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Childhood Movie Trauma Mystery Solved

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Some time back I asked for help from the Kindertrauma folks in remembering the name of a creepy live action movie where a St. Bernard dreams of being chased by a man dressed as a terrifying skiing cat. Here’s my original blog write-up. Just today a fellow named Dan Salmon, who had a similar childhood memory of […]

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My Edmund Fitzgerald Article from about 20 Years Ago

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Probably should have titled it “Between Folk Rock and a Hard Place.” Gord won’t be mad, I’m sure.                                                

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Dennis Eichhorn’s Story Ended

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Comic book creator Dennis Eichhorn died. I wasn’t close friends with him, but I would have liked to have been. We were friendly colleagues though when I interacted with him in the late 90s—mostly by mail and once in person. I’m not sure when I first encountered his work. Like Harvey Pekar, Eichhorn was a […]

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künstwerk

Friday, September 11, 2015

Reprinting a couple of pieces of mine from the months after September 11. künstwerk Review of the here is new york photo exhibit February 4–March 30, 2002 In the shaky days after Sept. 11, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was roundly misquoted as describing the WTC attacks as the greatest work of art ever. Not so. […]

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Ann Rule Died

Monday, August 3, 2015

For a long time I was quite the aficionado of true crime books. I had a fascination with serial murder for a good part of my young life. I published a zine about it, in fact. I probably read most of the books Rule published before the early 1990s. She, John Waters (who also collected […]

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Grin Weeper

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

I spent several days writing about a distressing event that recently happened to me. Happened to someone else, actually, with me in close proximity. I use the word “traumatic” sparingly. I’m not going to argue semantics, but it’s one of those words bandied about too freely these days. There are truly traumatic events—things involving death, […]

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RIP, Leonard Nimoy

Friday, February 27, 2015

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Put on your pointed ears, speak in a sonorous baritone. Silence the communicator, put your phaser in its box Bring out the coffin, live long and prosper, Spock.

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How Can Shadows Be Slimy?

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Horror fiction is the only genre I follow with any consistency. I’ve had brief flirtations and extended courtships with genres like fantasy (I favored sword and sorcery during high school, but happily never after), mysteries (mostly the old pulp/hard-boiled stuff, though I’ve followed a few modern series), and sci-fi (briefly raiding my dad’s 40s to […]

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RIP, Donna Summer

Friday, May 18, 2012

“One day in Berlin … Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future.’ … he puts on ‘I Feel Love’, by Donna Summer … He said, ‘This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.’ Which […]

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MCA

Friday, May 4, 2012

Adam Yauch has died, and that makes me a bit sad. Not sad enough though to not think that some day Ad-Rock or Mike D. may need to perform as “The Beastie Boy.” More seriously: death is a remarkably stupid idea.

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