Transmissions
A continuous signal on any and all frequencies about any number of topics. The aim is to be interesting and engaging, without ranting or screeching. If you’re looking for a glimpse of what’s percolating in one writer’s gray matter on any given day, you’ve come to the right place.
Archie: Multimedia Casanova
I’m not sure exactly how I discovered Archie Andrews in the late 1960s. The fact that I was already a fan of Saturday morning cartoons, comic books and the comics section of my local newspaper probably had something to do with it. Archie and his pals were in all three...
Twenty-Five
I took the photo at left during a trip to New York City in the summer of 1986. I was 22 years old at the time, fresh out of college. I had no plan, no idea how my life would turn out. I was just walking around NYC with my new Nikon N2000, a graduation gift from my...
Still Going Boldly
I only remember a small sliver of the 1960s—the last couple years of the decade, which was a time of unrest. Prominent national leaders were being assassinated, a war in Southeast Asia was escalating, and the ongoing clash between the establishment and the...
Inside Job
I’m not sure at what point during my childhood I got turned on to science fiction films. It might have been just a slight detour from the Japanese monster movies I started watching sometime around kindergarten or the first grade (I’ve already addressed my fascination...
The Best in the Business
I remember when Tony Bennett died just a couple years ago in July of 2023, less than two weeks shy of his 97th birthday. It wasn’t just the end of one singer’s rich and diverse seventy-year career as a steward of The Great American Songbook. It was the end of an era....
The Write Lady
The Northeast Ohio writing community is about to lose one of its most valuable resources at the end of this coming week. Before anyone rushes to sound the alarm or launch a campaign of some kind, let me be clear: No libraries are closing. No literary organizations are...
Bobby Fuller Fought the Law
The early years of rock and roll are filled with hits that seem to defy time itself. They sound just as compelling and infectious in the here and now as they did on the day they were recorded and released decades ago. Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” (1958) comes to...
Using the Beta Capsule
My first encounter with Ultraman was sometime in 1969, when I was still in kindergarten. It was one of my classmates, a boy named Mike, who tipped me off. Mike lived on my street, and he had an older brother – a worldly wise fifth grader – who was dialed in to the...
Ten Past Midnight
Ten years ago today, I held my breath, threw the switch, and released my debut novel, The Midnight Guardian: Hour of Darkness. Set in 1936, it’s the story of a masked vigilante who takes on a sociopathic crime lord in a fictional metropolis called Union City. Part...
The Eyes of the World
Today is July 4, 2026. I’m well aware of what this day is all about. Like every other American of every other generation, I was introduced to the history and the mythology at an early age. And I’m well aware that this particular July 4 – the 250th anniversary of the...