The theme of this week’s blogs was “Friends on the Journey” or “Gifted Friends.” Each day’s post was dedicated to a different one of the friends I’ve met whose work overlaps with mine in some way. Talking to these guys or seeing what they’re up Read More …
Author: tdwise@saumag.edu
The Good Doctor’s Demons
Dr. Bruce Hennigan is a medical doctor who lives and works in Shreveport, Louisiana–and he writes books about demons. (He also took a trip to New Zealand and visited the Hobbit village from the Lord of the Rings movies, for which I’m jealous, but let’s stay Read More …
Mr. Mike’s Amazing Cartoons (or Lost in Space and Dreaming of Saturday Morning)
I met Mike Jones when we were both graduate students at Louisiana Tech. I was getting a DBA in Management with minors in Marketing and Industrial Psychology, and Mike was getting his MFA in Graphic Design. My dissertation had the riveting title An Analysis of Read More …
Friends on the Journey: Philip Wade-Chasing the Music
I’ve heard a quote from motivational speaker Wayne Dyer, “Don’t die with your music still in you.” I can’t think of anyone who takes Dr. Dyer’s advice to heart more than my long-time friend Philip Wade. At this writing, Philip is… 1) working on orchestrations Read More …
Friends on the Journey: Al Bohl, Tarzan, and Zanaan
Everybody needs friends to encourage them, and that kind of encouragement is particularly important in the rejection-prone world of the creative arts. During the years, I’ve spent trying to get my writing career up and running as a career, I’ve met a number of friends Read More …
Invasion: The Backlot Tour
One of the places I invented for Intrepid Force: Invasion was Heritage Studios in Hollywood. According to the story, it was one of the old Hollywood studios that one of the character’s great-uncles had revitalized back in the early 20th century. The backlot set was Read More …
Invasion: Titan and Me
It was January 14, 2004, and I was doing final edits on Intrepid Force: Invasion when the Huygens module dropped through the cold, cloudy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. On my way home from Orlando, I bought a newspaper and pulled over at a Read More …
Invasion: A.I. Gone Wrong
Professor Stephen Hawking and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk have both warned about the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence. Musk warned that A.I. could be “more dangerous than nukes” and “an existential threat.” Hawking was fearful that a machine with “full artificial intelligence” could “take Read More …
Invasion: Enjoying Armageddon?
My dad told me once about a conversation he had had with a coworker whose church had been going through a study of the end times. Apparently, the guest preacher had painted a pretty graphic picture of the Antichrist’s reign of terror and the horrors Read More …
Invasion: A Day in History
October 30, 2018 will mark the 80th anniversary of a momentous event. In the year 1938, terrifying creatures from the planet Mars fled their own dying world to invade earth. Their first cylinder crashed on a farm in Drover’s Mill, New Jersey. After shooting down Read More …