Some of you guys know – and by “some of you,” I mean those of you who are either married to or play in a band with one of us – that Lakeland tattoo artist Jack “J.R.” Sprouse and I have been working on an idea for a series of children’s books for a while [...]

Not my opinion. Fact. The Best. THE BEST. You can’t argue with science:
1. Haute Tension, 2003
This is why you shouldn’t repress your feelings.
2. Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006
Somebody said Guillermo Del Toro’s gorgeous, heartbreaking tale of cold realities, and the lengths an imaginative young girl goes to in order to escape them, isn’t a horror film. Somebody [...]

1. “Radio,” Alkaline Trio
2. “Mr. November,” The National
3. “Love Removal Machine,” The Cult
4. Anything by The Deadly Fists of Kung Fu
5. “Waiting Room,” Fugazi
6. “I Got Drunk,” Uncle Tupelo
7. “One-Armed Scissor,” At The Drive-In
8. “Gimme Back My Dog,” Slobberbone
9. “Anodyne,” Military Junior
10. “Gun,” Soundgarden

Yeah, so what’s Nightflowers? It’s an e-book of short stories I’ve been working on for a while now. Nine stories or so, ranging from the old, short and somewhat goofy “Midnight in The Garden of Goods & Eatin’” up now on the free reads page to longer and newer stuff like “The Knife Salesman,” which [...]

Thanks to the genius friends I abuse and depend upon to get tech-style stuff done, the Free Reads page is up and running, with a couple of things for you to check out while I get back to work finishing up Nightflowers. More on that later, in the meantime, please enjoy and comment.

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EditRed is a great online writer’s workshop/networking site upon which I stumbled a few years ago. I generally don’t go in for those things – time suckage, petty squabbles and all that – but I immediately made some friends and got some pretty insightful feedback from members, so I hung around …