Years ago I went to a friend’s baby shower. I knew the couple was expecting a girl, and I was wandering around a toy store wondering what to get the upcoming mini-me of my friend. I wasn’t sure what to get until I saw it in the store. I knew when I spotted it that …

This is the news conference I want Trump to give “Today I am announcing a nationwide lockdown to combat and contain the Coronavirus. All schools, universities, libraries, restaurants, churches, and other venues where people congregate will be closed by order of the Federal government for the next eight weeks. Furthermore we are instilling a national …

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This is a post I wrote in November of 2013, ago after a trip to las Vegas, a city that everyone has to visit at least …

    This is an excerpt from my novel What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? This work is the sequel to my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts. In this story we follow Skye on a West Coast road trip. This excerpt is about her time in Los Angeles.     “Does a guy weigh …

Gutter Folklore is a collection of stories I wrote waaaay back when, some of my first attempts to write short stories and a somewhat cohesive narrative. It’s also the stories where I initially developed the extra-urban punk-crust extraordinaire Skye, a persistent character in my fiction. This book is currently available on Amazon!     Never call it …

Years ago I wrote a short story called Lobbyist’s Nightmare, a satirical story about a corporate lobbyist who has a nightmare about congress. In his tortured dream he finds that there are no longer two dominant political parties in the two branches of Congress anymore. The Democrats only have a combined eight representatives and senators …

As I have written before, I intend to break a world record: The longest time playing pinball, in which I would attempt to play for 33 hours. (Current record is 32 hours and 2 minutes.) I am doing this to raise funds for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, a charity that raises money to fight Duchenne. …

In the last week Trump has been touting jobs numbers and has been going off about statues being toppled over, and has even been ranting about flag burning. All in the middle of a pandemic, which he dismisses as inconsequential, over and over again.. Any silver lining for progressives? One could imagine that liberals could …

Here is an excerpt from my script Smeg Trek! Two confessions: Yes, I wrote fan fiction! Also: This is the only fan fiction I have written. This is my Star Trek:Voyager/Red Dwarf crossover story. You can download this script in PDF format! INT. VOYAGER – BRIDGE Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, Paris and Kim are at their …

Gutter Folklore is a collection of stories I wrote waaaay back when, some of my first attempts to write short stories and a somewhat cohesive narrative. It’s also the stories where I initially developed the extra-urban punk-crust extraordinaire Skye, a persistent character in my fiction. This book is currently available on Amazon! Film     Gray streets. …