I think about Max Headroom a lot. I’m old enough to remember the first broadcast. I taped it on my dad’s VCR. We got a VCR years after all my friends. It was a big deal for us. My family never spent money, even if they had it. I always got the sense they were… Continue reading NOIR/CYBER Philosophy – Power, Privilege and Body Banks
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Welcome to 2024 – A To-Do List
OK, I will be completely blunt. The idea of creating a list of goals for the year outside of what has been defined in a professional capacity (i.e. 'the day job says you need to make x number of customer success plans and hold y number of meeting') has me in the following mood: Crow… Continue reading Welcome to 2024 – A To-Do List
It’s Always Noirvember in Our Hearts
It's November. Or, to my little on-line circle of cinema lovers, Noirvember. There's even a #Noirvemberchallenge out there on the Twitters. Today, I got name dropped by Christa Fucking Faust as we talked about our favorite cinematographers. (Yes, I'm a John Alton fanboy. There's a pantheon of great noir cinematographers including Alton, James Wong Howe,… Continue reading It’s Always Noirvember in Our Hearts
“It’s a bitter little world(con)” – Appearances at Chicon 8
I can officially announce I am a panel participant at Chicon 8: The World SF Conference. Here is my current schedule: You're seeing a lot of Noir in the panel description. To anyone who knows me, or has seen my twitter feed late Saturday nights, you can guess why. Wonder if, at this point,… Continue reading “It’s a bitter little world(con)” – Appearances at Chicon 8
Seasons of NOIR – Preorder Kindle Edition
Great news from the team at Zombies Need Brains! The anthology NOIR - featuring my hard-bitten urban fantasy journalism short story "Wolves and Cubs" - is now available for pre-order from Amazon Kindle: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3vkjdm2 You can also pre-order the paperback from ZNB direct. If you order a copy, please post on social media and… Continue reading Seasons of NOIR – Preorder Kindle Edition
August 11, Noon EDT – And Other Key Dates
What have I been doing for the month of July? I've been working on a short story for an upcoming anthology as part of ZNB's Kickstarter NOIR, SHATTERING THE GLASS SLIPPER, and BRAVE NEW WORLDS. The KS goes live on August 11. I've been asked by the editors to contribute a short story and spent… Continue reading August 11, Noon EDT – And Other Key Dates
Biomechanoid Blues 