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Your EQ is 160 50 or less: Thanks for answer­ing hon­estly. Now get your­self a shrink, quick! 51–70: When it comes to under­stand­ing human emo­tions, you’d have bet­ter luck under­stand­ing Chi­nese. 71–90: You’ve got more emo­tional intel­li­gence than the aver­age frat boy. Barely. 91–110: You’re aver­age. It’s easy to pre­dict how you’ll react to things. But …

Today, I sent out a peck of query let­ters to edi­tors about SPEED KINGS. After being agented for the last 15 months, it felt like turn­ing back the clock. Scary, really. It also felt good to be in charge of my work, which is why I decided to go it alone with this novel. I …

In honor of July 4th, I’d like to point out that there should be some lim­its on free speech. Rather, there should be be lim­its on where speech takes place. For exam­ple. Yes­ter­day, I went to see Super­man. It was a pretty good movie, an opin­ion shared by another man who was in the the­atre …

Last week–or was it yes­ter­day because I’m still jet-lagged–I got back from Osaka, Japan after a two week adven­ture with two col­leagues and a baker’s dozen grad stu­dents in Osaka. We spent a week in schools, which included pre-school, ele­men­tary, junior high, and high school with a tour of a uni­ver­sity. We saw some amaz­ing …

nag, nag, nag. “update your jour­nal” nag, nag, nag. I was in Japan, blah, blah, blah, so cut me some slack. nag, nag, nag blah, blah, blah