Lancer Kind

Tierney O’Malley offered me the opportunity to guest blog at this great site called Wicked Thorn and Roses.  Between waves of flattery, I kept thinking that she had got me mixed with someone else.  Doesn’t she know the damage I’ve done to my own reputation through posting on my very own website?  Is she trying […]

Another billboard caught my eye.  The Quakers are at it again and this time they’ve got jet packs.  Aliens, robots, or puritans, whatever those Quakers really are, they’re coming out with products to make us go.  Where do they want us to go? Do they want us to commute to work?  Rocket fuel costs a […]

Does anyone know why Cylons must be referred to as toasters? Wouldn’t it be more humiliating to a sentient robot to be referred to as a curling iron? Or an electric toothbrush? I’m just saying… I have a toaster and I think it’s a pretty neat device! Just look at this splendid T-Fal feller right […]

I saw this billboard near the Seattle Post Intelligencer building (one of the local newspapers).  I don’t know what Quaker (the company) is thinking but here are some of my thoughts: The Quakers are the robots that Schwarzenegger warned us about in Terminator, and they are ready to take control. The aliens that came to […]

As a survivor of the Bush years, reading John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up was a roller coaster that climbed high into the “oh my God don’t they know that’s a bad idea,” and dove into chasms of sadness as the characters in the book struggled to survive. The Sheep Look Up is an advanced […]