Old Habits Die Hard

Author's Note: For those of you who may be wondering how a man this old and wretched can possibly take care of his 81-year-old mother, please be advised that I used several photo editing effects, including special real-time lighting, photo shop lighting effects and high contrast effects, just to make myself look a lot older and more hideous-looking than I really am. I did it just for fun, just for the hell of it, and to make people laugh and for no other reason. I hope it didn't make you hurl.

For instance, my hands look like they belong to ol' Nosferatu but I'm actually a lot healthier looking than this flash image suggests. I wanted to look hideous and two steps away from the morgue. I couldn't care less about how I look in a video or a Flash image as long as I look mildly to disturbingly entertaining. Just by being online one undergoes such an instant removal of one's dignity and privacy that human foibles like vanity and pride and human virtues like commonsense and modesty are not far behind when the casualties of cyber war are finally tallied.

So, that's right, I wanted to look awful in this post so it would appear that I'd been partying for two days instead of just using props for a couple of minutes. The visual result made me laugh like hell so I posted it here and on two other blogs. I always say "If you can't laugh at yourself, what the hell good are you?" Hope you got a kick out of this madcap bullshit and not a scary start. Thanks.

Author Goes Missing

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Science Fiction for Thinkers Shirts: The Video

Making A Difference

Sometimes when you think you're making a positive difference in the world you find out that you're not making any difference at all.

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Evermore: the Evermore Trilogy begins

Why Me?

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Visit Science Ficion for Thinkers.com Today

My official website has a cool new feature for 2010. My little "cyber home away from home" now has one-click links on the Home page that instantly translate Science Fiction for Thinkers.com from English into Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, French and German. I had to delete the link to Chinese because some browsers wouldn't display the Simplified Chinese characters. But there is another link to an online Google Site Translator that can translate my website into many other languages, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

So, go ahead. Visit Science Fiction for Thinkers.com today.

Your world may never look the same.

Author's Update, 03-01-14: No good deed ever goes unpunished. In December 2013 I had to remove all the language translation links from my website except the main Google Translator with the drop-down box that lets you choose what Google is offering. The other tools either didn't work anymore or became hidden redirects to other Google content. I tried to make my content available to as many people on the planet as I could. But, I 'm a fool no more.

Author's Update, 12-26-10: I had to remove the one-click links that translate my website into Chinese, Korean and Japanese because I found out that these links would not display properly with the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox worked fine but not IE. However, you can still translate my website into Chinese, Korean and Japanese by clicking on either one of the two links that allow you to choose your desired language. Thanks.

The Self-Published Author

Authors who self-publish are often those who have been overlooked or simply ignored by the conglomerate-owned publishing houses that control most of what the world reads today. The annual flood of manuscripts, winnowed by agents and editors into the market-driven products found on the shelves of major booksellers, unfortunately drowns out many new and inspired voices that ought to be heard.

Self-publishing doesn’t mean that an author has nothing worthwhile to contribute to the world of literature or to the world culture. It simply means that an author has undertaken a bold new initiative in his or her quest to establish a following, a readership that will make the effort of writing a worthwhile endeavor, after all.