Life
Nighthawk- Episode 3
This is a section from a WIP. I wrote it a few years ago but a comment by a friend of mine on FB resonated with a line from the character of Sergey at the end of Act 3. I don’t know if this is relevant these days but it Read more…
General
A Week
So…this has been a week. The protests continue to rage across the country. Houston had more than 60k march. Other big cities had similar turn outs. Then smaller marches and rallies happened this weekend. I attended a few local ones. And when a small white town like Friendswood, TX has Read more…
Life
Society is a Contract
Wow. A lot has happened in the past week. The US has surpassed 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. It’s now June. And the police brutally murdered a black man. But that’s not unusual. What is unusual is that it has precipitated protests, which have spread out nationwide and don’t show signs of Read more…
General
If you…
If you aren’t outraged by the murder of Ahmed Aubrey… If you think the lockdown needs to be lifted so you can get a haircut… If you support armed white men storming a government people but opposed black men kneeling at a football game… If you think carrying a gun Read more…
Life
Win at all Cost
I came across this meme on my Facebook feed recently. It’s a scene taken from the Mandalorian where the titular Mandalorian acts like a bad ass when surrounded by storm troopers. What it seems to be implying is that one dedicated conservative’s logic can stand up to a class room Read more…
Life
Changes
The world is undergoing a period of remarkable change right now. This global pandemic is right on track, historically. Famine and/or disease go hand in hand with most major changes throughout history. But what change are we undergoing now? There’s a lot of positives and negatives to consider. On the Read more…
Life
Money Over People
“No one reached out to me and said, ‘As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’ And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in,” he said. “Let’s get Read more…
General
Containment
When the early reports about Coronavirus came out, I didn’t pay much attention. We traveled to Disney World for a week in those early days and the extent of the thought was that if it were to spread around the world, Disney would be a great place to contract it. Read more…
Geekery
The Rest of Disney
Last week I talked about my experience at the new Star Wars land at Disney World. That was my big interest during the trip but I wanted to touch on a few other things that stood out my experience at the parks. Much of it was as I remember from Read more…