Let me open this with a simple statement. I love Live Music. I love going to shows and I love watching them on DVD and I like listening to the live shows on the stereo. I don't go to the live shows as much as I used to. What they charge for tickets is a part of...
Almost here, roaring in on the heels of 2006, 2007 looks to be a great year. January sees the first books from Sean Chercover and Marcus Sakey, both writing from the Chicago area. The books are both great. Richard Katz of Mystery One Books compares Chercover's book...
It's 5:00 am on the 23rd, two days away from Xmas. Stores are opening in an hour. 6:00 am until midnight, for people who didn't think to shop until now. It's corporate greed, but that's just my cynical side. Another part of me likes shopping at odd hours, the hours...
This morning, as I was getting ready to leave for work, Ruth and I were sitting at the desk in our office, the very desk I'm sitting at now. At a little after 8:00 am we heard a huge booming noise and the whole damn building shook. Ruth was on the phone and we both...
Everybody was doing it. They all did it and then they talked about doing it. They really liked it. They tried to convince me to do it too. More and more I would hear about how great it was. I avoided it, I stayed away from the people talking about it. I knew I...
Almost every convention or conference has panels. That means that a small group of people sit down and map out a chart of times and panelists to plug into said times. Add variables such as Author A won't be in until Saturday, Author B won't sit in the same room as...
