tell you what I know of Todd McFarlane from years of signings at comic cons and comic book stores.

He’s no prima donna and he waits.

As long as no one else has the table after him, as long as the store is open, as long as it isn’t a hassle…

r/AskReddit asked a question –

You run an inconvenience store, what do you sell?

My answer –

Welcome to Feo Amante’s NO HANDLES!

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Hi! I’m Feo Amante! I won the lottery and can afford to run a store that never makes a cent. This will be a tax write off for the next five years, saving me a small fortune compared to my already much larger fortune!

So at Feo Amante’s NO HANDLES!…

Unknown thousands dead thanks to fraudulent research and the MSM

How many are Dead because the D-Party propaganda sheets colluded to terrify people with their false narrative?   “Hydroxychloroquine rated ‘most effective’ coronavirus treatment, poll of doctors finds” – By Natalie O’Neill, April 2 NYPost   “Why today’s WH briefing was disturbing: presidential misinformation from the podium; dangerous and unconfirmed claims about hydroxychloroquine; gratuitous…

Facebook’s Skin Crawling “Community Standards”

Facebook deported me again. This time for offering a Remembrance of my late bud and FB friend, Award winning Science Fiction author, Mike Resnick, on today, his birthday. Facebook Community Standards are sickening. https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/01/mike-resnick-dead/

Last Night the Storm Claimed One of Us

There are two more lost in the night, the storm is upon us, and no one knows if they can be rescued.

How Spider-Man Always Gets Away

  Kingpin: “Nothing can save you Now!” Spider-Man: “Well, DUH!  The totality of oblivion can’t save anything at any point in time!” Kingpin: “Oh no you don’t! You! Damn it! You… you KNOW  what I meant!” Spider-Man: “Obviously! I just defined it! But do you? Your threat is nebulous and YOU know it. You call yourself a Mastermind?” Kingpin (gasping in frustrated anger): “Let… DAMN! Let him go.” Schemer:

Not For The First Time I Realize…

Children Filter Religion … Differently

My young niece tells me that Jesus is taller than everyone else. He’s the tallest person in the world, bigger than the house we’re in, even though he’s invisibly sitting on the couch next to us.

Me: “How does he do that?” Niece: “I don’t know, but he can do all kinds of weird stuff.” Me: “Oh.” My Niece looks at me. I look at her. Niece: “It’s true.” Me: “Okay.” N…

Dealing With Depression When You’re Not An Expert

Depressed Friend: “I don’t know what to do.”

Me: “Me neither, but here’s a puppy.”

Depressed Friend: “Wow. …Aw, Thanks, man!”

Friend: “Hey, can I have a puppy too?”

Me: “Are you depressed?”

Friend: “No.”

Me: “Then Fuck You.”

THE END

As for me, I already have a puppy, but you can buy my book, PERPETUAL BULLET: A Science Fiction Collection It’s a veritable trove of previously published Science…

How to Restore our Oceans with Biotechnology | Jeanny Yao & Miranda Wang | TEDxSMU



SATIRE / LAMPOON

Jeanny Yao and Miranda Wang enter their College Dean’s office.

Dean Yeager: “Ah! The jewels of our department! Good morning, Geniuses!”

Jeanny Yao: “Ye-ah. Good morning, Dean. Ahem. Uh… you know that plastic eating bacteria we invented?”

Dean Yeager (rolls his eyes in good humor): “Of course.…

Leni Riefenstahl’s Birthday – or – How Hitler Rose to Power.

Today is Leni Riefenstahl’s birthday.

At Facebook, I wrote how Adolf Hitler looked to early 20th Century people, prior to attacking Poland. I wrote about why Europe eagerly rolled over for him 1934 to 1939.

I also referenced legitimate, documented sources.

Facebook says that goes against their “Community Standards.”

Exposing how Adolf Hitler rose to power goes against Facebook’s Community…

The Great Filter Is Pessimism, Not Reality

Nicely arranged, yet the entirety of the “Great Filter” scenarios, are narrow and pretentious to say the least.   The most pretentious being that any and all life in the universe is a danger to us.   The second being that all life, once advanced enough, is an inevitable danger to itself.   Both of these are based on opinion and not…

When I am the last man on earth, one day I will be walking through its ruins.

And on this day a pack of wild dogs will approach me and the leader will say,

Top Dog: “Huh! I knew I smelled a human! O-kay! Well human, there’s gonna be a lot of changes around here.” Me: “I’m hip, right?” Top Dog: “Yeah… starting with the new order of the world, us.” Pack Dogs: “Yeah!” “Yeah!” “Yeah!” “Yeah!” “Woof!”