Hello friend! I love Roy Orbison. For some reason, growing up in the 80s and 90s, we were steeped in 50s-and-60s culture. At the movies there was Dirty Dancing, Stand By Me, American Boyfriends, Back to the Beach, La Bamba, etc. In pop music Billy Joel did an entire (flawless) album of doo-wop pastiche (one of three tapes I owned…
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Consumed: By the Book
Hello friend! Well, it’s been a very long time since the first edition of “Consumed,” the little ongoing series I came up with to let friends know the pop culture stuff I was, y’know, consuming. This edition is about all the books I’ve read so far this year. As mentioned in previous posts, I travel a lot for work nowadays.…
Podcast Boy
Podcast Boy Two recent media appearances for your listening pleasure… Hello friend! As regular readers of this newsletter will know, I have always been a talk show person. Whether it was late night television, call‑in radio or a well‑moderated panel, I enjoy the shape of a good conversation and the way it can wander a bit before landing somewhere useful. Over the years, through a…
Modern Love
Hello friend, As mentioned a few weeks back, I recently had the pleasure of joining Autumn Crossman‑Serb and Kathleen Gros on the Prairie Comics Festival’s “Romance Comics” panel, guided with warmth and steady facilitation by Stephanie Guest. I arrived already grateful for the invitation, but I left feeling even more energized, reflective, and appreciative of the space we shared. One…
Consumed: Hamnet
Hello friend, I’ve been thinking lately that I’d like to share more of what I’m consuming—books, films, maybe even the occasional album—here on the blog. After all, if you’re here for my art, you might also be curious about the things that feed it. So I’m starting a new feature called Consumed, where I talk about what I’ve been reading,…