Thursday, February 26, 2026

Work in progress:


My next books are Triangulation and Stinger.

Books 4 and 5 in The Breaker series.


Set in the year 2001, the story continues from Mall Maze.



Themes:


Crime, detective, hardboiled, heist, murder, narcissism, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, psychopath, sociopath, thriller, vigilante.

 

A percentage from book sales is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.


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The Breaker is an on-going series.


I’m outlining other stand-alone thriller novels.

Several coffee table books on my photography and my wife’s artwork.

A humorous book, based on the antics of our crazy pet Ragdoll cat, entitled: It’s That F****** Cat Again!



Here’s a GIF I made of our cat, settling down for another of his daily naps:

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):


Justified

Season 4. Episode 8.
Episode entitled: Outlaw.
Released February 26, 2013.
Directed by John Dahl.
Written by Graham Yost, Benjamin Cavell, Keith Schreier, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Jim Beaver, Jere Burns, Ron Eldard, Sam Anderson, Matthew John Armstrong, Ned Bellamy, Julia Campbell, Grainger Hines, Brian Howe, David Meunier, Ian Reed Kesler, Abby Miller, Mike O’Malley, Michael Stoyanov, Brent Sexton, Raymond J. Barry, Peggy Dunne, Scout Durwood, James Ferris, Jonathan Kowalsky, Rocky McMurray, Damion Poitier, Kyle Sabihy.

On this day in music history:

Chakra Tones Home Audio Course… by Tryshe Dhevney (2008)
Music from the Motion Picture by 10,000 Maniacs (2013)


Chakra Tones Home Audio Course
Sound Shifting
The Practical Art Of Authentic Expression
Album by Tryshe Dhevney,
released February 26, 2008.
Track list: Introductions; Chakra Tones Introductions; The Tones And Posture; First Chakra; Second Chakra; Third Chakra; Fourth Chakra; Fifth Chakra; Sixth Chakra; Seventh Chakra; Sonic Blessing.


Music from the Motion Picture
Album by 10,000 Maniacs,
released February 26, 2013.
Track list: I Don't Love You Too; When We Walked on Clouds; Gold; Triangles; Live for the Time of Your Life; It's a Beautiful Life; Whippoorwill; Fine Line; Tiny Arrows; Downhill; Chautauqua Moon.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994)
Star Trek: Voyager (1996 & 1997)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 18.
Episode entitled: Eye of the Beholder.
Released February 26, 1994.
Directed by Cliff Bole.
Written by René Echevarria, Brannon Braga, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Mark Rolston, Nancy Harewood, Tim Lounibos, Johanna McCloy, Dugan Savoye, Majel Barrett, Lena Banks, Joe Baumann, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Robert Cox, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Holiday Freeman, Bill Hagy, Fumiko Hamada, Kerry Hoyt, Ellyn Dawn Humphreys, Gary Hunter, Nora Leonhardt, Marianne Lewis, Christina Wegler Miles, Keith Rayve, Richard Sarstedt, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess, Guy Vardaman.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 19.
Episode entitled: Lifesigns.
Released February 26, 1996.
Directed by Cliff Bole.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Paul Baillargeon.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Susan Diol, Raphael Sbarge, Martha Hackett, Michael Spound, Rick Gianasi, Johnetta Anderson, Tarik Ergin, Holiday Freeman, Kerry Hoyt, Susan Lewis, Bob Mascagno, Karole Nellis, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 19.
Episode entitled: Rise.
Released February 26, 1997.
Directed by Robert Scheerer.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Brannon Braga, Jimmy Diggs, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Alan Oppenheimer, Lisa Kaminir, Kelly Connell, Tom Towles, Geof Prysirr, Gary Bullock, Tarik Ergin, Shepard Ross.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 17.
Episode entitled: Canamar.
Released February 26, 2003.
Directed by Allan Kroeker.
Written by André Bormanis, John Shiban.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Brian Tyler.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Mark Rolston, Holmes Osborne, Michael McGrady, Sean Whalen, Brian Morri, John C. Hansen, Alexandrea Ortiz, Joseph Billingiere, Steve Blalock, Al Burke, Mark Correy, Dieter Horneman, Louis Ortiz, Chester E. Tripp III.

On this day in movie history - Visiting Hours (1982):


Visiting Hours

directed by Jean-Claude Lord,
written by Brian Taggert,
was released in the United States on February 26, 1982.
Music by Jonathan Goldsmith.


Cast:

Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner, Lenore Zann, Harvey Atkin, Helen Hughes, Michael J. Reynolds, Kirsten Bishop, Deborah Kirshenbaum, Elizabeth Leigh-Milne, Maureen McRae, Dustin Waln, Neil Affleck, Damir Andrei, Dorothy Barker, Steve Bettcher, Walker Boone, Richard Rebiere, Terrance P. Coady, Richard Comar, Dora Dainton, Sylvie Desbois, Yvan Ducharme, Sarita Elman, Kathleen Fee, Domenico Fiore, Tali Fischer, Richer Francoeur, Lorena Gale, Angela Gallagher, Judith Gay, Isadore Goldberg, Dean Hagopian, Victor Knight, Sheena Larkin, Sylvia Lennick, Frances March, Steve Michaels, Kimberly McKeever, Bob McKeowan, Malcolm Nelthorpe, Roland Nincheri, Mary Rathbone, Ron Robbins, Robby Robinson, Danielle Schneider, Lisa Schwartz, Danny Silverman, Marty Starr, Jérôme Tiberghien, Katherine Trowell, Len Watt, George E. Zeeman, Charles Dennis, Randy Vancourt.

Born on this day – Michele Carey:


Michele Carey


Actress

February 26, 1942 – November 21, 2018

Credits:

TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); There’s Only One Elvis (2002); The Stay Awake (1988); In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1985); Rooster (1982); The Fall Guy (1982); Death Ray 2000 (1980); A Man Called Sloane (1979); Undercover with the KKK (1979); The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979); Starsky and Hutch (1977–1978); The Choirboys (1977); Man from Atlantis (1977); Delta County, U.S.A. (1977); Dirty Sally (1974); Adam’s Rib (1973); The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973); Savage (1973); The Norliss Tapes (1973); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1973); Love, American Style / Love and the Impressionist (1972); Elvis on Tour (1972); Gunsmoke (1972); Scandalous John (1971); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Dirty Dingus Magee (1970); The Animals (1970); It Takes a Thief (1970); The F.B.I. (1969); Mission: Impossible (1969); The Name of the Game (1969); Changes (1969); The Wild Wild West (1967–1969); Live a Little, Love a Little (1968); The Sweet Ride (1968); Run for Your Life (1967); T.H.E. Cat (1966); El Dorado (1966); Burke’s Law (1965); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); Wendy and Me (1965); The Spy with My Face (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964).

Born on this day – Johnny Cash:


Johnny Cash


Singer

Musician

Songwriter

Actor

February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003.

Credits:

Albums:

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1957); The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958); Hymns by Johnny Cash (1959); Songs of Our Soil (1959); Now, There Was a Song! (1960); Ride This Train (1960); Hymns from the Heart (1962); The Sound of Johnny Cash (1962); Blood, Sweat and Tears (1963); The Christmas Spirit (1963); Keep on the Sunny Side (1964); I Walk the Line (1964); Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian (1964); Orange Blossom Special (1965); Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West (1965); Everybody Loves a Nut (1966); Happiness Is You (1966); Carryin' On with Johnny Cash & June Carter (1967); From Sea to Shining Sea (1968); The Holy Land (1969); Hello, I'm Johnny Cash (1970); Man in Black (1971); A Thing Called Love (1972); America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (1972); The Johnny Cash Family Christmas (1972); Any Old Wind That Blows (1973); Johnny Cash and His Woman (1973); Ragged Old Flag (1974); The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me (1974); The Johnny Cash Children's Album (1975); Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories (1975); John R. Cash (1975); Look at Them Beans (1975); One Piece at a Time (1976); The Last Gunfighter Ballad (1977); The Rambler (1977); I Would Like to See You Again (1978); Gone Girl (1978); Silver (1979); A Believer Sings the Truth (1979); Johnny Cash Sings with the BC Goodpasture Christian School (1979); Rockabilly Blues (1980); Classic Christmas (1980); The Baron (1981); The Adventures of Johnny Cash (1982); Johnny 99 (1983); Highwayman (1985); Rainbow (1985); Heroes (1986); Class of '55 (1986); Believe in Him (1986); Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town (1987); Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series (1988); Water from the Wells of Home (1988); Boom Chicka Boom (1990); Highwayman 2 (1990); The Mystery of Life (1991); Country Christmas (1991); American Recordings (1994); The Road Goes on Forever (1995); American II: Unchained (1996); American III: Solitary Man (2000); American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002); My Mother's Hymn Book (2004); American V: A Hundred Highways (2006); American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010); Out Among the Stars (2014).

Movies, television and video:

Johnny Cash: She Used to Love Me a Lot (2014); When the Man Comes Around (2013); Johnny Cash: Ain't No Grave (2010); Walk the Line (2005); Johnny Cash: Hurt (2003); The Hunted (2003); All My Friends Are Cowboys (1998); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1997); The Simpsons (1997); Renegade (1996); Johnny Cash: Delia's Gone (1994); The Highwaymen: Silver Stallion (1990); The Magical World of Disney (1988); The Highwaymen: Highwayman (1986); Stagecoach (1986); The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986); North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985); The Baron and the Kid (1984); aylon Jennings: America (1984); Adrift at Sea (1983); Murder in Coweta County (1983); The Baron (1981); The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981); Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978); Little House on the Prairie (1976); Columbo (1974); The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); A Gunfight (1971); Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970); The Partridge Family (1970); NET Playhouse (1970); The Night Rider (1962); Five Minutes to Live (1961); The Deputy (1961); The Rebel (1960); Shotgun Slade (1959); Wagon Train (1959).