When my dad died earlier this year and I began going through his things, I found box after box of pics from his time in the Air Force during the Vietnam war. I was particularly intrigued to see fire training pics from (now closed) Chanute AFB in Illinois. He loved firefighting, and I wish he’d been able to do that during his entire military career, … Continue reading Images from a more innocent time
In Back to the Future, Marty Mcfly terrorizes his dad with a tape of Eddie Van Halen making a bunch of crazy noise. The piece was taken from the score of a 1984 film called “The Wild Life,” which featured a score composed and performed by Eddie. It’s interesting to note that Both Lea Thompson and Eric Stoltz were later cast in BTTF, the latter … Continue reading Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan’s brain-melting guitar solo
I recently stumbled upon this souvenir photo from a Putt-Putt golf birthday party in lawton oklahoma circa… oh… ’89, I wanna say? I loved that place. I loved mini golf. I loved that the arcade had Dig Dug. Lots of good memories there. It’s been torn down now, of course. Replaced with a boring tan shopping center. Lives on inside of me, though. The kids … Continue reading Golfing Days
Facebook has been harassing my Trekker Things page and while I’ve got 8500 followers or so there, I have like, four on Twitter because I haven’t really done anything with the twitter page. Thinking I’ll simultaneously post to both, with some twitter only exclusive memes. Continue reading Hey, here’s some more Star Trek memes
This adventure-packed sci-fi novella takes place on Anshar, Galenia’s outermost colony world. It’s a desert wasteland ruled by ruthless crime lords and terrorized by nomadic cannibal tribes who wear the hides of their prey as clothing. Mad Max meets Star Wars meets Conan the Barbarian. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? Continue reading Anshar: Free today & tomorrow
From Trekker Things Continue reading More Star Trek memes that exceed the warp limit
The music of Van Halen is streamlined and precise, yet sloppy and a little rough around the edges. At its best, it rocks harder than most anything else, and yet it’s poppy, accessible, and so catchy I’ll still be air guitaring to it in 40 years. In other words, they discovered that “sweet spot” formula to rock superstardom. It’s the same one that was utilized … Continue reading Van Halen influences my writing.
A selection from Grave Concerns. Lieutenant Colson crouched against the wall and shoved off, propelling himself down the corridor towards the rec room. He glided in through the open door, breaking his momentum by grabbing onto the back of the chair where lieutenant-commander Alvarez sat watching sixty year-old reruns of The Big Bang Theory on the antique 16K television he’d brought with him from Earth … Continue reading Blood Moon
From my page Trekker Things Continue reading Yes, I’ve already made tons more Star Trek memes
If there’s one thing the vast majority of metalheads share a common distrust for, besides authority, it’s technology. Warnings against human integration with machines are so common in metal that I often don’t notice them. This morning, though, while listening to Black Sabbath’s Computer God, from their 1992 masterpiece Dehumanizer, the lyrics were so relevant to what’s going on now that I was taken aback. … Continue reading Robot ramblings
