The Journal of Jeffrey Vernon Matucha
AKA: : Making a Good Impression on That Guy That’s Not Going to Get the Job! “Say what?” you might be asking yourself. Why in the world would you want to impress an interviewee? It’s their job to impress you, right? Companies are constantly promoting themselves: Through advertising and seminars and all kinds of PR …
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle and in paperback on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ Talking to Gust Preston was meditating on the faint, translucent swirls oozing around the surface of his coffee when he heard someone bounding down the hall. Ka-flump, KA-flumP, KAFLuMP! The kaflumping got closer and …
Yeah, reposting Yelp reviews may not be the highest form of blogging, but I can’t resist replicating it here. If David Lynch directed a grocery store, it would be this place. My review on Yelp can be found here! Welcome to the worst grocery store in Berkeley! Possibly the entire East Bay! Okay, the selection …
On June 2nd, 2019 I ran the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. In doing so I completed my goal of running twelve marathons in twelve months. Since my very first marathon in 2009 I’ve averaged three to four marathons a year. But I got it in my head that I wanted to hit a …
It was with profound sadness that earlier this week I learned that Hannelore Elsner had passed on. More than a few of my fellow Americans might think to themselves “Who?” The truth is, if you aren’t German or a Germanophile, you have probably never heard of Hannelore Elsner. Elsner has appeared in many of my …
On Friday March 29th 2019, at 8 PM, a 24 Hour Fitness in downtown Berkeley, California, will shut down for good. The owner of the building where that branch of 24 Hour Fitness resides is not renewing their lease, apparently. I am a 24 Hour Fitness member, and my membership was at that club. I …
Most of my friends are musicians, whether they’re doing it for fun or are professionals or made it big. Here’s a compilation of my friends rockin’, jammin’ or just strummin’ at various locales. All of these are videos I personally recorded at various shows and events. Heartless Folk at 924 Gilman, shredding in December of …
A snippet From my novel-in-progress What The Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? She heard music again as she was coming back from the corner store. The far off sounds of punk music. It was old school thrash. It was most likely coming from the same apartment that had been playing The Misfits …
The Falling Circle was my first novel, but I’ve only recently published it. I went through it and cleaned up many of the “first novelist” idiosyncrasies of the work and put it up on Amazon. The Falling Circle is a novel about being down and out in the concrete jungle. Many books address this issue, …
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle and in paperback on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ Graffiti Preston stood in the hallway, contemplating his new home. He stood by his bedroom door, studying the front door. The front door actually had a working doorbell that rang in the kitchen. Functioning …