Author Dani Dassler’s first book P.R. is the story of Andrea, a delinquent high school punk who is forced by her high school to take up track. (That or be expelled!) It is a rousing tale of a clash of cultures as well as a story about a resilient punk who drives herself through her …

Not too long ago I got into an internet hullaballo when I made what I thought was a casual comment on a thread in a Facebook community. Many Facebookers were talking about how excited they were for the new Bill and Ted movie, a sequel that was made quite awhile after the first two movies. …

 It still just absolutely boggles my mind how anyone could possibly ever think that electing Trump was, is, or could be, in any way, shape, or form, a good idea. It is unfathomable to me. What kind of mental process, in the name of all that’s unholy, could lead anyone, and I mean anyone, into …

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! Cruising on a …

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 …