I'm tripling up this week with various media that shaped my youth. These are all things that I loved as a child and in my teens. Each property in these lists profoundly affected me, and I can still feel many of the fingerprints smudged across my current creative…
Today I'm sitting in a coffee shop after my weekly trauma therapy group. Thoughts of kindness in all its various forms have been bouncing around in my head since I woke up this morning. Courtesy. Grace. Care. Gentleness. Compassion. As Patton Oswalt tells us, "It's…
It's a special two-for 10 for Tuesday this week. We're going to start with my top 10 nerdy gatherings and then I'll recount my best moments last week at LTUE. I'll go deeper into this this Friday on the Hardcore Fanboy Podcast.…
I'm writing the majority of this on my flight back to California after speaking at the Life, the Universe, and Everything Symposium. First, I want to shout out to my crew, Rook and Sable, for braving the elements and the long drive, bringing my books across three states…
With the popularity of the new print version of First Chosen I got a bunch of questions down at the Escondido Renaissance Faire about being a writer. The two most frequent being variations of: "Why do you write?" and "Where do you get your ideas?" I&…
Oof! Something, something... best-laid plans... something... mice and something or other. I'm in Utah for the Life, the Universe, and Everything Symposium. Getting here was relatively painless. TSA took less than 10 minutes to navigate. I had my row all to myself. I spent most of the flight…
In no particular order, these books or series served as the foundation of my life as a hardcore fanboy. 1 - Tom Sayer & Huckleberry Finn - I lump them together because they were the beginning of a series. (We don't talk about Tom Sawyer Abroad.) 2 -…
It's a chilly Monday morning. Outside, the sky is a bit overcast, but I can see places where the blue and the sunlight are working to burn through. To my right, I've glanced at the collection of journals from across my life. Some of them are…
First off, this year's calendar is live with all my events, classes, performances, and book releases. Check it out, and let me know where and when we're going to hang out. ScheduleWelcome to my schedule page. All times are Pacific Time. For a class-only schedule, go…
Over my life, I've had some pretty awesome interactions with people I've looked up to, or who are pretty famous. A couple of them happened even before I started my own journey into being a minor celebrity. Rather than give these moments any kind of order…
