rock and roll The Rise and Fall of Radius is now out It took close to four years but my new science-fiction comedic novel is out. The Rise and Fall of Radius. The cover, designed by Åsk Dabitch Wappling [https://dabitch.net/] is inspired by King Crimson's album Islands. If you like prog rock, 1970's music, science fiction
writing Fugacious advertising Last night, my daughter was watching live TV and a commercial I wrote came on the air. For the past two months, she's heard all it entails to bring something like this to life. Approving the voice over by the copywriter and in some last minute instances rewriting
poem An L.A. Summation Arriving from Canada, sleeping on sofas, A hundred concerts Four full time jobs, A dozen freelance ones. The death of two parents A cat's ashes scattered at sea. Holidays unnoticed Never-changing weather pattern. Sepulveda looks like Centinela. The menace of Venice's homeless Expand through the city
writing I wrote about inconvenience for Splice Today Inconvenience is the last great weapon we have against bureaucracy. They inconvenience us at the post office, the DMV, filling out paper work and with applying unemployment insurance. The systems are bloated and broken. Short of dismantling all of them, a Quixotic feat if ever there was one, at least
grateful dead Americana on a timeline Such a long long time to be gone And a short time to be there... I was never a Grateful Dead fan although I appreciated the concept. I love the idea of a continuing Americana. Not cowboys so much as troubadours. Wide open landscapes and the security and safety of
free Download one of my stories for free I am slowly making some stories from A-Sides & B-Sides [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076DMJTYQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2] available to read for free. Starting with "I'd rather be right here," [https://books.apple.com/us/book/id-rather-be-right-here/id1505227061]which
coronavirus Advertising in a time of quarantine As someone who has spent close to two decades working in advertising, this may have been one of the weirdest years I've ever experienced. I went to portfolio school the month after 9/11. I moved to Canada in 2008 and waited out the housing crisis and economic
qanon CVB, New Roman Times, QAnon, and Walter Kirn In 2006 Walter Kirn published a serialized novel on Slate.com called The Unbinding. While major literary figures from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Dostoevsky And Armistead Maupin published major works in this format, when Kirn's novel appeared on Slate.com, it may have been the first to
writing A-Sides & B-Sides now available in paperback That's right, you can now order a physical copy of A-Sides & B-Sides. At the moment it's available on Amazon [https://amzn.to/2IOXvfx], Barnes & Noble and soon hopefully through some brick and mortar bookstores. More to come. And by "more," I mean
writing Story #12 "God Loves Us"-- Guided By Voices We are living proof that God loves us I hadn't planned on doing more than one song title by a band when I started writing "A-Sides and B-Sides." [https://www.amazon.com/Sides-B-Evan-Brown-ebook/dp/B076DMJTYQ] Actually, that's not quite accurate. I thought about doing
writing Captain Beefheart A lot of people in my social feeds have been mocking a Vox article about Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica," called "Why this awful sounding album is a masterpiece." Music is completely subjective and sites that thrive on clickbait say stupid things all the
ween Story #1 "I can't put my finger on it" -- Ween "Is it brown, is it white, is it really outta sight?I can't put my finger on it." Ween [http://ween.com] is one of those criminally overlooked bands, thanks to their most famous song, the super quirky, helium-laced nonsense ditty known as "Pust th&
