| yikes |

It would seem that I haven’t updated this page in quite a while. But that’s what happens when you let interns run things. I wish I could say I’ve been mind-numbingly busy, and since it’s my website: “I’ve been mind-numbingly busy.” I could bore you with the details but that might spoil all the fun. (This is where the intelligent ones among you are thinking, “What a lying sack of—” But bite your tongues!) Be glad I’ve updated this with at least some semblance of an intelligible posting. Find below some recent publications. Maybe some old ones. And anything I haven’t mentioned before and felt like adding. Hopefully I’ll update again in less than three months.

| pomes all sizes |

Last time, I mentioned getting some poems published in an international literary journal called Arabesques Review. I also mentioned that I would update again once the issue was released. Well, it looks as though I took that news literally since that’s what I’m about to mention. As always, there’s some good news and some bad news. The good news is that what I’ve written is available for free online. The bad news is that they’ve spelled my name wrong on the cover of the print version. Whether or not it’s spelled correctly inside the journal I don’t know because they won’t be sending any contributors’ copies and I’m not too keen on purchasing a journal that misspells my name on its bloody cover—I’m old-fashioned that way. To the right, you’ll see a picture of the cover. Feel free to click and enlarge to view the spelling faux pas. My misspelled name is right at the top below the title, which is an extra bit of a knife twist. Oh well. Serves me right for trying to spread my work across the pond. At least now I know what people felt like at Ellis Island. The promising news? In the future, the journal may decide to translate my poems into French or Arabic. Let’s hope my name is spelled correctly then.

| skope’s on |

Another issue of Skope Magazine has also hit the newsstands since I last updated. In the March/April issue, I have stories on Carina Round, Adam Green, and RI’s own Zox. I also find some time to poke fun at Alien Ant Farm—proving I’m not too proud to kick a band when they’re down.

In the upcoming May/June issue (to be released next week), I make a only slender contribution thanks in large part to unreliable PR reps. I cover Los Angeles band Cage9 and offer a modicum of album reviews. However, I’ll make up for it in the July/August issue when I take on one of the artists who failed to get back to me about an interview. Reminding all that hell hath no fury like a writer scorned.

Also, in the bizarre-but-true category, the upcoming, live-action Alvin & The Chipmunks movie (yes, I’m thinking the same thing you are) will be using the March/April issue of Skope as set decoration for a scene that takes place in a record label exec’s office. So keep your eyes peeled when you go rushing off to the theatres in ‘08. I wonder if this means I can tell people I’ve technically “written for a Hollywood movie”? Looks like it’s time to fluff up the ol’ resume.

| a novel concept |

Right around the last time I updated this page, Mercury’s editor asked me to write a piece on concept albums and come up with a list of what I thought the best and worst of the bunch were. After turning in my story with an early January deadline, I had to wait another two and a half months before it was finally published a couple of weeks ago. So it goes.

Read “What A Concept” and then take a look at my list of the best and worst concept albums ever recorded. Ambitious? Sure. But what else would you expect from a hotshot Hollywood writer?

| and...action |

I stumbled onto this page today and I think it’s an interesting idea. My favorite, visually and lyrically, is “The Best Cigarette.” Director Will Hyde (clever, but I knew a chap at Bard named Will Slack) should consider tackling one of mine.