Road Trip: Trains, Wines, & Monticello
This is the final part in a series about my road trip in June 2016: Thursday: Train ride through the Smokies. A coworker, Sandy, had heard of a steam train we could ride through...
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The Mike Adams “Universe”
When I first wrote my meta-novel Reunion at University Avenue, whose plot was about the backlash against the satire I was not funny enough to actually write, I did not think of it as...
Goals for 2016
2015 was a surprisingly good year for me. I banished my student loans, I got to see London and Las Vegas for the first times ever, reconnected with some family, and released a short...
2015 Retrospective
All in all, 2015 was quite eventful for me, and very little of it was bad. Since this is the time of year where all of humanity takes a moment to be a bit...
Shaken, Not Stirred
“Spectre,” the latest entry in the Bond film franchise, is an overly-long series of somewhat random acts and set pieces and mostly a disappointment. I won’t spoil the plot too much here, but here’s...
Back to the Future
We’ve done it. We’ve all traveled back to the future… to October 21, 2015. On this day, Biff Tannen pulled a sports almanac out of the trash, committed grand theft auto on a 30-year-old...
Birthdays and Family
Note: the title image is of me when I was little, sitting in the lap of my grandfather, James C. Kerns. Most of my family’s birthdays occur in a six week span from mid-July to the...