Author Archives: mbey

I ran across two interesting animals today. This morning, while biking to work, I came across a giant snapping turtle who was in the process of crossing Airport Boulevard. I considered helping it across the road so it wouldn’t get … Continue reading →

There’s this little Korean grocery near my place that I’d never visited. It’s actually hard to find, it’s little more than a door in a strip mall. And for that matter it’s not really a grocery. It’s more like a … Continue reading →

One of the reasons why I’ve been posting less frequently on this blog is because I’ve been contributing to a not-for-profit community website called Austinpost.org. I’ve been given the job of luring people onto the site by writing about local … Continue reading →

I was listening to a BBC science podcast, and I noticed that instead of referring to the ongoing disaster as the "BP oil spill" they called it the "Gulf of Mexico oil spill." In fact, throughout the whole program, where … Continue reading →

A few photos from here and there. This weekend I went to a fundraiser out in the neighborhood of the Moose Lodge. They had a pinata of Ironman. Kind of looks like he’s being hung in effigy, don’t it? Personally, … Continue reading →

The previous post about my trip to Waffle House reminded me to look into the possibility of buying a copy of the Waffle House music CD. For people who don’t live below the Mason-Dixon Line, you should know that every … Continue reading →

The thermometer here in Austin has stuck firmly in its rut at the 90-degree mark. After this entry I’ll go back to blogging separately the "stuff that is cold." An icecream truck passed by the softball game I was watching, … Continue reading →

The online science fiction publication Beneath Ceaseless Skies has just posted my new weird epic, The Secret of Pogopolis. This is a story about urban myopia and ballistic trajectories. This is my first SFWA-credited professional sale, so I expect you … Continue reading →

I’d heard about Pontypool for a while now, but it wasn’t showing up on Netflix, but it finally appeared at my local slacker-hipster video store. This is a story about an early-morning shockjock, who finds himself at the end of … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing a series of Simpson-family busts, and since I last did Bart Simpson, the next in the line was Lisa. None of the Simpson characters translate well into 3-D, but Lisa Simpson was the worst. You may not … Continue reading →