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Plugging The Plug and Play Life
Better late than never, eh? My latest novella, a strange little thing called The Plug and Play Life was published back in April. For no good reason I didn’t seem to be in a hurry to give it a lil’ … Continue reading
Gun Culture
There was a mass shooting the other day. You’ve probably heard about it. But then again, we might be thinking of different events. One of us might be thinking of the Navy Yard, where thirteen people died. The other might … Continue reading
Joshua Worden and the ATL sound
Yeah, I’m that guy who FB-befriends everyone with the same name as me. This is partially because I’m self-involved, and partially because I have a not-too-common last name. The upshot is that if your name is Worden, you’ll probably hear … Continue reading
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Murder culture
Mass murder stains American culture and bleeds over the American psyche. Americans detest the fact that we breed this sort of thing, so horribly uniquely. We’re terrified it’s our national identity. So we react just as crazily in the aftermath, … Continue reading
Repelling boarders: an author’s guide to literary piracy
Intellectual property theft, just by virtue of that thunderous phrase, somehow sounds worse than any other kind of theft. It suggests, accurately enough, that those lowdown scalawags are stealing nothing less than the very issue of your mind. Given the … Continue reading
I culture you: Proof of leadership
Jimmy Carter was a teetotaler. So was William Howard Taft. So was George W. Bush, and so was Adolf Hitler. On the other team, among the men who enjoyed a drink or three while they won wars and led powerful … Continue reading
RIP Neil Armstrong (Aug 5, 1930 – Aug 25, 2012)
A sad farewell with greatest possible respect to fellow Ohioan, Korean War veteran, Naval aviator, and immortally intrepid explorer, Neil Alden Armstrong. One unforgettable mission, a quarter-million trail-blazing miles, and a single quote which captivated the world are things for … Continue reading
London shines
The world has been asking, these last four years: how can the London games ever hope to compete with the Beijing pageantry of 2008? That Olympic-sized question has been answered at last, by way of a stunning three-hour opening ceremony directed … Continue reading
RIP Andy Griffith (June 1 1926 – July 3 2012)
Fondest possible farewell to Andrew Samuel Griffith, favorite North Carolina son and favorite fictional North Carolina sheriff. Stand-up comic, gospel singer, political activist. Not to mention actor, whose roles defined American television for decades. But he wasn’t just Sheriff Taylor … Continue reading
A novel in a month? Crazy talk!
November is National Novel Writing Month. More familiarly, it’s NaNoWriMo. That’s not merely a month of salutation to the idea of writing a novel…it’s actually writing one. In a month. NaNoWriMo has been around since 1999. This is my first … Continue reading
