Category: Non-Fiction

Book Stuff, Personal

The Reader’s Best of Chicago 2016 – RUNNER UP!

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  So the Chicago Reader has an annual issue where Chicagoans all over can vote (free!) on The Best of Chicago in categories like food, entertainment, sports, and more. It's an awesome way to bring attention to the awesome things about Chicago, as proclaimed by Windy City citizens themselves. Apparently, my novel On The Isle of Sound… Continue reading The Reader’s Best of Chicago 2016 – RUNNER UP!

Theatre

“Countess Bathory” is a Startling, Intimate Tragedy

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On the invitation of playwright, performer, and erstwhile genius Jared McDaris, the Fella and I found ourselves attending a Friday night performance of the new Elizabethan tragedy, "Countess Bathory." Written in iambic pentameter, styled after Shakespeare's finest twisted looking-glass stage stories of human ambition, revulsion, and misfortune, "Bathory" is staged in the very intimate space… Continue reading “Countess Bathory” is a Startling, Intimate Tragedy

non-comprehensive list, Non-Fiction

Things I Would Serve At A Bowie-Themed Restaurant

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A Non-Comprehensive List   Appetizers Taste Odyssey Sampler Platter Oh! You Onion Rings China Girl Spring Rolls Alad-dim sum Sane   Soup & Salad The Thin White Soup Five Years Aged Cheddar Soup Green Genie Salad Lettuce Dance Salad   Entrees Major Tom(ato) Signature Sandwich Ch-ch-ch-Changes Chicken Sandwich Diamond Hot Dogs I'm Afraid of American Cheese Burger… Continue reading Things I Would Serve At A Bowie-Themed Restaurant

Uku-Tuesday!

Uku-Tuesday Video! “The Way I Behaved” from The Last Unicorn

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This week's Uku-Tuesday is brought to you by the godfather of modern fantasy - Peter S. Beagle! Peter is the author of The Last Unicorn, which happens to be my favorite book of all time, and also a delightfully weird animated feature film from the 1980s. In the novel, Prince Lir asks the Lady Amalthea… Continue reading Uku-Tuesday Video! “The Way I Behaved” from The Last Unicorn