Dime Store Riot

The second Hollywood Noir story featuring Terry Bledsoe is now available for free on Wattpad. "The Method" originally appeared in print and eBook formats in the Crime Factory: First Shift anthology. Read it for free here!

Phil knows. Phil definitely knows.

Another long-unavailable story I wrote years ago is now up for free at Wattpad. "Maiden's Prayer" was my first story featuring Terrence Bledsoe and/or Ella Dodge (the second story is available in Crime Factory: First Shift ). I placed my Hollywood fix-it man story years ago (long before Ray Donovan ) at the now-defunct Darkness Before the Dawn . Read it for free here .

With the success of Netflix’s Voltron re-imagining, I keep thinking about one of my all-time dream projects…writing for a new Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (or Battle of the Planets or G-Force , if you prefer one of its many other titles/incarnation) anime...or manga...or comic book...or light novel. Hell, I just want to write Gatchaman .

"Japanese priest and techno DJ, Gyōsen Asakura, has created a temple devoted to techno. "Based in Fukui City in Japan, the Shō-onji templed throws 'techno memorial services' with Asakura leading the monthly Buddhist-style ceremonies." READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT DJ MAG  

Finally watched Tsui Hark's The Taking of Tiger Mountain on a Netflix. It's a ridiculous amount of fun. It's basically an Alistair MacLean novel set in China after the surrender of the Japanese during WWII. So if you're a fan of those "men on a mission" movies they don't really make anymore, you need to check this one out.

Is it really that Americans are particularly "anti-intellectual" or does most of what we tend to label "anti-intellectual" have everything to do with frustrations over class, rising income inequality, and college becoming ever more unafforable? Personally, I think it's the latter.