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• Book Review: So Good They Can’t Ignore You

  So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport This book bills itself as the antithesis of “What Color is Your Parachute.” It promotes the idea, as does Newport’s Studyhacks blog, that following your passion is bad advice. This is definitely a self-help book,… Continue reading »

• Here Birdy! Birdy!: How Not To Pick Up Women

  So this guy approached me in the local supermarket.  He was in his mid thirties or early forties, dressed casual but not sloppy, black, but not unattractive.  He said “excuse me” and asked me what my  name is.  We were on the far side of the store with the socks and make up and feminine… Continue reading »

• Book Review: The Gargoyle

  The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson As with many books, there were things I liked very much about this novel, and other things I didn’t care for at all. The strength of this novel is in its passion, not just of the characters for one another but of the narrator with language. The prose borders on… Continue reading »

• Faerie Killer: Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty All it took was a pair of bolt cutters on a padlock to get into the underground parking garage. The rows of “for lease” signs dotting the windows in most of the floors of the modest high-rise were a good sign, and Morales staked it out just to make sure there wasn’t an… Continue reading »

• Faerie Killer: Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Twenty-Nine   When the doors opened, everyone froze. The organist began to play a march that caused the guests to scramble to their feet. Vax seemed to have chosen the side with all the taller people on it, because he had to crane his neck to see. He saw James first, holding a woman’s… Continue reading »