Missionary Max

Max Moment: Missionary Max Giveaway!!!

Amazon.com Widgets Have a new e-reading gizmo? (and according to recent research, chances are you do!) Interested in a free e-book? (who isn’t, right?) Today is your lucky day! We are proud to announce the first Missionary Max Giveaway. From now to the end of next week I will be giving away twenty (20) copies…

Musical Interlude

Brazilian Musical Interlude: Real in Rio

I have some issues with the movie Rio. I hated the entirely predictable glorification of Carnaval. I did not appreciate the unnecessary paeans to destructive alternate lifestyles. And it really bugged me that the Brazilian hero of the story only found his American female companion beautiful once she was decked out in the outlandish Carnaval…

Blast From The Past

Laughing Baby from Brazil

This ad is showing on TV here in Brazil. It is for a bank, advertizing their paperless banking. But the star of the show is the baby. I have yet to tire of seeing this one. The Astonishing Adventures of Missionary Max, Parts 1 and 2 are now available for Kindle and Nook!

Brazil

Happy New Year!

Yeah, I know, it’s a couple days late. My excuse is that we were on an island in the middle of the Sobradinho reservoir in Bahia. Internet access was “iffy”. The occasion was the New Years retreat (or Retiro da Virada, in Portuguese). Thanks to my friend JĂșnior (our camera is operating at a less…