Being for the benefit of Mister Kite, there will be a show tonight on trampoline Music is important to me. I wrote my first novel to the music of Harry Connick Jr. It feels odd saying that for oh so many reasons. First up – saying ‘my first novel’. I think many people assume...
I have three uncles, two of whom have been large parts of my life at different times. When we moved to California, it was my mom, older brother, aunt, uncle, cousin and grandmother all in the same house. I always thought he looked like Elwood Blues. I remember the smell of his lighter, a...
Random thoughts for Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 /begin random thoughts Who came up with the phrase, “A stitch in (my/your) side”? * * * I went for a hike in Red Rocks Park. Holy crap. Talk about being out of shape! It’ll get better… * * * New rule in my house – no...
I cleaned out my iPhone last night, purging all music from it and starting over. I felt like I’d been in a rut musically lately and needed to change things up. It was almost a traumatic experience to hit that delete button. Part of me wishes they made an MP3 player that could hold...
#11 In this weeks ATFMB podcast, I talk about scifi television, including the renewal of Fox hit Fringe for a 3rd season, Chuck’s ratings win that might mean a 4th season and how i09 has a list of 25 books Hollywood should be making movies out of, how HBO has greenlit a new series...
Episode 10: All Things From My Brain In the Milestone Tenth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about NASA losing it’s funding for the Constellation program, about the iPad, the Kindle, Amazon and Apple, of the impending tv episode price war Apple wants to start, about the two rare...
Just a quick post – John Anealio asked me to take part in a fantastic idea called ‘Interstellar Jukebox’ wherein he asks a bunch of great writers, bloggers, musicians, and podcasters to search through their music and weigh in on some Sci-Fi related music topic. I was thrilled and honored to be asked to...
It's kinda funny how things happen. When I started playing World of Warcraft, a series of random meetings resulted in my meeting tons of new, creative and interesting people. The same sort of thing happened when I joined Twitter a while ago. One of those interesting people is John Anealio.
Episode #5: All Things from My Brain In the fifth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about the Palm Pre losing it’s iTunes sync functionality, how India plans to issue biometric ID cards to its 1.2 BILLION citizens, how the Kindle and Amazon are once again in the news...
I can’t imagine not having music going when I’m writing. Occasionally, I’ll have something else going; like a DvD movie or something, but for the most part, it has to be music for me. My tastes are more diverse then I probably lead you to believe. My first love is the Blues, and I...
About Patrick:
Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and podcasting dude who lives in Colorado with two cats, Dakota and Shadow, who make sure he gets little sleep and always remembers who is really in charge. He writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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