Joe Flood

Check out my short story, Don’t Mess Up My Block which was recently published in Thirty First Bird Review.
The editor of Thirty First Bird Review called my story an “unholy marriage of New Age fluff and international diplomacy.” That’s about right – it’s a dark satire about a management consultant who tries to apply his [...]

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After what seems like the longest winter ever, signs of spring along the Potomac.

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I was out last Friday and just happened to run into this protest. Students poured up from the Dupont Circle Metro then marched down Massachusetts Avenue to the Embassy of Sudan. There were around a hundred protesters, some of whom carried signs with the names of Sudanese villages that had been ethnically cleansed. I followed [...]

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I’ve not been blogging much because I’ve been busy wrapping up my job. It’s been a great three years working on Ocean Explorer but I’m ready to do something new. My last day at NOAA will be October 15.
While I love working on web sites, I have another passion – writing. I’ve written a couple of [...]

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I learned recently that my screenplay Eurabia is a Quarterfinalist in the Writers On The Storm Screenplay Competition. Out of more than 1300 scripts submitted, Eurabia finished in the top 10%. This competition was sponsored by Coverage, Ink., one of the premier script analysis services in the industry and the leader in low-cost, high-quality screenplay analysis. It was [...]

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Here’s what’s interested me this week:
America’s Most Wanted
My favorite barista, Rosie of the Silver Spring Caribou, plays the manipulative and sexy Sarah Pender on America’s Most Wanted.  Certainly, she’s manipulated me into buying more cappuccinos than I need.
On Bondage
Philippa Hughes takes on so-called friends who thought her picture in the Washington Post was too sexy. 
DC [...]

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Young, influential and sexy.  That’s my friends Jon Gann and Philippa Hughes, according to the Washington Post.  Jon Gann is best known as the founder of the DC Shorts Film Festival.  And Philippa is locally famous for promoting the arts through fabulous parties and her Hoogrrl blog.  I’ve been fortunate to work with both of them over the [...]

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Is reading online actually reading? An article in the New York Times recently addressed that very subject, profiling the reading habits of teenagers and their parents. Many educators are concerned that kids would rather read off a glowing screen than dead trees. What kind of effect is this having on the ability to concentrate and absorb [...]

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I took the StrengthsFinder 2.0 test. It asks you a series of questions on how you like to work, how you get along with other people and how you’ve organized your life. You have 20 seconds to answer each question because they want your gut responses, without a lot of thinking. The same kind of [...]

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Hey, I really can blog on my iPhone!

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