In the USA, there is a solid-paying profession that attracts over 3 million people, people of all sexes and ages and backgrounds, who have one thing in common— they crave a life of daily non-routine, with no one looking over their shoulder. These are people who crave new sights daily, new vistas....

Addiction. We all know what it does. Addiction… it ravages destroy the body, leaving the mind naked, to scream, stranded in the dying wreckage of what was once a life. The addict is a nerve end dangling in space, alone. Brain scans of thirty-year-olds on meth, for instance, are very similar to...

Could a modern city die of plague? Could a virus ravage an entire ecosystem of human beings? The prospect is horrifying. A great modern city is a hive, an enormous petri dish, teeming with life of all kinds— and every life-form is competing for dominance, fighting to feed upon every other life...

If and when the threat comes, you must stop it. By stopping the attacker, or if all else fails, taking the knife, or the bullet, yourself. You’re retained by the Sultan of (X), for the OPEC conference. You dress as the billionaires all dress, to blend in. You wear a sharp suit of dark cloth....

The world’s oceans are warming. The sun boils more water from the oceans, up into the sky. Up high, the water vapor chills, is blown over the land, then it melts, and falls as rain. The land floods. The rain keeps coming. And yet in other regions there is terrible drought. The carbon footprint...

Here on Earth, we life-forms don’t eat dirt. We eat one another. On this savage planet, the animal imperative is to eat, spawn, die— to enforce your DNA against all others, to increase your life-force type, and put it in control. The red ants and black ants are perfect examples of the...

The shotgun feels cold in your hand. The extended mag tube is heavy, leaded alternately with slugs and buck. The late summer sun is going down and the light is fading fast. You move slowly through the deep shadows, and you drop into a gully to watch and listen. Beer cans and trash. Mud. Meth waste....

As a lifelong fan of RUNAWAY TRAIN, I listened to Mr Konchalovski in fascination, as he told me his film logic axiom over dinner, at the home of a friend, another director. We talked of many things, but he emphasized this— if a person would like to spend their life making movies, you need first...

The Academy Awards are coming up fast, again. For you out there who aspire to write movies, let’s look at the backbone of film creation. As a member of the Writer’s Guild West, Erudio voted in the WGA awards for best screenplay. Top of my list? UP IN THE AIR, PRECIOUS, HURT LOCKER. Each...

Do you want to change the world? Do you wonder why politicians don’t make the changes you see that seem so urgent, so obvious— the changes you believe desperately need to be made? Then maybe you should dive into the political process, and fight for those changes yourself. But, you say,...