Occasionally things turn up that are almost like discovering one more chapter(s) in the Universal Horror series.  Some are better than other...

Addendum (1/19/09). We're now in iTunes . (Link will open the iTunes application.) That's kind of a "made ya look" headlin...

As I drove through another rainy morning cloaked with a grey, wet blanket, Bobby Bloom's Montego Bay popped up as my iPod shuffled son...

I've been getting a little bit of writing done on a couple of projects, but mostly I've been recharging the last few days, and wond...

I've added Joy Motel to my blog roll. It's an interesting little spot for online fiction, a tale unfolding in short bursts. Just ch...

The new issue of Rue Morgue Magazine includes an article by James Burreli reporting the return of Monster Scenes model kits. The originals...

This photo is called "Santa Lives." I believe it's from the Library of Congress, though I found it some time ago for a PowerPo...

Last Christmas, I listened to adman-turned-author Chris Grabenstein's Slayride , a holiday-set thriller featuring  FBI agent Christophe...

I had sort of this fanboy dream back when I was first putting pen to paper that if I ever successfully pulled off anything with fiction writ...

Christine snapped my holiday profile picture while we were putting up the tree. I thought it was kind of an interesting shot of me and might...

I bought a recent issue of Rue Morgue magazine because a portrait of a frightened Forrest J. Ackerman stared from the cover beside the teas...

A look at obstacles and motivations in the Chinatown screenplay This is one of several analysis pieces done as part of my MFA work. I though...

I was glancing at CNN the other night, and they had a clip from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation . The parenthetical date after the...

Addendum As of a few minutes ago, the album was No. 3 on iTunes' charts, one notch above Kanye West's album. - 9:30 p.m. CST 12/3 St...

I've become a bit enamored with Twitter in recent weeks. It's a mild addiction but certainly an interesting way to keep up with a v...

Another video diary entry. Here's how Christine and I spent part of our day. (Music is from You Tube's audio swap.) View The Directo...

Well, one of the things is that my pet, Miss Daisy, is hanging in and holding strong. It's been about five months since she was diagnose...

So I'm reading the notes on a CSS and XHTML course I'm taking online, kind of a brush-up and a reiteration of those things CSS you m...

Doctor Who has settled into a comfortable place in America again. Between The Sci Fi Channel, BBC America and DVDs not to mention audiobooks...

I'd heard mumbled comparisons with the Bourne films in reference to the new James Bond outing, Quantum of Solace . Those are not untrue,...