Introduction: Running with Scissors

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I remember it as if it were yesterday. It’s one of those things you never really forget. I had just been onstage, talking about this and that at a Flashforward conference in New York, when a young lady came up to me and said, “Gee, Brendan, you’re like a big thought lozenge. I could suck on you all day!”

“I could suck on you all day!”

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Photo by Hoss Gifford

I explained that, while I was very flattered, for practical reasons at the very least, I’d have to give that one a miss.

Me, a thought lozenge? My mum would ...

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