Sunday night on 550 KFYI in Phoenix was “End of the World Night.” I had Michael Panzner, Jim Kunstler and James Wesley, Rawles on the show. Here are all three in two one hour podcasts.

 

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Not really.

Read Kim Stanley Robinson’s “40 Days of Rain” trilogy, about the advance of climate change. In the second installment, “50 Degrees Below,” DC and the Eastern Seaboard is locked in a massive snow and ice storm event.



Thanks for listening to me on 550 KFYI. Had a great time. Thanks as well to my guests, who deserve a hand for taking time out of their Superbowl Sunday to be on the show. Here are the links to the sites mentioned on the show…

Doug Little’s ArmedPersonalDefense.com is the best way I know of, to get the kind of training you need to protect yourself in dangerous situations. APDI offers CCW (Carrying a Concealed Weapon) certification, a must if you wish to carry a gun, but don’t want to openly do so. As Jim Rawles said on the show, Arizona is an open carry state, meaning you can carry a gun without a permit as long as its visible. To carry concealed however, you must have a special permit issued by the Department of Public Safety. Doug can help you with that.

Jim Kunstler’s Website – Update weekly every Monday.

Michael Panzner’s sites, Financial Armageddon and When Giants Fail.

Jim Rawles’ site Survivalblog.com has everything you need to prepare!

Didn’t get to 50K words during November. Got to about 35K, and I’m pretty happy with that. So much to do at work kept me from the daily goals, but all good. I’ll finish this one.

And then there’s always next November!

I’ve posted a longer excerpt at the link above. Remember…First draft.

And I’m on target!

5,005 (though the NaNoWriMo wordcount validator reports slightly less) words of The Sabra written. Going well, so far.

Here’s the synopsis:

The Sabra introduces Detective Michael Gilligan, who has moved from Chicago to his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona to join the Phoenix Police Department’s new Special Investigations Team, working on cases that may have ties to terrorism.

A former U.S. Navy Seal, Gilligan joined the force after Desert Storm and spent 15 years in the Chicago Police Department before circumstances, both personal and professional forced him to leave that city and the Department. Gilligan has found a place in this new organization because he has the investigative experience and tactical skills required for the job, but what his superiors don’t know, is that his interest in anti-terrorist work goes beyond law enforcement. Despite his Irish surname, Gilligan is Jewish, and is driven by events in his past that complicate his life as a Police Officer.

When the sole survivor of a group of illegal immigrants abandoned in a closed tractor trailer outside of Phoenix turns out to be a Saudi citizen with known ties to al-Qaeda, Gilligan and his new team find themselves in a dangerous position. As they begin to unravel a mystery that involves the smuggling of terrorists into this country, SIT finds itself caught between international terrorists who may be in the process of executing “The American Hiroshima,” the FBI, that doesn’t want local law enforcement anywhere near their investigation, and an American intelligence service that no one’s heard of, but may be trying to help al-Qaeda commit the single most deadly act of terrorism in history.

It’s started!

Once a year, thousands of would-be novelists try to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. It’s a difficult task, and few complete it, but that few become more every year.

I’ve done NANOWRIMO twice, but haven’t “won” or finished my 50,000 words yet. This year, I’ve promised myself I would, and by the time December gets here, my first draft of The Sabra will be finished (or at least at the 50,000 word mark.

Here’s the opening, an excerpt, the first 886 words of my entry this year:

My favorite fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, is about to be played by Robert Downey, Jr.

The trailer looks fantastic, and very much in the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original works. The dour, somewhat sedentary Holmes usually depicted on film (especially the WWII era anti-Nazi Basil Rathbone Holmes) isn’t at all what I’ve imagined the great detective to be. TV’s reimagined Holmes, Dr. Gregory House is much more the brilliant, opiate-addicted musician (get it, House, Holmes?) than any other on-screen rendition.

Jude Law looks to be a good Wilson…er, Watson, too.

This looks GREAT.

Love this.

100 old computer images at the Obsolete Technology Website.

Hmm…Let’s see. Which of these did I have?

Christmas Music and starting the show in Chicago – Recent coverage:

It’s Beginning to Sound Like Christmas A Lot Earlier

WLIT-FM Makes the Switch…To Gossett in Afternoons

Go-Go Gossett