I was looking forward to a fresh start in 2022. Weren’t you? The shutdown in March 2020 – damn, almost two years ago — was tough on my barbershop, and recovery hasn’t been easy. Wearing a muzzle on my face… Read More ›
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Persona Cracked: Joe Favalaro
Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My second guest, Joe Favalaro, often writes under the pseudonym ‘Joe Straynge.’ He is a 28-year-old poet, novelist, screenwriter, and musician set to complete… Read More ›
The Parlor Tricks of Civilization as Relayed by a Mad Clerk in a Soda Shop
Listen up, ya hopefuls, have I a mouthful to chew. Find yourselves mistaken, once? Twice? Well, consider this, too … If your tongue is black for candy, if it lashes out for reasons hunger can’t explain, pay attention greedily my… Read More ›
Comic creator ‘liberates’ self, others from sexual shackles
Book Review: The Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill Lapore, 527 pages I stumbled on Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, directed by Angela Robinson. while searching for a movie to watch with my wife on Valentine’s Day. I am… Read More ›
Dark tale hides shimmer of hope
Review: The Last Shimmer, Sage Hyatt Not Your Father’s Bedtime Stories, 20 pages Editing “The Last Shimmer” with Sage was such a fun and rewarding project. As her father, I am proud of her for many reasons, but especially because… Read More ›
CEO demonstrates app’s ‘Outrage’ meter
PITTSBURGH – Those slights, abuses, and crimes that often go unreported can now be witnessed and judged by anyone with a swipe on their device. Chatter, a downloadable app designed for ‘concerned citizens, neighborhood gadflies, and social-justice heroes,’ launched this… Read More ›
Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice
Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›
‘Pow!’ soda disrupts consumers’ reality
Interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City Growing up, I enjoyed orange soda and feared spiders, and both feature prominently in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s first science-fiction novel, Orange City, which offers a second chance for felons and outcasts… Read More ›
Shirking duty leads deputy to rosy hell of disappointment
Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›
Bar soap helps users ‘escape’ constraints of pandemic lifestyle
LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›
The La-La Lander 