Welcome to Machine: Why ‘Dead Man’ is Jim Jarmusch’s Masterpiece
Sean MurphyJohnny Depp is going to be gone someday, and for those enjoying his work posthumously, an assessment of his enigmatic career—bookended by the cotton candy of 21 Jump Street, and…
My First Time, Revisited
July, 2015: It was my great pleasure to guest-post at The Quivering Pen, a fantastic site for writers (and readers) curated by David Abrams (himself an excellent reader and writer:…
VCLA in the Fairfax County Times
I'm very grateful for the growing excitement around Virginia Center for Literary Arts. This week, we were featured in the Fairfax County Times (text below). Want to get involved? Join…
Original Fiction: Later, That Same Morning
Gratitude to Dash Journal, published by California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), for publishing my (very) short story, "Later, That Same Morning." *** Later, That Same Morning It is still dark.…
Original Poem: Work-in-Progress
This poem was written shortly after I arrived at Noepe, in Martha's Vineyard (where the picture, above, was taken). A meditation of sorts (I hesitate, mostly out of denial, to…
Original Poem: Liz Taylor’s Talents
Reviewing the trashy, lightweight *masterpiece* Hellraisers (about the assorted misadventures of Oliver Reed, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and Peter O'Toole), one passage stood out and I've invoked it often: "A…
VCLA: On the Air @95.3 The River
It was my great pleasure to be interviewed as the featured guest on 95.3 The River’s “Tourism Tuesday,” along with Winchester “Tourism Dude” Justin Kerns and Janet Michael, the hostess…
Original Short Fiction: Life Without Onions
I'm grateful to The Chaffin Journal (the annual literary print journal out of Eastern Kentucky University) for publishing this short piece, entitled "Life Without Onions." I'd be negligent to not…
50 BULLET POINTS CONCERNING AMERICA’S GUN PSYCHOSIS
Note: It makes me physically ill that this piece, written in 2016, is still not only relevant, but --inconceivably-- a bit outdated. Don't overlook the pathetic fact that the (very)…
Sorry, Charlie (on the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Three Years Later)
i. OF COURSE RELIGION IS the problem. For anyone who, understandably, would say it’s a political issue and not a religious issue, I aver that so many of our political…