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I’ve said it before. I love that on the Internet, people are making available all sorts of amazing, historical things which can be used for fun or for research or anything else. I remember being a kid and going through years of National Geographic magazines and cutting up the pictures for collages and school projects, […]

He kept his Star Wars legacy a secret in Boulder for decades. At 85, the sci-fi pioneer is ready to step out. — The Know from The Denver Post

This is an amazing story! Holy crap the things this guy has done and how much he’s been an invisible part of my life, childhood and overall creative development! My takeaway though, is this line: “Colin told me one time that this is the way he went through life, that he liked to create things […]

Waking Dreamer – Erica Vanlee

So this month’s issue of Vanish Magazine features my good friend Erica Vanlee on the cover. Of course, upon close inspection, it appears I actually wrote the story! Always so much fun to interview friends! Especially one as talented and fun as she is! Advertisements

A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis | Literary Hub

Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was the last Jewish student at the Berlin Fine Arts Academy. The danger for her had become so great by late 1938 that her family decided to get her out of Germany. This is an amazing, and sad and angering, story. What sucks is we’re STILL learning the extent of the damage […]

A Real Stinker | David Magazine

It’s the Thought that Counts, Right? This month I take a look at some gift giving etiquette – and some of the really bad gifts people have gotten over the years. Source: A Real Stinker | David Magazine Advertisements

The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher

This was my first time reading/listening to a Carrie Fisher memoir and I was blown away. Even 40 years removed from the topic at hand, it’s amazing how much insight and honesty she has for the subject matter. Yes, it gets a little uncomfortable during the brief period between reminisces when Billie Lourd (Fisher’s daughter) […]

Clicks or Bricks | David Magazine

With what the cover and several of the inside pieces of this month’s issue are about, it seems rather frivolous to be writing about virtual shopping, but nonetheless, that’s what this month’s piece, Clicks or Bricks, is about.  I learned something many years ago, when I was a film student at the University of Utah, which […]

Nevermore

On a midnight, dark and dreary As my eyes had gone all bleary revising my c.v., so weary, Then I heard a knocking knocking, knocking on my chamber door Lightning flash and peals of thunder tore my peace of mind assunder I stood and toward my door I blundered toward the knocking at my door […]

Aga-Boom in Tenerife – The Fun (October 19-24)

While the shows were the reason we were in Tenerife, part of the fun of traveling to these places is to actually see the sites. Our first two days were pretty much shot as far as that went, since we were putting in 15-18 hour days with only lunch breaks for getting out of the […]

Aga-Boom in Tenerife – The Shows (October 20-23)

Once again, leaving Lithuania requires me getting up ridiculously early. This time it was the need to get to Vilnius airport by a little past 6am for an 8:10 flight, which, after changing planes twice, would ultimately land me in Tenerife later that day where I wold meet up with the rest of the Aga-Boom […]