A while ago, I listened to "Raising Atlantis" by Thomas Greanias.

After listening to it, I ended up signing up for an email list for Greanias' next book, "The Atlantis Prophesy."

Well, a couple of days ago I received an email announcing an "Atlantis Prophesy" contest.  Greanias, a former journalist, media executive and screenwriter, created a movie-like video trailer for this new book.  The gist of the contest was that the first 50 people to post the video trailer for the book on YouTube would get a signed, advanced copy of the book.

Well, I did, and I won!

Here's the trailer:

This is a way cool aircraft photo collection.  It includes my all-time favorite plane, the SR-71 Blackbird.  Here's the link: http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html check it out!

I was catching up on my reading on my last trip to The Netherlands a couple of weeks ago, and came upon this story written by Ray Bradbury...

It was published in the December 2007 issue of Plane & Pilot, although it was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1988.

I can't imagine what it must be like to have gone to war, fought, and survived, but I have to imagine that this story captures the reality for many who have...

You can read this moving short story on the web here.

Rotten Tomatoes loved it...

We didn't.

We found it overly foul mouthed and depressing.

Yes, yes, I know, if the purpose of the movie was to illuminate the true character of working class Boston, and to be an unconventional crime drama, I'm sure the critics would argue that it was "brilliant."

But, if I want to illuminate the true character of the world, and be depressed, I need only turn on the nightly news - and it only takes half an hour out of my life and is free.