I love traveling. Plop me in a foreign country with a map and a day or two of unscheduled time — there’s your true manifestation of contentment. But one cannot always be jetting around the universe, particularly when one spends 89% of one’s waking hours glued to a laptop and grumbling about how friggin slow [...]

I have a confession to make: Sometimes I write in a state of total rant. This is hardly a surprise to anyone who’s read this blog frequently. These rants are the definition of reactionary writing — that is, they are simply exhalations of pent-up emotion, and aren’t necessarily indicative of any careful logic or reasoning. [...]

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I hit the Fox Business studio yesterday to talk with Brian Sullivan about Obama’s plans for high speed rail. Just imagine if we could get around the U.S. without having to sit in some airport purgatory breathing re-processed air and downing earwax-flavored food. Yeah, I can’t really imagine it [...]

Behold today’s guest editor for The Infrastructurist. Look mom, aren’t you glad I did that whole law school thing?

“The Fourth Kind” is just the kind of joyless tragedy porn that I love to write about — lame, ineffective, and a total victim of its own hubris. Also this one really needed a big fat dose of The Tipping Point (possibly the only time you will ever see me write that phrase, or think [...]

It’s a good question. I get asked it all the time. Actually, what I get all the time is more like, “Ugh. You seriously write about horror movies? How can you WATCH those things – they’re so disgusting/stupid/puerile and clearly you are an inferior excuse for a human being for liking them.” (Ok so people [...]

Every once in a while I’ll read something that restores my faith that writers are important. Something that’s so true, so authentic, and so universal that it needed to be written, and read, by as many human beings as possible. This is that in a nutshell.
I listen to conversations. A lot. Hell, one of [...]

One of the problems with relying on Los Internets for your job is that things can disappear. Granted, stuff vanishes in tangible reality as well (just look at newspapers) but when your writing exists as coding in a series of tubes, it can evaporate before you even realize.
And so your work, which once existed, [...]

Yah change! Change is good! We like change! Oh who are we kidding — it scares us more than Sandra Bullock or bugs the size of trash cans. But it was long overdue in this case — and not just because I was using a pre-Colonial version of Wordpress.
So look around, see what you [...]

Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since that sad scrap of humanity has been mentioned on this blog.
UPDATE: The witty and smart Lindsay Robertson has the best [...]