Run-DMSteve

  • Journey to the center of the earth

    Prolog. It was a dark and stormy day. Robert A. Heinlein, a man who could pour words onto a page as easy as turning a bucket upside-down, was stumped. He had a book to write, he had nothing in his head, and the cat was distracting him. It prowled the…

  • Star Trek: Beyond hope

    We just saw the third film in the reboot of my favorite TV series: Star Trek: Beyond. Once again, the plot was driven by a bitter middle-aged man who vows to make the universe run red with the blood of vengeance. Haven’t we had enough of this from Donald Trump?…

  • Run-DMSteve’s Old Technology Shop

    The first estate sale I ever went to was in the 1970s, on a farm in Massachusetts. The parents had grown very old and moved to another home, or perhaps the afterlife. The children didn’t want anything inside the farmhouse or the barn, including stacks of 78 rpm records. They…

  • New location, same great prices

    Last week, we celebrated my birthday (the best day of the year) by taking our lucky dog Lucky on his first hike: Lookout Mountain! Left to right: Run-DMSteve, Lucky, Mount Hood Lucky enjoyed being out in the wild. You’d think he was an animal or something. At midday we rested…

  • What is the point?

    This week I asked myself why I try to elicit laughter in a country where you can buy a gun and massacre whomever you don’t like. Blacks, whites, gays, straights, cops, children. Don’t like ’em? Kill ’em. It must be a popular system because we’re nowhere near changing it. What…