After thinking it over for a few days, I've decided to keep my previously published books as canon after all. Partly because, knowing myself as well as I do, I realized that (being a perfectionist with impossible standards) any hypothetical…
A list of some of the more commonly encountered reoccurring elements + in-jokes that oft appear in my fictions (as taken from my Substack page): Books read in December of 2025: Writing-wise, 2025 was a very productive year (especially in co…
Recently I decided to update my Top 100 Albums of All-time list (mainly rock/pop, not counting soundtracks, Classical, and so on). Albums with an asterisk indicate new additions (note: slightly edited 8/11/25) Yesterday I finished work on m…
Books read in December of 2024: Capsule reviews of albums released in 2024 that I also purchased/listened to this year (in order of release, and not including film soundtracks): MASTERS OF DOOM, by David Kushner, is a very interesting and c…
Books read in December of 2024: Capsule reviews of albums released in 2024 that I also purchased/listened to this year (in order of release, and not including film soundtracks): MASTERS OF DOOM, by David Kushner, is a very interesting and c…
Although a fair number of books on FRIENDS have come out over the last couple of years, Saul Austerlitz's GENERATION FRIENDS, published in 2019, is one of the better ones. Although he did not interview any of the six core cast members, he d…
My interest in MR. BEAN has, over the years, led me to explore some other famous British sitcoms (though it should be mentioned here that my real interest in British comedy perhaps can be traced to seeing MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL in th…
This book was written by William Preston Robertson (and edited by Tricia Cooke, Ethan Coen's wife). Robertson, a friend of the Coens from their college days (and who also provided some voicework for their films: he did the voice of the radi…
Books read in November of 2023: Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of my beloved and much-missed cat Amber. I don’t plan on talking about this at great length every year, but as this is the first year anniversary, I feel like…
Most of my friends are aware that in the year 2008 (my 28th year) I began keeping lists of all the books I read each year, a tradition I've kept going for around 16 years now. Recently, I thought it might be interesting to make a list of th…
Top 10 Bands/Musical Acts (in no order) Siouxsie & The Banshees (tied for first) Nine Inch Nails (tied for first) Fleetwood Mac (+ Lindsey Buckingham solo) Cut Hands + Consumer Electronics Top 10 Favorite Albums (in no order) A Kiss in the
Books read in February of 2023: It's been almost 3 years in the making (the project began as a few handwritten stories scrawled into a journal during the pandemic lockdown in 2020), but my 4th short story collection, PLEASANT TALES III, is