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- RT @thedears: From M. A. L. "You're all invited to @masstolight Pretty soon I'll play a track. Thanks" 1 week ago
- Just saw a dude with a unicycle. This neighbourhood is SO OVER. #parkex 1 week ago
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- @thecbp Aww...thanks for remembering your favourite d-list client! #mothersday 1 week ago
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- Rejected Album Title 16: "Home-Slice Under House Arrest." 18 hours ago
- Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock youtu.be/9lDCYjb8RHk 3 days ago
- RT @SuperStripers: Day 2 of The Dears' 'Lost In The Plot' running in my head. Makes a change from the Benny Hill theme. 4 days ago
- Rejected Album Title 15: "No Crack Left" 4 days ago
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Tag Archives: science fiction
ALONE (short story)
I’m pleased to release a new short story for your reading pleasure on these brief Fall afternoons. What is this story, ALONE, all about? Two marooned astronauts cope with isolation, existentialism and artificial intelligence in this romantic tragedy. I’ve been … Continue reading
Better Late Than Never
I promised a new story last week — a deadline I completely failed to meet. I hope you will forgive me. This story, entitled “After All,” was written with a very moderate audience in mind. I had initially written it … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Writing
Tagged after all, elderly, fiction, helper robots, podcast, retirement, robots, science fiction, sfici
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FLASH FICTION (1)
As I was writing this piece of fiction, I was in tears. It was meant to me the culmination of a short story, the tender moment that ends it all. But in the meanwhile, that short story (d)evolved into something … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Writing
Tagged creative writing, flash fiction, micro-story, microfiction, postcard fiction, science fiction, scribd, short short, short short story, sudden fiction, Writing
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Thing to Read: #DeathToWisdom
As printed in issue Matrix #91: Mixtape. The fall of modern culture: #DeathToWisdom © 2011-2012 all rights reserved
Posted in Life, Music Industry, Recording, TV, Writing
Tagged free reading, free writing, matrix, modern culture, science fiction, scribd
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Me Party
I spent the latter half of 2011 with my head out of the music industry cloud. I’ve been luxuriating in a stress-free world of science fiction and artificial intelligence. I’ve been reading and writing more than anything else. But then … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged marketing, music, popular music, rant, reading, recording, science fiction, Writing
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Why?
This month I started an online course in Artificial Intelligence. I also recently met, quite randomly at a bar, a gentleman much more technically minded than myself, who is also taking the course. He asked me recently: I’m curious, what’s … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, Life, Music Industry, The Dears, Writing
Tagged ai-class, artificial intelligence, learning, mathematics, robotics, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, university
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The First Short Story
Last night I published a short story called Final Fridays <– read it by clicking on the link. It's very short, and also there is a podcast of me reading the story that Murray helped me record. It's my first … Continue reading


