Alfred M Hodder

Leadership Portrait of General Alfred M Gray, the twenty-ninth Commandant of the Marine Corps.

How has Michael Moorcock influenced you as an author?Mike has influenced me in so many ways, not just as an author. I discovered his work when I was about 12 years old, and I'm still entranced! The sheer audacity of his imagination taught me to just go for it, don't be cautious, don't be afraid to push at boundaries, don't be constrained by genre conventions. Above all, if you want to

I\'m not sure why I haven\'t run into this before, but Alfred Kindrick, Capoeirista, personal trainer, and founder of KendRx Fitness, posted the above promo clip back in 2008 and it is super stylish. Directed by Kamal Robinson (who we\'ve written about here, here, and here) this video, while not nearly as pop culture fun as his other one, is all about a very fashionable but very simple aesthetic. Enjoy!

How has Michael Moorcock influenced you as an author?Mike has influenced me in so many ways, not just as an author. I discovered his work when I was about 12 years old, and I'm still entranced! The sheer audacity of his imagination taught me to just go for it, don't be cautious, don't be afraid to push at boundaries, don't be constrained by genre conventions. Above all, if you want to write

167 years ago, about a mile from where I’m sitting in Baltimore, an inventor named Alfred Vail (Samuel Morse’s number-two) is hanging around a train station waiting beside one of the first telegraph devices. It’s not the tappy tap key kind we think of now, but its predecessor, a pendulum thing that swings back and forth according to the electrical current and leaves dots and dashes on a long, narrow strip of paper. This is what comes: Vail, or perhaps some lackey, decodes the message to read, ’What hath God wrought” (from the Bible). And Vail sends the same message back to Washington. Success. Ten years later, 23,000 miles of wire crisscrossed the United States, delivering mainly information on train operations – information could now travel faster than a train – and business dealings. Information itself would never be the same, and the great string of technological dominoes that lead to the telephone, radio, and eventually, the internet was in motion. It’s worth noting, as Vail’s son does in a 1900 letter to the editor of The New York Times, that “What hath God wrought”-as-first-message is not actually the case. The very first was an experiment done by Vail and Morse earlier in the month to see if they could get information from Annapolis Jct., Maryland -between Baltimore and D.C. - to D.C. Faster than a train.