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Lightning Flash Non-Fiction: Writing; Dr. Who & March for Science; American Gods; YouTube Find


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I was desperately and futilely looking for a topic for this evening’s post but couldn’t think of anything. So I decided to go with news bits or, what I like to call, lightning flash non-fiction (or even Lightning News Flashes). I call them that because they are very brief news flashes. Although I don’t believe in depending on a brief news story over full coverage of an event, both myself and you readers out there are short on time and I’m not a full-time news journalist. So I don’t rob you of the full story like too many so-called news outlets do just to attract an audience to make profit, I put the link to the full, or at least fuller, story in each flash. Just click on the link and you are there in a, uh, flash (provided you don’t have a slow internet connection). And so here they are:

Writing Project Updates: I finally finished copying and pasting the text from my manuscript of “Circa Sixty Years Dead” to the template for the print edition.  However, in order to meet Amazon’s 24-page minimum, I now need to insert some ads of my past work. Also, last night, I reached just over 29,000 words of a 30,000-word goal writing my first novella! That is, my first that I haven’t abandoned.

Doctor Who Joins theMarch for Science: Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi, who currently plays the series’ title character, participated in this weekend’s March for Science, according to io9.com. The March is a global movement against the Trump administration’s denial of climate change.

American GodsTV Premiere and Comic Release: This TV series based on Neil Gaiman’s best-selling book starts April 30th! Sadly, yours truly’s cable doesn’t get Starz, the network that will be airing the series. He’ll have to wait until some generous patron donates a copy of the series to his local library. Or, if it’s really as good as they anticipate, just buy it on DVD. Also, an American Gods comic book is already out.

YouTube Sci Fi-nd: Yours truly was searching YouTube for a vintage Saturday Morning show to watch this morning (because he hates the majority of today’s kids programming since it seems to not really be for kids). And in his cyber video quest he found Big Foot and Wild Boy. This half-hour sci fi series was part of the Krofft Supershow of the ‘70s when glitter rock (a.k.a. glam rock), disco and Bigfoot were at their most high. Yes, it’s corny, but a good B-rated kind of corny.  



Part One of a Two Part Debut episode of  the 1970s' Bigfoot and Wild Boy

And so there’s your pop culture news in lightning flashes. Tune in next week for, hopefully, a bigger story of what’s going on in the writing world of sci fi and fantasy.


Until then . . .  
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