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The Funny Newz: Space Aliens Buying Up U.S. Beachfront Property — Officials Say Everything Is Fine
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA — Interstellar aliens are rapidly buying up U.S. real estate and business holdings at what critics are calling an alarming rate, The Funny Newz has learned.
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The Funny Newz: Mojave Officials Crack Down on Cheap Alien Monuments
MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA — Adrian Covarrubias of the Mojave Desert Resource Conservation and Development Council was rattling across the desert Thursday in a government-leased Jeep Commander when he spotted yet another suspicious alien artifact on the distant horizon.
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The Funny Newz: Chattering Teeth Robot Wins $1 Billion Defense Contract
BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA — Dr. Emilio Disaronno, a one-armed senior robotics researcher at the Virginia Polytechnic School of Robotics, says the 2024 International Robotics Competition was rigged after a novelty chattering-teeth robot beat his highly advanced killing machine for a major defense contract.
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CoolFilmz: Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie? Yes—It's Home Alone for Grownups
“Ho. Ho. Ho. Now I have a machine gun.”
That is not exactly the kind of line you expect from a cozy holiday classic. It is not Bing Crosby by the fireplace. It is not Jimmy Stewart rediscovering the meaning of life in Bedford Falls. It is Hans Gruber reading a message scrawled on the body of one of his henchmen after John McClane has officially begun ruining the Nakatomi Plaza Christmas party.
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Bingham's Notebook: Mortimer Vanterpool’s Powers Explained
Welcome back to Bingham’s Notebook, where we explore the hidden corners of The Midas Files.
For this entry, I wanted to take a closer look at Mortimer Vanterpool, one of the strangest and most dangerous figures in The Midas Protocol. This may not be the flashiest topic for longtime readers, but clarifying Vanterpool’s abilities helps me understand how he works as a character — and how best to use him as the series continues.
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Tech Gnosis: Boeing’s Starliner Returned Without Its Crew. What Does That Mean for NASA?
By Michael E. Fossum, Texas A&M University
Boeing’s crew transport capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew shortly after midnight Eastern time on Sept. 7, 2024.
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Cool Filmz: Terminator 2: Judgment Day — An Action Sci-Fi Ace
Sometimes you turn on an old movie expecting a comfortable nostalgia watch, only to remember that the movie is not merely good.
It is great.
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Bingham's Notebook: Building the Caves of Baghdad
Creating a fictional world is one of the most thrilling parts of writing a novel. It allows a writer to construct places, societies, secret histories, and hidden ecosystems that never existed — but still need to feel real enough for readers to believe in them.
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The Funny Newz: Space SUVs Here - 2024 "Abductors" Sighted
PEYOTE, ARIZONA — In a bizarre twist of fate, extreme sports enthusiast Wayne “Goose” Peterson, 25, of Chicago, says he was paragliding over the Arizona desert when he spotted what he initially believed to be oversized AirPods screaming across the sky at impossible speeds.
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Bingham's Notebook: Time Travel in The Midas Files — The Foggy Room Theory
In The Midas Protocol: Midas Files Book One, I introduced time travel with a certain amount of deliberate fuzziness.
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