by 40926pwpadmin | Aug 21, 2026 | Blog
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...
by 40926pwpadmin | Aug 11, 2026 | Blog
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....
by 40926pwpadmin | Jul 26, 2026 | Blog
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...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jul 18, 2026 | Blog
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...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jul 17, 2026 | Blog
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...
by 40926pwpadmin | Jul 5, 2026 | Blog
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...
