I saw in the news that some scientists think they might have figured out how Lucy died. I couldn’t help but smile. Not because Lucy died, mind you, but rather because she was in Horse Bite. In the opening chapter, I wrote about Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, evolutionary celebrity, and contrasted her with a possible love Read More …
A few years ago the DJs from the Mens Room on KISW partnered with Elysian Brewing to create a beer, Mens Room Original Ale, and they asked their listeners to participate in a contest to be the spokesperson for the beer. All one had to do was create a thirty second video featuring the beer Read More …
A few people have asked in the last few months why I haven’t been writing, and I can see their point of view. I don’t post as many music articles on Northwest Music Scene these days. My blog has been inactive, my Twitter and Facebook accounts relatively subdued. Musicians have asked about it, friends, people Read More …
Today, we’re back for number eight in my series about my favorite passages in literature that speak to what it means to write and play at creating this thing called a novel. Today, I give you Haruki Murakami from a short story in The Elephant Vanishes. The story is “The Last Lawn of the Afternoon,” Read More …
Let’s jump right in with the good news. My second book will be published later this year by Booktrope, a small company partially based here in Seattle. And I couldn’t be happier. You see, it was only a few months ago that I went through a period of doubt while finishing the manuscript. I had Read More …
As usual, the bedroom TV was tuned into the morning news. We like the ambient noise as we get ready for the day, and Sunday was going to be a good one. We were going to the Puyallup Fair. We were eschewing a day of laundry and house cleaning for a few rickety rides, some Read More …