New Podcast Episode: Your Time On Earth Is Finished
This was a fun short story to read, especially since it gave me a chance to perform dialogue from Dope Dealers From Outer Space. I hope you enjoy it. Bang…
A Ghost Story (of sorts)
Now that I have enough published stories out to make recording them for podcast worthwhile, I've begun. (Of course, "Stanny Couldn't Make It" is already available, to your left. I'll…
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,…
Why I Love Reading Reviews of Bad Movies
It has a lot to do with passages like this one, taken from the Village Voice's Allen Scherstuhl's review of Altas Shrugged III: Your Rail, My Steel. One of the workers,…
Can Amityville 2: The Possession Be Saved?
The Amityville franchise is a rancid body of work. From the first feature in 1979 to the Michael Bay produced remake in 2005, the series has served up all the…
Could One of the Worst Movies of the 1980s Be Salvaged?
Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d'you rearrange them into what you DO like? Part two of our little parlor game takes us to a…
The Ten Essential MST3K Episodes
Last week, the AVClub came up with their list of the ten essential episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. And while I liked the episodes they listed, my list differs…
Quaint and Best Forgotten Volumes Part 2: Amityville II: The Possession
Once upon a time, during a real estate crisis not wholly dissimilar from our own, a couple that found itself unable to afford the house they’d just bought got together…
Quaint and Best Forgotten Volumes, Part I: The Room
Fewer years ago than I care to remember, an audition at the LOFT Generals led to my being cast in a play intended for the Seattle Fringe Festival. The play,…