RAZORED ZEN

Been reading a lot of westerns lately. Here are some capsule reviews. Outlaw Ranger , by James Reasoner: G. W. Braddock is a man of p...

I haven’t talked much about writing here lately, but I have been doing some. For fiction, I’ve had some problems finishing things. I’ve sta...

I wrote the following poem a few weeks ago now, but lest anyone be concerned, it does not reflect my current feelings. It was me on my comm...

Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon typically associated with dream sleep. Normally, one is paralyzed during dream sleep to keep you from acting...

I picked up this meme over at Broken Bullhorn . It's supposed to be a snapshot of your personal history with music, I think. I just did ...

Spawn of Dyscrasia , by S.E. Lindberg, IGNIS Publishing LLC, Dyscrasia Fiction ™  235 pages. Front cover by Ken Kelly. Well, I’m im...

Metallica: This Monster Lives , the inside story of Some Kind of Monster , the documentary movie. Written by Joe Berlinger (the filmmaker) ...

I'm afraid I didn't care much for this one. As the first in a series of WWII books told from the German point of view, it sounded...

I've known people who have told me that they possess a "stillness" of mind. They say they can sit and just "be," wit...

Just to note, I start back to school tomorrow. So at least for a while I won't be visiting blogs quite as regularly as I have during the...

  After the disappointment at the bookstore that had closed 20 minutes before we got there, we drove into the town of Ellsworth, Maine to l...

While on our recent “hiatus” from social media, Lana and I went to Maine. We stayed at a house kindly lent to us by some blog friends of La...

Starting tomorrow, I’m going to be taking about a week off the blog and generally off the internet. I’ll be checking email periodically but...

I was looking through some old files when I found the following poem. I'd largely forgotten about it. It was published way back in 1992...

Something good to post about. Rachel Olivier has put up a very fine review of Under the Ember Star over at her blog . Thanks to Rachel for ...

Promotion of one's creative works is just outright hell. It goes against my nature to act like a salesman, but if you don't let peo...

All the Way From: Republicans versus Democrats Liberals versus Conservatives Theists versus Atheists Rural versus Urban Rich versus Poo...

OK, here are the quotes again, with the identification and my comments in parentheses.  #1. "Before them all came the giant form o...

All of the quotes below feature the character of Conan, but only one was actually written by Robert E. Howard. Any guesses as to which? Any...

I’ve mentioned before how much I love my nightmares. Well, I had a different kind of nightmare last night, one that I was sad to wake up fr...