SANTA CLARITA — A father who has struggled with his teenage daughter’s addiction to social media has created a web site to compete with YouTube and TikTok and that he claims will increase the intelligence of viewers. Idris Frank, a… Read More ›
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Music maker becomes social shaker
Review: Song of Kitaba Mark Everglade, 252 pages Revolutions are messy. They are not, as often depicted in fiction, neatly conceived tales with pre-ordained plots that follow an assured path to victory. In real life, revolutions are conceived in struggle,… Read More ›
Persona Cracked: Mark Everglade
Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Mark Everglade, is the pen name of an author of three science-fiction novels, Hemispheres, Song of Kitaba, and the forthcoming, Inertia,… Read More ›
Persona Cracked: Joseph Hurtgen
Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Joseph Hurtgen, holds a PhD in English Literature and is the author of several books, including Tower Defender, The Archive Incarnate, Sherman:… Read More ›
CEO demonstrates app’s ‘Outrage’ meter
PITTSBURGH – Those slights, abuses, and crimes that often go unreported can now be witnessed and judged by anyone with a swipe on their device. Chatter, a downloadable app designed for ‘concerned citizens, neighborhood gadflies, and social-justice heroes,’ launched this… Read More ›
Bar soap helps users ‘escape’ constraints of pandemic lifestyle
LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›
‘Reopening America’ transforms political map blue
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s decision in March to lift national emergency status related to the novel coronavirus pandemic in order to revive the nation’s economy likely led to his loss of the 2020 election and a massive change in political… Read More ›
Entrepreneur: ‘chlorophyll skin’ to solve climate crisis ‘without the fuss’
LOS ANGELES – An entrepreneur striving to resolve human-caused climate change, while ensuring minimal sacrifice is required to the human way of life, announced this week that his lab has manufactured the first carbon dioxide eating dermis, which he hopes… Read More ›
‘Angry white male’ destroys sex bot warehouse in ‘explosive rage’
CHATSWORTH – An unsatisfied customer who claims he was sexually-deprived by a synthetic prostitute kicked off the New Year by laying waste to an industrial warehouse that stores the made-to-order bots after he was denied opportunity to ‘pop a load’… Read More ›
Canadian city shaken by timequake
Book Review: I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore Mike Sauve, Montag Press, 192 pages There is perhaps no greater trope used in science fiction than time travel, and there is perhaps no greater reason for traveling in… Read More ›
The La-La Lander 