The book(s) I’m working on: “Faraway Star” and “Wild Among the Moons.”
Here's a brief introduction to the book(s) I'm working on, a very old science fiction concept whose time may finally have come.
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The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.
Behind the Scenes: Mexico in World War II.
The Verge
The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.
Standing the test: “Somewhere In Time’s” romantic audacity.
Low battery: Technology seems to be running out of steam.
Interiors: Napoleon’s Bedroom, Grand Trianon Palace, Versailles.
The Outer Garden
My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
Anyone who publicly refutes paranoid conspiracy theories becomes a target of the paranoiacs themselves.
Historian vs. AI: The technology sucks and is basically a scam.
Nuclear war: The existential threat we don’t talk about.
Nothingburger: The 2025 JFK Assassination document dump.
Historic Painting: “Katharsis” by José Clemente Orozco, 1934.
Historic Photo: Native American ice-cutting crew in winter, 1880s.
Year’s end: The best of the Garden in 2024.
The Inner Garden
The book(s) I’m working on: “Faraway Star” and “Wild Among the Moons.”
Here's a brief introduction to the book(s) I'm working on, a very old science fiction concept whose time may finally have come.
Behind the Scenes: Mexico in World War II.
Behind the Scenes: The Bounty, a geographic history.
Behind the Scenes: 1981, Britain’s Awful Year.
Behind the Scenes: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Explained & Deconstructed.
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