Everything’s typed and ready to go, but: 1) I’m busy from now until Sunday night and 2) I want to end this on a Tuesday so I can have the maximum amount of time to get the next story started.

I freely admit it: I’m a fan of Phineas and Ferb, and the whole unmarried male thing puts me pretty far down their list of periphery demographics. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about the … Continue reading →

In celebration of Independence Day in my native Burkina Faso1, I’m taking this week off. The finale of Nathaniel Cannon and the Lost City of Pitu will land when I’m back. 1. *cough*

As nearly any of my friends would tell you, I’m possessed of a healthy1 ego. As large as my ego admittedly is, I know better than to pretend I’m better at this whole writing thing than I am. It would … Continue reading →

Happy weekend, dear readers! As I sit here watching the London 2012 opening ceremony and wondering if they’ll ever get around to mentioning the five hundred years of naval history to which Britain owes its very survival1. So far it’s … Continue reading →

Happy Bastille Day1! When you’ll be reading this, I’ll be out of town ogling old airplanes and shooting a variety of targets with rifles. I may have test-fired my trebuchet a second time, now with sufficient counterweight, but I’ll talk … Continue reading →

As I sit here preparing stuff for publication here over the next two weeks, I bring you two videos from Youtube. First, a classic swing piece, because this is where my mind almost instantly goes when I’m writing in this … Continue reading →

I’ve done some reshuffling of the category system here, so if you were subscribed to any feed beyond the Everything feed, it probably won’t work anymore. The Everything feed is probably the safest one to stick with going forward.

I hesitate to call it an open thread, since that implies my audience is neither tiny nor utterly disengaged, and according to Google Analytics, my audience is both tiny and disengaged. Anyway, since I’m writing this before the weekend actually … Continue reading →

Readers, I have been remiss in not saying anything here for the past three and a half months. Unfortunately, I can’t offer you any actual writing at the moment: We Sail Off To War is still in progress. It’s only … Continue reading →