stranger in a strange land

Growing closer, sharing water...Extraterrestrials and This book.

I love this book personally, and in my opinion the idealism behind it is fascinating. Do you think that one day our would could exist like Heinlen created it in his book?Is it possible?Your...

Interview with Mathias B. Freese, author of Down to a Sunless Sea

"I am a stranger in a strange land. I thrive in that wintry landscape," says Freese. A teacher, writer and psychotherapist, Mathias B. Freese is the author of two books, The i Tetralogy and Down to...

Interview with Mathias B. Freese, author of Down to a Sunless Sea

"I am a stranger in a strange land. I thrive in that wintry landscape," says Freese. A teacher, writer and psychotherapist, Mathias B. Freese is the author of two books, The i Tetralogy and Down to...

Stranger in a Strange Land

After a 423 mile journey, Phoenix touched down on Mars. The first pictures have been beamed back, and so far, it's nothing like my my favorite Heinlein novel. The immediate goals of the...

Re-localization Opportunities - Local 2.0

After World War 2, America built the infrastructure to deliver mass produced products, by mass transit for mass markets. We consumed along the arteries of this infrastructure, in supermarkets, fast...

Vienna Vacation (part 3)

Am back.To reality.I mean, back to work.Oh, Vienna was real alright.Just that when you're a stranger in a strange land, things just feel different.Like an alternate reality.OK, I'm reading too much...

Reading and Weeping

I am a Canadian living in Germany. I am a stranger in a strange land. I like to think of myself as an open-minded person, but there are some things I just can’t get my head around to accept....

20JFG News Bulletin

So we shall begin by apologising for the absolute slackness of the last couple of weeks, we have been caught in the spiderweb of reality (we don't like it), and hence stayed away from these hallowed...

Gossip Girl: The Wild Brunch (Episode 102)

I've spent the past week wandering around various Gossip Girl fansites and message boards, where I've found that people are much more welcoming and friendly than the fictional counterparts...

Old and Gold, Times change: My Immigrant Experience

I’ve been meaning to write about Islam and some of the basic information that I think people should know before they can actually say they know about Muslims and understand them but I keep getting...

Lessons From an Immigrant...Times change

I’ve been meaning to write about Islam and some of the basic information that I think people should know before they can actually say they know about Muslims and understand them but I keep getting...