The Piker Press publishes “Memoir (Poem for Bill)”

This is about an old grad school classmate/writer friend back in Long Beach years ago. Many thanks to the kind editors at The Piker Press for running this poem, simply titled "Memoir (Poem for Bill)." It's weird how and when we remember certain things... There's now a little section where you can see my bio …

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“The Liar Tweets Tonight”: A Song Parody

Considering everything that's going on these days and the fact that the person most responsible for this mess in the US is using nearly every waking minute of each day trying to shift blame to anyone else, anywhere, and accept no responsibility -- unless it's bullshit lies about positive stuff he claims he did -- …

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A Review of Fatal System Error

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal System Error is an absolutely scary as shit, totally frightening book about today’s hackers and their ties to the Russian mob and how billions of US dollars in terms …

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2014 in Review

At the end of the past two years, I believe, I've written about what took place during that year, so I'm doing so again. Here's the synopsis, as best my memory can recollect. In January, my mother celebrated her 84th birthday, so we spent a little time with her. The month was otherwise uneventful. In …

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Snippets of 2013

Last December 31st, I wrote an End of the Year Post where I wrote about highlights (and lowlights) of each month. In fact, I did so for the previous year as well. Well, obviously I didn't this year. However, I thought I'd take some time to write a few snippets about some things that happened …

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