Out of Ambit
Psychology / psychiatry
The Eyes in the Peacock’s Tail
Once upon a time, the King of the Greek gods, Zeus, was getting ready to cheat on his wife one more time. His latest target was a beautiful mortal girl named Io, whose resistance he’d been wearing down by sending her a series of racy dreams of which he was the star. Having finally arrived on her doorstep [...]
Parousia delay (re-re-redux…)
I was going through Twitter this morning on the phone before getting out of bed, and suddenly started wondering what all the “rapture” stuff I was seeing was about. Normally when at home I don’t use US-based news sources much, finding them way too limited — mostly because of a tendency of such sources to ignore [...]
In the O RLY? Dep’t: Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids
Srsly. Now all we need to hear is that Hitler was somehow involved and we’ll have the perfect documentary pitch for The History Channel. (It could have made a good Stargate SG-1 script too, but unfortunately it’s a little late for that. See, the Goa’uld started experimenting with re-evolved saurians as hosts, but then the Ancients… [...]
”Crockefeller”: the story just keeps unfolding
(EDIT: Scroll down to the bottom of the posting for video of the August 11 press conference with Rockefeller / Gerhartsreiter’s attorney.) I’ve continued to follow the “Clark Rockefeller” / Christian Gerhartsreiter story over the past few days as it just keeps getting more convoluted, and as the subject’s apparent/alleged pathway between Germany and the USA [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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