BREAKING NEWS: "Extreme Hurricane Season" Predicted!

"Will planes be flying today?"


Disaster response organizations across the globe seem to be putting their collective heads together in order to predict the oncoming hurricane season. And apparently, they're not liking what they are seeing. Weather patterns are indicating that this year's hurricane activity is going to be far more severe and damaging to American coastlines than last year. Disaster News Network has the blow by blow:

Suicide by the Knife

My new noir novel, Moonlight Falls, is not only getting noticed for its unique, quirky, brain damaged PI protagonist. A whole lot of people are calling and writing me about how I came up with the idea of exploring suicide by self-stabbing and other generally morbid forensic goodies. Here's how I explained it in a guest blog that appeared last week in Blogging Authors.

Interview with Vincent Zandri, author of Moonlight Falls - Broowaha

Interview with Vincent Zandri, author of Moonlight Falls - Broowaha

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BO's Last Call for Alcohol!

"Hey, Joe, you gonna hurl?"


There's nothing I like more than cracking a cold one at the end of long working day. Apparently so does BO. He also likes to light up a Marlboro Red on occasion. This week his doctors told him to lay off both vices. But I have advice for BO: smoke 'em if you got 'em and drink if you're dry. You have the most stressful job in the world and even though other countries like to think we're losing our overall world power status, you don't see Haiti or Chile looking to Iran or Syria for assistance with their tragic earthquake disasters. Come to think of it, I'm going to have my accountant withhold 20 bucks on my Federal tax return just so BO can run out for a 12 pack of Bud and a pack of smokes.

NYTimes Finally Drops the Bomb or Paterson and his Big Johnson!

Paterson to Johnson, "Didn't your mother ever tell you 'No means no?'"




The New York Times as been threatening to drop a bomb on troubled New York Governor David Paterson and yesterday they finally did it. The report details a "woman" who, last fall, was reputedly beaten by a Paterson aide, David W. Johnson. Johnson, a 37 year old former drug abuser who has also been in trouble with the law, has risen rapidly in the Paterson administration from driver to senior aide. According to the account and the "woman's" testimony, the 6'-7" Johnson, her former boyfriend, violently assaulted her by throwing her against a wall, smashing her face against a mirror, and even tearing her clothes off. When she later tried to report the incident to authorities, the State Police asked her to drop the case. But as the "woman" continued to persist in Family Court, the State Police began to pressure her further into dropping her allegations. Refusing to release her real identity for fear of reprisals from what appears to be a more and more corrupt Paterson administration, the "woman" is nonetheless continuing with her fight. Paterson has requested the State Attorney General look into the matter. For the real story click here.

Joe the Moron!

Ok, I've had it with hearing about Joe the Plumber, about as much as I've had it with hearing about that trailer trash woman who birthed 8 or 9 kids, landed a TV show, and now that her husband has split, has yet another TV show. Seriously, I can't remember her name. But no doubt she is a role model. Seriously, Joe, how long did it take you to figure out that McCain was using you?

At New York's Ritzy Standard, Nakedness Comes Standard!

Hospitality design doesn’t always allow for creativity. You have a lobby, a restaurant/bar, and of course, lots of rooms, enclosed behind walls that often create narrow, claustrophobic corridors. But Manhattan’s Standard Hotel now defies traditional hotel mores by replaces walls with transparent glass. Privacy is “optional” since anything that goes on in any given room can be viewed from the outside. The clear “water white,” floor-to-ceiling glass walls are making quite a splash amongst hotel designers and gossip columnists all around the globe. Here’s how.