A Day-and-Date Drop of A Key Memoir Chapter Two years after the vehicular tragedy which derailed my life psychically if not quite physically, I had “gotten on with it,” as they say. By the time of October 23, 1989, I had recovered enough to again hold enormous dreams in my heart and mind, and although […]
Latest Adaptation of Frank Herbert Hard SF Classic is Unmitigated Disaster Story is everything, particularly when it comes to the so-called ‘hero’s journey.’ And any movie that doesn’t tell a complete journey… is the first episode of a streaming series. In Dune’s case it’s certainly not a cinematic epic befitting a hard science fiction classic […]
Author Laments Audacity of Rock Icons Whistling Past Their Own Graveyards When viewing such scenes as this ghastly phantasmagoric nightmare of seemingly animated corpses slopping through a 50+ year-old catalog beneath effigies of their recently dead drummer, the best musician in the band, I feel an unease leaning toward revulsion. If anyone’s got a […]
Author Offers Information About His Evolving Philosophy Today I present quotes for contemplation from Julius Evola, a problematic but fascinating 20th century Italian philosopher and esotericist in whose works I’ve nonetheless managed to find quite a bit of wisdom. Despite elements of his thinking which don’t jibe with my view of humanity at all, his […]
Local Author Extols Virtue of Rest Ever start your day by cracking open a book and achieving instant satori, like being in the glare of a white-hot spiritual follow spot, and placed there by the voice of a long-dead author? Welcome to my world. But today’s pre-dawn reading, from Rumi, landed in a manner most […]
Local Author Discovers 50 Year-Old Truth-Drop in SF Novel I first read The Lathe of Heaven, a fine science fiction novel by the inestimable writer and thinker Ursula K. Le Guin, as a curious teenager and fan of such speculative fiction. I read the book after watching a television adaptation which had compelled my imagination, […]
A Lunch Hour After Which Nothing Will Be the Same In honor of the 29th anniversary of Loose Lucy’s in Five Points, here’s an excerpt from the memoir about a moment which changed everything. Enjoy.
Author Celebrates Release of Penultimate Novel Well, it’s decades in the making, it almost made me (more) famous, it nearly killed me to get right, but now Mansion of High Ghosts is in the world. I’ve never been more glad to be done with one of these projects, but at least I can say that […]
What remnants there were of such a moral order were suppressed by the contemporary sloganeering. And those struggles produced their own strange and terrible conflicts. Much like the era of Church schism introduced by Luther four centuries earlier, the entire world was gripped by an immense unrest. Everywhere lines of battle formed; everywhere bitter enmity […]
Today is the 31st anniversary of the day my wife Jenn and I were married! I shudder to think where and what I would have become without her. Blessings and gratitude to her for putting up with my whole ‘driven and troubled artist’ schtick for all these decades.
