Alarm clock. 5:30.          Pop's in town. That means dinner at the latest, hottest new place. Tonight. Some Balkan joint I've never heard of. With his latest arm confection, no doubt.          Shower: Uneventful. Too anxious to engage in "The Thinking Man's Television."          Bathroom Scale: Too much. It's the damned biz-dev job. No time…

OTHERS DAY

At first the doubling didn't warrant much thought to Nelson Garrett's way of looking at it. The way meetings double-scheduled themselves on Bmail and then doubled again, showing, like, four occurrences on the BMail Auto Kalends Calendar. Maybe some bug was causing duplicate messages to be sent, or, as was more likely, technology was just…

BLAME THE MIRROR

This fifty-year-old ex-copywriter's unshaven face stared back in amazement from the device and the face and its counterpart both knew the time had come to write a blog. A blog of fictions. He'd recently affected the pipe, trusting that it instantly added gravitas to his persona and moment to what you're about to read. Ignore…