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Author’s Note: I should have had this post ready for the 25th Commemoration of the 9/11 attacks on Friday, but I didn’t. Better late than never, I hope. Like a lot of Southern boys with a literary bent, I absolutely love New York City. Ever since I went there in the early 1990s to visit…
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No, you are not hallucinating. I am, indeed, lapping myself in terms of Friday Night Rock-Outs. No “real” posts last week. The reason is simple: I’ve been on vacation, visiting family in Pass Christian with my son, Connor. We had a great time, and I did some work on my new novel. But no blogging.…
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“Only the Young” is one of those great songs whose history is so complicated that even fans can’t quite keep it straight. Originally written by Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry and Neal Schon of Journey, it was first released by the great pop-rock band Scandal in 1984, when the band was fronted by Patty Smyth. Journey…
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Attention all book nerds!!! My great friend Margaret Luongo and I have made another book talk video, in which we reveal the various books we’ve each been reading instead of David Copperfield. Enjoy!
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Having once been an art student (well, a creative-writing student; close enough), I know from experience that the quickest way to start an argument among a bunch of art majors is to ask them what the definition of “real” art is. Similarly, the best way to start an argument among a bunch of cinephiles is…
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I know, I know. The world probably does not need another tribute to the late Dolly Parton, who passed away on Tuesday. There have been so many fine tributes already, penned by so many good people. But damn it, I have a few things to say myself. I enjoy telling people that my father was…
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When I was an English major at the University of Florida, one of the best classes I took was a Survey of Science Fiction Literature course. It covered a lot of famous American and British SF, some of which I had already read as a teenager and some of which were new to me. Looking…
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You can always tell if a classic rock-song was released in the early 1970s because it goes on and on and on. I mean, Freebird? Jessica? Stairway to Heaven? Are you kidding me? The legendary D.J. Wolfman Jack one joked that if he queued up three or four of these songs, he could go out…
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** SPOILERS BELOW ** Author’s Note: I was bemused by the recent outrage expressed by some very silly (and possibily racist) people regarding the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in Christopher Noland’s The Odyssey. That is, outrage regarding the casting of a non-white woman in a surrealist fantasy film that is, itself,…
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If there are two words dear to every sci-fi nerd’s heart, they are quantum and fractal. How many sci-fi tropes have been created over the past thirty years just by adding one of these words to the front of some other, more pedestrian word? “Quantum drive.” “Quantum torpedo.” “Fractal encryption.” “Fractal-verse.” So, when I stumbled…
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Ash Clifton, Writer 