I`m having an 80`s revival period in my life triggered by the purchase of a gremlin plush I called, obviously, Gizmo.  I`m missing my favorite childhood movies, Goonies, Gremlins, Ghost Busters…I`m downloading then all to watch and remember of a time where there are strange creatures, adventures, and no cell phones to use and call the cops ;) It`s is very funny to watch those movies and see people calling from public phones, having no computer to solve their problems.

Imagine Gremlins in the time of the Internet? First thing to do after getting a Mogwai…Google it and find the nasty little lizard/devil like creatures they become just for eating after midnight. Mine is just looking to me right now, making me company. I should get a pet or something. I would love to have an AIBO.

Last week I submitted a short story to a possible anthology of short science-fiction stories. But it was for a Brazilian book, and the story was written in Portuguese.  I still couldn`t find time to start translating the four stories I selected from my Portuguese published material, but I will get there sometime. Meanwhile, I`m almost starting my LULU.com evaluation, by submitting an old book of mine for an electronic and printed version. Have to finish editing it and create a good cover.  It will be also in Portuguese, but will be enough to test if my next project will be oriented to that kind of platform. I think it will.

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I selected 4 short-stories to translate. A have lots of stories in Portuguese and always wanted to write their versions in English. All the 4 short-stories have been published in Brazil and/or Portugal. Two have been published in professionals printed books and the other two in amateur magazines. The idea, of course, is submit this stories to some professional markets in USA and see how it goes.  They all have a hint of metaphysical in their plots, spirits changing time, souls invading machines, the end of the world and the finding of infinite dimensions, with some interesting twists.  

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Sometimes, for me, being a science fiction fan is a lonely job…If you have enough science fiction fans as friends, it should be a blast, but that’s not my case…I got my fair share of friends who like science fiction, but they are more like Internet friends than actual friends that you bump at in the office…

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Fringe is my favorite TV series so far. Just discovered that the observer shows up in every episode in a different place, and I was so proud that I spotted him at the audience of American Idol. Was truly a bizarre moment, one of that moments where fantasy and reality clashes in doubt and amazement. Is really cold here in Rio and I'm avoiding the urge to download the rest of the episodes to see them before. I don't quite like to download TV shows, it's not because of some ethical thing, I don't know, my torrent software looks so slow. I like to write when is cold, maybe that's why there are so many writers in cold places and so many surfers in hot places. Maybe the cold weather helps you become more introspective, lost in inner thoughts and ideas. I would love to have this kind of fluid mind all day long, and write, joining words and ideas, playing with the rhythm of the words and sentences and paragraphs and pages. Just creating mental images of wonders. I have this image of silver skyscrapers raising in the middle of green flourishing gigantic forests. So beautiful...

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