The Fies Files

In a complete betrayal of journalistic ethics and public trust, TIME magazine just named my friend Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wi...

Back on April 6, I teased that I expected to soon have "something fun to blog about." Good things always take longer than you hope...

I'm told that Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? will be in bookstores no later than June 9. Quite possibly sooner. I'll ...

In early March, I mentioned a commercial for the California lottery that has a quick shot of a house I was startled to recognize--the house...

Highly recommended viewing: spectacular new views of Saturn and its rings taken by the Cassini spacecraft and compiled by "The Big Pict...

Just a quick note to say that the Virtual Book Launch Party is on! Well, 94% on; I reserve the right to change my mind. But the technology w...

. . . along comes this little Internet widget that turns me Vulcan. [ EDIT: I realized after I embedded the thing that it would automatical...

I guarantee that this post contains the most mortifying, embarrassing thing I will ever reveal about myself in this blog. In Whatever Happe...

1. Something that frustrates/puzzles me about digital comics is how formally unimaginative many of them are. So many webcomics adhere to tra...

Just a note to say how much I appreciate the loyalty of the six readers who check in here semi-regularly. I'm working hard on my day job...

Just a few brief notes about Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? More nice people are asking when it'll be released. I don't...

My previous post about the Grecian pitcher reminded me of another work of art I photographed a few years ago (photos without flash were allo...

Those attuned to the subtle nuances of my blog (What? Nobody?! ) may have perceived that I was on vacation last week (the previous post was ...