Author Chow: Lomo Saltado
It’s been a while since I posted one of my Author Chow entries, dedicated to the premise that authors, like armies, require sustenance or they don’t do what they’re supposed to be doing.
A Little Inspiration
Monday Mashup: Toy Story and LOTR
I loved this mashup from the very moment I first saw it. What could be better than Buzz Lightyear confronting the Eye of Sauron…
Inspiration: Leaving Earth
This is a photo of Space Shuttle Endeavour on its way to rendezvous with the International Space Station, taken May 16, 2011 by a shuttle training aircraft. Endeavour is seen emerging from the clouds, although it is still well short of achieving orbit and below the height of the space station.
Classic Cover: Dune Messiah
This is a classic magazine cover from Analog SF magazine in 1965. It features art by the late Hugo-award-winning artist John Schoenherr, whose covers helped […]
Inspiration: Earthrise
Earthrise, compliments of NASA and Apollo 8, on December 24, 1968.
Spirit Rover: A 1-Page Story
This is a powerful one-page graphic story published by the XKCD webcomic. I’m guessing it came out some time in 2010 since that’s when the […]
Ashburn Wildlife Sighting
Long thought extinct, residents of Ashburn, VA, a suburb of Washington D.C., were stunned to find a lone mastodon roaming the streets during a recent […]
Family Heirloom
My maternal grandfather, Robert Hjort, was a Danish immigrant born in 1908. He came to the United States with his family when he was two […]
Virtual Vacation: Star Trek Enterprise
For this week’s virtual vacation, I took a tour of NCC-1701, the Enterprise, under the command of Captain Kirk. This is a picture snapped by […]
Monday Mashup: Times Person of the Year
Found this on the InterWeb and it tickled my fancy. This is Sauron from The Lord of the Rings…on the cover of Times magazine as […]