Things I Could’ve Done Without 7/11/2019
Now that I'm back to blogging regularly again, I thought I'd start some regular features. I'm busy, so they'll be weekly. I'll have astronomy pictures on Tuesday--as many fresh ones…
How I Got Kicked Off Twitter
"I got fired last year in Las Vegas from the Frontier Hotel for saying 'shit', in a town where the big game is called 'crap'." --George Carlin, FM & AM…
Notes On 27 Takes
I wrote this story quite a while ago, and it took its sweet time finding a home, so remembering exactly what possessed me to write it is a bit tricky,…
Notes On “The Curious Legend of the Grade Z Ghost”
The idea for this story began with an image taken from an item from the 1980s era TV show "That's Incredible". Unusually for shows of this kind, this segment actually…
Where “Meeting the Creature” Came From
So, here's a little background on "Meeting The Creature", which was published in Across the Margins about two months ago.
Notes on “Your Time On Earth Is Finished”
This is the first published story in this group that depicts the actual making of Howard Zez's Dope Dealers From Outer Space. I should say that although I've been involved in productions…
Notes On “The Ungriftable Howard Zez”
First off, sorry for having been away for so long. The usual excuses apply. Anyway, I'm afraid I don't have a ton of notes to give for this story. It…
His Haughtiness
David Brooks, the aggressively moderate swell who writes aggressively moderate columns for The New York Times, is seldom so entertaining as when he gets haughty. It affronts him when people of…
Notes on “The Day Molly Got Into the Room”
Of the three published stories about the making of Dope Dealers From Outer Space, this was the one written earliest. It's sets the conflict between the right-wing movie director Howard Zeleznick--or,…
Sticky Images: Notes on “Two Ways To Say Goodbye To Milford”
How my new short story, "Two Ways To Say Goodbye To Milford" was written.