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My book reviewed at Logical Misanthropy 1

My book reviewed at Logical Misanthropy

Ty over at Logical Misanthropy (great name!) gives a “mini-review” of Dusk Before the Dawn: A fascinating mixture of mysticism, nanotechnology and martial arts. The book reminded me a bit of King’s “The Stand,”...

bookrev: 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck 5

bookrev: 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck

A research paper and personal journal covering the possibility of a world consciousness and psyche evolution on-going, and building up to the near future. Daniel Pinchbeck covers a lot of ground in this sometimes...

bookrev: The Human, The Orchid and The Octopus by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein 3

bookrev: The Human, The Orchid and The Octopus by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein

My son is a well-read, well-informed world traveler at sixteen years old. His blank look when I told him I was reading an advanced copy of a new book by Jacques Cousteau and Susan...

Synchronicity, Daniel Pinchbeck and SF Signal 1

Synchronicity, Daniel Pinchbeck and SF Signal

From Wikipedia: Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. In order to be Synchronous, the events must be related to one...

I should be able to run a 5K, shouldn’t I??? 0

I should be able to run a 5K, shouldn’t I???

My industrious wife formed a team to walk in the Komen Race for the Cure in Houston October 6. The team name is “Komen Get It”….catchy, eh? Somehow (as usually happens) I got talked...

Congrats and best of luck to Wushu Kung-Fu Fed team 0

Congrats and best of luck to Wushu Kung-Fu Fed team

The team from the school where I take Taichi, Wushu Kung-Fu Federation, won the team trophy at the recent combined Houston International Martial Arts Championship and USAWKF National Championships. I’ve seen the trophy, but...

movrev: The Marine 0

movrev: The Marine

3 stars: The worst action movie with a collection of sci-fi movie extras It looked like a good formula: fight scenes, good sci-fi film extras moving over into a semi-martial movies (WWE?), gorgeous blonde...

Human Weapon on the History Channel 3

Human Weapon on the History Channel

The History Channel’s new show, Human Weapon, combines three things I enjoy: martial arts, history and physics. The show takes Jason Chambers, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter, and Bill Duff, a wrestler and former...

my book at The Bleep Store 0

my book at The Bleep Store

My novel, Dusk Before the Dawn, is now available at The Bleep Store. The Bleep Store is brought to you by the same folks who produced the classic movie, What the Bleep Do We...

One month of Taiji and five years of Karate under my belts 5

One month of Taiji and five years of Karate under my belts

My novel, Dusk Before the Dawn, has characters whose daily rituals involve martial arts training. My son and I trained and studied Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan (a Korean martial art) for five...