To HoJo’s and Beyond
Continued from yesterday’s post. I made a trip down to Massachusetts to see my girl during her spring break and my car broke down while I was there, so I had to stay there a week. Her parents were very impressed. We went to Blockbuster and I insisted we rent The Commitments, a movie I
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To HoJo’s and Beyond
Continued from yesterday’s post. I made a trip down to Massachusetts to see my girl during her spring break and my car broke down while I was there, so I had to stay there a week. Her parents were very impressed. We went to Blockbuster and I insisted we rent The Commitments, a movie I…
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Not Exactly Door to Door
Continued from yesterday’s post. There’s a romanticism about being a salesman. You travel around, no boss breathing down your neck, you show up at people’s houses, do the demonstration, smile, maybe there’s a lonely housewife in there somewhere. For an aimless, skinny kid from Vermont, this was nowhere close to reality. I spoke daily to…
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The Days of Sandwich Artistry
After one semester of college after high school, I dropped out. Maybe it was the straight Fs I received in all five of my classes, maybe it was the feeling of always being broke, maybe it was the drugs and alcohol…Probably a combination of all three. We used to eat a bunch of acid, pull…
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Nocturama
At heart, I’m a sci-fi writer. Jo often says to me, “Why don’t you write a romance novel?” Uh, no. I grew up on a steady diet of Total Recall, Aliens, Predator, Star Trek, and Star Wars. When I think about writing another novel that won’t sell, I think of these weird sci-fi ideas I…
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My Strawberry Romance
Yesterday I missed a post…Again. The resistance got me. Writing at home is a constant battle against the powers that rail against art. If you’re the type of person that wants to complete some sort of project, whatever it is, and you’ve never had the gumption, motivation, discipline, whatever to get it off the ground,…
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Movie Review: Rambo III
The gist here is “The call to action,” a term known mostly to screenwriters. It means at some point in almost any movie the main character will be invited by an outside force to go on his or her particular journey. What usually happens is they end up “refusing the call,” because they’re still not…
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Introduction to The Seasonal Bar
I’ve got to write a better forward/introduction for my cocktail book, so figured I’d work on it and put it here. That way I can kill two birds with one stone. The blog is fun but it takes time, precious time, away from other writing endeavors in the morning. I give myself two hours from…
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Awkward Situations
Behind the bar, I’ve been privy to many awkward situations, including being threatened with death, having three guys waiting outside to beat the shit out of me, and I’ve even been mooned. Aside from the occasional viewing of butt cheeks, and potential violence, however, there’s usually only one or two general scenarios that occur: 1.…
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Show Me Your Junk Drawer
For the first time in several years, I’m feeling a bit blocked and need a break. Writing this blog everyday ain’t easy, freaks. In the past several years, since June of 2020, I’ve exclusively worked on novels, so this is all new. Also, I missed a post yesterday. Ugh. Mother’s Day was hectic. I’ve got…
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N.E.C.I. Commons: Part Three
Read Part Two here. I ended up meeting a girl. K was a blonde with short hair and big brown eyes. One of those eyes, the left one, had a mind of its own. Behind my back, my friends called her “Tangle Eye,” but I thought the quirk was beautiful. She also had a birthmark…
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N.E.C.I. Commons: Part Two
Read Part One here. Word spread like wildfire after the pastry class incident. Nope, I wasn’t a “real chef” just some hired schlub. Within one day, the students stopped calling me chef, and also stopped asking permission to “borrow” items from my station, the pizza oven. This was a gas powered job, not as nice…
The Aging Bartender 